Swedish footballer

Jakup Jimmy Durmaz (born 22 March 1989), formerly known as Jimmy Touma, is a Swedish footballer who plays as a winger for Turkish club Fatih Karagümrük.

He began his career at BK Forward and moved in 2008 to Malmö FF, where he won the Allsvenskan *le in 2010. He had two seasons each with Gençlerbirliği of Turkey and Olympiacos of Greece, winning two Superleague Greece *les and one Greek Cup.

Durmaz made his senior international debut for Sweden in 2011. He was part of their squads for UEFA Euro 2016 and the 2018 FIFA World Cup.

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Club career
  • 2.1 Malmö FF
  • 2.2 Gençlerbirliği
  • 2.3 Olympiacos
  • 2.4 Toulouse
  • 2.5 Galatasaray
    • 2.5.1 Loan to Fatih Karagümrük
• 3 International career
• 4 Career statistics
  • 4.1 Club
  • 4.2 International
• 5 Honours
• 6 References
• 7 External links

Early life

Durmaz was born in Örebro, into a Syriac family of the Syriac Orthodox faith. His father Semun is a Turkish-Syriac who migrated to Sweden from Midyat in southeastern Turkey, while his mother is a Lebanese-Syriac.

Club career

Malmö FF

Touma came to Malmö FF from BK Forward in July 2008. He made his Allsvenskan debut on 14 July 2008 against Hammarby IF. Prior to the 2009 season, he decided to switch his surname to Durmaz. His breakthrough came in the 2010 league winning season when he started in 15 games and played 27. Durmaz scored the opening goal against A.C. Milan in an exhibition game on 14 August 2011. Durmaz continued to the play regularly for the club during the 2011 season and finished the season with 27 league matches played and four goals scored.

Gençlerbirliği

In June 2012, Durmaz signed a three-year contract with Turkish club Gençlerbirliği S.K. During his time with the Ankara based side, Durmaz scored 11 times and provided six *ists in 61 league appearances.

Olympiacos

After two seasons in Turkey, Durmaz signed for Greek Super League club Olympiacos Durmaz in August 2014. He scored his first goal for the club with a close-range effort against OFI Crete on 14 September. His first hat-trick came in an 8-0 win over Tyrnavos in a Greek Cup game on 29 January 2015.

Toulouse

Durmaz moved to Ligue 1 club Toulouse in August 2016, for a fee in the region of €2.5 million. On 26 August 2017, Durmaz scored two goals (both of them penalties) in Toulouse's 3–2 Ligue 1 home win over Stade Rennais to bring his 2017–18 Ligue 1 goal tally to three and improve on the two Ligue 1 goals he scored in the whole of the 2016–17 Ligue 1 season.

Galatasaray

On 2 July 2019, Durmaz joined reigning Süper Lig champions Galatasaray S.K. on a free transfer after his contract with Toulouse ran out. He signed on a three-year deal, earning 6 million Turkish lira for the first season, increasing by a million in each subsequent campaign.

Durmaz made his debut for the club in the Turkish Super Cup on 7 August 2019, playing 81 minutes in their 1–0 win over Akhisar.

Loan to Fatih Karagümrük

On 2 October 2020, he signed a loan agreement with Fatih Karagümrük, one of the Super League teams.

International career

Durmaz made his debut for Sweden on 8 February 2011 in a friendly game against Cyprus. Durmaz was selected for the annual training camp for the Sweden national team in January 2012. The squad selection for the camp traditionally feature the best Swedish players in domestic and other Scandinavian leagues.

Durmaz represented Sweden at Euro 2016.

He was named in Sweden's 23-man squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia, but only made one appearance in the tournament, coming on as a subs*ute against Germany in the group stage. After conceding a last-minute free kick in the game, from which Toni Kroos scored to beat Sweden 2–1, Durmaz was subjected to racial abuse and threats of violence on social media. Expert *ysis found that the most abusive posts were almost all bot generated, rather than from genuine users.

Career statistics

Club

Jimmy Durmaz playing for GençlerbirliğiAs of 18 June 2021.

International

As of 18 June 2021

Appearances and goals by national team and year

International goals

Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first.

Honours

Malmö

• Allsvenskan: 2010

Olympiacos

• Super League Greece: 2014–15, 2015–16
• Greek Cup: 2014–15

Galatasaray

• Turkish Super Cup: 2019

Individual

• Stor Grabb: 2016

References

External links

• Jimmy Durmaz – UEFA compe*ion record (archive)
• Jimmy Durmaz – FIFA compe*ion record (archived)
• Malmö FF profile (in Swedish)
• Jimmy Durmaz at SvFF (in Swedish) (archived)
• Jimmy Durmaz at Soccerway
• Jimmy Durmaz at Mackolik.com (in Turkish)
• Jimmy Durmaz at National-Football-Teams.com