Yasuhiro Higuchi

Yasuhiro Higuchi (樋口 靖洋, Higuchi Yasuhiro, born May 5, 1961) is a former Japanese football player and manager.

Yasuhiro Higuchi
樋口 靖洋
Personal information
Full name Yasuhiro Higuchi
Date of birth (1961-05-05) May 5, 1961
Place of birth Mie, Japan
Youth career
1977–1979 Yokkaichi Chuo Technical High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1984 Nissan Motors
Teams managed
2006–2007 Montedio Yamagata
2008 Omiya Ardija
2009 Yokohama FC
2012–2014 Yokohama F. Marinos
2015 Ventforet Kofu
2016–2018 YSCC Yokohama
2019– FC Ryukyu
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Playing career

Higuchi was born in Mie Prefecture on May 5, 1961. After graduating from high school, he played for Nissan Motors from 1980 to 1984.

Coaching career

After retirement, Higuchi started coaching career at Nissan Motors (later Yokohama F. Marinos) from 1985 and mainly coached youth team (1993–1998) and top team (1999–2005). In 2006, he moved to J2 League club Montedio Yamagata and became a manager for top team first time in his career. In 2008, he moved to J1 League club Omiya Ardija. Although he managed in J1 League in his career, he resigned in a year. In 2009, he signed with J2 club Yokohama FC. However he resigned for poor performance in a year. In 2010, he returned to Yokohama F. Marinos and served as an assistant coach under manager Kazushi Kimura. In 2012, Higuchi became a manager as Kimura successor. In 2013 J1 season, although the club was the top place until late, the club lost the last two matches and missed the league champions.[1] In 2013 Emperor's Cup, the club won the champions defeated league champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima. He managed Marinos until end of 2014 season and moved to Ventforet Kofu in 2015.[2] However the club results were bad and he resigned in May[3] when the club at the bottom place. In 2016, he signed with J3 League club YSCC Yokohama[4] which was the bottom place for the 2nd consecutive year in J3 until 2015. Although the club was bottom place in 2016, the club left the bottom place first time in 2017. He managed the club until end of 2018 season.[5] He signed with J2 club FC Ryukyu in 2019 season.[6]

Managerial statistics

Update; December 31, 2018[7]

Team From To Record
GWDLWin %
Montedio Yamagata 2006 2007 96 32 27 37 033.33
Omiya Ardija 2008 2008 34 12 7 15 035.29
Yokohama FC 2009 2009 51 11 11 29 021.57
Yokohama F. Marinos 2012 2014 102 45 31 26 044.12
Ventforet Kofu 2015 2015 11 2 0 9 018.18
YSCC Yokohama 2016 2018 94 21 23 50 022.34
FC Ryukyu 2019 present
Total 388 123 99 166 031.70

Honours
Yokohama F. Marinos

References
  1. J.League
  2. Ventforet Kofu(in Japanese)
  3. Ventforet Kofu(in Japanese)
  4. YSCC Yokohama(in Japanese)
  5. YSCC Yokohama(in Japanese)
  6. FC Ryukyu(in Japanese)
  7. J.League Data Site(in Japanese)
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