Lukáš Kalvach (born 19 July 1995) is a Czech

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who plays as a

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for

Viktoria Plzeň Viktoria usually refers to Viktoria, a name which is the same as Victoria (name), but may also refer to: Places * FK Viktoria Stadion, stadium of Viktoria Žižkov * Viktoria-Luise-Platz, building in Berlin * Viktoriastadt, now known as Victoria ...

and the Czech Republic national team.

Club career

Kalvach began his career playing at youth level for hometown club

Sigma Olomouc SK Sigma Olomouc is a Czech football club from the city of Olomouc. The club currently plays in the Czech First League, the first tier of Czech football. The club played in the first tier league for 30 years between 1984 and 2014, winning the Czec ...

. He was assigned to the reserve squad in 2015, making 26 appearances and scoring twice during the

2015–16 Czech National Football League The 2015–16 Czech National Football League is the 23rd season of the Czech Republic's second tier football league. The season starts on 1 August 2015. Team changes The number of teams in the Czech National Football League decreased from 16 to ...

season. He spent the following season on loan at Táborsko, for whom he appeared 25 times. At the beginning of the 2017–18 season, he joined Sigma Olomouc's senior squad and broke into the first team, making a total of 30 appearances in that season and 37 in the

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, including in

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and

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matches. He scored his first senior goal on 20 September 2017, in an 8–0

win against Sokol Živanice. On 2 March 2019, he scored a brace in a 4–0 league win against

Dukla Prague Dukla Prague ( cz, Dukla Praha) was a Czech football club from the city of Prague. Established in 1948 as ATK Praha, the club won a total of 11 Czechoslovak league titles and eight Czechoslovak Cups, and in the 1966–67 season, reached the semi ...

. On 16 May 2019, Kalvach joined

on a three-year deal.

International career

Having represented various Czech youth teams, Kalvach received his first call-up to the senior team on 2 September 2019. On 14 October 2019, he debuted as a starter in a

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against

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which ended in a 2-3 loss for the Czechs.

Career statistics

Club

References

External links

Lukáš Kalvach
on Viktoria Plzeň's official website * * 1995 births Living people Footballers from Olomouc Czech men's footballers Czech Republic men's youth international footballers Czech Republic men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Czech First League players Czech National Football League players SK Sigma Olomouc players FC Silon Táborsko players FC Viktoria Plzeň players {{CzechRepublic-footy-midfielder-stub