Ivan Santini

Ivan Santini (Croatian pronunciation: [ǐʋan santîːni];[1][2] born 21 May 1989) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Chinese club Jiangsu Suning.

Ivan Santini
Santini with Caen in 2016
Personal information
Full name Ivan Santini
Date of birth (1989-05-21) 21 May 1989
Place of birth Zadar, SR Croatia,
SFR Yugoslavia
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Striker
Club information
Current team
 Jiangsu Suning
Number 26
Youth career
2003–2006 Zadar
2006–2007 Inter Zaprešić
2007–2008 Red Bull Salzburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2006–2007 Inter Zaprešić 4 (1)
2009 Ingolstadt 04 6 (0)
2009–2013 Zadar 64 (26)
2012–2013 → SC Freiburg (loan) 24 (1)
2013–2015 Kortrijk 69 (30)
2015–2016 Standard Liège 28 (12)
2016–2018 Caen 66 (26)
2018–2019 Anderlecht 34 (16)
2019– Jiangsu Suning 30 (12)
National team‡
2007 Croatia U18 2 (0)
2007 Croatia U19 2 (1)
2017– Croatia 5 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 12 November 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 15 October 2018

Club career

Ivan Santini, born in Zadar, played for his hometown side's youth team, until the summer of 2006, when he moved to Inter Zaprešić where he signed his first professional contract and made four first team appearances, scoring his first professional goal in the process. The next season, he moved to Red Bull Salzburg where he spent the duration of the year as a youth player.

He made his debut on the professional league level in the 2. Bundesliga for Ingolstadt on 8 March 2009, when he came on as a substitute in the 72nd minute in a game against TSV 1860 München and scored his first goal. From 2009 to 2012, he played for Zadar. On 31 January 2012, Santini joined Freiburg in a sixth-month loan move with a clause in which Freiburg can buy out his contract.[3]

In June 2013, he signed a contract to join Kortrijk.[4]

On 18 June 2015, Santini moved to Standard Liège on a four-year contract, for a fee of €2 million.[5] In the final of the Belgian Cup in 2016, Santini scored a goal in the 88th minute of the match to secure a dramatic 2–1 win over Club Brugge.[6]

On 3 August 2016, Santini moved to Caen on a three-year contract, for a fee estimated over €2 million. In January 2017, he became the second Croatian player after Dado Pršo to score at least 10 goals in Ligue 1.[7]

Anderlecht

On 3 July 2018, he moved to Anderlecht on a three-year contract for €3 million fee.[8] He debuted on 13 July 2018 in a friendly match against Ajax and scored 2 goals.[9] In his official debut, on 28 July 2018, he scored a hat-trick against his former club Kortrijk. [10] On 5 August 2018, he scored his second hat-trick of the season against Oostende. [11] On 12 August 2018, he scored the second goal in a win against Charleroi 1–2.[12] He finished the 2018–19 season as the club's top scorer with 16 league goals.[13]

Jiangsu Suning

On 29 July 2019, Santini joined Chinese Super League club Jiangsu Suning, becoming their fifth and final allotted foreign born player for the season.[14][15] On 24 October 2020, Santini's ninth minute strike against Chongqing Lifan secured Jiangsu Suning a place in the semi-finals of the 2020 Chinese Super League play-offs against 2018 title winners Shanghai SIPG.[16] Santini was a substitute in the second-leg of the CSL final against Guangzhou Evergrande on 12 November, coming on in the 80th minute for goalscorer Éder.[17] The club held on to a 2–1 win which confirmed Jiangsu Suning as league champions for the first time in their history.[18]

International career

In May 2018, he was shortlisted on Croatia's preliminary 32-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia,[19] but did not make the final 23.[20]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 12 November 2020[21]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Inter Zaprešić 2006–07 Druga HNL 41––41
Ingolstadt 2008–09 2. Bundesliga 60–––60
NK Zadar 2009–10 1. HNL 19600––196
2010–11 1. HNL 291000––2910
2011–12 1. HNL 161000––1610
Total 64260000006426
SC Freiburg (loan) 2011–12 Bundesliga 10000––100
2012–13 Bundesliga 14131––172
Total 241310000272
Kortrijk 2013–14 Belgian Pro League 361532––3917
2014–15 Belgian Pro League 331521––3516
Total 69305300007433
Standard Liège 2015–16 Belgian Pro League 27115141–3613
2016–17 Belgian First Division A 111100–22
Total 28126241003815
Caen 2016–17 Ligue 1 341521–003616
2017–18 Ligue 1 311150–203811
Total 65267100207427
Anderlecht 2018–19 Belgian First Division A 34161040–3916
Jiangsu Suning 2019 Chinese Super League 10600––106
2020 Chinese Super League 20611––217
Total 30121100003113
Career total 3241242288120357133

Honours

Inter Zaprešić

Standard Liege

Jiangsu Suning

Individual

References
  1. "Ìvan". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Ìvan
  2. "Sȃnto". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018. Santȋni
  3. Štrbinić, Lovro (31 January 2012). "Santini karijeru nastavlja u Bundesligi". Sportnet.hr (in Croatian). Retrieved 31 January 2012.
  4. "Santini zieht weiter nach Belgien". kicker.de (in German). 16 June 2013. Retrieved 4 August 2013.
  5. "Santini voor vier jaar naar Standard: 'Verschil is dat deze club voor de titel speelt'". SportWereld (in Dutch). 18 June 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  6. "Belgian Cup Final - Club Brugge 1-2 Standard Liege". Yahoo. 20 March 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  7. "Scouting… Anderlecht striker Ivan Santini". View From The Ninian. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  8. "Ivan Santini potpisao za Anderlecht". nogometplus.net (in Croatian). 3 July 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  9. "Sjajan dan za Ivana Santinija, njegovi golovi srušili Ajax". sportnet.rtl.hr (in Croatian). 13 July 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  10. "Čudesan debi Santinija, utrpao hat trick protiv bivšeg kluba". 24sata.hr (in Croatian). 28 July 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  11. "Novi hat-trick Santinija za Anderlecht". hrt.sport.hr (in Croatian). 28 July 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  12. "Nezaustavljivi Santini zabio sedmi gol u tri utakmice". index.hr (in Croatian). 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
  13. "Jupiler Pro League Top Scorer". Retrieved 30 March 2019.
  14. "苏宁官宣克罗地亚前锋桑蒂尼加盟 比甲34场轰16球". Sina Sports (in Chinese). 29 July 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2019.
  15. "Gareth Bale: Jiangsu Suning sign Ivan Santini to end pursuit of Real Madrid winger". Sky Sports. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  16. "CSL: Ivan Santini strikes to take Jiangsu Suning through to semi-final against Shanghai SIPG". South China Morning Post. 25 October 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  17. "Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao 1 - 2 Jiangsu Suning". CSL (in Chinese). 12 November 2020. Retrieved 10 January 2021.
  18. "Alex Teixeira shines as Jiangsu claim maiden Chinese Super League title". ESPN. 16 November 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
  19. http://www.goal.com/en-gb/amp/news/revealed-every-world-cup-2018-squad-23-man-preliminary-lists/oa0atsduflsv1nsf6oqk576rb
  20. "Head coach Dalić presents 24-man Croatia squad". hns-cff.hr. Croatian Football Federation. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  21. "Ivan Santini". Soccerway. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
  22. "Kramarić nogometaš godine MAXtv Prve lige!" (in Croatian). T Portal. 16 December 2014. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
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