Quick Facts
Biography
Layvin Kurzawa (born 4 September 1992) is a French professional footballer who plays for Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain and the France national team as a left back.
He began his career at Monaco in 2010, and played 96 official games for the team, scoring eight goals. In 2015, he transferred to Paris Saint-Germain for €23 million, winning a treble in his first season.
Kurzawa made his senior international debut for France in 2014.
Club career
AS Monaco
Born in Fréjus, Var, Kurzawa made his professional debut on 22 September 2010 in a Coupe de la Ligue third round match against Lens at the Stade Louis II. He started the match and played 65 minutes before being substituted in a 1–0 victory. Three days later he made his Ligue 1 debut, starting in a 1–2 defeat at Lorient. Kurzawa played four more league matches, all of them starts, as the season ended with relegation to Ligue 2; he was sent off on 1 May 2011 in a 1–1 draw at Saint-Étienne. He made four appearances as they returned to the top flight at the first attempt as champions.
Kurzawa established himself in the first team for the 2013–14 season, with 28 league appearances as Monaco finished runner-up to Paris Saint-Germain. He also scored five goals, the first of his professional career confirming a 2–0 win at Guingamp on 14 December 2013.
He scored in each leg of Monaco's 7–1 aggregate win over Young Boys in the third qualifying round of the 2015–16 UEFA Champions League.
Paris Saint-Germain
On 27 August 2015, Kurzawa joined Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint-Germain for €23 million on a five-year contract. He made his debut on 11 September, coming on for Maxwell in the 67th minute of an eventual 2–2 draw with Bordeaux at the Parc des Princes. He scored his first goal for the team from the capital on 25 October, opening a 4–1 home win over Saint-Étienne when set up by Marco Verratti.
Kurzawa scored and assisted Javier Pastore on 6 August 2016 as PSG won the Trophée des Champions against Lyon with a 4–1 win in Klagenfurt, Austria. Six days later, he recorded the team's first league goal of the new season, the game's only against Bastia. On 8 March 2017, he scored an own goal in a 6–1 loss to Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League; as Unai Emery's team squandered a 4–0 advantage from the first leg.
International career
Kurzawa was born to a Guadeloupean father, and a mother of Polish descent, and was approached to play for the Poland national team.
He was a French youth international and has earned caps with the under-19 team. On 14 October 2014, during the final leg of the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship qualification play-offs against Sweden, Kurzawa celebrated a France goal by mocking the Swedish players, before Sweden won the game 4–1, thus eliminating France from reaching the 2015 UEFA European Under-21 Championship. Sweden then went on and won the tournament and the whole team celebrated by using Kurzawa's way of mocking.
On 14 November 2014, he made his full international debut, replacing Lucas Digne for the last 20 minutes of a 1–1 friendly draw with Albania in Rennes. Four days later, he made his first start, in a 1–0 friendly win over Sweden in Marseille, being substituted later on for Digne.
Kurzawa scored his first international goal on 1 September 2016, concluding a 3–1 friendly win over Italy at the Stadio San Nicola in Bari.
Career statistics
Club
(Correct as of 9 April 2017)
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Monaco | 2010–11 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 6 | 0 | ||
| 2011–12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 4 | 0 | |||
| 2012–13 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 12 | 0 | |||
| 2013–14 | 28 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 29 | 5 | |||
| 2014–15 | 27 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | 39 | 0 | ||
| 2015–16 | 3 | 1 | — | — | 3 | 2 | — | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 75 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 11 | 3 | — | 96 | 8 | ||
| Paris Saint-Germain | 2015–16 | 16 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 25 | 3 | |
| 2016–17 | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 26 | 3 | |
| Total | 34 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 51 | 6 | |
| Career total | 109 | 11 | 9 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 147 | 14 | |
International
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| France | 2014 | 2 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 4 | 1 | |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 7 | 1 | |
International goals
| No. | Date | Venue | Cap | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 September 2016 | Stadio San Nicola, Bari, Italy | 3 |  Italy | 3–1 | 3–1 | Friendly |
Honours
- Ligue 2: 2012–13
- Ligue 1: 2015–16
- Coupe de France: 2015–16, 2016-17
- Coupe de la Ligue: 2015–16, 2016–17
- Trophée des Champions: 2016