Francisco Buyo
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Francisco Buyo Sánchez | ||
| Date of birth | 13 January 1958 | ||
| Place of birth | Betanzos, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1972–1973 | Ural | ||
| 1973–1975 | Betanzos | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1975–1976 | Mallorca | 16 | (0) |
| 1976–1980 | Deportivo La Coruña | 122 | (0) |
| 1978–1979 | → Huesca (loan) | ||
| 1980–1986 | Sevilla | 199 | (0) |
| 1986–1997 | Real Madrid | 343 | (0) |
| Total | 680 | (0) | |
| National team | |||
| 1977 | Spain U20 | 3 | (0) |
| 1977–1978 | Spain U21 | 3 | (0) |
| 1979–1987 | Spain U23 | 4 | (0) |
| 1979–1983 | Spain amateur | 11 | (0) |
| 1980 | Spain B | 1 | (0) |
| 1983–1992 | Spain | 7 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1999–2000 | Real Madrid C | ||
| 2000–2001 | Real Madrid B | ||
| 2008 | Jaén B | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Francisco 'Paco' Buyo Sánchez (born 13 January 1958) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
Best known for his Sevilla and Real Madrid spells, he appeared in 542 La Liga matches, third all-time highest at the time of his retirement, winning 12 major titles with the latter club.
A Spanish international during roughly one decade, Buyo represented the nation in two European Championships, being a backup on both occasions.
Buyo was born in Betanzos, A Coruña. At the age of fourteen he began playing football for local Ural CF, for which he appeared as both a goalkeeper and right winger during his one-year spell, achieving the feat of being both unbeaten between the goalposts and also the team's top goalscorer.
Buyo's first professional club was RCD Mallorca, in the second division. After one season he joined Deportivo de La Coruña, where he would stay until 1980, with a loan to SD Huesca – while he performed military service in Jaca – in between. He made his debuts in La Liga in the 1980–81 season with Sevilla FC, being the starting goalkeeper from the beginning; he played there six years, appearing in 242 official matches and also winning his first Spanish national team callup.
Buyo's performance at Sevilla made Real Madrid require his services, signing him in 1986 as a replacement for an ageing Miguel Ángel. In his first season he appeared in all 44 league games (the campaign featured a second stage), the first being a 3–1 win over Real Murcia, being instrumental to the Merengues' national title; he would remain in the capital club until his retirement in 1997, aged 39.
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