Andrej Ilic

Andrej Ilic has been a regular striker option for Union Berlin in the 2025-2026 Bundesliga, making 32 appearances including 24 starts. Five goals from that workload points to a functional rather than dominant attacking role – trusted enough to start most weeks, but not carrying the scoring burden on his own. Five yellow cards also suggest a physically engaged centre-forward profile.

The available career record shows a rapid move through Javor Ivanjica, RFS, Valerenga, Lille and Union Berlin, with his most productive listed spell coming in 2023 at Valerenga, where he is credited with nine goals. The Lille step did not translate into recorded first-team output in this dataset, but Union have given him sustained Bundesliga minutes, which suggests his career has shifted from production in smaller leagues to a more specialist role at a higher level.

Ilic's transfer path shows clear upward movement in level: Javor Ivanjica to RFS, then Valerenga, Lille and Union Berlin. Lille paid €3.2m for him in February 2024, loaned him to Union later that year, and Union made the move permanent for €4.3m in July 2025. That pattern suggests he did enough on loan to justify a permanent Bundesliga investment, even if his scoring return remains moderate.