Muharrem Sahiti

Muharrem Sahiti is a Kosovan professional football coach and former player who is the current sports director of Kosovo national team.

Club career

Sahiti began his playing career at the age of 17 for Gjilani. After three years, he was promoted to the senior team and appeared 32 times, scoring 12 goals. A year later, he was transferred to the Yugoslav First League club Prishtina.
After the political situation in Kosovo deteriorated in 1990, he was transferred to Süper Lig club Konyaspor where he played for two seasons and appeared 48 times, scoring 2 goals. He also played for Lokomotiv Plovdiv, Thun and Oberneuland. During the last three years of his career he returned to his former team, Gjilani and in the 1999–2000 season won the Cup and the Supercup.

International career

On 1 February 1993, Sahiti received a call-up from Kosovo for a friendly match against Albania, and made his debut after being named in the starting line-up.

Managerial career

Kosovo

Second term as caretaker

On 1 November 2017, The Football Federation of Kosovo appointed Sahiti as caretaker manager. On 8 November 2017, he made his first squad announcement with Kosovo for the friendly match against Latvia and he brought three new players as Armend Thaqi, Faton Maloku and Suad Sahiti. On 13 November 2017, he made his first match as Kosovo manager with a 4–3 home win against Latvia.