Luka Lochoshvili

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Luka Lochoshvili
Lochoshvili playing for Wolfsberger AC in 2022
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-05-29) 29 May 1998 (age 25)
Place of birth Tbilisi, Georgia
Height 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 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 41 (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 19 March 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.

Club career[edit]

Dinamo Tbilisi[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

Lochoshvili made his professional Fortuna Liga debut for Žilina against DAC Dunajská Streda on 6 April 2019.[4]

Dinamo Tbilisi[edit]

In early 2020 Dinamo Kyiv and Lochoshvili terminated the existing contract. The player spent next several months at Dinamo Tbilisi

Wolfsberger AC[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

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[edit]

As of match played 16 March 2024

Source

Season Team League National Cup European Cup Other Total
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 16 0 COI 2 0 18 0
Total Cremonese 41 1 4 0 0 0 0 0 45 1
Career total 161 5 17 0 12 0 1 0 191 5

International goal[edit]

# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 12 October 2023 Mikheil Meskhi Stadium, Tbilisi, Georgia  Thailand 2–0 8–0 Friendly

Honours[edit]

Club[edit]

Individual[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Dinamo Tbilisi vs Lokomotive". soccerway.com.
  2. ^ "ოფიციალურად: ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი კიევის "დინამოში"". sportall.ge (in Georgian), 30 August 2017.
  3. ^ "ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი კარიერას "ჟილინაში" გააგრძელებს". fanebi.com (in Georgian), 8 February 2019.
  4. ^ DAC VS. ŽILINA 1 - 0 6 April 2019, soccerway.com
  5. ^ "ოფიციალურად: ლოჩოშვილი ვოლფსბერგერში ითამაშებს". crystalsport.ge (in Georgian), 24 August 2020.
  6. ^ "ლოჩოშვილმა სადებიუტო გოლი ჟორდანიას გუნდს გაუტანა". 1tv.ge (in Georgian), 21 March 2021.
  7. ^ Lochoshvili als Teigls Lebensretter, orf.at, 27 February 2022.
  8. ^ "ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი ღირსების ჯვრით დააჯილდოვეს!". lelo.ge (in Georgian), 8 March 2022.
  9. ^ "FIFA fairplay winner revealed". fifa.com. FIFA. 27 February 2023.
  10. ^ "Luka Lochoshvili erzielt das tor der runde 31". skysportuastria.at (in German). 20 May 2022.
  11. ^ "LOCHOSHVILI NUOVO CALCIATORE DELLA CREMONESE" (in Italian). Cremonese. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
  12. ^ "ლუკა ლოჩოშვილის დებიუტი სერია A-ში და კარგი თამაში „რომასთან"". pia.ge (in Georgian). 22 August 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.
  13. ^ "Sampdoria vs Cremonese". sport.sky.it (in Italian). 8 April 2023.
  14. ^ "Spain v Georgia game report". FIFA. 5 September 2021.
  15. ^ a b c Qualification round
  16. ^ Play-off
  17. ^ "საქართველოს ფეხბურთის ფედერაციის ყოველწლიური დაჯილდოება GFF Awards". gff.ge (in Georgian), 29 December 2020.

External links[edit]

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