| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | (1998-03-05)5 March 1998 (age 27) | ||
| Place of birth | Šabac,FR Yugoslavia[1] | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Sparta Prague | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| ŠF Stevan Ćele Vilotić | |||
| OFK Šabac | |||
| 2010–2016 | Partizan | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2016–2018 | Partizan | 3 | (0) |
| 2016–2017 | →Teleoptik (loan) | 34 | (5) |
| 2018 | →Rad (loan) | 11 | (1) |
| 2018–2021 | Čukarički | 73 | (11) |
| 2021–2022 | Malmö FF | 46 | (14) |
| 2022–2023 | Toulouse | 25 | (0) |
| 2023– | Sparta Prague | 65 | (25) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021– | Serbia | 13 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 November 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 9 September 2025 | |||
Veljko Birmančević (Serbian Cyrillic:Вељко Бирманчевић; born 5 March 1998) is a Serbian professionalfootballer who plays as anattacking midfielder forCzech First League clubSparta Prague and theSerbia national team.
Birmančević signed his first professional contract withPartizan on 12 February 2016, and got the jersey number 30.[2] He made hisSerbian SuperLiga debut on 21 February 2016 in a match againstOFK Beograd.[3] Later, during the spring half-season, coachIvan Tomić used him as a back-up player in matches againstRadnik Surdulica[4] andVojvodina.[5] In summer 2016, Birmančević was loaned toTeleoptik,[6] where he scored 4 goals on 22 matches in theSerbian League Belgrade for the 2016–17 season. He also extended his loan to Teleoptik for the2017–18 Serbian First League campaign. He was sold from Malmö FF toToulouse for a sum around €5 million.[7]
In June 2023, Birmančević was loaned toSparta Prague for one season with an option to buy.[8] He signed for the club permanently on 5 March 2024, official from 1 July.[9]
In May 2024, Birmančević helped the club to win its second championship title in two seasons[10] and domestic cup.[11] He was awarded as the player,[12] midfielder[13] and foreign player[12] of the2023–24 season by the League Football Association.
Birmančević was called inU18 national during the 2015,[14] and scored one goal in a friendly match againstPoland.[15] In August 2016, he was called into theSerbia U19 squad for the memorial tournament "Stevan Vilotić – Ćele".[16] Birmančević scored his first goal forSerbia U19 in a match againstSweden, played on 14 November 2016.[17]
In January 2021, Birmančević was called up to theSerbian senior squad by coachIlija Stolica.[18] He made his debut for the team in a friendly match against theDominican Republic on 25 January[19] and, four days later, made his second appearance againstPanama.[20]
On 28 May 2024, Birmančević was named in the Serbia squad forUEFA Euro 2024.[21] He appeared as a substitute forAndrija Živković in the team's opening match of the tournament againstEngland, making his first competitive appearance for Serbia in the 1–0 defeat.[22] He also played in group stage match againstSlovenia. Serbia finished fourth in the group.
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Partizan | 2015–16 | Serbian SuperLiga | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| Teleoptik | 2016–17 | Serbian League Belgrade | 22 | 4 | — | — | — | 22 | 4 | |||
| 2017–18 | Serbian First League | 12 | 1 | — | — | — | 12 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 34 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 5 | ||
| Rad | 2017–18 | Serbian SuperLiga | 11 | 1 | — | — | — | 11 | 1 | |||
| Čukarički | 2018–19 | 25 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 26 | 0 | |||
| 2019–20 | 26 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3[a] | 1 | — | 33 | 4 | |||
| 2020–21 | 22 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 24 | 11 | |||
| Total | 73 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 83 | 15 | ||
| Malmö FF | 2021 | Allsvenskan | 28 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 13[b] | 4 | — | 42 | 14 | |
| 2022 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7[c] | 4 | — | 30 | 15 | |||
| Total | 46 | 14 | 6 | 7 | 20 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 72 | 29 | ||
| Toulouse | 2022–23 | Ligue 1 | 25 | 0 | 5 | 1 | — | — | 30 | 1 | ||
| Sparta Prague (loan) | 2023–24 | Czech First League | 30 | 16 | 3 | 1 | 13[d] | 5 | — | 46 | 22 | |
| 2024–25 | Czech First League | 22 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11[b] | 3 | — | 33 | 7 | ||
| Total | 52 | 20 | 3 | 1 | 24 | 8 | — | 79 | 29 | |||
| Career total | 244 | 51 | 21 | 12 | 47 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 311 | 80 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serbia | 2021 | 3 | 0 |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2025 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 13 | 0 | |
Partizan
Teleoptik
Malmö FF
Toulouse
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