Koki Yonekura

Koki Yonekura (米倉 恒貴, Yonekura Kōki, born May 17, 1988 in Inage-ku, Chiba) is a Japanese footballer who plays for JEF United Chiba on loan from Gamba Osaka as a right full-back, and occasionally as an attacking midfielder. He previously played for JEF United between 2007 and 2013.[1][2]

Koki Yonekura
Personal information
Full name Koki Yonekura
Date of birth (1988-05-17) May 17, 1988
Place of birth Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position(s) Right back / Attacking midfielder
Club information
Current team
 JEF United Chiba
(on loan from Gamba Osaka)
Number 50
Youth career
2004–2006 Yachiyo High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2013 JEF United Chiba 166 (21)
2007 → JEF Reserves (loan) 3 (0)
2014– Gamba Osaka 123 (5)
2018 Gamba Osaka U-23 1 (0)
2019– → JEF United Chiba (loan) 16 (0)
National team‡
2015 Japan 2 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 21:33, 12 December 2019 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 13 October 2015

Club Career

A native of Chiba, Yonekura attended Yachiyo High School in his home prefecture and after graduating he signed for local club JEF United in 2007. In total he would spend 7 seasons with the Ichihara-based club with the first two being spent in J1 League and the latter 5 in J2. Playing as either a right sided defender or midfielder he went on to make over 150 league appearances and score 20 goals for JEF.

During the 2013 season, Yonekura put in an outstanding performance in the 3-0 home victory over then J2 side Gamba Osaka.[3] Despite this setback, Gamba went on to be crowned J2 champions in 2013 and signed Yonekura ahead of their return to Japan's top flight in 2014.

His first season in Osaka would prove to be a memorable one as Gamba wrapped up a domestic treble; lifting the J1 trophy in addition to the J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup. Yonekura scored 3 times in 34 appearances in all competitions and was a part of a rotation system with fellow full-backs Oh Jae-suk and Hiroki Fujiharu.

2015 saw him play almost 50 times across 5 competitions as Gamba once again lifted the Emperor's Cup, defeating Urawa Red Diamonds in the final, won the Japanese Super Cup, also against Urawa, and reached the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League before going down to Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande.

Gamba didn't lift any silverware between 2016 and 2018 and Yonekura again spent much of that period rotating with Korean Oh Jae-suk. He fell out of favour with head-coach Kenta Hasegawa towards the end of his reign in 2017 and made only 13 league appearances that season. However the following year under the management of first, Brazilian Levir Culpi and, following his sacking, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Yonekura began to play more regularly, scoring once in 26 games as Gamba eventually finished up 9th in the league standings.[1]

International career

On 23 July 2015, Japan's coach Vahid Halilhodžić called him for the upcoming 2015 EAFF East Asian Cup. He featured twice during the competition as Japan ended up in 4th place.[4]

Club Career statistics
As of 2 December 2018[1][5]
Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Other1 Total
ClubSeasonLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Japan League Emperor's Cup League Cup Asia Total
2008JEF UnitedJ1800031––111
20091603240––232
2010J212510–––135
201135731–––388
201224340–––283
201341610–––427
Total 1662112371––18525
2014Gamba OsakaJ12114092––343
2015312401010230494
201621100505000311
2017130104010–190
20182610060--321
2019000000--00
Total 112590252162301659
Career Total 278262133231623035034

1 includes J. League Championship, Japanese Super Cup and Suruga Bank Championship appearances.

Reserves performance

Last Updated: 21 March 2018

Club performance League Total
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals
Japan League Total
2018Gamba Osaka U-23J31010
Career total 1010

National team statistics

[6]

Japan national team
YearAppsGoals
201520
Total20

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References
  1. "Koki Yonekura Soccerway Player Statistics". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
  2. "Koki Yonekura Gamba Osaka Player Profile". Gamba Osaka (in Japanese). Retrieved 11 March 2019.
  3. "JEF United vs Gamba Osaka 7 July 2013". Soccerway.com. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
  4. http://www.jfa.jp/national_team/news/00006836/ EAFF東アジアカップ2015（8/2～9＠中国／武漢） SAMURAI BLUE（日本代表）メンバー・スケジュール
  5. "Stats Centre: Koki Yonekura Facts". Guardian.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-05-08.
  6. Japan National Football Team Database(in Japanese)
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