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Kristoffer Velde
Velde with Lech Poznań in 2022
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-09-09) 9 September 1999 (age 24)
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
0000–2012 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

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

Velde received his first international callup for Norway in June 2023. He won his first cap as a substitute against Cyprus. [6]

Personal life

Velde is half Argentinean. [7] He is nicknamed "Veldinho". [8] [9]

Career statistics

As of match played 21 April 2024 [10]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup Europe Other Total
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
  1. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  2. ^ Two appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, fourteen appearances and seven goals in UEFA Europa Conference League
  3. ^ Appearance in Polish Super Cup
  4. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

Honours

Lech Poznań

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b Kristoffer Velde at Soccerway. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. ^ Fotballforbund, Norges. "Kristoffer Velde - Profil". fotball.no - Norges Fotballforbund.
  3. ^ Kristoffer Velde signerer for Nest-Sotra! Archived 28 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, nestsotra.no, 9 January 2019
  4. ^ Han er tilbake!, fkh.no, 8 April 2019
  5. ^ "Kristoffer Velde piłkarzem Lecha Poznań". www.lechpoznan.pl. 12 January 2022.
  6. ^ Solberg, Preben Ørpetveit (20 June 2023). "Velde fikk debuten i sluttminuttene". Karmøynytt (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ "Se hvem som kom på rundens lag!". VG.no. 2 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  9. ^ ""Veldinho" ut 2022". Haugesund. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  10. ^ "Kristoffer Velde". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  11. ^ "PIŁKARZ MAJA 2023: KRISTOFFER VELDE (LECH POZNAŃ)" (in Polish). Ekstraklasa. 7 June 2023.
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