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Minori Sato
Personal information
Full name	Minori Sato
Date of birth	2 March 1991 (age 33)
Place of birth	Gunma, Japan
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
2006–2008	Maebashi Ikuei High School
Senior career*
Years	Team
2009	Thespa Kusatsu
2010	Indiana Invaders
2010–2011	Puebla
2010	→ Gulbene (loan)
2011	Ventspils
2011–2012	Skonto
2013	Dinamo Brest
2014–2016	Bunyodkor
2017	Muaither
2017	Riga
2018	Gwangju
2019	Riga
2019–2020	SKA-Khabarovsk
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 February 2020

Minori Sato (佐藤穣, Satō Minori, born 2 March 1991) is a Japanese former football player.

Club career

Sato started his professional career in the J2 League. In 2010,^[1] after a trial with the Primera División de México club Puebla FC, he signed a 4-year contract. The same year he was sent on loan to FB Gulbene, that time playing in the Latvian First League, in order to gain experience before joining Puebla FC back from loan. He scored 10 goals in 7 games there, attracting interest from other Latvian clubs. In March, 2011 he signed a contract with Virsliga club FK Ventspils for one season. He won the Latvian Cup with the team, beating Liepājas Metalurgs in the final.^[2] He played 12 matches there, without scoring any goals before being transferred to another Latvian Higher League team Skonto Riga in August 2011. Sato played 38 league matches, scoring 3 goals for Skonto during 2 seasons in the Latvian Higher League with the club. In March 2013 he was transferred to the Belarusian Premier League club Dinamo Brest.^[3]

In March 2014, Sato signed a two-year contract with FC Bunyodkor in the Uzbek League,^[4]^[5]^[6] and upon making his debut became Bunyodkor's 25th foreign representative.^[7]

In January 2018, Sato signed Gwangju FC.^[8]

On 27 August 2019, he signed with Russian Football National League side SKA-Khabarovsk.^[9]

As of 2023, he played for FC Bunyodkor in Uzbekistan.^[10]

Club statistics

Club

As of match played 23 November 2019^[11]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club	Season	League			National Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other¹		Total
Club	Season	Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Thespa Kusatsu^[12]	2009	J2 League	21	0	1	0	–		–		–		22	0
Gulbene-2005 (loan)	2010	Latvian First League	7	10	1	1	–		–		–		8	11
Ventspils	2011	Latvian Higher League	12	0	3	0	–		1	0	3	0	19	0
Skonto	2011	Latvian Higher League	13	3	0	0	–		0	0	–		13	3
	2012	Latvian Higher League	23	0	3	1	–		0	0	–		26	1
	Total		36	3	3	1	-	-	0	0	-	-	39	4
Dinamo Brest	2013	Belarusian Premier League	27	0	3	0	–		–		–		30	0
Bunyodkor	2014	Uzbek League	15	1	4	0	-		0	0	0	0	19	1
	2015		28	4	5	0	-		7	0	-		40	4
	2016		27	5	6	1	-		6	0	-		39	6
	Total		71	10	15	1	-	-	13	0	0	0	99	11
Muaither	2016–17	Qatar Stars League	12	2	0	0	–		–		0	0	0	0
Riga	2017	Latvian Higher League	10	0	4	0	–		–		–		14	0
Gwangju	2018	K League 2	12	0	0	0	–		–		–		12	0
Riga	2019	Latvian Higher League	10	1	1	0	–		0	0	–		11	1
SKA-Khabarovsk	2019–20	FNL	11	0	2	0	–		–		–		13	0
Career total			230	23	33	3	-	-	14	0	3	0	280	26