.jpg) Mitoma playing for Brighton & Hove Albion in 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Kaoru Mitoma[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 20 May 1997[2] | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Hita, Oita, Japan[3] | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[4] | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Left winger, wide midfielder, attacking midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Brighton & Hove Albion | |||||||||||||
| Number | 22 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2015 | Kawasaki Frontale | |||||||||||||
| College career | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2016–2019 | University of Tsukuba | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2018–2021 | Kawasaki Frontale | 50 | (21) | |||||||||||
| 2021– | Brighton & Hove Albion | 55 | (11) | |||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | → Union SG (loan) | 27 | (7) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Japan U21 | 3 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2017–2021 | Japan U23 | 9 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2021– | Japan | 21 | (8) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 16:52, 2 September 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14:00, 5 September 2024 (UTC) | ||||||||||||||
Kaoru Mitoma (三笘 薫, Mitoma Kaoru, born 20 May 1997) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a left winger or attacking midfielder for the Premier League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Japan national team. Considered to be one of the best wingers in the Premier League, he is known for his pace and dribbling ability.[5][6]
- ^ "2022/23 Premier League squad lists". Premier League. 16 September 2022. Archived from the original on 14 September 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
- ^ "FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 – Squad list: Japan (JPN)" (PDF). FIFA. 15 November 2022. p. 16. Archived (PDF) from the original on 22 November 2022. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
- ^ "三笘薫さん（サッカー）インタビュー". Players Japan. 25 December 2018. Archived from the original on 3 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Kaoru Mitoma: Overview". Premier League. Archived from the original on 15 July 2022. Retrieved 11 August 2022.
- ^ "'Mitoma is one of the best wingers in the world'". Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ "Kaoru Mitoma at Brighton: From the university dribbling thesis to brilliance in Belgium and finishing like Thierry Henry". Sky Sports. Retrieved 13 November 2023.