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Japanese footballer

Masato Morishige 森重 真人 Morishige with FC Tokyo in 2016 Personal information Full name Masato Morishige[1] Date of birth (1987-05-21) 21 May 1987 (age 39) Place of birth Asakita-ku, Hiroshima, Japan Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) Position Centre-back Team information Current team FC Tokyo Number 3 Youth career 2000–2002 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2003–2005 Hiroshima Minami High School Senior career* Years Team Apps (Gls) 2006–2009 Oita Trinita 73 (5) 2010– FC Tokyo 469 (37) International career‡ 2007 Japan U-20 3 (0) 2008 Japan U-23 3 (0) 2013–2017 Japan 41 (2) Medal record Oita Trinita Winner J.League Cup 2008 FC Tokyo Winner Emperor's Cup 2011 Representing Japan AFC U-19 Championship 2006 India * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 13 September 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 13 December 2018, 15:20 (UTC)

Morishige in 2010

**Masato Morishige** (森重 真人, *Morishige Masato*; born 21 May 1987) is a Japanese professional [footballer](/source/Association_football) who plays as a [centre-back](/source/Defender_(association_football)#Centre-back), captain and currently play for [J1 League](/source/J1_League) club, [FC Tokyo](/source/FC_Tokyo).

## International career

In July 2007, Morishige was elected [Japan U20 national team](/source/Japan_national_under-20_football_team) for [2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup](/source/2007_FIFA_U-20_World_Cup). At this tournament, he played three matches as defensive midfielder. In August 2008, he was elected [Japan U23 national team](/source/Japan_national_under-23_football_team) for [2008 Summer Olympics](/source/Football_at_the_2008_Summer_Olympics_%E2%80%93_Men's_tournament). At this tournament, he played full time in all three matches as defender.[2]

## Career statistics

### Club

- *As of the start for 2025 season*.[3][4]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition Club Season League Emperor's Cup J. League Cup ACL Other[a] Total Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Oita Trinita 2006 J.League Div 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 – – 2 0 2007 20 1 2 1 3 0 25 2 2008 28 3 0 0 7 1 35 4 2009 23 1 0 0 2 0 1 0 26 1 Total 73 5 2 1 12 1 – 1 0 88 7 FC Tokyo 2010 J.League Div 1 30 3 5 0 8 1 – 1 0 44 4 2011 J.League Div 2 37 6 6 3 – 43 9 2012 J.League Div 1 33 2 1 0 4 0 7 0 1 0 46 2 2013 33 1 2 0 5 0 – 43 1 2014 33 1 2 1 3 0 39 1 2015 J1 League 32 7 1 0 4 0 41 7 2016 32 4 1 0 0 0 8 2 0 0 41 6 2017 17 1 0 0 4 1 – – 21 2 2018 30 2 3 0 0 0 33 2 2019 34 2 0 0 4 0 38 2 2020 28 1 – 3 0 7 0 38 1 2021 35 4 6 0 – 41 4 2022 28 2 2 0 3 0 33 2 2023 29 0 – 5 1 34 1 2024 23 0 2 1 3 1 28 2 2025 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Total 454 36 25 5 52 2 22 2 2 0 555 45 Career total 572 41 27 6 64 3 22 2 3 0 643 52

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** Includes [Pan-Pacific Championship](/source/Pan-Pacific_Championship), [Suruga Bank Championship](/source/Suruga_Bank_Championship) and [Japanese Super Cup](/source/Japanese_Super_Cup).

### International

Appearances and goals by national team and year[5] National team Year Apps Goals Japan 2013 6 0 2014 11 1 2015 12 1 2016 10 0 2017 2 0 Total 41 2

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

List of international goals scored by Masato Morishige No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition 1 5 April 2014 Tokyo, Japan New Zealand 3–0 4–2 Friendly 2 8 September 2015 Tehran, Iran Afghanistan 2–0 6–0 2018 FIFA World Cup qualification

## Honours

**Oita Trinita**

- [J.League Cup](/source/J.League_Cup): [2008](/source/2008_J._League_Cup)

**FC Tokyo**

- [Suruga Bank Championship](/source/Suruga_Bank_Championship): [2010](/source/2010_Suruga_Bank_Championship)

- [J2 League](/source/J2_League): [2011](/source/2011_J._League_Division_2)

- [Emperor's Cup](/source/Emperor's_Cup): [2011](/source/2011_Emperor's_Cup)

- [J.League Cup](/source/J.League_Cup): [2020](/source/2020_J.League_Cup)

**Japan**

- [EAFF East Asian Cup](/source/EAFF_East_Asian_Cup): [2013](/source/2013_EAFF_East_Asian_Cup), [2015](/source/2015_EAFF_East_Asian_Cup)

