Riza Durmisi

Brøndby

2012–13 season

Durmisi made his Brøndby debut in a 1–1 home draw against Esbjerg fB on 26 August 2012. He made four total substitute appearances during the season.

2013–14 season

On 24 June 2013, Durmisi signed a three-year contract tying him to the club until summer 2016. Durmisi was promoted to the first team and issued shirt number 17. He became a frequent starter, first as a left winger and later as a left wing-back. On 10 November, he scored his first goal from his position as left wing-back in the 3–0 home victory against AGF. He attracted the attention from foreign scouts, including French Ligue 1 club Toulouse and Turkish giants Fenerbahçe, after scoring 3 goals in 33 matches that season.

2014–15 season

On 31 July 2014, Durmisi made his UEFA Europa League debut, starting in the 3–0 away defeat against Belgian side Club Brugge. Durmisi revealed during the 2014–15 Christmas break that he was approached by the Football Federation of Macedonia to represent Macedonia internationally, due to his Macedonian roots. However, he said at the same time that representing Denmark was his first priority, should its then-head coach, Morten Olsen, offer him a call-up. In response, Olsen said Durmisi should focus on proving his worth on the pitch rather than in the press, yet nonetheless acknowledged Durmisi was being considered for a call-up. During the winter break in January, Durmisi revealed his ambition was to move to either the…

On 8 June 2015, Durmisi made his senior international debut for Denmark in a 2–1 home friendly win against Montenegro at the Viborg Stadion, as a 72nd-minute substitute for Simon Poulsen. Durmisi played the final seven matches in Morten Olsen's lengthy tenure as national team head coach. In the Euro qualifiers game against Albania in 2015, Durmisi revealed that he would have liked to have played for Albania, being of Albanian heritage from Tetovo. He revealed that he never got a call up from FSHF and that even the Football Federation of Macedonia had sent him an invitation, in which he refused. On 1 March 2016, after Åge Hareide replaced Olsen, Hareide called-up Durmisi for his first two matches in charge, against Iceland and Scotland on 24 and 29 March respectively. He started and played the full 90 minutes in both matches as a left wing-back in Hareide's 3–5–2 formation. In May 2018 he was named in Denmark's preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. However, he did not make the final 23.

As of match played 10 May 2024

Durmisi was born in Ishøj, part of the Copenhagen suburbs and started playing football for local club SB 50 Ishøj before moving to the Brøndby IF youth academy. Durmisi is of Albanian heritage from Tetovo, in the former Yugoslavia.