Leo Cornic
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Leo Erik Jean Cornic[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 2 January 2001[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Oslo, Norway[1] | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | |||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Tromsø | ||
| Number | 2 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2010–2017 | Vålerenga | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2019 | Vålerenga 2 | 26 | (2) |
| 2018–2020 | Vålerenga | 0 | (0) |
| 2019 | → Bærum (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2020 | Grorud | 24 | (3) |
| 2021–2022 | Djurgårdens IF | 12 | (0) |
| 2022–2024 | Rosenborg | 44 | (4) |
| 2023–2024 | Rosenborg 2 | 10 | (3) |
| 2024– | Tromsø | 43 | (8) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017 | Norway U16 | 11 | (0) |
| 2018 | Norway U17 | 13 | (1) |
| 2019 | Norway U18 | 10 | (1) |
| 2021 | Norway U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2021 | Norway U20 | 1 | (0) |
| 2019 | Norway U21 | 1 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 12 April 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20 August 2024 | |||
Leo Erik Jean Cornic (born 2 January 2001) is a Norwegian footballer who plays as a defender for the Norwegian professional football club Tromsø.
Vålerenga
In 2010, nine years old, Cornic started playing for Vålerenga's youth teams.[2] He would later rise through the ranks and found himself playing for their second team in the Norwegian Second Division by 2018. The same year, Cornic signed his first professional contract with the club, lasting until the end of the 2020 season.[2] In 2019 he would get his debut for the first team, in a cup tie against Faaberg, which would go on to be the only game he would play for Vålerenga's first team.[3]
After impressing with his appearances for Vålerenga's second team, Cornic was loaned out to Bærum for the latter half of the 2019 season.[4] Cornic was capped ten times for the Norwegian Second Division side, before returning back to Vålerenga.[5]
Grorud
Ahead of the 2020 season, Cornic was sold to newly promoted Norwegian First Division club Grorud.[6]
Djurgården IF
After only one season at Grorud, Cornic moved to Swedish side Djurgårdens IF on a four-year contract.[7] The sale marked Grorud's first time selling a player to an international club.[8] At Djurgården Cornic struggled to establish himself as a starter, and would go on to appear only fifteen times in all competitions over his two seasons there.[9]
Rosenborg
On 15 August 2022, after one-and-a-half seasons at Djurgården IF, Rosenborg announced that Cornic had signed on for them until the end of 2026. Cornic cited that he chose Rosenborg because they were the biggest club in Norway, and that he believed in the head coach Kjetil Rekdal.[10] In the summer of 2023, Cornic scored the winning goal in the second round of the 2023–24 UEFA Europa Conference League qualifying against Crusaders.[11]
Tromsø
After gradually losing his starting position at Rosenborg under their new head coach Alfred Johansson, Tromsø wanted to sign Cornic in the summer of 2024. On 31 July, he was announced as their new signing, on a contract running through the 2027 season.[12][13][14] Only four days after signing with Tromsø, Cornic headed back to Lerkendal Stadion to face his former teammates in a 1–0 defeat, playing the last twenty minutes of the game.[12] The same month Cornic would go on to play both of Tromsø's third round fixtures against Scottish club Kilmarnock in the 2024–25 UEFA Conference League qualifying, eventually losing out 3–2 on aggregates.[15]