Jean Butez

About

Jean Butez (born 8 June 1995) is a French professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Serie A club Como.
Butez began his career at Lille, spending five seasons with the club’s reserve team without making a first-team appearance. In 2017, he moved to Mouscron on loan and impressed enough to earn a permanent transfer the following year. In 2020, Butez signed with Antwerp, where he quickly became the starting goalkeeper. He played a key role in Antwerp’s domestic and European success, contributing to their domestic treble in 2023 with 27 clean sheets, establishing himself as one of Belgium’s top goalkeepers.

Butez started playing football at the local club from his home town of Merris. Two years later, he made the move to the Lille academy, who had scouted him down during a futsal tournament in which he was named best goalkeeper. In the 2012–13 season, he gained his first playing minutes for Lille B in the CFA, the fourth tier in French football. After being relegated from the CFA with the club in 2015, he won the CFA 2 title a year later. In five seasons, he made 81 official appearances for Lille’s second team. In the meantime, he occasionally…