Emmanuel Toku

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Emmanuel Toku
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Personal information
Date of birth (2000-07-10) 10 July 2000 (age 23)
Place of birth Kumasi, Ghana
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) [1]
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, winger
Team information
Current team
 AaB (on loan from OH Leuven)
Number 17
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2015–2019 Cheetah
2019–2021 Fremad Amager 34 (9)
2021 → Botev Plovdiv (loan) 16 (3)
2021–2022 Botev Plovdiv 47 (5)
2023– OH Leuven 3 (0)
2023 OH Leuven U23 2 (0)
2023– → AaB (loan) 13 (1)
International career
2016–2017 Ghana U17
2019 Ghana U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 17 April 2024

Emmanuel Toku (born 10 July 2000) is a Ghanaian professional footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder or a winger for AaB, on loan from OH Leuven. [2] [3] He played for Ghana at the youth level, playing for them in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup and serving as the captain of the Ghana U-20 national team in 2019.

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Club career

Fremad Amager

2019–20 season

Toku started his career with Ghanaian side Cheetah F.C. In August 2019, he signed for Danish 1st Division side Fremad Amager. [2] [4] He made his debut on 25 October 2019 in a 2–1 loss against Hvidovre IF, coming on as a substitute for Théo Chendri at half time. [5] He made his first start for the club on 2 November 2020 in a 4–0 loss to Vejle Boldklub. [6] Toku In a match against HB Køge, he came on in the 60th minute to assist a goal for Lukas Engel in the 83rd minute, which helped the team salvage a 1–1 draw at the end of the match. After that performance he featured more, going on to start in 8th successive times, in the process scoring his first goal in a 4–2 home win against Fredericia HK on 29 February 2020. [7] He scored his second league in a heavy 4–0 home win against Nykøbing FC on 1 July 2020. [8]

On 25 July 2020, he scored a goal against the eventual league champions Vejle Boldklub during the last match of the season which ended in a 4–1 home win for his team. [9] At the end of his first season with the club, he played 18 league matches and scored 3 goals. [10]

2020–21 season

Toku signed a new contract with the Danish team in August 2020, which extended his stay to 2023. [11] He was key member of the club in his second season. [12] He started in the first match of the season on 13 September 2020 against Vendsyssel FF, in the process scoring a screamer for his first goal of the season in the 40th minute of the match which ended in 6–0 win. [13] [14] He also scored the 3rd goal in the 73rd minute in a 4–0 match against Hvidovre IF on 20 September 2020. [15] [16] Toku scored a brace on 26 September 2020 in 2–0 win over Skive JK [12] and scored another brace in two minutes in a match against Hobro IK which ended in a 4–0 win. [17]

The club confirmed that other teams had showed interest in signing him during the winter transfer season. [18] [19] He played in 16 matches in the first round of the league and scored 6 goals before he moved on loan to Botev Plovdiv. [20] [3]

Botev Plovdiv

After playing the first round of the season with Fremad Amager, Toku signed an 18-month loan with Bulgarian Parva liga side Botev Plovdiv on 11 February 2021. [20] [3] He made his debut for the club in a 2–0 loss against FC Arda Kardzhali on 12 February 2021 and enjoyed 74 minutes of action before being substituted as he was named in the team's starting line-up for the game. [21] [22] In September 2021, he joined the club on a permanent deal, signing a three-year contract with the Plovdiv-based club. [23] He was assigned the number 10 jersey.

Leuven

In January 2023, Toku joined Belgian Pro League club OH Leuven. [24] On 1 September 2023, Toku joined newly relegated Danish 1st Division team AaB on a one-year loan deal including a purchase option. [25]

International career

Toku played in the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup and later captained the national under-20 team at the 2019 African Games. [26]

Honours

Ghana U17

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  2. 1 2 "Black Satellites captain Emmanuel Toku joins Danish side BK Fremad Amager". GhanaSoccernet. 30 August 2019. Retrieved 20 August 2020.
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  6. ↑ "Vejle vs. Fremad Amager - 2 November 2019 - Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  7. ↑ "Fremad Amager vs. Fredericia - 29 February 2020 - Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  8. ↑ "Fremad Amager vs. Nykøbing - 1 July 2020 - Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  9. ↑ "Fremad Amager vs. Vejle - 25 July 2020 - Soccerway". Soccerway. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
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  12. 1 2 "VIDEO: Emmanuel Toku brace for Fremad Amager in 2-0 win over Skive JK". GhanaSoccernet. 28 September 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
  13. ↑ "Watch Emmanuel Toku's first goal of the 2020/21 season for Fremad Amager". GhanaSoccernet. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 22 February 2021.
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