is a Japanese

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. She plays for Gyeongju KHNP. She played for Japan national team.

Club career

Tanaka was born in

Sakai is a city located in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. It has been one of the largest and most important seaports of Japan since the medieval era. Sakai is known for its keyhole-shaped burial mounds, or kofun, which date from the fifth century and incl ...

on 23 April 1988. After graduating from high school, she joined

Tasaki Perule FC was a women's football team which played in Division 1 of Japan's Nadeshiko League. It founded the league back in 1976. The club was disbanded in 2008. Honors Domestic competitions * Nadeshiko.League Division 1 **Champions (1) : 2003 **Runne ...

in 2007. However, the club was disbanded in 2008 due to financial strain. She moved to

INAC Kobe Leonessa INAC Kobe is a Japanese football club from Kobe, founded in 2001. INAC stands for International Athletic Club while Leonessa means Lioness in Italian. In 2006 INAC Leonessa was promoted to the Nadeshiko.League, where it has played since 2020. ...

in 2009. She was selected Best Eleven in

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and

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. She moved to German

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club

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in July 2013. In October 2014, she returned to

. She moved to Korean

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club Gyeongju KHNP.

National team career

In November 2008, Tanaka was selected by the Japan U-20 national team for the 2008 U-20 World Cup. In March 2011, Tanaka was selected by the Japan national team for the

2011 Algarve Cup The 2011 Algarve Cup was the eighteenth edition of the Algarve Cup, an invitational women's football tournament held annually in Portugal. It took place between 2–9 March 2011. Format The twelve invited teams were split into three groups that p ...

. At this competition, on 4 March, she debuted against

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. In July, she played at the 2011 World Cup as Japan won the championship. She also played at the

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and the 2015 World Cup. Japan won 2nd place at both tournaments. She played 39 games and scored 3 goals for Japan until 2016.

Club statistics

* Champions League

National team statistics

List of match i
2011

at Japan Football Association

National team Goals

Honors

International

; Japan National Team * AFC U-17 Women's Championship : Champion:

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: Champion:

Club

; INAC Kobe Leonessa *

L.League The , commonly known as the , is a semi-professional women's association football league in Japan. The Nadeshiko League consists of two divisions that correspond to the second and third levels of the Japanese women's football pyramid respective ...

: Champions:

Empress's Cup , since 2018 renamed "Empress's Cup JFA Japan Women's Football Championship" ( ja, 皇后杯 JFA 全日本女子サッカー選手権大会) or The Empress's Cup, is a Japanese Women's football competition. As an elimination tournament, it can be ...

: Champions:

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Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship ( ja, 日韓女子リーグチャンピオンシップ, ko, 한일여자리그 챔피언십) was a women's association football competition between the clubs of Nadeshiko League ( Japan Women's Fo ...

: Champion: 2012 ; Frankfurt *

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: Champion: 2013–14

Individual

Division 1 : Best Eleven: 2011, 2012

References

External links

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Japan Football Association
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