Eray Ervin Cömert (4 February 1998) is a Swiss professional footballer who plays as a defender for La Liga club Valencia[1] and the Switzerland national team.
![]() Cömert with Basel in 2019 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Eray Ervin Cömert | ||
Date of birth | (1998-02-04) 4 February 1998 (age 24) | ||
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 | 15 | (1) |
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) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 15 October 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16 November 2021 |
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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