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who plays 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 ...

. Shiotani is a well-decorated player, having won 8 trophies as of 2025, and has been named in the J.League Team of the Year for three years in a row, from 2014 to 2016.

Club career

Sanfreece Hiroshima

On 23 December 2015, Shiotani was selected in the 2015

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Al Ain

On 15 June 2017, Shiotani was announced at Al Ain on a permanent transfer. During the final of the

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, Shiotani scored in the 86th minute against

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as Al Ain finished runners-up.

Second spell at Sanfreece Hiroshima

On 1 October 2021, Shiotani was announced at Sanfreece Hiroshima on a permanent transfer. He was part of the Sanfeece Hiroshima team that won the 2022 J.League Cup. Shiotani was part of the Sanfreece Hiroshima team that won the

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International career

On 15 December 2014, Shiotani was called up to the Japan squad for the

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. On 1 July 2016, Shiotani was called up to the Japan U-23 national team as one of three over-aged players for the

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. At this tournament, he played the full 90 minutes in all three matches in a centre back partnership with Naomichi Ueda. On 13 December 2018, Shiotani was called up to the Japan squad for the

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. He scored his first international goal against

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during the competition, scoring in the 58th minute on 17 January 2019. The stadium which he scored his first international goal is also the home stadium of Al Ain. He started in the final as Japan lost to

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Club statistics

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, J. League Championship and

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National team statistics

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International goals

:''Scores and results list Japan's goal tally first.''

Honours

Sanfrecce Hiroshima * J. League Division 1:

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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 ...

* J.League Cup:

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

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 ...

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

Japan *

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runner-up:

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Individual * J. League Best Eleven:

References

External links

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Tsukasa Shiotani
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shiotani, Tsukasa 1988 births Living people Kokushikan University alumni Association football people from Tokushima Prefecture Japanese men's footballers Japan men's international footballers Japanese expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates J1 League players J2 League players Mito HollyHock players Sanfrecce Hiroshima players Al Ain FC players 2015 AFC Asian Cup players 2019 AFC Asian Cup players Footballers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Japan Men's association football defenders UAE Pro League players 21st-century Japanese sportsmen