Tomasz Frankowski

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Tomasz Frankowski
Personal information
Full name	Tomasz Frankowski
Date of birth	16 August 1974
Place of birth	Białystok, Poland
Height	5ft 9in
Nickname	"Franek", "Franky"
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	CD Tenerife
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991–1993 1993–1996 1996 1996–1997 1997–1998 1998–2005 2005–2006 2006 2006–	Jagiellonia Białystok RC Strasbourg Nagoya Grampus Eight CFP Poitiers FC Martigues Wisła Kraków Elche CF Wolverhampton Wanderers CD Tenerife	9 (1) 21 (2) 7 (1) 32 (22) 19 (5) 173 (115) 14 (8) 12 (0) 9 (2)
National team2
1998-2006	Poland	20 (10)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 April 06. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 30 July 06. * Appearances (Goals)

Tomasz Frankowski, born August 16, 1974 in Białystok, is a Polish footballer who currently plays for CD Tenerife and the Polish national team. The striker has appeared 18 times for the national team, scoring 10 goals. England fans will know him for the left-footed volley equaliser he scored against them in the World Cup qualifier at Old Trafford in October 2005.

[edit] Career

• 1991-1993 - Jagiellonia Białystok
• 1993-1994 - RC Strasbourg (B team)
• 1994-1996 - RC Strasbourg, UEFA Intertoto Cup
• 1995, 21 games, 2 goals in Ligue 1
• 1996 - Nagoya Grampus Eight, Japan
• 1996-1997 - CFP Poitiers
• 1997-1998 - FC Martigues
• 1998-2005 - Wisła Kraków, Poland
• 2005-2006 - Elche CF, Spain
• 2006- Wolverhampton Wanderers
• 2006-present - CD Tenerife, Spain

He gained five Polish Championship titles with Wisła Kraków in 1999, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, two Polish Cups in 2002 and 2003, and a League Cup in 2001. He has been named the best striker three times, in 1999, 2001 and 2005. In 178 games, he has scored 112 goals in Orange Ekstraklasa.

He had a short but successful spell in Spain with Elche CF of the Segunda División and after joining them in September 2005, he scored 8 times in only 13 appearances.

He then joined English Championship club Wolverhampton Wanderers on 25 January 2006 for £1.4 million. Known to his Polish fans as "Franek" he scored 9 goals in 11 games in the qualifying rounds for the FIFA 2006 World Cup in Germany. Along with Jerzy Dudek, Frankowski was not chosen in the 2006 FIFA World Cup squad by coach Paweł Janas. His spell at Wolves did not go well, with Frankowski failing to score a single goal. This earned him the unenviable nickname of "the Pole without a goal".

In August 2006, he was loaned to another Spanish Segunda División side, CD Tenerife, for the 2006-07 season where he scored in the 45th minute of his home debut.