Lukas Katnik (born 31 July 1989) is an Austrian professional

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player who plays for SW Bregenz.

Career

Katnik started playing football at FC Mäder in his home village. In 2004 he moved to FC Koblach before he was signed by

FC Lustenau 07 FC Lustenau 07 is a football club based in Lustenau, Vorarlberg. They currently compete in the Vorarlbergliga, one of the fourth tiers of Austrian football. Until the 2012–13 1 (one, unit, unity) is a number, numeral, and glyph. It i ...

in 2006. On 20 April 2007 he made his professional debut for the club when he came on as a substitute against

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in the 64th minute for Marc Ender. He scored his first professional goal on 27 July 2009 against

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's reserve team. For the 2010/11 season he moved to

FC Dornbirn Fußballclub Dornbirn 1913, commonly known as FC Mohren Dornbirn 1913 for sponsorship reasons is a professional association football club based in the town of Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria, that competes in the Austrian Regionalliga West, one o ...

in the

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. At Dornbirn, he immediately became a goal getter and scored 10 goals in the fall. In January 2011 he moved to Salzburg to join Red Bull Juniors (today

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), the former second team of

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, but was immediately loaned out to their cooperation club USK Anif to help them with promotion to the

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. After missing the promotion with the Anif, he returned to the Juniors. But he was again loaned out, this time to Salzburg's other cooperation club,

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. After the loan ended, he moved to

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. Here, he helped the team with promotion to the

in 2015. After Salzburg's relegation to the

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again in the following season, he moved

club

WSG Wattens Wattener Sportgemeinschaft Tirol (), commonly known as WSG Tirol, is a professional association football club based in the town of Wattens, Tyrol (state), Tyrol, Austria, that competes in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, the top tier of the A ...

in summer 2016. He helped the team with promotion to the

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after winning the second division in 2019, after which the club was renamed WSG Tirol. For WSG, he made 88 appearances in the 2nd division and two in the Bundesliga. In January 2020 he moved to

SC Austria Lustenau Sportclub Austria Lustenau is a professional association football club based in the town of Lustenau, Vorarlberg, Austria, that competes in the 2. Liga (Austria), 2. Liga, the second tier of the Austrian football league system. Founded in 1914, ...

, with whom he received a contract that ran until June 2020. He made ten second division appearances for Lustenau, in which he scored two goals. For the 2020/21 season he returned to

, with whom he received a contract that ran until June 2021.LUKAS KATNIK
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Honours

;FC Pasching Winner *

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References

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* 1989 births Footballers from Bregenz Living people Austrian men's footballers Men's association football forwards FC Lustenau 07 players FC Red Bull Salzburg players FC Liefering players FC Juniors OÖ players WSG Tirol players SC Austria Lustenau players FC Dornbirn 1913 players Schwarz-Weiß Bregenz players Austrian Regionalliga players Austrian Football Bundesliga players 2. Liga (Austria) players {{austria-footy-forward-stub