Luca Csíkos (born 25 February 2005) is a Hungarian

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er for

Váci NKSE Váci NKSE are a Hungarian women's handball club from Vác, that play in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I. Founded in 1949, the team have won promotion to the top-level championship first in 1998. Since then, they have been improved year by year and a ...

and the Hungarian national team.

Career

Club

Csíkos started her career at Hévízi SK. He also played in the teams of Marcali VSZSE and Vonyarcvashegy SE. In the summer of 2018, he joined the National Handball Academy (

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) team. From 2020, in addition to the youth championship, he also played a role in the adult team in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B. At the end of the year, they won a bronze medal, and a year later they became silver medalists and were promoted to the

Nemzeti Bajnokság I The Nemzeti Bajnokság (, ), also known as NB I or Fizz Liga after its title sponsor, OTP Bank's webshop subsidiary, is a professional association football league in Hungary and the highest level of the Hungarian football league system. Twelve ...

. In 2022/23, her first top-flight season, she scored 96 goals in 22 games. In the summer of 2023, she transferred to the

team, ranked sixth in the league and starting in the

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. In her first season in

, she scored 106 goals in the

, and also scored 37 goals in the

. In the 2024/25 season, she scored 25 goals in 4 matches in the

National team

In August 2021, Luca scored 2 goals in the 25–19 final win over Germany at the Youth European Championship. In August 2022, she won a bronze medal at the Youth World Championships. In July 2023, at the Junior European Championship held in

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, she scored 8 goals in the final against the Danish national team, helping the national team to its third consecutive Junior European Championship title. In June 2024, she won a silver medal with the national team at the Junior World Championship held in

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, after the

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lost to the France women's national junior handball team 29-26 in the final. She made her debut for the Hungarian women's adult national team in

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in November 2024 in a warm-up match against the Ukrainian national team, in which she scored five goals. She also participated in the

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, where the Hungarian team finished 3th (4 matches / 5 goals).

Honours

National team

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: ** :

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* Junior European Championship: ** : 2023 * Youth European Championship: ** : 2021 * Junior World Championship: ** :

* Youth World Championships: ** : 2022

Club

;NEKA * Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B ** : 2022 ** : 2021

References

External links

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* * 2005 births Living people Hungarian female handball players 21st-century Hungarian sportswomen {{Hungary squad 2024 European Women's Handball Championship