Eray Cömert

Eray Ervin Cömert (4 February 1998) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defender for La Liga club Valencia CF[1] and the Switzerland national team.

Eray Cömert
Cömert with Basel in 2019
Personal information
Full name Eray Ervin Cömert
Date of birth (1998-02-04) 4 February 1998
Place of birth Basel, Switzerland
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Club information
Current team
 Valencia
Number 24
Youth career
2006–2009 Concordia Basel
2009–2016 Basel
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2022 Basel 101 (5)
2017 → Lugano (loan) 12 (0)
2017–2018 → Sion (loan) 12 (0)
2022– Valencia 0 (0)
National team‡
2013–2014 Switzerland U16 6 (1)
2014–2015 Switzerland U17 7 (0)
2015–2016 Switzerland U18 5 (0)
2016–2017 Switzerland U19 7 (0)
2018–2021 Switzerland U21 9 (3)
2019– Switzerland 7 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 24 January 2021
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 16 November 2021

Club career

Basel

Cömert started his youth football with Concordia Basel. In 2009, he transferred to Basel and played in their youth system. He played his debut in their first team on 10 February 2016 in the Letzigrund during the 3–2 away win against Zürich.[2] Under trainer Urs Fischer Cömert won the Swiss Super League championship at the end of the 2015–16 Super League season. For the club it was the seventh title in a row and their 19th championship title in total.[3]

In the 2016–17 UEFA Youth League group stage Cömert played in each of the six matches as the Basel U-19 team qualified for the knock-out round.[4] In the away match on 28 September 2016 against Arsenal in the 40 minute Cömert scored the first goal from over 45 meters as Basel won 2–1.[5]

Loans to Lugano and Sion

On 8 March 2017 Basel announced that they were loaning out Cömert to Lugano, until the end of the 2016–17 Swiss Super League season, so that he could gain first team playing experience.[6] He played 12 Matches for Lugano and helped the team to avoid relegation. On 7 July the club announced that they were loaning Cömert out to Sion, for the 2017–18 Swiss Super League season.[7]

Breakthrough

After the loan period, at the beginning of July 2018, Cömert returned to his club of origion. Under trainer Marcel Koller FCB won the Swiss Cup in the 2018–19 season. In the first round they beat Montlingen 3–0, in the second round Echallens Région 7–2 and in the round of 16 Winterthur 1–0. In the quarter finals Sion were defeated 4–2 after extra time and in the semi finals Zürich were defeated 3–1. All these games were played away from home. The final was held on the 19 May 2019 in the Stade de Suisse Wankdorf Bern against Thun. Albian Ajeti scored the first goal, Fabian Frei the second for Basel, then Dejan Sorgić netted a goal for Thun, but the end result was 2–1 for Basel.[8] However, Cömert played only in two of these cup games.

In the following two and a half seasons Cömert was a regular starter in the team. The club announced, on 25 February 2022, that he had transferred out and moved to Spanish club Valencia.[9] Cömert had come through Basel's youth system from the U-12 to U21 and since he advanced to the first team in 2016, he had played a total of 167 games for Basel scoring a total of 8 goals. 101 of these games were in the Swiss Super League, 9 in the Swiss Cup, 30 in the European competitions (Champions, Europa and Conference League) and 27 were friendly games. He scored 5 goals in the domestic league, 2 in the European competitions and the other was scored during the friendlies.[10]

Valencia

On 25 January 2022, Cömert moved abroad for the first time in his career, after signing a four-and-a-half-year contract with La Liga side Valencia CF,[1] for a rumoured fee of €800,000.[11]

International career

Cömert was born in Switzerland and is of Turkish descent. Cömert played various international games for the Swiss U-15, U-16 and U-17 teams. He played his debut for the Swiss U-18 national team as centre-back on 22 September 2015 as they won 2–1 against the Danish U-19. On 30 August 2016 he played his first game for the Swiss U-19 and led the team as captain to a 1–0 victory against the Slovakian U-19.[12]

He made his debut for Switzerland national football team on 18 November 2019 in a Euro 2020 qualifier against Gibraltar. He substituted Manuel Akanji in the 65th minute.[13] In 2021 he was called up to the national team for the 2020 UEFA European Championship, where the team created one of the main sensations of the tournament reaching the quarter-finals.[14]

Honours

FC Basel

References
  1. "OFFICIAL STATEMENT | ERAY CÖMERT". Valencia CF. 25 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  2. Watson, Eva (2016). "Traumtor-Festival beim Klassiker". telebasel.ch. Retrieved 2016-05-08.
  3. Marti, Casper (2016). "Es ist vollbracht ! Der FCB ist zum 19. Mal Meister". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2016-04-30.
  4. UEFA.com (2016). "Gruppenphase Groupe A". uefa.com. Retrieved 2016-12-09.
  5. UEFA.com (2016). "Arsenal 1–2 Basel". uefa.com. Retrieved 2016-09-28.
  6. FC Basel 1893 (2017). "Cuemart zu Lugano". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2017-03-08.
  7. FC Basel 1893 (2017). "Eray Cümart leihweise zum FC Sion". FC Basel 1893. Retrieved 2017-07-07.
  8. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. "FC Basel - FC Thun 2:1 (1:0)". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2019-11-16.
  9. FC Basel 1893 (25 January 2022). "Eray Cömert wechselt zum Valencia CF". Eray Cömert moves to Valencia CF. FC Basel 1893 AG. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  10. Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv” (25 January 2022). "Eray Cömert - FCB-Statistic". Verein "Basler Fussballarchiv”. Retrieved 2022-01-25.
  11. "El Valencia pagará cerca de 800.000 euros por Eray Cömert" [Valencia will pay nearly 800,000 euros for Eray Cömert] (in Spanish). Plaza Deportiva. 24 January 2022. Retrieved 26 January 2022.
  12. SFV (2016). "Telegramm Slowakei - Schweiz". Schweizerischer Fussballverband. Retrieved 2016-08-30.
  13. "Gibraltar v Switzerland game report". UEFA. 18 November 2019.
  14. https://www.uefa.com / uefaeuro-2020 / match / 2024485 - switzerland-vs-spain / lineups /? iv = true

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