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Koki Yonekura
Personal information
Full name Koki Yonekura
Date of birth (1988-05-17) May 17, 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Inage-ku, Chiba, Japan
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position Right back
Club information
Current club JEF United Chiba
Number 11
Youth career
2004–2006 Yachiyo High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2013 JEF United Chiba 136 (20)
2007 → JEF Reserves (loan) 3 (0)
2014–2019 Gamba Osaka 120 (5)
2018 Gamba Osaka U-23 1 (0)
2019 JEF United Chiba (loan) 16 (1)
2020– JEF United Chiba 65 (2)
National team
2015 Japan 2 (0)
Honours
Gamba Osaka
Winner J1 League 2014
Runner-up J1 League 2015
Winner J.League Cup 2014
Runner-up J.League Cup 2015
Runner-up J.League Cup 2016
Winner Emperor's Cup 2014
Winner Emperor's Cup 2015
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:02, 23 October 2022 (UTC).
† Appearances (Goals).

Koki Yonekura (米倉 恒貴, Yonekura Kōki, born May 17, 1988 in Inage-ku, Chiba) is a Japanese footballer who plays for JEF United Chiba as a right full-back, and occasionally as an attacking midfielder.

He previously played for JEF United between 2007 and 2013.

Club career

A native of Chiba, Yonekura attended Yachiyo High School in his home prefecture and after graduating he signed for local club JEF United in 2007. In total he would spend 7 seasons with the Ichihara-based club with the first two being spent in J1 League and the latter 5 in J2. Playing as either a right sided defender or midfielder he went on to make over 150 league appearances and score 20 goals for JEF.

During the 2013 season, Yonekura put in an outstanding performance in the 3-0 home victory over then J2 side Gamba Osaka. Despite this setback, Gamba went on to be crowned J2 champions in 2013 and signed Yonekura ahead of their return to Japan's top flight in 2014.

His first season in Osaka would prove to be a memorable one as Gamba wrapped up a domestic treble; lifting the J1 trophy in addition to the J.League Cup and Emperor's Cup. Yonekura scored 3 times in 34 appearances in all competitions and was a part of a rotation system with fellow full-backs Oh Jae-suk and Hiroki Fujiharu.

2015 saw him play almost 50 times across 5 competitions as Gamba once again lifted the Emperor's Cup, defeating Urawa Red Diamonds in the final, won the Japanese Super Cup, also against Urawa, and reached the semi-finals of the AFC Champions League before going down to Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande.

Gamba didn't lift any silverware between 2016 and 2018 and Yonekura again spent much of that period rotating with Korean Oh Jae-suk. He fell out of favour with head-coach Kenta Hasegawa towards the end of his reign in 2017 and made only 13 league appearances that season. However the following year under the management of first, Brazilian Levir Culpi and, following his sacking, Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, Yonekura began to play more regularly, scoring once in 26 games as Gamba eventually finished up 9th in the league standings.

International career

On 23 July 2015, Japan's coach Vahid Halilhodžić called him for the upcoming 2015 EAFF East Asian Cup. He featured twice during the competition as Japan ended up in 4th place.

Club Career statistics

Club performance League Cup League Cup Continental Other1 Total
Club Season League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Japan League Emperor's Cup League Cup Asia Total
2008 JEF United J1 8 0 0 0 3 1 11 1
2009 16 0 3 2 4 0 23 2
2010 J2 12 5 1 0 13 5
2011 35 7 3 1 38 8
2012 24 3 4 0 28 3
2013 41 6 1 0 42 7
Total 166 21 12 3 7 1 185 25
2014 Gamba Osaka J1 21 1 4 0 9 2 34 3
2015 31 2 4 0 1 0 10 2 3 0 49 4
2016 21 1 0 0 5 0 5 0 0 0 31 1
2017 13 0 1 0 4 0 1 0 19 0
2018 26 1 0 0 6 0 - - 32 1
2019 0 0 0 0 0 0 - - 0 0
Total 112 5 9 0 25 2 16 2 3 0 165 9
Career Total 278 26 21 3 32 3 16 2 3 0 350 34

1 includes J. League Championship, Japanese Super Cup and Suruga Bank Championship appearances.

Reserves performance

Last Updated: 21 March 2018

Club performance League Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals
Japan League Total
2018 Gamba Osaka U-23 J3 1 0 1 0
Career total 1 0 1 0

National team statistics

Japan national team
Year Apps Goals
2015 2 0
Total 2 0

Honors

See also

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