Mohamed Dräger

Mohamed Dräger (Arabic: مُحَمَّد دراغر; born 25 June 1996) is a professional footballer who plays as a right-back for 2. Bundesliga club Eintracht Braunschweig. Born in Germany, he plays for the Tunisia national football team.

Mohamed Dräger

Personal information
Full name	Mohamed Dräger[1]
Date of birth	(1996-06-25) 25 June 1996 (age 29)
Place of birth	Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[2][3]
Position(s)	Right-back
Team information
Current team	Eintracht Braunschweig
Number	2
Youth career
0000–2009	PSV Freiburg
2009–2015	SC Freiburg
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2015–2017	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)	48	(6)
2023–2025	Basel	21	(2)
2025–	Eintracht Braunschweig	5	(0)
International career‡
2013	Tunisia U17	4	(1)
2018–	Tunisia	39	(3)
Medal record Representing  Tunisia Men's football FIFA Arab Cup Runner-up 2021 Qatar
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 May 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 6 December 2024

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]

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,^[13] and scored on 13 October 2020 his first goal in a 1–1 friendly game draw away to Nigeria.^[14] In November 2022, Dräger was named in Tunisia's 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar.^[15]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 6 December 2024^[16]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup[a]		Europe		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
SC Freiburg II	2014–15	Regionalliga	4	0	—		—		—		4	0
	2015–16	Regionalliga	18	1	—		—		—		18	1
	2016–17	Oberliga Baden-Württemberg	20	2	—		—		—		20	2
	2017–18	Regionalliga	26	8	—		—		—		26	8
	Total		68	11	—		—		—		68	11
SC Freiburg	2017–18	Bundesliga	2	0	0	0	1[b]	0	—		3	0
SC Paderborn (loan)	2018–19	2. Bundesliga	32	0	4	0	—		—		36	0
	2019–20	Bundesliga	18	1	0	0	—		—		18	1
	Total		50	1	4	0	—		—		54	1
Olympiacos	2020–21	Super League Greece	8	0	1	0	1[c]	0	—		10	0
FC Luzern (loan)	2021–22	Swiss Super League	17	3	2	1	—		2[d]	0	21	4
	2022–23	Swiss Super League	31	3	1	0	—		—		32	3
	Total		48	6	3	1	—		2	0	54	7
FC Basel	2023–24	Swiss Super League	20	2	2	0	—		—		22	2
	2024–25	Swiss Super League	1	0	0	0	—		—		1	0
	Total		21	2	2	0	—		—		23	2
Career total			197	20	10	1	2	0	2	0	211	21

1. Includes DFB-Pokal, Greek Football Cup, Swiss Cup
2. Appearance in UEFA Europa League
3. Appearance in UEFA Champions League
4. Appearances in Swiss Super League relegation play-offs

International

As of matches played on 6 December 2024^[3]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Tunisia	2018	1	0
	2019	12	0
	2020	3	1
	2021	8	2
	2022	12	0
	2023	3	0
Total		39	3

As of goal scored on 6 December 2024^[3]

Scores and results list Tunisia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Dräger goal.

List of international goals scored by Naïm Sliti

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	13 October 2020	Jacques Lemans Arena, Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria	Nigeria	1–1	1–1	Friendly
2	25 March 2021	Martyrs of February Stadium, Benghazi, Libya	Libya	3–1	5–2	2021 AFCON Q
3	16 November 2021	Stade Hammadi Agrebi, Tunis, Tunisia	Zambia	2–0	3–1	2022 World Cup Q

Honours

Olympiacos

• Super League Greece: 2020–21

Basel

• Swiss Super League: 2024–25

Tunisia

• Africa Cup of Nations fourth place: 2019^[17]
• FIFA Arab Cup runner-up: 2021
• Kirin Cup Soccer: 2022