Idris Kanu

Idris Kanu
Personal information
Full name Idris Kanu[1]
Date of birth (1999-12-05) 5 December 1999 (age 24)[2]
Place of birth London, England[3]
Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)[4]
Position(s) Wing-back, winger
Team information
Current team
 Barnet
Number 11
Youth career
2010–2016 West Ham United
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016–2017 Aldershot Town 29 (3)
2017–2022 Peterborough United 46 (2)
2018–2019 → Port Vale (loan) 3 (1)
2019 → Boreham Wood (loan) 18 (4)
2022 → Northampton Town (loan) 6 (0)
2022– Barnet 70 (15)
International career
2021– Sierra Leone 2 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 12:51, 23 April 2024 (UTC)

Idris Kanu (born 5 December 1999) is a professional footballer who plays as a wing-back or winger for National League club Barnet. Born in England, he represents the Sierra Leone national team.

He began playing football with West Ham United at 11 and spent six years with the club. He signed for Aldershot Town in October 2016 and, at the age of 16, became the club's youngest-ever player and goalscorer in league competitions. He joined Peterborough United for an undisclosed fee in August 2017, from where he was loaned out to Port Vale for the first half of the 2018–19 season and then Boreham Wood in the latter half of the season. He helped Peterborough to win promotion out of League One at the end of the 2020–21 season. He was loaned to Northampton Town in January 2022 and sold to Barnet in September 2022.

  1. ^ "Club list of registered players: As at 19th May 2019" (PDF). English Football League. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  2. ^ "FootballSquads - Port Vale - 2018/2019". www.footballsquads.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 June 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  3. ^ "Reading FC: Aldershot Town hand teenage wonderkid Idris Kanu first pro deal to ward off Royals interest". Reading Chronicle. 9 December 2016. Archived from the original on 13 April 2019. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference IKSW was invoked but never defined (see the help page).