{{short description|Lithuanian footballer (born 1994)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Lukas Spalvis | image = lukas-spalvis.jpg | image_size = | caption = Spalvis in 2017. | fullname = Lukas Spalvis | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1994|7|27|df=y}} | birth_place = Vilnius, Lithuania | height = 1.89 m | position = Forward | currentclub = | clubnumber = | youthyears1 = 2009–2011 | youthclubs1 = SV Weil 1910<ref name="tipsbladet.dk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.tipsbladet.dk/nyhed/superliga/spalvis-og-den-tyske-omvej-til-den-danske-top|title=Spalvis og den tyske omvej til den danske top|work=tipsbladet.dk|publisher=Tipsbladet ApS|date=19 August 2013|access-date=14 February 2016|language=da}}</ref> | youthyears2 = 2011–2012 | youthclubs2 = SC Freiburg<ref name="tipsbladet.dk" /> | youthyears3 = 2012–2013 | youthclubs3 = AaB | years1 = 2013–2016 | clubs1 = AaB | caps1 = 53 | goals1 = 26 | years2 = 2016–2018 | clubs2 = Sporting CP | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2017 | clubs3 = → Belenenses (loan) | caps3 = 0 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2017–2018 | clubs4 = → 1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan) | caps4 = 24 | goals4 = 5 | years5 = 2017–2018 | clubs5 = → 1. FC Kaiserslautern II (loan) | caps5 = 1 | goals5 = 2 | years6 = 2018–2021 | clubs6 = 1. FC Kaiserslautern | caps6 = 31 | goals6 = 8 | totalcaps = 109 | totalgoals = 41 | nationalyears1 = 2012–2013 | nationalteam1 = Lithuania U19 | nationalcaps1 = 3 | nationalgoals1 = 0 | nationalyears2 = 2014–2015 | nationalteam2 = Lithuania U21 | nationalcaps2 = 8 | nationalgoals2 = 4 | nationalyears3 = 2014–2017 | nationalteam3 = Lithuania | nationalcaps3 = 18 | nationalgoals3 = 2 | medaltemplates = | club-update = 12:15, 19 October 2021 (UTC) | nationalteam-update = 22:48, 1 August 2019 (UTC) }}
'''Lukas Spalvis''' (born 27 July 1994)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.aabsport.dk/spillergalleri/spiller/lukas-spalvis.aspx |title=Lukas Spalvis – AaB A/S |language=da |publisher=aabsport.dk |access-date=13 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213063708/http://www.aabsport.dk/spillergalleri/spiller/lukas-spalvis.aspx |archive-date=13 December 2013}}</ref> is a retired Lithuanian professional footballer who last played as forward for 1. FC Kaiserslautern.
==Early years== Lukas Spalvis was born in Lithuania. When he was six, he emigrated with his mother from Lithuania and settled in Germany in Grenzach-Wyhlen. While living in the Part of Wyhlen, he went to a German school.<ref name="tipsbladet.dk" />
==Club career==
===Youth=== Spalvis joined in 2010 the SV Weil 1910 from Weil am Rhein, the neighboring town of Grenzach-Wyhlen. In 2011, he joined the youth academy of SC Freiburg.
===AaB=== Spalvis joined the club as a youth player in 2012 and was promoted to the first team squad in the summer of 2013. He got his first match for AaB when he was in the line up in the DBU Pokalen game against Silkeborg IF on 29 August 2013. His first Danish Superliga appearance happened on 6 October 2013 when he was subbed in during the 74th minute against Viborg FF.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.superstats.dk/kampe/4361 |title=Superligakamp AaB-Viborg FF 3–1, 06.10.2013 – SuperStats |date=6 October 2013 |language=da |publisher=superstats.dk |access-date=13 November 2013}}</ref>
While playing for AaB, Spalvis earned the nickname "Zweimal" meaning "twice" in German. He earned this nickname because he, for every match in which he scored a goal, always scored a second goal in the game as well. This streak held for 5 matches, until scoring just one goal against OB on 24 August 2015.
