is a Japanese professional

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who plays as a

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for

Slovenian PrvaLiga The Slovenian PrvaLiga ( sl, Prva slovenska nogometna liga, ), currently named Prva liga Telemach due to sponsorship reasons, also known by the abbreviation 1. SNL, is the top level of the Slovenian football league system. Contested by ten club ...

club

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Career

Urata joined

J2 League The or simply J2 is the second division of the and the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The top tier is represented by the J1 League. It (along with the rest of the J.League) is currently sponsored by Meiji Ya ...

club JEF United Chiba in 2015. In September 2016, he moved to

J3 League or simply J3 is the third division of . It was established in 2013 as the third-tier professional association football league in Japan. The third-tier nationwide league is a relatively recent development in Japanese football with a first attempt ...

club

FC Ryukyu are an Association football club from the Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. In 2022, after spending four years in the J2 League, the club was relegated. They will play on J3 League from the 2023 season. The team derive their name from Ryukyu, the his ...

on loan. On 18 August 2020, Urata joined

Croatian First Football League The Hrvatska nogometna liga () ( en, Croatian football league), also known as HNL or for sponsorship reasons the SuperSport HNL, is the top Croatian professional football league competition, established in 1992. Previously, it was called Prva H ...

club

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on a permanent deal. On 23 June 2023, Urata joined Slovenian side

on a free transfer, signing a one-year deal, with an option for another season.

Career statistics

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, (p. 247 out of 289)

References

External links

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Profile at FC Ryukyu
1997 births Living people Association football people from Tokyo Men's association football fullbacks Japanese men's footballers Japanese expatriate men's footballers Japan men's youth international footballers Japan men's under-20 international footballers JEF United Chiba players J.League U-22 Selection players Paraná Soccer Technical Center players FC Ryukyu players Giravanz Kitakyushu players FC Zorya Luhansk players NK Varaždin (2012) players NK Maribor players J3 League players Campeonato Paranaense players Croatian Football League players Slovenian PrvaLiga players Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil Expatriate men's footballers in Ukraine Expatriate men's footballers in Croatia Expatriate men's footballers in Slovenia Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Ukraine Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Croatia Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Slovenia {{Japan-footy-defender-1990s-stub