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Lukáš Masopust
	Masopust with the Czech Republic in 2019
Personal information
Date of birth	12 February 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth	Božejov, Czech Republic
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Right winger, right-back
Team information
Current team	Slovan Liberec; (on loan from Slavia Prague)
Number	26
Youth career
2004–2012	Vysočina Jihlava
Senior career*
Years	Team
2012–2015	Vysočina Jihlava
2015–2018	Jablonec
2019–	Slavia Prague
2025–	→ Slovan Liberec (loan)
International career‡
2012–2013	Czech Republic U-20
2013–2015	Czech Republic U-21
2018–	Czech Republic
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 January 2025; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 30 March 2023

Lukáš Masopust (born 12 February 1993) is a Czech football player who currently plays as a right winger or right-back for Czech First League club Slovan Liberec on loan from Slavia Prague and the Czech Republic national team.^[2]

Club career

Early career

Masopust was born in the town of Božejov, near Pelhřimov.^[1] He began his football career there, before moving to Kamenice nad Lipou and then to Jihlava in 2004.^[1] In 2012, Jihlava manager František Komňacký promoted him to the senior team and he went on to make his debut for the club against Slavia Prague that year. The match ended in a 3–3, to which Masopust contributed two assists.^[1]

In December 2014, Masopust reached an agreement to join Jablonec on 1 January 2015, on a contract running until 1 July 2018. He made his debut for the club against 1. FC Slovácko on 20 February 2015, coming on as a 75th minute substitute for Nermin Crnkić.

Slavia Prague

On 18 December 2018, Slavia Prague announced the signing of Masopust from Jablonec on a three-and-a-half-year contract.^[1] On 22 May 2019, Masopust scored Slavia's second goal in their 2–0 defeat of Baník Ostrava in the 2019 Czech Cup Final.^[3]^[4] On 20 August 2019, Masopust scored in Slavia Prague's UEFA Champions League first leg play-off win against Romanian side CFR Cluj.^[5] Slavia would win the second leg as well to qualify for the group stage of Europe's premier knock-out competition for just the second time in their history.^[6]^[7]

Masopust started for Slavia in the final of the Czech Cup on 20 May 2021, but was replaced by 19-year-old teammate Abdallah Sima in the 60th minute.^[8] Sima would go on to score the only goal of the game against Viktoria Plzeň as Slavia won the league and cup double.^[8] In the final match of the league season on 29 May 2021, Slavia defeated Dynamo České Budějovice to clinch an undefeated record in the league. It was the first time a Czech club reached this milestone since rivals Sparta Prague did so in 2009–10.^[9]

International career

He debuted for the Czech senior squad on 26 March 2018 in a friendly match against China.^[10]^{[better source needed]}

On 25 May 2021, Masopust was included in the final 26-man squad for the postponed UEFA Euro 2020 tournament.^[11] In the final warm-up match before the tournament on 8 June, Masopust scored as the Czechs defeated Albania 3–1.^[12]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 9 November 2023^[13]

Club	Season	League			Czech Cup		Europe		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Vysočina Jihlava	2012–13	Czech First League	29	1	0	0	—		—		29	1
	2013–14		23	5	2	0	—		—		25	5
	2014–15		3	1	0	0	—		—		3	1
	Total		55	7	2	0	—		—		57	7
Jablonec	2014–15	Czech First League	11	1	4	0	—		—		15	1
	2015–16		26	5	6	0	3^[a]	0	—		35	5
	2016–17		19	0	1	0	—		—		20	0
	2017–18		25	4	6	2	—		—		31	6
	2018–19		13	4	1	0	3^[a]	0	—		17	4
	Total		94	14	18	2	6	0	—		118	16
Slavia Prague	2018–19	Czech First League	12	4	2	2	5^[a]	0	—		19	6
	2019–20		27	6	1	0	8^[b]	1	1^[c]	0	37	7
	2020–21		26	2	5	0	14^[d]	0	—		45	2
	2021–22		18	0	2	0	10^[e]	2	—		30	2
	2022–23		19	2	3	1	8^[f]	1	—		30	4
	2023–24		11	0	1	0	8^[a]	3	—		20	3
	Total		113	14	14	3	50	9	1	0	181	24
Career total			262	35	34	5	59	9	1	0	356	47

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Appearances in UEFA Europa League
^ Appearances in UEFA Champions League
^ Appearance in Czechoslovak Supercup
^ Two appearances in UEFA Champions League, twelve appearances in UEFA Europa League
^ Two appearances and one goal in UEFA Champions League, one appearance and one goal in UEFA Europa League, seven appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League
^ Appearances in UEFA Europa Conference League

International

Scores and results list the Czech Republic's goal tally first.^[14]

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	10 September 2019	Podgorica City Stadium, Podgorica, Montenegro	Montenegro	2–0	3–0	UEFA Euro 2020 qualification
2.	8 June 2021	Stadion Letná, Prague, Czech Republic	Albania	2–1	3–1	Friendly