Yusuke Minagawa
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Yusuke Minagawa[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 9 October 1991 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tokorozawa, Saitama, Japan | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Negeri Sembilan | |||||||||||||
| Number | 13 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Maebashi Ikuei High School | |||||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2010–2013 | Chuo University | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2014–2019 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 65 | (5) | |||||||||||
| 2018 | → Roasso Kumamoto (loan) | 41 | (11) | |||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Yokohama FC | 45 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2021-2022 | Vegalta Sendai | 48 | (5) | |||||||||||
| 2023 | Renofa Yamaguchi FC | 30 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2024–2026 | Nagaworld | 59 | (27) | |||||||||||
| 2026– | Negeri Sembilan | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Japan | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 13:06, 18 May 2026 (AEST) | ||||||||||||||
Yusuke Minagawa (皆川 佑介, Minagawa Yūsuke) (born 9 October 1991) is a Japanese international football player who plays for Malaysia Super League club, Negeri Sembilan as a striker.[2][3]
Career
Negeri Sembilan FC
On 17 August 2026, Negeri Sembilan FC announced the signing of Yusuke Minagawa from Cambodian club Nagaworld FC for the 2026–27 season.[4]
Personal life
Minagawa is a distant relative of Masahiro Kaneko.[5]
Club statistics
| Club performance | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Club | Season | League | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals |
| Japan | League | Emperor's Cup | League Cup | Asia | Other1 | Total | ||||||||
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 2014 | J1 League | 18 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 5 |
| 2015 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | 3 | 1 | 14 | 4 | |||
| 2016 | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 3 | ||
| 2017 | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 23 | 2 | ||||
| Total | 60 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 11 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 84 | 14 | ||
| Roasso Kumamoto (loan) | 2018 | J2 League | 41 | 11 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 41 | 11 | |||
| Total | 41 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 11 | ||
| Yokohama FC | 2019 | J2 League | 16 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 16 | 1 | |||
| 2020 | J1 League | 29 | 3 | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 3 | ||||
| Total | 45 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 45 | 4 | ||
| Vegalta Sendai | 2021 | J1 League | 15 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | – | – | 22 | 1 | ||
| 2022 | J2 League | 33 | 5 | 2 | 0 | – | – | – | 35 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 48 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 6 | ||
| Renofa Yamaguchi | 2023 | J2 League | 30 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 31 | 2 | |||
| Cambodia | League | Hun Sen Cup | League Cup | Asia | Other | Total | ||||||||
| Nagaworld | 2024–25 | Cambodian Premier League | 29 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 29 | 14 | ||
| 2025–26 | Cambodian Premier League | 30 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 13 | |||
| Total | 59 | 27 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 59 | 27 | ||
| Malaysia | League | Malaysia FA Cup | Malaysia Cup | Asia | Other | Total | ||||||||
| Negeri Sembilan | 2026–27 | Malaysia Super League | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 0 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 283 | 55 | 13 | 6 | 17 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 278 | 65 | ||
1Includes Japanese Super Cup, J. League Championship and FIFA Club World Cup.
National team statistics
| Japan national team | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 1 | 0 |
References
- ↑ "FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2015: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 11 December 2015. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 December 2015.
- ↑ "Yusuke Minagawa" (in German). weltfussball.de. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "Yusuke Minagawa". Soccerway. Retrieved 3 September 2014.
- ↑ "YUSUKE MINAGAWA IS A JANG!". facebook.com. 17 August 2026.
- ↑ "[甲府]金子昌広、広島内定の皆川佑介と親戚だった". blogola.jp (in Japanese).
- ↑ 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. 235 out of 289)
- ↑ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2016J1&J2&J3選手名鑑", 10 February 2016, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411338 (p. 13 out of 289)
- ↑ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 2014 (NSK MOOK)", 14 February 2014, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411109 (p. 15 out of 290)
- ↑ Japan National Football Team Database
External links
- Yusuke Minagawa – FIFA competition record (archived)
- Yusuke Minagawa at National-Football-Teams.com
- Japan National Football Team Database
- Yusuke Minagawa at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
- Profile at Vegalta Sendai
- Profile at Yokohama FC
- Profile at Roasso Kumamoto
- Profile at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
- Yusuke Minagawa at Soccerway
Categories:
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Chuo University alumni
- Football people from Saitama Prefecture
- Japanese men's footballers
- Japan men's international footballers
- J1 League players
- J2 League players
- Cambodian Premier League players
- Malaysia Super League players
- Sanfrecce Hiroshima players
- Roasso Kumamoto players
- Yokohama FC players
- Vegalta Sendai players
- Renofa Yamaguchi FC players
- Nagaworld FC players
- Negeri Sembilan FC players
- Men's association football forwards
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Japan
- Summer World University Games medalists in football
- Medalists at the 2013 Summer Universiade
- People from Tokorozawa, Saitama
- Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Cambodia
- Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Malaysia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Malaysia
- Expatriate men's footballers in Cambodia
- 21st-century Japanese sportsmen
- Japanese football forward, 1990s birth stubs