Kristoffer Velde
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 9 September 1999 | ||
Place of birth | Haugesund, Norway | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Lech Poznań | ||
Number | 11 | ||
Youth career | |||
–2012 | Kopervik | ||
2013 | Vard | ||
2014 | Kopervik | ||
2015–2017 | Haugesund | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2017–2021 | Haugesund | 101 | (21) |
2019 | → Nest-Sotra (loan) | 0 | (0) |
2022– | Lech Poznań | 66 | (17) |
International career‡ | |||
2017 | Norway U19 | 2 | (1) |
2023 | Norway | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22 April 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:51, 20 June 2023 (UTC) |
Kristoffer Velde (born 9 September 1999) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a winger for Ekstraklasa club Lech Poznań and the Norway national football team.[1]
Club career[edit]
Velde played youth football in Kopervik, spent the 2013 season in Vard's youth setup, returned to Kopervik before joining Haugesund in 2015. He made his senior debut in 2017. In 2017 he also featured for Norway U19.[2]
In early January 2019 it was announced that Velde was loaned out to Nest-Sotra for the 2019 season.[3] The loan was terminated in early April 2019.[4]
He moved to Polish club Lech Poznań in January 2022.[5]
International career[edit]
Velde received his first international callup for Norway in June 2023. He won his first cap as a substitute against Cyprus.[6]
Personal life[edit]
Velde is half Argentinean.[7] He is nicknamed "Veldinho".[8][9]
Career statistics[edit]
- As of match played 21 April 2024[10]
Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Haugesund | 2017 | Eliteserien | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 9 | 0 | ||
2018 | Eliteserien | 9 | 2 | 5 | 2 | — | — | 14 | 4 | |||
2019 | Eliteserien | 26 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6[a] | 2 | — | 38 | 8 | ||
2020 | Eliteserien | 28 | 8 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 28 | 8 | |||
2021 | Eliteserien | 29 | 7 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 30 | 7 | |||
Total | 101 | 21 | 12 | 4 | 6 | 2 | — | 119 | 27 | |||
Lech Poznań | 2021–22 | Ekstraklasa | 8 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 0 | ||
2022–23 | Ekstraklasa | 30 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 16[b] | 8 | 1[c] | 0 | 48 | 16 | |
2023–24 | Ekstraklasa | 28 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 3[d] | 2 | — | 34 | 10 | ||
Total | 66 | 17 | 6 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 92 | 28 | ||
Career total | 167 | 38 | 18 | 5 | 25 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 201 | 55 |
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Two appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, fourteen appearances and seven goals in UEFA Europa Conference League
- ^ Appearance in Polish Super Cup
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
Honours[edit]
Lech Poznań
Individual
References[edit]
- ^ a b Kristoffer Velde at Soccerway. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
- ^ Fotballforbund, Norges. "Kristoffer Velde - Profil". fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund.
- ^ Kristoffer Velde signerer for Nest-Sotra! Archived 28 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, nestsotra.no, 9 January 2019
- ^ Han er tilbake!, fkh.no, 8 April 2019
- ^ "Kristoffer Velde piłkarzem Lecha Poznań". www.lechpoznan.pl. 12 January 2022.
- ^ Solberg, Preben Ørpetveit (20 June 2023). "Velde fikk debuten i sluttminuttene". Karmøynytt (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ Arntzen, Mats (8 June 2023). "Landslagsklare Velde åpner opp om tøff tid: − Fra det verste av det verste til gud i Poznan". VG (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 June 2023.
- ^ "Se hvem som kom på rundens lag!". VG.no. 2 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ ""Veldinho" ut 2022". Haugesund. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ "Kristoffer Velde". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
- ^ "PIŁKARZ MAJA 2023: KRISTOFFER VELDE (LECH POZNAŃ)" (in Polish). Ekstraklasa. 7 June 2023.
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Haugesund
- Norwegian people of Argentine descent
- Norwegian men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Norway men's youth international footballers
- Norway men's international footballers
- Eliteserien players
- Ekstraklasa players
- FK Haugesund players
- Nest-Sotra Fotball players
- Lech Poznań players
- Norwegian expatriate men's footballers
- Norwegian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
- Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
- Norwegian football midfielder stubs