Tomasz Karol Kędziora is a Polish footballer who plays as a defender for Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv.
Club career
The beginnings
At the age of just four, Tomasz Karol Kędziora started attending the youth academy of the UKP Zielona Góra. He was being trained at the time by his father, Mirosław. In 2000 he officially started training with players his age. In July 2010, he took part as an UKP Zielona Góra player in the final tournament of the Polish Junior Championships. The team won the bronze medal, coached by Tomasz Kędziora's father.
Before the start of the 2010/2011 season, Kędziora was signed to the then Polish Champions, Lech Poznań. Initially he was a player of the Junior Ekstraklasa Lech team, where in the season 2010/2011 he played 20 matches and scored two goals. In the fall of the 2011/2012 season, he was placed in the first team, but continued to perform only in the Junior Ekstraklasa, having 20 appearances and scoring seven goals. On September 20, 2011, Kędziora was included in Lech's squad for the 1/16 Polish Cup final against Chrobry Głogów, but he did not play. On June 21, 2012, Kędziora signed a new three-year contract with the Poznań club, which went until June 30, 2015. Kędziora made his debut for the first team on July 12, 2012 in a 1–1 draw of the first qualifying round of the Europa League with Kazakhstan club FC Zhetysu, entering at the 90th minute for Bartosz Ślusarski. On October 27, 2012, Kędziora made his debut in the Ekstraklasa in the 0–2 defeat against Jagiellonia Białystok in the 9th round, replacing Hubert Wołąkiewicz in the 62nd minute. On September 20, 2013, during the 8th round of the Ekstraklasa with Pogoń Szczecin, he suffered an injury to his thigh muscle and returned on December 13 for the 21st match against Zawisza in Bydgoszcz. On May 5, 2014, he scored his first goal in the Polish top-flight in a 2–1 win in the 32nd round against Zawisza Bydgoszcz. Kędziora signed a new, three-year contract with the Poznan club on November 1, 2015, effective from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2018. In the 2014/2015 season he won the title of Polish Champion with Lech Poznań, performing in 35 matches, scoring 3 goals and having 6 assists.
Dynamo Kyiv
On 11 July 2017, Kędziora signed a 4-year contract with Ukrainian club Dynamo Kyiv.
International career
Kędziora got his first call up to the senior Poland squad for friendlies against Georgia and Greece in June 2015. But he made his debut against Mexico on November 13, 2017. In May 2018 he was named in Poland’s preliminary 35-man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. However, he did not make the final 23.
