Kento Shiogai

Kento Shiogai was born in Tokyo in 2005, and he is already a forward at VfL Wolfsburg with Japan national team selection to his name. For anyone who grew up watching Japanese players build a domestic reputation first and only then cross the ocean in their late twenties, that timeline is startling. His generation treats European football as a normal first workplace rather than a distant reward. He went from Kokugakuin Kugayama High School and Keio University to Yokohama F. Marinos, then NEC Nijmegen in the Netherlands, and joined Wolfsburg in 2026. He is twenty-one, and his best seasons are ahead.

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Name (English)

Kento Shiogai

Name (Japanese)

塩貝健人

Reading

しおがい けんと

Born

March 26, 2005 (age 21)

Origin

Tokyo, Japan

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Rooster

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/shio_kenken/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kento%20Shiogai
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%A1%A9%E8%B2%9D%E5%81%A5%E4%BA%BA
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q127388493

Tags

• Tokyo
• association football player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.