| Yu Kimura 木村 裕 | |
| Fullname: | Yu Kimura |
| Birth Date: | 1994 6, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan |
| Position: | Forward |
| Youthyears1: | 2004–2012 |
| Youthclubs1: | Kashiwa Reysol Youth |
| Years1: | 2013–2016 |
| Caps1: | 11 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Clubs1: | Kashiwa Reysol |
| Years2: | 2014 |
| Caps2: | 3 |
| Goals2: | 1 |
| Clubs2: | → J. League U-22 (loan) |
| Years3: | 2015–2016 |
| Caps3: | 51 |
| Goals3: | 5 |
| Clubs3: | → V-Varen Nagasaki (loan) |
| Years4: | 2017–2018 |
| Caps4: | 18 |
| Goals4: | 5 |
| Years5: | 2018 |
| Caps5: | 14 |
| Goals5: | 1 |
| Clubs5: | → Kataller Toyama (loan) |
| Years6: | 2019–2020 |
| Caps6: | 26 |
| Goals6: | 1 |
| Clubs6: | Nagano Parceiro |
| Totalcaps: | 123 |
| Totalgoals: | 13 |
| Pcupdate: | 21:25, 1 December 2023 (UTC) |
is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward.
On 4 August 2012, Kimura scored the winning goal against Yokohama F. Marinos youth to win the championship.[1]
Kimura made his debut for Kashiwa against Ventforet Kofu on 13 April 2013.[2]
Yu made his debut for V-Varen against JEF United on 8 March 2015.[3] He scored his first goal for the club against Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo on 15 March 2015, scoring the only goal in the 20th minute.[4] On 11 April 2015, Kimura scored V-Varen's 100th goal in the J2 League.[5]
On 29 December 2016, Kimura was announced at V-Varen Nagasaki.[6]
On 19 June 2018, Kimura was announced at Kataller Toyama.[7] He scored on his debut for Kataller against Thespakusatsu Gunma on 1 July 2018, scoring the only goal in the 86th minute.[8]
On 21 December 2018, Kimura was announced at Nagano Parceiro.[9] He made his debut for Nagano against Roasso Kumamoto on 10 March 2019.[10] Kimura scored his first goal for the club against Thespakusatsu Gunma on 31 August 2019, scoring in the 82nd minute.[11]
On 17 December 2020, Kimura announced his retirement.[12]
Updated to 23 February 2018.[13] [14]
| Club | Season | League | Emperor's Cup | J. League Cup | AFC | Other1 | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Kashiwa Reysol | 2013 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | – | 9 | 0 | ||||
| V-Varen Nagasaki | 2015 | 26 | 4 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 1 | 0 | 28 | 4 | |||
| 2016 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 3 | – | – | – | 26 | 4 | |||||
| 2017 | 18 | 5 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | 18 | 5 | |||||
| Career total | 79 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 13 | ||