Kinga Kozak (born 15 October 2002) is a Polish

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who plays for Glasgow City. Before moving to Scotland in 2022 she previously played for Polish club

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. She made her debut for

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in October 2020 at the age of 18.

Club career

Kozak was inspired to play football by watching her older

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Miłosz play. She came to notice playing for her primary school team UKS Biskupianka Stara Krobia, and was scouted by Medyk Konin. In 2017–18 she was the national top scorer for Medyk at under-16 level, but transferred to

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that summer because she wanted to play at first team level in the Ekstraliga. She was successful in three years at GKS Katowice, scoring 29 goals in 71 games across all competitions. In June 2021 she signed a one-year contract with the national champions

. With Czarni Sosnowiec she won the

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and played in the

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first round defeat by

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International career

Kozak made her senior international debut for

aged 18 years and eight days old in a 3–0

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win over

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, played behind closed doors in

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on 23 October 2020. She scored her first goal in Poland's 7–0 win over

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in the final game of the

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series on 6 September 2022.

International goals

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

Personal life

Kozak's older

Miłosz is also a professional footballer. In 2022 she appeared on the ''Turbokozak''

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show, screened on

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Honours

Czarni Sosnowiec *

: 2021–22

References

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* 2002 births Living people Polish women's footballers Poland women's international footballers Glasgow City F.C. players Expatriate women's footballers in Scotland Polish expatriate sportspeople in Scotland Scottish Women's Premier League players Women's association football forwards Footballers from Greater Poland Voivodeship People from Gostyń County Czarni Sosnowiec players {{Poland-women-footy-bio-stub