 Spalvis in 2017. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lukas Spalvis | ||
| Date of birth | (1994-07-27)27 July 1994 (age 30) | ||
| Place of birth | Vilnius, Lithuania | ||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2009–2011 | SV Weil 1910[1] | ||
| 2011–2012 | SC Freiburg[1] | ||
| 2012–2013 | AaB | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2013–2016 | AaB | 53 | (26) |
| 2016–2018 | Sporting CP | 0 | (0) |
| 2017 | →Belenenses (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | →1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan) | 24 | (5) |
| 2017–2018 | →1. FC Kaiserslautern II (loan) | 1 | (2) |
| 2018–2021 | 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 31 | (8) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2012–2013 | Lithuania U19 | 3 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Lithuania U21 | 8 | (4) |
| 2014– | Lithuania | 18 | (2) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:15, 19 October 2021 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:48, 1 August 2019 (UTC) | |||
Lukas Spalvis (born 27 July 1994)[2] is a retired Lithuanian professionalfootballer who last played asforward for1. FC Kaiserslautern.
Lukas Spalvis was born inLithuania. When he was six, he emigrated with his mother from Lithuania and settled in Switzerland inBasel. While living in Basel, he went to a German school.[1]
Spalvis joined in 2010 the SV Weil 1910 fromWeil am Rhein, the German neighboring town of Basel. In 2011, he joined the youth academy ofSC Freiburg.
Spalvis joined the club as a youth player in 2012 and was promoted to the first team squad in the summer of 2013. He got his first match forAaB when he was in the line up in theDBU Pokalen game againstSilkeborg IF on 29 August 2013. His first Danish Superliga appearance happened on 6 October 2013 when he was subbed in during the 74th minute againstViborg FF.[3]
While playing for AaB, Spalvis earned the nickname "Zweimal" meaning "twice" inGerman. He earned this nickname because he, for every match in which he scored a goal, always scored a second goal in the game as well. This streak held for 5 matches, until scoring just one goal againstOB on 24 August 2015.
In the first half of the2015–16 Danish Superliga Season, he had impressively scored 14 goals in 17 league matches, leading to transfer rumors about Spalvis moving toGalatasaray[4] andSporting Clube de Portugal.[5]
On 8 February 2016, it was confirmed, that Spalvis will move toSporting Clube de Portugal[6] from 1 July 2016. He would therefore play in AaB to the end of the 2015–16 Danish Superliga-season.
Due to his many injuries, Spalvis didn't play any games for Sporting in the first half season, and the club loaned out the forward toBelenenses on 1 January 2017. But only 16 days later, they called Spalvis back fromBelenenses and canceled the contract, because 'he wasn't fit enough' and 'they wasn't ready to take that risk'.[7]
On 2 February 2017, Sporting announced that Spalvis would play the remainder of the year on loan for Norwegian clubRosenborg BK. Rosenborg said that Spalvis would transfer to them on loan if he passed his medical. Spalvis had suffered from a severe knee injury since his arrival at Sporting. On 14 February, Spalvis failed his medical and Rosenborg said that Spalvis was not ready for the club pending that Sporting would pay the players fees during his rehabilitation with them.[8] On 27 February, Rosenborg announced that the transfer would not be completed as Rosenborg and Sporting could not come to a deal that satisfied the Norwegian club.
Spalvis was loaned out again on 5 July 2017, joining2. Bundesliga side1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season.[9][10] On 8 May 2018, it was announced that he had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal.[11]
On 25 August 2018, in a league match againstKarlsruher SC, he sustained acartilage injury to his knee. The injury was estimated to keep him out of action for a "long" time.[12] After two years without team training he returned in April 2021.[13]
He agreed the termination of his contract in October 2021.[14]
Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, includingLithuania U-19 andLithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly match againstKazakhstan.
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | Continental | Total | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| AaB | 2013–14 | Danish Superliga | 17 | 8 | 5 | 3 | — | 22 | 11 | |
| 2014–15 | 6 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |||
| 2015–16 | 30 | 18 | 3 | 1 | — | 29 | 18 | |||
| Total | 53 | 26 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 61 | 30 | ||
| Sporting CP | 2016–17 | Primeira Liga | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan) | 2017–18 | 2. Bundesliga | 24 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 6 |
| 1. FC Kaiserslautern | 2018–19 | 3. Liga | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 |
| Career total | 67 | 30 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 76 | 35 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lithuania | 2014 | 4 | 1 |
| 2015 | 6 | 1 | |
| 2016 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 3 | 0 | |
| Total | 18 | 2 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 June 2014 | PGE Arena Gdańsk,Gdańsk, Poland |  Poland | 1–0 | 1–2 | Friendly | [18] |
| 2 | 8 September 2015 | LFF Stadium,Vilnius, Lithuania |  San Marino | 2–1 | 2–1 | UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying | [19] |
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