Luca Csíkos (born 25 February 2005) is a Hungarian handballer for Váci NKSE and the Hungarian national team.

Career

Club

Csíkos started her career at Hévízi SK. He also played in the teams of Marcali VSZSE and Vonyarcvashegy SE. In the summer of 2018, he joined the National Handball Academy (NEKA) team.[1] From 2020, in addition to the youth championship, he also played a role in the adult team in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B. At the end of the year, they won bronze medals, and a year later they won the Western group of Nemzeti Bajnokság I/B and were promoted to Nemzeti Bajnokság I. In 2022/23, her first top-flight season, she scored 96 goals in 22 games. In the summer of 2023, she transferred to the Váci NKSE team, ranked sixth in the league and starting in the EHF European League.[2] In her first season in Váci NKSE, she scored 106 goals in the Nemzeti Bajnokság I, and also scored 37 goals in the EHF European League. In the 2024/25 season, she scored 25 goals in 4 matches in the EHF European League.

National team

In August 2021, Luca scored 2 goals in the 25–19 final win over Germany at the Youth European Championship.[3] In August 2022, she won a bronze medal at the Youth World Championships.[4] In July 2023, at the Junior European Championship held in Romania, she scored 8 goals in the final against the Danish national team, helping the national team to its third consecutive Junior European Championship title.[5] In June 2024, she won a silver medal with the national team at the Junior World Championship held in North Macedonia, after the Hungary women's national junior handball team lost to the France women's national junior handball team 29-26 in the final.[6] She made her debut for the Hungarian women's adult national team in Tatabánya in November 2024 in a warm-up match against the Ukrainian national team, in which she scored five goals.[7] She also participated in the 2024 European Women's Handball Championship, where the Hungarian team finished 3th (4 matches / 5 goals).[8]

Honours

National team

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