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
Manchester City's Ayaka Yamashita has appeared in the vast majority of their Women's Super League games in 2025/2026, making 17 appearances overall and playing 1,530 minutes. She has been selected in the starting XI in all 17 of these appearances across their 22 fixtures.
The last league match that Yamashita played came on May 3 for Manchester City in a 1-0 win versus Liverpool; a meeting that she played 90 minutes in and kept a clean sheet. The Manchester City goalkeeper has collected seven clean sheets this campaign, which is tied for the most in the competition.
Yamashita played 10 Women's Super League games last season for Manchester City, keeping three clean sheets.
