Birger Meling
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Birger Solberg Meling | ||
| Date of birth | 17 December 1994 | ||
| Place of birth | Stavanger, Norway | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Nîmes | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2000–2013 | Viking | ||
| 2013–2014 | Middlesbrough | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2017 | Stabæk | 59 | (5) |
| 2017–2020 | Rosenborg | 79 | (1) |
| 2020– | Nîmes | 10 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2015–2016 | Norway U21 | 6 | (0) |
| 2017– | Norway | 14 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 January 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 October 2020 | |||
Birger Solberg Meling (born 17 December 1994) is a Norwegian professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ligue 1 club Nîmes Olympique.
Club career
Early career
After playing youth football for Viking and Middlesbrough,[1] Meling joined Stabæk before the 2014 season. He made his senior league debut in September 2014 in a 3–0 defeat against Aalesund.[2] In February 2017, he signed for Rosenborg.[3]
Nîmes
In July 2020, Meling joined Nîmes Olympique on a three-year contract. The transfer fee paid to Rosenborg was less than €1 million.[4] On his Ligue 1 debut on the season's first matchday, he contributed an assist and a goal to Nîmes's 4–0 win against Brest.[5]
Career statistics
Club
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Stabæk | 2014 | Tippeligaen | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2015 | 27 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 32 | 1 | ||||
| 2016 | 30 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2[a] | 0 | — | 35 | 5 | |||
| Total | 59 | 5 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 69 | 6 | |||
| Rosenborg | 2017 | Eliteserien | 20 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 11[b] | 0 | — | 36 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 28 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 12[c] | 1 | — | 46 | 2 | |||
| 2019 | 28 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 14[d] | 0 | — | 44 | 1 | |||
| 2020 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| Total | 79 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 37 | 1 | — | 129 | 4 | |||
| Nîmes | 2020–21 | Ligue 1 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 1 | ||
| Total | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 10 | 1 | ||||
| Career total | 148 | 7 | 21 | 4 | 39 | 1 | — | 208 | 12 | |||
- ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Three appearances in UEFA Champions League, eight appearances in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Four appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, eight appearances in UEFA Europa League
- ^ Eight appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, six appearances in UEFA Europa League
Honours
Rosenborg
References
- ^ "Dette er Norges nye englandsproff". www.vg.no.
- ^ "NIFS - Norsk & Internasjonal Fotballstatistikk". www.nifs.no.
- ^ "Meling klar for Rosenborg". Rosenborg.
- ^ "Ligue 1 : le défenseur Norvégien Birger Meling (Rosenborg) signe trois ans à Nîmes". L'Équipe (in French). 6 July 2020. Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ Arilas Berg Ould-Saada (23 August 2020). "Birger Meling herjet i fransk drømmedebut: – Fryktelig deilig". Verdens Gang (in Norwegian). Retrieved 24 August 2020.
- ^ "Birger Meling". altomfotball.no (in Norwegian). TV 2. Retrieved 14 October 2018.
- ^ "B. Meling". Soccerway. Retrieved 13 August 2019.
Categories:
- 1994 births
- Living people
- People from Stavanger
- Association football defenders
- Norwegian footballers
- Norwegian expatriate footballers
- Norway under-21 international footballers
- Norway international footballers
- Stabæk Fotball players
- Rosenborg BK players
- Nîmes Olympique players
- Eliteserien players
- Ligue 1 players
- Expatriate footballers in France