Răzvan Lucescu
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Lucescu as PAOK manager in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Răzvan Lucescu | ||
| Date of birth | 17 February 1969 | ||
| Place of birth | Bucharest, Romania | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | PAOK (head coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1981–1985 | Dinamo București | ||
| 1985–1987 | Sportul Studențesc | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1987–1992 | Sportul Studențesc | 24 | (0) |
| 1992–1993 | Crema | 3 | (0) |
| 1993–1996 | Sportul Studențesc | 81 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | Național București | 31 | (0) |
| 1997–1998 | Sportul Studențesc | 31 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | Național București | 23 | (0) |
| 2000 | Brașov | 13 | (0) |
| 2000–2001 | Rapid București | 26 | (0) |
| 2001–2002 | FCM Bacău | 10 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | Rapid București | 1 | (0) |
| Total | 243 | (0) | |
| International career | |||
| 1989 | Romania U21 | 2 | (0) |
| 1998 | Romania B | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2004 | Brașov | ||
| 2004–2007 | Rapid București | ||
| 2007–2009 | Brașov | ||
| 2009–2011 | Romania | ||
| 2011–2012 | Rapid București | ||
| 2012–2014 | El Jaish | ||
| 2014 | Petrolul Ploiești | ||
| 2014–2017 | Xanthi | ||
| 2017–2019 | PAOK | ||
| 2019–2021 | Al Hilal | ||
| 2021– | PAOK | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Răzvan Lucescu (Romanian pronunciation: [rəzˈvan luˈtʃesku]; born 17 February 1969) is a Romanian professional football manager and former player, who is currently managing Greek Super League club PAOK.
As a player, he operated as a goalkeeper and spent most years of his career at Sportul Studențesc during three stints. Lucescu also represented Național București, Brașov, Rapid București, and Bacău in his country, as well as Crema abroad. He won his only national title with Rapid București in the 2002–03 campaign.
Lucescu returned to Brașov in 2004 for his first role as a manager, before moving to Rapid where he guided the team to the Cupa României in the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons. Between 2009 and 2011, he was in charge of the Romania national team. His other managerial honours include nine domestic trophies with El Jaish, PAOK, and Al Hilal combined. With the latter side, he also won the AFC Champions League in 2019.