Shusaku Nishikawa

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

## Biography

Nishikawa was born in Usa on June 18, 1986. He joined J1 League club Oita Trinita in 2005. In summer 2005, he debuted and became a first choice goalkeeper instead veteran goalkkeper Hayato Okanaka. Oita won the champions in the 2008 J.League Cup with young players, Masato Morishige, Hiroshi Kiyotake and Mu Kanazaki. However Oita was relegated to J2 League end of 2009 season and Oita released their main players including Nishikawa due to their financial problems. Nishikawa moved to Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 2010. Hiroshima won the J1 League champions in 2012 and 2013. In 2014, he moved to Urawa Reds. Urawa won the 2nd place in the 2014 and 2016 J1 League. In 2017, Urawa won the champions at 2017 AFC Champions League.

In 2005, Nishikawa was selected the Japan U-20 national team for 2005 World Youth Championship and he played all 4 matches. In 2008, he was selected the Japan U-23 national team for 2008 Summer Olympics and he played all 3 matches. In October 2019, he was selected the Japan national team for 2011 Asian Cup qualification. At this qualification, he debuted against Hong Kong on October 8. However he could not play many matches behind Eiji Kawashima. In 2011, he participated 2011 Asian Cup. He played 2 matches and Japan won the champions. He also participated 2014 World Cup. From 2015, he played many matches instead Kawashima. He played 31 games for Japan until 2016.

## Statistics

|-
|2005||rowspan="5"|Oita Trinita||rowspan="5"|J1 League||21||0||2||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||24||0
|-
|2006||30||0||1||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||36||0
|-
|2007||11||0||2||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||15||0
|-
|2008||22||0||0||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||27||0
|-
|2009||34||0||1||0||3||0||colspan="2"|-||38||0
|-
|2010||rowspan="4"|Sanfrecce Hiroshima||rowspan="4"|J1 League||34||0||1||0||4||0||5||0||44||0
|-
|2011||34||0||0||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||35||0
|-
|2012||34||0||0||0||4||0||colspan="2"|-||38||0
|-
|2013||33||0||3||0||1||0||5||0||42||0
|-
|2014||rowspan="8"|Urawa Reds||rowspan="8"|J1 League||34||0||2||0||2||0||colspan="2"|-||38||0
|-
|2015||34||0||3||0||0||0||5||0||42||0
|-
|2016||34||0||0||0||1||0||8||0||43||0
|-
|2017||34||0||0||0||2||0||13||0||49||0
|-
|2018||34||0||6||0||5||0||colspan="2"|-||45||0
|-
|2019||33||0||2||0||2||0||13||0||37||0
|-
|2020||34||0||colspan="2"|-||1||0||colspan="2"|-||35||0
|-
|2021||||||||||||||||||||
490||0||23||0||39||0||49||0||601||0
490||0||23||0||39||0||49||0||601||0
|}

|-
|2009||1||0
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|2010||2||0
|-
|2011||4||0
|-
|2012||1||0
|-
|2013||4||0
|-
|2014||3||0
|-
|2015||8||0
|-
|2016||8||0
|-
!Total||31||0
|}

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Shusaku Nishikawa
- **image**: Shusaku Nishikawa.jpg
- **image size**: 200
- **caption**: Nishikawa playing for Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 2011
- **fullname**: Shusaku Nishikawa
- **birth place**: Usa, Oita, Usa, Oita Prefecture, Oita, Japan
- **position**: Goalkeeper
- **currentclub**: Urawa Reds
- **youthyears1**: 2002–2004
- **youthclubs1**: Oita Trinita
- **years1**: 2005–2009
- **clubs1**: Oita Trinita
- **caps1**: 118
- **goals1**: 0
- **years2**: 2010–2013
- **clubs2**: Sanfrecce Hiroshima
- **caps2**: 135
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 2014–
- **clubs3**: Urawa Reds
- **caps3**: 237
- **goals3**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 2005
- **nationalteam1**: Japan national under-20 football team, Japan U-20
- **nationalcaps1**: 4
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2008
- **nationalteam2**: Japan national under-23 football team, Japan U-23
- **nationalcaps2**: 3
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2009–2017
- **nationalteam3**: Japan national football team, Japan
- **nationalcaps3**: 31
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **club-update**: end of the 2020 season