Official: Lucas Chevalier signs 5-year deal with Paris Saint-Germain
PSG Official statement:
Paris Saint-Germain is pleased to announce that the Lucas Chevalier has signed. The 23-year-old French keeper, who will wear the number 30, has signed with the ruling European champions until 2030.
Lucas Chevalier was born in Calais on November 6, 2001 and is a pure product from Noord -Frankrijk. He started playing football at Sporting Club Coquelles, in the city where he grew up, at the age of six, before he came to Marck, where he played until 2014. He then signed for Lille OSC and joined the Club's Youth Academy on the Domaine de Luchin. Quickly promoted, the Young 'keeper made his National 2 (D4) debut in August 2018 against Épinal at the age of only 16. In 2018-19 he played 19 National 2 matches, one with the National U19s and three in the Coupe Gambardella (the French youth cup).
Lucas Chevalier, an important member of the Losc Reserve team, played in the Youth League in 2019-2020 and played the entire campaign until the round of 32. He then played a second season in National 2, before he came to the Professional First-Team Squad as goalkeeper of the third choice during the French Ligue campaign. Guided to Valenciennes in 2021-22, he played 30 games in Ligue 2 and was named Ligue 2 goalkeeper of the year. Returning to Lille in the summer of 2022, he quickly settled as the first-choice keeper, played 35 Ligue 1 matches and retaining 12 clean sheets, which confirmed his status as the rising star of the French goalkeeper ranks.
The French goalkeeper continued his rise in the 2023-24 season, in which he played 44 games for Lille, including a run to the quarterfinals of the UEFA Conference League. In Ligue 1 he still had a solid season with 34 performances and 11 clean sheets, so Losc to end with the second best defense in the competition behind Paris Saint-Germain. He also managed to translate his solid domestic performances into the European stage, ending the Northern Club in the general classification of the Champions League.
Comfortable on his line, in one-on-one situations, and in the air, he also has excellent distribution skills, qualities that have quickly established him as one of the best shot stoppers in the competition and one of the most promising players in his position in Europe. His progress was rewarded last May with the title Ligue 1 goalkeeper of the year at the end of the UNFP Awards season, as well as a nomination for the Lev Yashin trophy – of which he is the youngest goalkeeper ever to be nominated – who recognizes the best keepers of the season around the world.
At the international level, Lucas Chevalier has experienced almost everything with the French youth teams. He started his career at the U16S, before he represented the U18s four times and then the U20s. In 2023 he was the starting goalkeeper at the U21 European Championship and was then called for the first time in November 2024 for the French Senior National Team for the Nations League matches against Israel and Italy. In May he was called one of the 25 -player team to participate in the final of the Nations League.