Shūichi Gonda

Shūichi Gonda
権田 修一
Gonda with SV Horn
Personal information
Full name Shūichi Gonda[1]
Date of birth (1989-03-03) 3 March 1989
Place of birth Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[2]
Position Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
Vissel Kobe
Number 71
Youth career
1995–2000 Saginuma SC
2001–2006 FC Tokyo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2017 FC Tokyo 203 (0)
2016–2017 → SV Horn (loan) 17 (0)
2017–2018 Sagan Tosu 67 (0)
2019–2021 Portimonense 15 (0)
2021 → Shimizu S-Pulse (loan) 38 (0)
2022–2024 Shimizu S-Pulse 148 (0)
2025 Debreceni VSC 4 (0)
2025- Vissel Kobe 9 (0)
International career‡
2008–2009 Japan U20 11 (0)
2011–2012 Japan U23 21 (0)
2010–2022 Japan 38 (0)
Medal record
Representing  Japan
AFC Asian Cup
Gold medal – first place2011 Qatar
Silver medal – second place2019 United Arab Emirates
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10 August 2026
‡ National team caps and goals as of 5 December 2022, 12:20 (UTC)

Shūichi Gonda (権田 修一, Gonda Shūichi; born 3 March 1989) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for J1 League club Vissel Kobe. He also represented the Japan national team at the 2014 and 2022 FIFA World cup.

Career

Gonda has made 244 appearances in all competitions for current J1 League club FC Tokyo between 2007 and 2016. During that time, he has won four honours with Tokyo and two with the Japan national team, with whom he made his full international debut on 6 January 2010 in a 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualifier against Yemen. He has made 32 appearances at various youth levels for Japan. After nine years with FC Tokyo, Gonda left Japanese football for the first time on 9 January 2016 as he agreed to join Keisuke Honda's Austrian Regional League side SV Horn on loan until 31 December 2016.[3] Gonda returned to Japan and Joined Sagan Tosu in 2017 until he left the club in 2018. Gonda went abroad to Portugal and joined to Portuguese club, Portimonense SC in 2019. Gonda then returned again to Japan and transferred to J1 club, Shimizu S-Pulse in 2021 as a loan initially, before later permanently transferring after a season at Shimizu due to Portimonense SC's relegation from the top tier in 2022.

Career statistics

Club

As of 25 May 2025.[4][5][6]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental[a] Other[b] Total
Division AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
FC Tokyo 2007 J League Div. 1 000000—00
2008 000000—00
2009 3401[c]010[d]0—450
2010 3002[c]07[d]0—10400
2011 J League Div. 2 2005[c]0—250
2012 J League Div. 1 310000050—360
2013 3302[c]000—350
2014 3301[c]000—340
2015 J1 League 220005[d]0—270
Total 203011022050102420
SV Horn (loan) 2015–16 Austrian Regional Leagues 2000—20
2016–17 Austrian Football First League 1501[e]0—160
Total 17010000000180
Sagan Tosu 2017 J1 League 3302[c]04[d]0—390
2018 3404[c]03[d]0—410
Total 67060700000800
Portimonense 2018–19 Primeira Liga 100000—10
2019–20 1401[f]03[g]0—180
2020–21 000000—00
Total 15010300000190
Shimizu S-Pulse (loan) 2021 J1 League 3800000—380
Shimizu S-Pulse 2022 3301[c]01[d]0—350
2023 J2 League 200[c]00[d]0—20
Total 73010100000750
Debreceni VSC 2025 Nemzeti Bajnokság I 400000—40
Career total 379019033050104380
  1. ↑ Includes AFC Champions League.
  2. ↑ Includes Suruga Bank Championship.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Appearances at the Emperor's Cup
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Appearances at the J.League Cup
  5. ↑ Appearances at the Austrian Cup
  6. ↑ Appearances at the Taça de Portugal
  7. ↑ Appearances at the Taça da Liga

International

As of 17 November 2022
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Japan U20 200720
200880
200910
Total110
Japan U23 201150
Total50
Japan[7] 201010
201100
201200
201310
201400
201510
201600
201700
201820
2019110
202020
2021100
202260
Total340

Honours

FC Tokyo

Vissel Kobe

Japan

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Japan (JPN)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 16. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
  2. ↑ "National team squad". jfa.or.jp. Japan Football Association. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "SV Horn obliged Shūichi Gonda". SV Horn. Archived from the original on 9 March 2016. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
  4. ↑ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2019 (NSK MOOK)", 9 February 2019, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411628 (p. 283 out of 289)
  5. ↑ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411529 (p. 66 out of 289)
  6. ↑ Japan – Shuichi Gonda – Profile with news, career statistics and history – Soccerway
  7. ↑ Japan National Football Team Database
  8. ↑ "All Positions | Goals | All clubs | MEIJI YASUDA J1 100 YEAR VISION LEAGUE | 2026 Player Stats". JLeague.co. Japan Professional Football League. Retrieved 17 May 2026.
  9. ↑ "AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 Technical Report and Statistics". AFC. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  10. ↑ "J2受賞選手:2023J2リーグアウォーズ:Jリーグ.jp". Jリーグ.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 7 December 2023.