Benoît Costil

Benoît Costil
Costil playing for Bordeaux in 2018
Personal information
Full name Benoît Guy Robert Costil[1]
Date of birth (1987-07-03) 3 July 1987 (age 37)[2]
Place of birth Caen, France
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[3]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1993–1995 US Bretteville
1995–2005 Caen
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2009 Caen 10 (0)
2008–2009 → Vannes (loan) 27 (0)
2009–2011 Sedan 76 (0)
2011–2017 Rennes 219 (0)
2017–2022 Bordeaux 164 (0)
2022–2023 Auxerre 16 (0)
2023 Lille 0 (0)
2023–2024 Salernitana 13 (0)
International career‡
2008 France U21 2 (0)
2016 France 1 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  France
UEFA Nations League
Winner 2021 Italy
UEFA European Championship
Runner-up 2016 France
UEFA European Under-17 Championship
Winner 2004 France
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 June 2024
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 03:48, 31 December 2022 (UTC)

Benoît Guy Robert "Ben" Costil (born 3 July 1987) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.[4]

Costil also is a French international, having represented his nation at under-21 and senior level. He represented his country at UEFA Euro 2016, in the same year as his senior international debut. Costil won the 2021 UEFA Nations League Finals with France.

Club career

Early career

Born in Caen, Calvados,[3] Costil started his career at Caen in Ligue 1 but only made a 10 performances for the club before being sent on loan in the 2008–09 season to Vannes in Ligue 2.[citation needed]

On 17 June 2009, Sedan signed Costil from Caen until June 2011.[5] In two years at Sedan he made 76 appearances and was elected best goalkeeper of Ligue 2 for the 2010–11 season.[citation needed]

Rennes

On 14 June 2011, he signed a three-year contract for Rennes after his contract with Sedan expired. This transfer meant he returned to Ligue 1 for the first time since the handful of appearances he made at Caen at the beginning of his career.[citation needed]

Bordeaux

In 2017, Costil joined Bordeaux. In July 2019, he extended contract until 2022 and was named the team captain. However, following the signing of Laurent Koscielny, he was relegated to vice-captain. [citation needed] In 2022, Costil confirmed his departure from Bordeaux.[6]

Auxerre

On 16 July 2022, newly promoted Ligue 1 team Auxerre announced the signing of Costil for free, on a one-year deal.[7]

International career

Costil was a France U-21 international having participated in the 2008 Toulon Tournament.[8]

On 6 November 2014, Costil was called up to France manager Didier Deschamps' 23-man squad for friendly matches against Albania and Sweden.[9]

On 12 May 2016, Costil was called up to France manager Didier Deschamps' 23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 as the third goalkeeper behind captain Hugo Lloris and Steve Mandanda. His team won the silver medal in the competition, after losing to Portugal 0–1 in final game, but he did not appear in the tournament.[citation needed]

He made his debut on 15 November against Ivory Coast, playing the whole game, also captaining his side in a 0–0 home draw. He kept the first clean sheet.[10]

On 17 May 2018, he was included in a preliminary 35-man French squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia alongside Anthony Martial, but did not make the final 23.[11]

In September 2018, after Steve Mandanda got injured, Deschamps called Costil up to the national team for matches against Germany and the Netherlands in the UEFA Nations League.[12]

In October 2021, he became UEFA Nations League champion with the national team.[13][14]

Career statistics

International

As of match played 15 November 2016[15]
National team Year Apps Goals
France 2016 1 0
Total 1 0

Honours

France

References

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    "Benoit Costil". BFM Business (in French). NextInteractive. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Benoit Costil". ESPN. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b "Benoît Costil". L'Équipe (in French). Paris. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  4. ^ Benoît Costil at WorldFootball.net
  5. ^ "Benoit Costil s'engage pour 2 ans". Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  6. ^ "Official | Benoît Costil leaves Bordeaux". Get French Football News. 7 June 2022. Retrieved 9 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Benoît Costil signe à l'AJA". Site officiel de l'AJ Auxerre (in French). 15 July 2022. Archived from the original on 20 September 2022. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
  8. ^ "Benoît Costil au tournoi de Toulon" [Benoît Costil at the Toulon Tournament]. Archived from the original on 18 September 2008. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
  9. ^ "France boss Didier Deschamps calls up St Etienne defender Loic Perrin". Sky Sports. 6 November 2014. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
  10. ^ "France vs. Ivory Coast - 15 November 2016 - Soccerway". soccerway.com. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
  11. ^ "Anthony Martial left out of 23-man France World Cup squad".
  12. ^ Equipe de France : 22 champions du monde et Benoit Costil appelés par Deschamps, eurosport.fr, 30 août 2018
  13. ^ "– France on". FIFA. Archived from the original on 3 June 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  14. ^ "– Tournaments". FIFA. Archived from the original on 2 June 2007. Retrieved 7 June 2012.
  15. ^ "Costil, Benoît". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  16. ^ "France beat Spain to win Nations League". UEFA. 10 October 2021. Retrieved 10 October 2021.
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