Yasuhiro Higuchi

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| name = Yasuhiro Higuchi
樋口靖洋

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1961|5|5}}

| birth_place = Mie, Japan

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| youthyears1 = 1977–1979

| youthclubs1 = Yokkaichi Chuo Technical High School

| years1 = 1980–1984

| clubs1 = Nissan Motors

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| manageryears1 = 2006–2007

| managerclubs1 = Montedio Yamagata

| manageryears2 = 2008

| managerclubs2 = Omiya Ardija

| manageryears3 = 2009

| managerclubs3 = Yokohama FC

| manageryears4 = 2012–2014

| managerclubs4 = Yokohama F. Marinos

| manageryears5 = 2015

| managerclubs5 = Ventforet Kofu

| manageryears6 = 2016–2018

| managerclubs6 = YSCC Yokohama

| manageryears7 = 2019–2021

| managerclubs7 = FC Ryukyu

| manageryears8 = 2022-

| managerclubs8 = Veertien Mie

| medaltemplates = {{Medal|Team|Nissan Motors}}

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{{Nihongo|Yasuhiro Higuchi|樋口靖洋|Higuchi Yasuhiro|born May 5, 1961}} is a Japanese football manager and former player who manages Veertien Mie.

Playing career

Higuchi was born in Mie Prefecture on May 5, 1961. After graduating from high school, he played for Nissan Motors from 1980 to 1984.

Coaching career

After retirement, Higuchi started coaching career at Nissan Motors (later Yokohama F. Marinos) from 1985 and mainly coached youth team (1993–1998) and top team (1999–2005). In 2006, he moved to J2 League club Montedio Yamagata and became a manager for top team first time in his career. In 2008, he moved to J1 League club Omiya Ardija. Although he managed in J1 League in his career, he resigned in a year. In 2009, he signed with J2 club Yokohama FC. However he resigned for poor performance in a year. In 2010, he returned to Yokohama F. Marinos and served as an assistant coach under manager Kazushi Kimura. In 2012, Higuchi became a manager as Kimura successor. In 2013 J1 season, although the club was the top place until late, the club lost the last two matches and missed the league champions.[https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFRT05/?competitionIdLabel=%EF%BC%AA%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B0%E3%80%80%E3%83%87%E3%82%A3%E3%83%93%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%EF%BC%91&yearIdLabel=2013%E5%B9%B4&yearId=2013&competitionId=347&search=search# J.League] In 2013 Emperor's Cup, the club won the champions defeated league champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima. He managed Marinos until end of 2014 season and moved to Ventforet Kofu in 2015.[http://www.ventforet.jp/news/press_release/508012 Ventforet Kofu]{{in lang|ja}} However the club results were bad and he resigned in May[http://www.ventforet.jp/news/press_release/508693 Ventforet Kofu]{{in lang|ja}} when the club at the bottom place. In 2016, he signed with J3 League club YSCC Yokohama[http://www.yscc1986.net/news/2016/01/25 YSCC Yokohama] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160125200126/http://www.yscc1986.net/news/2016/01/25 |date=2016-01-25 }}{{in lang|ja}} which was the bottom place for the 2nd consecutive year in J3 until 2015. Although the club was bottom place in 2016, the club left the bottom place first time in 2017. He managed the club until end of 2018 season.[http://www.yscc1986.net/news/2018/10/17 YSCC Yokohama]{{in lang|ja}} He signed with J2 club FC Ryukyu in 2019 season.[http://fcryukyu.com/news/14911/ FC Ryukyu] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181214164034/http://fcryukyu.com/news/14911/ |date=2018-12-14 }}{{in lang|ja}}

Managerial statistics

Update; Games managed up to December 31, 2020[https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFIX07/?staff_id=943 J.League Data Site]{{in lang|ja}}

class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" !rowspan="2"\|Team !rowspan="2"\|From !rowspan="2"\|To !colspan="5"\|Record
G	W	D	L	Win %
align="left"\|Montedio Yamagata \|align="left"\|2006 \|align="left"\|2007 {{WDL\|96\|32\|27\|37}}
align="left"\|Omiya Ardija \|align="left"\|2008 \|align="left"\|2008 {{WDL\|34\|12\|7\|15}}
align="left"\|Yokohama FC \|align="left"\|2009 \|align="left"\|2009 {{WDL\|51\|11\|11\|29}}
align="left"\|Yokohama F. Marinos \|align="left"\|2012 \|align="left"\|2014 {{WDL\|102\|45\|31\|26}}
align="left"\|Ventforet Kofu \|align="left"\|2015 \|align="left"\|2015 {{WDL\|11\|2\|0\|9}}
align="left"\|YSCC Yokohama \|align="left"\|2016 \|align="left"\|2018 {{WDL\|94\|21\|23\|50}}
align="left"\|FC Ryukyu \|align="left"\|2019 \|align="left"\|2021 {{WDL\|84\|27\|18\|39}}
align="left"\|Veertien Mie \|align="left"\|2022 \|align="left"\|present {{WDL\|0\|0\|0\|0}}
colspan="3"\|Total {{WDLtot\|472\|150\|117\|205}}

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!rowspan="2"|Team

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align="left"|Montedio Yamagata

|align="left"|2006

|align="left"|2007

align="left"|Omiya Ardija

|align="left"|2008

align="left"|Yokohama FC