List of Japanese footballers in European clubs

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This is a list of Japanese football players who play or have played in Europe.

Contents 1 2008/2009 season players 2 Austria 3 Belgium 4 Croatia 5 Denmark 6 England 7 France 8 Germany 9 Hungary 10 Italy 11 Lithuania 12 Netherlands 13 Norway 14 Poland 15 Portugal 16 Romania 17 Scotland 18 Serbia 19 Slovenia 20 Spain 21 Switzerland 22 Turkey 23 See also

[edit] 2008/2009 season players

Name	Team	Country	Div
Kenji Fukuda	Las Palmas	Spain	2nd
Takayuki Morimoto	Catania	Italy	1st
Daisuke Matsui	Saint-Étienne	France	1st
Sho Ito	Grenoble	France	2nd
Junichi Inamoto	Eintracht Frankfurt	Germany	1st
Makoto Hasebe	Wolfsburg	Germany	1st
Shinji Ono	Bochum	Germany	1st
Naoya Kikuchi	Carl Zeiss Jena	Germany	2nd
Keisuke Honda	VVV-Venlo	Netherlands	1st
Shunsuke Nakamura	Celtic	Scotland	1st
Koki Mizuno	Celtic	Scotland	1st
Suguru Hashimoto	Vejle Boldklub	Denmark	2nd
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto	Red Bull Salzburg	Austria	1st
Hidetoshi Wakui	SV Bad Aussee	Austria	2nd
Kazuo Homma	Diósgyőri VTK	Hungary	1st

[edit] Austria

Top division

• Tsuneyasu Miyamoto - Red Bull Salzburg (2007-present)
• Alessandro dos Santos - Red Bull Salzburg (2007)

2nd division

• Hidetoshi Wakui - Bad Aussee (2007-present)

[edit] Belgium

Top division

• Masahiro Endo - KV Mechelen (2000-01), La Louvière (2001-02)
• Takayuki Suzuki - Genk (2002-03), Heusden-Zolder (2003-04)

[edit] Croatia

Top division

• Kazuyoshi Miura - Dinamo Zagreb (1999)
• Nobuyuki Zaizen - Rijeka (1999)
• Yoshika Matsubara - Rijeka (1999)

2nd division

• Shuichi Mase - Trnje (2000)

[edit] Denmark

Top division

• Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi - FC Nordsjælland (2003-04)
• Suguru Hashimoto - Vejle BK (2007)

2nd division

• Suguru Hashimoto - Vejle BK (2007-present)

[edit] England

Top division

• Junichi Inamoto - Arsenal (2001-02), Fulham (2002-04), West Bromwich Albion (2004, 2005-06)
• Akinori Nishizawa - Bolton Wanderers (2001)
• Kazuyuki Toda - Tottenham Hotspur (2003)
• Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi - Portsmouth (2003)
• Hidetoshi Nakata - Bolton Wanderers (2005-06)

2nd division

• Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi - Portsmouth (2001-03)
• Junichi Inamoto - Cardiff City (2004-05)

[edit] France

Top division

• Daisuke Matsui - Le Mans (2005-present)
• Nozomi Hiroyama - Montpellier (2003-04)
• Kōji Nakata - Marseille (2005-06)

2nd division

• Sho Ito - Grenoble (2007-present)
• Daisuke Matsui - Le Mans (2004-05)
• Masashi Oguro - Grenoble (2006)
• Tsukasa Umesaki - Grenoble (2007)

[edit] Germany

Top division

• Junichi Inamoto - Frankfurt (2007-present)
• Makoto Hasebe - Wolfsburg (2008-present)
• Shinji Ono - Bochum (2008-present)
• Yasuhiko Okudera - 1. FC Köln (1977-80), Werder Bremen (1981-86)
• Kazuo Ozaki - Arminia Bielefeld (1983-85), FC St. Pauli (1988-89)
• Naohiro Takahara - Hamburger SV (2002-06), Frankfurt (2006-07)

