Yu Kobayashi (footballer)
Appearance
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Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Yū Kobayashi | |||||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 23 September 1987 | |||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Machida, Tokyo, Japan | |||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward, winger | |||||||||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Kawasaki Frontale | |||||||||||||||||||
Number | 11 | |||||||||||||||||||
Youth career | ||||||||||||||||||||
Machida JFC | ||||||||||||||||||||
2003–2005 | Azabu University Fuchinobe High School | |||||||||||||||||||
College career | ||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
2006–2009 | Takushoku University | |||||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
2008 | → Mito HollyHock (loan) | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
2010– | Kawasaki Frontale | 365 | (139) | |||||||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
2014–2018 | Japan | 14 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 December 2023 |
Yū Kobayashi (小林 悠, Kobayashi Yū, born 23 September 1987) is a Japanese football player currently playing for Kawasaki Frontale and the Japan national team.[2]
Club statistics
[edit]- As of match played 6 December 2023[3]
Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other1 | Total | ||||||||
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Season | Club | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
Japan | League | Emperor's Cup | League Cup | AFC | Total | |||||||||
2008 | Mito HollyHock | J2 League | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 5 | 0 | |||
2010 | Kawasaki Frontale |
J1 League | 6 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 8 | 2 | ||
2011 | 32 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 2 | – | – | 39 | 16 | ||||
2012 | 26 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 2 | – | – | 35 | 10 | ||||
2013 | 23 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 2 | – | – | 33 | 7 | ||||
2014 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | – | 40 | 15 | |||
2015 | 18 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 21 | 5 | ||||
2016 | 32 | 15 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 37 | 16 | ||||
2017 | 34 | 23 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 6 | – | 51 | 29 | |||
2018 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 33 | 16 | ||
2019 | 31 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 42 | 17 | ||
2020 | 27 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 4 | – | – | 34 | 18 | ||||
2021 | 33 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 38 | 13 | ||
2022 | 30 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 9 | ||
2023 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 5 | ||
Career total | 370 | 139 | 33 | 11 | 40 | 11 | 32 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 481 | 178 |
1=Japanese Super Cup appearances
National team statistics
[edit]Japan national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2014 | 2 | 0 |
2015 | 0 | 0 |
2016 | 6 | 0 |
2017 | 3 | 2 |
2018 | 3 | 0 |
Total | 14 | 2 |
International goals
[edit]- Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first.[5]
No | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 12 December 2017 | Ajinomoto Stadium, Tokyo, Japan | ![]() |
1–0 | 2–1 | 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship |
2. | 16 December 2017 | Ajinomoto Stadium, Tokyo, Japan | ![]() |
1–0 | 1–4 | 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship |
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]Kawasaki Frontale
- J1 League: 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
- Emperor's Cup: 2020, 2023[6]
- J.League Cup: 2019
- Japanese Super Cup: 2019, 2021
Individual
[edit]- J.League Player of the Year: 2017
- J.League Top Scorer: 2017
- J.League Best XI: 2016, 2017
References
[edit]- ^ "Yu Kobayashi" (in Japanese). Kawasaki Frontale. Retrieved 22 September 2022.
- ^ "Stats Centre: Yu Kobayashi Facts". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 25 August 2009.
- ^ 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. 26 out of 289)
- ^ Japan National Football Team Database(in Japanese)
- ^ "Kobayashi, Yu". National Football Teams. Retrieved 19 December 2017.
- ^ "【天皇杯・決勝速報】PK戦まで続く激闘の末、川崎フロンターレに軍配。柏レイソルは猛攻実らず惜敗". Football Channel. Retrieved 9 December 2023.
External links
[edit]- Profile at Kawasaki Frontale
- Yu Kobayashi at National-Football-Teams.com
- Yu Kobayashi at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
Categories:
- 1987 births
- Living people
- Takushoku University alumni
- Association football people from Aomori Prefecture
- Japanese men's footballers
- Japan men's international footballers
- J1 League players
- J2 League players
- Mito HollyHock players
- Kawasaki Frontale players
- 2015 AFC Asian Cup players
- Men's association football forwards
- People from Machida, Tokyo
- 21st-century Japanese sportspeople
- Japanese football forward, 1980s birth stubs