Name: Ayaka Yamashita
Nationality: Japan
Date of Birth: September 29, 1995
Position: Goalkeeper
Current club: Manchester City
Women's Super League clubs played for: Manchester City

Ayaka Yamashita is a goalkeeper at Manchester City who has taken part in the vast majority of the side's Women's Super League games in 2025/2026, making 13 appearances overall and playing 1,170 minutes. She has been selected in the starting XI in all 13 of these appearances across their 15 fixtures.

The last Women's Super League match that Yamashita played came on February 8 for Manchester City versus Arsenal; a game that she played 90 minutes in during a 1-0 loss. She has a total of four clean sheets so far this Women's Super League campaign, ranking joint fourth in this category across all goalkeepers in the competition.

Up next for Manchester City in Women's Super League action is a home match against Leicester City on February 13.

In last season's Women's Super League, Yamashita appeared in 10 games for Manchester City and clinched a clean sheet in three of those fixtures.