Dejan Karan (Serbian Cyrillic: Дејан Каран; Hungarian: Karan Dejan; born 13 August 1988) is a Serbian footballer with Hungarian nationality who plays as a centre-back and is the captain of Hungarian club Diósgyőr.
![]() Karan with Kecskemét in 2016 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Dejan Karan | ||
Date of birth | (1988-08-13) 13 August 1988 (age 33) | ||
Place of birth | Novi Sad, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | Diósgyőr | ||
Number | 48 | ||
Youth career | |||
0000–2006 | Vojvodina | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2006–2013 | Vojvodina | 35 | (0) |
2006–2007 | → Sloga Temerin (loan) | 13 | (1) |
2007 | → Proleter Novi Sad (loan) | 8 | (1) |
2007–2008 | → Mladost Podgorica (loan) | 22 | (0) |
2008 | → Palić (loan) | 13 | (0) |
2009 | → Novi Sad (loan) | 13 | (0) |
2012 | → Javor Ivanjica (loan) | 1 | (0) |
2013 | → Voždovac (loan) | 16 | (1) |
2013–2015 | Kecskemét | 60 | (1) |
2015–2016 | Tirana | 25 | (2) |
2016– | Diósgyőr | 101 | (6) |
National team‡ | |||
2006 | Serbia U19 | 1 | (0) |
2010 | Serbia U21 | 2 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 May 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 2010 |
Karan played for Serbian SuperLiga clubs Vojvodina, Javor Ivanjica, Voždovac and Mladost Podgorica from Montenegro. From 10 July 2013, he signed for Kecskemét from Hungary, where he stayed two years until 31 July 2015.
On 25 August 2015, Karan signed with the most successful club of Albania, Tirana, on a one-year deal with an option to renew it for another year.[1][2] During his presentation, he said that his compatriot Ivan Gvozdenović had told to him "many good words for the club" and that he has heard that Tirana is the best Albanian club in history.[3] He was given the number 5.
Karan signed his first contract with Diósgyőr on 10 July 2016 and this is his second time that he play in Hungary. One and a half seasons in Diósgyőr was enough to become standard player in this team and 17 January 2018, Karan signed new two years contract with this Hungarian football club. Karan after two and half years got Hungarian nationality. At the start of his four seasons in this club he became also captain of this team. Second time, Karan extended his contract 20 December 2019 for a new two years.
Diósgyőri VTK – current squad | |
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