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İlkay Gündoğan

Also known as Ilkay Gundogan, Ilkay Gündogan

Turkish-German association football player (born 1990)

AI overview

İlkay Gündoğan is a professional soccer player born in 1990 who has German and Turkish heritage. He is notable as a midfielder who has played for some of Europe's top clubs and represented Germany in international competition.

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Within Vinony's link graph, İlkay Gündoğan is referenced by 481 other articles, and connects out to midfielder, Bundesliga and captain.

It sits within the topics 1990 births, 1. FC Nürnberg players and 2018 FIFA World Cup players.

Its subject is documented across 64 Wikipedia language editions.

Film & TV

Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Known for

Mesut Özil – Among Friends — Self (archive footage)2026
Unser Team - Die Heim-EM 2024 — Self2025
The Night of Paris – Terror at the Stade de France — Self2025
The Pep Effect — Self2024
FC Barcelona USA Summer Tour 2024 | The Movie — Self2024
Pep Guardiola: Chasing Perfection — Self - Former Manchester City Player2024
Together: Treble Winners — Self2024
The Movie of the US Tour 2023 — Self2023
All or Nothing – The German National Team in Qatar — Self2023
Thomas Hitzlsperger – Katar, warum nur? — Self2022

via TMDB

Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Gender: male
Citizenship: Turkey
Place of birth: Gelsenkirchen
Occupation: association football player
Languages spoken: Turkish
Native language: Turkish
Award: German Footballer of the Year
Participant in: 2018 FIFA World Cup
Sport: association football
Member of team: Galatasaray S.K.
Position played: midfielder
League: La Liga
Country for sport: Germany
Mass: 79
Image: 20180602 FIFA Friendly Match Austria vs. Germany İlkay Gündoğan 850 0728.jpg
Height: 180

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Commons category: İlkay Gündoğan
date of birth: 1990-10-24
sport number: 20
start of work period: 2008-00-00
name in native language: İlkay Gündoğan
social media followers: 1576245
relative: Naz Aydemir Akyol

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Encyclopedic overview

* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 23:47, 17 May 2026 (UTC)

İlkay Gündoğan ( Turkish: [ilˈkaj ˈɟyndoan]; born 24 October 1990) is a German professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Süper Lig club Galatasaray. He was considered amongst the best midfielders in world football.

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