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David Raya Martín is a Spanish association football player born in Barcelona on September 15, 1995. He plays as a goalkeeper and represents Spain in sport. His given name is David, and he speaks Spanish.
Raya has been a member of several sports teams, including Blackburn Rovers F.C., Southport F.C., Brentford F.C., and Arsenal F.C. He wears the sport number 1. His work period in professional football began in 2014.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Thesportsdb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- 2022
- Spain
- 2024
- Arsenal
- Full name
- David Raya Martín
- Date of birth
- ( 1995-09-15 ) 15 September 1995 (age 30)
- Place of birth
- Barcelona , Spain
- Height
- 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Current team
- Arsenal
- 2012 2014
- Blackburn Rovers
- Years
- Team
- 2014 2019
- Blackburn Rovers
- 2014 2015
- → Southport (loan)
- 2019 2024
- Brentford
- 2023 2024
- → Arsenal (loan)
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Arsenal
- Position
- Goalkeeper
- Nationality
- Spain
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- David
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Spain
- Place of birth
- Barcelona
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Spain men's national football team
- Position played
- goalkeeper
- Country for sport
- Spain
- Image
- RC Lens - Arsenal FC (03-10-2023) 21 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 184
Show 6 more facts
- date of birth
- 1995-09-15
- start of work period
- 2014-00-00
- birth name
- David Raya Martín
- name in native language
- David Raya
- Commons category
- David Raya
- sport number
- 1
Sources (3)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 22:05, 18 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 20:00, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
David Raya Martín (born 15 September 1995) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Arsenal and the Spain national team. Known for his consistency, distribution, shot-stopping abilities, and box command, he is widely regarded as one of the best goalkeepers in the world.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “David Raya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.