Junya Tanaka

Junya Tanaka
	Tanaka with Sporting CP in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Junya Tanaka
Date of birth	15 July 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth	Itabashi, Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Forward / Midfielder
Team information
Current team	FC Gifu
Number	18
Youth career
2000–2005	Mitsubishi Yowa
College career
Years	Team
2006–2009	Juntendo University
Senior career*
Years	Team
2009–2014	Kashiwa Reysol
2014–2016	Sporting CP
2016	→ Kashiwa Reysol (loan)
2017–2021	Vissel Kobe
2022–	FC Gifu
International career‡
2012–2014	Japan
Medal record
Kashiwa Reysol
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 November 2022; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 October 2014

Junya Tanaka (田中順也, Tanaka Jun'ya, born 15 July 1987) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for FC Gifu.

Career

He played 9 games for Kashiwa Reysol in 2009 as a specially-designated player during his graduation year at Juntendo University.^[2] After spending nearly six years playing for Reysol, he signed a five-year deal with Primeira Liga side Sporting CP on 29 June 2014.^[3]

On December 21, 2013, Tanaka married model Manami Ui,^[4] and on July 16, 2014, they welcomed the birth of their first child.^[5]

Updated to 19 December 2020.^[6]

Club	Season	League		Cup¹		League Cup²		Continental³		Other⁴		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Kashiwa Reysol
	2009	9	0	0	0	0	0	-		0	0	9	0
	2010	24	6	3	1	-		-		0	0	27	7
	2011	30	13	3	2	2	0	-		4	1	39	16
	2012	31	5	6	2	3	0	6	4	1	0	47	11
	2013	32	11	0	0	4	3	9	2	1	0	46	16
	2014	12	5	-		6	3	-		-		18	8
	2016	21	4	1	0	4	1	-		-		23	4
	Total	159	44	13	5	19	7	15	6	6	1	209	62
Sporting CP
	2014–15	17	5	4	1	5	1	2	0	0	0	28	7
	2015–16	3	0	0	0	2	0	1	0	0	0	6	0
	Total	20	5	4	1	7	1	3	0	0	0	34	7
Vissel Kobe
	2017	24	1	1	0	7	4	-		-		32	5
	2018	20	2	2	0	2	0	-		-		24	2
	2019	23	6	6	4	6	1	-		-		35	11
	2020	19	2	-		0	0	4	0	1	0	24	2
	Total	86	11	9	4	15	5	4	0	1	0	115	20
Career total		265	60	26	10	41	13	22	6	7	1	361	90

Kashiwa Reysol

Sporting

Vissel Kobe

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^ "Junya Tanaka at Alvalade". Sporting Clube de Portugal. Archived from the original on 7 July 2014. Retrieved 1 July 2014.
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