Leonardo Lukačević

Leonardo Lukačević
Lukačević with Austria U21 in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth (1999-01-21) 21 January 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth Salzburg, Austria
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1]
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
 Rheindorf Altach
Number 12
Youth career
2005–2007 PSV Salzburg
2007–2014 Red Bull Salzburg
2014–2016 SV Grödig
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2019 SV Grödig 76 (4)
2019–2020 Admira Wacker II 2 (1)
2020–2023 Admira Wacker 76 (2)
2023– Rheindorf Altach 24 (0)
International career‡
2019 Austria U21 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:59, 26 October 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 3 May 2020

Leonardo Lukačević (born 21 January 1999) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Rheindorf Altach.

Club career

Lukačević started his football career at PSV Salzburg.[2] In February 2007, he moved to the youth academy of Red Bull Salzburg. Ahead of the 2014–15 season he joined to the youth department of SV Grödig.

He was promoted to the Grödig first team for the 2016–17 season, making his senior debut in the Austrian Regionalliga in July 2016, when he was in the starting eleven on the first matchday of the season against FC Kufstein.[3] He scored his first Regionalliga goal in October 2016, opening the score in a 4–2 victory against SV Wörgl.[4] In his first season in the first team, he made 28 appearances in which he scored one goal.[1]

In the 2017–18 season, Lukačević made 20 appearances without scoring a goal.[1] In the 2018–19 season, he made 28 appearances, scoring three goals.[1] For the 2019–20 season, he moved to the reserve team of Austrian Bundesliga club Admira Wacker.[5] In July 2019, he was included in the first-team squad for the first time for a match against Union Edelweiß Linz. He made his debut in the Bundesliga in August 2019, when he was in the starting eleven on the third matchday of the season against LASK.[6]

In June 2020, Lukačević was signed on a permanent deal to the Admira first team and received a contract running until June 2023.[7]

Before the 2023–24 season, Lukačević signed a two-year contract with Rheindorf Altach.[8]

International career

On 5 September 2019, Lukačević gained his first cap for the Austria under-21 team in a 2021 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifier against Andorra.[9]

Personal life

Lukačević was born in Austria, and is of Croatian descent.[10]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Leonardo Lukačević at Soccerway
  2. ^ Andonov, Aleksandar (6 February 2019). "Grödigs Leonardo Lukacevic wechselt Spielerberater". Salzburg24 (in German). Retrieved 23 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Kufstein vs. Grödig – 22 July 2016". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Grödig vs. Wörgl – 8 October 2016". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  5. ^ "Nächster Neuzugang für die Admira Juniors - FC FLYERALARM ADMIRA". FC Admira Wacker Mödling (in German). 3 July 2019. Archived from the original on 10 August 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  6. ^ "Admira vs. LASK – 10 August 2019". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  7. ^ "EIN QUARTETT VERLÄNGERT! – FC FLYERALARM ADMIRA". FC Admira Wacker Mödling (in German). 2 June 2020. Archived from the original on 4 June 2020. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Lukacevic kommt für die Außenbahn" [Lukacevic comes on the wing] (in German). Rheindorf Altach. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
  9. ^ "Andorra – Österreich". ÖFB (in German). Archived from the original on 18 July 2022. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
  10. ^ "Grödigs Leonardo Lukacevic bei Dinamo Zagreb im Probetraining". www.salzburg24.at.