2nd division

• Naoya Kikuchi - Carl Zeiss Jena (2008-present)
• Yasuhiko Okudera - Hertha Berlin (1980-81)
• Kazuo Ozaki - Arminia Bielefeld (1985-88)
• Yahiro Kazama - Remscheid (1987-88), Braunschweig (1988-89)
• Yuichiro Nagai - Karlsruher SC (1998-99)
• Ken Asaeda - Waldhof Mannheim (2002-03)

[edit] Hungary

Top division

• Kazuo Homma - Lombard-Pápa TFC (2005-06), Diósgyőri VTK (2008-present)

2nd division

• Kazuo Homma - FC Szeged (2006-07)

[edit] Italy

Top division

• Takayuki Morimoto - Catania (2006-present)
• Kazuyoshi Miura - Genoa (1994-95)
• Hidetoshi Nakata - Perugia (1998-00), Roma (2000-01), Parma (2001-04), Bologna (2004), Fiorentina (2004-05)
• Hiroshi Nanami - Venezia (1999-00)
• Shunsuke Nakamura - Reggina (2002-05)
• Atsushi Yanagisawa - Sampdoria (2003-04), Messina (2004-06)
• Mitsuo Ogasawara - Messina (2006-07)
• Masashi Oguro - Torino (2006-08)

[edit] Lithuania

Top division

• Minoru Takenaka - FK Atlantas (2000-03)

[edit] Netherlands

Top division

• Keisuke Honda - VVV-Venlo (2008-present)
• Tatsuya Mochizuki - Haarlem (1982-85)
• Shinji Ono - Feyenoord (2001-06)
• Toshiya Fujita - Utrecht (2003)
• Kazuyuki Toda - ADO Den Haag (2004)
• Sōta Hirayama - Heracles (2005-06)

2nd division

• Tatsuya Mochizuki - Stormvogels Telstar (1986)
• Takafumi Ogura - Excelsior (1993-94)
• Kazuhiko Chiba - AGOVV (2003-05), Dordrecht (2005)

[edit] Norway

2nd division

• Junichi Yamagishi - Sandefjord (2005)

[edit] Poland

Top division

• Kimitoshi Nougawa - Górnik Zabrze (2004)

[edit] Portugal

Top division

• Yasuhiro Yoshida - Santa Clara (1999-00)
• Nozomi Hiroyama - Sporting Braga (2002-03)

[edit] Romania

2nd division

• Kimitoshi Nougawa - FC Târgovişte (2005)

[edit] Scotland

Top division

• Shunsuke Nakamura - Celtic (2005-present)
• Koki Mizuno - Celtic (2008-present)

[edit] Serbia

Top division

• Takayuki Suzuki - Red Star Belgrade (2005-07)

[edit] Slovenia

Top division

• Yasuyuki Moriyama - HIT Gorica (1998-99)
• Hidetoshi Wakui - Interblock Ljubljana (2006-07)

2nd division

• Hidetoshi Wakui - NK Factor (2006)

[edit] Spain

Top division

• Shoji Jo - Real Valladolid (2000)
• Akinori Nishizawa - Espanyol (2001)
• Yoshito Okubo - Mallorca (2005-06)

2nd division

• Kenji Fukuda - Castellón (2006), Numancia (2006-07), Las Palmas (2007-present)
• Nobuyuki Zaizen - Logroñés (1996)
• Sotaro Yasunaga - Lleida (1997-98), Racing Ferrol (2000)

[edit] Switzerland

Top division

• Yoshika Matsubara - Delémont (1999)
• Naoki Imaya - Neuchâtel Xamax (2003-04)
• Kōji Nakata - Basel (2006-08)

[edit] Turkey

Top division

• Junichi Inamoto - Galatasaray (2006-07)

[edit] See also

• List of Asian footballers in Europe
• List of Chinese footballers in European clubs
• List of South Korean footballers in European clubs
• List of Iranian footballers in Europe clubs
• List of Tajikistani footballers in European clubs