Mohamed Dräger

Mohamed Dräger
Personal information
Full name Mohamed Dräger[1]
Date of birth (1996-06-25) 25 June 1996
Place of birth Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2][3]
Position Right-back
Team information
Current team
 Espérance de Tunis
Number 13
Youth career
–2009 PSV Freiburg
2009–2018 SC Freiburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2013 SC Freiburg U17 26 (7)
2013–2015 SC Freiburg U19 46 (16)
2015–2018 SC Freiburg II 68 (11)
2017–2020 SC Freiburg 2 (0)
2018–2020 → SC Paderborn (loan) 50 (1)
2020–2021 Olympiacos 8 (0)
2021–2023 Nottingham Forest 0 (0)
2022–2023 → Luzern (loan) 50 (6)
2023–2025 Basel 21 (2)
2025–2026 Eintracht Braunschweig 5 (0)
2025 Eintracht Braunschweig II 11 (0)
2026– Espérance de Tunis 6 (0)
International career‡
2013 Tunisia U17 4 (1)
2018–2023 Tunisia 39 (3)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Tunisia
FIFA Arab Cup
Runner-up2021 Qatar
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 April 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 17 October 2023

Mohamed Dräger (Arabic: مُحَمَّد دراغر; born 25 June 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 club Espérance de Tunis. Born in Germany, he plays for the Tunisia national team.

Club career

Born in Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, to a German father and Tunisian mother, Dräger played his youth football with local Freiburg Police Sports Club and in 2009 he moved to the youth department of SC Freiburg. With the club's A youth team, he won the DFB-Pokal youth Cup in 2014. They won the final with an 8–7 win on penalties against FC Schalke 04, with Dräger being one of the successful penalty takers. After being the most dangerous player in the Freiburg youth team in the 2014–15 A-Junior Bundesliga with 15 goals during that season, he advanced to their second team in 2015. In the 2016–17 season, they managed direct promotion back to the Regionalliga Südwest as the Baden-Württemberg league champion. Dräger played mainly for the second team, but he made his professional debut for SC Freiburg on 27 July 2017, in a UEFA Europa League qualifying match against Slovenian club Domžale, coming on as a substitute in the 87th minute for Mike Frantz.[4]

In 2018, Dräger joined SC Paderborn on a two-year loan.[5] In September 2020, he joined Greek club Olympiacos on a transfer fee in the range of €1 million.[6]

On 31 August 2021, Dräger joined EFL Championship side Nottingham Forest for an undisclosed fee.[7] On 2 February 2022, Dräger moved on loan to Swiss Super League club Luzern, with an option to buy. After the loan period, Luzern did not pull the option.[8]

On 25 August 2023, FC Basel announced they had signed Dräger on a three-year contract.[9] He joined Basel's first team for their 2023–24 season under head coach Timo Schultz. Dräger played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 3 September as Basel played a 2–2 draw with Zürich.[10] He scored his first goal for his new team in the home game on 5 November 2023 as Basel won 2–1 against Yverdon.[11]

On 30 January 2025, Dräger signed a one-and-a-half-year contract with Eintracht Braunschweig in 2. Bundesliga.[12]

On 11 January 2026, Dräger moved to Espérance de Tunis in Tunisia for two and a half seasons.[13]

