Stojan Lukić (born 28 December 1979) is a Swedish

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who play as a

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for

Allsvenskan Allsvenskan (; en, the All-Swedish, also known as Fotbollsallsvenskan, en, the Football All-Swedish) is a Swedish professional league for men's association football clubs. It was founded in 1924 and is the top tier of the Swedish football lea ...

club

Varbergs BoIS Varbergs BoIS FC is a Swedish football club located in Varberg, the main town of Varberg Municipality in Halland County. Background The club was formed at a meeting in the Varbergs Folkets Hus on 25 March 1925. The backbone of the new club was ...

Career

Lukić grew up in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

but relocated with his family to

Halmstad Halmstad () is a port, university, industrial and recreational city A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Socia ...

at the age of 15. There he started out at local lower division side IF Leikin before eventually signing with another Halmstad based club,

IS Halmia IS Halmia is a football club, located in Halmstad, Sweden. Background IS Halmia was founded on 16 June 16, 1907 and currently plays in Division 2 Västra Götaland. In early years, the club also played bandy. The first ever bandy game betwe ...

. After shorter stints with

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based clubs

Högaborgs BK Högaborgs BK is a Swedish football club from Helsingborg that was founded in 1927. They currently play in the Swedish fourth division ( Division 2). Background The club was founded in the spring 1927 by Sven Damberg and Lars Flodin and a group ...

and

Landskrona BoIS Landskrona Boll och Idrottsällskap ( en, Landskrona Ball and Sports Society, locally referred to as BoIS) is a Swedish professional football club located in Landskrona, Scania, which currently plays in Superettan, the second league tier of fo ...

Lukić joined third tier

Assyriska FF Assyriska Fotbollsföreningen, also known simply as Assyriska FF, is a Swedish football club based in Södertälje, Stockholm County. The club, formed in 1974 by Assyrian immigrants, has advanced through the league system and is currently playin ...

for the 2007 season. Even though he was the starting keeper and Assyriska won promotion Lukić decided to end his two-year contract prematurely as he was unable to settle in

Södertälje Södertälje ( , ) is a Urban areas in Sweden, city in Södermanland and Stockholm County, Sweden and seat of Södertälje Municipality. As of 2017, it has 72,704 inhabitants. Södertälje is located at Mälarens confluence in to the Baltic Sea ...

. He moved back home to Halmstad from where he was able to

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to nearby

Falkenberg Falkenberg is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Falkenberg Municipality, Halland County, Sweden, with 27,813 inhabitants in 2019 (out of a municipal total of about 45,000). It is located at the mouth of river Ätran (river), Ätra ...

, home to second tier

Superettan Superettan (; meaning the super first (division)) is an association football league and the second highest league in the league system of Swedish men's football. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with Al ...

club

Falkenbergs FF Falkenbergs Fotbollsförening, also known simply as Falkenbergs FF, Falkenberg or (especially locally) FFF, is a Swedish football club based in Falkenberg. Formed on 3 January 1928, the club plays in the second highest Swedish league, Superetta ...

. There he impressed right away by having the second best save percentage in the league that season. After five years with Falkenberg he finally got the chance to play at the highest Swedish level

when he signed for

Halmstads BK Halmstads Bollklubb, also known simply as Halmstad () or (especially locally) HBK or Bollklubben, is a Swedish Association football, football club located in Halmstad in the county of Halland. The club, formed 7 February 1914 and approved members ...

before the 2013 season started. On 4 January 2019 it was announced, that Lukić would continue at

Örgryte IS Örgryte Idrottssällskap, commonly referred to as Örgryte IS, Örgryte () or (especially locally) ÖIS or Öis, is a Swedish sports club based in Gothenburg. It consists of four departments, namely bowling, football, athletics and wrestling. H ...

as an assistant manager under manager Thomas Askebrand. However, Lukić would still continue to be registered as a player. Lukić left Örgryte at the end of 2019 and joined

in February 2020 on a one-year deal.

Personal life

Lukić was born in Stockholm to

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parents. His family moved to Halmstad when he was 15 years old.

References

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lukic, Stojan 1979 births Living people Association football goalkeepers Halmstads BK players Falkenbergs FF players Landskrona BoIS players Assyriska FF players Allsvenskan players Superettan players Swedish footballers IS Halmia players Örgryte IS players Högaborgs BK players Varbergs BoIS players Swedish people of Serbian descent Footballers from Stockholm