In the first half of the 2015–16 Danish Superliga Season, he had impressively scored 14 goals in 17 league matches, leading to transfer rumors about Spalvis moving to Galatasaray<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sportas.lrytas.lt/futbolas/lukas-spalvis-atmete-dosnu-kinu-pasiulyma-vilioja-galatasaray.htm|title=Lukas Spalvis atmetė dosnų kinų pasiūlymą: vilioja "Galatasaray?|website=lrytas.lt|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> and Sporting Clube de Portugal.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tipsbladet.dk/nyhed/superliga/aab-i-dialog-med-sporting-lissabon-om-spalvis|title=AaB i dialog med Sporting Lissabon om Spalvis|website=tipsbladet.dk|date=21 January 2016 |access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref>
===Sporting CP=== On 8 February 2016, it was confirmed, that Spalvis will move to Sporting Clube de Portugal<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bold.dk/fodbold/nyheder/spalvis-skifter-til-sporting-til-sommer/|title=Spalvis skifter til Sporting til sommer|last=bold.dk|website=bold.dk|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> from 1 July 2016. He would therefore play in AaB to the end of the 2015–16 Danish Superliga-season.
Due to his many injuries, Spalvis didn't play any games for Sporting in the first half season, and the club loaned out the forward to Belenenses on 1 January 2017. But only 16 days later, they called Spalvis back from Belenenses and canceled the contract, because 'he wasn't fit enough' and 'they wasn't ready to take that risk'.<ref>[http://www.sporting.pt/pt/noticias/futebol/equipa-principal/2017-01-26/comunicado-sporting-clube-de-portugal-futebol-sad Comunicado sobre Lukas Spalvis]‚ sporting.pt, 26 January 2017</ref>
On 2 February 2017, Sporting announced that Spalvis would play the remainder of the year on loan for Norwegian club Rosenborg BK. Rosenborg said that Spalvis would transfer to them on loan if he passed his medical. Spalvis had suffered from a severe knee injury since his arrival at Sporting. On 14 February, Spalvis failed his medical and Rosenborg said that Spalvis was not ready for the club pending that Sporting would pay the players fees during his rehabilitation with them.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tv2.no/sport/8928545/|title=Ny RBK-spiss strøk på medisinsk sjekk|first=TV 2|last=AS|website=tv2.no|date=14 February 2017 |access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> On 27 February, Rosenborg announced that the transfer would not be completed as Rosenborg and Sporting could not come to a deal that satisfied the Norwegian club.
===1. FC Kaiserslautern=== Spalvis was loaned out again on 5 July 2017, joining 2. Bundesliga side 1. FC Kaiserslautern for the 2017–18 season.<ref>{{cite news|title=Fix: Spalvis landet beim 1. FC Kaiserslautern|url=https://www.kicker.de/fix_spalvis-landet-beim-1-fc-kaiserslautern-701051/artikel|access-date=6 July 2017|work=kicker Online|date=5 July 2017|language=de}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=FCK verpflichtet Lukas Spalvis|url=http://fck.de/de/1-fc-kaiserslautern/aktuell/news/news-details/news/detail/News/fck-verpflichtet-lukas-spalvis.html|publisher=1. FC Kaiserslautern|access-date=5 July 2017|language=de|date=5 July 2017}}</ref> On 8 May 2018, it was announced that he had joined 1. FC Kaiserslautern on a permanent deal.<ref>{{cite news|title=L. Spalvis tapo pilnaverčiu į trečią Vokietijos lygą krentančio klubo nariu|url=http://www.eurofootball.lt/naujienos/l-spalvis-tapo-pilnaverciu-i-trecia-vokietijos-lyga-krentancio-klubo-nariu/61058|publisher=eurofootball.lt|access-date=8 May 2018|language=lt|date=8 May 2018}}</ref>
On 25 August 2018, in a league match against Karlsruher SC, he sustained a cartilage injury to his knee. The injury was estimated to keep him out of action for a "long" time.<ref>{{cite web |title=Knorpelschaden! Lange Pause für Kaiserslauterns Angreifer Spalvis |url=https://www.kicker.de/knorpelschaden-lange-pause-fuer-spalvis-732399/artikel |website=kicker |access-date=19 October 2021 |language=de |date=23 September 2018}}</ref> After two years without team training he returned in April 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nach über zwei Jahren: 1. FC Kaiserslauterns Spalvis zurück im Training |url=https://www.kicker.de/nach-ueber-zwei-jahren-lauterns-spalvis-zurueck-im-training-803466/artikel |website=kicker |access-date=19 October 2021 |language=de |date=28 April 2021}}</ref>
He agreed the termination of his contract in October 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=Nach langer Leidenszeit: Lukas Spalvis verlässt den FCK |url=https://www.kicker.de/nach-langer-leidenszeit-spalvis-verlaesst-den-fck-875307/artikel |website=kicker |access-date=19 October 2021 |language=de |date=19 October 2021}}</ref>
==International career== Spalvis played several matches for youth national teams, including Lithuania U-19 and Lithuania U-21. In March 2014 he made his debut for the senior team, in a friendly match against Kazakhstan.
