Elmin Rastoder
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 7 October 2001 | ||
| Place of birth | Wetzikon, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Thun | ||
| Number | 74 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2018 | Rapperswil-Jona | ||
| 2017-2022 | Grasshopper | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2022 | Grasshopper II | 48 | (19) |
| 2020–2024 | Grasshopper | 9 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | → Vaduz (loan) | 32 | (7) |
| 2024 | → Vaduz (loan) | 14 | (1) |
| 2024– | Thun | 46 | (10) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2025– | North Macedonia | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 21 December 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 5 September 2025 | |||
Elmin Rastoder (born 7 October 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Swiss Challenge League side FC Thun. Born in Switzerland, he represents the North Macedonia team.
Professional career
[edit | edit source]Grasshopper Club Zürich
[edit | edit source]Rastoder joined Grasshopper Club Zürich's academy in 2017 and has been a part of their various youth squads.[1] In the 2021–22 1. Liga season, he scored 13 goals in 26 games for the Grasshopper U21 squad.[2]
Loan to FC Vaduz
[edit | edit source]He made his professional debut for the first team of Grasshopper on 16 October 2020 against Xamax in the Swiss Challenge League.[1] His top flight debut in the Swiss Super League occurred on 20 March 2022 against FC Basel, when he was subbed on for the last ten minutes of the game.[2] He extended his contract with Grasshopper on 7 April 2022, keeping him at the club until 2024.[1] To further develop his skills and earn more play time, he was loaned to FC Vaduz in the Swiss Challenge League for the 2022–23 season.[3] In 44 appearances for Vaduz, he scored twelve goals, including one goal in the UEFA Europa Conference League against Ukrainian side SC Dnipro-1.
Return to Grasshopper
[edit | edit source]Following the conclusion of the season, he returned to Grasshoppers to start the preparation for the next season.[4] However, he was unable to find a fixed spot on the squad during the first half of the season, managing just over 100 minutes played across six games. On 6 February 2024, he returned to Vaduz for another loan spell.[5]
FC Thun
[edit | edit source]On 3 June 2024, he signed a three-year contract with FC Thun.[6]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]Club
[edit | edit source]- As of 3 June 2024[7]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Grasshopper Club Zürich II | 2019–20 | 1. Liga Classic | 11 | 3 | — | — | — | 11 | 3 | |||
| 2020–21 | 11 | 3 | — | — | — | 11 | 3 | |||||
| 2021–22 | 28[a] | 13 | — | — | — | 28 | 13 | |||||
| Grasshopper Club Zürich | 2020–21 | Swiss Challenge League | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2021–22 | Swiss Super League | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
| FC Vaduz (loan) | 2022–23 | Swiss Challenge League | 32 | 7 | 4[b] | 4 | — | 8[c] | 1 | 44 | 12 | |
| Grasshopper Club Zürich | 2023–24 | Swiss Super League | 6 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 0 | ||
| FC Vaduz (loan) | 2023–24 | Swiss Challenge League | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 1 | ||
| FC Thun | 2024–25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||
| Career total | 105 | 27 | 6 | 4 | — | 8 | 1 | 119 | 32 | |||
- ^ Includes two matches of the promotion play-off.
- ^ Appearances in the 2022–23 Liechtenstein Cup
- ^ Appearances in the UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying and group stage
Honors
[edit | edit source]References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Elmin Rastoder at SoccerwayLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- SFL Profile Archived 24 April 2023 at the Wayback Machine
- 2001 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Wetzikon
- Macedonian men's footballers
- North Macedonia men's international footballers
- Swiss men's footballers
- Swiss people of Macedonian descent
- Men's association football forwards
- Grasshopper Club Zurich players
- FC Vaduz players
- Swiss Super League players
- Challenge League (Switzerland) players
- Swiss 1. Liga (football) players
- Swiss expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Liechtenstein
- Swiss expatriate sportspeople in Liechtenstein
- 21st-century Macedonian sportsmen
- 21st-century Swiss sportsmen
- FC Thun players