Nahir Besara

Nahir Besara made his senior debut for Assyriska FF at seventeen. He first arrived in Södertälje's neighbourhood club in January 2013, scoring seven goals in 26 Superettan appearances during the 2014 campaign that lifted Hammarby into the Allsvenskan.

What followed took him far from Stockholm — spells in Turkey with Göztepe, in Saudi Arabia with Al-Fayha, in Cyprus with Pafos FC, and in the United Arab Emirates with Hatta Club, interspersed with repeated returns to Örebro SK. It was Örebro, in 2022, that saw him crowned the Allsvenskan's top assist provider with eleven, a mark of the creative side of his game.

Besara returned to Hammarby for good in February 2022, signing a contract later extended to the end of 2027, and the club made him captain for the 2025 season. There was also a Hammarby IF Player of the Year award in 2022, and a Svenska Cupen final with the club in 2021–22, lost to Malmö FF on penalties.

International recognition came late and briefly. Besara had represented Sweden at under-17 and under-19 level as a teenager, but his senior debut did not arrive until January 2024, in a friendly against Estonia, earning him a single cap.