Ayaka Yamashita (footballer)

Ayaka Yamashita
山下杏也加
Personal information
Full name	Ayaka Yamashita
Date of birth	September 29, 1995 (age 25)
Place of birth	Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team	NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
Number	1
Youth career
2011–2013
Senior career*
National team‡
Nippon TV Beleza
Representing Japan
AFC Women's Asian Cup
Asian Games
	* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 31, 2018; ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of December 17, 2019

Ayaka Yamashita (山下杏也加, Yamashita Ayaka, born September 29, 1995) is a Japanese football player. She plays for NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza In the Japanese WE League. and Japan national team.

Club career[]

Yamashita was born in Adachi, Tokyo on September 29, 1995. After graduating from high school, she joined Nippon TV Beleza in 2014.^[1] The club won L.League championship and she was selected Best Eleven for 3 years in a row from 2015 season.

National team career[]

In August 2015, when Yamashita was 19 years old, she was selected Japan national team for 2015 East Asian Cup. At this competition, on August 4, she debuted against South Korea. In 2018, she played at 2018 Asian Cup and Japan won the championship. She played 25 games for Japan.

National team statistics[]

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Japan national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2015	3	0
2016	3	0
2017	5	0
2018	14	0
	10	0
Total	35	0

References[]

^ Nippon TV Beleza(in Japanese)
^ List of match in 2015 Archived 2018-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, 2016, 2017 Archived 2019-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, 2018, 2019 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)

External links[]

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Ayaka Yamashita at Soccerway
Ayaka Yamashita at WorldFootball.net
Japan Football Association

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[1] Nippon TV Beleza(in Japanese)

[2] List of match in 2015 Archived 2018-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, 2016, 2017 Archived 2019-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, 2018, 2019 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)

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