When Bunjaku was eight years old, he moved with his mother and two brothers to Switzerland, where his father was already working. Bunjaku joined his first club at 13 – unusually late for a future professional. Before starting out with FC Schlieren, he only played football in the schoolyard or on the five-a-side court. At that stage he was also very keen on basketball. Bunjaku's first step on the professional ladder was at
FC Schaffhausen in the
Challenge League, Switzerland's second division. The team won promotion to the
Super League in 2003–04 and over the course of the next 18 months the young forward made 39 top-flight appearances. In January 2006, the 23-year-old Bunjaku left Schaffhausen for 2. Bundesliga side
SC Paderborn. His first staging post in Germany was destined to last just six months however, as he failed to establish himself under then-coach Jos Luhukay. "At the time I didn't have the feeling he was Bundesliga material", Luhukay says now. As a result, Bunjaku found himself unemployed in the summer of 2006. Then however, a chance conversation turned Bunjaku's fortunes around. His wife Arieta worked in a boutique in Paderborn frequented by the wife of former Paderborn coach
Pavel Dochev. They struck up a conversation and it transpired that Dotchev, now in charge of
Rot-Weiß Erfurt, was on the lookout for a striker. No sooner said than done, and Bunjaku was on the move to third-division Erfurt. He first came to the attention of the wider footballing public when Rot-Weiß Erfurt took on
Bayern Munich in a DFB Cup tie on 10 August 2008. Coming on as a second-half substitute in what was
Jürgen Klinsmann's competitive debut as Bayern coach, Bunjaku put two goals past the record champions, who eventually squeezed past their lower-league opponents 4–3. Bunjaku retired in May 2022. == International career ==