Aleksandar Lutovac

Aleksandar Lutovac
Lutovac in 2023
Personal information
Date of birth (1997-06-28) 28 June 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Belgrade, FR Yugoslavia
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Winger
Right-back
Team information
Current team
 IMT
Number 11
Youth career
Petlić Beograd[1]
Red Star Belgrade[1]
Petlić Beograd[1]
Rad[1]
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015–2019 Rad 106 (22)
2019–2023 Partizan 60 (2)
2023 Ried 16 (0)
2024– IMT 30 (5)
International career‡
2014–2016 Serbia U19[a] 8 (0)
2017–2019 Serbia U21[a] 6 (4)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16 November 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 15 September 2019

Aleksandar Lutovac (Serbian Cyrillic: Александар Лутовац; born 28 June 1997) is a Serbian professional footballer who plays as a winger.

Club career

Rad

With the Rad under-19 team, Lutovac won the national championship in the 2014–15 season, earning them a spot in the 2015–16 UEFA Youth League. He was subsequently promoted to the first-team squad, scoring the winning goal in a 2–1 away win over Vojvodina on his Serbian SuperLiga debut on 19 September 2015.[2] Two months later, Lutovac signed his first professional contract with the club on a four-year deal. He netted his first brace in a 3–1 away victory at Mladost Lučani on 17 April 2016. In his first senior season with Rad, Lutovac made 23 league appearances and scored six goals. He also played regularly during the following 2016–17 season, netting four goals in 31 league appearances. On 3 March 2018, Lutovac scored his first hat-trick in a 5–0 home win over Borac Čačak.[3] He was the team's top scorer in the 2017–18 Serbian SuperLiga with 11 goals.

Partizan

In late June 2019, Lutovac officially joined Partizan on a free transfer and was given the number 97 shirt.[4] He made his competitive debut for the club in a 4–0 home league win over Mačva Šabac, playing the full 90 minutes.

Lutovac scored his first goal for Partizan on 9 October 2019, in a 0-6 win against Vodojaža in the Serbian Cup round of 32.[5] Lutovac played a total of 89 games for Partizan scored three goals and recorded eight assists.

SV Ried

On 31 August 2023, Lutovac's contact with SV Ried was terminated by mutual consent.[6]

International career

After representing Serbia at under-19 level, Lutovac became the under-21 team's second-highest scorer in their successful 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualifiers with four goals in five games. He was included in Goran Đorović's final 23-man squad for the main tournament in June 2019.[7]

Statistics

As of 8 February 2023[8]
Club Season League Cup Continental Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Rad 2015–16 23 6 1 0 — 24 7
2016–17 31 4 1 0 — 32 4
2017–18 34 11 0 0 — 34 11
2018–19 18 1 0 0 — 18 1
Total 106 22 2 0 — 108 22
Partizan 2019–20 8 0 1 1 3 0 12 1
2020–21 18 0 3 0 1 0 22 0
2021–22 24 1 5 0 9 0 38 1
2022–23 10 1 1 0 6 0 17 1
Total 60 2 10 1 19 0 89 3
Career total 166 23 12 1 19 0 197 25

Notes

  1. ^ a b Only official UEFA matches included

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Kako je Zvezda izgubila bisera sa Banjice i zašto se neće vratiti na Marakanu, niti preći u Partizan: Upoznajte jednog od najtalentovanijih napadača Srbije (VIDEO)" (in Serbian). telegraf.rs. 30 November 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Vošo, i tvoje je prošlo: Lutovac ućutkao Novosađane (VIDEO)" (in Serbian). mozzartsport.com. 19 September 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Pucale petarde po Beogradu, Kosan ošamario i Vošu" (in Serbian). mozzartsport.com. 3 March 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
  4. ^ "Lutovac zvanično u Partizanu, nosiće dres sa brojem 97" (in Serbian). rts.rs. 25 June 2019. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  5. ^ "VODOJAŽA - PARTIZAN 0:6(0:1)". FK PARTIZAN (in Serbian). Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  6. ^ "MICHAEL MARTIN VERLÄSST DIE SV GUNTAMATIC RIED" [MICHAEL MARTIN IS LEAVING SV GUNTAMATIC RIED] (in German). SV Ried. 31 August 2023. Retrieved 14 December 2023.
  7. ^ "Luka Jović predvodi Srbiju na Evropskom prvenstvu" (in Serbian). b92.net. 1 June 2019. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
  8. ^ Aleksandar Lutovac at Soccerway