*anese footballer

*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of end of 2018 season

Nobuhiro Kato (加藤 順大, Katō Nobuhiro, born 11 December 1984) is a *anese football player who plays for Kyoto Sanga FC.

Contents

• 1 Playing career
• 2 Club statistics
• 3 Honours
  • 3.1 Club
• 4 References
• 5 External links

Playing career

Kato was born in Ageo on 11 December 1984. He joined J1 League club Urawa Reds from youth team in 2003. Although Reds won the many *le 2006 J1 League, 2007 AFC Champions League and so on, he could hardly play in the match behind Ryota Tsuzuki and Norihiro Yamagishi until 2010. He became a regular goalkeeper in 2011 and Reds won the 2nd place in 2011 and 2013 J.League Cup. However he lost his regular position behind Shusaku Nishikawa in 2014. In 2015, he moved to Saitama's cross town rivals, Omiya Ardija in J2 League. He played as regular goalkeeper and Ardija was promoted to J1 end of 2015 season. Although his opportunity to play decreased from 2016, he played many matches while battling with Hitoshi Shiota for the position. However Ardija finished at the bottom place in 2017 season and was relegated to J2. He could not play at all in the match behind Takashi Kasahara in 2018. In 2019, he moved to J2 club Kyoto Sanga FC.

Club statistics

As of end of 2018 season

Honours

Club

Urawa Reds

• J1 League: 1

2006

• Emperor's Cup: 2

2005, 2006

• J.League Cup: 1

2003

• AFC Champions League: 1

2007

• *anese Super Cup: 1

2006Omiya Ardija

• J2 League: 1

2015

References

External links

• Nobuhiro Kato – FIFA compe*ion record (archived)
• Nobuhiro Kato at J.League (in *anese)
• Profile at Omiya Ardija
• (in *anese) Yahoo! Sports Profile