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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Wellity Lucky Omoruyi[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 12 January 2006 | ||
| Place of birth | Zaragoza, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position | Centre-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Liverpool | ||
| Number | 92 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Club Deportivo San Gregorio Arrabal | |||
| Real Zaragoza | |||
| 2019– | Liverpool | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2025– | Liverpool | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2021 | England U15 | 1 | (0) |
| 2022 | England U16 | 3 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18 April 2022 | |||
Wellity Lucky Omoruyi (born 12 January 2006) is a professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Premier League club Liverpool. Born in Spain, he has represented England internationally.
Early life
[edit]Lucky was born on 12 January 2006 in Zaragoza, Spain[2] to Nigerian parents. He moved with his family to England at the age of eleven.[3]
Club career
[edit]As a youth player, Lucky joined the youth academy of Spanish side Club Deportivo San Gregorio Arrabal. Following his stint there, he joined the youth academy of Spanish side Real Zaragoza. At the age of thirteen, he joined the youth academy of English Premier League side Liverpool.[3]
On 29 October 2025, he made his debut for Liverpool as a second-half substitute for Andy Robertson in a 3–0 EFL Cup defeat against Crystal Palace.[4]
International career
[edit]Lucky is an England and Spain youth international. On 15 February 2022, he debuted for the England national under-16 football team during a 0–0 away friendly draw against the Portugal national under-16 football team.
Style of play
[edit]Lucky plays as a centre-back and is right-footed. African news website Foot Africa wrote in 2025 that he is "strong in duels and smart in his distribution".[5]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- As of 29 October 2025
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | EFL Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Liverpool U23 | 2024–25[6] | — | — | — | — | 1[a] | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 2025–26[7] | — | — | — | — | 1[a] | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||||
| Total | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||||
| Liverpool | 2025–26[7] | Premier League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
- 1 2 Appearance in EFL Trophy
References
[edit]- ↑ "2025/26 Premier League squad lists". Premier League. 12 September 2025. Retrieved 14 September 2025.
- ↑ "El aragonés Omoruyi, citado con la selección española sub-17" [Aragonese Omoruyi, called up for the Spanish U-17 team] (in Spanish). Heraldo de Aragón. 18 January 2023. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- 1 2 "Del 'Spanish Liverpool' al único español que está en el Liverpool: Wellity Lucky, un zaragozano que se mudó con 11 años" [From 'Spanish Liverpool' to the only Spaniard who is at Liverpool: Wellity Lucky, a Zaragoza native who moved at age 11] (in Spanish). Relevo. 27 November 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "Liverpool - Crystal Palace". BBC Sport. 29 October 2025. Retrieved 29 October 2025.
- ↑ "Wellity Lucky Omoruyi: Liverpool believes in him". Foot Africa. 26 May 2025. Retrieved 18 July 2025.
- ↑ "Games played by Wellity Lucky in 2024/2025". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
- 1 2 "Games played by Wellity Lucky in 2025/2026". Soccerbase. Centurycomm. Retrieved 30 October 2025.
External links
[edit]- Wellity Lucky at Soccerway
- 2006 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Zaragoza
- Spanish men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Spanish emigrants to England
- Naturalised citizens of the United Kingdom
- English men's footballers
- England men's youth international footballers
- Naturalised association football players
- Spain men's youth international footballers
- Spanish people of Nigerian descent
- Sportspeople of Nigerian descent
- English people of Nigerian descent
- 21st-century Spanish sportsmen
- 21st-century English sportsmen
- Liverpool F.C. players
- 21st-century Black British people
- Black British sportsmen