Husein Balić (born 15 February 1996) is an Austrian 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, rugby lea ...

who plays as a winger for

I liga I liga (, ), currently named Betclic I liga due to its sponsorship by Betclic, is the men's second professional association football division of the Polish football league system, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II liga via promotion/rel ...

club

ŁKS Łódź ŁKS Łódź (''Łódzki Klub Sportowy Łódź''; ) is a Polish sports club based in Łódź. They are best known for their football club but are represented in many sports such as basketball, volleyball, boxing, and in the past ice hockey, ...

Club career

He made his

Austrian Football Bundesliga The Bundesliga ( , "Federal League"), also known as Admiral Bundesliga for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Austria and the highest level of the Austrian football league system. The competition decides the A ...

debut for SKN St. Pölten on 23 September 2017 in a game against

FC Admira Wacker Mödling Admira Wacker is an Austrian professional football club based in Maria Enzersdorf, a town in the Mödling District of Lower Austria. The team competes in the 2. Liga, the second tier of the Austrian football league system. The club was form ...

LASK

On 23 December 2019,

LASK Linzer Athletik-Sport-Klub, commonly known as LASK (), or Linzer ASK, is an Austrian professional football club based in Upper-Austrian state capital Linz. It is the oldest football club in that region, and plays in the Austrian Football Bundes ...

confirmed that Balić had joined the club on a contract until the summer 2024.

ŁKS Łódź

On 10 January 2024, Balić joined Polish

Ekstraklasa (; meaning "Extra Class" in Polish), officially known as PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasa due to its Sponsor (commercial), sponsorship by PKO Bank Polski, is a professional association football league in Poland and the highest level of the Polish foo ...

side

on a contract until June 2025, with an option for another year. He scored on his debut in a 2–1 away league defeat against

Korona Kielce Korona Kielce (, Korona – ''Crown'' – symbol of club and city, Kielce – name of city where club is based) is a Polish professional football club based in Kielce, competing in Ekstraklasa in the 2025–26 season. From 2002 to ...

on 12 February.

International career

Born in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

, Balić is of

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes known as Bosnia-Herzegovina and informally as Bosnia, is a country in Southeast Europe. Situated on the Balkans, Balkan Peninsula, it borders Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to th ...

n descent and was born to a

Bosniak The Bosniaks (, Cyrillic script, Cyrillic: Бошњаци, ; , ) are a South Slavs, South Slavic ethnic group native to the Southeast European historical region of Bosnia (region), Bosnia, today part of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and who sha ...

family. He made his debut for

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on 11 November 2020 in a friendly game against

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. He substituted Valentino Lazaro in the 58th minute.

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Balic, Husein 1996 births Living people Footballers from Steyr Austrian people of Bosnia and Herzegovina descent Austrian men's footballers Austria men's under-21 international footballers Austria men's international footballers Men's association football wingers SK Vorwärts Steyr players SKN St. Pölten players LASK players ŁKS Łódź players Austrian Football Bundesliga players Austrian Regionalliga players Ekstraklasa players I liga players II liga players Austrian expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Austrian expatriate sportspeople in Poland 21st-century Austrian sportsmen