Lukas Spalvis

Lukas Spalvis

Personal information
Full name	Lukas Spalvis
Date of birth	(1994-07-27) 27 July 1994
Place of birth	Vilnius, Lithuania
Height
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	AaB
Number	33
Youth career
	SV Weil 1910
	SC Freiburg
2012–2013	AaB
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2013–2016	AaB	53	(26)
2016-	Sporting CP	0	(0)
International career‡
2012–2013	Lithuania U19	3	(0)
2014–	Lithuania U21	8	(4)
2014–	Lithuania	13	(2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 08 May 2016 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 09 December 2015

Lukas Spalvis (born 27 July 1994) is a Lithuanian professional footballer playing for Danish Superliga side AaB.

Early years

Lukas Spalvis was born in Lithuania. When he was six, he emigrated with his mother from Lithuania and settled in Switzerland in Basel. While living in Basel, he went to a German school.

Career

Club

Youth until 2012

Spalvis joined in 2010 the SV Weil 1910 from Weil am Rhein, the German neighboring town of Basel. In 2011 he joined the youth (Fußballschule) of SC Freiburg.

Aalborg BK/ AaB

He 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 for AaB when he was in the line up in the DBU Pokalen game against Silkeborg IF on 29 August 2013. His first Danish Superliga appearance happened on 6 October 2013 when he was subbed in during the 74th minute against Viborg FF.

While playing for AaB, Spalvis has earned the nickname "Zweimal" meaning "twice" in German. 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 against OB on 24 August 2015.

In the first half of the 2015-16 Danish Superliga Season, he had impressively scored 14 goals in 17 league matches, leading to transfer rumors about Spalvis moving to Galatasaray and Sporting Clube de Portugal.

On February 8 2016, it was confirmed, that Spalvis will move to Sporting Clube de Portugal from July 1 2016. He would therefore play in AaB to the end of the 2015-16 Danish Superliga-season.

International

He has played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut in senior team, in a friendly match against Kazakhstan.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 1 May 2016

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

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	0	0	25	11
	2014–15		6	0	0	0	2	0	8	1
	2015–16		26	17	1	1	-		27	18
	Total		49	25	6	4	2	0	61	30
Career total			49	25	6	4	2	0	61	30

International

As of match played 26 March 2016.

Lithuania national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2014	4	1
2015	6	1
2016	2	0
Total	12	2

International goals

Scores and results list Lithuania's score first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Source
1.	6 June 2014	PGE Arena Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland	Poland	1–0	1–2	Friendly
2.	8 September 2015	LFF Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania	San Marino	2–1	2-1	UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying

Honours

Club

AaB

• Danish Superliga (1): 2013–14
• Danish Cup (1): 2013–14

Individual

• Lithuanian Footballer of the Year (1): 2015
• Best player in the fall 2015, Superliga.
• Player of the Month, Superliga (2): April, 2014 and October, 2015.

External links

• Spalvis.html Lukas Spalvis at National-Football-Teams.com