Tomokazu Myojin

is a former Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

## Biography

Myojin was born in Kobe on January 24, 1978. He joined J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol from their youth team in 1996. He played many matches as a defensive midfielder from his first season. He became a regular player under manager Akira Nishino in 1998. In 1999, Reysol were the champions in J.League Cup and got third place in the J1 League. Reysol were champions J1 League for two years in a row in 2000 and 2001. Myojin was selected for the Best Eleven award. The team was relegated to the J2 League at the end of the 2005 season.

In 2006, Myojin moved to Gamba Osaka, which was managed by Akira Nishino. He played with other players from the Japan national team and won lots of trophies, including the 2007 J.League Cup, and the 2008 and 2009 Emperor's Cup. Gamba were also the champions of the 2008 AFC Champions League and got third place in the 2008 Club World Cup. However when the team's manager left at the end of the 2011 season, the club struggled. In 2012, Gamba finished 17th out of 18 teams, and were relegated to the J2 League for the 2013 season.

Gamba won the J2 League in 2013 and returned to the J1 league for 2014, when the team won all three of the major titles in Japan – the J1 League, the J.League Cup, and the Emperor's Cup. Myojin left at the end of the 2015 season.

Myojin moved to Nagoya Grampus in 2016 but did not play many matches. Grampus finished in 16th place and were relegated to the J2 league. Myojin moved to the J3 League in 2017 to play for AC Nagano Parceiro. He retired in 2019.

Myojin was chosen to play for the Japan national under-20 football team at the 1997 World Youth Championship. He played in all five matches for the team in the tournament.

Myojin played for Japan 26 times and scored three goals between 2000 and 2002. He played three games at the 2002 World Cup.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|Emperor's Cup|colspan="2"|J.League Cup|colspan="2"|Asia|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="11"|Kashiwa Reysol|1996|rowspan="10"|J1 League|11|0|0|0|2|0|–|–|13|0|||
|1997|13|1|1|0|6|0|–|–|20|1|||||||
|1998|28|0|2|0|4|1|–|–|34|1|||||||
|1999|30|1|3|0|4|0|–|–|37|1|||||||
|2000|29|2|2|0|2|0|–|–|33|2|||||||
|2001|29|0|1|0|4|0|–|–|34|0|||||||
|2002|27|1|0|0|1|0|–|–|28|1|||||||
|2003|29|1|2|1|4|0|–|–|35|2|||||||
|2004|28|5|0|0|6|0|–|–|34|5|||||||
|2005|28|1|1|0|4|0|–|–|33|1|||||||
|rowspan="11"|Gamba Osaka|2006|rowspan="7"|J1 League|25|0|5|0|2|0|3|0|1|0|36|0|
|2007|33|2|2|0|10|0|–|1|0|46|2||||||
|2008|32|3|5|0|4|0|14|1|3|0|58|4|||||
|2009|31|2|5|2|2|1|5|0|1|0|44|5|||||
|2010|29|4|3|0|1|0|6|0|–|39|4||||||
|2011|27|2|1|0|0|0|5|0|–|33|2||||||
|2012|31|1|5|1|2|0|5|0|–|43|2||||||
|2013|J2 League|20|0|1|0|0|0|0|0|–|21|0|||||
|2014|rowspan="2"|J1 League|12|0|4|0|5|0|–|–|21|0|||||
|2015|10|0|1|0|3|0|4|0|2|0|20|0|||||
|Nagoya Grampus|2016|J1 League|15|0|0|0|3|0|–|–|18|0|||||
|rowspan="4"|Nagano Parceiro|2017|rowspan="3"|J3 League|16|0|1|0|–|–|–|17|0||||
|2018|14|0|0|0|–|–|–|14|0||||||||
|2019|8|0|2|0|–|–|–|10|0||||||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="3"|Japan|2000|9|2|
|2001|7|0|||
|2002|10|1|||

- _Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Myojin goal._

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|24 October 2000|Beirut, Lebanon||4–1|4–1|2000 AFC Asian Cup||||||||
|2|26 October 2000|Beirut, Lebanon||3–2|3–2|2000 AFC Asian Cup||||||||
|3|17 April 2002|Yokohama, Japan||1–0|1–1|Friendly||||||||

## Honors

**Kashiwa Reysol**
- J.League Cup – 1999

**Gamba Osaka**
- AFC Champions League – 2008
- Pan-Pacific Championship – 2008
- J1 League – 2014
- Emperor's Cup – 2008, 2009, 2014, 2015
- J.League Cup – 2007
- Japanese Super Cup – 2007, 2015

**Japan**
- AFC Asian Cup – 2000

**Individual**
- J.League Best Eleven – 2000

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Tomokazu Myojin
明神 智和
- **full name**: Tomokazu Myojin
- **birth place**: Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, Hyogo, Japan
- **height**: 1.74 m
- **position**: Midfielder
- **youthyears1**: 1993–1995
- **youthclubs1**: Kashiwa Reysol
- **years1**: 1996–2005
- **clubs1**: Kashiwa Reysol
- **caps1**: 252
- **goals1**: 12
- **years2**: 2006–2015
- **clubs2**: Gamba Osaka
- **caps2**: 250
- **goals2**: 14
- **years3**: 2016
- **clubs3**: Nagoya Grampus
- **caps3**: 15
- **goals3**: 0
- **years4**: 2017–2019
- **clubs4**: Nagano Parceiro
- **caps4**: 38
- **goals4**: 0
- **totalcaps**: 538
- **totalgoals**: 26
- **nationalyears1**: 1997
- **nationalteam1**: Japan national under-20 football team, Japan U-20
- **nationalcaps1**: 5
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2000
- **nationalteam2**: Japan national under-23 football team, Japan U-23
- **nationalcaps2**: 4
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2000–2002
- **nationalteam3**: Japan national football team, Japan
- **nationalcaps3**: 26
- **nationalgoals3**: 3