Besart Berisha
Berisha in training for Melbourne Victory, May 2015
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| Personal information | |||
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| Date of birth | 29 July 1985 | ||
| Place of birth | Pristina, SFR Yugoslavia | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
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Current team
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Melbourne Victory | ||
| Number | 8 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–1998 | Berliner VB 49 | ||
| 1998–1999 | Berliner FC Dynamo | ||
| 1999–2000 | TSV Lichtenberg | ||
| 2000–2003 | SV Lichtenberg | ||
| 2003–2004 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2004 | Tennis Borussia Berlin | 4 | (1) |
| 2004–2007 | Hamburger SV | 12 | (1) |
| 2005 | → Aalborg (loan) | 2 | (0) |
| 2005–2006 | → Horsens (loan) | 32 | (11) |
| 2007–2009 | Burnley | 0 | (0) |
| 2008 | → Rosenborg (loan) | 8 | (3) |
| 2009 | → Horsens (loan) | 13 | (4) |
| 2010–2011 | Arminia Bielefeld | 28 | (2) |
| 2011–2014 | Brisbane Roar | 76 | (48) |
| 2014– | Melbourne Victory | 75 | (50) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2006– | Albania | 17 | (1) |
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 14 October 2009 |
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Besart Berisha (born 29 July 1985) is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Australian club Melbourne Victory. He represented the Albanian national football team from 2006 to 2009.
Berisha began his youth career at German side Berliner VB 49 academies at age of 9. He then moved to various German teams, such as Berliner FC Dynamo, TSV Lichtenberg, SV Lichtenberg 47 until 2003, then he moved to NOFV-Oberliga club Tennis Borussia Berlin, where a 17-year-old Berisha won the national youth league’s golden boot, outclassing future Germany strikers, Mario Gomez and Lukas Podolski. He stayed for just a year before being spotted by Bundesliga club Hamburger SV.
For the first half of the 2004–05 season, Berisha wasn't included in Hamburg's starting lineup for any of the matches and for the second-half he was loaned to Danish Superliga team Aalborg Boldspilklub where he spent a rather unsuccessful spell, playing only three games and scoring no goals.
The following season 2005–06 he was loaned to fellow Superliga side AC Horsens, where he scored 11 goals in 32 appearances becoming the team's top scorer that season.
For the 2006–07 football season, he remained at Hamburg and was given his chances in the first team making his German Bundesliga debut on 12 August 2006 against Arminia Bielefeld, coming on as a substitute in the 78th minute in place of Nigel de Jong, as the match finished in a 1–1 draw. On 6 December 2006, Berisha became the first Albanian ever to score a goal in the group stages of the UEFA Champions League by scoring his first goal for Hamburg in the match against CSKA Moscow at home in Hamburg. Exactly 10 days later, on 16 December 2006, Berisha managed to score his first Bundesliga goal against Alemannia Aachen, as the starting striker and scoring the opening goal in the 32nd minute in the match as it finished in an away draw 3–3. He went on to make a total 14 appearances for Hamburg in the 2006–07 season, including one in the German cup and two in the UEFA Champions League, and eleven of them as a substitute. After the sacking of Thomas Doll and the arrival of Huub Stevens as Hamburg's new manager, Berisha was not seen as part of his plan for the team and remained on the bench for the rest of the season.
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