Pavol Safranko

Pavol Safranko (born 16 November 1994) is a Slovak professional footballer who plays as a forward for Mamelodi Sundowns and the Slovakia national football team.

Club Career

Tatran Presov

Born in Stropkov, eastern Slovakia, Safranko began his football career in the local club Tesla Stropkov, whose senior side only plays in lower regional divisions of Slovak football league system. He later transferred to Slovakia's oldest club, and the biggest one in Presov Region, Tatran Presov, where he spent two years in the youth teams. After graduation from the academy, he made a competitive debut for Tatran in a II. liga fixture against Spartak Trnava B, in a 7–0 victory, in the first round on 20 July 2013. He came on in the 82nd minute as a substitute for Peter Nworah. Overall, in his first season in senior football, he made 18 appearances, but made it to the starting line-up only once, again against Spartak Trnava B, on 6 October 2013.

ZP Sport Podbrezova

In the next one and a half season he spent in Presov, Safranko played 38 games and scored 20 goals. These good performances got him transferred to ZP Sport Podbrezova, who was a top division club, despite being a village of just over 4,000 people. Safranko made a Fortuna liga debut on 27 February 2016, in a 1–0 home win over Senica. Unlike his premier season at Tatran, Safranko immediately became a starting line-up player, although he only scored a single goal against Zemplin Michalovce (2–0 win) on 2 April 2016. In the autumn period of the 2016–17 Fortuna liga he however scored 4 in 18 games, attracting the attention of an ambitious club from the upper half of the table DAC Dunajska Streda, to which he transferred in January 2017.

DAC 1904 Dunajska Streda

After he only spent roughly half a year in DAC, but managed to score 6 goals in 17 competitive games, Safranko was transferred to his first international club.

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