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Toshihiro Aoyama
青山敏弘
Personal information
Full name	Toshihiro Aoyama
Date of birth	22 February 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth	Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Number	6
Youth career
2001–2003	Sakuyo High School
Senior career*
Years	Team
2004–	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
International career‡
2013–2019	Japan
Medal record
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Representing Japan
AFC Asian Cup
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 March 2023; ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 January 2019

Toshihiro Aoyama (青山敏弘, Aoyama Toshihiro, born 22 February 1986) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Sanfrecce Hiroshima.^[3]

Career edit

Aoyama was born in Kurashiki. After featuring in 2014 FIFA World Cup, in May 2018 he was named in the Japan national team's preliminary squad for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia.^[4] However, he got injured and he did not make the final cut.^[5]

As of 26 March 2023^[6]^[7]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			Emperor's Cup		J.League Cup		AFC		Other^[a]		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2004	J1 League	0	0	0	0	1	1	–		–		1	1
	2005		0	0	0	0	0	0	–		–		0	0
	2006		19	1	1	1	1	0	–		–		21	2
	2007		28	0	1	1	6	0	–		–		35	1
	2008	J2 League	36	4	4	1	–		–		–		40	5
	2009	J1 League	29	3	0	0	5	1	–		–		34	4
	2010		23	0	1	0	5	0	0	0	–		29	0
	2011		27	2	2	0	1	0	–		–		30	2
	2012		34	2	0	0	4	0	–		–		38	2
	2013		33	3	4	0	2	0	3	0	4	1	46	4
	2014		25	1	1	0	5	0	8	0	1	0	40	1
	2015		33	3	3	1	2	0	–		6	0	39	3
	2016		28	2	2		2	0	4	0	1	0	37	3
	2017		31	0	1	0	4	0	–		–		36	0
	2018		34	1	2	0	0	0	–		–		36	1
	2019		14	0	3	0	2	0	0	0	–		19	0
	2020		31	1	0	0	1	0	–		–		32	1
	2021		32	1	0	0	1	0	–		–		33
	2022		15	0	2	0	8	0	–		–		25	0
	2023		2	0	–		1	0	–		–		3	0
Career total			474	24	27	4	51	2	15	0	12	1	582	31

Appearances and goals by national team and year^[8]^[9]
National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Japan	2013	3	0
	2014	4	0
	2015	1	1
	2016	0	0
	2017	0	0
	2018	3	0
	2019	1	0
Total		12	1

Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Aoyama goal.

List of international goals scored by Toshihiro Aoyama
No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition	Ref.
1	31 March 2015	Ajinomoto Stadium, Chōfu, Japan	Uzbekistan	1–0	5–1	Friendly	Japan vs. Uzbekistan - 31 March 2015 - Soccerway

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Japan

Individual

^ "FIFA Club World Cup Japan 2012 presented by Toyota: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 29 November 2012. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2012.
^ "Toshihiro Aoyama" (in Japanese). Sanfrecce Hiroshima. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
^ Toshihiro Aoyama at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
^ "World Cup 2018: All the confirmed squads for this summer's finals in Russia". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 December 2021.
^ [1] ^{[dead link]}
^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "J1&J2&J3選手名鑑ハンディ版 2018 (NSK MOOK)", 7 February 2018, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411529 (p. 120 out of 289)
^ Nippon Sports Kikaku Publishing inc./日本スポーツ企画出版社, "2017 J1&J2&J3選手名鑑 (NSK MOOK)", 8 February 2017, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411420 (p. 48 out of 289)
^ Toshihiro Aoyama at National-Football-Teams.com
^ [2] ^{[dead link]}
^ "【公式】C大阪vs広島の試合結果・データ(JリーグYBCルヴァンカップ：2022年10月22日)". J.League. Retrieved 2 November 2022.