Yuji Ono (footballer)

Yuji Ono
小野裕二
Personal information
Full name	Yuji Ono
Date of birth	December 22, 1992 (age 31)
Place of birth	Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	Albirex Niigata
Number	99
Youth career
2008–2010	Yokohama F. Marinos
Senior career*
Years	Team
2010–2012	Yokohama F. Marinos
2013–2015	Standard Liège
2015–2017	Sint-Truiden
2017–2019	Sagan Tosu
2020–2021	Gamba Osaka
2022–2023	Sagan Tosu
2024–	Albirex Niigata
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:47, 22 December 2023 (UTC)

Yuji Ono (小野裕二, Ono Yūji, born December 22, 1992) is a Japanese footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for J1 League club Albirex Niigata.

Club career[edit]

Born in Yokosuka, next to a satellite city of Yokohama. Ono joined Yokohama F. Marinos youth academy at age 13. He was a member of the Yokohama F. Marinos youth team that won the Prince Takamado Cup in 2009 beating Júbilo Iwata.^[1] Ono made his competitive debut in a J1 League match against Sanfrecce Hiroshima at Hiroshima Big Arch on July 18, 2010, as a 62nd-minute substitute for Shingo Hyodo. At 17 years and 208 days, he was club's youngest-ever league debutante, a record previously held by Kota Mizunuma (17 years and 247 days).^[2] Two months later, on September 5, 2009, Ono scored his first goal in a 3–1 victory against V-Varen Nagasaki in the Emperor's Cup. In January 2011, he signed a new long term contract with Marinos.^[3]

On July 20, 2015, Ono signed a contract with Sint-Truiden.^[4]

In February 2011, Ono was called up to the Japan national under-23 football team, or the "U-22 team". He earned his first cap for the Japan U-22's against Bahrain U-22's on February 12, 2011.^[5]

Yuji's older brother, Yuto Ono, is also a footballer who currently plays as a midfielder for J2 League club FC Gifu.

Updated to February 24, 2019.^[6]^[7]

Club	Season	League		Cup¹		League Cup²		Continental		Total
Club	Season	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Yokohama F. Marinos	2010	17	3	3	2	0	0	-		20	5
	2011	29	4	5	3	4	0	-		38	7
	2012	33	2	5	1	6	1	-		44	4
	Total	79	9	13	6	10	1	-		102	16
Standard Liège	2012–13	9	0	0	0	-		-		9	0
	2013–14	0	0	0	0	-		-		0	0
	2014–15	24	1	2	1	-		4	0	30	2
	Total	33	1	2	1	-		4	0	39	2
Sint-Truiden	2015–16	26	0	0	0	-		-		26	0
	2016–17	6	0	–		–		–		6	0
	Total	32	0	0	0	-		0	0	32	0
Sagan Tosu	2017	19	2	1	0	2	0	-		22	2
	2018	30	4	4	1	1	1	-		35	6
	Total	49	6	5	1	3	1	0	0	57	8
Career total		193	16	20	8	13	2	4	0	230	26

^ Purachina sedai no daburyūhai. Takahito Ando. 2011. pp. 51–56. ISBN 978-4861917455.
^ "Gekisaka blog". Kodansha. October 17, 2010. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
^ "Ono signed five-year contract". Daily Sports. January 16, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
^ "OFFICIEEL: Sint-Truiden gaat opnieuw shoppen bij Standard". VoetbalNieuws.be. July 20, 2015. Retrieved July 20, 2015.
^ "Japan U-22s beat Bahrain in friendly". Japan Football Association. February 13, 2011. Retrieved November 17, 2012.
^ 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)", February 8, 2017, Japan, ISBN 978-4905411420 (p. 93 out of 289)
^ "Japan – Y. Ono – Profile with news, career statistics and history". Soccerway. Retrieved February 26, 2016.