player · data as of 2026-09-19 03:27 UTC
Kou Itakura
Be the first in the standsDefenderage 296' 2"
Japancurrently Borussia Mönchengladbach
Japancurrently Borussia MönchengladbachCareer goals
18
all competitions, from the season archive · club 17 · country 1 — season by season in The Record below
Career appearances
288
all competitions, from the season archive — the same total The Record shows
World Cup 2026
0g 1a
counted live from our own match timelines
Team trophies
3
team silverware — the cabinet below
Career totals from the ESPN season archive — all competitions, the same numbers The Record below shows (Wikidata's senior spells fill in when the archive is thin — never the youth years, which stay listed on their own below); live World Cup stats from our own match timelines. Individual awards are counted separately from team trophies, so the headline count can't inflate.
Ko Itakura is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre-back or defensive midfielder for Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach and captains the Japan national team. — Wikipedia's own summary; its figures are theirs
Honours
3 team trophies · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updatedMarquee honours
2. Bundesliga
2021–22
| Team honours3 | ||||
| 2. Bundesliga | ×1 | 2021–22 | Schalke 04 | |
| Emperor's Cup | ×1 | 2018 | Vegalta Sendai | |
| J1 League | ×1 | 2017 | Kawasaki Frontale | |
| Individual honours4 | ||||
| Player of the year · 1 | ||||
| Groningen Player of the Year | 2020–21 | |||
| Teams of the season · 1 | ||||
| IFFHS Asian Men's Team of the Year | 2024 | |||
| Monthly awards · 1 | ||||
| Borussia's Player of the Month | 2023 | |||
| More honours · 1 | ||||
| Tag Heuer Young Guns Award | 2018 | |||
The Record
season by season · 35 competition-seasons · ESPN archive| Season | Competition | Team | Apps | Goals | Assists | Shots | YC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | all competitions | all teams | 288 | 18 | 5 | 125 | 41 |
| 2026 | Bundesliga | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 2026 | DFB-Pokal | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | FIFA World Cup | Japan | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2026 | Friendlies | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2025 | Champions League | Ajax Amsterdam | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2025 | Eredivisie | Ajax Amsterdam | 19 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 |
| 2025 | Friendlies | Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2025 | Ned Cup | Ajax Amsterdam | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2024 | Bundesliga | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 31 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 5 |
| 2024 | DFB-Pokal | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Career
league apps & goals · Wikidata, community-updated (national-team rows can lag a match or two)| Years | Team | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015–2018 | Kawasaki Frontale | 7 | 0 |
| 2018–2018 | Vegalta Sendai | 24 | 3 |
| 2019–now | Japan | 42 | 2 |
| 2019–2021 | FC Groningen | 56 | 1 |
| 2019–2022 | Manchester City F.C. | 0 | 0 |
| 2021–2022 | FC Schalke 04 | 31 | 4 |
| 2022–2025 | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 75 | 6 |
| 2025–2026 | AFC Ajax | 18 | 1 |
| 2026–now | Borussia Mönchengladbach | 0 | 0 |
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