Mark Travers
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mark John Travers[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 18 May 1999[2] | ||
| Place of birth | Maynooth, Ireland[3] | ||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Everton | ||
| Number | 12 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Confey | |||
| Lucan United | |||
| 2014–2015 | Cherry Orchard | ||
| 2015–2016 | Shamrock Rovers | ||
| 2016–2017 | AFC Bournemouth | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2025 | AFC Bournemouth | 70 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | → Weymouth (loan) | 23 | (1) |
| 2021 | → Swindon Town (loan) | 8 | (0) |
| 2023 | → Stoke City (loan) | 13 | (0) |
| 2025 | → Middlesbrough (loan) | 17 | (0) |
| 2025– | Everton | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| Republic of Ireland U15 | |||
| Republic of Ireland U16 | |||
| Republic of Ireland U17 | |||
| Republic of Ireland U18 | |||
| Republic of Ireland U19 | |||
| Republic of Ireland U21 | |||
| 2019– | Republic of Ireland | 4 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14:42, 4 May 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 22:51, 21 November 2023 (UTC) | |||
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Mark John Travers (born 18 May 1999) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Everton and the Republic of Ireland national team.
He has represented the Republic of Ireland at youth international level up until under-21 level as well as the Republic of Ireland senior team, earning his first cap in September 2019.
Club career
[edit | edit source]Early career
[edit | edit source]Travers' first youth club was Confey in Leixlip, he then moved on to Lucan United, before spending a season at Cherry Orchard and 6 months at Shamrock Rovers.[3]
AFC Bournemouth
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Travers signed for English club AFC Bournemouth in July 2016, aged 17.[4][5] He joined Weymouth on loan in August 2017, scoring on his debut.[4][6] The loan ended in January 2018.[7]
In July 2018 he signed a new "long-term" contract with Bournemouth.[8]
He made his debut for Bournemouth on 4 May 2019 in a 1–0 win over Tottenham Hotspur.[9] Upon doing so, he became the first teenage goalkeeper since Joe Hart in 2006 to start a Premier League match, and made a number of saves to help the club record its first ever victory over Tottenham, with Travers keeping a clean sheet and receiving Man of the Match for his performance.[10] He was later selected by BBC pundit Garth Crooks in his 'Team of the Week'.[11]
On 15 July 2019, Travers signed a new long-term contract at Bournemouth.[12]
He moved on loan to Swindon Town in January 2021.[13][14] He was recalled by Bournemouth on 11 February 2021, having made eight appearances.[15]
Following the departure of Asmir Begović, Travers began the 2021–22 season as Bournemouth's first choice goalkeeper, beginning with a 2–2 draw with West Brom on the opening day of the campaign.[16] Travers started all but one of the Cherries' opening 14 games, an unbeaten run which included a club record-setting six away games in a row without conceding a goal.[17] For his performances in September 2021, Travers was nominated for the club's player of the month award, losing out to Gary Cahill.[18] In June 2022 he signed a new five-year contract with Bournemouth.[19]
Travers joined Stoke City on loan for the 2023–24 season.[20][21] He made 14 appearances for Stoke before he was recalled by Bournemouth on 27 October 2023 after an injury sustained by Neto.[22]
On 29 January 2025, Travers signed on loan for Middlesbrough until the end of the 2024-25 season.[23][24]
Everton
[edit | edit source]On 15 July 2025, Travers signed for Premier League club Everton on a four-year deal.[25][26]
International career
[edit | edit source]Travers has played for Ireland from under-15 to under-19 youth levels,[4] and whilst a member of the under-21 team received his first call-up to the senior national team in March 2019.[27] He was called up again to the Republic of Ireland national football team senior squad in May 2019, for Ireland's 2020 European Qualifiers against Denmark and Gibraltar.[28]
Travers made his senior international debut on 10 September 2019, starting in a 3–1 win over Bulgaria at the Aviva Stadium.[29]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]Club
[edit | edit source]- As of match played 23 September 2025
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| AFC Bournemouth | 2017–18[30] | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |
| 2018–19[9] | Premier League | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2019–20[31] | Premier League | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| 2020–21[32] | Championship | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2021–22[33] | Championship | 45 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 46 | 0 | ||
| 2022–23[34] | Premier League | 12 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 15 | 0 | ||
| 2023–24[35] | Premier League | 4 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | ||
| 2024–25[36] | Premier League | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 5 | 0 | ||
| Total | 70 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 | 0 | ||
| Weymouth (loan) | 2017–18[37] | Southern League Premier Division | 23 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 1[a] | 0 | 26 | 1 | |
| Swindon Town (loan) | 2020–21[32] | League One | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 8 | 0 | ||
| Stoke City (loan) | 2023–24[35] | Championship | 13 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | — | 14 | 0 | ||
| Middlesbrough (loan) | 2024–25[36] | Championship | 17 | 0 | — | — | — | 17 | 0 | |||
| Everton | 2025–26[38] | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |
| Career total | 131 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 149 | 1 | ||
International
[edit | edit source]| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Republic of Ireland | 2019 | 2 | 0 |
| 2020 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | |
| Total | 4 | 0 | |
Honours
[edit | edit source]AFC Bournemouth
- EFL Championship runner-up: 2021–22[41]
Individual
- EFL Championship Golden Glove: 2021–22[42]
- AFC Bournemouth Player of the Year: 2021–22[43]
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Mark Travers at AFC Bournemouth
- Mark Travers at Premier League (archived)Lua error in Module:EditAtWikidata at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- 1999 births
- Living people
- People from Maynooth
- Sportspeople from County Kildare
- Republic of Ireland men's association footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Cherry Orchard F.C. players
- Shamrock Rovers F.C. players
- AFC Bournemouth players
- Weymouth F.C. players
- Swindon Town F.C. players
- Stoke City F.C. players
- Middlesbrough F.C. players
- Everton F.C. players
- Southern Football League players
- Premier League players
- English Football League players
- Republic of Ireland men's youth international footballers
- Republic of Ireland men's under-21 international footballers
- Republic of Ireland men's international footballers
- 21st-century Irish sportsmen
- Association footballers from County Kildare