Jordi Balk

Jordi Balk (born 26 April 1994) is a retired Dutch professional footballer who played as a centre back during his career, for Ross County, FC Oss, St Patrick's Athletic, FC Lienden, VV DUNO, DOVO and Sportlust '46.

Jordi Balk
Personal information
Full name Jordi Balk
Date of birth (1994-04-26) 26 April 1994
Place of birth Cothen, Netherlands
Height 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Youth career
SVF Cothen
SV Houten
FC Utrecht
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Ross County 4 (0)
2015–2017 FC Oss 68 (1)
2017 St Patrick's Athletic 12 (1)
2018 FC Lienden 28 (0)
2019 VV DUNO 8 (0)
2019–2020 DOVO 19 (0)
2020–2022 Sportlust '46 16 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:51, 30 January 2023 (UTC)

Club career

Ross County

Balk, who had previously played in the youth academy of Dutch club Utrecht, signed for Scottish Premiership club Ross County in July 2014.[1] He made his debut appearance on 16 August 2014, in a 2–1 defeat against Kilmarnock. Balk was released from his contract in November 2014.[2]

FC Oss

In January 2015, he signed with Dutch Eerste Divisie side FC Oss until the end of the season.[3] He stayed with FC Oss until 2017.

St Patrick's Athletic

After 3 seasons with FC Oss, Balk went on trial with League of Ireland Premier Division club St Patrick's Athletic, from the capital city of Dublin. On 5 July 2017 he played the full 90 minutes as a trialist in a 1–0 friendly win over Scottish Premiership side Heart of Midlothian at Richmond Park. After impressing fans and coaching staff with his passing, positional sense and tackling, Balk signed a contract with the Saints on 7 July 2017, becoming the first Dutch player to play for the club.[4] Balk made his full debut on 9 July in a narrow 1–0 defeat away to league leaders Cork City.[5] He scored his first goal in the clubs crucial 4-2 win against Cork which helped St Pats stay in League of Ireland Premier Division.[6]

Return to Holland

On 19 December, Balk announced to his fans via his Instagram account that despite St Patrick's Athletic offering him a multi-year contract, he would be leaving Dublin and returning home to sign for FC Lienden of the Tweede Divisie on a 1.5 year contract.[7]

Balk signed with Voetbalvereniging Duno Doorwerth, better known as VV DUNO, in the beginning of 2019.[8] However, already on 12 February 2019 it was confirmed, that Balk would join DOVO from the upcoming season.[9]

Balk played for Sportlust '46 from 2020 until he retired from football in July 2022.


On September 9, 2023, Balk returned to Dublin to play in a friendly for a St. Patricks Athletic legends team for Ian Birmingham's testimonial match.[10]

Career statistics
As of 19 December 2017.
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Ross County 2014–15[11] Scottish Premiership 400010––50
FC Oss 2014–15[11] Eerste Divisie 18000002[lower-alpha 1]0200
2015–16[11] 33000––––330
2016–17[11] 17100––––171
Club Total 68100––20701
St Patrick's Athletic 2017[11] League of Ireland Premier Division 121200000141
FC Lienden 2017–18[11] Tweede Divisie 0000000000
Career total 842201020892
  1. Appearances in Promotion Play-offs

References
  1. "Ross County boss Derek Adams snaps up trio of new faces". BBC Sport. BBC. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 28 August 2014.
  2. Ross County: Jim McIntyre targets signings as three exit, BBC Sport
  3. Balk maakt seizoen af bij FC Oss Archived 2015-01-13 at the Wayback Machine (Dutch). 12 January 2015.
  4. "Jordi Balk Joins the Saints".
  5. "League Report: Cork City 1 - 0 St Patrick's Athletic".
  6. "League Report: St Patrick's Athletic 4 - 2 Cork City".
  7. "Jordi Balk sluit per direct aan bij tweede divisie selectie".
  8. Duno start 2019 met makkelijke oefenzege, hoogenlaag.nl, 5 January 2019
  9. Ex-prof Jordi Balk van Duno naar DOVO in Veenendaal, gelderlander.nl, 12 February 2019
  10. "Testimonial Squads Confirmed". www.stpatsfc.com. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
  11. "Nederlands - J.Balk". Soccerway. soccerway.com. Retrieved 7 July 2017.
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