
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 played in the vast majority of their Women's Super League matches in 2025/2026, making 14 appearances overall and playing 1,260 minutes. She has been selected in the starting XI in all 14 of these appearances across their 18 fixtures.
The previous Women's Super League appearance that Yamashita made came on February 13 for Manchester City in a 6-0 win versus Leicester City; a meeting that she played 90 minutes in and kept a clean sheet. She has a total of five Women's Super League clean sheets so far this campaign, ranking joint third in this category across all goalkeepers in the competition.
A trip to Manchester United on March 28 is the next Women's Super League fixture for Manchester City.
Yamashita played 10 Women's Super League games last season for Manchester City, keeping three clean sheets.
