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Nacer Barazite (born 27 May 1990) is a Dutch professional footballer who can play either as an attacking midfielder or striker. Most recently, he played for Thai club Buriram United.
Barazite has during his career played for, among others, English clubs Arsenal and Derby County, Dutch sides Vitesse and FC Utrecht, Austrian team Austria Wien and French club Monaco.
He is a Dutch youth international, and has gained nine caps for the Netherlands U21 team.
Barazite made his competitive Arsenal first-team début on 31 October 2007, as a substitute for Eduardo da Silva against Sheffield United in a League Cup Fourth Round match. His second appearance also came as a substitute, for Mark Randall in Arsenal's League Cup quarter-final against Blackburn Rovers on 18 December 2007, but after only 17 minutes on the pitch he was stretchered off with a dislocated shoulder, and replaced by Fran Mérida.
Barazite returned to reserve-team action after his injury, and scored his first hat trick for Arsenal in the under-18s, in a 5–2 win over Southampton. The other two were scored by Luke Freeman. Barazite was also named on the Arsenal bench for the final Premier League game against Sunderland on 11 May 2008, but was not brought on.
Barazite featured in Arsenal's preseason campaign for 2008–09, scoring for Arsenal in a 2–1 win against Barnet in a pre-season friendly at Underhill in July. On 19 August 2008, Barazite joined Championship side Derby County, initially until the end of the year but extended the loan until the end of the season. Barazite was named Man of the Match as Derby won their first game for a week short of a year, despite coming off the bench at half time. He was instrumental in the 2–1 win and set up the winner late in the game. On 29 December 2008, it was confirmed that his loan spell at Derby County was to be extended until the end of the 2008–09 season. He scored his first goal for Derby and also set up a goal, on 18 February at home to Blackpool in a 4–1 victory.
Barazite again featured in Arsenal's preseason campaign for 2009–10, scoring a third time for Arsenal in a 2–2 draw against Barnet in a pre-season friendly at Underhill on 18 July 2009. Barazite was involved in Arsenal's 2–0 win over West Brom in the League Cup where he replaced Armand Traoré in the 69th minute of play. He then suffered a shoulder injury which kept him out of the game for four months.
On 10 August 2010, it was announced that Barazite had gone on trial for Scottish club, Rangers, with view to a season-long loan at the Scottish club. He played 77 minutes of Rangers friendly against Glentoran. Despite losing 2–1, Barazite impressed the club.
On the transfer deadline, he joined the Dutch club Vitesse Arnhem on loan for the entire 2010–11 season. On 11 September 2010, he made his debut, making his first start, in a 1–0 loss against SC Heerenveen. In the third round of KNVB Cup, he scored twice in a 6–0 win over Flevo Boys; followed his third in the fourth of KNVB Cup in a 3–0 win over Rijnsburgse Boys. However, Vitesse decided to terminate the loan deal in December 2010.
The next season was a bigger role for Barazite as he soon have more develop more scoring form in the league and European. In Europa League's Qualifiers, Barazite scored in both legs in the second round against Rudar Pljevlja; twice in the first leg and once in the second leg. In third round against Olimpija Ljubljana, though not scoring in the first leg in a 1–1 draw, he would score a hat-trick in a 3–2 win. Soon after in a Qualification Round of Europa League first leg, he scored a brace in a 3–1 win over Gaz Metan Mediaș and would go through to the group stage, despite losing 1–0 in the second leg. Three days later, he scored his first of the season in a 3–0 win over rival Rapid Wien. With eight goals all in Europa League becoming the highest tally of any player in the competition, Barazite says that was his best time of his career In the Group stage, Barazite would score three times against Malmö twice in two separate legs and once against AZ. But Vienna was out of the Europa League with two wins, two draws and two losses, having same point with AZ, but only a few goal differences than AZ. Elsewhere in the league, he scored more goals, like last season, with eight, including a brace against Admira Wacker Mödling on 19 November 2011.
On his return, Barazite made his first appearance since leaving Austria Wien coming on as a substitute against Vienna derby Rapid Wien and provided the assist for Philipp Hosiner's winning goal. Soon after Barazite suffered a knee injury requiring surgery. Two months later, on 28 April 2013 and towards the end of the season, Barazite made his return coming on as a substitute for Hosiner near full-time in a 2–0 win over Admira Wacker Mödling. In an interview, Barazite expressed his desire to stay at the club after the end of the loan spell. On 11 May 2013, he scored his first goal after his return from injury before setting up Hosiner for the third goal in a 3–0 win over Wacker Innsbruck. The season ended with the club winning the league title for the first time in seven years.
| + Appearances and goals by club, season and competition | |||
| Arsenal | 2007–08 | Premier League | 0 |
| 2009–10 | Premier League | 0 | |
| Derby County (loan) | 2008–09 | Football League Championship | 1 |
| Vitesse Arnhem (loan) | 2010–11 | Eredivisie | 3 |
| Austria Wien | 2010–11 | Austrian Bundesliga | 4 |
| 2011–12 | Austrian Bundesliga | 19 | |
| Monaco | 2011–12 | Ligue 2 | 0 |
| 2012–13 | Ligue 2 | 1 | |
| Austria Wien (loan) | 2012–13 | Austrian Bundesliga | 1 |
| FC Utrecht | 2014–15 | Eredivisie | 2 |
| 2015–16 | Eredivisie | 2 | |
| 2016–17 | Eredivisie | 2 | |
| Jong FC Utrecht | 2016–17 | Eerste Divisie | 1 |
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