Mateusz Klich

Mateusz Klich
Mateusz Klich (2015)
Personnel
birthday	June 13, 1990
place of birth	Tarnow ,  Poland
size	183 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
1999-2003	Tarnovia Tarnów
2003-2008	KS Cracovia
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2010	KS Cracovia ME	27 (3)
2008-2011	KS Cracovia	56 (5)
2011-2013	VfL Wolfsburg	0 (0)
2011–2012	VfL Wolfsburg II	12 (1)
2013-2014	PEC Zwolle	43 (6)
2014-2015	VfL Wolfsburg	0 (0)
2014	VfL Wolfsburg II	6 (3)
2015-2016	1. FC Kaiserslautern	21 (4)
2015-2016	1. FC Kaiserslautern II	4 (0)
2016-2017	FC Twente Enschede	30 (6)
2017–	Leeds United	50 (10)
2018	→  FC Utrecht  (loan)	16 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2008	Poland U18	5 (0)
2009	Poland U-19	4 (1)
2010	Poland U-20	2 (0)
2010-2011	Poland U-21	9 (2)
2011–	Poland	17 (2)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 2, 2019

Mateusz Klich (born June 13, 1990 in Tarnów , Poland ) is a Polish football player . The 1.83 m tall attacking midfielder has been under contract with Leeds United since 2017 .

Career

In the club

Mateusz Klich was born in Tarnów and grew up there. From 1999 he played in the youth of the local club Tarnovia Tarnów , before he joined the junior team of KS Cracovia from nearby Kraków in 2003 . In November 2008, at the age of 18, he made his debut in the club's professional team in the Ekstraklasa , the first Polish league. In the following season he fought for a regular place in the playmaker position and contributed with four goals and nine assists his part to keep the Krakow relegated. In the summer of 2011 he moved for the rumored transfer fee of around 1.5 million euros to the German Bundesliga club VfL Wolfsburg under Felix Magath , with whom he signed a three-year contract. With the "Wolves" he trained several times with the professional team, but was only used in the second team in the regional league .

On January 31, 2013, Klich was loaned to the Dutch first division club PEC Zwolle until the end of the season and was firmly committed to the 2013/14 season. He was given a two-year contract until June 30, 2015.

For the 2014/15 season , Klich returned to Wolfsburg . Even in his second time with the Wolves, he did not appear in the Bundesliga, but only appeared six times for the U-23s in the Regionalliga Nord , in which he scored three goals.

On January 9, 2015, Klich moved to the 2nd Bundesliga for 1. FC Kaiserslautern . He signed a contract at Betzenberg until June 30, 2018. For the Red Devils, he played five league games in the second half of the 2014/15 season and scored one goal. In the 2015/16 season, he made 16 league games and three goals. For the 2016/17 season , Mateusz Klich moved to the Dutch Eredivisie for FC Twente Enschede , where he signed for three years. Here he was a regular in midfield. After only one season at FC Twente Enschede, Mateusz Klich signed a contract with English second division team Leeds United in the summer of 2017 until the end of the 2019/20 season. After starting difficulties, he was awarded the second half of the season to FC Utrecht . Klich has been a regular since his return and was able to reach the play-offs for promotion to the Premier League with Leeds in 2019 .

In the national team

Klich has run through various youth national teams in Poland. He made his debut in the senior national team of Poland under Franciszek Smuda in June 2011 when he came on for Robert Lewandowski in a 2-1 win in a friendly against Argentina in the final stages of the game .

His father Wojciech Klich was also a professional footballer and played among others for FKS Stal Mielec , Siarka Tarnobrzeg and KSZO Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski in the Polish Ekstraklasa .

successes

• Dutch Cup Winner : 2013/14

Web links

• Mateusz Klich in the database of weltfussball.de
• Mateusz Klich in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Mateusz Klich in the 90minut.pl database (Polish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ VfL Wolfsburg press service: Reinforcement: Mateusz Klich signed until 2014 , June 16, 2011
2. ↑ According to Zwolle , January 31, 2013
3. ↑ PEC Zwolle: PEC Zwolle neemt Mateusz Klich definitely over ( memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 25, 2013. 
4. ^ VfL Wolfsburg: Back at VfL
5. ↑ 1. FC Kaiserslautern: Mateusz Klich becomes a red devil , January 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2015.
6. ↑ BBC: Mateusz Klich: Leeds sign FC Twente midfielder for undisclosed fee , June 23, 2017, accessed on June 23, 2017.