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Welsh association football player

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Tom Lockyer, born Thomas Alun Lockyer on 3 December 1994 in Cardiff, is a Welsh association football player who plays as a centre-back. He holds United Kingdom citizenship and represents Wales for sporting purposes. Lockyer has been a member of Bristol Rovers and of the Wales under-21 national team, having begun his professional career in 2012. He speaks English as his language.

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Key facts

2025
Bristol Rovers
Full name
Thomas Alun Lockyer
Date of birth
( 1994-12-03 ) 3 December 1994 (age 31)
Place of birth
Cardiff , Wales
Height
6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Position
Centre back
Current team
Bristol Rovers
2006 2011
Cardiff City
2011 2012
Bristol Rovers
Years
Team
2012 2019
Bristol Rovers
2019 2020
Charlton Athletic
2020 2025
Luton Town
2015 2016
Wales U21
2017 2023
Wales

via Wikipedia infobox

Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
Bristol Rovers
Position
Centre-Back
Nationality
Wales

via TheSportsDB

Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Tom
Gender
male
Citizenship
United Kingdom
Place of birth
Cardiff
Languages spoken
English language
Position played
centre-back
Country for sport
Wales
Image
Tom Lockyer in action for Wales v Croatia.jpg
Height
180
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date of birth
1994-12-03
Commons category
Tom Lockyer (footballer)
birth name
Thomas Alun Lockyer
name in native language
Tom Lockyer
start of work period
2012-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview

Thomas Alun Lockyer (born 3 December 1994) is a Welsh professional footballer who plays as a centre back for EFL League Two club Bristol Rovers. At international level he played for the Wales national team. He will become a free agent on 30 June 2026.

Lockyer played for Radyr Rangers, Cardiff City and Bristol Rovers at youth level before making his senior debut for Bristol Rovers in 2013. He joined Charlton Athletic in 2019, before departing the club a season later for Luton Town. Having been Luton's captain since the 2022–23 season, he was part of the squad that won Luton the first promotion to the Premier League in the club's history. During a Premier League match on 16 December 2023, Lockyer suffered a cardiac arrest on the pitch; he was resuscitated and was later fitted with an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Tom Lockyer” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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