Yuya Fukuda

Yuya Fukuda
福田湧矢
Personal information
Full name	Yuya Fukuda
Date of birth	April 4, 1999 (age 25)
Place of birth	Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, Japan
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Team information
Current team	Gamba Osaka
Number	14
Youth career
	Kokura Minami FC
2015–2017	Higashi Fukuoka High School
Senior career*
Years	Team
2018–	Gamba Osaka
2018–	Gamba Osaka U-23
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 5 July 2022

Yuya Fukuda (福田湧矢, Fukuda Yūya, born 4 April 1999) is a Japanese footballer who plays for Gamba Osaka in the J1 League. His regular playing position is a winger.^[1]^[2]^[3]

His younger brother Sho is also a professional footballer currently playing for J1 League side Shonan Bellmare.

Career

After graduating from Higashi Fukuoka High School, Fukuda joined Gamba Osaka ahead of the 2018 J1 League season and was handed the number 34 jersey.^[4] He made his senior debut on 24 February 2018 in a 3-2 home defeat by Nagoya Grampus in which he was substituted for Shinya Yajima in the 60th minute.^[5] In total he played 5 times in his debut season, 3 games in J1 League and 2 in the J.League Cup. He spent most of 2018 with Gamba U-23 in J3 League scoring 3 times in 22 appearances to help them to 6th place in the final standings.^[2]

Career statistics

Last update: 2 December 2018^[2]

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Japan			League		Emperor's Cup		League Cup		Asia				Total
2018	Gamba Osaka	J1	3	0	0	0	2	0	-		-		5	0
2019	Gamba Osaka	J1	0	0	0	0	0	0	-		-		0	0
Career total			3	0	0	0	2	0	-		-		5	0