Smail Prevljak

Smail Prevljak
Prevljak with Red Bull Salzburg in 2018
Personal information
Full name Smail Prevljak
Date of birth (1995-05-10) 10 May 1995
Place of birth Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Red Bull Salzburg
Number 11
Youth career
Igman Konjic
2013–2014 RB Leipzig
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 RB Leipzig II 2 (1)
2014–2015 RB Leipzig 1 (0)
2014– Red Bull Salzburg 15 (5)
2014–2017 → Liefering (loan) 45 (24)
2017–2018 → Mattersburg (loan) 32 (16)
National team‡
2015 Bosnia and Herzegovina U21 5 (0)
2018– Bosnia and Herzegovina 1 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 7 October 2018
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23 March 2018

Smail Prevljak (Bosnian pronunciation: [smaǐl prěʋʎaːk]; born 10 May 1995) is a Bosnian professional footballer who plays as a forward for Austrian Bundesliga club Red Bull Salzburg and the Bosnia and Herzegovina national team.

Prevljak started his professional career at RB Leipzig, before moving to Red Bull Salzburg in 2014. Later that year he was assigned to Liefering. In 2017 he had a loan spell with Mattersburg.

A former youth international for Bosnia and Herzegovina, Prevljak made his senior international debut in 2018.

Club career

Early career

As a youth, Prevljak played for Igman Konjic and RB Leipzig. He was part of the RB Leipzig team that achieved promotion to the Under 19 Bundesliga for the 2014–15 season.[2]

After impressing in pre-season, he was signed for a two-year contract by RB Leipzig on 1 July 2014 alongside former youth teammate Patrick Strauß.[2] He made his professional debut on 2 August 2014, in a 0–0 draw against VfR Aalen.[3]

Red Bull Salzburg

Prevljak was loaned to Red Bull Salzburg in August 2014.[4] He made his debut for them in November 2014, in a match against Altach.[5]

On 1 September 2014, Prevljak was assigned to Red Bull Salzburg's feeder club Liefering.[6] On 27 May 2015, Prevljak was voted the best young player of the season in Austrian Second League.[7]

His move to Red Bull Salzburg was made permanent in June 2015.[8] He scored his first goal for the club against Austria Wien on 23 August.[9] Prevljak tore anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee in April 2016, which made him miss almost ten months.[10]

Prevljak was loaned to Mattersburg in June 2017.[11] He scored on his competitive debut for the team in a cup game against Saalfelden.[12] A week later, he also scored on his league debut, in a 2–2 draw against Rapid Wien.[13] Prevljak scored his first hat-trick of the season, and second of his career, on 3 March 2018 against Admira.[14] He finished the season as team's best goalscorer with 18 goals overall, 16 of which came in league, which also made him third best goalscorer of the competition.[15]

After a successful loan spell, Prevljak returned to Red Bull Salzburg, with whom he signed a new contract until June 2022.[16] In the first game upon his return, he scored one of six Red Bull Salzburg's goals in a dominant cup triumph.[17]

International career

Prevljak was a member of Bosnia and Herzegovina under-21 team.[18]

After impressing performances for his club, he got first senior call-up in March 2018, for friendly games against Bulgaria and Senegal.[19] Prevljak debuted in an away win against former on 23 March.[20]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 7 October 2018.[21]
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
RB Leipzig II 2013–14 Sachsenliga 21––21
RB Leipzig 2014–15 2. Bundesliga 1000–10
Red Bull Salzburg 2014–15 Austrian Bundesliga 10000010
2015–16 Austrian Bundesliga 712110102
2018–19 Austrian Bundesliga 742210106
Total 1554320218
Liefering (loan) 2014–15 Austrian Second League 1714––1714
2015–16 Austrian Second League 148––148
2016–17 Austrian Second League 142––142
Total 4524––4524
Mattersburg (loan) 2017–18 Austrian Bundesliga 321642–3618
Career total 9546852010551

International

As of match played 23 March 2018.[22]
National teamYearAppsGoals
Bosnia and Herzegovina
201810
Total10

Honours

Red Bull Salzburg[21]

Individual

Awards

References

  1. ↑ "Smail Prevljak". redbullsalzburg.at (in German). Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  2. 1 2 "RB Leipzig präsentiert Team und schließt Kaderplanung ab". bild.de (in German). 20 July 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
  3. ↑ "Leipzigs Pressing bringt keinen Erfolg". kicker.de (in German). 2 August 2014. Retrieved 28 February 2018.
  4. ↑ "Smail Prevljak na posudbi u Red Bull Salzburgu". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 27 August 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2014.
  5. ↑ "Prevljak dobio krila u Salzburgu: Od Igmana do Red Bulla". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 10 November 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  6. ↑ "Smail Prevljak među najvećim talentima Red Bull imperije". bih.ba (in Bosnian). 27 April 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
  7. 1 2 "Prevljak najbolji mladi igrač Prve lige Austrije". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 27 May 2015. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
  8. ↑ "Smail Prevljak novi napadač Red Bull Salzburga". klix.ba (in Bosnian). 5 June 2015. Retrieved 24 June 2015.
  9. ↑ "Prevljak pogodio u remiju Salzburga i Austrije". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 23 August 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
  10. ↑ "Prevljak se konačno oporavio od povrede". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 17 January 2017. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
  11. ↑ "Zvanično: Smail Prevljak na posudbi u Mattersburgu". bih.ba (in Bosnian). 23 June 2017. Retrieved 26 June 2017.
  12. ↑ "Smail Prevljak pogodio na debiju za Mattersburg". bih.ba (in Bosnian). 16 July 2017. Retrieved 20 July 2017.
  13. ↑ "Prevljak fantastično otvorio sezonu u Bundesligi". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 22 July 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
  14. ↑ "Prevljak hat-trickom "kupio" poziv za Bugarsku i Senegal". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 3 March 2018. Retrieved 4 March 2018.
  15. ↑ "Kad krene, krene: Prevljaku nagrada za sjajne partije u Austriji". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 18 May 2018. Retrieved 28 May 2018.
  16. ↑ "Riješene dileme oko budućnosti: Prevljak potpisao do 2022". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 23 May 2018. Retrieved 27 May 2018.
  17. ↑ "Salzburg zabio šest golova u Kupu, Prevljak strijelac, Todorović starter". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 22 July 2018. Retrieved 22 July 2018.
  18. ↑ "Prevljak: Vjerujem da će Prosinečki prepoznati pravi trenutak za poziv u reprezentaciju". klix.ba (in Bosnian). 23 February 2018. Retrieved 24 August 2018.
  19. ↑ "Prevljak dobio poziv Prosinečkog!". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 7 March 2018. Retrieved 7 March 2018.
  20. ↑ "Prevljak nakon debija: Nisam imao tremu". sportsport.ba (in Bosnian). 24 March 2018. Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  21. 1 2 "S. Prevljak". soccerway.com. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  22. ↑ "Smail Prevljak". eu-football.info. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
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