.jpg) Elvedi withSwitzerland atUEFA Euro 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Nico Elvedi[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1996-09-30)30 September 1996 (age 28) | ||
| Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Centre-back,right-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Borussia Mönchengladbach | ||
| Number | 30 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2005–2006 | FC Greifensee | ||
| 2006–2013 | Zürich | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2015 | Zürich II | 24 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Zürich | 18 | (1) |
| 2015– | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 279 | (15) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012–2013 | Switzerland U17 | 11 | (0) |
| 2014 | Switzerland U18 | 1 | (0) |
| 2013–2016 | Switzerland U19 | 19 | (2) |
| 2016– | Switzerland | 56 | (2) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:19, 15 March 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:48, 15 October 2024 (UTC) | |||
Nico Elvedi (born 30 September 1996) is a Swiss professionalfootballer who plays as acentre-back orright-back forBundesliga clubBorussia Mönchengladbach and theSwitzerland national team.
Born inZürich, Elvedi was a youth player forFC Zürich. He made hisSwiss Super League debut on 15 May 2014 in a 1–0 away win againstFC Lausanne-Sport, playing the full match.[3]
Elvedi joinedBorussia Mönchengladbach in 2015 for a €4 million transfer fee. He scored his first goal in theBundesliga during the derby against1. FC Köln. in 2017. The match saw Borussia Mönchengladbach win 1–0.[4]
Elvedi played for various Swiss youth teams, and made his debut for the seniorSwitzerland national football team in a friendly 1–2 defeat toBelgium on 28 May 2016.[5]
He was included in theSwitzerland national football team 23-man squad for the2018 FIFA World Cup.[6]
In May 2019, he played in2019 UEFA Nations League Finals, where the Swiss team finished 4th.[7]
In 2021, he was called up to the national team for the2020 UEFA European Championship, where the team upset favoritesFrance en route to the quarter-finals, where they lost toSpain.[8][9]
In 2022, Elvedi was part of the Switzerland national football team's26-man squad for the2022 FIFA World Cup, where Switzerland were knocked out in the round-of-16 byPortugal, 6-1.[10]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | Europe | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Zürich | 2013–14 | Swiss Super League | 2 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | 16 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 24 | 1 | ||
| Total | 18 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 26 | 1 | ||
| Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2015–16 | Bundesliga | 21 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 |
| 2016–17 | 25 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 35 | 0 | ||
| 2017–18 | 33 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | 36 | 2 | |||
| 2018–19 | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 31 | 2 | |||
| 2019–20 | 32 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 39 | 1 | ||
| 2020–21 | 29 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 40 | 5 | ||
| 2021–22 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 31 | 1 | |||
| 2022–23 | 32 | 3 | 2 | 0 | — | 34 | 3 | |||
| 2023–24 | 30 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | 33 | 2 | |||
| 2024–25 | 19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 19 | 1 | |||
| Total | 279 | 15 | 21 | 1 | 21 | 1 | 322 | 17 | ||
| Career total | 297 | 16 | 24 | 1 | 27 | 1 | 348 | 18 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 2016 | 3 | 0 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 5 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2020 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 13 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 6 | 1 | |
| Total | 56 | 2 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 November 2018 | Swissporarena,Lucern, Switzerland |  Belgium | 4–2 | 5–2 | 2018–19 UEFA Nations League A |
| 2 | 4 June 2024 | Swissporarena,Lucern, Switzerland |  Estonia | 3–0 | 4–0 | Friendly |
Elvedi's twin brother,Jan, is also a professional footballer who plays for2. Bundesliga club1. FC Kaiserslautern.[13]
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