Ludovic Joseph Obraniak (Polish pronunciation: [luˈdɔvʲik ɔˈbraɲak]; born 10 November 1984) is a football manager and former professional player.

Due to his consistent play in the reserves, he was quickly promoted to the senior side by then-manager Jean Fernandez making his debut during the 2003–04 season in a 2–0 loss to Bordeaux coming on as a late-match substitute wearing the number 13 shirt.

After weeks of silent negotiating, Metz finally came to an agreement on 23 January 2007 with the Nord-Pas de Calais-based side Lille OSC.

With Lille playing in the UEFA Champions League that season, he appeared in both legs of their knockout stage match against Manchester United.

For the 2008–09 season, he got off to a fast start scoring 7 goals in only 16 appearances contributing to Lille's 5th-place position heading into the winter break.

[5] In January 2014, Obraniak left France for the first time of his career and moved to German Bundesliga club Werder Bremen.

[7] Following Dutt's sacking in October 2014 he raised vainly hopes of improving his situation, also being left out of the squad in almost official matches under new coach Viktor Skrypnyk.

This was later confirmed by FIFA's decision to remove the age limit on nationality switches of players who had only been capped at youth level.

[11] Due to having Polish roots through his grandfather, Zygmunt Obraniak who was from Pobiedziska in Poznań County,[12] the player became the subject of interest from the Poland national football team and applied for citizenship of the country.