Luka Lochoshvili

Luka Lochoshvili (Georgian: ლუკა ლოჩოშვილი; born 29 May 1998) is a Georgian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Serie A club Cremonese and the Georgian national team.

Luka Lochoshvili
Lochoshvili playing for Wolfsberger AC in 2022
Personal information
Date of birth (1998-05-29) 29 May 1998
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 22 (1)
International career‡
2014–2015 Georgia U17 6 (0)
2015–2016 Georgia U19 7 (0)
2017–2020 Georgia U21 15 (2)
2021– Georgia 5 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 03:41, 7 May 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 March 2022

Club career

Luka 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]

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 Zilina.[3]

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

In early 2020 Dinamo Kyiv and Luka Lochoshvili terminated the existing contract. The player spent next several months at Dinamo Tbilisi and moved to 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 in 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] On 10 August 2022, Lochoshvili signed with Cremonese in Italy.[11] He made a first appearance for his new club against A.S.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]

Career statistics
As of match played 7 May 2023

Source

Season Team League National Cup European Cup Other Total
Name App Goals Name App Goals Name App Goals Name App Goals App Goals
2013–14Dinamo Tbilisi IIPL10---------10
2016Dinamo TbilisiUL50DKC10------60
2017EL171DKC10------181
2018EL210DKC20UEL2[15]0---250
2018–19Žilina SL30---------30
2018–19Žilina II2L51---------51
2019–202L50---------50
Total Žilina II10100----101
2020Dinamo TbilisiEL100DKC--UCL1[15]0Super Cup10120
Total Dinamo Tbilisi532403010612
2020–21Wolfsberger ACABL21+1[16]1AC40UEL80---341
2021–22ABL291AC40------331
2022–23ABL20AC10UCL1[15]0---40
Total Wolfsberger AC5329090--712
2022–23CremoneseSerie A221CI20------241
Career total1425150120101705

Honours

Team

Individual

References
  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. Qualification round
  16. Play-off
  17. "საქართველოს ფეხბურთის ფედერაციის ყოველწლიური დაჯილდოება GFF Awards". gff.ge (in Georgian), 29 December 2020.
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