Olivier Thill (born 17 December 1996) is a

Luxembourg Luxembourg ( ; lb, Lëtzebuerg ; french: link=no, Luxembourg; german: link=no, Luxemburg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, ; french: link=no, Grand-Duché de Luxembourg ; german: link=no, Großherzogtum Luxemburg is a small lan ...

ian professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugb ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for Turkish club

Eyüpspor Eyüpspor is a Turkish professional football club that is located in the Eyüp district of Istanbul. The team colours are lavender and yellow. Their home ground is Eyüp Stadium, which has a capacity of 2,500. History Eyüpspor played in the Ist ...

Club career

As a senior player, Thill started playing club football for

FC Progrès Niederkorn Football Club Progrès Niederkorn is a football club based in Niederkorn, in south-western Luxembourg. History During the German occupation of Luxembourg, the club played in the Gauliga Moselland under the name of FK Niederkorn, where it finis ...

from 2015 to 2018. On 31 August 2018, he signed a four-year contract with the

Russian Premier League The Russian Premier League (RPL; russian: Российская премьер-лига; РПЛ), also written as Russian Premier Liga, is the top division professional association football league in Russia. It was established at the end of 2001 ...

club

FC Ufa FC Ufa (russian: ФК «Уфа», ba, Өфө, Öfö) is a Russian football club based in Ufa that will play in the second-tier Russian First League in the 2022–23 season. History During the summer of 2010, Rustem Khamitov, the second Presid ...

. Three weeks before that, he scored a goal for his previous club Progrès against FC Ufa in the Europa League qualifier. On 17 October 2020, his contract with Ufa was terminated by mutual consent. On 30 December 2020,

Ukrainian Premier League The Ukrainian Premier League ( uk, "Українська Прем'єр-ліга", ''Ukrayinska Premier Liha'') or UPL is the highest division of Ukrainian annual football championship. As the Vyshcha Liha ( uk, Вища ліга, ''Top League' ...

side

Vorskla Poltava FC Vorskla Poltava ( uk, ФК «Во́рскла» Полта́ва ) is a Ukrainian professional football club based in Poltava that competes in the Ukrainian Premier League, the top flight of Ukrainian football. History Kolos Poltava The club ...

announced that they had signed a 2-year deal with Thill. On 7 March 2022,

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announced that, due to the

Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, all the contracts of foreign players in Ukraine are suspended until 30 June 2022 and they are allowed to sign with clubs outside Ukraine until that date. On 30 March 2022, Thill signed with Turkish club

until 30 June 2022 using the new rule.

International career

Thill made his international debut for the Luxembourg national team in 2017.

Personal life

Olivier is the brother of Sébastien Thill and

Vincent Thill Vincent Thill (born 4 February 2000) is a Luxembourgish professional association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for the Sabah FC (Azerbaijan), Sabah in the Azerbaijan Premier League and Luxembourg national football team, Luxembou ...

. Sébastien plays for

Hansa Rostock FC Hansa Rostock () is a German association football club based in the city of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The club is also called as "the cog" because of its club crest. They have emerged as one of the most successful clubs from the for ...

, while Vincent is on the books at

. The three are the sons of former international footballer Serge Thill.

Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Luxembourg's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Thill goal.''

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References

1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Luxembourg City Luxembourgian footballers Men's association football midfielders Luxembourg men's international footballers Luxembourg National Division players Russian Premier League players Ukrainian Premier League players TFF First League players FC Progrès Niederkorn players FC Ufa players FC Vorskla Poltava players Eyüpspor footballers Luxembourgian expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Russia Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in Russia Expatriate footballers in Ukraine Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate footballers in Turkey Luxembourgian expatriate sportspeople in Turkey {{Luxembourg-footy-bio-stub