Tatsuma Yoshida

Youth career

During Tatsuma junior high school years, he played for the Hitachi Junior Youth Soccer Club.

Senior career

After graduating from Urayasu High School, Tatsuma joined his local club Kashiwa Reysol in 1993. In 1997, he moved to Kyoto Purple Sanga. In 1999, Tatsuma moved to newly promoted J2 League club, Montedio Yamagata. He became a regular for them, playing as a defensive midfielder. During the final day of the 1999 J.League Division 2 season, Yoshida scored a late long range free kick goal against Oita Trinita, denying their chances of being promoted to the J.League Division 1. In 2002, he moved to Singapore and played for Jurong FC in the S-League (now Singapore Premier League). After five appearances, he retired at the end of the 2002 season.

Return to Kashiwa Reysol

Tatsuma returned to Kashiwa Reysol in 2003 and spent seven years as director of the club's academy, where he helped to establish it as one of the best in the country. Japan internationals Hiroki Sakai, Masato Kudo and Kosuke Nakamura were groomed during his time there. Tatsuma spent a further three years as Reysol's sports director before succeeding as head coach for the 2015 J1 season on a two-year contract. In his first season, Tatsuma produced a respectable performance at the 2015 AFC Champions League, reaching the quarter-finals before losing to Guangzhou Evergrande, the eventual winners of the competition that year. Reysol had also finished at the semi-finals of that year's Emperor's Cup. However, performances in the domestic league was lacklustre, and Tatsuma stint was cut short.

Albriex Niigata

In 2016, Tatsuma was appointed as head coach of Albirex Niigata until he was sacked on 27 September 2016 for poor performances

Ventforet Kofu

Tatsuma was appointed as Ventforet Kofu head coach in 2017. Ventforet was relegated to J2 League at the end of 2017 J1 League season and Tatsuma was subsequently dismissed in April 2018.

Singapore

On 30 May 2019, Tatsuma was unveiled as the head coach of the Singapore national team. Yoshida's first game in change for the national team began with a 4–3 victory against the Solomon Islands at the National Stadium. Yoshida extended his contract in 2021, but ended his stint by…

Tatsuma was born in Chiba Prefecture on June 9, 1974.

Manager

Ventforet Kofu

Emperor's Cup: 2022