Suf Podgoreanu

Suf Podgoreanu was born in 2002 in Hadera

Suf Podgoreanu was born on 20 January 2002 in Hadera and grew up there. His father, Danny Podgoreanu, also played football for Hapoel clubs. He has Romanian Jewish roots on his father's side and holds a Romanian passport.

He played in the Hapoel Hadera youth system until 2013 and then moved to the Maccabi Haifa youth system. He made his first team debut for Maccabi Haifa on 3 June 2020 against Maccabi Tel Aviv.

In 2020 he joined Roma in Italy, where he played for the youth team and sat on the first team bench. In 2021 he signed with Spezia and made his Serie A debut on 19 September 2021.

On 2 September 2022 he returned to Maccabi Haifa on loan, and the club later bought him. With Maccabi Haifa he won the Israeli league title and the Israel Super Cup in 2023. In 2024 he went on loan to Heracles Almelo in the Netherlands, and in 2026 he signed with Kortrijk in Belgium.

He played for Israel youth teams and from 2021 was part of the under-21 and senior squads. He made his senior debut on 12 October 2021 against Moldova and first started on 15 November 2021 against the Faroe Islands.