
İlkay Gündoan came up through the youth system at VfL Bochum.
He joined the club’s reserve team in 2008 before joining 1. FC Nürnberg the following season.
In 2011, he was recruited by Borussia Dortmund, where he won the Bundesliga and DFB-Pokal in his debut season.
He assisted die Borussen in reaching their first UEFA Champions League Final since 1997 in 2013. Gündoan joined Manchester City in the summer of 2016 for an estimated value of £21 million after playing 157 games and scoring 15 goals for the club.
He was the Premier League champion in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022, as well as the EFL Cup champion in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021, and the FA Cup champion in 2019.
İlkay Gündoğan wife
Sara Arfaoui is his wife.
She is 27 years old.
İlkay Gündoğan children
Gundogan has no children.
İlkay Gündoğan parents
His parents are Turkish. On his father’s side, his grandpa was a “guest worker” who relocated from Balkesir, Turkey, to the Ruhr area of Germany to work as a miner.
Gündoan was born to Turkish parents in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia.
During this period, his wife remained in Turkey with their children, where they were raised and educated.
İlkay Gündoğan siblings
His siblings are undocumented.
Gündoan’s father Irfan and his siblings arrived in Germany via family reunification in 1979, where he soon found work.
In 2009, Gündoan transferred from VfL Bochum to 1. FC Nürnberg.
On September 19, 2009, he made his first Bundesliga assist away at Bayern Munich in his fourth Bundesliga outing.
His first goal for the team came on February 20, 2010, in a home encounter against