Anders Dreyer

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Anders Dreyer
Personal information
Full name Anders Laustrup Dreyer[1]
Date of birth (1998-05-02) 2 May 1998 (age 23)
Place of birth Bramming, Denmark
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Position(s) Right winger
Club information
Current team
 Rubin Kazan
Number 11
Youth career
Ribe BK
Bramming BK
Esbjerg fB
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2018 Esbjerg fB 41 (20)
2018–2020 Brighton & Hove Albion 0 (0)
2019 → St Mirren (loan) 10 (1)
2019–2020 → SC Heerenveen (loan) 11 (1)
2020–2021 Midtjylland 53 (15)
2021– Rubin Kazan 1 (3)
National team‡
2014–2015 Denmark U17 6 (3)
2016 Denmark U18 4 (0)
2017 Denmark U19 1 (0)
2017 Denmark U20 2 (0)
2018–2021 Denmark U21 21 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13 September 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 31 May 2021

Anders Laustrup Dreyer (Danish pronunciation: [ˈtʁɑjɐ]; born 2 May 1998) is a Danish professional footballer who plays for Russian Premier League club FC Rubin Kazan.

The right winger previously played for Esbjerg fB, Brighton, St Mirren, SC Heerenveen and FC Midtjylland.

Club career[]

Esbjerg fB[]

On 20 September 2016, Esbjerg fB confirmed that they had extended Dreyer's contract by one year until 2018.[3] But he continued playing for their U19 squad.[citation needed]

Dreyer got his debut on 2 April 2017 in a 0–0 draw against Randers FC in the Danish Superliga[4] coming on in the 72nd minute to replace Awer Mabil. He scored his first goal for Esbjerg on 22 April 2017 against AC Horsens.[5]

He was promoted to the first team squad for the 2017–18 season in the Danish 1st Division.[citation needed] In this season he finished as the league topscorer with 18 goals, helping Esbjerg win promotion to the Superliga.[citation needed] On 27 May 2018, Dreyer scored his first hat-trick of his career in the second leg of their promotion playoff games against Silkeborg IF.[citation needed] His 3 goals secured a 3–1 aggregate lead to take Esbjerg back into the Superliga. Dreyer ended the season as the topscorer 2017–18 Danish 1st Division, scoring 18 goals.[citation needed]

Brighton & Hove Albion[]

On 7 August 2018, Dreyer was sold to Brighton & Hove Albion.[6] Dreyer started on the U23 team, and got his debut in the first game of the season against Liverpool U23 on 8 October 2018.[7] In January 2019, Dreyer joined St Mirren on loan until the end of the season.[8] After picking up an knee injury at the end of April, Dreyer returned to Brighton & Hove Albion and missed the end of the season. Dreyer scored one goal in his eleven appearances for the club.[9]

On 23 August 2019, SC Heerenveen announced, that they had signed Dreyer on loan for the 2019–20 season.[10] He made his debut 8 days later coming on as a substitute in a 1–1 home draw against Fortuna Sittard.[11]

FC Midtjylland[]

On 6 January 2020, FC Midtjylland announced that Dreyer had returned to Denmark and signed a four-and-a-half year contract with the club.[12] His strong start – two goals and one assist in his first two appearances for the club – led to him being named as the Danish Superliga Player of the Month for February 2020.[13]

Rubin Kazan[]

On 28 August 2021, he signed a five-year contract with Russian club FC Rubin Kazan.[14] On his debut on 13 September 2021 he scored a hat-trick against FC Ural Yekaterinburg.[15] He became the first player in the history of the league to score three goals in their first game in the league.[16]

International career[]

In November 2020, he was called up to Kasper Hjulmand's senior squad for the friendly against Sweden due to several cancellations from, among others, the Danish national team players playing in England, due to the COVID-19 restrictions, as well as a case of COVID-19 in the squad, which had put several national team players in quarantine.[17]

Career statistics[]

As of 1 August 2020[2]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup League Cup Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Esbjerg fB 2016–17 Superliga 6 1 0 0 — 4[a] 0 10 1
2017–18 1.Division 31 18 1 0 — 2[a] 3 34 21
2018–19 Superliga 4 1 0 0 — — 4 1
Total 41 20 1 0 0 0 6 3 48 23
Brighton & Hove Albion 2018–19 Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
2019–20 Premier League 0 0 0 0 0 0 — 0 0
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
St Mirren (loan) 2018–19 Scottish Premiership 10 1 1 0 — — 11 1
Sc Heerenveen (loan) 2019–20 Eredivisie 11 1 2 0 — — 13 1
FC Midtjylland 2019–20 Superliga 16 4 0 0 — — 16 4
2020–21 Superliga 21 5 3 0 — 10 3 34 8
Career total 99 31 7 0 0 0 16 6 122 37
  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Appearances in Superliga play-offs

Honours[]

Esbjerg fB

FC Midtjylland

Individual

References[]

  1. ^ "Premier League clubs publish retained lists". Premier League. 7 June 2019. Retrieved 7 June 2019.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b Anders Dreyer at Soccerway
  3. ^ "EfB indgår nye aftaler med fremtidens spillere". efb.dk. 20 September 2016.
  4. ^ "ESBJERG VS. RANDERS 0 - 0". soccerway.com. 2 April 2017.
  5. ^ "HORSENS VS. ESBJERG 0 - 1". soccerway.com. 22 April 2017.
  6. ^ "Så er det på plads: Anders Dreyer skifter til Brighton". jv.dk. 7 August 2018.
  7. ^ "Anders Dreyer biography". brightonandhovealbion.com.
  8. ^ "Anders Dreyer: St Mirren sign Brighton & Hove Albion winger on loan". BBC Sport. 26 January 2019.
  9. ^ "Josef Sural: St Mirren's Vaclav Hladky will play before attending funeral". BBC Sport. 2 May 2019.
  10. ^ "sc Heerenveen verwelkomt Anders Dreyer". sc-heerenveen.nl. SC Heerenveen. 25 August 2019.
  11. ^ "sc Heerenveen - Fortuna Sittard - sc Heerenveen". SC Heerenveen. 31 August 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  12. ^ "ANDERS DREYER SKIFTER TIL FC MIDTJYLLAND". FC Midtjylland. 6 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  13. ^ Jump up to: a b Blond, Mikael (28 February 2020). "FCM-indkøb er månedens Superliga-spiller". bold.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  14. ^ "АНДЕРС ДРЕЙЕР – В "РУБИНЕ"" (in Russian). FC Rubin Kazan. 28 August 2021.
  15. ^ "Rubin v Ural game report". Russian Premier League. 13 September 2021.
  16. ^ "Matchday 7 Review: Debut goals galore, Nizhny Novgorod almost make history, Agalarov and Glushakov talisman achievements". Russian Premier League. 14 September 2021.
  17. ^ "The Latest: Denmark drops 7 UK-based players for Sweden game". taiwannews.com. Retrieved 12 November 2020.

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