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Łukasz Szukała - Wikipedia

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Łukasz Szukała
Personal information
Szukała with Steaua București in 2014
Full name	Łukasz Szukała^[1]
Date of birth	(1984-05-26) 26 May 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth	Gdańsk, Poland
Height	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back
Youth career
1994–1997	TuS Fortuna Saarburg
1997–1998	SV Trassem
1998–2000	Eintracht Trier
2000–2002	Metz
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2003–2004	Metz B	9	(0)
2004–2008	1860 Munich II	51	(4)
2005–2008	1860 Munich	44	(0)
2008–2009	Alemannia Aachen II	1	(0)
2008–2010	Alemannia Aachen	26	(2)
2010–2011	Gloria Bistrița	28	(2)
2011–2012	Universitatea Cluj	29	(0)
2012	Petrolul Ploiești	2	(1)
2012–2015	Steaua București	65	(12)
2015	Al Ittihad	12	(3)
2015–2017	Osmanlıspor	12	(0)
2017–2019	Ankaragücü	6	(0)
Total		285	(23)
International career
2003	Poland U19	3	(0)
2005	Poland U21	3	(9)
2013–2015	Poland	17	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19 August 2018

Łukasz Szukała (born 26 May 1984) is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back.

After starting out his career at Metz B in France, Szukała went on to compete professionally in Germany, Romania, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, respectively.

At international level, Szukała represented the Poland senior team between 2013 and 2015, earning 17 caps and one goal in the process.

Club career

Universitatea Cluj

In June 2011, Szukała joined Universitatea Cluj on a three-year contract.^[2]

Steaua București

In August 2012, Łukasz signed with Romanian giants Steaua București.^[3] On 4 November 2012, Szukała scored his first goal for title-chasing Steaua in a 3–1 win against their Bucharest arch-rivals, Dinamo, guaranteeing him a good relationship with the very demanding Steaua fans.^[4] In 2014, he was voted as the best foreign footballer in Liga I.^[5]

Al Ittihad

On 3 January 2015, he signed a contract with Al-Ittihad, when he entered his final six months of the deal with Steaua.^[6] The two clubs reached an agreement to release the player before his contract with Steaua ended, thus he joined Al-Ittihad in January 2015.^[7]

International career

Szukała made his first appearance for the Poland national football team against Denmark in 2013.

He scored his first goal for the national side in the 7–0 victory over Gibraltar.

Personal life

Łukasz Szukała is a polyglot who speaks fluent Polish, English, French, German, and Romanian.

He also has a German citizenship. His parents emigrated to Germany during his early childhood. He grew up in the region of Trier.^[8]

Szukała is married to a sports news presenter from Romania, Raluca Hogyes, with whom he has a son (b. 2019).^[9]

Career statistics

Club

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[10]^[11]
Club	Season	League	League		National cup		League cup		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1860 Munich II	2004–05	Regionalliga Bayern	16	1	0	0	—		—		—		16	1
	2005–06	Regionalliga Bayern	14	1	0	0	—		—		—		14	1
	2006–07	Regionalliga Bayern	14	1	0	0	—		—		—		14	1
	2007–08	Regionalliga Bayern	7	1	0	0	—		—		—		7	1
	Total		51	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	51	4
1860 Munich	2004–05	2. Bundesliga	18	0	0	0	—		–		—		18	0
	2005–06	2. Bundesliga	15	0	0	0	—		—		—		15	0
	2006–07	2. Bundesliga	2	0	0	0	—		—		—		2	0
	2007–08	2. Bundesliga	9	0	0	0	—		—		—		9	0
	Total		44	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	44	0
Alemannia Aachen II	2008–09	NRW-Liga	1	0	0	0	—		—		—		1	0
Alemannia Aachen	2008–09	2. Bundesliga	18	2	2	0	—		—		—		20	2
	2009–10	2. Bundesliga	8	0	2	1	—		—		—		10	1
	Total		26	2	4	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	30	3
Gloria Bistrița	2010–11	Liga I	28	2	2	0	—		—		—		30	2
Universitatea Cluj	2011–12	Liga I	29	0	0	0	—		—		—		29	0
Petrolul Ploiești	2012–13	Liga I	2	1	0	0	—		0	0	—		2	1
Steaua București	2012–13	Liga I	20	4	1	0	—		6	0	—		27	4
	2013–14	Liga I	29	4	4	0	—		12	0	1	1	46	5
	2014–15	Liga I	16	4	0	0	0	0	11	0	1	0	28	4
	Total		65	12	5	0	0	0	29	0	2	1	101	13
Ittihad	2014–15	Saudi Professional League	12	3	1	0	0	0	0	0	—		13	3
Osmanlıspor	2015–16	Süper Lig	10	0	0	0	—		—		—		10	0
	2016–17	Süper Lig	2	0	3	0	—		—		—		5	0
	2017–18	Süper Lig	0	0	0	0	—		—		—		0	0
	Total		12	0	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	15	0
Ankaragücü	2017–18	TFF First League	5	0	1	0	—		—		—		5	0
	2018–19	Süper Lig	1	0	0	0	—		—		—		1	0
	Total		6	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	6	0
Career total			276	24	16	1	0	0	29	0	2	1	323	26

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	7 September 2014	Estádio Algarve, Faro	Gibraltar	4–0	7–0	Euro 2016 qualifier

Honours

Steaua București

Individual

Gazeta Sporturilor Foreign Player of the Year in Romania: 2014^[12]

References

^ "Lukasz Szukala" (in Turkish). Turkish Football Federation. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
^ "Lukasz Szukala, trei sezoane la "U" Cluj" (in Romanian). universitateacluj.ro. Retrieved 9 June 2011.
^ "Steaua l-a luat pe Lukasz Szukala de la Petrolul" (in Romanian). gsp.ro. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
^ Steaua Bucureşti vs. Dinamo Bucureşti 3-1
^ "Liga 1 se învîrte în jurul urmașului lui Copernic - Cătălin Tolontan". 22 December 2014.
^ "Sanmartean a semnat cu Al Ittihad. Steaua il pierde si pe Szukala!" (in Romanian). enational.ro. 4 January 2015.
^ "Fotbal: Steaua se desparte de Szukala și Sânmărtean" (in Romanian). Agerpres. 14 January 2015.
^ Lukas Szukala
^ FOTO Fosta prezentatoare Raluca Hogyes și fotbalistul Lukasz Szukala au devenit părinți: "Boris, te iubim dincolo de cuvinte"
^ Łukasz Szukała at Soccerway. Retrieved 11 August 2018.
^ "Lukasz Szukala – MKE Ankaragücü – Liga I: alle Spielerstatistiken, News und alle persönlichen Informationen – kicker". kicker Online (in German). Retrieved 11 August 2018.
^ Superlativele Gazetei Sporturilor pe anul 2014

External links

Profile at Kicker.de
Łukasz Szukała at 90minut.pl (in Polish)
Łukasz Szukała at National-Football-Teams.com

v t e Gazeta Sporturilor Foreign Player of the Year in Romania
2008: Dubarbier 2009: Brandán 2010: Eric 2011: Wesley 2012: Wesley 2013: Eric 2014: Szukała 2015: Varela 2016: Boldrin 2017: Gnohéré 2018: Gnohéré 2019: Omrani 2020: Vinícius 2021: Betancor 2022: Compagno 2023: Dugandžić

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