International career

Dräger made his debut for the Tunisia national team on 20 November 2018, in a friendly against Morocco, as a 79th-minute substitute for Naïm Sliti,[14] and scored on 13 October 2020 his first goal in a 1–1 friendly game draw away to Nigeria.[15] In November 2022, Dräger was named in Tunisia's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[16]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 26 April 2026[17]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
SC Freiburg U17 2012–13 Under 17 Bundesliga 267———267
SC Freiburg U19 2013–14 Under 19 Bundesliga 22150——271
2014–15 Under 19 Bundesliga 241510——2515
Total 461660——5216
SC Freiburg II 2014–15 Regionalliga 40———40
2015–16 Regionalliga 181———181
2016–17 Oberliga Baden-Württemberg 202———202
2017–18 Regionalliga 268———268
Total 6811———6811
SC Freiburg 2017–18 Bundesliga 20001[b]0—30
SC Paderborn (loan) 2018–19 2. Bundesliga 32040——360
2019–20 Bundesliga 18100——181
Total 50140——541
Olympiacos 2020–21 Super League Greece 80101[c]0—100
Nottingham Forest 2021–22 Championship 0000——00
Nottingham Forest B 2021–22 Premier League 2 20———20
Luzern (loan) 2021–22 Swiss Super League 19321——214
2022–23 Swiss Super League 31320——333
Total 50641——547
Basel 2023–24 Swiss Super League 20230——232
2024–25 Swiss Super League 1000——10
Total 21230——242
Eintracht Braunschweig 2024–25 2. Bundesliga 50———50
2025–26 2. Bundesliga 0000——00
Total 5000——52
Eintracht Braunschweig II 2025–26 Oberliga Niedersachsen 110———110
Espérance de Tunis 2025–26 Tunisian Ligue Professionnelle 1 60004[d]0—100
Career total 2954318160—31944
  1. ↑ Includes DFB-Pokal der Junioren, DFB-Pokal, Greek Football Cup, FA Cup, Swiss Cup, Tunisian Cup
  2. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Europa League
  3. ↑ Appearance in UEFA Champions League
  4. ↑ Appearances in CAF Champions League

International

As of matches played on 17 October 2023[3]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Tunisia 201810
2019120
202031
202182
2022120
202330
Total393
Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dräger goal.
List of international goals scored by Mohamed Dräger
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
113 October 2020Jacques Lemans Arena, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria Nigeria1–11–1Friendly
225 March 2021Benina Martyrs Stadium, Benghazi, Libya Libya3–15–22021 Africa Cup of Nations qualification
316 November 2021Hammadi Agrebi Stadium, Tunis, Tunisia Zambia2–03–12022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Olympiacos

Basel

Espérance de Tunis

Tunisia

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Tunisia (TUN)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 29. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "Spieler - Mannschaft - Profis". SC Paderborn 07 (in German). Retrieved 16 July 2019.
  3. 1 2 Mohamed Dräger at National-Football-Teams.com
  4. ↑ UEFA.com (27 July 2017). "UEFA Europa League - Freiburg 1–0 Domžale". UEFA. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  5. ↑ Schröder, Marc (21 June 2018). "Paderborn leiht Mohamed Dräger vom SC Freiburg aus". Neue Westfälische (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2018.
  6. ↑ "SC Freiburg: Mohamed Dräger kurz vor Wechsel zu Olympiakos Piräus". onefootball.com (in German). 27 September 2020.
  7. ↑ "Two more signings as Ojeda checks in".
  8. ↑ "FÜR DIE RECHTE AUSSENBAHN" (Press release) (in German). Luzern. 2 February 2022. Retrieved 2 February 2022.
  9. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (25 August 2023). "Mohamed Dräger zum FCB" [Mohamed Dräger to FCB] (in German). FC Basel 1893 AG. Archived from the original on 25 August 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  10. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (3 September 2023). "FC Basel - FC Zürich 2:2 (0:1)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  11. ↑ Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (5 November 2023). "FC Basel - Yverdon-Sport FC 2:1 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  12. ↑ "Eintracht Braunschweig verpflichtet Mohamed Dräger" [Eintracht Braunschweig signs Mohamed Dräger] (in German). Eintracht Braunschweig. 30 January 2025. Retrieved 30 January 2025.
  13. ↑ "Mohamed Dräger rejoint l'Espérance" (in French). Espérance Sportive de Tunis. 11 January 2026. Retrieved 12 January 2026.
  14. ↑ "Tunisia v Morocco game report". ESPN. 20 November 2018.
  15. ↑ "Nigeria V Tunisia game report". ESPN. 10 October 2020.
  16. ↑ "Mit Tunesien an der WM - Drägers Kindheitstraum soll länger andauern als üblich". Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) (in German). Retrieved 27 May 2025.
  17. ↑ Mohamed Dräger at Soccerway. Retrieved 6 December 2024.
  18. ↑ "Tunisia - Nigeria Live - Summary: Football Scores & Highlights - 17/07/2019".
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