.jpg) Costa withToulouse in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Logan Evans Costa[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (2001-04-01)1 April 2001 (age 24) | ||
| 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 professionalfootballer who plays as acentre-back forLa Liga clubVillarreal. Born in France, he represents theCape Verde national team.
Costa is a former French youth international, having represented them atU16 andU17 level, before switching to play for Cape Verde in 2022.
Costa was born inSaint-Denis,Île-de-France,[2][3] to aCape Verdean family.[4][5]
Having started to play football inArgenteuil,Val-d'Oise, Costa joined the youth academy ofReims in 2016.[6][7]
A player in Reims'sChampionnat 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 inLigue 1 games,[10] he was loaned toChampionnat National sideLe Mans for the2020–21 season.[2][8]
With Le Mans newly relegated fromLigue 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 toToulouse in August 2021.[2][11][13][14]
Costa made his professional debut for Toulouse on 13 November 2021, starting and playing every minute of apenalty shoot-out victory overLibourne in theCoupe de France, in which he helped his team keep a clean sheet.[15][16][17] Starting theseason behindRasmus Nicolaisen,Bafodé Diakité andAnthony Rouault, with a team aiming for promotion,[18][19] Costa first only made bench appearances inLigue 2.[20] However, he established himself as a regular starter in the Coupe de France, even scoring his first goal againstTrélissac.[20][21][22]
On 22 August 2024, Costa joinedLa Liga clubVillarreal 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 overCelta Vigo.[24] On 14 September, he scored his first goal for Villarreal in a 2–1 victory againstMallorca.[25]
Costa was a youth international for France, playing with theunder-16 andunder-17 teams.[8][12][13] He was also selected for theunder-19s andunder-20s, without playing any official games in a period where most of them were canceled due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[5][6][11][14]
On 16 March 2022, he received his first international call-up for theCape Verde national team.[26][27] He debuted with Cape Verde in a 2–0friendly win overGuadeloupe.[28] He was later named in Cape Verde's squad for the2023 Africa Cup of Nations,[29] where he played in all five of their matches before they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.[30]
On 14 May 2023, Costa refused to participate in a Ligue 1 match againstNantes due to the game being part of a league-wide campaign againsthomophobia, with players wearing shirts with rainbow-themed decorations.[31]
| 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 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cape Verde | 2022 | 4 | 0 |
| 2023 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2024 | 13 | 0 | |
| Total | 22 | 0 | |
Toulouse
Pour le défenseur axial franco-cap-verdien, international U20, qui vient de changer d'agent, le club rémois ne lui offre plus les garanties
d'abord passé par Argenteuil avant de poursuivre sa formation au Stade de Reims depuis 2016, avait trop envie de jouer.
