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Naoki Yamada
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Naoki Yamada is a Japanese association football player born in Urawa in 1990. He plays as a midfielder and wears the number 8 shirt. His career began in 2008, and he speaks Japanese.
Yamada has been a member of several teams, including Shonan Bellmare, Urawa Red Diamonds, the Japan national under-17 football team, and the Japan national under-20 association football team. He holds Japanese citizenship.
Synthesized by Vinony from 20 facts across 2 sources: Wikidata, Thesportsdb. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- 2009
- Japan U20
- 2019
- → Shonan Bellmare (loan)
- 2025
- FC Gifu
- Full name
- Naoki Yamada
- Date of birth
- ( 1990-07-04 ) 4 July 1990 (age 35)
- Place of birth
- Urawa, Saitama , Japan
- Height
- 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
- Position
- Attacking midfielder
- Current team
- FC Gifu
- 2003 2008
- Urawa Red Diamonds
- Years
- Team
- 2008 2019
- Urawa Red Diamonds
- 2015 2017
- → Shonan Bellmare (loan)
- 2020 2024
- Shonan Bellmare
- 2005 2007
- Japan U17
- 2011 2012
- Japan U23
- 2009 2010
- Japan
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Shonan Bellmare
- Position
- Midfielder
- Nationality
- Japan
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Naoki
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Urawa
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Japan men's national football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Mass
- 66
- Height
- 168
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- date of birth
- 1990-07-04
- name in kana
- ヤマダ ナオキ
- sport number
- 8
- name in native language
- 山田直輝
- start of work period
- 2008-00-00
- social media followers
- 34934
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 1 January 2026
Naoki Yamada (山田 直輝, Yamada Naoki; born 4 July 1990) is a Japanese footballer who plays for J3 League club FC Gifu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Naoki Yamada” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.