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Albirex Niigata is a professional football club based in Niigata, Japan. Formed in 1955 as Niigata Eleven SC, it was renamed Albireo Niigata FC in 1995, and Albirex Niigata in 1997. They currently play in J1 League after being promoted from J2 League as cha ...

Career

Horigome made his league debut for Consadole Sapporo against

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on the 31 March 2013. He scored his first league goal for the club against Tochigi on the 23 November 2015, scoring in the 57th minute. On 21 December 2016, Horigome was announced at Albirex Niigata. He made his league debut for Albirex against

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on the 14 May 2017. On 26 December 2019, it was announced that the club had extended Horigome's contract for the 2019 season. He scored his first league goal for the club against

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on the 10 October 2020, scoring in the 75th minute. On 31 December 2020, Horigome's contract was extended for the 2021 season. On 31 December 2021, his contract was extended for the 2022 season. On 30 December 2022, it was announced that the club had extended Horigome's contract for the 2023 season. On 20 December 2023, his contract was extended for the 2024 season. On 21 December 2024, Horigome's contract was extended for the 2025 season. Horigome was part of the 2022 J2 2022 J2 League Bext XI.

Personal life

On 25 July 2021, Horigome started to rapidly gain followers on Twitter, as his name was only one kanji different from Yuto Horigome, who had just won the gold in the men's street skateboarding event at the

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. The footballer Horigome directed his new followers to the skateboarder's account instead.

Club statistics

Honours

; Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo *

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 ...

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 ...

; Albirex Niigata *

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 ...

; Individual * J2 League Best XI:

References

External links

Profile at Albirex Niigata
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Horigome, Yuto 1994 births Living people Japanese men's footballers J1 League players J2 League players J3 League players Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo players Fukushima United FC players Albirex Niigata players Men's association football midfielders Association football people from Sapporo 21st-century Japanese sportsmen