Adrian Stanilewicz (born 22 February 2000) is a professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...

who plays as a

midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

for

Fortuna Köln Fortuna ( la, Fortūna, equivalent to the Greek goddess Tyche) is the goddess of fortune and the personification of luck in Roman religion who, largely thanks to the Late Antique author Boethius, remained popular through the Middle Ages until at ...

. Initially, he represented Germany internationally on youth level before switching to representing Poland.

Club career

Stanilewicz made his professional debut for

Bayer Leverkusen Bayer 04 Leverkusen Fußball GmbH, also known as Bayer 04 Leverkusen (), Bayer Leverkusen, or simply Leverkusen, is a professional football club based in Leverkusen in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. The club competes in the Bundesliga, th ...

in the

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, coming on as a substitute in the 88th minute for Lucas Alario in the 5–1 away win against Cypriot club

AEK Larnaca AEK Larnaca FC ( el, AEK; for short Αθλητική Έvωση Κίτιον Λάρνακας , translit=''Athletiki Enosi Kition Larnakas'', "Athletic Union Kition of Larnaca") is a Cypriot professional football club based in Larnaca. The club ...

. On 7 August 2020, Stanilewicz agreed to sign with

SV Darmstadt 98 Sportverein Darmstadt 1898 e.V., commonly known as Darmstadt 98 (), is a German football club based in Darmstadt, Hesse. The club was founded on 22 May 1898 as FC Olympia Darmstadt. Early in 1919, the association was briefly known as ''Rasen-Spo ...

on a free transfer. He joined the team following Bayer Leverkusen's

campaign was completed. On 9 September 2022, he joined

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side

, reuniting with his Bayer youth coach

Markus von Ahlen Markus von Ahlen (born 1 January 1971) is a German football manager and a former player. He manages the Under-19 squad of Fortuna Köln. Coaching career von Ahlen started his coaching career in the youth section at Bayer Leverkusen in 2007 befo ...

Personal life

Stanilewicz was born in Germany and is of Polish descent. He was previously a youth international for Germany, before switching to represent the Poland U20s. He started all four games played by Poland U20 at the

2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 22nd edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 ...

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* * 2000 births Living people People from Solingen Sportspeople from Düsseldorf (region) Polish footballers German footballers Association football midfielders Poland youth international footballers Germany youth international footballers German people of Polish descent 2. Bundesliga players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players SV Darmstadt 98 players SC Fortuna Köln players Footballers from North Rhine-Westphalia {{Poland-footy-midfielder-stub