Akito Takagi

Akito Takagi (髙木 彰人, Takagi Akito) is a Japanese football player. He currently plays for Matsumoto Yamaga FC on loan from Gamba Osaka in the J1 League as well as their reserve team, Gamba Osaka U-23 in J3 League. His playing position is either attacking midfielder or forward.[1][2]

Akito Takagi
髙木 彰人
Personal information
Full name Akito Takagi
Date of birth (1997-08-04) 4 August 1997
Place of birth Sakai, Osaka, Japan
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position(s) Forward
Club information
Current team
 Matsumoto Yamaga FC
(on loan from Gamba Osaka)
Number 18
Youth career
2010–2015 Gamba Osaka
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014– Gamba Osaka 7 (0)
2016– Gamba Osaka U-23 59 (16)
2019 → Montedio Yamagata (loan) 10 (1)
National team
2017 Japan U-20 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:38, 7 December 2019 (UTC)

Club career

Born and raised in Osaka, Takagi came through the youth ranks at Gamba Osaka and joined the senior squad for the first time in 2014 at the age of 17. He made his debut on 16 April 2014 in a 2-0 J.League Cup victory away to Sagan Tosu. He started the game and was replaced by Akihiro Sato after 71 minutes.[3]

He didn't play at all in 2015 or 2016 before finding himself in Gamba's starting line up towards the back end of the 2017 season where he played a total of 7 league matches and 2 AFC Champions League games without getting his name on the scoresheet.

Gamba changed head coaches ahead of the 2018 season with Brazilian Levir Culpi replacing the long serving Kenta Hasegawa and this saw a big reduction in Takagi's top team playing time as neither Culpi nor mid-season replacement Tsuneyasu Miyamoto could find space for Takagi in their starting line-ups and he was restricted to a mere 1 J.League Cup substitute appearance against Urawa Red Diamonds.[1][2]

In 2016, Gamba's Under-23 side joined J3 League along with the reserve teams of FC Tokyo and Cerezo Osaka. Takagi featured for them often in their inaugural campaign, netting once in 23 appearances as they finished 9th in the overall standings. The team was run more as a youth team in 2017 and owing to this as well as his involvement with Gamba's first team, he only played once throughout the year. However in 2018, it was back to being a reserve team again and Takagi put in a stronger showing, playing all 32 games and bagging 5 goals as his team finished 6th in the final league table.[1][2]

National team career

In May 2017, Takagi was elected Japan U-20 national team for 2017 U-20 World Cup. At this tournament, he played 2 matches.[4]

Club statistics

Last update: 2 December 2018[1]

Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Japan League Emperor's Cup League Cup Asia Super Cup Total
2014Gamba OsakaJ1000010--10
2015000000000000
2016000000000000
201770000020-90
2018000010--10
2019000000--00
Career total 7000202000110

Reserves performance
Club performance League Total
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals
Japan League Total
2016Gamba Osaka U-23J3231231
20171010
2018325325
20190000
Career total 566566

Honors

Gamba Osaka

  • J. League Cup - 2014
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References
  1. "Akito Takagi Soccerway Player Statistics". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 17 February 2016.
  2. "Akito Takagi Gamba Osaka Player Profile". Gamba Osaka. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  3. "Sagan Tosu vs Gamba Osaka 16 April 2014". Soccerway. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
  4. https://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=371892/index.html


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