Luka Majcen (born 25 July 1989) is a Slovenian professional footballer who plays as a striker for Indian Super League club Punjab.

Club career

Early career

Majcen started his senior career with Interblock.

Luka Majcen

Churchill Brothers

In 2020, Majcen moved to India and signed with Churchill Brothers in the I-League. He was the second best goalscorer of the 2020–21 I-League season with 11 goals in 15 matches.

Luka Majcen

Bengaluru United

In August 2021, Majcen moved to I-League 2nd Division side Bengaluru United. He made his debut on 6 September in a 1–0 win against Central Reserve Police Force in the group stage of the 2021 Durand Cup, but their journey ended with a 4–2 defeat to Mohammedan Sporting in the semi-finals.

Luka Majcen

With Bengaluru United, he won the 2021–22 Bangalore Super Division title, in which he emerged as the league's top scorer with thirteen goals.

Gokulam Kerala

On 9 January 2022, it was announced that I-League defending champions Gokulam Kerala have signed Majcen for the remainder of the season.

On 3 March 2022, he made his debut for the club in I-League match against NEROCA, which ended in a 0–0 stalemate. Majcen scored his first goals for Gokulam Kerala on 7 March, in their 5–1 win against Real Kashmir. He scored his first hat-trick on 12 March in their 6–2 win against Kenkre. With Gokulam Kerala, Majcen won the league title in the 2021–22 season, defeating Mohammedan Sporting 2–1 in the final game at the Salt Lake Stadium on 14 May, as Gokulam became the first club in fifteen years to defend the title. Overall, Majcen scored thirteen league goals during the season.

In the 2022 AFC Cup group stage opener, Majcen scored a brace in Gokulam's 4–2 win against ATK Mohun Bagan. He also appeared in the remaining two matches when Gokulam was defeated 1–0 by Maldivian side Maziya S&RC, and 2–1 by Bashundhara Kings of Bangladesh, respectively, and was eliminated from the tournament.

RoundGlass Punjab

On 23 September 2022, Majcen joined another I-League side RoundGlass Punjab on a one-year deal. With Punjab, Majcen won the 2022–23 I-League title, his second consecutive I-League championship, and helped the team gain promotion to the Indian Super League. He was also named the player of the season and was the league's top scorer with 16 goals.

Majcen made his Indian Super League debut on 23 September 2023, in their 3–1 away defeat to Mohun Bagan, in which he scored the club's first ever goal in India's highest division.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

Interblock

Slovenian Cup: 2007–08, 2008–09

Slovenian Supercup: 2008

Triglav Kranj

Slovenian Second League: 2016–17

Churchill Brothers

I-League runner-up: 2020–21

Bengaluru United

Bangalore Super Division: 2021–22

Gokulam Kerala

I-League: 2021–22

RoundGlass Punjab

I-League: 2022–23

Individual

I-League Player of the Season: 2022–23

I-League top scorer: 2022–23

References

External links

Luka Majcen at Sofascore

NZS profile

1989 births

Living people

Slovenian men's footballers

Men's association football forwards

Slovenian PrvaLiga players

Slovenian Second League players

I-League players

Indian Super League players

NK IB 1975 Ljubljana players

NK Ivančna Gorica players

NK Rudar Velenje players

FC Koper players

NK Triglav Kranj players

ND Gorica players

NK Krka players

Churchill Brothers FC Goa players

FC Bengaluru United players

Gokulam Kerala FC players

Punjab FC players

Slovenia men's youth international footballers

Slovenia men's under-21 international footballers

Slovenian expatriate men's footballers

Slovenian expatriate sportspeople in India

Expatriate men's footballers in India