Rayan Lucas

Rayan Lucas
Personal information
Full name Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza
Date of birth (2005-01-03) 3 January 2005
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Flamengo
Number 35
Youth career
–2025 Flamengo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2023– Flamengo 8 (0)
2025–2026 → Sporting CP B (loan) 22 (0)
International career‡
2024 Brazil U20 4 (1)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20 June 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 00:28, 2 December 2025 (UTC)

Rayan Lucas Marques de Souza (born 3 January 2005) is a Brazilian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Campeonato Brasileiro Série A club Flamengo.

Club career

As a youth player, Lucas joined the youth academy of Brazilian side Flamengo at the age of eleven[1] and was promoted to the club's senior team in 2023.

Sporting CP (loan)

Ahead of the 2025–26 season, he was sent on loan to Portuguese side Sporting, initially integrating the club's reserve team, which had recently been promoted to Liga Portugal 2.[2]

International career

Lucas is a Brazil youth international. On 5 September 2024, he debuted for the Brazil national under-20 football team during a 2–1 home friendly win over the Mexico national under-20 football team.

Style of play

Lucas plays as a midfielder and is right-footed. Brazilian news website Globo Esporte wrote in 2024 that he is a "classic number 5—with good passing, technical ability, and immense physical strength".[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Sporting: eis o que vale Rayan Lucas" [Sporting: here's what Rayan Lucas is worth] (in Portuguese). A Bola. 7 June 2025. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
  2. ↑ Rayan Lucas at WorldFootball.net
  3. ↑ "Sobrevivente no Ninho e campeão da Libertadores sub-20: conheça Rayan Lucas, do Flamengo" [Survivor at the Nest and champion of the U-20 Libertadores: meet Rayan Lucas, from Flamengo] (in Portuguese). Globo Esporte. 19 March 2024. Retrieved 26 September 2025.
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