Jan-Niklas

Beste

Jan-Niklas Beste history

Jan-Niklas Beste was born on 4 January 1999 in Hamm and plays for the 1. FC Heidenheim 1846. He played for Hammer SpVg from 2006-2007, for Borussia Dortmund from 2007-2018, for SV Werder Bremen from 2018-2019, for FC Emmen from 2019-2020, for SV Werder Bremen from 2020-2020, for SSV Jahn Regensburg from 2020-2022 and has played for 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 since 2022.

Current season 2023/24

In the current season, he has scored seven goals for his team and is therefore the third-best scorer of his squad. With 10 assists, he has the sixth-most in the league. With 46 shots taken so far, Jan-Niklas Beste has had the second-most attempts on goal of any the 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 player. With 66 passes to a shot, he presently occupies ninth place in the league statistics together with Jonas Hofmann (Bayer 04 Leverkusen) and David Raum (RB Leipzig). The player with the shirt number 37 was in the starting line-up in all previous 31 games of the season. Of these, he won nine games with his club.

Jan-Niklas Beste currently ranks as one of the best crossers in the Bundesliga: he has played 201 crosses into the penalty area of his opponent this season and hence he is presently the third-best crosser. He is one of the strongest runners in the Bundesliga. His total number of sprints this season is 910 (rank 3).

Last game

Jan-Niklas Beste played his last game on the 34th matchday of the 2023/24 season (18 May 2024). He was victorious over 1. FC Köln while playing for 1. FC Heidenheim 1846 with a score of 4-1. He was in the starting line-up in this game and played as a midfielder for 87 minutes. There, he scored one goal and provided one assist. He shot at the opponent's goal a total of one time. In terms of total touches, Jan-Niklas Beste had 58 individual ball possessions. Furthermore, he had 22 tackle challenges in the last match. Of these, he was able to win 16 – and therefore was more successful than any other player in this game. He covered a distance of 9.2 km during his total playing time in this game. In doing so, Jan-Niklas Beste ran, like no other player in the game, a total of 37 sprints.

Bundesliga career and records

Jan-Niklas Beste has played 31 matches throughout the course of his career in the Bundesliga. Of these, he has won nine. He has played all the matches of his career in the Bundesliga as a member of the 1. FC Heidenheim 1846. Here, the 25-year-old has put a total of eight balls in the net.