| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | David Anthony Lucas | ||
| Date of birth | (1977-11-23)23 November 1977 (age 47) | ||
| Place of birth | Preston, England | ||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Everton (goalkeeping coach) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1994–2004 | Preston North End | 123 | (0) |
| 1995 | →Darlington (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 1996 | →Darlington (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 1996–1997 | →Scunthorpe United (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2003 | →Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | →Sheffield Wednesday (loan) | 10 | (0) |
| 2004–2006 | Sheffield Wednesday | 52 | (0) |
| 2007 | Barnsley | 3 | (0) |
| 2007–2009 | Leeds United | 16 | (0) |
| 2009–2011 | Swindon Town | 65 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Rochdale | 16 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Birmingham City | 0 | (0) |
| 2013–2015 | Fleetwood Town | 2 | (0) |
| Total | 313 | (0) | |
| International career | |||
| 1995–1996 | England U18 | 5 | (0) |
| 1997 | England U20 | 4 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
David Anthony Lucas (born 23 November 1977) is an English football coach and former professionalfootballer who is a professional goalkeeping coach
Between 1994 and 2015, Lucas made over 300 appearances inthe Football League, including 123 forPreston North End.
Lucas began his career at his hometown club Preston North End in theFootball League Third Division. He spent time on loan atDarlington,Scunthorpe United, andSheffield Wednesday, before signing for Sheffield Wednesday in 2004. He then joined rivalsBarnsley in 2007, but only made three appearances for them before signing withLeeds United in the same year. After spending much of the2007–08 season as an unused substitute, he began to establish himself as the first choice goalkeeper at Elland Road, impressing managerGary McAllister with a series of good displays continuing into the following season. He made a number of appearances before being dropped in December, subsequently only appearing on the bench. He signed forSwindon Town in June 2009. Lucas had a successful season in which he played a major part in Swindon reaching theFootball League One play-offs. Lucas' contract with Swindon was terminated one year early by mutual consent, and he signed a one-year deal withRochdale on 3 August 2011, taking up a player/coach role. Lucas was released by Rochdale at the end of the season, before he signed a one-year contract withChampionship clubBirmingham City on 10 July 2012. He made one appearance before leaving when the January 2013 transfer window opened, to join League Two club Fleetwood Town, reuniting with former Preston North End teammatesGraham Alexander, who was manager of Fleetwood, at the time and first team coachChris Lucketti.
Lucas has played internationally for England, five times at under-18 and four times at under-20 level.
Lucas is currently working as the first team goalkeeping coach at Everton FC.
As a younggoalkeeper, Lucas started his career atPreston North End. He went on to spend nearly ten years as a professional at theLancashire club, punctuated by loan appearances forDarlington,Scunthorpe andSheffield Wednesday. Lucas was capped byEngland under-18 andunder-20 teams while a Preston player.
Whilst at Preston he won two divisional championship medals in 1996 and 2000 as North End won the third and second division titles and in May 2001 he was part of Preston's unsuccessful first division playoff final team who lost 3-0 to Bolton.
Regularly sharing glove duty with Preston's other goalkeeper Teuvo Moilanen, Lucas remained at his boyhood club until 2004 when, like his Finnish counterpart, he was moved on by new manager Craig Brown.[2]
Lucas had another spell at Sheffield Wednesday, having signed a permanent deal with theYorkshire side in the summer of 2004 after impressing during his two loan spells the previous season. During Wednesday's promotionseason of 2004–05, Lucas made 41 appearances for the team and totalled 15clean sheets, despite twice having to battle against injuries.
Lucas started the first 18 matches of Sheffield Wednesday's2005–06 campaign before a knee injury again ruled him out until January. His comeback was short-lived and Lucas was injured again againstMillwall on 4 February 2006 after playing only two full games; the new injury again ruled him out until January 2007.
Lucas announced that he would not be renewing his contract with Sheffield Wednesday at the end of the 2005–06 season, although he continued to receive treatment at their training ground whilst he was recovering from his knee injury.[3]
Lucas subsequently joinedSouth Yorkshire rivalsBarnsley on a free transfer in January 2007,[4] but only made three appearances for them. During his second game for Barnsley, he came out to deal with a high ball and collided with theDerby County playerGiles Barnes. He was knocked unconscious and left the field on aspinal board after several minutes' treatment. He was expected to need at least ten days to recover fromconcussion.[5][1]
Lucas signed forLeeds United in September 2007 on a short-term contract,[6] making his debut in theFootball League Trophy second round againstDarlington.
He was released in May 2009.[7]
Lucas signed forSwindon Town in June 2009 on a two-year contract.[8] He was assigned the number 1 jersey with previous incumbentPhil Smith being relegated to the number 12.[9] Lucas had a successful season, which played a major part in Swindon reaching theFootball League One play-offs. He played in both legs of the semi-final againstCharlton Athletic, but injured his shoulder in the second minute of the second leg and played no further part in the competition.
Lucas' contract with Swindon was terminated one year early by mutual consent, and he signed a one-year deal withRochdale on 3 August 2011, taking up a player/coach role.[10] He made his Rochdale playing debut in the League Cup againstChesterfield on 9 August. Lucas was released by Rochdale at the end of the season.
Lucas signed a one-year contract withChampionship clubBirmingham City on 10 July 2012.[11] He made his debut on 14 August in the first round of the League Cup at home toBarnet.[12] That was the only appearance he made before leaving when the January 2013 transfer window opened. He joined League Two clubFleetwood Town, reuniting with former Preston North End teammatesGraham Alexander, now manager of Fleetwood, and first team coachChris Lucketti. He joined as goalkeeping coach while retaining his playing registration.[13] He made his league début for Fleetwood on 16 February 2013 againstBurton Albion coming on as a substitute in the 57th minute after regular goalkeeperScott Davies was sent off. Lucas let in four goals and the game ended in a 4–0 defeat.[14]
Preston North End
Sheffield Wednesday
