Adilson Tavares Varela: Career Stats, Clubs, Age & Nationality

Adilson Tavares Varela: profile

Adilson Tavares Varela (born 22 October 1988 in Praia, Cape Verde) is a former Cape Verdean footballer who played as a midfielder.

Varela made the step into senior football with FC Lausanne-Sport in 2005. He played for 7 clubs in 4 countries since 2005. The busiest spell of his career was at FC Basel (2007–2013): 99 appearances and 2 goals. Across all recorded club spells he totals 179 appearances and 3 goals.

At international level, Varela represented Switzerland (2006–2007), earning 14 caps and scoring 0 goals.

Praia has produced 42 footballers in our database, including Gelson Martins, Kevin Pina and Nuno da Costa.

Key facts

Countries played in: 4: Switzerland, Spain, United Kingdom and Italy
Club goals per game: 0.02 (3 in 179)
Latest move: FC Zürich (2015)
Shares a birthday with: Aïssa Mandi, Godfrey Chitalu and Gaël Bigirimana (more)

Club career

Years	Club	League	Apps	Goals
2005–2007	FC Lausanne-Sport	Swiss Super League	26	0
2007–2013	FC Basel	Swiss Super League	99	2
2008–2009	FC barcelona	Segunda División B	23	1
2008–2009	Sevilla FC	La Liga	23	0
2013–2015	Sunderland A.F.C.	Premier League	1	0
2014	Genoa CFC	Serie A	7	0
2015–	FC Zürich	Swiss Super League	–	–
	Total		179	3

Appearances and goals are league figures where recorded on Wikidata; “–” means not recorded.

International career

Years	Team	Level	Caps	Goals
2005–2006	Switzerland U18	Under-18	5	1
2006–2007	Switzerland U19	Under-19	14	0
2006–2007	Switzerland	Senior	14	0
2007–2008	Switzerland U20	Under-20	2	0
2007–2009	Switzerland U21	Under-21	9	0