Samir Ujkani (born 5 July 1988) is a Kosovo Albanian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for the reserve team of Turkish club Çaykur Rizespor and captains the Kosovo national team, he previously played for Albania national team until 2014.
Ujkani was born in Resnik, a village near Vushtrri, Socialist Autonomous Province of Kosovo, at the time part of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. His family then moved to Belgium six years after his birth.
At the age of thirteen, Ujkani enrolled into Ingelmunster, spending six years there before moving to Anderlecht. The Anderlecht football academy has a reputation of producing talented goalkeepers such as Jacky Munaron. Ujkani played until June 2007 for the Anderlecht Under-19s, and made also ten appearances with their reserves team. In June 2007, he agreed to sign a five-year contract with Palermo of the Italian Serie A.