Andrejs Cigaņiks (born 12 April 1997) is a Latvian professional footballer who plays as a left winger or wing-back for Swiss club

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and the Latvia national team.

Club career

Born in

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, Cigaņiks started playing football in the youth teams of Skonto FC, before signing for German club

Bayer 04 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, t ...

in 2013. In June 2016 he was loaned to FC Viktoria Köln, before playing for FC Schalke 04 II. Cigaņiks transferred to Dutch club SC Cambuur in July 2018. He returned to Latvia in 2019 and spent the second half of the season at Premier League club RFS. In January 2020, he signed a two-and-a-half-year contract with Ukrainian Premier League club Zorya Luhansk. In July 2021 he signed for Slovakian club DAC Dunajská Streda. On 2 January 2023, Cigaņiks joined Polish Ekstraklasa side Widzew Łódź on a deal until June 2024, with an option to extend for another year. On 10 February 2024, he penned a new contract, keeping him with the club until mid-2026. On 5 July 2024,

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club

announced the signing of Cigaņiks on a three-year contract, for an undisclosed fee.

International career

After playing for the Latvian youth teams, he made his senior international debut for

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on 13 October 2018, appearing as a substitute in the 67th minute, against Kazakhstan in the UEFA Nations League match. He scored his first goal for the national team on 1 September 2021 against

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in the

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Career statistics

International

International goals

:''Scores and results list Latvia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ciganiks goal.''

Personal life

Cigaņiks's father is from Ukraine and is a cousin of Ukrainian sports journalist and commentator Ihor Tsyhanyk.

References

1997 births Living people Latvian people of Ukrainian descent Latvian men's footballers Latvia men's youth international footballers Latvia men's under-21 international footballers Latvia men's international footballers Skonto FC players Bayer 04 Leverkusen players FC Viktoria Köln players FC Schalke 04 II players SC Cambuur players FK RFS players FC Zorya Luhansk players FC DAC 1904 Dunajská Streda players Widzew Łódź players FC Luzern players Regionalliga players Eerste Divisie players Latvian Higher League players Ukrainian Premier League players Slovak First Football League players Ekstraklasa players Men's association football midfielders Latvian expatriate men's footballers Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Latvian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Slovakia Expatriate men's footballers in Slovakia Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Poland Expatriate men's footballers in Poland Latvian expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland {{Latvia-footy-bio-stub