Valon Berisha

**Valon Berisha** (born 7 February 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Austrian Bundesliga club LASK and the Kosovo national team.

## 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).

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|Continental|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Viking|2010|rowspan="3"|Tippeligaen|12|1|3|0|—|15|1||
|2011|28|3|4|2|—|32|5||||||
|2012|16|0|1|0|—|17|0||||||
|rowspan="7"|Red Bull Salzburg|2012–13|rowspan="6"|Austrian Bundesliga|30|6|3|0|—|33|6||
|2013–14|32|5|3|3|12|0|47|8|||||
|2014–15|14|4|3|0|2|0|19|4|||||
|2015–16|33|5|6|1|4|0|43|6|||||
|2016–17|34|7|3|0|9|1|46|8|||||
|2017–18|24|4|3|2|18|7|45|13|||||
|rowspan="3"|Lazio|2018–19|rowspan="2"|Serie A|8|0|1|0|5|0|14|0|
|2019–20|3|0|1|0|4|0|8|0|||||
|Fortuna Düsseldorf (loan)|2019–20|Bundesliga|13|0|0|0|—|13|0||||
|rowspan="3"|Reims|2020–21|rowspan="2"|Ligue 1|24|0|1|0|2|1|27|1|
|2021–22|13|0|1|0|—|14|0||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="5"|Norway|2012|8|0|
|2013|3|0|||
|2014|2|0|||
|2015|3|0|||
|2016|4|0|||
|rowspan="8"|Kosovo|2016|4|1|
|2017|6|0|||
|2018|4|0|||
|2019|6|2|||
|2020|6|0|||
|2021|5|0|||
|2022|5|1|||
|2023|4|0|||

**International goals**

- _Scores and results list Kosovo's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Berisha goal_.

|-
|1.
|5 September 2016
|Veritas Stadion, Turku, Finland
|
|align="center"|**1**–1
|align="center"|1–1
|2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
|align="center"|
|-
|2.
|rowspan="2"|10 September 2019
|rowspan="2"|St. Mary's Stadium, Southampton, England
|rowspan="2"|
|align="center"|**1**–0
|align="center" rowspan="2"|3–5
|rowspan="2"|UEFA Euro 2020 qualifying
|align="center" rowspan="2"|
|-
|3.
|align="center"|**2**–5
|-
|4.
|2 June 2022
|AEK Arena – Georgios Karapatakis, Larnaca, Cyprus
|
|align="center"|**1**–0
|align="center"|2–0
|2022–23 UEFA Nations League C
|align="center"|
|}

## Honours

**Red Bull Salzburg**
- Austrian Football Bundesliga: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
- Austrian Cup: 2013–14, 2015–16, 2016–17

**Lazio**
- Coppa Italia: 2018–19
- Supercoppa Italiana: 2019
**Melbourne City**
- A-League Men Premiership: 2022–23
**Individual**
- Austrian Bundesliga Player of the Year: 2017–18
- Austrian Bundesliga top assist provider: 2016–17
- Austrian Bundesliga Team of the Year: 2016–17, 2017–18

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Valon Berisha
- **image**: FC Admira Wacker Mödling vs. FC Red Bull Salzburg 2018-04-15 (056).jpg
- **caption**: Berisha with FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg in 2017
- **fullname**: Valon Berisha
- **birth place**: Malmö, Sweden
- **height**: 1.76 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **currentclub**: LASK
- **clubnumber**: 14
- **youthyears1**: 1998–2009
- **youthclubs1**: Egersunds IK, Egersund
- **years1**: 2009
- **clubs1**: Egersunds IK, Egersund
- **caps1**: 31
- **goals1**: 11
- **years2**: 2009–2012
- **clubs2**: Viking FK, Viking
- **caps2**: 56
- **goals2**: 4
- **years3**: 2012–2018
- **clubs3**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **caps3**: 167
- **goals3**: 31
- **years4**: 2018–2020
- **clubs4**: S.S. Lazio, Lazio
- **caps4**: 11
- **goals4**: 0
- **years5**: 2020
- **clubs5**: → Fortuna Düsseldorf (loan)
- **caps5**: 13
- **goals5**: 0
- **years6**: 2020–2023
- **clubs6**: Stade de Reims, Reims
- **caps6**: 37
- **goals6**: 0
- **years7**: 2022
- **clubs7**: Stade de Reims, Reims B
- **caps7**: 3
- **goals7**: 0
- **years8**: 2022–2023
- **clubs8**: → Melbourne City FC, Melbourne City (loan)
- **caps8**: 27
- **goals8**: 1
- **years9**: 2024–
- **clubs9**: LASK
- **caps9**: 12
- **goals9**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 2010
- **nationalteam1**: Norway U15
- **nationalcaps1**: 4
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2009
- **nationalteam2**: Norway national under-16 football team, Norway U16
- **nationalcaps2**: 10
- **nationalgoals2**: 2
- **nationalyears3**: 2010
- **nationalteam3**: Norway national under-17 football team, Norway U17
- **nationalcaps3**: 8
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **nationalyears4**: 2010
- **nationalteam4**: Norway national under-18 football team, Norway U18
- **nationalcaps4**: 7
- **nationalgoals4**: 0
- **nationalyears5**: 2011
- **nationalteam5**: Norway national under-19 football team, Norway U19
- **nationalcaps5**: 8
- **nationalgoals5**: 0
- **nationalyears6**: 2011–2014
- **nationalteam6**: Norway national under-21 football team, Norway U21
- **nationalcaps6**: 18
- **nationalgoals6**: 3
- **nationalyears7**: 2013
- **nationalteam7**: Norway U23
- **nationalcaps7**: 1
- **nationalgoals7**: 1
- **nationalyears8**: 2012–2016
- **nationalteam8**: Norway national football team, Norway
- **nationalcaps8**: 20
- **nationalgoals8**: 0
- **nationalyears9**: 2016–
- **nationalteam9**: Kosovo national football team, Kosovo
- **nationalcaps9**: 40
- **nationalgoals9**: 4
- **club-update**: 4 May 2024
- **nationalteam-update**: 12 September 2023