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Amadou Haidara
Haidara with Red Bull Salzburg in 2018
Personal information
Full name Amadou Haidara
Date of birth (1998-01-31) 31 January 1998 (age 26)
Place of birth Bamako, Mali[1]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Position(s) Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 RB Leipzig
Number 8
Youth career
0000–2016 JMG Academy Bamako
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 Red Bull Salzburg 48 (8)
2016 → Liefering (loan) 25 (2)
2019– RB Leipzig 129 (11)
National team‡
2015 Mali U17 7 (2)
2017 Mali U20 3 (0)
2017– Mali 43 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 26 March 2024

Amadou Haidara (born 31 January 1998) is a Malian professional footballer. He plays as a midfielder for Bundesliga club RB Leipzig and the Mali national team.

Club career

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Red Bull Salzburg

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Haidara started his career with the Malian side JMG Academy Bamako. In July 2016 he went to FC Red Bull Salzburg in Austria. He went on loan to the second league side FC Liefering. Haidara also played for the FC Red Bull Salzburg U-19 team in the UEFA Youth League. There he scored two goals versus FK Vardar.[3]

He made his first match in the third round of the 2016–17 league versus LASK Linz. He substituted Gideon Mensah after the halftime break and scored his first goal in the 48th minute for Liefering.[4]

During the 2017–18 season Salzburg had their best ever European campaign. They finished top of their Europa League group for the fourth before beating Real Sociedad, Borussia Dortmund and Lazio Roma.[5] On 3 May 2018, he played in the Europa League semi-finals as Olympique de Marseille played out a 1–2 away loss but a 3–2 aggregate win to secure a place in the 2018 UEFA Europa League Final.[6] In the quarterfinal he made a goal versus Roma.

RB Leipzig

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On 22 December 2018 went to RB Leipzig.[7] On 30 March 2019 he scored his first Bundesliga goal in a 5–0 win over Hertha BSC.[8] In the 2019–20 season, RB Leipzig managed to reach the Champions League semi-finals.

He scored his first Champions League goal in a 3–2 win over Manchester United in the 2020–21 season on 8 December 2020.[9]

International career

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Haidara played five matches for the Malian U17 team. Haidara made his team debut for the Mali national football team in a 2018 World Cup qualification match against Ivory Coast on 6 October 2017.[10]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 3 May 2024.[1][11]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Europe Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Liefering (loan) 2016–17 Austrian First League 25 2 — — — 25 2
Red Bull Salzburg 2016–17 Austrian Bundesliga 5 1 2 1 0 0 — 7 2
2017–18 Austrian Bundesliga 31 3 6 1 18[b] 4 — 55 8
2018–19 Austrian Bundesliga 12 2 2 0 7[c] 1 — 21 3
Total 48 6 10 2 25 5 — 83 13
RB Leipzig 2018–19 Bundesliga 9 1 3 0 0 0 — 12 1
2019–20 Bundesliga 19 0 2 0 7[d] 0 — 28 0
2020–21 Bundesliga 31 3 6 2 6[d] 1 — 43 6
2021–22 Bundesliga 20 3 2 1 6[e] 0 — 28 4
2022–23 Bundesliga 31 2 5 0 7[d] 0 1[f] 0 44 2
2023–24 Bundesliga 19 2 1 0 5[d] 0 — 25 2
Total 129 11 19 3 31 1 1 0 180 15
Career total 202 19 29 5 56 6 1 0 288 30
  1. ↑ Includes Austrian Cup, DFB-Pokal
  2. ↑ Two appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, sixteen appearances and three goals in UEFA Europa League
  3. ↑ Three appearances in UEFA Champions League, four appearances and one goal in UEFA Europa League
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  5. ↑ Four appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  6. ↑ Appearance in DFL-Supercup

International

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As of match played 26 March 2024.[12]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Mali 2017 2 0
2018 4 0
2019 9 1
2020 2 1
2021 7 0
2022 9 0
2023 3 0
2024 7 0
Total 43 2
Scores and results list Mali's goal tally first.[12]
List of international goals scored by Amadou Haidara
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 1 July 2019 Ismailia Stadium, Ismailia, Egypt  Angola 1–0 1–0 2019 Africa Cup of Nations
2. 9 October 2020 Emirhan Sport Center Stadium, Side, Turkey  Ghana 3–0 3–0 Friendly

Honours

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Red Bull Salzburg

RB Leipzig

Mali U17

Individual

References

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Amadou Haidara at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Amadou Haidara". RB Leipzig. Retrieved 5 May 2023.
  3. ↑ "FC Red Bull Salzburg - Jungbullen schaffen sich mit Kantersieg ideale Ausgangsposition". redbulls (in German). Archived from the original on 11 December 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  4. ↑ "3. Runde, Saison 2016/17, FC Liefering gegen LASK – FC Salzburg Wiki". wiki.salzburg12.at (in German). Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  5. ↑ "Salzburg v Marseille background". UEFA.com. Retrieved 7 May 2018.
  6. ↑ "FC Red Bull Salzburg 2–1 Marseille". BBC Sport. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 3 May 2018.
  7. ↑ "Amadou Haidara: Mali international 'motivated' after move to RB Leipzig". BBC Sport. 23 December 2018.
  8. ↑ "RB Leipzig zerlegt Hertha BSC". dw.com (in German). 30 March 2019.
  9. ↑ "Manchester United out of Champions League after leaving it too late at Leipzig". The Guardian. 8 December 2020.
  10. ↑ FIFA.com. "2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ - Matches - Mali-Ivory Coast - FIFA.com". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on August 19, 2016.
  11. ↑ "A. Haidara". Soccerway. Retrieved 9 March 2021.
  12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Amadou Haidara at National-Football-Teams.com
  13. ↑ "SK Rapid Wien - FC Red Bull Salzburg". OEFB (in German). 1 June 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  14. ↑ Peeters, Thomas (23 May 2022). "A thriller in Berlin: how relentless RB Leipzig won their first major title". Red Bull. Archived from the original on 13 June 2022. Retrieved 21 June 2022.
  15. ↑ "Christopher Nkunku-inspired RB Leipzig beat Eintracht Frankfurt to win DFB Cup". Bundesliga. 3 June 2023. Retrieved 3 June 2023.
  16. ↑ "FIFA U-17 World Cup Chile 2015 – List of Players" (PDF). fifadata.com. 28 October 2015. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 November 2019.
  17. ↑ "Nigeria head African party in Chile". FIFA.com. Archived from the original on 22 January 2017.
  18. ↑ "Bundesliga.at - Das Team der Saison 2017/18". Bundesliga.at (in German). 22 June 2018. Archived from the original on 10 August 2024. Retrieved 29 December 2022.

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