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Tomasz Karol Kędziora (Polish pronunciation: [ˈtɔmaʂ ˈkarɔl kɛnˈd͡ʑɔra]; born 11 June 1994) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Ukrainian Premier League club Dynamo Kyiv and the Poland national team.

Tomasz Kędziora

Kędziora with Dynamo Kyiv in 2018
Personal information
Full name	Tomasz Karol Kędziora[1]
Date of birth	(1994-06-11) 11 June 1994 (age 28)
Place of birth	Sulechów, Poland
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)[2]
Position(s)	Centre-back, full-back
Club information
Current team	Dynamo Kyiv
Number	94
Youth career
0000–2010	UKP Zielona Góra
2010–2012	Lech Poznań
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2017	Lech Poznań	117	(5)
2017–	Dynamo Kyiv	116	(5)
2022	→ Lech Poznań (loan)	6	(1)
National team‡
2009–2011	Poland U17	7	(0)
2011–2012	Poland U18	5	(1)
2012–2013	Poland U19	12	(4)
2014–2015	Poland U20	4	(0)
2015–2017	Poland U21	17	(0)
2017–	Poland	26	(1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 30 June 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 March 2022

Club career

Early career

At the age of four, Tomasz Karol[3] Kędziora started attending the youth academy of the UKP Zielona Góra. He was being trained at the time by his father, Mirosław.[4] In 2000 he officially started training with players his age.

In July 2010, he took part as an UKP Zielona Góra player in the final tournament of the Polish Junior Championships. The team won the bronze medal, coached by Tomasz Kędziora's father.[5]

Lech Poznań

Before the start of the 2010–11 season, Kędziora signed for reigning Polish champions Lech Poznań.[6] Initially he was a player of the Junior Ekstraklasa Lech team, where in the 2010–11 season he played 20 matches and scored two goals. In the fall of the 2011–12 season, he was placed in the first team,[7] but continued to perform only in the Junior Ekstraklasa, having 20 appearances and scoring seven goals (including five from penalties).

On 20 September 2011, Kędziora was included in Lech's squad for the 1/16 Polish Cup final against Chrobry Głogów,[8] but he did not play. On 21 June 2012, Kędziora signed a new three-year contract with the Poznań club, which went until 30 June 2015.[9]

Kędziora made his debut for the first team on 12 July 2012 in a 1–1 draw of the first qualifying round of the Europa League with Kazakhstan club FC Zhetysu, entering at the 90th minute for Bartosz Ślusarski.[10][11]

On 27 October 2012, Kędziora made his debut in the Ekstraklasa in the 2–0 defeat against Jagiellonia Białystok in the 9th round, replacing Hubert Wołąkiewicz in the 62nd minute.[12] On 20 September 2013, during the 8th round of the Ekstraklasa with Pogoń Szczecin, he suffered an injury to his thigh muscle[13][14] and returned on 13 December for the 21st match against Zawisza Bydgoszcz.[15] On 5 May 2014, he scored his first goal in the Polish top-flight in a 2–1 win in the 32nd round against Zawisza Bydgoszcz.[16]

Kędziora signed a new, three-year contract with the Poznań club on 1 November 2015, effective from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2018.[17] In the 2014–15 season, he won the Polish title with the team, appearing in 35 matches, scoring three goals and having six assists.[18][19]

Dynamo Kyiv

On 11 July 2017, Kędziora signed a 4-year contract with Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv.[20]

Return to Lech Poznań

On 7 March 2022, FIFA announced that, due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, all the contracts of foreign players in Ukraine are suspended until 30 June 2022 and they are allowed to sign with clubs outside Ukraine until 30 June 2022, and the transfer window is reopened for such players to sign and get registered for the new club until 7 April 2022.[21] On 17 March 2022, Kędziora returned to Lech Poznań until the end of the season under that condition.[22]

International career

Kędziora got his first call up to the senior Poland squad for friendlies against Georgia and Greece in June 2015.[23] But he made his debut against Mexico on 13 November 2017.

In May 2018 he was named in Poland’s preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.[24] However, he did not make the final 23.[25]

Career statistics

Club

As of 22 May 2022[26]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	Division	League		Cup		Continental		Other		Total
			Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Lech Poznań	2012–13	Ekstraklasa	8	0	0	0	1[lower-alpha 1]	0	—		9	0
	2013–14		14	1	0	0	2[lower-alpha 1]	1	—		16	2
	2014–15		35	3	5	0	4[lower-alpha 1]	1	—		44	4
	2015–16		24	0	4	0	9[lower-alpha 2]	1	1[lower-alpha 3]	1	38	2
	2016–17		36	1	7	1	—		1[lower-alpha 3]	0	44	2
	Total		117	5	16	1	16	3	2	1	151	10
Dynamo Kyiv	2017–18	Ukrainian Premier League	22	1	4	0	10[lower-alpha 1]	0	–		36	1
	2018–19		27	2	1	0	14[lower-alpha 4]	2	1[lower-alpha 5]	0	43	4
	2019–20		27	0	3	0	8[lower-alpha 6]	0	1[lower-alpha 5]	0	39	0
	2020–21		25	1	1	0	13[lower-alpha 7]	0	1[lower-alpha 5]	0	40	1
	2021–22		15	1	1	0	5[lower-alpha 8]	0	1[lower-alpha 5]	0	22	1
	Total		116	5	10	0	50	2	4	0	180	7
Lech Poznań (loan)	2021–22	Ekstraklasa	6	1	1	0	—		—		7	1
Career total			239	11	27	1	66	5	6	1	338	18

International

As of match played 15 November 2021[27]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Poland	2017	1	0
	2018	6	0
	2019	9	0
	2020	5	0
	2021	5	1
Total		26	1

Scores and results list Poland's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Kędziora goal.

List of international goals scored by Tomasz Kędziora

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	9 October 2021	Stadion Narodowy, Warszawa, Poland	San Marino	3–0	5–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Lech Poznań

• Ekstraklasa: 2014–15, 2021–22
• Polish Super Cup: 2015, 2016

Dynamo Kyiv

• Ukrainian Premier League: 2020–21
• Ukrainian Cup: 2019–20, 2020–21
• Ukrainian Super Cup: 2018, 2019, 2020[28]

References

External links

• Tomasz Kędziora at 90minut.pl (in Polish)

На других языках

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[de] Tomasz Kędziora

Tomasz Kędziora (* 11. Juni 1994 in Sulechów) ist ein polnischer Fußballspieler.[1]

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- [en] Tomasz Kędziora

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[es] Tomasz Kędziora

Tomasz Kędziora (Sulechów, 11 de junio de 1994) es un futbolista polaco que juega en la demarcación de defensa para el Lech Poznań de la Ekstraklasa.[1]

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[fr] Tomasz Kędziora

Tomasz Kędziora est un footballeur polonais né le 11 juin 1994 à Sulechów. Il évolue au poste de défenseur latéral droit à Lech Poznań, prêté par le Dynamo Kiev.

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[it] Tomasz Kędziora

Tomasz Kędziora (Sulechów, 11 giugno 1994) è un calciatore polacco, difensore della Dinamo Kiev e della nazionale polacca.

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[ru] Кендзёра, Томаш

То́маш Кендзёра (польск. Tomasz Kędziora; родился 11 июня 1994 года в Сулехуве, Польша) — польский футболист, защитник украинского клуба «Динамо» (Киев) и сборной Польши.

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