Danijel Subotić

Youth football

Subotić began his youth football in his adoptive country Switzerland. He played in the youth department of FC Basel, in their U-18 team during the 2005–06 season, under coach Patrick Rahmen and his assistant Marco Walker and with them, won both the Swiss U-18 championship and the U-19/18 national cup that season. The following season he advanced to their U-21 team, who played in the third tier, and they won their division (group B) and became Swiss champions at U-21 level. He started the 2007–08 season them too, played in nine of the 17 fixtures, but left the club in January. The team went on to win the division (group 2) and become Swiss champions at U-21 level again.

Portsmouth

On 7 January 2008, he became English Premier League side Portsmouth F.C.'s first signing in the 2008 January transfer window. He signed a reported 3+1⁄2-year contract. On 5 August 2008, Subotić moved on loan to Belgian club Zulte Waregem, the Portsmouth's feeder club at that time (which relationship ended in June 2009) along with Andréa Mbuyi-Mutombo in order to gain first-team experience. He scored 1 goal in 13 league appearances before returned to England in January 2009. On 7 August 2010, Italian Serie B side Grosseto announced Subotić was trying out at the club. Nearly 2 weeks later, Pompey formally announced Subotić's contract was canceled by mutual consent.

Universitatea Craiova

In February 2011, Danijel Subotić signed a contract with the Romanian…

Subotić has dual citizenship, Swiss as well as Bosnian. However his Croatian background also helped him eligible to play for all three. During his time with FC Basel he was called up to represent Switzerland at various youth levels. Together with his Basel team-mates Oliver Klaus, Fabian Frei, Valentin Stocker, Dominik Ritter, Michel Morganella and Pascal Schürpf, Subotić played in the Switzerland U-19 team during the 2008 UEFA European Under-19 Football Championship qualification.

As of match played 14 February 2020

Subotić was born in Zagreb, SR Croatia, but his family originated from Doboj, Bosnia and Herzegovina, all back then part of Yugoslavia. His younger brother Dejan (born in 1996) is also footballer, having signed his first professional contract in 2018 with Serbian club FK Rad.