Kodai Tanaka
is a Japanese footballer currently playing as a forward for Singapore Premier League club Lion City Sailors. He won the SPL Player Of The Year and was nominated for SPL Team Of The Year in 2022. He is known for his finishing in the box and powerful shots with either foot. Youth career 
Kodai came through the ranks of the Yokohama F. Marinos youth team and then Tokai University Kofu High School and Takushoku University before being picked up by Albirex Niigata Singapore FC. Club career

Albriex Niigata (Singapore) 
Kodai started his professional career with Albirex Niigata Singapore FC in the 2022 Singapore Premier League. In his first 11 matches, he has notched 12 goals, of which 7 had come from headers. As part of Albirex's "LIT" frontline comprising ex-Southampton and Japan man Tadanari Lee, Ilhan Fandi and himself, the trio have combined for 57 goals in 26 league matches - more than five of the other seven teams in the SPL, with Kodai himself notching 31 goals. He ended his first professional season with 5 hat-tricks and as the second top goalscorer in the league, with 33 goals in 28 games. Lion City Sailors 
He started off his season with 3 goals in 2 assists. In the next match against his former team, he was ruled out for the season with an ACL injury. Career statistics

Club
. Honours

Club

Albriex Niigata (S) 

 Singapore Premier League: 2022

Individual

Albirex Niigata (Singapore) 

 Singapore Premier League Player of the Year: 2022
 Singapore Premier League Team of the Year: 2022
 Singapore Premier League Player of the Month: July 2022

References

1999 births
Living people
Association football people from Kanagawa Prefecture
Takushoku University alumni
Japanese men's footballers
Japanese expatriate men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Singapore Premier League players
Yokohama F. Marinos players
Albirex Niigata Singapore FC players
Japanese expatriate sportspeople in Singapore
Expatriate men's footballers in Singapore
21st-century Japanese people