Ivans Lukjanovs

Ivans Lukjanovs (born 24 January 1987) is a Latvian football winger who plays for FK RFS and Latvia national football team.

Club Career

Lukjanovs was born in Daugavpils, Latvian SSR, Soviet Union. As a youth player he played for JFC Skonto, making his first first-team appearance in 2006. That season he played 2 matches, scoring no goals. In November 2006 Lukjanovs and his team-mate Olegs Laizans went on a training camp together with the Italian giants Lazio, but didn't stay with the club. His further career led through loans to another club from Riga Olimps/RFS and two Lithuanian clubs. He played 10 matches and scored 2 goals for Olimps/RFS in 2008. During his time in Lithuania Lukjanovs played 12 matches, scoring 1 goal for FK Siauliai and 12 matches, scoring 5 goals for FK Suduva. In 2009 Lukjanovs returned to the Latvian Higher League side Skonto FC and managed to score 14 goals in 15 matches.

After a few months he and his team-mate Sergejs Kozans joined the Polish Ekstraklasa club Lechia Gdansk. In his first season with Lechia Lukjanovs played 29 matches, scoring 2 goals. In his second season there he had the same statistics – 2 goals in 29 games. The third season saw Lukjanovs playing less – 1 goal in 19 league matches. After the season Lukjanovs was released from the club alongside Sergejs Kozans.

On 18 August 2012, Lukjanovs moved to the Ukrainian Premier League club Metalurh Zaporizhya. Despite playing a great debut match at the club, Lukjanovs was rarely used throughout the season. He played only 4 games for the team and, furthermore, was sharply criticized by the manager Vitaliy Kvartsyanyi for being too afraid of playing aggressively and not having a character. In December 2012 Lukjanovs revealed that he would not stay at the club anymore.

On 28 February 2013, he signed a contract with the Russian National Football League club Volgar Astrakhan.

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