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 25)
Place of birth Saint-Denis, France
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position 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*
Years Team Apps (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 32 (2)
International career‡
2017 France U16 9 (0)
2017 France U17 1 (0)
2022– Cape Verde 26 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 May 2025
‡ National team caps and goals 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 represents the Cape Verde national team.

Costa is a former French youth international, having represented them at U16 and U17 level, before switching to play for Cape Verde in 2022.

Early life

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

Club career

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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

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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

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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

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Club

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As of match played 25 May 2025[32]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Reims B 2018–19 Championnat National 2 6 0 — — — 6 0
2019–20 Championnat National 2 19 2 — — — 19 2
Total 25 2 — — — 25 2
Le Mans (loan) 2020–21 Championnat National 26 0 0 0 — — 26 0
Toulouse B 2021–22 Championnat National 3 10 0 — — — 10 0
2022–23 Championnat National 3 1 1 — — — 1 1
Total 11 1 — — — 11 1
Toulouse 2021–22 Ligue 2 3 0 4 1 — — 7 1
2022–23 Ligue 1 6 0 6 2 — — 12 2
2023–24 Ligue 1 31 1 0 0 7[a] 0 0 0 38 1
2024–25 Ligue 1 1 0 — — — 1 0
Total 41 1 10 3 7 0 0 0 58 4
Vllarreal 2024–25 La Liga 32 2 2 0 — — 34 2
Career total 135 6 12 3 7 0 0 0 154 9
  1. ^ Appearances in UEFA Europa League

International

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As of match played 10 October 2024[33]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Cape Verde 2022 4 0
2023 5 0
2024 13 0
Total 22 0

Honours

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Toulouse

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