Noahkai Banks
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 Banks with the United States in 2025 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Noahkai Dominic Banks | ||
| Date of birth | December 1, 2006 | ||
| Place of birth | Honolulu, Hawaii, U.S. | ||
| Height | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | FC Augsburg | ||
| Number | 40 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| –2015 | TSV Dietmannsried | ||
| 2015–2024 | FC Augsburg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2024– | FC Augsburg II | 18 | (2) |
| 2024– | FC Augsburg | 30 | (1) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2023 | United States U17 | 5 | (0) |
| 2024– | United States U19 | 2 | (0) |
| 2024– | United States U20 | 4 | (0) |
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of March 22, 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of January 12, 2025 | |||
Noahkai Dominic Banks (born December 1, 2006) is an American professional soccer player who plays as a defender for FC Augsburg.
Career
As a youth player, Banks joined the youth academy of German side TSV Dietmannsried. In 2015, he joined the youth academy of German Bundesliga side FC Augsburg at under-10 level and was playing for the club's under-17 team at the age of fourteen.[2] By 2024, he was promoted to FC Augsburg II, the system's professional reserve team, before earning a place on the senior team later that year. On January 12, 2025, he made his senior debut in a 0–1 home loss to VfB Stuttgart in the 2024–25 Bundesliga. Shortly thereafter, American newspaper USA Today wrote that he was "one of the U.S. men's national team's biggest prospects".[3]
In the 2025–26 Bundesliga season, Banks established himself in Augsburg's starting lineup.[4] He also scored his maiden goal for the senior team via a volley in a 3–1 win over VfL Wolfsburg.[5][6] During a 2–0 home win against 1. FC Köln on matchday 24, Banks was named the player of the match by German football magazine Kicker.[7]
Personal life
Banks was born to an American father and German mother, and is therefore eligible to represent either the United States or Germany.[8][9] He is a youth international for the United States, having been called up to the United States U20s.[10]