**Individual**

- [J. League Best Eleven](/source/J._League_Best_Eleven): [2013](/source/2013_J.League_Division_1), [2014](/source/2014_J.League_Division_1), [2015](/source/2015_J1_League), [2016](/source/2016_J1_League), [2019](/source/2019_J1_League)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-FIFA_1-0)** ["FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 – List of Players"](https://web.archive.org/web/20131231000046/http://www.fifadata.com/document/FWYC/2007/pdf/FWYC_2007_SquadLists.pdf) (PDF). FIFA. 5 July 2007. p. 10. Archived from [the original](http://www.fifadata.com/document/FWYC/2007/pdf/FWYC_2007_SquadLists.pdf) (PDF) on 31 December 2013.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Masato Morishige Biography and Statistics"](https://web.archive.org/web/20200417212202/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/masato-morishige-1.html). Sports Reference. Archived from [the original](https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/mo/masato-morishige-1.html) on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 July 2009.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** 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)"](https://www.amazon.co.jp/J1-J3%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E5%90%8D%E9%91%91%E3%83%8F%E3%83%B3%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E7%89%88-2018-NSK-MOOK/dp/4905411521), 7 February 2018, Japan, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-4905411529](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-4905411529) (p. 104 out of 289)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** 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)"](https://www.amazon.co.jp/2017-J1-J3%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E5%90%8D%E9%91%91-NSK-MOOK/dp/4905411424/ref=pd_sim_14_1/356-9491148-0114816?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=BA8BN4Y0F97GNWKQM78H), 8 February 2017, Japan, [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-4905411420](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-4905411420) (p. 72 out of 289)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-JNFTD_6-0)** [ Japan National Football Team Database] [*[specify](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources)*]

## External links

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- [Masato Morishige](https://web.archive.org/web/20150905/http://www.fifa.com/fifa-tournaments/players-coaches/people=268594/index.html) – [FIFA](/source/FIFA) competition record (archived)

- [Masato Morishige](https://www.national-football-teams.com/player/53087.html) at National-Football-Teams.com

- [Masato Morishige](https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFIX04/?player_id=8603) at [J.League](/source/J.League) ([archive](https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFIX04/?player_id=8603)) (in Japanese)

- [Profile at FC Tokyo](https://www.fctokyo.co.jp/players/2025/3945) (in Japanese)

- [Masato Morishige](https://int.soccerway.com/players/-/5731/) at Soccerway

- [Personal Twitter account](https://x.com/morigekun3)

v t e FC Tokyo – current squad 1 Tanaka 2 Muroya 3 Morishige 4 Kimoto 5 Nagatomo 6 Bangnagande 8 Ko 9 Marcelo Ryan 10 Higashi 11 Ogashiwa 15 Omori 16 Satō 17 Inamura 18 Hashimoto 22 Endō 23 Satō 24 Scholz 25 Kominato 26 Nagakura 27 Tokiwa 28 Nozawa 31 Kobayashi 32 Doi 33 Tawaratsumida 37 Koizumi 38 Tanaka 39 Nakagawa 42 Hashimoto 44 Suzuki 48 Arai 50 Higashi 55 Otani 58 Goto 71 Yamada 77 Kitahara 81 Kim Seung-gyu 21 Sugawara Manager: Matsuhashi

Awards v t e 2013 J.League Team of the Year GK: Nishikawa DF: Nasu DF: Morishige DF: Nakazawa MF: Nakamura MF: Aoyama MF: Kakitani MF: Yamaguchi FW: Ōsako FW: Ōkubo FW: Kawamata v t e 2014 J.League Team of the Year GK: Nishikawa DF: Ota DF: Morishige DF: Shiotani MF: Shibasaki MF: Muto MF: Léo Silva MF: Endō FW: Ōkubo FW: Usami FW: Patric v t e 2015 J.League Team of the Year GK: Nishikawa DF: Makino DF: Ota DF: Morishige DF: Shiotani MF: Kanazaki MF: Endō MF: Aoyama FW: Ōkubo FW: Usami FW: Douglas v t e 2016 J.League Team of the Year GK: Nishikawa DF: Makino DF: Shoji DF: Morishige DF: Shiotani MF: Abe MF: Saitō MF: Kashiwagi MF: Nakamura FW: Kobayashi FW: Leandro v t e 2019 J.League Team of the Year GK: Hayashi DF: Muroya DF: Thiago Martins DF: Morishige MF: Kida MF: Hashimoto MF: Iniesta MF: Nakagawa FW: Marcos Júnior FW: Diego Oliveira FW: Nagai

Japan squads v t e Japan men's football squad – 2008 Summer Olympics 1 Nishikawa 2 Hosogai 3 Yoshida 4 Mizumoto (c) 5 Nagatomo 6 Morishige 7 Uchida 8 K. Honda 9 Toyoda 10 Kajiyama 11 Okazaki 12 Taniguchi 13 Yasuda 14 Kagawa 15 Morimoto 16 T. Honda 17 Lee 18 Yamamoto Coach: Sorimachi v t e Japan squad – 2014 FIFA World Cup 1 Kawashima 2 Uchida 3 G. Sakai 4 Honda 5 Nagatomo 6 Morishige 7 Endō 8 Kiyotake 9 Okazaki 10 Kagawa 11 Kakitani 12 Nishikawa 13 Ōkubo 14 Aoyama 15 Konno 16 Yamaguchi 17 Hasebe (c) 18 Ōsako 19 Inoha 20 Saitō 21 H. Sakai 22 Yoshida 23 Gonda Coach: Zaccheroni v t e Japan squad – 2015 AFC Asian Cup 1 Kawashima 2 Ueda 3 Ota 4 Honda 5 Nagatomo 6 Morishige 7 Endō 8 Kiyotake 9 Okazaki 10 Kagawa 11 Toyoda 12 Nishikawa 13 Kobayashi 14 Muto 15 Konno 16 Shiotani 17 Hasebe (c) 18 Inui 19 Shoji 20 Shibasaki 21 Sakai 22 Yoshida 23 Higashiguchi Coach: Aguirre

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