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Kō Itakura
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Japanese footballer (born 1997)
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Kō Itakura is a Japanese association football player born on January 27, 1997, in Yokohama. He plays as a defender, specifically as a centre-back, and wears the number 4 shirt. His career began in 2015, and he has represented clubs including Kawasaki Frontale, Vegalta Sendai, Manchester City F.C., Ajax, and the Japan men's national football team.
Itakura has participated in international competitions such as the 2019 Copa América and the men's football tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics. He holds Japanese citizenship and speaks Japanese as his native language.
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Key facts
- 2013
- Japan U16
- 2015
- → J. League U-22 (loan)
- 2018
- → Vegalta Sendai (loan)
- 2019
- Japan
- 2025
- Ajax
- Full name
- Kō Itakura
- Date of birth
- ( 1997-01-27 ) 27 January 1997 (age 29)
- Place of birth
- Aoba-ku , Yokohama , Kanagawa , Japan
- Height
- 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
- Positions
- Centre-back defensive midfielder
- Current team
- Ajax
- 2006 2014
- Kawasaki Frontale
- Years
- Team
- 2015 2018
- Kawasaki Frontale
- 2019 2022
- Manchester City
- 2019 2021
- → FC Groningen (loan)
- 2021 2022
- → Schalke 04 (loan)
- 2022 2025
- Borussia Mönchengladbach
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Ajax
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- Japan
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Yokohama
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Native language
- Japanese
- Participant in
- football at the 2020 Summer Olympics – men's tournament
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- AFC Ajax
- Position played
- defender
- Country for sport
- Japan
- Mass
- 75
- Official website
- koitakura.jp
- Image
- Kō Itakura - 板倉堰.jpg
- Height
- 186
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- date of birth
- 1997-01-27
- name in kana
- イタクラ コウ
- name in native language
- 板倉 滉
- start of work period
- 2015-00-00
- sport number
- 4
- social media followers
- 19400
- Commons category
- Kō Itakura
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17 May 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 31 May 2026
Ko Itakura (板倉 滉, Itakura Kō; born 27 January 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Japan national team.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kō Itakura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.