Đorđe Nikolić
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-04-13) 13 April 1997
Place of birth Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia[1]
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Újpest
Number 13
Youth career
2008–2012[2] Red Star Belgrade
2012–2014[2] Partizan
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2016 Jagodina 19 (0)
2016–2022 Basel 11 (0)
2017 → Schaffhausen (loan) 17 (0)
2018 → Thun (loan) 6 (0)
2018–2019 → Aarau (loan) 33 (0)
2022– Újpest 29 (0)
International career‡
2012 Serbia U16[2] 2 (0)
2013–2014 Serbia U17[2] 10 (0)
2014 Serbia U18[2] 4 (0)
2015 Serbia U19 6 (0)
2016–2017 Serbia U20 3 (0)
2016–2018 Serbia U21 2 (0)
2021– Serbia 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 December 2023
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 07:02, 7 June 2021 (UTC)

Đorđe Nikolić (Serbian Cyrillic: Ђорђе Николић; born 13 April 1997) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Hungarian club Újpest and the Serbia national team.

Club career

Jagodina

After he left youth team of FK Partizan,[3] Nikolić signed a three-year contract with Jagodina in the winter break off-season 2014–15.[4] He made his Serbian SuperLiga debut for Jagodina in the first fixture of 2015–16 season.[5] Although he started season as a first choice, Nikolić injured during the season and missed the great part of season. He made total 19 matches for club and after Jagodina relegated from the Serbian SuperLiga, Nikolić got an offer from FC Basel.[6]

Basel

Nikolić signed four-year contract with FC Basel in June 2016.[7] He made his debut for the club in 26 fixture match of the 2016–17 Swiss Super League season against FC St. Gallen, played on 1 April 2017.[8] Under trainer Urs Fischer Nikolić won the Swiss Super League championship at the end of the 2016–17 Super League season. For the club this was the eighth title in a row and their 20th championship title in total.[9] They also won the Swiss Cup for the twelfth time, which meant they had won the double for the sixth time in the club's history.[10] In summer 2017, Nikolić moved on loan to the Swiss Challenge League side Schaffhausen, where he spent the rest of calendar year. Later, at the beginning of 2018, Nikolić moved to Thun on new loan, until summer 2019.[11]

International career

Nikolić has been called in national team selections since 2012.[2] In November 2016, Nikolić started playing with Serbian under-20 level as a first choice goalkeeper,[12] until March 2017. After Boris Radunović's injury, coach Nenad Lalatović invited him to the squad for the 2017 UEFA European Under-21 Championship.[13]

He made his debut for Serbia national football team on 7 June 2021 in a friendly against Jamaica.[14]

Career statistics

Club

As of 10 June 2018[11]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Jagodina 2014–15 SuperLiga 0000——00
2015–16 19000——190
Total 19000——190
Basel 2016–17 Super League 100000—10
2017–18 00———00
Total 100000—10
Schaffhausen (loan) 2016–17 Challenge League 17000——170
Thun (loan) 2016–17 Super League 60———60
2018–19 0000——00
Total 6000——60
Career total 4300000—430

International

As of 7 June 2021
Serbia
YearAppsGoals
202110
Total10

Honours

Basel

References

  1. ↑ "Nikolic, Djordje". srbijafudbal.net (in Serbian). Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Djordje Nikolic (Serbia U18 national team)". YouTube. Retrieved 22 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Омладинац добио спор с Партизаном, па потписао за Јагодину. Sportski žurnal (in Serbian). 27 December 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  4. ↑ "Dete Partizana potpisalo za Jagodinu". Večernje novosti (in Serbian). 29 December 2014. Retrieved 30 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "1.Kolo: Jagodina - Mladost". Serbian SuperLiga official website (in Serbian). 18 July 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Голман Јагодине Ђорђе Николић у Базелу!. Sportski žurnal (in Serbian). 27 May 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  7. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2016). "Der FC Basel 1893 verpflichtet Djordje Nikolic" (in German). FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 15 June 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. ↑ FC Basel 1893 (2016). "FCB-Goalie Djordje Nikolic: kein Gegentor, dafür eine Bierdusche" (in German). badenertagblatt.ch. Retrieved 1 April 2017.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Marti, Casper (2017). "Der Saisonabschluss im Zeitraffer". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2017-06-02.
  10. 1 2 "Swiss football: FC Basel wins 3-0 over Sion in Geneva; police extra vigilant after game". allaboutgeneva.com. 25 May 2017.
  11. 1 2 3 Đorđe Nikolić at Soccerway
  12. ↑ "Mlada reprezentacija poražena od Srbije". reprezentacija.me (in Serbian). 13 November 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  13. ↑ "U21: Nikolić umesto Radunovića". Sport Klub (in Serbian). 6 June 2017. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Serbia v Jamaica game report". Eurosport. 7 June 2021.
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