==Career statistics==
===Club=== {{updated|19 October 2021}}<ref>{{Soccerway|299054|accessdate=7 January 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Lukas Spalvis » Club matches|url=https://www.worldfootball.net/person/pe234165/lukas-spalvis/club-matches/|website=worldfootball.net|access-date=18 February 2018}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |+ Appearances and goals by club, season and competition |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|National Cup !colspan="2"|Continental !colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan="4"|AaB |2013–14 |rowspan="3"|Danish Superliga |17||8||5||3||colspan="2"|—||22||11 |- |2014–15 |6||0||colspan="2"|—||2||0||8||1 |- |2015–16 |30||18||3||1||colspan="2"|—||29||18 |- !colspan="2"|Total !53!!26!!6!!4!!2!!0!!61!!30 |- |Sporting CP |2016–17 |Primeira Liga |0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |1. FC Kaiserslautern (loan) |2017–18 |2. Bundesliga |24||5||1||1||0||0||25||6 |- |1. FC Kaiserslautern |2018–19 |3. Liga |5||1||1||1||0||0||6||2 |- !colspan="3"|Career total !67!!30!!7!!5!!2!!0!!76!!35 |}
===International=== {{updated|match played 2 August 2019}}<ref>{{NFT|54778}}</ref>
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+ Appearances and goals by national team and year |- !National team!!Year!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan="4"|Lithuania |2014||4||1 |- |2015||6||1 |- |2016||5||0 |- |2017||3||0 |- !colspan="2"|Total!!18!!2 |}
:''Scores and results list Lithuania's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Spalvis goal.''
{| class="wikitable sortable" |+ List of international goals scored by Lukas Spalvis |- !scope="col"|No. !scope="col"|Date !scope="col"|Venue !scope="col"|Opponent !scope="col"|Score !scope="col"|Result !scope="col"|Competition !scope="col" class="unsortable"|{{Abbr|Ref.|References}} |- | align="center"|1 || 6 June 2014 || PGE Arena Gdańsk, Gdańsk, Poland || {{fb|Poland}} || align="center"|1–0 || align="center"|1–2 || align="center"|Friendly ||align="center"|<ref name="Poland 2 Lithuania 1">{{cite web|title=Poland 2 Lithuania 1|url=http://www.espnfc.com/gamecast/statistics/id/392355/statistics.html|publisher=ESPN|access-date=7 June 2014}}</ref> |- |align="center"|2 |8 September 2015 |LFF Stadium, Vilnius, Lithuania |{{fb|San Marino}} |align="center"|2–1 |align="center"|2–1 |UEFA Euro 2016 qualifying |align="center"|<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/match/2014017--lithuania-vs-san-marino/|title=UEFA EURO 2016 - Matches - UEFA.com|last=UEFA.com|website=UEFA|access-date=6 June 2017}}</ref> |}
==Honours==
===Club=== '''AaB''' *Danish Superliga: 2013–14 *Danish Cup: 2013–14
===Individual=== *Lithuanian Footballer of the Year: 2015 *Best player in the fall 2015, Superliga. *Player of the Month, Superliga (2): April 2014 and October 2015. *UEFA Top Scorer
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Lithuanian Footballer of the Year}} {{Danish Superliga top scorers}}
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