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Gotoku Sakai
Be the first in the standsDefenderage 355' 9"
Japancurrently Vissel Kobe
Japancurrently Vissel KobeCareer goals
14
all competitions, from the season archive · club 14 · country 0 — season by season in The Record below
Career appearances
530
all competitions, from the season archive — the same total The Record shows
World Cup 2026
no goals yet
goals and assists land here the moment they happen
Team trophies
6
team silverware — the cabinet below
Career totals from the ESPN season archive — all competitions, the same numbers The Record below shows (Wikidata's senior spells fill in when the archive is thin — never the youth years, which stay listed on their own below); live World Cup stats from our own match timelines. Individual awards are counted separately from team trophies, so the headline count can't inflate.
Gōtoku Sakai is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Vissel Kobe. He was born in the United States but raised in Japan, where he represented internationally. — Wikipedia's own summary; its figures are theirs
Honours
6 team trophies · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updated| Team honours6 | ||||
| Emperor's Cup | ×2 | 2019, 2024 | Vissel Kobe | |
| J1 League | ×2 | 2023, 2024 | Vissel Kobe | |
| J1 100 Year Vision League | ×1 | 2026 | Vissel Kobe | |
| Japanese Super Cup | ×1 | 2020 | Vissel Kobe | |
| Individual honours1 | ||||
| More honours · 1 | ||||
| J.League Best XI | 2023 | |||
The Record
season by season · 42 competition-seasons · ESPN archive| Season | Competition | Team | Apps | Goals | Assists | Shots | YC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | all competitions | all teams | 530 | 14 | 22 | 152 | 38 |
| 2026 | Jpn 1 | Vissel Kobe | 16 | 2 | 1 | 11 | 1 |
| 2025 | AFC Champions League | Vissel Kobe | 6 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| 2025 | Jpn 1 | Vissel Kobe | 31 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 2 |
| 2024 | AFC Champions League | Vissel Kobe | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2024 | Jpn 1 | Vissel Kobe | 27 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 |
| 2023 | Jpn 1 | Vissel Kobe | 29 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2022 | AFC Champions League | Vissel Kobe | 5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Jpn 1 | Vissel Kobe | 34 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2021 | Jpn 1 | Vissel Kobe | 38 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2020 | AFC Champions League | Vissel Kobe | 7 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
Career
league apps & goals · Wikidata, community-updated (national-team rows can lag a match or two)| Years | Team | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006–2011 | Albirex Niigata | — | — |
| 2011–2012 | Japan Olympic | 10 | 0 |
| 2012–now | Japan | — | — |
| 2012–2015 | VfB Stuttgart | 87 | 1 |
| 2015–2019 | Hamburger SV | 114 | 1 |
| 2019–now | Vissel Kobe | — | — |
Youth & development spells — 2 more
| 2009–2010 | Japan U20 | 7 | 2 |
| 2011–2012 | Japan U23 | 13 | 0 |
The Stands
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