Naoto Otake

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Naoto Otake
Full name	Naoto Otake
Date of birth	October 18, 1968 (1968-10-18) (age 39)
Place of birth	Japan
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Defender
Youth clubs
1984-1986 1987-1990	Tokai University Fuzoku Daiichi High School Juntendo University
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1991-1997 1998-2001	Zennikku / Yokohama Flugels Kyoto Purple Sanga	188 00(2) 099 00(3)
National team
1994	Japan	001 00(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Naoto Otake (大嶽直人, Ōtake Naoto^?, born 18 October 1968 in Shizuoka Prefecture) is a retired Japanese football player. He was a defender.

Otake was educated at and played for Tokai University Fuzoku Daiichi High School and Juntendo University. After leaving the university in 1990, he joined the Japan Soccer League side Zennikku Yokohama F.C.. When Japan's first-ever professional league J. League started in 1993, Zennikku F.C. was transformed to Yokohama Flügels for whom he continued to play. He moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga at the beginning of 1998 season and retired from the game as a Sanga player in 2001.

He was capped once for the Japanese national team when he played in a friendly against Australia on September 27, 1994 at the Tokyo National Olympic Stadium. He was a member of the Japan team that won the 1992 AFC Asian Cup but did not play in the tournament.

He is currently a coach at Kyoto Sanga F.C., (as of June 2008).