Tatsuya Tanaka

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

## Biography

Tanaka was born in Shunan on November 27, 1982. After graduating from Teikyo High School, he joined J1 League club Urawa Reds in 2001. He played many matches as forward from first season. The club won the champions in the 2003 J.League Cup and he was selected "MVP award" and "New Hero award". However he suffered for repeated injuries from late 2005 while the club won many title, 2005 Emperor's Cup, 2006 J1 League, 2006 Emperor's Cup and 2007 AFC Champions League. In 2012, he could not play many matches and left the club end of 2012 season. In 2013, he moved to Albirex Niigata. The club was relegated to J2 League end of the 2017 season.

In 2004, Tanaka was selected the Japan U-23 national team for 2004 Summer Olympics and played all 3 matches. In 2005, he was selected the Japan national team for 2005 East Asian Football Championship. At this tournament, he debuted against North Korea on July 31. He played several matches every season including 2010 World Cup qualification. He played 16 games and scored 3 goals for Japan until 2009.

## Club statistics

_Updated to January 1st, 2022_.
|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="2"|League|colspan="2"|Emperor's Cup|colspan="2"|J.League Cup|colspan="2"|Continental<sup>1</sup>|colspan="2"|Other<sup>2</sup>|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="12"|Urawa Red Diamonds|2001|19|3|0|0|4|0|–|–|23|3||||
|2002|23|5|1|0|3|0|–|–|27|5||||||
|2003|26|11|1|0|10|4|–|–|37|15||||||
|2004|23|10|4|4|6|4|–|2|0|35|18|||||
|2005|25|8|0|0|8|3|–|–|33|11||||||
|2006|18|4|1|2|0|0|–|–|19|6||||||
|2007|18|9|0|0|1|0|8|3|–|27|12|||||
|2008|15|2|1|0|4|1|2|0|–|22|3|||||
|2009|15|0|1|0|0|0|–|–|16|0||||||
|2010|22|2|2|0|2|0|–|–|26|2||||||
|2011|22|2|0|0|1|0|–|–|23|2||||||
|2012|7|0|2|1|2|0|–|–|11|1||||||
|rowspan="9"|Albirex Niigata|2013|32|2|1|0|3|0|–|–|36|2||||
|2014|24|2|2|2|4|1|–|–|30|5||||||
|2015|13|1|2|2|5|0|–|–|20|3||||||
|2016|20|3|3|0|3|0|–|–|26|3||||||
|2017|11|2|0|0|2|2|–|–|13|4||||||
|2018|31|2|0|0|6|2|–|–|37|4||||||
|2019|17|1|1|0|–|–|–|18|1|||||||
|2020|7|0|–|–|–|–|7|0||||||||
|2021|1|0|0|0|–|–|–|1|0|||||||
<div id="notes gs1"></div><sup>1</sup><small>Includes AFC Champions League and A3 Champions Cup.</small>
<div id="notes gs2"></div><sup>2</sup><small>Includes J.League Championship and Japanese Super Cup.</small>

## National team statistics

|colspan=3|Japan national team||
| --- | --- | --- |
|2005|2|1|
|2006|4|0|
|2007|2|0|
|2008|4|1|
|2009|4|1|

|colspan="7"|**International goals**||||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|3 August 2005|Daejeon World Cup Stadium, Daejeon, South Korea||||2005 East Asian Football Championship|
|2.|19 November 2008|Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium, Doha, Qatar||||2010 FIFA World Cup Qualification|
|3.|20 January 2009|KKWing Stadium, Kumamoto, Japan||||2011 AFC Asian Cup Qualification|

### Club

- Urawa Red Diamonds
- J1 League (1): 2006
- Emperor's Cup (2): 2005, 2006
- J.League Cup (1): 2003
- AFC Champions League (1): 2007
- Japanese Super Cup (1): 2006

### Individual

- J.League Cup MVP (1): 2003
- J.League Cup New Hero Award (1): 2003

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Tatsuya Tanaka
田中 達也
- **image**: Tatsuya Tanaka.jpg
- **image size**: 300px
- **caption**: Tanaka in 2011
- **fullname**: Tatsuya Tanaka
- **birth place**: Shunan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yamaguchi, Japan
- **position**: Forward (association football), Forward
- **youthyears1**: 1998–2000
- **youthclubs1**: Teikyo High School
- **years1**: 2001–2012
- **clubs1**: Urawa Red Diamonds
- **caps1**: 233
- **goals1**: 56
- **years2**: 2013–2021
- **clubs2**: Albirex Niigata
- **caps2**: 156
- **goals2**: 13
- **totalcaps**: 364
- **totalgoals**: 68
- **nationalyears1**: 2004
- **nationalteam1**: Japan national under-23 football team, Japan U-23
- **nationalcaps1**: 3
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2005–2009
- **nationalteam2**: Japan national football team, Japan
- **nationalcaps2**: 16
- **nationalgoals2**: 3
- **club-update**: January 1st, 2022