Kristoffer Velde

Kristoffer Velde
Velde with Lech Poznań in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-09-09) 9 September 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Haugesund, Norway
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)[1]
Position(s) Winger
Team information
Current team
 Olympiacos
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)
2022–2024 Lech Poznań 72 (18)
2024– Olympiacos 14 (2)
International career‡
2017 Norway U19 2 (1)
2023 Norway 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11 January 2025
‡ 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 Super League Greece club Olympiacos and the Norway national 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 early January 2019 it was announced that Velde was loaned out to Nest-Sotra for the 2019 season.[2] The loan was terminated in early April 2019.[3]

He moved to Polish club Lech Poznań in January 2022.[4] In his first half-season with the team, he played a back-up role as Lech won the 2021–22 Ekstraklasa title.[5] Following the departure of Jakub Kamiński, Velde became a regular in the club's starting line-up. He played a key role in Lech's 2022–23 UEFA Europa Conference League run, recording seven goals and four assists throughout the campaign that saw the Polish club reach the quarter-finals. In total, Velde made 98 appearances, scored 29 goals and assisted 18 more across all competitions for Lech.[6]

Velde with Lech Poznań in 2022.

On 29 July 2024, Velde was transferred to Super League Greece club Olympiacos for an undisclosed fee, reported to be €3.5 million, with an additional €1.5 million in bonuses.[7]

International career

In 2017, he featured for the Norway under-19s.[8] Velde received his first international callup for the senior team in June 2023, and won his first cap as a substitute against Cyprus.[9]

Personal life

Velde is half Argentinean.[10] He is nicknamed "Veldinho".[11][12]

Career statistics

As of match played 11 January 2025[13]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] 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[b] 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[c] 8 1[d] 0 48 16
2023–24 Ekstraklasa 33 10 3 1 3[e] 2 — 39 13
2024–25 Ekstraklasa 1 0 0 0 — — 1 0
Total 72 18 6 1 19 10 1 0 98 29
Olympiacos 2024–25 Super League Greece 14 2 2 2 3[f] 0 — 19 4
Career total 187 41 20 7 28 12 1 0 225 59
  1. ^ Includes Norwegian Football Cup, Polish Cup, Greek Football Cup
  2. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  3. ^ Two appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, fourteen appearances and seven goals in UEFA Europa Conference League
  4. ^ Appearance in Polish Super Cup
  5. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
  6. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

Honours

Lech Poznań

Individual

References

  1. ^ a b Kristoffer Velde at Soccerway. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  2. ^ Kristoffer Velde signerer for Nest-Sotra! Archived 28 December 2019 at the Wayback Machine, nestsotra.no, 9 January 2019
  3. ^ Han er tilbake!, fkh.no, 8 April 2019
  4. ^ "Kristoffer Velde piłkarzem Lecha Poznań". www.lechpoznan.pl. 12 January 2022.
  5. ^ "PKO Ekstraklasa: Lech Poznań mistrzem Polski 2021/22". sport.tvp.pl (in Polish). 14 May 2022. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  6. ^ "Kristoffer Velde opuszcza Lecha Poznań" (in Polish). Lech Poznań. 29 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  7. ^ "Olympiakos Pireus potwierdził transfer Kristoffera Velde". goal.pl (in Polish). 29 July 2024. Retrieved 29 July 2024.
  8. ^ Fotballforbund, Norges. "Kristoffer Velde – Profil". fotball.no – Norges Fotballforbund.
  9. ^ Solberg, Preben Ørpetveit (20 June 2023). "Velde fikk debuten i sluttminuttene". Karmøynytt (in Norwegian). Retrieved 22 June 2023.
  10. ^ 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.
  11. ^ "Se hvem som kom på rundens lag!". VG.no. 2 August 2020. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
  12. ^ ""Veldinho" ut 2022". Haugesund. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  13. ^ "Kristoffer Velde". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 20 July 2019.
  14. ^ "PIŁKARZ MAJA 2023: KRISTOFFER VELDE (LECH POZNAŃ)" (in Polish). Ekstraklasa. 7 June 2023.


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