Lucas Lykkegaard

Lucas Lykkegaard is a Danish professional footballer who plays college soccer as a right-back for University of Rhode Island.

Club career

Lykkegaard was born and raised in Farum to a Danish father and Chilean mother and is a product of FC Nordsjælland, where he started when he was four years old. In his first season as U17 player, Lykkegaard was injured with an anterior cruciate ligament injury and was out for about a year and a half.
After 14 years at the club, Lykkegaard was promoted to the first-team squad, where he made his professional debut in the Danish Superliga against FC Copenhagen on 13 December 2020. Lykkegaard started on the bench, before replacing Daniel Svensson in the 78th minute. Lykkegaard also played in the following league game against FC Midtjylland. Those two games were his only appearances in the 2020–21 season. On 21 July 2022, Lykkegaard signed a new deal with Nordsjælland until June 2025 and was loaned out to newly promoted Danish 1st Division club Hillerød. He returned to Nordsjælland in November 2022, having made four appearances for Hillerød.
By mutual agreement, Lykkegaard and Nordsjælland decided in early August 2023 to end the collaboration and he left the club.

HIK

On 4 August 2023, Lykkegaard joined Danish 2nd Division club HIK. In early January, it was announced that Lykkegaard had left HIK and that he would stop playing football for a while due to education.

Later career

Despite announcing that he would take a break from football, Lykkegaard started up again later that month - in January 2024 - but at a lower level when he signed with Værløse Boldklub.
In August 2024, Lykkegaard traveled to the United States to study psychology at the University of Rhode Island and play football for the university. After a season that saw him make 15 appearances, 11 of which were starts, and score one goal, Lykkegaard was rewarded by the 2024 Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer All-Conference Team at the end of the season when he was named to the All-Rookie Team.