Ćeran with Pakhtakor in 2019
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Dragan Ćeran | ||
| Date of birth | (1987-10-06) October 6, 1987 (age 36) | ||
| Place of birth | Kikinda, SR Serbia, Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Pakhtakor | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2005–2012 | Smederevo | 129 | (18) |
| 2006 | → Železničar Smederevo (loan) | 6 | (4) |
| 2007 | → Mladi Radnik (loan) | 12 | (10) |
| 2009–2010 | → Westerlo (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2012 | Hapoel Haifa | 10 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Maccabi Netanya | 24 | (7) |
| 2013–2015 | Simurq | 57 | (27) |
| 2015 | Hajer | 13 | (2) |
| 2016 | Vardar | 12 | (5) |
| 2016–2018 | Nasaf | 48 | (34) |
| 2018– | Pakhtakor | 142 | (99) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2008 | Serbia U21 | 3 | (1) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 May 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 October 2008 | |||
Dragan Ćeran (Serbian Cyrillic: Драган Ћеран; born 6 October 1987) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Uzbekistan Super League club Pakhtakor.
Previously he played for Smederevo in the Serbian SuperLiga.[1]
In August 2013, Ćeran signed for Azerbaijan Premier League side Simurq.[2] Ćeran made his debut for Simurq in their second game of the season, away to Khazar Lankaran on 11 August 2013, coming on as an 84th-minute substitute for Salif Ballo.[3] Ćeran's first goal for Simurq came in the 78th minute of their 2–1 victory against Inter Baku on 1 September 2013.[4] Ćeran signed a new one-year contract with Simurq on 31 May 2014, turning down offers from Dordrecht, Levadiakos and Viborg FF.[5]
In 2016 he moved to Uzbekistan, where he first played for the Nasaf, and in the middle of the 2018 season he moved to the capital Pakhtakor, where he later became the leader of the team's attacks.
In 2019, he became the top scorer of the championship of Uzbekistan, scoring 23 goals,[6] and was also recognized as the best football player of the Uzbekistan Super League.[7]
In 2006, Ćeran received his first call up to the Serbia national under-21 team.
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Hapoel Haifa | 2011–12 | Israeli Premier League | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 10 | 6 | |
| Maccabi Netanya | 2012–13 | Israeli Premier League | 24 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 24 | 7 | |
| Simurq | 2013–14 | Azerbaijan Premier League | 31 | 13 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 32 | 13 | ||
| 2014–15 | 25 | 14 | 5 | 4 | – | – | 30 | 18 | ||||
| Total | 90 | 40 | 6 | 4 | – | – | 96 | 46 | ||||
| Hajer | 2015–16 | Saudi Pro League | 13 | 2 | 1 | 1 | – | – | 14 | 3 | ||
| Vardar | 2015–16 | Macedonian First Football League | 12 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 12 | 5 | |
| Nasaf | 2016 | Uzbekistan Super League | 13 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 17 | 13 | |
| 2017 | 28 | 19 | 6 | 3 | 2[b] | 1 | – | 36 | 23 | |||
| 2018 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5[b] | 1 | – | 13 | 4 | |||
| Total | 73 | 41 | 12 | 5 | 7 | 2 | – | 92 | 48 | |||
| Pakhtakor Tashkent | 2018 | Uzbekistan Super League | 18 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 21 | 3 | |
| 2019 | 24 | 23 | 3 | 6 | 8[b] | 2 | 4[c] | 6 | 39 | 37 | ||
| 2020 | 26 | 21 | 4 | 3 | 7[b] | 2 | – | 37 | 26 | |||
| 2021 | 23 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 6[b] | 2 | 1[d] | 1 | 33 | 20 | ||
| 2022 | 23 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 3[b] | 1 | 1[d] | 1 | 28 | 22 | ||
| 2023 | 16 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1[d] | 0 | 19 | 14 | ||
| Total | 130 | 94 | 16 | 13 | 24 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 177 | 122 | ||
| Career total | 333 | 175 | 34 | 19 | 31 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 405 | 211 | ||
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