Ayaka Yamashita (footballer)
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Full name | Ayaka Yamashita | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | September 29, 1995 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Adachi, Tokyo, Japan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Nippon TV Beleza | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2011–2013 | Murata Women's High School | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2014– | Nippon TV Beleza | 79 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total | 79 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
2015– | Japan | 35 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, 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 Nippon TV Beleza 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
Japan national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2015 | 3 | 0 |
2016 | 3 | 0 |
2017 | 5 | 0 |
2018 | 14 | 0 |
2019 | 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
- {{FIFA player}} template missing ID and not present in Wikidata.
- Ayaka Yamashita at Soccerway
- Ayaka Yamashita at WorldFootball.net
- Japan Football Association
Categories:
- 1995 births
- Living people
- Association football people from Tokyo
- Japanese women's footballers
- Japan women's international footballers
- Nadeshiko League players
- Nippon TV Beleza players
- Women's association football goalkeepers
- Footballers at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Japan
- Asian Games medalists in football
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players
- Japanese women's football biography stubs