Darko Lukanović (born 1 June 1984) is a Swedish professional

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who plays as a

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Early life

Born in

Tuzla Tuzla (, , ) is the List of cities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, third-largest city of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the administrative center of Tuzla Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2013, it has a population of 110,979 inha ...

, SFR Yugoslavia, Lukanović immigrated to Sweden in his teens, playing youth football with both

Falkenbergs FF Falkenbergs Fotbollsförening, also known simply as Falkenbergs FF, Falkenberg or (especially locally) FFF, is a Swedish football club based in Falkenberg. Formed on 3 January 1928, the club plays in the second highest Swedish league, Superetta ...

and

Malmö FF Malmö Fotbollförening (), commonly known simply as Malmö FF or MFF, is a Swedish professional football club based in Malmö, Scania. They compete in the Allsvenskan, the top division of Swedish football, and play home matches at the Eleda S ...

. With the latter, with which he remained four-and-a-half years, he won the junior championship and the

2004 Allsvenskan Allsvenskan 2004, part of the 2004 Swedish football season, was the 80th Allsvenskan season played. The first match was played 3 April 2004 and the last match was played 30 October 2004. Malmö FF won the league ahead of runners-up Halmstads BK, ...

title.

Club career

Remaining in the country, Lukanović signed in January 2005 with

Assyriska Föreningen Assyriska Fotbollsföreningen, also known simply as Assyriska FF, is a Swedish football club based in Södertälje, Stockholm County. The club, formed in 1974 by Assyrian immigrants, has advanced through the league system and is currently play ...

, which were playing in the top flight for the first time ever. In August, he moved to

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with

Royal Antwerp F.C. Royal Antwerp Football Club (commonly referred to as Royal Antwerp or simply Antwerp) is a Belgian professional football club based in the city of Antwerp. They compete in the Belgian Pro League, the top flight of Belgian football. Founded in 1 ...

, where he played 84 games – including both friendly and competitive matches – during his four-year spell with the

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team. In the 2007–08 season, he spent time on loan at fellow league side K.V.K. Tienen. In the 2009 autumn, Lukanović joined

CF Atlético Ciudad Club de Fútbol Atlético Ciudad was a Spanish football club based in Murcia, in the autonomous community of Murcia. Founded in 2007 after the merger of Ciudad de Murcia and EMD Lorquí, it played its last season in ''Segunda División B'' (gro ...

in Spain. During his only season with the

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ns, he ranked second in goals scored to help them finish in seventh position in

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, but the club folded shortly after. In October 2011, after a brief spell back in his country, Lukanović agreed to a one-year contract with

Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern and Southeast Europe. It borders Ukraine to the north and east, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Bulgaria to the south, Moldova to ...

n club

CSU Voința Sibiu CSU Voința Sibiu was a Romanian football team from Sibiu, Sibiu County, founded in 1965 and dissolved in the autumn of 2012. In the summer of 2007, to continue the football tradition of Sibiu after the dissolution of Inter Sibiu in 2001 and FC ...

. He continued competing in the country in the following years, in both its

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and

Liga II The Liga 2, most commonly spelled as Liga II, is the second level of the Romanian football league system. The league changed its name from Divizia B just before the start of the 2006–07 Liga II, 2006–07 football season. It is currently Sponso ...

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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lukanovic, Darko 1984 births Living people Bosnia and Herzegovina emigrants to Sweden Footballers from Tuzla Swedish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Allsvenskan players Falkenbergs FF players Malmö FF players Assyriska FF players IF Limhamn Bunkeflo (men) players Landskrona BoIS players Challenger Pro League players Royal Antwerp F.C. players K.V.K. Tienen-Hageland players Segunda División B players Liga I players Liga II players CSU Voința Sibiu players CSM Ceahlăul Piatra Neamț players FC Rapid București players Football League (Greece) players Athens Kallithea F.C. players Slovenian PrvaLiga players FC Koper players Swedish expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Belgium Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Romania Expatriate men's footballers in Vietnam Expatriate men's footballers in Greece Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Spain Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Romania Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Greece Swedish expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia 21st-century Swedish sportsmen