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Ardian Mema
Personal information
Full name Ardian Mema
Date of birth (1970-02-16) 16 February 1970 (age 54)
Place of birth Tirana, Albania
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1980–1989 Tirana
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1989–1997 Tirana 101+ (7+)
1997–1998 Partizani 26 (2)
1998–2002 Tirana 89 (13)
International career
1995–1998 Albania 8 (0[1])
Managerial career
2007 Tirana
2009–2011 Albania U17
2013 Tirana B
2015 Hajer Club U-19
2017–2018 Skënderbeu (assistant)
2018 Flamurtari (assistant)
2018–2019 Tirana
2022–2023 Kastrioti
2023– Vëllaznimi
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ardian Mema (born 16 November 1971 in Tirana) is a former Albanian football player and coach. He played for KF Tirana 1989 and 2003 and has managed both the senior team and the reserves in 2007 and 2013 respectively.[2]

Playing career

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Club

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Ardian was born into the prominent Mema footballing family, as his dad was former KF Tirana and Albania international Ali Mema, and his uncles Haxhi and Osman were both professional footballers, too. His cousin Sulejman was also a footballer and former KF Tirana player, as was Klevi Mema who died at the age of 19. He joined the senior team of KF Tirana in 1989, and in the same year he began his further education at the Academy of Physical and Sports Education Vojo Kushi, where he graduated in 1993. He retired in 2003 from a 14-year career with KF Tirana where he won 6 league titles, 5 Albanian Cups and 4 Albanian Supercups, as well as being in the team of the year in 5 consecutive seasons at the height of his career in the '90s.[3]

International

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He made his debut for Albania in an April 1995 European Championship qualification match against Georgia and earned a total of 8 caps, scoring no goals. His final international was a February 1998 friendly match against Latvia.[4]

Managerial career

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Following his retirement Mema went into management and became the assistant coach of KF Tirana in 2007, where he was also an interim manager for one game in 2007 before the arrival of Astrit Hafizi. He then managed the Ali Dema futsal team before going on to manage the Albania national under 17 team for two and a half years in 2009. He was also instrumental in setting up the KF Tirana B team in 2013, where he was also their first manager before stepping down to become the director of the KF Tirana academy, a post which he still holds.[5]

Managerial statistics

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Team From To Record
G W D L Win %
Tirana 12 October 2018 24 October 2019 46 18 13 15 039.13
Tirana 12 October 2018 24 October 2019 440 357 50 33 081.14

Honours

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Player

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Tirana

Manager

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Runners-up (1) Albanian Cup 2018–19

References

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  1. ^ 11v11 profile
  2. ^ Footballdatabase profile
  3. ^ Ardian Mema: Ju rrëfej ambiciet e Tiranës B
  4. ^ "Player Database". eu-football.info. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
  5. ^ Ardian Mema: Tiranës i mungon numri 10, ja kush bën diferencën në ekip Archived April 1, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
  6. ^ Albania - Championship Winning Teams - RSSSF