Nobuhiro Kato

Nobuhiro Kato
加藤順大
Personal information
Full name	Nobuhiro Kato
Date of birth	11 December 1984 (age 40)
Place of birth	Ageo, Saitama, Japan
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
2000–2002	Urawa Reds
Senior career*
Years	Team
2003–2014	Urawa Reds
2015–2018	Omiya Ardija
2019–2020	Kyoto Sanga FC
Total
Medal record
Urawa Reds
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of end of 2018 season

Nobuhiro Kato (加藤順大, Katō Nobuhiro, born 11 December 1984) is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper.^[1]

Playing career

Kato was born in Ageo on 11 December 1984. He joined J1 League club Urawa Reds from youth team in 2003. Although Reds won the many title 2006 J1 League, 2007 AFC Champions League and so on, he could hardly play in the match behind Ryota Tsuzuki and Norihiro Yamagishi until 2010. He became a regular goalkeeper in 2011 and Reds won the 2nd place in 2011 and 2013 J.League Cup. However he lost his regular position behind Shusaku Nishikawa in 2014. In 2015, he moved to Saitama's cross town rivals, Omiya Ardija in J2 League. He played as regular goalkeeper and Ardija was promoted to J1 end of 2015 season. Although his opportunity to play decreased from 2016, he played many matches while battling with Hitoshi Shiota for the position. However Ardija finished at the bottom place in 2017 season and was relegated to J2. He could not play at all in the match behind Takashi Kasahara in 2018. In 2019, he moved to J2 club Kyoto Sanga FC.^[2]

Club statistics

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]
Club	Season	League			Emperor's Cup		J.League Cup		AFC		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Urawa Reds	2003	J1 League	0	0	0	0	0	0	-		0	0
	2004	J1 League	0	0	0	0	0	0	-		0	0
	2005	J1 League	0	0	0	0	0	0	-		0	0
	2006	J1 League	0	0	0	0	1	0	-		1	0
	2007	J1 League	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	2008	J1 League	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
	2009	J1 League	0	0	0	0	0	0	-		0	0
	2010	J1 League	0	0	0	0	6	0	-		6	0
	2011	J1 League	26	0	1	0	5	0	-		32	0
	2012	J1 League	34	0	2	0	3	0	-		39	0
	2013	J1 League	25	0	1	0	2	0	6	0	34	0
	2014	J1 League	0	0	0	0	6	0	-		6	0
	Total		85	0	4	0	24	0	0	0	119	0
Omiya Ardija	2015	J2 League	37	0	2	0	-		-		39	0
	2016	J1 League	19	0	0	0	2	0	-		21	0
	2017	J1 League	21	0	2	0	3	0	-		26	0
	2018	J2 League	0	0	0	0	-		-		0	0
	Total		77	0	4	0	5	0	0	0	86	0
Kyoto Sanga FC	2019	J2 League	15	0	1	0	-		-		16	0
	2020	J2 League	0	0	0	0	-		-		0	0
	Total		15	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	16	0
Career total			177	0	9	0	29	0	6	0	221	0