*anese footballer

*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 December 2021

Shusaku Nishikawa (西川 周作, Nishikawa Shūsaku, born 18 June 1986) is a *anese professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Urawa Red Diamonds.

Contents

• 1 Club career
• 2 International career
• 3 Career statistics
  • 3.1 Club
  • 3.2 International
• 4 Honours
• 5 References
• 6 External links

Club career

Nishikawa is a product of Oita's youth system and was promoted to the top team in 2005. He made his J1 League debut on 2 July 2005 for Oita Trinita in a match against Yokohama F. Marinos. He became a regular in the 2006 season. After the relegation of Oita Trinita Nishikawa signed on 30 December 2009 for J1 League club Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

International career

Nishikawa was a member of the *an U20 national team for the 2005 World Youth Championship finals. He played full time in all four matches. He was also a member of the *an U23 national team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He played full time in all three matches.

He made his full international debut for *an on 8 October 2009 in a 2011 Asian Cup qualification against Hong Kong.

Career statistics

Club

As of 20 February 2019

International

Honours

Oita Trinita

• J.League Cup: 2008

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

• J1 League: 2012
• *anese Super Cup: 2013

Urawa Red Diamonds

• J. League Cup: 2016
• Suruga Bank Championship: 2017
• AFC Champions League: 2017
• Emperor's Cup: 2018
• *anese Super Cup: 2022

*an

• AFC Asian Cup: 2011
• Kirin Cup: 2011
• EAFF East Asian Cup: 2013

Individual

• J. League Best XI: 2012, 2016
• AFC Champions League Player of the week: 2019 Semi-finals 2nd leg

References

External links

• Shusaku Nishikawa – FIFA compe*ion record (archived)
• Shusaku Nishikawa at National-Football-Teams.com
• Shusaku Nishikawa at J.League (in *anese)
• Profile at Urawa Reds (in *anese)
• Shusaku Nishikawa:– Yahoo! *an compe*ion record (in *anese)
• Shusaku Nishikawa whoscored.com profile
• Shusaku Nishikawa on Twitter