Yōsuke Saitō

Yosuke Saito (斎藤 陽介, Saitō Yōsuke, born April 7, 1988) is a Japanese football player who last played for Estonian Meistriliiga club Viljandi Tulevik.

Yosuke Saito
Personal information
Full name Yōsuke Saitō
Date of birth (1988-04-07) April 7, 1988
Place of birth Tokyo, Japan
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 12 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
2004–2006 Yokohama F. Marinos
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2010 Yokohama F. Marinos 12 (0)
2010 Zweigen Kanazawa 9 (4)
2011 Albirex Niigata Singapore 26 (8)
2012 Gulbene 14 (9)
2012 Ventspils 17 (6)
2013 Ufa 10 (1)
2014 Slutsk 17 (7)
2016 Riga FC 15 (5)
2017 Essendon Royals 7 (3)
2017 Sunshine George Cross 10 (3)
2018 Viljandi Tulevik 9 (2)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 May 2018

Club career

Latvia

Before the start of the 2012 Latvian Higher League season Saito signed a contract with FB Gulbene. Soon after joining he made a great impact, scoring all of his team's goals in the first round of the championship. All in all he scored 9 goals in 14 matches for Gulbene and was the club's leading scorer. In June 2012 Saito went on trial with the Azerbaijan Premier League club Khazar Lankaran, but he wasn't offered a contract then.[1] On July 1, 2012 he signed a contract with the Latvian Higher League club FK Ventspils.[2] Scoring 6 goals in 17 matches for Ventspils, all in all, Saito became the second top-scorer of the Latvian Higher League in 2012 with 15 goals in 31 matches.

FC Ufa

After the successful season in Ventspils Saito moved to the Russian National Football League club FC Ufa in February 2013.[3]

Viljandi Tulevik

On 23 February 2018, Saitō signed a contract with Estonian Meistriliiga club Viljandi Tulevik.[4] On 1 May 2018 he left the club due to family reasons.[5]

Club statistics

[6][7]

Club performance League Cup League Cup Total
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Japan League Emperor's Cup League Cup Total
2007Yokohama F. MarinosJ1 League1101031151
200810002030
200900000000
201000000000
2010Zweigen KanazawaFootball League9400-94
Total 2141051275

References


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