Juraj Kucka

Kucka made his Corgoň Liga debut for Ružomberok on 11 March 2007. He played six games in his first season. Overall, Kucka played 49 games and scored eight goals for Ružomberok. Czech manager Michal Bílek, coaching Ružomberok in 2008, recommended Kucka for Sparta Praha. In January 2009, he has signed a three-year contract for Sparta. In 2009–10 season he won the champions.

On 6 January 2011, he signed a four-and-a-half-year contract for €3.55 million transfer fee[2] with Genoa (later extended one more year to 30 June 2016).[2][3] He made his debut in the Coppa Italia match against Inter Milan on 12 January 2011. He was voted man of the match by Genoa fans after 1–1 draw against AC Milan on 6 February 2011. Kucka proved immediately to fit fine in the squad, showing a remarkable physical strength and good technical skills, resulting the second best player of Genoa.[4] He scored his first goal for Genoa in a 2–1 away win against Lazio Rome on 18 September 2011.

On 31 August 2011, the last day of transfer window, Inter Milan and Genoa came to an agreement to swap co-ownerships of Juraj Kucka (€8 million) and Emiliano Viviano (€5 million). In June 2012 Kucka returned to Genoa where he spent 2011–12 season on loan for just €6.5 million, co-currently Samuele Longo returned to Inter for €7 million.[5][6]

On 28 August 2015, Kucka was signed by AC Milan[7] for €3 million transfer fee.[8] However, Milan also paid an unknown parties an additional €1 million.[9] He made his debut on 29 August 2015 in a 2–1 home win against Empoli, and scored his first Milan goal on 9 January 2016 to equalize against AS Rome in a 1–1 draw.

On 7 July 2017, Kucka was signed by Trabzonspor on a three-year contract worth €2.25 million a season,[10] for a transfer fee of €5 million.[11] He became a third Slovak player to join Trabzonspor in 2016–17 period, after Matúš Bero and Ján Ďurica. The trio was later joined by left-back Tomáš Hubočan, on a loan from Olympique Marseille. By the start of 2018–19 season, Kucka was the only remaining Slovak in the team. In total, Kucka scored 3 goals in 38 competitive games for Trabzonspor.

Kucka returned to Italy on 14 January 2019, when he joined Parma. He commented that he intended to score more goals in Parma and improve from where he left of, when he left Italy a year and a half ago.[1]

He debuted for Parma in his first opportunity, when he came on as a substitute for Alessandro Deiola in the 73rd minute of a Serie A away fixture against Udinese. Parma won the game 2–1 by goals of Roberto Inglese and Gervinho.[12]

In his third appearance for Parma, Kucka got his first two assists with the side. On 2 February, he assisted Barillà in the 64th minute and Ivorian international Gervinho in the 74th minute. Parma had managed to upset Juventus away, who were at the top of the league table, by coming back from a two-goal margin twice, to tie the game 3–3. Kucka played 86 minutes of the game.[13]

He scored his first goal after the return to Italy in his fifth match, on 16 February 2019 against Cagliari after an assist from Massimo Gobbi, setting the score to 1–0 for Parma. However two second-half goals by Leonardo Pavoletti meant Parma lost the game 1–2.[14]

Parma completed the season 14th with 41 points, three points above the relegation zone. Kucka scored a total of 4 goals, connecting one each against Genoa, Chievo Verona and Sampdoria.

As of match played 31 January 2021.[15]

As of 15 November 2020

As of match played 12 November 2020. Slovakia score listed first, score column indicates score after each Kucka goal.[15]

International goals by date, venue, cap, opponent, score, result and competition

No.	Date	Venue	Cap	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	10 August 2011	Wörthersee Stadion, Klagenfurt, Austria	17	Austria	1–0	2–1	Friendly
2	15 November 2013	Stadion Miejski, Wrocław, Poland	35	Poland	1–0	2–0
3	9 October 2014	Štadión pod Dubňom, Žilina, Slovakia	37	Spain	1–0	2–1	UEFA Euro 2016 qualification
4	15 November 2014	Philip II Arena, Skopje, Macedonia	39	Macedonia	1–0	2–0
5	29 May 2016	WWK Arena, Augsburg, Germany	46	Germany	3–1	3–1	Friendly
6	11 November 2016	Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava, Slovakia	54	Lithuania	2–0	4–0	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
7	16 November 2018		64	Ukraine	2–0	4–1	2018–19 UEFA Nations League B
8	11 June 2019	Bakcell Arena, Baku, Azerbaijan	67	Azerbaijan	2–0	5–1	UEFA Euro 2020 qualification
9	10 October 2019	Anton Malatinský Stadium, Trnava, Slovakia	70	Wales	1–1	1–1
10	12 November 2020	Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland	77	Northern Ireland	1–0	2–1 (a.e.t.)	UEFA Euro 2020 qualification

Sparta Prague[16]

• Gambrinus liga: 2009–10
• Supercup: 2010

Milan

• Supercoppa Italiana: 2016