Defence, Japan
Club football at FC København.
Sourced facts, dated and on the record. Squad membership, and his club when a source names one. Nothing invented; we don’t make players up.
At a glance
age
22
sourced with the squad
position
Defence
Japan
club
FC København
football-data.org
club tier
1578
ClubElo strength
our board
#943
of 1424 rated players
folded so far
119′
4 appearances
transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
3.50
85th percentile of peers
Sourced
- squad
- Japan · Defencefootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
- club
- FC Københavnfootball-data.org · 2026-06-29
Sourced context, nothing more. It never touches a call.
Our rating · the working
the board →1671 ±71
his quality rating: club, age and measured output. The board orders by this plus his World Cup form, less a discount for how much we can measure him.
How the number is builtopenclose
1674 full roster Elo (+3 from national-team results)
the ± is how settled the number is, more minutes, tighter band
Tier 2, lineups + results, how rich the evidence is, not just how much
potential ~1680 ±72 a projection, not a measurement: room left on the defence age curve
Where he starts (his team’s strength, we refuse to invent what we haven’t measured) plus two fixed nudges make the quality rating above; the last line is what national-team results have added since, taking it to his full roster Elo.
- starts at Japan's strengththe fair club-over-national anchor, every player's starting point
- 1667
- age curve at 22 (defences' curve)measured from the open archive by our own study (defenders: the published literature's shape), never fitted to our calls
- -15
- transfer market value, a sourced market-consensus quality prior (the stronger reading for him here)his percentile among minutes-qualified peers, from club seasons
- +19
- quality rating · club, age + measured output
- 1671
- form: national-team results, 4 appearances119 minutes, weighted by margin, surprise and his match stats, but shared across the XI
- +3
- full roster Elo · with results
- 1674
Where the +19 skill term comes from
Not a reputation, a measurement. We score every shot in the data ourselves and rank him among minutes-qualified peers; a fixed arithmetic turns that rank into points.
- measured
- 3.50 transfer market value (EUR millions), as a rank among peers
- his rank
- 85th percentile of qualified peers
- scored from
- the CC0 Transfermarkt community mirror; a market-consensus quality prior, taken at a capped weight where it reads a player higher than our (fixed, partial) shot/event data can
- the arithmetic
- 46 pts/σ × z(85.1th) = 46 × 1.04 × 0.4 (position weight) = +19
A forward-only shadow signal, as of 2026-06-29. The skill term comes from our own xG models over the open archive; the rest is earned, recorded per appearance, auditable, never back-filled. It never moves a live call.
The notebook
The lines a beat writer keeps, except every one of ours is read off the ledger above, auditable to the night. Nothing invented.
standing
#943 of 1424 rated players on our board.
What he’d cost · our estimate
€3.5m–€14m ≈ €6.8m
Not a figure from any valuation site; we don’t republish those. Our own model: the level he plays at, what we’ve measured of him, his age and his role. A band, not a point: we can’t see contract length or release clauses, the two biggest real drivers, so we say so.
The workingopenclose
- reference feea mid-tier-club, peak-age forward of average measured skill
- €8m
- club tier 1578the level he plays at, the strongest signal of what a club pays
- ×1.30
- ageage 22, the resale premium a club pays for the years to come
- ×1.15
- defender fee factorstrikers set the market's top; midfield runs close; defence and goal at the record books' discounts
- ×0.58
- individual skillour xG model has no confident read on him, priced on club, age and role only, so the band is wide
- ×1.00
- our estimate
- ≈ €6.8m
fee-model v3 priors (panel-anchored, 2026-06), calibrated against our reported fees. The band is roughly two-in-three likely; contract length and release clauses are data we don’t hold. Context only, it never touches a call.
The fee record · sourced
- 2025-07-09Shonan Bellmare → FC Copenhagenundisclosed
- 2025-07-08Shonan Bellmare → FC Copenhagenundisclosed
Reported moves, dated and attributed (api-football.com), news facts, not a valuation site’s estimates. It never touches a call.
In our coverage · Japan’s record
- at Brazil2–1Called it
- v Sweden1–1Missed it
- at Tunisia0–4Called it
- at Netherlands2–2Missed it
The newsroom’s calls on Japan. Team-level, never dressed up as a player stat.
Squad · sourced
- Ao Tanaka
- Ayase Ueda
- Ayumu Seko
- Daichi Kamada
- Daizen Maeda
- Hiroki Ito
- Junya Ito
- Kaishu Sano
- Keisuke Goto
- Keisuke Ōsako
- Keito Nakamura
- Kento Shiogai
- Ko Itakura
- Koki Ogawa
- Ritsu Doan
- Shogo Taniguchi
- Takefusa Kubo
- Takehiro Tomiyasu
- Tomoki Hayakawa
- Tsuyoshi Watanabe
- Wataru Endō
- Yuito Suzuki
- Yukinari Sugawara
- Yūto Nagatomo
- Zion Suzuki