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Kacper Szymon Kozłowski (born 16 October 2003) is a Polish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Turkish Süper Lig club Gaziantep.
.jpg) Kacper Kozłowski with Vitesse in 2022 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Kacper Szymon Kozłowski[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 16 October 2003 | ||
| Place of birth | Koszalin, Poland | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | ||
| Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Gaziantep | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2013–2016 | Bałtyk Koszalin | ||
| 2016–2018 | Pogoń Szczecin | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2020 | Pogoń Szczecin II | 25 | (5) |
| 2019–2022 | Pogoń Szczecin | 40 | (4) |
| 2022–2024 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 0 | (0) |
| 2022 | → Union SG (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | → Vitesse (loan) | 29 | (2) |
| 2023–2024 | → Vitesse (loan) | 30 | (3) |
| 2024– | Gaziantep | 11 | (3) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2017–2018 | Poland U15 | 8 | (5) |
| 2018–2019 | Poland U17 | 17 | (6) |
| 2020 | Poland U19 | 1 | (0) |
| 2021– | Poland U21 | 14 | (2) |
| 2021 | Poland | 6 | (0) |
|
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:23, 22 December 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20:55, 10 September 2024 (UTC) | |||
Kozłowski started his career with Pogoń Szczecin. In January 2022, he transferred to Premier League side Brighton & Hove Albion for a reported fee of £8,000,000, where he was immediately loaned to Brighton's sister club Union SG of Belgian First Division A for the rest of the season.[3][4]
In August 2022, Kozłowski joined Vitesse in the Netherlands on loan until the end of the 2022–23 season.[5]
On 18 July 2023, he rejoined Vitesse on another season-long loan spell.[6]
On 19 July 2024, Kozłowski left Brighton permanently to join Turkish club Gaziantep for an undisclosed fee.[7]
In June 2021, Kozłowski featured for Poland at UEFA Euro 2020 in a 1–1 draw with Spain, to become the youngest player of any nationality to play at a European Championship, aged 17 years and 246 days, breaking the previous record of Jude Bellingham, who himself had broken the same record only six days prior.[8] He kept the record until 2024, when Lamine Yamal debuted at the European Championship at 16 years and 338 days.[9]
Kozłowski was named in the provisional squad for Poland for the 2022 FIFA World Cup campaign,[10] but he was not included in the final 26-man squad.[11]
On 10 January 2020, Kozłowski suffered a traffic accident that almost ended his football career.[12] Whilst on his way to training for Pogon Szczecin with two of his teammates, their car was involved in a crash. Suffering the most severe injuries of the three, Kozłowski had broke his pelvis and broke three vertebrae in his lower back. Despite the near life-ending and career-threatening injury, he managed to recover and return to football. Speaking to Goal in 2021 about the accident, he said "I couldn't train for almost half a year. It was a difficult time, but I focus on the here and now, not the past" and stated that the experience might help him mentally in the future having gone through it.[13]
In the NXGN 50 in 2022, Kozłowski was ranked as the 19th best wonderkid in football.[14]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | League cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Pogoń Szczecin II | 2018–19[15] | III liga, group II | 10 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 1 | ||||
| 2019–20[16] | III liga, group II | 10 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 10 | 2 | |||||
| 2020–21[17] | III liga, group II | 5 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 25 | 5 | — | — | — | — | 25 | 5 | ||||||
| Pogoń Szczecin | 2018–19[15] | Ekstraklasa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2019–20[16] | Ekstraklasa | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 3 | 0 | ||||
| 2020–21[17] | Ekstraklasa | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 20 | 1 | ||||
| 2021–22[18] | Ekstraklasa | 16 | 3 | 1 | 0 | — | 2[b] | 0 | — | 19 | 3 | |||
| Total | 40 | 4 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | — | 43 | 4 | ||||
| Union SG (loan) | 2021–22 | Belgian First Division A | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||
| Vitesse (loan) | 2022–23[19] | Eredivisie | 29 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 30 | 2 | |||
| 2023–24[20] | Eredivisie | 30 | 3 | 3 | 0 | — | — | — | 33 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 59 | 5 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 63 | 5 | |||||
| Gaziantep | 2024–25 | Süper Lig | 11 | 3 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 11 | 3 | |||
| Career total | 144 | 17 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 151 | 17 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Poland | |||
| 2021 | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 6 | 0 | |
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