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Yōhei Kajiyama

Yohei Kajiyama
梶山 陽平
Personal information
Full name Yohei Kajiyama
Date of birth (1985-09-24) 24 September 1985 (age 39)
Place of birth Koto, Tokyo, Japan
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1998–2003 FC Tokyo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2018 FC Tokyo 292 (21)
2013Panathinaikos (loan) 7 (0)
2013Oita Trinita (loan) 9 (1)
2016–2018FC Tokyo U-23 (loan) 13 (0)
2018 Albirex Niigata 3 (0)
Total 324 (22)
International career
2005 Japan U–20 3 (0)
2008 Japan U–23 3 (0)
Medal record
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Yohei Kajiyama (梶山 陽平, Kajiyama Yōhei, born 24 September 1985) is a former Japanese football player.[1]

Club career

Kajiyama was born in Koto, Tokyo on 24 September 1985. He joined FC Tokyo from youth team in 2003. He is a skilful playmaker renowned for his passing and ball control, as well as his shooting with either foot. He debuted in 2003 and played many matches from 2004. FC Tokyo won the champions in 2004 J.League Cup first major title in the club history. He became a regular defensive midfielder in 2005 and played many matches every season. He was given "number 10" shirt in 2008. FC Tokyo won the champions in 2009 J.League Cup. However FC Tokyo finished at 16th place in 2010 season and was relegated to J2 League. In 2011, FC Tokyo won the champions and was returned to J1 in a year. FC Tokyo also won the champions in 2011 Emperor's Cup.

In 2013, Kajiyama was loaned to Super League Greece club Panathinaikos. In July, he returned to FC Tokyo. However he could not play at all in the match. In August, he was loaned to Oita Trinita. Although he played many matches, Trinita finished at the bottom place in 2013 season. In 2014, he returned to FC Tokyo. However his opportunity to play decreased year by year and he could hardly play in the match in 2018. In July 2018, he moved to J2 League club Albirex Niigata.[2] He retired end of 2018 season.[3]

National team career

In June 2005, Kajiyama was selected Japan U-20 national team for 2005 World Youth Championship. At this tournament, he played 3 matches as defensive midfielder with Yuzo Kobayashi. In August 2008, he was selected Japan U-23 national team for 2008 Summer Olympics. At this tournament, he wore the number 10 shirt for Japan and played all 3 matches as defensive midfielder.[citation needed]

Club statistics

Updated to 8 January 2019.[4][5]

Club Season League Emperor's Cup J.League Cup Continental1 Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
FC Tokyo 2003 3 0 1 0 3 0 7 0
2004 16 2 1 0 5 2 22 4
2005 26 2 2 0 1 0 29 2
2006 30 3 2 1 5 1 37 5
2007 24 1 2 1 6 0 32 2
2008 28 1 4 1 5 0 37 2
2009 31 2 3 1 10 1 44 4
2010 24 2 3 0 6 1 1 0 34 3
2011 34 6 6 0 40 6
2012 26 2 1 0 3 1 4 1 34 4
Total 242 21 25 4 44 6 5 1 316 32
Panathinaikos 2012/13 7 0 0 0 7 0
Total 7 0 0 0 7 0
FC Tokyo 2013 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Oita Trinita 2013 9 1 0 0 0 0 9 1
Total 9 1 0 0 0 0 9 1
FC Tokyo 2014 7 0 1 0 0 0 8 0
2015 18 0 0 0 0 0 18 0
2016 14 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 17 0
2017 11 0 1 0 5 0 17 0
2018 0 0 0 0 3 1 3 1
Total 50 0 3 0 10 1 0 0 63 1
FC Tokyo U-23 2016 3 0 3 0
2017 5 0 5 0
2018 5 0 5 0
Total 13 0 13 0
Albirex Niigata 2018 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Total 3 0 0 0 0 0 3 0
Career total 324 22 28 4 54 7 5 1 411 34

1Includes AFC Champions League and Suruga Bank Championship.

Honours

FC Tokyo

References

  1. ^ Yōhei Kajiyama at J.League (archive) (in Japanese) Edit this at Wikidata
  2. ^ Albirex Niigata(in Japanese)
  3. ^ Albirex Niigata(in Japanese)
  4. ^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2017 J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 (NSK MOOK)", 8 February 2017, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411420 (p. 72 out of 289)
  5. ^ FC Tokyo(in Japanese)