is a Japanese former professional

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who played as a

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for

Sanfrecce Hiroshima Sanfrecce Hiroshima () is a Japanese professional association football, football club based in Hiroshima. The club competes in the J1 League, top flight of the Japanese football league system. Sanfrecce is one of the most successful clubs in Ja ...

Consadole Sapporo is a Japanese professional football club based in Sapporo, Hokkaido, Sapporo, on the island of Hokkaido. They will play in the 2025 J2 League, the second tier league of Japanese football, after relegation from the J1 League at conclusion of th ...

and

Vegalta Sendai is a Japanese professional association football, football club based in Sendai, Miyagi, Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. They currently play in J2 League, the Japanese second tier of professional football. History Founded in 1988 as ''Tohoku Elect ...

Playing career

Hayashi was born in Ibaraki on 9 August 1982. After graduating from high school, he joined

J1 League The , the J.League or the for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Japan and the highest level of the Japanese football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation ...

club

in 2001. However he could hardly play in the match behind Takashi Shimoda. In 2005, he moved to

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 Yasud ...

club

. He became a regular goalkeeper in May 2005. Although he played as regular goalkeeper in 2006 season too, he lost his position in October. In 2007, he could not play at all in the match behind Takahiro Takagi. In June 2007, he moved to J2 club

and became a regular goalkeeper soon. In 2009, he played all 51 matches and Vegalta won the champions. From 2010, he played all 34 matches in J1 every season until 2013 season. Vegalta also finished at the 4th place in 2011 season and the 2nd place in 2012 season which is highest place in the club history. In 2014, he moved to

for the first time in 10 years. He played as regular goalkeeper and Sanfrecce won the champions in

2015 J1 League The 2015 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (2015 明治安田生命J1リーグ) season was the 50th season of top-flight football in Japan and the 23rd since the establishment of the J.League in 1992. This was first season of J1 League as renamed from J. ...

. After 10 seasons with Sanfrecce, Hayashi announced his retirement at the end of the 2023 season.

Club statistics

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Japanese Super Cup The , the for sponsorship reasons, is an annual one-match association football competition in Japan organised by J.League and the Japan Football Association. This competition serves as the season opener and is played between the reigning J1 Leag ...

J.League Championship The J.League Championship is a two-legged championship series which determined the season champion for the first 12 J.League seasons (1993–2004) excluding the 1996 season. In the early years, the J.League seasons were Apertura and Clausura, ...

and

FIFA Club World Cup The FIFA Club World Cup (FIFA CWC) is an international men's association football competition organised by the ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (FIFA), the sport's global sports governing body, governing body. The compe ...

Honours

Clubs

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

2nd stage (1):

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

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2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

Japan

EAFF East Asian Cup EAFF E-1 Football Championship, known as the East Asian Football Championship from 2003 to 2010, and the EAFF East Asian Cup for the 2013 and 2015 editions, is a men's international football competition in East Asia for member nations of the East ...

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2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

References

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Profile at Sanfrecce Hiroshima
1982 births Living people Association football people from Osaka Prefecture Sportspeople from Ibaraki, Osaka Japanese men's footballers J1 League players J2 League players Sanfrecce Hiroshima players Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players Vegalta Sendai players Men's association football goalkeepers {{Japan-footy-goalkeeper-stub