Homare Sawa

Homare Sawa is a Japanese footballer, born on 6 September 1978 in Fuchū, Tokyo, Japan. Sawa played as a midfielder for NTV Beleza and INAC Kobe Leonessa. Sawa scored 242 goals in 620 league and international games and won 27 trophies, including the World Cup and 12 league titles.

Sawa's career stats

GamesGoals
Clubs, league games415159
Japan20583
Total620242

Goals per game: 0.39.

Sawa's trophies and awards

  • Trophies with club and country: 27
  • League titles: 12
  • Domestic cups: 10
  • World Cup: 1
  • Trophies with Japan: 5
  • Individual awards: 24

Yomiuri/Nippon TV Beleza

  • Nadeshiko.League (8): 8 (1991, 1992, 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010)
  • Empress's Cup All-Japan Women's Football Tournament (7): 7 (1993, 1997, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009)
  • Nadeshiko League Cup: 1 (2007)

INAC Kobe Leonessa

  • Nadeshiko.League: 3 (2011, 2012, 2013)
  • Empress's Cup All-Japan Women's Football Tournament: 1 (2011)
  • International Women's Club Championship: 1 (2013)
  • Nadeshiko League Cup: 1 (2013)

Japan

  • East Asian Football Championship: 2 (2008, 2010)
  • Asian Games Gold Medal: 1 (2010)
  • FIFA Women's World Cup: 1 (2011)
  • AFC Women's Asian Cup: 1 (2014)

Individual

  • Nadeshiko League Best Eleven (11): 11 (1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2011, 2012)
  • AFC Women's Player of the Year: 2 (2004, 2008)
  • Nadeshiko League MVP: 2 (2006, 2008)
  • EAFF Women's Football Championship Best Player: 2 (2008, 2010)
  • FIFA Women's World Cup Golden Ball: 1 (2011)
  • FIFA Women's World Cup Golden Shoe: 1 (2011)
  • FIFA Women's World Cup All-Star Team: 1 (2011)
  • FIFA World Player of the Year: 1 (2011)
  • Asian Football Hall of Fame: 1 (2014)
  • IFFHS AFC Best Woman Player of the Decade: 1 (2011–2020)
  • |IFFHS AFC Woman Team of the Decade: 1 (2011–2020)

Clubs

League games and goals at each club.

  1. 1991–1999: NTV Beleza, 136 games, 79 goals
  2. 1999–2000: Denver Diamonds
  3. 2001–2003: Atlanta Beat, 55 games, 13 goals
  4. 2004–2008: Nippon TV Beleza, 85 games, 47 goals
  5. 2009–2010: Washington Freedom, 41 games, 6 goals
  6. 2009: Nippon TV Beleza (loan), 4 games, 2 goals
  7. 2010: Nippon TV Beleza, 0 games, 0 goals
  8. 2011–2015: INAC Kobe Leonessa, 94 games, 12 goals

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