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Yūta Nakayama - Wikipedia

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Yuta Nakayama
中山雄太

Personal information

Full name

Yuta Nakayama

Date of birth

16 February 1997 (age 27)

Place of birth

Ryūgasaki, Ibaraki, Japan

Height

1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)

Position(s)

Centre back

Team information

Current team

Machida Zelvia

Number

Youth career

2011–2014

Kashiwa Reysol

Senior career*

Years

Team

Apps

(Gls)

2015–2018

Kashiwa Reysol

(6)

2015

→ J. League U-22 (loan)

(0)

2019–2022

PEC Zwolle

(5)

2022–2024

Huddersfield Town

(2)

2024–

Machida Zelvia

(0)

International career^‡

2015–2017

Japan U-20

(0)

2018–2021

Japan U-23

(4)

2019–

Japan

(0)

Medal record

Representing Japan

AFC U-19 Championship
	2016 Bahrain

*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:24, 1 January 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 January 2024 (UTC)

Yuta Nakayama (中山雄太, Nakayama Yūta, born 16 February 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre back for J1 League club Machida Zelvia^[1]^[2] and the Japan national team.

Club career

Kashiwa Reysol

Nakayama was born in Ibaraki, Japan. He made his official debut for Kashiwa Reysol in the J. League Division 1, AFC Champions League on 6 May 2015 against the Vietnam-based club Binh Duong F.C in Go Dau Stadium in Thu Dau Mot, Vietnam. He started and played the full match, receiving a yellow card in the 83rd minute. Nakayama and his club lost the match 1–0.^[3]

In 2017, Nakayama was named J.League Rookie of the Year.^[4]

PEC Zwolle

On 15 January 2019, Nakayama joined Eredivisie team PEC Zwolle on a three-and-a-half-year deal.^[5] He made his debut for Zwolle on 31 March 2019, in a 3–0 home victory over FC Emmen.^[6] He scored his first goal in the Netherlands, on 17 January 2020, in a 3–3 draw against Utrecht.^[7]

Huddersfield Town

On 15 July 2022, following PEC Zwolle's relegation from the Eredivisie, Nakayama joined EFL Championship club Huddersfield Town on a two-year deal.^[8] Nakayama scored his first goal in England in his third appearance for Huddersfield, a 3–1 victory over Stoke City on 13 August 2022.^[9]

International career

In May 2017, Nakayama was elected Japan U-20 national team for 2017 U-20 World Cup. At this tournament, he played full time in all four matches as center back.

He made his Japan national team debut on 17 June 2019 in the 2019 Copa América game against Chile, as a starter.^[10]

Nakayama was selected for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, but he was forced to withdraw from the official squad list, due to an achilles injury.^[11]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 5 May 2024^[12]^[13]^[14]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National cup		League cup		Continental		Other		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Kashiwa Reysol	2015	J1 League	1	0	0	0	1	0	2^[a]	0	—		4	0
	2016	J1 League	26	2	2	0	4	0	—		—		32	2
	2017	J1 League	30	1	4	0	4	0	—		—		38	1
	2018	J1 League	19	3	0	0	2	0	4^[a]	0	—		25	3
	Total		76	6	6	0	11	0	6	0	0	0	99	6
J.League U-22 Selection (loan)	2015	J3 League	12	0	—		—		—		—		12	0
PEC Zwolle	2018–19	Eredivisie	4	0	0	0	—		—		—		4	0
	2019–20	Eredivisie	14	2	1	0	—		—		—		15	2
	2020–21	Eredivisie	32	2	1	0	—		—		—		33	2
	2021–22	Eredivisie	29	1	3	1	—		—		—		32	2
	Total		79	5	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	84	6
Huddersfield Town	2022–23	Championship	14	2	0	0	1	0	—		—		15	2
	2023–24	Championship	23	0	0	0	1	0	—		—		24	0
	Total		37	2	0	0	2	0	—		—		39	2
Total			199	13	11	1	13	0	6	0	0	0	229	14

^ ^a ^b Appearances in AFC Champions League

International

As of match played 31 January 2024^[15]

National team	Year	Apps
Japan	2019	1
	2020	4
	2021	4
	2022	8
	2023	3
	2024	2
Total		22

