Yukinari Sugawara
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Yukinari Sugawara[1] | ||
Date of birth | 28 June 2000 | ||
Place of birth | Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan | ||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right back | ||
Club information | |||
Current team | AZ | ||
Number | 2 | ||
Youth career | |||
AS.Laranja Kyoto | |||
Nagoya Grampus | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2018–2020 | Nagoya Grampus | 13 | (0) |
2019–2020 | → Jong AZ (loan) | 7 | (0) |
2019–2020 | → AZ (loan) | 16 | (2) |
2020– | Jong AZ | 5 | (1) |
2020– | AZ | 25 | (2) |
National team‡ | |||
2017–2018 | Japan U-17 | 12 | (1) |
2019 | Japan U-20 | 7 | (0) |
2019– | Japan U-23 | 2 | (0) |
2020– | Japan | 1 | (0) |
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Honours | |||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 16 May 2021 ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 23:23, 7 July 2021 (UTC) |
Yukinari Sugawara (菅原 由勢, Sugawara Yukinari, born 28 June 2000) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for AZ Alkmaar in the Eredivisie.
Club career[]
Nagoya Grampus[]
Sugawara made his debut for Nagoya Grampus on 24 February 2018, the opening day of the 2018 season in a match against Gamba Osaka.[2] In doing so, he became the second youngest player to appear in J1 League match ever at 17 years, 7 months and 27 days, only passed by former Gamba Osaka player Junichi Inamoto in 1997.[3] On 6 April 2018, Sugawara signed his first professional contract with Nagoya Grampus, the youngest in the club's history to sign a professional deal, at 17 years and 10 months.
Loan to AZ[]
Sugawara joined Dutch Eredivisie club AZ on 21 June 2019 on a season-long loan.[4] He made his first-team debut on 25 July, as a 59th-minute substitute during AZ's 0–0 home draw against BK Häcken in the second qualifying round of the Europa League.[5][6] At AZ he was mainly utilised as a right back, where he competed with the older Jonas Svensson, and was set to become his future successor.[4] On 4 August 2019, Sugawara started in the home match against Fortuna Sittard and scored the final goal in the 84th minute, to make it 4–0 after preliminary work by Calvin Stengs.[7] Both in the league and group stage of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, Sugawara was a regular rotational player during the season, while also making some appearances for the reserve team of Jong AZ in the second-tier Eerste Divisie. During this season he played 16 league games in which he scored two goals. [8]
AZ[]
On 23 February 2020, it was announced that Sugawara would sign a five-year contract to join AZ permanently from 1 June 2020.[8]
International career[]
Sugawara represented Japan at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[9] Sugawara made his debut with the senior Japan national team in a friendly 0-0 tie with Cameroon on 9 October 2020.[10]
Career statistics[]
Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Nagoya Grampus[5] | 2018 | J1 League | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 19 | 0 | ||
2019 | J1 League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
Total | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 0 | ||||
Jong AZ[5] | 2019–20 | Eerste Divisie | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | |||
2020–21 | Eerste Divisie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 9 | 0 | |||||
AZ[5] | 2019–20 | Eredivisie | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 11[a] | 1 | — | 7 | 0 | ||
2020–21 | Eredivisie | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 3[b] | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | |||
Total | 19 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 14 | 1 | — | 34 | 3 | ||||
Career total | 41 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 14 | 1 | — | 68 | 3 |
- ^ Appearances in the UEFA Europa League
- ^ Appearances in the UEFA Europa League and UEFA Champions League
References[]
- ^ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Poland 2019: List of Players: Japan" (PDF). FIFA. 13 June 2019. p. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 February 2020.
- ^ "Meiji Yasuda Life J1 League Section 1: Gamba Osaka vs Nagoya Grampus". nagoya-grampus.jp (in Japanese). Nagoya Grampus. 24 February 2018. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ "風間監督「年齢は関係ない」…名古屋17歳DF菅原由勢が堂々開幕戦フル出場". gekisaka.jp (in Japanese). Gekisaka. 24 February 2018. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "Huurdeal Sugawara afgerond". az.nl (in Dutch). AZ. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d e "Y. Sugawara: Summary". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ "AZ vs. Häcken 0–0". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 31 October 2019.
- ^ "AZ dankzij 4-0 zege en letter 'A' koploper, traditionele topdrie speelt gelijk". NOS (in Dutch). 4 August 2019. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "AZ legt Sugawara definitief vast". AZ Alkmaar (in Dutch). 23 February 2020. Retrieved 18 November 2020.
- ^ "U-17日本代表 メンバー・スケジュール FIFA U-17ワールドカップ インド2017(10/6~28)" (in Japanese). 24 September 2017. Retrieved 24 February 2018.
- ^ "Japan vs. Cameroon - 9 October 2020 - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com.
- ^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411529 (p. 149 out of 289)
External links[]
- Yukinari Sugawara at J.League (in Japanese)
- Profile at Nagoya Grampus
- 2000 births
- Living people
- People from Toyokawa, Aichi
- Association football people from Aichi Prefecture
- Japanese footballers
- Japan youth international footballers
- Japan under-20 international footballers
- Japan international footballers
- Association football defenders
- Nagoya Grampus players
- Eerste Divisie players
- AZ Alkmaar players
- Jong AZ players
- J1 League players
- Eredivisie players
- Japanese expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands
- Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands