Oliver Abildgaard
 Abildgaard with Rubin Kazan in 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Oliver Abildgaard Nielsen | ||
| Date of birth | 10 June 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Hasseris‚ Denmark | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Celtic (on loan from Rubin Kazan) | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Aalborg Freja | |||
| AaB | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2020 | AaB | 79 | (3) |
| 2020 | → Rubin Kazan (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2020– | Rubin Kazan | 55 | (1) |
| 2022– | → Celtic (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2015 | Denmark U20 | 1 | (0) |
| 2016–2019 | Denmark U21 | 11 | (2) |
| 2020 | Denmark | 1 | (0) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 October 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 11 November 2020 | |||
Oliver Abildgaard Nielsen (born 10 June 1996) is a Danish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Scottish club Celtic on loan from the Russian club Rubin Kazan.
Club career
AaB
Abildgaard was promoted to AaB's first team squad in the summer of 2015 along with Jannik Pohl from the AaB U19 squad.[1]
On 20 July 2015, he made his first team-debut against Esbjerg at the age of 19.[2] He was in the starting lineup and was responsible for a penalty that gave Esbjerg the lead, but he also scored the equalizing goal. The match ended 1–1.[3] On 9 September 2015, he made his Danish Cup debut when he was in the line-up against the local rivals from Vendsyssel FF.[citation needed]
Rubin Kazan
On 3 February 2020, it was confirmed that Abildgaard had joined Russian club FC Rubin Kazan on a loan until 30 June 2020 with an option to buy.[4] On 20 June 2020, AaB confirmed that Rubin activated the purchase option and Abildgaard joined Rubin on a permanent basis until 30 June 2024.[5]
On 1 September 2022, Abildgaard moved on loan to Celtic in Scotland for the 2022–23 season.[6][7]
Career statistics
- As of 21 May 2022
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Aalborg BK | 2015–16 | Danish Superliga | 14 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 16 | 1 | |
| 2016–17 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | 14 | 0 | |||
| 2017–18 | 17 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 18 | 0 | |||
| 2018–19 | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | 27 | 1 | |||
| 2019–20 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 1 | – | 12 | 2 | |||
| Total | 79 | 3 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 87 | 4 | ||
| Rubin Kazan | 2019–20 | Russian Premier League | 11 | 0 | – | – | 11 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21 | 28 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 29 | 0 | |||
| 2021–22 | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2[a] | 0 | 22 | 1 | ||
| Total | 59 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 62 | 1 | ||
| Career total | 138 | 4 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 149 | 5 | ||
- ^ Appearances in the UEFA Europa Conference League
References
- ^ "Tre talenter får chancen i Superligatruppen". AaB. 13 June 2015.
- ^ "AAB VS. ESBJERG 1 - 1". Soccerway. 20 July 2015.
- ^ "Ung AaB'er om vild debut: En stor oplevelse". AaB. 20 July 2015.
- ^ AaB udlejer indtil 30. juni 2020 Oliver Abildgaard til den russiske klub FC Rubin Kazan på en aftale med købsoption, aabsport.dk, 3 February 2020
- ^ "Abildgaard skifter permanent til FC Rubin Kazan" (in Danish). AaB. 20 June 2020.
- ^ "«СЕЛТИК» АРЕНДОВАЛ У «РУБИНА» ОЛИВЕРА АБИЛЬДГОРА" [Celtic loaned Oliver Abildgaard from Rubin] (in Russian). Rubin Kazan. 2 September 2022. Retrieved 2 September 2022.
- ^ "Oliver Abildgaard: Celtic sign midfielder from Rubin Kazan". BBC Sport. 1 September 2022. Retrieved 4 September 2022.
External links
- Oliver Abildgaard on AaB website
- Oliver Abildgaard at Soccerway
- Oliver Abildgaard at the Danish Football Association (in Danish)
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- CS1 Russian-language sources (ru)
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- 1996 births
- Living people
- Danish footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Denmark international footballers
- Denmark under-21 international footballers
- Denmark youth international footballers
- Danish Superliga players
- Russian Premier League players
- AaB Fodbold players
- FC Rubin Kazan players
- Celtic F.C. players
- Danish expatriate footballers
- Danish expatriate sportspeople in Russia
- Expatriate footballers in Russia
- Danish expatriate sportspeople in Scotland
- Expatriate footballers in Scotland