Adrian Dawid Benedyczak (born 24 November 2000) is a Polish professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

forward Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward. Forward may also refer to: People *Forward (surname) Sports * Forward (association football) * Forward (basketball), including: ** Point forward ** Power forward (basketball) ** Smal ...

for club

Parma Parma (; ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, Giuseppe Verdi, music, art, prosciutto (ham), Parmesan, cheese and surrounding countryside. With a population of 198,986 inhabitants as of 2025, ...

Youth career

Benedyczak started playing football at Gryf Kamień Pomorski before joining

Pogoń Szczecin Pogoń Szczecin Spółka Akcyjna, commonly referred to as Pogoń Szczecin (), is a Polish professional football club based in Szczecin, West Pomeranian Voivodeship, which plays in the Ekstraklasa, the top tier of the national football league s ...

in 2013.

Club career

Pogoń Szczecin and Chrobry Głogów

Benedyczak first played for the

reserve team In sports, a reserve team is a team composed of players who are under contract to a club but who do not regularly play in matches for the club's primary team. Reserve teams usually include players who are part of the larger first-team squad but ...

of Pogoń and made it to the first team in 2017. He was loaned out to the

I liga I liga (, ), currently named Betclic I liga due to its sponsorship by Betclic, is the men's second professional association football division of the Polish football league system, below the Ekstraklasa and above the II liga via promotion/rel ...

side

Chrobry Głogów Chrobry Głogów () is a Polish football club based in Głogów, Poland. It was founded in 1946. The team's official colors are blue, orange, black and green. Chrobry currently competes in I liga, the second tier of Polish league football. The cl ...

in 2019 for a season and the returned to Pogoń where he made a total of 40 league appearances and scored three goals.

Parma

On 27 June 2021, Benedyczak joined

Serie B The Serie B (), officially known as Serie BKT for sponsorship reasons, is the second-highest division in the Italian football league system after the Serie A. It has been operating for over ninety years since the 1929–30 season. It had b ...

side

on a four-year deal. He scored ten goals in 31 league appearances during Parma's title-winning 2023–24 season. On 29 May 2024, the club announced Benedyczak had extended his contract until June 2028. In 2024, he won promotion to

Serie A The Serie A (), officially known as Serie A Enilive in Italy and Serie A Made in Italy abroad for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Italy and the highest tier of the Italian football league system. Establish ...

with the team. In May 2025, Benedyczak recovered from an ankle injury, which ruled him out for almost four months playing a match.

International career

Youth teams

Benedyczak represented Poland at multiple youth levels, ranging from under-17s to under-21s. He was part of the roster for the

2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 22nd edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since its inception in 1977 a ...

, where he appeared in all four games played by the hosts, scoring once in a 5–0 group stage win against

Tahiti Tahiti (; Tahitian language, Tahitian , ; ) is the largest island of the Windward Islands (Society Islands), Windward group of the Society Islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France. It is located in the central part of t ...

Senior team

On 31 August 2023, he received his first senior team call-up for the

UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying The UEFA Euro 2024 qualifying tournament was a football competition that was played from March 2023 to March 2024 to determine the 23 UEFA member men's national teams that would join the automatically qualified host team Germany in the UEFA Eur ...

matches against

Faroe Islands The Faroe Islands ( ) (alt. the Faroes) are an archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean and an autonomous territory of the Danish Realm, Kingdom of Denmark. Located between Iceland, Norway, and the United Kingdom, the islands have a populat ...

and

Albania Albania ( ; or ), officially the Republic of Albania (), is a country in Southeast Europe. It is located in the Balkans, on the Adriatic Sea, Adriatic and Ionian Seas within the Mediterranean Sea, and shares land borders with Montenegro to ...

on 7 and 10 September 2023, but failed to make an appearance in either of them.

Career statistics

Honours

Parma *

: 2023–24

References

External links

* * 2000 births People from Kamień Pomorski Footballers from West Pomeranian Voivodeship Living people Polish men's footballers Poland men's youth international footballers Poland men's under-21 international footballers Men's association football forwards Pogoń Szczecin players Chrobry Głogów players Parma Calcio 1913 players Ekstraklasa players I liga players III liga players Serie A players Serie B players Polish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Polish expatriate sportspeople in Italy 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{poland-footy-forward-2000s-stub