Joseph Anang

West Ham United

Anang began playing in the youth team for Danbort in his native Ghana, before moving to Ghana Premier League club Wa All Stars. He went on trial with West Ham United, ultimately signing for the club as an academy scholar in July 2017. He had to wait until March 2018 to play for the club's under-18 team, having not gained international clearance, during which he also trained with the first team alongside goalkeeper Adrián. Anang signed his first professional contract with West Ham on 1 July 2018. During his time with the club, he became close friends with fellow Ghanaian Mohammed Kudus when he signed from Ajax in 2023. He made five appearances in the EFL Trophy for West Ham's under-21 team. Anang signed a new contract with West Ham on 15 December 2020, with the agreement running until the summer of 2024. He departed the club at the end of his contract in 2024, having been on the bench as an unused substitute on 32 occasions for the first team.

Loan to Stevenage

Anang joined League Two club Stevenage on a season-long loan agreement on 15 June 2021. He made his English Football League debut in Stevenage's 1–0 victory against Barrow on 7 August 2021. Anang made 18 appearances during the first half of the 2021–22 season, before returning to West Ham in January 2022.

Loan to St Patrick's Athletic

On 28 January 2022, it was announced that Anang had signed for League of Ireland Premier Division side St Patrick's Athletic on loan until…

England youth career

Anang represented England at under-20 level, making his debut as a 79th-minute substitute in a 3–0 victory against Iceland under-20s on 19 November 2019. In October 2024, Anang spoke on his ambition to represent the nation of his birth, revealing that he had held conversations with the Ghana camp for a couple of years about a call up, saying "I'm just putting in the work and waiting for a call-up, we've been speaking the last two years but I was at West Ham as a No 3 and not playing. They might look at me more now and, hopefully in the future, you never know."

Ghana senior career

On 26 May 2025, Anang received his first call up to the Ghana national team, for their games against Nigeria and Trinidad and Tobago in the 2025 Unity Cup in London. On 12 October 2025, he was part of the matchday squad as they confirmed qualification to the 2026 FIFA World Cup following a 1–0 win at home to Comoros, earning his club St Patrick's Athletic hundreds of thousands of Euro in the process. On 14 November 2025, Anang made his Ghana debut in a friendly game away to Japan in the 2025 Kirin Cup. In June 2026, he was named in Ghana's squad for the 2026 World Cup.

Club

As of match played 14 September 2026

International

As of match played 14 November 2025

Born in Teshie, a suburb of Ghana's capital city Accra, Anang moved to England in his teenage years, following his parents leaving Ghana for a better life, Before playing as a goalkeeper, he played as a centre-back.