player · data as of 2026-08-25 16:30 UTC
Yuta Nakayama
Be the first in the standsDefenderage 295' 11"
Japancurrently Machida Zelvia
Japancurrently Machida ZelviaCareer goals
18
all competitions, from the season archive · club 18 · country 0 — season by season in The Record below
Career appearances
288
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
1
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.
Yūta Nakayama is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a centre back or defensive midfielder for J1 League club Machida Zelvia and the Japan national team. — Wikipedia's own summary; its figures are theirs
Honours
1 team trophy · Wikipedia + Wikidata, community-updated| Team honours1 | ||||
| Emperor's Cup | ×1 | 2025 | Machida Zelvia | |
| Individual honours1 | ||||
| More honours · 1 | ||||
| J.League Rookie of the Year | 2017 | |||
The Record
season by season · 29 competition-seasons · ESPN archive| Season | Competition | Team | Apps | Goals | Assists | Shots | YC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | all competitions | all teams | 288 | 18 | 14 | 154 | 26 |
| 2026 | Jpn 1 | Machida Zelvia | 20 | 3 | 4 | 25 | 1 |
| 2025 | AFC Champions League | Machida Zelvia | 13 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 2 |
| 2025 | Jpn 1 | Machida Zelvia | 32 | 1 | 3 | 25 | 0 |
| 2024 | Jpn 1 | Machida Zelvia | 6 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 |
| 2023 | AFC Asian Cup | Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2023 | Championship | Huddersfield Town | 23 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
| 2023 | Friendlies | Japan | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | League Cup | Huddersfield Town | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| 2023 | World Cup qualifiers | Japan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 2022 | Championship | Huddersfield Town | 14 | 2 | 0 | 14 | 2 |
Career
league apps & goals · Wikidata, community-updated (national-team rows can lag a match or two)| Years | Team | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015–2015 | J.League U-22 Selection | 12 | 0 |
| 2015–2018 | Kashiwa Reysol | 76 | 6 |
| 2019–now | Japan | — | — |
| 2019–2022 | PEC Zwolle | 79 | 5 |
| 2022–2024 | Huddersfield Town A.F.C. | — | — |
| 2024–now | FC Machida Zelvia | — | — |
Youth & development spells — 2 more
| 2013–2014 | Japan U17 | 6 | 0 |
| 2016–2017 | Japan U20 | 4 | 0 |
The Stands
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