Myrto Uzuni joined Austin FC as a Designated Player for a Club-record transfer fee from Granada CF in January 2025. Uzuni, an Albanian international capable of playing as a center forward or a winger, signed a three-year contract guaranteed through the end of the 2027 season with an option for 2028.
In three (3) years with Granada, Uzuni totaled 49 goals and eight (8) assists in 106 matches. During the 2022/2023 season, he finished as the Golden Boot winner (top goalscorer) in LaLiga 2 with 23 goals as Granada won the league title and earned promotion to LaLiga. He contributed 11 goals the following season playing in LaLiga, the Spanish topflight.
In international soccer, Uzuni has made 38 appearances for the Albanian Men’s National Team with five (5) goals and seven (7) assists as of the start of the 2025 season.
Prior to joining Granada in January 2022, Uzuni won back-to-back Hungarian league titles in his two (2) seasons playing with Ferencváros. The team also won the Hungarian Cup, with Uzuni recording eight (8) goals to finish as the competition’s leading scorer that season.
Uzuni’s six (6) goals and four (4) assists in 13 UEFA Champions League qualifying matches with Ferencváros helped the team reach the Champions League and UEFA Europa League group stages in consecutive seasons. He scored a Champions League goal vs. Juventus in November 2020, and netted against Real Betis and Celtic in the Europa League the following season.
Uzuni’s professional career began in 2013 with his hometown club FK Tomori Berat in Albania. He also competed for FK Apolonia and KF Laçi in his native country before his first move abroad to join NK Lokomotiva Zagreb in Croatia where he played from 2018 to 2020.
