Kisho Yano

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

## Biography

Yano was born in Hamamatsu on April 5, 1984. After graduating from Hamana High School, he joined J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol in 2003. He played as substitute forward from first season. Although his opportunity to play increased late from summer 2005, Reysol was relegated to J2 League end of 2005 season. In 2006, he was transferred to Albirex Niigata with teammate Mitsuru Nagata. He quickly established himself as a first-choice forward. Although his play style was a tall center forward, he was converted to right winger of three forwards in 2009 because Niigata gain same style forward Hideo Oshima. In August 2010, Yano was transferred to German Bundesliga club Freiburg. After an unsuccessful stint in Europe, he returned to Japan and signed for Niigata in February 2012. Although he initially played as regular forward, he lost his position and he played many matches as substitute forward from June. The club results were also sluggish and finished at the 15th place of 18 clubs in 2012 season. In 2013, Yano moved to Nagoya Grampus. Although he initially played as center forward instead Joshua Kennedy who was injured, Kennedy came back in May and Yano played many matches as substitute forward. In 2014, Yano was converted to right side back by new manager Akira Nishino and became a regular player as right side back. Although he played as regular player every season, Nagoya finished at the 16th place of 18 clubs in 2016 season and was relegated to J2 League. In 2017, Yano re-joined Albirex Niigata for the first time in four years. Although he played many matches as right side back, Niigata was relegated to J2 at the end of 2017 season. He returned to his original position by new manager Masakazu Suzuki in 2018. In 2020, he moved to Tochigi SC.

On March 24, 2007, Yano debuted for the Japan national team against Peru. He was a member of the Japan team for the 2007 Asian Cup. He played two games as a substitute. In 2010. he was selected for the Japan team for 2010 World Cup. At the World Cup, he played one match as a substitute against Cameroon. This match was his last match for Japan. He played 19 games and scored 2 goals for Japan from 2007 to 2010.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National cup|colspan="2"|League cup|colspan="2"|Other|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="4"|Kashiwa Reysol|2003|rowspan="3"|J1 League|18|2|0|0|2|0|–|20|2|
|2004|2|0|0|0|1|0|–|3|0|||||
|2005|19|2|2|0|1|0|2|0|24|2||||
|rowspan="6"|Albirex Niigata|2006|rowspan="5"|J1 League|33|6|2|1|6|1|–|41|8|
|2007|33|7|1|0|6|1|–|40|8|||||
|2008|33|6|2|0|3|0|–|38|6|||||
|2009|33|8|4|5|1|0|–|38|13|||||
|2010|20|3|0|0|2|0|–|22|3|||||
|rowspan="3"|SC Freiburg|2010–11|rowspan="2"|Bundesliga|15|0|0|0|–|–|15|0||
|2011–12|0|0|0|0|–|–|0|0||||||
|Albirex Niigata|2012|J1 League|30|2|2|0|4|0|–|36|2|||
|rowspan="5"|Nagoya Grampus|2013|rowspan="4"|J1 League|29|1|1|0|5|1|–|35|2|
|2014|26|2|4|0|6|1|–|36|3|||||
|2015|28|3|1|0|7|0|–|36|3|||||
|2016|31|2|1|0|3|0|–|35|2|||||
|rowspan="4"|Albirex Niigata|2017|J1 League|23|1|1|0|0|0|–|24|1||
|2018|rowspan="2"|J2 League|39|5|0|0|2|1|–|41|6|||
|2019|32|2|1|0|||–|33|2|||||
|Tochigi SC|2020|J2 League|0|0|0|0|||–|0|0|||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan=4"|Japan|2007|7|1|
|2008|5|0|||
|2009|4|1|||
|2010|3|0|||

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

|scope="col"|No.|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Venue|scope="col"|Opponent|scope="col"|Score|scope="col"|Result|scope="col"|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1|11 September 2007|Hypo-Arena, Klagenfurt, Switzerland||4–3|4–3|Friendly||||||||
|2|31 May 2009|National Olympic Stadium, Tokyo, Japan||4–0|4–0|2009 Kirin Cup||||||||

## Honours

**Japan**
- Kirin Cup: 2008, 2009

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Kisho Yano
矢野 貴章
- **fullname**: Kisho Yano
- **birth place**: Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Shizuoka, Japan
- **height**: 1.87 m
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward, right-back
- **currentclub**: Tochigi SC
- **clubnumber**: 29
- **youthyears1**: 2000–2002
- **youthclubs1**: Hamana High School
- **years1**: 2003–2005
- **clubs1**: Kashiwa Reysol
- **caps1**: 39
- **goals1**: 4
- **years2**: 2006–2010
- **clubs2**: Albirex Niigata
- **caps2**: 152
- **goals2**: 30
- **years3**: 2010–2012
- **clubs3**: SC Freiburg
- **caps3**: 15
- **goals3**: 0
- **years4**: 2012
- **clubs4**: Albirex Niigata
- **caps4**: 30
- **goals4**: 2
- **years5**: 2013–2016
- **clubs5**: Nagoya Grampus
- **caps5**: 115
- **goals5**: 8
- **years6**: 2017–2020
- **clubs6**: Albirex Niigata
- **caps6**: 94
- **goals6**: 8
- **years7**: 2020–
- **clubs7**: Tochigi SC
- **caps7**: 114
- **goals7**: 18
- **nationalyears1**: 2001
- **nationalteam1**: Japan national under-17 football team, Japan U-17
- **nationalcaps1**: 2
- **nationalgoals1**: 1
- **nationalyears2**: 2002
- **nationalteam2**: Japan national under-20 football team, Japan U-20
- **nationalcaps2**: 5
- **nationalgoals2**: 2
- **nationalyears3**: 2007–2010
- **nationalteam3**: Japan national football team, Japan
- **nationalcaps3**: 19
- **nationalgoals3**: 2
- **club-update**: 23 October 2022