Logan Costa

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Logan Costa
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Costa with Toulouse in 2023
Personal information
Full name Logan Evans Costa [1]
Date of birth (2001-04-01) 1 April 2001 (age 23)
Place of birth Saint-Denis, France
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s) Centre-back
Team information
Current team
 Villarreal
Number 2
Youth career
2007–2010 ASC Val d'Argenteuil
2010–2016 RFC Argenteuil
2016–2021 Reims
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2018–2021 Reims B 25 (2)
2020–2021 → Le Mans (loan) 26 (0)
2021–2023 Toulouse B 11 (1)
2021–2024 Toulouse 41 (1)
2024– Villarreal 1 (0)
International career‡
2017 France U16 9 (0)
2017 France U17 1 (0)
2022– Cape Verde 22 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:28, 27 August 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:35, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

Logan Evans Costa (born 1 April 2001) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for La Liga club Villarreal. Born in France, he plays for the Cape Verde national team.

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Early life

Costa was born in Saint-Denis, Île-de-France, [2] [3] to a Cape Verdean family. [4] [5]

Club career

Having started to play football in Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, Costa joined the youth academy of Reims in 2016. [6] [7]

A player in Reims's Championnat National 2 reserve starting in the 2018–19 season, Costa captained the side during the following campaign. [5] [6] [8] [9] With a few first-team appearances in Ligue 1 games, [10] he was loaned to Championnat National side Le Mans for the 2020–21 season. [2] [8]

With Le Mans newly relegated from Ligue 2, he was one of the standout players in the team, and a revelation of the Championnat National, starting and playing the entirety of 26 games, as the club only narrowly missed the promotion play-offs. [2] [3] [4] [11] [12]

After this promising loan spell, Costa was offered a contract extension by Reims, but chose to look elsewhere in search of more game time. [3] [4] With one year left on his contract, several clubs from France, Italy and Germany were interested in signing him. [2] [3] [12] He was eventually transferred to Toulouse in August 2021. [2] [11] [13] [14]

Costa made his professional debut for Toulouse on 13 November 2021, starting and playing every minute of a penalty shoot-out victory over Libourne in the Coupe de France, in which he helped his team keep a clean sheet. [15] [16] [17] Starting the season behind Rasmus Nicolaisen, Bafodé Diakité and Anthony Rouault, with a team aiming for promotion, [18] [19] Costa first only made bench appearances in Ligue 2. [20] However, he established himself as a regular starter in the Coupe de France, even scoring his first goal against Trélissac. [20] [21] [22]

On 22 August 2024, Costa joined La Liga club Villarreal on a six-year deal. [23] He made his debut for the club on 26 August, coming on as a substitute in a league win over Celta Vigo. [24] On 14 September, he scored his first goal for Villarreal in a 2–1 victory against Mallorca. [25]

International career

Costa was a youth international for France, playing with the under-16 and under-17 teams. [8] [12] [13] He was also selected for the under-19s and under-20s, without playing any official games in a period where most of them were canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [5] [6] [11] [14]

On 16 March 2022, he received his first international call-up for the Cape Verde national team. [26] [27] He debuted with Cape Verde in a 2–0 friendly win over Guadeloupe. [28] He was later named in Cape Verde's squad for the 2023 Africa Cup of Nations, [29] where he played in all five of their matches before they were eliminated in the quarter-finals. [30]

Controversy

On 14 May 2023, Costa refused to participate in a Ligue 1 match against Nantes due to the game being part of a league-wide campaign against homophobia, with players wearing shirts with rainbow-themed decorations. [31]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 18 August 2024 [32]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Reims B 2018–19 Championnat National 2 60———60
2019–20 Championnat National 2192———192
Total252———252
Le Mans (loan) 2020–21 Championnat National 26000——260
Toulouse B 2021–22 Championnat National 3 100———100
2022–23 Championnat National 311———11
Total111———111
Toulouse 2021–22 Ligue 2 3041——71
2022–23 Ligue 1 6062——122
2023–24 Ligue 1311007 [lower-alpha 1] 000381
2024–25 Ligue 110———10
Total4111037000584
Career total103410370001207
  1. ↑ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

International

As of match played 10 October 2024 [33]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Cape Verde 202240
202350
2024130
Total220

Honours

Toulouse

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Transferts : Logan Costa (Reims) vers Toulouse". L'Équipe (in French). 20 August 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Valente, Toni (4 July 2021). "Mercato : Logan Costa ne prolongera pas avec le Stade de Reims". MadeinFoot. Ouest-France.
  4. 1 2 3 "Stade de Reims, Logan Costa refuse de prolonger". L'Union (in French). 5 July 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021. Pour le défenseur axial franco-cap-verdien, international U20, qui vient de changer d'agent, le club rémois ne lui offre plus les garanties
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  6. 1 2 3 Musset, Hervé (24 January 2020). "Football (National 2) : Logan Costa, ce jeune discret du Stade de Reims qui s'ouvre". L'Union (in French). Retrieved 18 December 2021. d'abord passé par Argenteuil avant de poursuivre sa formation au Stade de Reims depuis 2016, avait trop envie de jouer.
  7. ↑ "Logan costa du RFC Argenteuil signe au Stade de Reims…". Panamefoot (in French). 28 February 2016. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  8. 1 2 3 Sabrié, Clémentine (11 July 2020). "Le défenseur central Logan Costa prêté au Mans FC par le Stade de Reims" (in French). Le Mans: France Bleu . Retrieved 19 December 2021.
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  15. ↑ "Coupe de France - 7e tour : découvrez le 11 de départ du TFC pour le match à Libourne (5e division)". La Dépêche (in French). Toulouse, Haute-Garonne. 13 November 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
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  27. ↑ "Cabo Verde divulga lista extensa de convocados. Bebé é estreia" (in Portuguese). Notícias ao Minuto. 16 March 2022.
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  31. ↑ "Toulouse FC's Players, Including Morocco's Aboukhlal, Refuse LGBTQ+ Jerseys". www.moroccoworldnews.com. Retrieved 24 May 2024.
  32. ↑ Logan Costa at Soccerway. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
  33. ↑ Logan Costa at National-Football-Teams.com
  34. ↑ "Le Toulouse Football Club est champion de Ligue 2 BKT" [Toulouse Football Club is Ligue 2 BKT champion] (in French). Toulouse FC. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 9 May 2022.
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