Yosuke Ideguchi
Ideguchi playing for Gamba Osaka in 2017
Personal information
Full name Yosuke Ideguchi[1]
Date of birth (1996-08-23) 23 August 1996 (age 27)
Place of birth Fukuoka, Japan
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)[2]
Position(s) Central midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Vissel Kobe
Number 7
Youth career
2008 Aburayama Kameriazu
2009–2013 Gamba Osaka
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2017 Gamba Osaka 60 (8)
2014–2015 → J.League U22 (loan) 11 (1)
2018–2019 Leeds United 0 (0)
2018 → Cultural Leonesa (loan) 5 (0)
2018–2019 → Greuther Fürth (loan) 7 (1)
2019 → Greuther Fürth II (loan) 1 (0)
2019–2022 Gamba Osaka 67 (6)
2022–2024 Celtic 3 (0)
2023–2024 → Avispa Fukuoka (loan) 21 (0)
2024– Vissel Kobe 3 (0)
International career‡
2014 Japan U19 4 (1)
2016 Japan U23 4 (1)
2017– Japan 15 (2)
Medal record
Representing  Japan
AFC U-23 Championship
Gold medal – first place 2016
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 22:13, 10 March 2024 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 December 2019

Yosuke Ideguchi (井手口 陽介, Ideguchi Yosuke, born 23 August 1996) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for J1 League club Vissel Kobe, and for the Japan national team. He previously represented Japan at both Under-19 and Under-23 levels.

Club career

Gamba Osaka

Ideguchi started his youth career at Aburayama Kameriazu. He joined the Gamba Osaka academy in 2009. He made his first team debut with Gamba Osaka in 2014, he joined J.League U22's on loan in 2014 to get first team experience.[citation needed]

During the 2016 JLeague season Ideguchi was named 'New Hero Award' and the prestigious 'Rookie of the Year' award for the JLeague. After almost ten years spent with Gamba Osaka between youth ranks and senior team he left the club after 60 appearances in the JLeague scoring 8 goals.[citation needed]

Leeds United

On 9 January 2018, Ideguchi joined Championship side Leeds United on a four-and-a-half year deal for an undisclosed fee.[3]

Cultural Leonesa loan

The same day after signing for Leeds, he went on a half a season loan to Leeds's feeder team in Spain, Aspire Academy owned club Cultural Leonesa with the club wanting to ready Ideguchi for European style football.[4] On 28 January 2018, Ideguchi made his debut for Cultural Leonesa against CA Osasuna in a 2–1 defeat.[5]

Return to Leeds

After returning for the start of pre-season under new Leeds Head Coach Marcelo Bielsa,[6] Ideguchi made his first appearance in a Leeds shirt when he started for Leeds in the pre-season friendly 1–1 draw against York City on 20 July 2018.[7] Despite starting for Leeds in three of their pre-season friendlies, on 26 July 2018, Ideguchi was seemingly not given a shirt number for Leeds for the upcoming 2018–19 season for Leeds.[8] However, the following day 27 July, he was listed with shirt number 16 shirt in the club's online store.[9] By early August, Bielsa praised Ideguchi's professionalism and hard work since his joining Leeds United, but admitted he did not see him as first or second choice for any position, and indicated he did not think it would be fair to ask him to stay at the club.[10]

Greuther Fürth loan

On 21 August 2018, Ideguchi joined 2. Bundesliga side Greuther Fürth on a season-long loan deal with an option to make the deal permanent.[11] On 15 September, he scored on his Greuther Fürth debut in the 4–1 win against Holstein Kiel.[12] On 30 September, he was substituted in a 1–0 win over Dynamo Dresden with what later was revealed to be a posterior cruciate ligament injury, expected to keep him out for most of the season.[13]

Having spent the initial part of his rehabilitation in Japan, Ideguchi returned to Germany at the start of 2019. On 6 May 2019, he made his first competitive appearance after the injury, coming on as a substitute as Greuther Fürth lost 4–0 at home to 1. FC Köln.[14]

In total, he made seven appearances, scoring one goal for Greuther Fürth in 2. Bundesliga, with Ideguchi missing the majority of the season due to his posterior cruciate ligament injury.[15]

Gamba Osaka

On 5 August 2019, he rejoined Gamba Osaka.[16]

