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Tsukasa Umesaki
Personal information
Full name	Tsukasa Umesaki
Date of birth	23 February 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth	Isahaya, Nagasaki, Japan
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	Oita Trinita
Number	7
Youth career
2002–2004	Oita Trinita
Senior career*
Years	Team
2005–2007	Oita Trinita
2007	→ Grenoble (loan)
2008–2017	Urawa Red Diamonds
2018–2021	Shonan Bellmare
2021–	Oita Trinita
International career‡
2005–2007	Japan U20
2008	Japan U23
2006	Japan
Medal record
Representing Japan
AFC U-19 Championship
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 October 2022; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22 February 2010

Tsukasa Umesaki (梅崎司, Umesaki Tsukasa, born 23 February 1987) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for Oita Trinita as an attacking midfielder.

Club career

Umesaki is a product of Oita's youth system and was promoted to the top team in 2005. Umesaki made his J-League debut on 10 July 2005 in a match against Sanfrecce Hiroshima at Oita "Big Eye" Stadium.^[4] He became a regular in the 2006 season.^{[citation needed]}

In January 2007, he was loaned out to French Ligue 2 side Grenoble Foot 38, but returned to Oita prior to the completion of his six-month loan.^[5]

On 26 December 2007, Urawa Red Diamonds announced his signing from Oita on a full transfer.^[6]

In July 2007, Umsaki was elected Japan U-20 national team for 2007 U-20 World Cup. At this tournament, he played all 4 matches as left midfielder and scored a goal against Scotland in first match.

Umesaki made his international debut for Japan on 6 September 2006 in a 2007 Asian Cup qualification against Yemen when he was sent on to the pitch by national coach Ivica Osim to replace Seiichiro Maki in the injury time of the second half.^[3]

As of 17 February 2020^[7]^[8]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League		National cup^[a]		League cup^[b]		AFC		Other^[c]		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Oita Trinita U-18	2002	–		2	0	–		–		–		2	0
Oita Trinita U-18	2004	–		3	2	–		–		–		2	0
Oita Trinita	2005	3	0	1	0	1	0	–		–		5	0
	2006	25	3	1	0	5	1	–		–		31	4
	2007	19	2	2	1	–		–		–		21	3
Grenoble (loan)	2006–07	5	0	–		–		–		–		5	0
Urawa Red Diamonds	2008	22	1	1	0	4	2	1	0	–		30	3
	2009	9	0	1	0	0	0	–		–		10	0
	2010	2	0	0	0	0	0	–		–		2	0
	2011	13	2	2	0	5	1	–		–		20	3
	2012	33	7	2	0	1	0	–		–		36	7
	2013	28	2	2	0	4	1	4	1	–		37	4
	2014	33	4	1	1	5	1	–		–		39	6
	2015	31	8	4	0	2	0	3	0	2	0	42	8
	2016	19	1	0	0	1	0	8	0	–		28	1
	2017	10	0	2	0	1	0	4	0	1	0	28	1
Shonan Bellmare	2018	29	4	1	0	11	4	–		–		41	8
Shonan Bellmare	2019	23	2	1	0	3	1	–		1	0	28	3
Career total		304	36	26	4	43	11	20	1	4	0	407	53

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[9]
National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Japan U-20	2005	2	1
	2006	5	1
	2007	4	1
Total		11	3
Japan U-23	2008	3	1
Total		3	1
Japan	2006	1	0
Total		1	0

Urawa Red Diamonds

^ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 5 July 2007. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013.
^ "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2017: List of Players: Urawa Reds" (PDF). FIFA. 29 November 2017. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017.
^ ^a ^b "UMESAKI Tsukasa". Japan National Football Team Database.
^ Tsukasa Umesaki stats at footballdatabase.com
^ "Umesaki joins Grenoble on loan". FIFA. 26 January 2007. Retrieved 26 December 2012.^{[dead link‍]}
^ (in Japanese) 梅崎司選手、加入のお知らせ Archived 29 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ 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. 129 out of 289)
^ 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. 16 out of 289)
^ Tsukasa Umesaki at National-Football-Teams.com