Luka Lochoshvili
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Lochoshvili playing for Wolfsberger AC in 2022
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Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 29 May 1998 | ||
Place of birth | Tbilisi, Georgia | ||
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Position(s) | Centre-back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Cremonese | ||
Number | 44 | ||
Youth career | |||
2014–2016 | Dinamo Tbilisi | ||
2017–2019 | Dynamo Kyiv | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2014 | Dinamo Tbilisi B | 1 | (0) |
2016–2017 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 22 | (1) |
2017–2019 | Dynamo Kyiv | 0 | (0) |
2018 | → Dinamo Tbilisi (loan) | 21 | (0) |
2019 | → Žilina B (loan) | 10 | (1) |
2019 | → Žilina (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2020 | Dinamo Tbilisi | 10 | (0) |
2020–2022 | Wolfsberger AC | 53 | (2) |
2022– | Cremonese | 33 | (1) |
International career‡ | |||
2014–2015 | Georgia U17 | 6 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Georgia U19 | 7 | (0) |
2017–2020 | Georgia U21 | 15 | (2) |
2021– | Georgia | 10 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 January 2024 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 1 December 2023 |
Luka Lochoshvili (Georgian: ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი; born 29 May 1998) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie B club Cremonese and the Georgian national team.
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Club career
Dinamo Tbilisi
Lochoshvili initially played in Dinamo Tbilisi youth teams before his promotion to the first team in 2016. He made a debut in a 4–0 win against Lokomotive Tbilisi on 18 November 2016.[1]
Dinamo Kyiv
The next summer Lochoshvili signed a five-year deal with Dinamo Kyiv,[2] although in March 2018 was loaned back to his boyhood club and later, in February 2019, to Slovak side Žilina.[3]
Loan to Žilina
Lochoshvili made his professional Fortuna Liga debut for Žilina against DAC Dunajská Streda on 6 April 2019.[4]
Dinamo Tbilisi
In early 2020 Dinamo Kyiv and Lochoshvili terminated the existing contract. The player spent next several months at Dinamo Tbilisi
Wolfsberger AC
In mid 2020, Lochoshvili moved to Austria to join Wolfsberger AC.[5] He opened his goal account in a 5–3 away win against Austria Wien on 21 March 2021.[6]
In February 2022, while playing for Wolfsberger AC against Austria in Vienna, Lochoshvili took out the tongue of Austria player Georg Teigl. Teigl collided with an opposition player and was lying unconscious, unable to breathe, as he had swallowed his own tongue.[7] Shortly afterwards Luka Lochoshvili was awarded with the Dignity Cross by the grateful Carinthia state governor.[8] He won the Fair Play award at The Best FIFA Football Awards 2022 for his actions.[9] The only goal scored by Lochoshvili in the 2021–22 season in a 4–1 away victory over Sturm Graz was recognized as the best of week 31 by fans.[10]
Cremonese
On 10 August 2022, Lochoshvili signed with Cremonese in Italy.[11] He made a first appearance for his new club against AS Roma on 22 August.[12] Lochoshvili netted his first Serie A goal in a 3–2 away win over Sampdoria on 8 April 2023.[13]
International career
Lochoshvili made his debut for the Georgia national football team on 5 September 2021 in a World Cup qualifier against Spain, a 4–0 away loss. He started the game and played the whole match.[14]
On 12 October 2023, he scored a brace in a friendly match against Thailand scoring the sixth goal just before half time.
Career statistics
- As of match played 8 October 2023
Season | Team | League | National Cup | European Cup | Other | Total | |||||||||
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Name | App | Goals | Name | App | Goals | Name | App | Goals | Name | App | Goals | App | Goals | ||
2013–14 | Dinamo Tbilisi II | PL | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||||
2016 | Dinamo Tbilisi | UL | 5 | 0 | DKC | 1 | 0 | – | – | 6 | 0 | ||||
2017 | EL | 17 | 1 | DKC | 1 | 0 | – | – | 18 | 1 | |||||
2018 | EL | 21 | 0 | DKC | 2 | 0 | UEL | 2[15] | 0 | – | 25 | 0 | |||
2018–19 | Žilina | SL | 3 | 0 | – | – | – | 3 | 0 | ||||||
2018–19 | Žilina II | 2L | 5 | 1 | – | – | – | 5 | 1 | ||||||
2019–20 | 2L | 5 | 0 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | |||||||
Total Žilina II | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | |||||
2020 | Dinamo Tbilisi | EL | 10 | 0 | – | UCL | 1[15] | 0 | Super Cup | 1 | 0 | 12 | 0 | ||
Total Dinamo Tbilisi | 53 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 61 | 2 | |||||
2020–21 | Wolfsberger AC | ABL | 21+1[16] | 1 | AC | 4 | 0 | UEL | 8 | 0 | – | 34 | 1 | ||
2021–22 | ABL | 29 | 1 | AC | 4 | 0 | – | – | 33 | 1 | |||||
2022–23 | ABL | 2 | 0 | AC | 1 | 0 | UCL | 1[15] | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | |||
Total Wolfsberger AC | 53 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 71 | 2 | |||||
2022–23 | Cremonese | Serie A | 25 | 1 | COI | 2 | 0 | – | – | 27 | 1 | ||||
2023–24 | Serie B | 7 | 0 | COI | 1 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||||
Total Cremonese | 32 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 35 | 1 | |||||
Career total | 152 | 5 | 16 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 181 | 5 |
International goal
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 12 October 2023 | Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia | ![]() |
2–0 | 8–0 | Friendly |
Honours
Club
- Erovnuli Liga Winner (1): 2015/2016
- Erovnuli Liga Runner-up (1): 2018
- Slovak Cup Runner-up (1): 2018/2019
- David Kipiani Cup Winner (2): 2014/2015, 2015/2016
- Georgian Super Cup Winner (2): 2014/2015, 2015/2016
- Georgian Super Cup Runner-up (1): 2020
Individual
- Best young player of Georgia (2020)[17]
- FIFA Fair Play Award: 2022
References
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- ↑ Lochoshvili als Teigls Lebensretter, orf.at, 27 February 2022.
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External links
- Luka Lochoshvili at Soccerway
- Futbalnet profile
- Luka Lochoshvili at Fortunaliga.sk Script error: No such module "In lang".
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- Living people
- Footballers from Tbilisi
- Men's footballers from Georgia (country)
- Men's association football defenders
- Georgia (country) men's international footballers
- Georgia (country) men's under-21 international footballers
- Georgia (country) men's youth international footballers
- Erovnuli Liga players
- Slovak First Football League players
- 2. Liga (Slovakia) players
- Austrian Football Bundesliga players
- FC Dinamo Tbilisi players
- FC Dynamo Kyiv players
- MŠK Žilina players
- Wolfsberger AC players
- US Cremonese players
- Expatriate men's footballers from Georgia (country)
- Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine
- Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Austria
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Ukraine
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Slovakia
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Austria
- Expatriate sportspeople from Georgia (country) in Italy