{{Short description|Japanese footballer}} {{Infobox football biography | name = Ken Murayama | height = {{height|m=1.74}} | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1998|7|18|df=y}} | birth_place = Japan | currentclub = Dynamic Herb Cebu | clubnumber = 92 | position = Winger | youthclubs1 = Vissel Kobe | youthyears1 = {{0|0000}}–2014 | youthclubs2 = Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School | youthyears2 = 2015–2017 | collegeyears1 = 2018–2021 | college1 = Tokoha University | collegecaps1 = | collegegoals1 = | years1 = 2021 | clubs1 = Atlètic Sant Just | years2 = 2021–2022 | clubs2 = UE Sabadell Nord | years3 = 2022 | clubs3 = Athletic 200 | years4 = 2022–2023 | clubs4 = Khovd | years5 = 2023 | clubs5 = Neptūnas | years6 = 2023– | clubs6 = Dynamic Herb Cebu | caps6 = | goals6 = | club-update = }}
{{Nihongo|'''Ken Murayama'''|村山 健|Murayama Ken|born 18 July 1998}} is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a winger for Philippines Football League club Dynamic Herb Cebu.<ref name="soccerway">{{Soccerway|ken-murayama/832167}}</ref>
==Club career== ===Youth and college career=== Murayama played high school football for Kobe Koryo Gakuen High School, and was also a member of the U15 team of J1 League club Vissel Kobe.<ref>{{cite news |title=AFCカップに出場する日本人選手一覧 |url=https://yutasuzuki.net/2023-24-afccup-japanese/ |accessdate=19 August 2023 |date=18 August 2023 |work=yutasuzuki.net}}</ref> After graduating high school, he played college football for the Hamamatsu Campus of Tohoku University, graduating in 2021.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ken Murayama |url=https://web.gekisaka.jp/player/?38917-38917-jp |accessdate=19 August 2023 |work=web.gekisaka.jp}}</ref>
===Spain=== After graduating from university, Murayama played amateur football in the lower divisions of Spain, first with Atlètic Sant Just. Just two months later, he transferred to another Spanish club, UE Sabadell Nord.
===Mongolia=== In January 2022 it was announced that Athletic 220 of the Mongolian National Premier League had signed Murayama as a foreign recruitment.<ref>{{cite news |title=村山健選手契約！！！ |url=http://arrowing-llc.jp/topics/%E6%9D%91%E5%B1%B1%E5%81%A5%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E5%A5%91%E7%B4%84%EF%BC%81%EF%BC%81%EF%BC%81/ |accessdate=19 August 2023 |date=26 January 2022|work=arrowing-lc.jp}}</ref> Having won the league the previous year, Athletic qualified for the qualifying rounds of the 2022 AFC Cup. They lost in the play-offs to Lee Man, with Murayama scoring the first goal in the home leg.<ref name="soccerway" /><ref>{{cite news |title=Playoff: Lee Man fight back to seal place in Group Stage |url=https://www.the-afc.com/en/club/afc_cup/news/playoff_athletic_220_mng_v_lee_man_hkg_1.html |accessdate=19 August 2023 |work=Asian Football Confederation |date=20 April 2022}}</ref> In the summer of 2022, Murayama, along with a host of other players, left Athletic to sign for fellow league side Khovd.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Grimm |first1=Justin |title=Summer 22/23 Transfer Tracker |url=https://www.mongolianfootball.com/single-post/updated-summer-22-23-transfer-tracker |accessdate=19 August 2023 |work=mongolianfootball.com |date=11 August 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/MobiPremierLeague/photos/a.1220965741363447/5363735723753074/?type=3|title=PМХБХ-ны 2022–23 оны улирлын өмнөх солилцооны цонхоор Ховд клуб дараах тоглогчдыг багтаа нэгтгэжээ.|website=Mongolian Premier League on Facebook|date=18 August 2022|accessdate=19 August 2023}}</ref>
===Lithuania=== After his stint in Mongolia, Murayama signed for Neptūnas in the I Lyga, the second tier of Lithuanian football.<ref>{{cite news |title="Neptūne" šiemet rungtyniaus ir japonas |url=https://www.atviraklaipeda.lt/2023/03/10/neptune-siemet-rungtyniaus-ir-japonas/ |accessdate=19 August 2023 |work=atviraklaipeda.lt |date=10 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=692021005998476&set=a.175460364321212&locale=lt_LT|title=Pasveikinkime prie komandos prisijungusį puolėją – Ken Murayama|website=FC Neptunas on Facebook|date=5 March 2022|accessdate=19 August 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Neptunas 2–0 Zalgiris B |url=https://1lyga.lt/rungtynes/neptunas-zalgiris-b/14493536/ |accessdate=19 August 2023 |work=I Lyga}}</ref>
===Cebu=== On July 13, it was announced that Murayama had signed for Dynamic Herb Cebu of the Philippines Football League as part of the club's preparations for the upcoming editions of the Copa Paulino Alcantara and AFC Cup.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 August 2023 |url=https://www.sunstar.com.ph/article/1970085/cebu/sports/cebu-fc-signs-cinkir-new-players-for-copa|title=Cebu FC signs Çinkir, new players for Copa |work=SunStar Cebu}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=606249855022325&set=a.389665303347449|title=Thrilled to introduce our latest addition to the team, Ken Murayama!|website=Cebu Football Club on Facebook|date=17 August 2023|accessdate=19 August 2023}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{Cebu F.C. squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Murayama, Ken}} Category:1998 births Category:Living people Category:Men's association football forwards Category:Japanese men's footballers Category:Japanese expatriate men's footballers Category:Philippines Football League players Category:Mongolian National Premier League players Category:Cebu F.C. players Category:Tohoku University alumni Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Mongolia Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Lithuania Category:Expatriate men's footballers in the Philippines Category:Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Spain Category:Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Mongolia Category:Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Lithuania Category:Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the Philippines