Yukinari Sugawara (菅原 由勢, Sugawara Yukinari, born 28 June 2000) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for AZ Alkmaar in the Eredivisie.
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Full name | Yukinari Sugawara[1] | ||||||||||||
Date of birth | (2000-06-28) 28 June 2000 (age 22) | ||||||||||||
Place of birth | Toyokawa, Aichi, Japan | ||||||||||||
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||
Position(s) | Right back | ||||||||||||
Club information | |||||||||||||
Current team | AZ | ||||||||||||
Number | 2 | ||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||
AS.Laranja Kyoto | |||||||||||||
Nagoya Grampus | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||
2018–2020 | Nagoya Grampus | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||
2019–2020 | → Jong AZ (loan) | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||
2019–2020 | → AZ (loan) | 16 | (2) | ||||||||||
2020–2021 | Jong AZ | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||
2020– | AZ | 77 | (5) | ||||||||||
National team‡ | |||||||||||||
2017–2018 | Japan U-17 | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||
2019 | Japan U-20 | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||
2019– | Japan U-23 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||
2020– | Japan | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||
Honours
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 29 May 2022 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:23, 7 July 2021 (UTC) |
Sugawara made his debut for Nagoya Grampus on 24 February 2018, the opening day of the 2018 season in a match against Gamba Osaka.[2] In doing so, he became the second youngest player to appear in J1 League match ever at 17 years, 7 months and 27 days, only passed by former Gamba Osaka player Junichi Inamoto in 1997.[3] On 6 April 2018, Sugawara signed his first professional contract with Nagoya Grampus, the youngest in the club's history to sign a professional deal, at 17 years and 10 months.
Sugawara joined Dutch Eredivisie club AZ on 21 June 2019 on a season-long loan.[4] He made his first-team debut on 25 July, as a 59th-minute substitute during AZ's 0–0 home draw against BK Häcken in the second qualifying round of the Europa League.[5][6] At AZ he was mainly utilised as a right back, where he competed with the older Jonas Svensson, and was set to become his future successor.[4] On 4 August 2019, Sugawara started in the home match against Fortuna Sittard and scored the final goal in the 84th minute, to make it 4–0 after preliminary work by Calvin Stengs.[7] Both in the league and group stage of the 2019–20 UEFA Europa League, Sugawara was a regular rotational player during the season, while also making some appearances for the reserve team of Jong AZ in the second-tier Eerste Divisie. During this season he played 16 league games in which he scored two goals. [8]
On 23 February 2020, it was announced that Sugawara would sign a five-year contract to join AZ permanently from 1 June 2020.[8]
Sugawara represented Japan at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[9] Sugawara made his debut with the senior Japan national team in a friendly 0–0 tie with Cameroon on 9 October 2020.[10]
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Nagoya Grampus[5] | 2018 | J1 League | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 0 | — | — | 19 | 0 | ||
2019 | J1 League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
Total | 13 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 0 | — | — | 25 | 0 | ||||
Jong AZ[5] | 2019–20 | Eerste Divisie | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | |||
2020–21 | Eerste Divisie | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 2 | 0 | ||||
Total | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | —| | 9 | 0 | |||||
AZ[5] | 2019–20 | Eredivisie | 16 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 11[lower-alpha 1] | 1 | — | 7 | 2 | ||
2020–21 | Eredivisie | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | 3[lower-alpha 2] | 0 | — | 28 | 2 | |||
2021–22 | Eredivisie | 33 | 1 | 4 | 0 | — | 8 | 0 | — | 42 | 1 | |||
2022–23 | Eredivisie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | |||
Total | 74 | 5 | 6 | 0 | — | 22 | 1 | — | 77 | 5 | ||||
Career total | 96 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 22 | 1 | — | 111 | 5 |
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