Valon Berisha

Valon Berisha

Berisha with Red Bull Salzburg in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Valon Berisha
Date of birth	(1993-02-07) 7 February 1993
Place of birth	Malmö, Sweden
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Red Bull Salzburg
Number	14
Youth career
1998–2009	Egersund
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2008–2009	Egersund	31	(11)
2009–2012	Viking	56	(4)
2012–	Red Bull Salzburg	48	(9)
National team‡
2010	Norway U17	8	(0)
2011	Norway U19	8	(0)
2011–	Norway U21	13	(2)
2012–	Norway	11	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 December 2013 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 December 2013

Valon Berisha (born 7 February 1993) is a Norwegian football player. In 2020 he had his first games for Ligue 1 club Reims.

Before that, he played as a midfielder for Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.

Career

Berisha was born in Stockholm. His family is of Albanian origin. They moved from Kosovo to Sweden before he was born. His younger brother Veton also plays professional football for Viking Stavanger in Norway. He started football at the local club Egersunds IK. On 20 June 2008, when he was 15 years old, he played his first senior match for EIK against Staal Jørpeland IL in the Norwegian Third Division. His good performance attracted the interest of Viking Stavanger, a top club of Norway. He signed with them in March 2009. In July 2012 Berisha went on to Red Bull Salzburg together with his fellow Norwegian Håvard Nielsen. Unlike Nielsen he was soon part of the starting team of Salzburg.

International career

Valon Berisha was part of every youth national team in Norway. For the Under-17, U-19 and U-21 teams he played 29 games and scored 3 goals. With the U-21 he played in the European Under-21 Championship 2013 in Israel and reached the semifinal. His first match in the senior team was on January 15, 2011. It was a friendly match against Denmark League XI (unofficial national football team run by the Danish Football Association).