Honors

Individual

J.League Rookie of the Year: 2017

References

^ "Yuta Nakayama - Profile". FIFA. Archived from the original on 27 May 2017. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
^ Yūta Nakayama at WorldFootball.net
^ "BINH DUONG VS. KASHIWA REYSOL 1 - 0". Soccerway. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
^ "Jリーグ歴代のMVP・ベストイレブン・得点王・ベストヤングプレーヤー賞". ULTRAZONE (in Japanese). Retrieved 18 July 2022.
^ "Yuta Nakayama nieuwe aanwinst PEC Zwolle". PEC Zwolle (in Dutch). 15 January 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^ "Pec Zwolle vs. Emmen". FOX Sports. 31 March 2019. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
^ "PEC Zwolle vs. Utrecht - 17 January 2020 - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
^ "SIGNING: JAPAN INTERNATIONAL YUTA NAKAYAMA JOINS!". Huddersfield Town AFC. 15 July 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^ Wobschall, Leon (13 August 2022). "Nakayama is Huddersfield Town's Japanese boy as hosts have lift-off with win". The Yorkshire Post. Retrieved 14 August 2022.
^ "Japan v Chile game report". CONMEBOL. 17 June 2019.
^ "Yuta Nakayama: Huddersfield defender to miss World Cup after being ruled out for season". BBC Sport. 3 November 2022.
^ 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. 32 out of 289)
^ 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. 64 out of 289)
^ "Japan - Y. Nakayama". Soccerway. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
^ Yūta Nakayama at National-Football-Teams.com

External links

Yūta Nakayama – FIFA competition record (archived)
Yūta Nakayama at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
Yūta Nakayama at WorldFootball.net
Profile at Kashiwa Reysol official website (in Japanese)
Yūta Nakayama at Soccerway
Yūta Nakayama at National-Football-Teams.com

v t e FC Machida Zelvia – current squad
1 Tani 3 Shoji 5 Drešević 6 Suzuki 7 Soma 7 Sento 9 Fujio 10 Na 11 Erik 14 Jang 15 Duke 18 Shimoda 19 Nakayama 22 Fujimoto 23 Shirasaki 25 Sugioka 26 Hayashi 30 Nakashima 33 Heroki Mochizuki 37 Ashibe 38 Takasaki 39 Vásquez 41 Yasui 42 Fukui 44 Arai 45 Shibato 47 Araki 49 Kuwayama 50 Burns 55 Matsumoto 60 Mayaka 90 Oh Manager: Kuroda

Japan squads

v t e Japan squad – 2019 Copa América
1 Kawashima 2 Sugioka 3 Nakayama 4 Itakura 5 N. Ueda 6 Watanabe 7 Shibasaki (c) 8 Ito 9 Maeda 10 Nakajima 11 Miyoshi 12 Kojima 13 A. Ueda 14 Hara 15 Suga 16 Tomiyasu 17 Matsumoto 18 Okazaki 19 Iwata 20 Abe 21 Kubo 22 Tatsuta 23 Osako Coach: Moriyasu

v t e Japan men's football squad – 2020 Summer Olympics – Fourth place
1 Osako 2 Sakai 3 Nakayama 4 Itakura 5 Yoshida (c) 6 Endō 7 Kubo 8 Miyoshi 9 Maeda 10 Dōan 11 Mitoma 12 Tani 13 Hatate 14 Tomiyasu 15 Hashioka 16 Soma 17 Tanaka 18 Ueda 19 Hayashi 20 Machida 21 Seko 22 Suzuki Coach: Moriyasu

v t e Japan squad – 2023 AFC Asian Cup
1 Maekawa 2 Sugawara 3 Taniguchi 4 Itakura 5 Morita 6 Endo (c) 7 Mitoma 8 Minamino 9 Ueda 10 Dōan 11 Hosoya 12 Nozawa 13 Nakamura 14 J. Itō 15 Machida 16 Maikuma 17 Hatate 18 Asano 19 Nakayama 20 Kubo 21 H. Itō 22 Tomiyasu 23 Suzuki 24 Watanabe 25 Maeda 26 Sano Coach: Moriyasu

J.League Rookie of the Year

1993: Sawanobori
1994: Tasaka
1995: Kawaguchi
1996: Saito
1997: Yanagisawa
1998: Ono
1999: Nakazawa
2000: Morisaki
2001: Yamase
2002: Tsuboi
2003: Nasu
2004: Morimoto
2005: Cullen
2006: Fujimoto
2007: Sugeno
2008: Ogawa
2009: Watanabe
2010: Usami
2011: Sakai
2012: Shibasaki
2013: Minamino
2014: Caio
2015: Asano
2016: Ideguchi
2017: Nakayama
2018: Abe
2019: Tanaka
2020: Seko
2021: Araki
2022: Hosoya
2023: Mito
2024: Takai

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