Bojan Krkić

Bojan Krkić
Bojan with Roma in 2012
Personal information
Full name Bojan Krkić Pérez
Date of birth (1990-08-28) 28 August 1990
Place of birth Linyola, Catalonia, Spain
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)
Youth career
Bellpuig
1999–2006 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 Barcelona B 22 (10)
2007–2011 Barcelona 104 (26)
2011–2013 Roma 33 (7)
2012–2013AC Milan (loan) 19 (3)
2013–2014 Barcelona 0 (0)
2013–2014Ajax (loan) 24 (4)
2014–2019 Stoke City 74 (15)
2017Mainz 05 (loan) 11 (1)
2017–2018Alavés (loan) 12 (0)
2019–2020 Montreal Impact 25 (7)
2021–2023 Vissel Kobe 20 (1)
Total 345 (74)
International career
2006–2007 Spain U17 20 (16)
2007–2011 Spain U21 21 (4)
2007–2019 Catalonia 8 (7)
2008 Spain 1 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Spain
UEFA European Under-17 Championship
Winner 2007 Belgium
UEFA European Under-21 Championship
Winner 2011 Denmark
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bojan Krkić Pérez (born 28 August 1990), also known as simply Bojan, is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward or winger.

Bojan began his career at Barcelona after progressing through the youth ranks at La Masia. His early promise saw him make his first-team debut at the age of 17 years and 19 days, breaking the record set by Lionel Messi. In his debut season, he scored 12 goals in 48 matches. In total, he spent four seasons at the Camp Nou, scoring 41 goals in 162 games before he was sold in July 2011 to Italian team Roma for a fee of €12 million. While in Rome, he scored seven goals in 37 appearances in the 2011–12 season, and then spent the 2012–13 season on loan at AC Milan, where he scored three goals in 27 games.

Roma did not exercise their option of an additional €28 million to sign Bojan definitively, and so Barcelona re-signed him for €13 million. He spent the 2013–14 season on loan at Dutch club Ajax with whom he helped win the Eredivisie title. In July 2014, Bojan joined the English club Stoke City for €1.8 million. After subsequent loans to play on the European continent, once for Mainz 05 in 2017 and in Spain for Alavés in 2018, Krkić then played in North America for a season for the Montreal Impact. His final club was Vissel Kobe in Japan, where he played for two seasons, before being released by the club in January 2023; he retired from professional football two months later.

As a Spanish youth international, he won European Championships with the Under-17 team in 2007 and the Under-21 team in 2011, as well as earning his only cap for the senior team in 2008. He has also represented the Catalan national team eight times since 2007.