Tatsuya Tanaka (田中 達也, born June 9, 1992) is a Japanese
football
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player who plays for
Ratchaburi in
Thai League 1
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. His regular playing position is either as a
wide midfielder or a
wing-back. He has previously played for
Roasso Kumamoto,
FC Gifu
Football Club Gifu, abbreviated as is a Japanese football club based in Gifu, Japan. They play in the J3 League, the third tier of Japanese professional football. They also run a reserve team that play in the Tōkai Adult League Division 2.
Hi ...
,
Gamba Osaka,
Oita Trinita
is a Japanese football club currently playing in J2 League, having been relegated after the 2021 season after a three-year stint in J1 League. The club's home town is Ōita, Ōita, Ōita city, but the club draws support from Beppu, Ōita, Beppu, ...
,
Urawa Reds, and
Avispa Fukuoka.
Club career
A native of Fukuoka in northern-
Kyushu
is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surroun ...
, Tanaka entered
Kyushu Sangyo University
was founded in 1960 in Fukuoka City, and currently has twenty departments and six graduate schools. It is a private university.
Undergraduate Faculties and departments
*Faculty of Economics
**Department of Economics
*Faculty of Commerce
**Depar ...
in 2011. While completing his university studies he was a specially designated player for Roasso Kumamoto in J2 League and played 4 games for them between 2011 and 2013. After graduation he signed for Roasso on a full-time basis ahead of the 2015 season. He scored once in ten appearances in his first season as a professional and found it difficult to get regular game time. As a result, he was loaned to fellow J2 outfit FC Gifu for 2016 and played 18 times for the men from central Japan, scoring once.
Upon returning to Kumamoto in 2017 he began to play more regularly, making 21 appearances that year before experiencing a career best season in 2018. He played 40 out of Roasso's 42 league games and found the back of the net 9 times which, although personally good for him, was not enough to save his side from relegation to Japan's third tier.
Tanaka would not join Roasso in the J3 league, however, as his impressive performances as a wing-back for the men in red brought him to the attention of J1 side Gamba Osaka who added him to their squad ahead of the
2019 season.
Club statistics
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1992 births
Living people
Kyushu Sangyo University alumni
Association football people from Fukuoka Prefecture
Japanese men's footballers
J1 League players
J2 League players
Roasso Kumamoto players
FC Gifu players
Gamba Osaka players
Oita Trinita players
Urawa Red Diamonds players
Avispa Fukuoka players
Tatsuya Tanaka
Tatsuya Tanaka
Men's association football midfielders
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