Manasse Kianga

Kianga played in the English non-league system for Rossington Main before moving to Slovakia in 2025, when he joined Lokomotíva Košice. His move was facilitated by a former Slovak international and Chelsea F.C. player Milan Lalkovič, who had met Kianga while working as a youth coach in England and recommended that he continue his career in Slovakia. Milan Lalkovič sr. (Milan Lalkovič's father) was manager of Lokomotíva Košice at the beginning of the season 2025/2026 (in fact he had been manager of Lokomotíva since 2019/2020, winning multiple promotions with them).^[1](It seems Lalkovič jr. himself was an assistant coach of Lalkovič sr. (at least for a while) during father's tenure.)

Lalkovič later stated that he believed Kianga had the talent to reach the Slovak top flight within a year.^[2]

FC Lokomotíva Košice

Season 2025/2026 was team anniversary, 80th league season in their history. Former czechoslovak top flight participant was aiming and gearing up for promotion from 3rd tier, but team underperformed badly (2 wins, 8 points and absurd -31 goal difference from 13 matches / first half of the season).^[3] That resulted in change of manager, general manager, president, owners, 80% of squad, ... (everything) during winter break.^[4]

Kianga missed first 5 games of the team (4 in league, 1 in cup), but later played in all 9 games until the winter break (mostly in starting eleven) scoring 3 goals and added 1 goal in 2 appearances in Slovak Cup.

ŠK Slovan Bratislava

Kianga joined ŠK Slovan Bratislava in early 2026, initially representing the club's reserve team in the Slovak second division.

After impressing with Slovan B, and due to injuries in the first team (all 3 main guys playing upfront CF,LW,RW were injured in preseason Andraž Šporar,Nino Marcelli,Tigran Barseghyan), he was promoted to the first team at the beginning of the 2026–27 season. On 26 July 2026, he made his Niké Liga debut in a 4–0 away victory over Dukla Banská Bystrica, scoring one goal and providing an assist.^[5] Following his impressive league debut, Kianga made his UEFA Champions League debut for Slovan Bratislava in the third qualifying round against Swedish champions Mjällby AIF on 4 August 2026. Coming on as a substitute in the second half, he scored the winning goal in stoppage time to secure a 2–1 away victory for Slovan in the first leg. The goal was his first in European club competition and earned him praise in the Slovak media.^[6]

As of match played 4 August 2026

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