Ayaka Yamashita (footballer)

Ayaka Yamashita
山下杏也加
Personal information
Full name	Ayaka Yamashita
Date of birth	September 29, 1995
Place of birth	Adachi, Tokyo, Japan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	INAC Kobe Leonessa
Number	18
Youth career
2011–2013	Murata Women's High School
Senior career*
Years	Team
2014–2020	NTV Tokyo Verdy Beleza
2021-	INAC Kobe Leonessa
Total
International career‡
2015–	Japan
Medal record
Nippon TV Beleza
Representing Japan
AFC Women's Asian Cup
Asian Games
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of December 31, 2018; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of March 27, 2023

Ayaka Yamashita (山下杏也加, Yamashita Ayaka, born September 29, 1995) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Japanese WE League club INAC Kobe Leonessa and the Japan national team.

Club career

Yamashita was born in Adachi, Tokyo on September 29, 1995. After graduating from high school, she joined Nippon TV Beleza in 2014.[1] The club won L.League championship and she was selected Best Eleven for 3 years in a row from 2015 season.

National team career

In August 2015, when Yamashita was 19 years old, she was selected Japan national team for 2015 East Asian Cup. At this competition, on August 4, she debuted against South Korea. In 2018, she played at 2018 Asian Cup and Japan won the championship. She played 25 games for Japan.

On 13 June 2023, she was included in the 23-player squad for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023.[2]

National team statistics

[3]

Japan national team
Year	Apps	Goals
2015	3	0
2016	3	0
2017	5	0
2018	14	0
2019	10	0
2020	2	0
2021	6	0
2022	10	0
2023	2	0
Total	55	0

Honours

Tokyo Verdy Beleza

AFC Women's Club Championship: 2019

References

Nippon TV Beleza(in Japanese)
"Iwabuchi left out of Japan's World Cup squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
List of match in 2015 Archived 2018-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, 2016, 2017 Archived 2019-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, 2018, 2019 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)

External links

Ayaka Yamashita at Soccerway
Ayaka Yamashita at WorldFootball.net
Japan Football Association

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[1] Nippon TV Beleza(in Japanese)

[2] "Iwabuchi left out of Japan's World Cup squad". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2023-06-20.

[3] List of match in 2015 Archived 2018-08-11 at the Wayback Machine, 2016, 2017 Archived 2019-03-23 at the Wayback Machine, 2018, 2019 at Japan Football Association (in Japanese)