Abebaw Butako

Abebaw Butako
Personal information
Date of birth	20 April 1987
Place of birth	Arba Minch, Ethiopia
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Left back
Team information
Current team	Arba Minch FC
Number	14
Youth career
	Saint George
Senior career*
Years	Team
2005–2014	Saint George
2014–2015	Al-Hilal Omdurman
2015–	Arba Minch FC
International career‡
2008–2017	Ethiopia
	* Club domestic league appearances and goals; ‡ National team caps and goals as of 29 January 2013

Abebaw Butako (Amharic: ዓበባው ቡጣቆ, born 20 April 1987) is an Ethiopian professional footballer. He currently plays for the Arba Minch FC.

Career

Abebaw is a defender and is part of the Ethiopia national football team. He began his career with Saint-George SA, the club where he played from 2005 - 2014. In August 2014 he transferred to one of Sudan's giant club Al-Hilal Omdurman. A year later he signed with his hometown club Arba Minch City, who made him the Ethiopian Premier League's highest-paid player with a salary of 75,000 birr a month.^[1]

Abebaw debuted for Ethiopia in 2008. He was on the final list of players called for 2013 African Nations Cup.

Scores and results list Ethiopia's goal tally first.^[2]

No	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	7 December 2010	National Stadium, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	Zambia	1–0	2–1	2010 CECAFA Cup
2.	15 October 2014	Stade du 26 Mars, Bamako, Mali	Mali	3–2	3–1	2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualification

^ Berhanu, Markos (24 August 2015). "Abebaw Butako joins Arba Minch City". Ethiosports. Retrieved 3 November 2020.
^ "Butako, Abebaw". National Football Teams. Retrieved 20 April 2017.