Celtic

On 31 December 2021, Ideguchi was announced to have signed for Scottish Premiership club Celtic for an undisclosed fee.[17]

On 17 January 2022, Ideguchi made his debut for the club in a 2–0 win against Hibernian in the Scottish Premiership.[18] A few days later, Ideguchi would start in a Scottish Cup fourth round tie against Scottish League One side Alloa Athletic. While Celtic won 2–1 and progressed to the next round, he sustained a serious injury and was forced off late in the game due to a strong challenge from Mouhamed Niang.[19][20]

Vissel Kobe

On 9 January 2024, he joined Vissel Kobe.[21]

International career

Japan under-23's

After featuring for Japan U19, in 2016, Ideguchi was promoted to Japan U23's and was part of the Japan U23's that won the AFC U-23 Championship on 31 January 2016, he played in the final for Japan U23's in a 3–2 victory against South Korea U23.[22]

Japan senior team

Ideguchi got his first call up to the senior Japan squad for matches against Oman and Saudi Arabia in November 2016.[23] On 31 August 2017, he scored the second goal when Japan beat Australia 2–0 and qualified for the 2018 World Cup in the process.[24][25] On 9 December 2017, Ideguchi scored the winner for Japan in a 1–0 victory against North Korea in the 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship.[citation needed]

On 15 March 2018, Vahid Halilhodzic surprisingly left out Ideguchi and Takuma Asano for the Japan squad for friendly matches with Mali and Ukraine in preparation for the 2018 FIFA World Cup, with Halilhodzic describing Ideguchi's lack of regular game time at Cultural Leonesa he proclaimed 'It makes me sad that Asano and Ideguchi are not playing, They were the heroes of our qualifying game against Australia. They haven't been chosen this time, and if things continue the way they are, there is a chance that they won't be chosen for the World Cup."[26]

On 17 May 2018, Ideguchi was named in new Japan Manager's Akira Nishino's preliminary 35 man squad for Japan for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.[27] Japan's squad was cut from 35 to 26, Ideguchi was named in the 26, and played for Japan on 31 May in a 2–0 defeat to Ghana in a pre-2018 FIFA World Cup friendly, the following day, the squad was cut from 26 to the final 23 man squad with Ideguchi missing out.[28]

Career statistics

Club

As of 14 May 2022
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup League cup Continental Other[a] Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Gamba Osaka 2014 J1 League 0 0 0 0 2 0 – – 2 0
2015 J1 League 8 0 4 0 4 0 1 0 3 0 20 0
2016 J1 League 22 4 1 0 5 0 5 0 1 0 34 4
2017 J1 League 30 4 3 1 0 0 6 0 – 39 5
Total 60 8 8 1 11 0 12 0 4 0 95 9
J.League U-22 Selection 2014 J3 League 3 0 – – – – 3 0
2015 J3 League 8 1 – – – – 8 1
Total 11 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11 1
Leeds United 2017–18[29] Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
2018–19[30] Championship 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Cultural Leonesa (loan) 2017–18[29] Segunda División 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 5 0
Greuther Fürth (loan) 2018–19[30] 2. Bundesliga 7 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 1
Gamba Osaka 2019 J1 League 12 2 1 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 17 2
2020 J1 League 26 4 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 28 4
2021 J1 League 29 0 3 1 2 0 6 0 0 0 40 1
Total 67 6 4 1 8 0 6 0 0 0 85 7
Celtic 2021–22 Scottish Premiership 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
2022–23 Scottish Premiership 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 0
Career total 153 16 15 2 19 0 18 0 4 0 209 18
  1. ^ Appearances in J. League Championship, Japanese Super Cup and Suruga Bank Championship

International

As of[31]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Japan 2017 11 2
2018 1 0
2019 3 0
Total 15 2
Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Ideguchi goal.[32]
List of international goals scored by Yosuke Ideguchi
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 31 August 2017 Saitama Stadium 2002, Saitama, Japan  Australia 2–0 2–0 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
2 9 December 2017 Ajinomoto Stadium, Tokyo, Japan  North Korea 1–0 1–0 2017 EAFF E-1 Football Championship

Honours

Gamba Osaka[33]

Avispa Fukuoka

Japan U-23[33]

Japan

Individual

References

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External links

Avispa Fukuoka – current squad
J.League Rookie of the Year
2017 J.League Team of the Year
Japan men's football squad – 2016 Summer Olympics
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