Kenta Shimizu
清水 健太
Personal information
Full name Kenta Shimizu
Date of birth (1981-09-18) September 18, 1981
Place of birth Matsudo, Chiba, Japan
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 12 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
Kamatamare Sanuki
Number 1
Youth career
1997–1999 Matsudo High School
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2005 Kashiwa Reysol 5 (0)
2005–2014 Montedio Yamagata 287 (0)
2015– Kamatamare Sanuki 196 (0)
Total 454 (0)
Medal record
Montedio Yamagata
Runner-upEmperor's Cup2014
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 1 January 2020

Kenta Shimizu (清水 健太, Shimizu Kenta, born September 18, 1981) is a Japanese football player who plays for Kamatamare Sanuki.[1]

Playing career

Shimizu was born in Matsudo on September 18, 1981. After graduating from high school, he joined J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol based in his local Chiba Prefecture in 2000. Although he debuted in 2003 and several matches until April 2005, he could hardly play in the match behind Yuta Minami.

In April 2005, Shimizu moved to J2 League club Montedio Yamagata. Although he could not play at all in the match behind Shigeru Sakurai until October, he played last 5 matches in 2005 season.[2] In 2006, he became a regular goalkeeper instead Sakurai. In 2008, Montedio won the 2nd place and was promoted to J1 first time in the club history. He played as regular goalkeeper and Montedio also remained in J1 until 2010. In 2011, however he lost his position behind Yuki Uekusa and the club results were bad. Although Shimizu became a regular goalkeeper again in July,[3] Montedio finished at the bottom place and was relegated to J2 end of 2011 season. Although Shimizu played all 42 matches in 2012, he could not play many matches behind new player Satoshi Tokizawa in 2013 and Norihiro Yamagishi in 2014. Montedio was promoted to J1 end of 2014 season and won the 2nd place in 2014 Emperor's Cup.

In 2015, Shimizu moved to J2 club Kamatamare Sanuki. He became a regular goalkeeper. However the club results were bad every season and was relegated to J3 League end of 2018 season.

Club statistics

As of 1 January 2020[4][5]
Club performance League Cup League Cup Total
SeasonClubLeague AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals AppsGoals
Japan League Emperor's Cup J.League Cup Total
2000Kashiwa ReysolJ1 League00000000
200100000000
200200000000
200330201060
200420001030
200500000000
Total50202090
2005Montedio YamagataJ2 League5010-60
200643010-440
200748010-490
200842010-430
2009J1 League3400040380
20103203000350
20111800010190
2012J2 League42010-430
20137000-70
201416000-160
Total287080503000
2015Kamatamare SanukiJ2 League42010-430
201642010-430
201737000-370
201841000-410
2019J3 League34000-340
Total196020-1980
Career total 4880120705110

References

  1. Kenta Shimizu at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
  2. J.League
  3. J.League
  4. Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411529 (p. 227 out of 289)
  5. Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2017 J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 (NSK MOOK)", 8 February 2017, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411420 (p. 227 out of 289)


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