Amadou Haidara

**Amadou Haidara**  (born 31 January 1998) is a Malian professional footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Mali national team.

### Red Bull Salzburg

Haidara started his career with the Malian side JMG Academy Bamako. In July 2016 he went to FC Red Bull Salzburg in Austria. He went on loan to the second league side FC Liefering. Haidara also played for the FC Red Bull Salzburg U-19 team in the UEFA Youth League. There he scored two goals versus FK Vardar.

He made his first match in the third round of the 2016–17 league versus LASK Linz. He substituted Gideon Mensah after the halftime break and scored his first goal in the 48th minute for Liefering.

During the 2017–18 season Salzburg had their best ever European campaign. They finished top of their Europa League group for the fourth  before beating Real Sociedad, Borussia Dortmund and Lazio Roma. On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals as Olympique de Marseille played out a 1–2 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final. In the quarterfinal he made a goal versus Roma.

### RB Leipzig

On 22 December 2018 went to RB Leipzig. On 30 March 2019 he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 5–0 win over Hertha BSC. In the 2019–20 season, RB Leipzig managed to reach the Champions League semi-finals.

He scored his first Champions League goal in a 3–2 win over Manchester United in the 2020–21 season on 8 December 2020.

## International career

Haidara played five matches for the Malian U17 team. Haidara made his team debut for the Mali national football team in a 2018 World Cup qualification match against Ivory Coast on 6 October 2017.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Liefering (loan)|2016–17|Austrian First League|25|2|—|—|—|25|2|||||
|rowspan="4"|Red Bull Salzburg|2016–17|Austrian Bundesliga|5|1|2|1|0|0|—|7|2||
|2017–18|Austrian Bundesliga|31|3|6|1|18|4|—|55|8||||
|2018–19|Austrian Bundesliga|12|2|2|0|7|1|—|21|3||||
|rowspan="7"|RB Leipzig|2018–19|Bundesliga|9|1|3|0|0|0|—|12|1||
|2019–20|Bundesliga|19|0|2|0|7|0|—|28|0||||
|2020–21|Bundesliga|31|3|6|2|6|1|—|43|6||||
|2021–22|Bundesliga|20|3|2|1|6|0|—|28|4||||
|2022–23|Bundesliga|31|2|5|0|7|0|1|0|44|2|||
|2023–24|Bundesliga|19|2|1|0|5|0|—|25|2||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="8"|Mali|2017|2|0|
|2018|4|0|||
|2019|9|1|||
|2020|2|1|||
|2021|7|0|||
|2022|9|0|||
|2023|3|0|||
|2024|7|0|||

- _Scores and results list Mali's goal tally first._

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|1 July 2019|Ismailia Stadium, Ismailia, Egypt||**1**–0|1–0|2019 Africa Cup of Nations|
|2.|9 October 2020|Emirhan Sport Center Stadium, Side, Turkey||**3**–0|3–0|Friendly|

## Honours

**Red Bull Salzburg**
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2016–17, 2017–18
- Austrian Cup: 2016–17

**RB Leipzig**
- DFB-Pokal: 2021–22 2022–23, runner up: 2020–21

**Mali U17**
- FIFA U-17 World Cup runner-up: 2015

**Individual**
- Austrian Bundesliga Team of the Year: 2017–18

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Amadou Haidara
- **image**: File:FC Admira Wacker Mödling vs. FC Red Bull Salzburg 2018-04-15 (035).jpg
- **caption**: Haidara with FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg in 2018
- **full name**: Amadou Haidara
- **birth place**: Bamako, Mali
- **height**: 1.75 m
- **currentclub**: RB Leipzig
- **clubnumber**: 8
- **position**: Midfielder
- **youthyears1**: –2016
- **youthclubs1**: JMG Academy Bamako
- **years1**: 2016–2019
- **clubs1**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **caps1**: 48
- **goals1**: 8
- **years2**: 2016
- **clubs2**: → FC Liefering, Liefering (loan)
- **caps2**: 25
- **goals2**: 2
- **years3**: 2019–
- **clubs3**: RB Leipzig
- **caps3**: 129
- **goals3**: 11
- **nationalyears1**: 2015
- **nationalteam1**: Mali national under-17 football team, Mali U17
- **nationalcaps1**: 7
- **nationalgoals1**: 2
- **nationalyears2**: 2017
- **nationalteam2**: Mali national under-20 football team, Mali U20
- **nationalcaps2**: 3
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2017–
- **nationalteam3**: Mali national football team, Mali
- **nationalcaps3**: 43
- **nationalgoals3**: 2
- **club-update**: 22:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
- **nationalteam-update**: 26 March 2024