Nikola_Vasiljević_(footballer,_born_1996)
Nikola Vasiljević (footballer, born 1996)
Serbian footballer
Nikola Vasiljević (Serbian Cyrillic: Никола Васиљевић; born 24 June 1996) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Radnički Niš.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1996-06-24) 24 June 1996 (age 27) | ||
| Place of birth | Niš, FR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Radnički Niš | ||
| Number | 40 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Radnički Niš | |||
| Sloboda Užice | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2014 | Sloboda Užice | 0 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Radnički Niš | 0 | (0) |
| 2015–2019 | Radnik Surdulica | 53 | (0) |
| 2019–2024 | Red Star Belgrade | 4 | (0) |
| 2020 | → Radnik Surdulica (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2021 | → Proleter Novi Sad (loan) | 16 | (0) |
| 2021–2022 | → Napredak Kruševac (loan) | 33 | (0) |
| 2024– | Radnički Niš | 0 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 May 2023 | |||
Vasiljević started out at his hometown club Radnički Niš. He later switched to Sloboda Užice, being promoted to their senior squad in early 2013.[2] In late summer 2014, Vasiljević returned to Radnički Niš and remained with the club for one season. He then joined Radnik Surdulica in the summer of 2015, making his senior debut the following spring. In March 2018, Vasiljević extended his contract with the club for three more years,[3] and soon established himself as the team's first-choice goalkeeper.
In September 2018, Vasiljević was surprisingly called up by Mladen Krstajić to the Serbia national team to replace the injured Aleksandar Jovanović ahead of the team's UEFA Nations League games with Lithuania and Romania.[4] He remained an unused substitute in both matches. Two months later, Vasiljević received his second call-up to the team, this time replacing the injured Marko Dmitrović for Serbia's final two Nations League fixtures versus Montenegro and Lithuania.[5]
- As of 22 June 2019[6]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Radnik Surdulica | 2015–16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | |
| 2016–17 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2017–18 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 17 | 0 | ||
| 2018–19 | 35 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 35 | 0 | ||
| Total | 53 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 55 | 0 | ||
Club
- Red Star Belgrade
- "Nikola Vasiljević". Red Star Belgrade. Retrieved 31 August 2022.
- "Novi dresovi za premijeru" (in Serbian). fksloboda.org. 25 February 2013. Retrieved 3 May 2016.
- "Golman iz Niša u Surdulici još 3 godine" (in Serbian). juznevesti.com. 19 March 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- "Golman Radnika naknadno dobio poziv u reprezentaciju Srbije" (in Serbian). juznevesti.com. 5 September 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- "Dvojica fudbalera Radnika u nacionalnim selekcijama Srbije i Albanije" (in Serbian). juznevesti.com. 13 November 2018. Retrieved 13 November 2018.
- Nikola Vasiljević at Soccerway
- Nikola Vasiljević at FootballDatabase.eu