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 Tudor in 2023 with Raków Częstochowa | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date of birth | 27 September 1995 | ||
| Place of birth | Zagreb, Croatia | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Positions | |||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Raków Częstochowa | ||
| Number | 7 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2004–2005 | Mladost Buzin | ||
| 2005–2007 | Dinamo Zagreb | ||
| 2007–2013 | NK Zagreb | ||
| 2014 | Panathinaikos | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2015–2019 | Hajduk Split | 109 | (15) |
| 2015 | → Hajduk Split B | 8 | (0) |
| 2020– | Raków Częstochowa | 186 | (6) |
| International career | |||
| 2013 | Croatia U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Croatia U21 | 7 | (0) |
| 2017 | Croatia | 3 | (1) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 19:01, 29 May 2026 (UTC) | |||
Fran Tudor (Croatian pronunciation: [frân tûdor];[2][3] born 27 September 1995) is a Croatian professional footballer who plays as a centre-back, right-back or right wing-back for and captains Ekstraklasa club Raków Częstochowa.
Club career
[edit]Born in Zagreb, Croatia, Tudor started his career with lower-tier side Mladost Buzin, originally playing as a forward, aged 10 he was spotted by GNK Dinamo Zagreb scouts and moved there, but two years later moved to NK Zagreb where he spent most of his youth career, moving gradually to a right back role. In 2014, he moved to Greece, joining the U20 side of Panathinaikos, where he was helped and mentored by Danijel Pranjić[4]
After a year in Greece, Tudor moved back to Croatia, signing a three and a half-year[5] contract with HNK Hajduk Split. Initially playing for the third-tier B team, where coach Mario Osibov moved him to a more offensive right wing role, he was moved to the first team by the newly appointed sports director/coach Goran Vučević for the match against HNK Rijeka on 18 April 2015, on which he debuted in the first team, scoring the leading goal from a header in the 44th minute in what would be a 1–2 loss for his team, before he was replaced in the 62nd minute by Josip Bašić.[6]
On 27 December 2019, he signed a two-and-a-half-year deal with the option of prolonging it for another two years with Polish Ekstraklasa club Raków Częstochowa.[7]
International career
[edit]He made his debut for Croatia in a January 2017 China Cup match against Chile, coming on as a 57th-minute substitute for Filip Ozobić, and earned a total of 3 caps, scoring one goal. His final international was a May 2017 friendly match against Mexico in which he scored his only goal for Croatia.[8]
Personal life
[edit]Tudor is an alumnus of the XIII. High School in Zagreb. He is a distant cousin of Igor Tudor, both of them having roots in the village of Milna on the island of Hvar.[9]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- As of match played 23 May 2026
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Europe | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Hajduk Split | 2014–15 | Prva HNL | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 2 | ||
| 2015–16 | Prva HNL | 31 | 7 | 5 | 0 | 7[b] | 0 | — | 43 | 7 | ||
| 2016–17 | Prva HNL | 27 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4[b] | 1 | — | 34 | 6 | ||
| 2017–18 | Prva HNL | 20 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4[b] | 0 | — | 27 | 2 | ||
| 2018–19 | Prva HNL | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | — | 27 | 1 | ||
| Total | 109 | 15 | 14 | 2 | 16 | 1 | — | 139 | 18 | |||
| Raków Częstochowa | 2019–20 | Ekstraklasa | 16 | 1 | — | — | — | 16 | 1 | |||
| 2020–21 | Ekstraklasa | 29 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 34 | 1 | |||
| 2021–22 | Ekstraklasa | 31 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 6[c] | 0 | 1[d] | 1 | 43 | 3 | |
| 2022–23 | Ekstraklasa | 31 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 6[c] | 2 | 1[d] | 0 | 42 | 5 | |
| 2023–24 | Ekstraklasa | 27 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 13[e] | 2 | 1[d] | 0 | 44 | 2 | |
| 2024–25 | Ekstraklasa | 30 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 31 | 0 | |||
| 2025–26 | Ekstraklasa | 22 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 14[c] | 0 | — | 40 | 0 | ||
| Total | 186 | 6 | 22 | 1 | 39 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 250 | 12 | ||
| Career total | 295 | 21 | 36 | 3 | 55 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 389 | 30 | ||
- ↑ Includes Croatian Football Cup, Polish Cup
- 1 2 3 4 Appearances in UEFA Europa League
- 1 2 3 Appearances in UEFA Conference League
- 1 2 3 Appearance in Polish Super Cup
- ↑ Eight appearances and two goals in UEFA Champions League, five appearances in UEFA Europa League
International
[edit]| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croatia | |||
| 2017 | 3 | 1 | |
| Total | 3 | 1 | |
- Scores and results list Croatia's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Tudor goal.[11]
| No | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 27 May 2017 | Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Los Angeles, United States |  Mexico | 2–0 | 2–1 | Friendly |
Honours
[edit]Raków Częstochowa
Individual
References
[edit]- ↑ "Fran Tudor" (in Polish). Raków Częstochowa. Retrieved 15 July 2026.
- ↑ "Fránjo". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018.
Frȁn
- ↑ "Tèodor". Hrvatski jezični portal (in Serbo-Croatian). Retrieved 17 March 2018.
Tȕdor
- ↑ Tata Tudor: Pranjić je Frana u Ateni hranio i oblačio at Večernji List
- ↑ Tata Tudor za Goal: Uvjet za nogomet Franu je bila škola, a u Ateni ga je Pranjić hranio i oblačio at Goal.com
- ↑ "Gogijeva dica" nadigrala Rijeku, a onda sve prosula u dvije minute at Slobodna Dalmacija
- ↑ "Fran Tudor nowym zawodnikiem Rakowa". rakow.com (in Polish). Raków Częstochowa. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 29 December 2019.
- ↑ "Player Database". EU-football. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
- ↑ Pet stvari koje niste znali o... Franu Tudoru! at Hajduk.hr
- ↑ "Fran Tudor". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
- ↑ "F. Tudor". Soccerway. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ↑ "Football: Raków Częstochowa beat Arka Gdynia in Polish Cup final". Polskie Radio. 2 May 2021. Archived from the original on 16 March 2022. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ↑ "Walka o Superpuchar trwa nadal! Śledź relację! [NA ŻYWO]" [The fight for the Super Cup continues! Follow the report! [LIVE]]. sport.tvp.pl (in Polish). 17 July 2021. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
- ↑ "Kamil Grosicki piłkarzem sezonu w PKO Bank Polski Ekstraklasie!" (in Polish). Ekstraklasa. 29 May 2023. Archived from the original on 30 May 2023. Retrieved 29 May 2023.
External links
[edit]- Fran Tudor at Soccerway.com
- Fran Tudor at WorldFootball.net
- Fran Tudor at National-Football-Teams.com
- Fran Tudor at FBref.com
- Fran Tudor at Kicker (in German)
- Fran Tudor at the Croatian Football Federation
- Fran Tudor at EU-Football.info
- Fran Tudor at hajduk.hr
- 1995 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Zagreb
- Men's association football full-backs
- Croatian men's footballers
- Croatia men's youth international footballers
- Croatia men's under-21 international footballers
- Croatia men's international footballers
- HNK Hajduk Split players
- HNK Hajduk Split II players
- Raków Częstochowa players
- Croatian Football League players
- Ekstraklasa players
- Croatian expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Greece
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Greece
- Expatriate men's footballers in Poland
- Croatian expatriate sportspeople in Poland
- 21st-century Croatian sportsmen