Arvydas Novikovas

Arvydas Novikovas
in a game scene in the jersey of Heart of Midlothian (2010)
Personnel
birthday	18th December 1990
place of birth	Vilnius ,  Lithuania
size	179 cm
position	Storm
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007	Interas-AE Visaginas	12 (0)
2008-2013	Heart of Midlothian	66 (6)
2011	→  FC St. Johnstone  (loan)	6 (0)
2013-2015	FC Erzgebirge Aue	41 (5)
2015-2017	VfL Bochum	20 (0)
2017-2019	Jagiellonia Białystok	80 (21)
2019–	Legia Warsaw	13 (4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	Lithuania U-17
	Lithuania U-19
2006-2010	Lithuania U-21	16 (2)
2010–	Lithuania	56 (8)
1 Only league games are given. Status: February 15, 2020 2 As of November 17, 2019

Arvydas Novikovas (born December 18, 1990 in Vilnius ) is a Lithuanian football player who has been under contract with the Polish first division club Legia Warsaw since July 2019 .

Career

societies

Arvydas Novikovas began his professional career - not yet 17 years old - with the second division team Interas-AE Visaginas from the municipality of the same name in the Utena district in northeast Lithuania .

In 2008 the Scottish first division club Heart of Midlothian signed him . He made his debut for the team from Edinburgh in the last qualifying game for the championship in 2009 in the goalless draw in the away game against Celtic Glasgow , when he came on in the 51st minute for David Templeton . In the summer of 2010, the 19-year-old young striker extended his contract for another three years. During this time he worked for the 2010/11 season at the league rivals FC St. Johnstone .

For the 2013/14 season Novikovas moved to the second division club FC Erzgebirge Aue on a free transfer , with whom he received a contract valid until June 30, 2016. After the descent into the third league , he transferred to season 2015/16 for VfL Bochum , with whom he signed a to 30 June 2017 current contract.

National team

Novikovas made his debut in the U-21 national team of Lithuania at the age of 16. He made his debut for the senior national team on May 25, 2010, which was defeated 4-0 to Ukraine in Kharkiv .

Web links

• Arvydas Novikovas in the database of weltfussball.de
• Arvydas Novikovas in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Player profile ( memento from September 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) at heartsfc.co.uk (English)
• Arvydas Novikovas in the national-football-teams.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Celtic 0-0 Hearts , BBC Sport. May 24, 2009.  (English)
2. ↑ Hot prospect Arvydas Novikovas pens new deal with Hearts , dailyrecord.co.uk. May 6, 2010.  (English)
3. ↑ Fifth new addition perfect - FC Erzgebirge reinforces attack , fc-erzgebirge.de. June 21th 2013. 
4. ↑ VfL obliges Novikovas ( Memento from July 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
5. ↑ Hearts youngster Novikovas to be fast-tracked to full Lithuania squad , scotsman.com. May 28, 2009.  (English)