Benjamin Šeško

Benjamin Šeško
Šeško with Red Bull Salzburg in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (2003-05-31) 31 May 2003 (age 23)
Place of birth Radeče, Slovenia
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Manchester United F.C.
Number 30
Youth career
2010–2013 Radeče
2013–2014 Rudar Trbovlje
2014–2016 Radeče
2016–2018 Krško
2018–2019 Domžale
2019–2020 Red Bull Salzburg
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2019–2023 Red Bull Salzburg 55 (21)
2019–2021 → FC Liefering (loan) 44 (22)
2025- Manchester United 22 (7)
International career‡
2017–2018 Slovenia U15 6 (4)
2018 Slovenia U16 4 (4)
2018–2019 Slovenia U17 14 (5)
2020 Slovenia U19 1 (0)
2021– Slovenia 37 (15)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 October 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 October 2024

Benjamin Šeško (born 31 May 2003) is a Slovenian professional footballer. He plays as a forward for English Premier league club Manchester United and the Slovenia national team.

Career

He started at his hometown club NK Radeče. He then played for Rudar Trbovlje and then returned to Radeče where he played for the under-15s and under-17s. In the 2017–18 season, he scored 59 goals in 23 matches for the under-15s. In 2018 he went to Domžale.

2019 Sesko signed a contract with FC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga. After the signing he went on loan to the farmteam FC Liefering in the Austrian Second League. For Liefering he scored in the 2020-21 season 21 goals in 29 matches, 13 of them in the last seven rounds.

He played his first match with Red Bull Salzburg in a 3–0 Austrian Football Bundesliga win over TSV Hartberg on 30 January 2021. He came in in minute 87 for Patson Daka. Shortly after the start of the 2022/23 season, it became known in August 2022 that Šeško was leaving Salzburg after the end of the season and moving to Germany to RB Leipzig. He signed a contract that ran until June 2028. For the 2025/26 season, Šeško moved to Manchester United in the Premier League.

International career

Sesko played for Slovenia at U15, U16, U17 and U19 level. In June 2021 he debuted for the national team versus North Macrdonia. He was 18 years and 1 day old and became the youngest player of the national team. On 8 October 2021 he scored his first goal for Slovenia in against Malta, becoming Slovenia's youngest ever goalscorer at the age of 18 years, 4 months and 8 days.

As of match played 1 February 2026
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Hungary 202171
2022104
202395
2024136
202560
Total4516
Scores and results list Slovenia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Sesko goal.
List of international goals scored by Benjamin Sesko
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
18 October 2021Ta Qali , Attard, Malta Malta2-22-2FIFA World Cup qualification
212 June 2022Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Serbia0-10-1UEFA Nations League B
324 September 2022Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Norway2-12-1UEFA Nations League B
427 September 2022Strawberry Arena, Solna, Sweden Sweden1-01-1UEFA Nations League B
517 November 2023Cluj Arena, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Romania1-02-1Friendly match
626 March 2023Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia San Marino1-02-0UEFA Euro qualification
77 September 2023Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Northern Ireland3-14-2UEFA Euro qualification
814 October 2023Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Finland1-03-0UEFA Euro qualification
92-0
1020 November 2023Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Kazakhstan1-02-1UEFA Euro qualification
1121 March 2024Ta Qali, Attard, Malta Malta2-22-2Friendly match
126 September 2024Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Austria1-01-1UEFA Nations League B
139 September 2024Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Kazakhstan1-03-0UEFA Nations League B
142-0
153-0
1619 November 2024Stadion Stožice , Ljubljana , Slovenia Norway1-11-4UEFA Nations League B

Honours

References

  1. ↑ "Slovenia – B. Šeško". Soccerway. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
  2. ↑ "Benjamin Šeško". RB Leipzig. Archived from the original on 8 July 2023. Retrieved 8 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Red Bull Salzburg.at (German)". Archived from the original on 2021-05-09. Retrieved 2022-01-04.
  4. ↑ FC Salzburg Wiki (German)
  5. ↑ RB Leipzig Homepage (German)[permanent dead link]
  6. ↑ snportal.si
  7. ↑ Transfermarkt.at