Thimothée Jacques Orcel Lo-Tutala (born 13 February 2003) is a French professional

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who plays as a

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for

Doncaster Rovers Doncaster Rovers Football Club is a professional association football club based in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. The team currently competes in EFL League One, the third level of the English football league system after winning the 202 ...

on loan from club

Hull City Hull City Association Football Club is a professional association football club based in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. They compete in the , the second level of the English football league system. They play their home ...

Early life

Born in

Gonesse Gonesse () is a commune in the Val-d'Oise department, in the north-eastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. The commune lies approximately eight kilometres (five miles) north of Le Bourget Airport, and it is ...

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, France, Lo-Tutala grew up in

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in England.

Club career

Lo-Tutala spent his early career with

West Ham United West Ham United Football Club is a professional Association football, football club based in Stratford, London, Stratford, East London, England. The club competes in the Premier League, the top tier of English football league system, English f ...

Brentford Brentford is a suburban town in West (London sub region), West London, England and part of the London Borough of Hounslow. It lies at the confluence of the River Brent and the River Thames, Thames, west of Charing Cross. Its economy has dive ...

and

Tottenham Hotspur Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, commonly referred to as simply Tottenham (, , , ) or Spurs, is a professional Association football, football club based in Tottenham, North London, England. The club itself has stated that it should always ...

. After leaving Tottenham in the summer of 2022, he signed for

in August 2022. In April 2023 he signed an emergency loan with

Stevenage Stevenage ( ) is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, about north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south. In 1946, Stevenage w ...

, making his senior debut on 7 April 2023, and becoming the seventh goalkeeper to play for Stevenage in the 2022–23 season. On 1 February 2024, Lo-Tutala moved on loan to

for the rest of the 2023–24 season. On 11 September 2024, Lo-Tutala signed a contract extension with Hull City keeping him at the club until 2028. On 21 March 2025, Lo-Tutala joined League One side

Crawley Town Crawley Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Crawley, West Sussex, England. The team currently competes in , the fourth level of the English football league system. Founded in 1896 as Crawley Foo ...

on a seven-day emergency loan. On 16 June 2025, Lo-Tutala returned to Doncaster Rovers on a season-long loan deal following their promotion to League One.

International career

Lo-Tutala is a France youth international, and by August 2022 he had 14 caps for their under-19 team. In June 2022, he was included in the French squad that took part in the

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, where the ''Bleuets'' reached the semi-finals before losing to eventual runners-up

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. He was called up to the France U20s for the

2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2023 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the 23rd edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, the biennial international men's youth Association football, football championship contested by the under-20 national teams of the member associations of FIFA, since i ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lo-Tutala, Thimothée 2003 births Living people French men's footballers Men's association football goalkeepers West Ham United F.C. players Brentford F.C. players Tottenham Hotspur F.C. players Hull City A.F.C. players Stevenage F.C. players Doncaster Rovers F.C. players Crawley Town F.C. players English Football League players French expatriate men's footballers French expatriates in England Expatriate men's footballers in England France men's youth international footballers 21st-century French sportsmen