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Tanaka Ao

Leeds United · Midfielder · 2026-27 · status: available · selected by 0.3% of FPL managers
Born 10 September 1998 (28) · Kawasaki, Japan
Minutes
405
Starts
5
FPL points
17
Price
£4.9m
Goals
0
Assists
2
xG
0.86
xA
0.06

Tanaka has 2 assists this season — 0.44 per 90 minutes, far ahead of last season's pace.

Season by season

2026-27 against his past seasons · per 90 minutes

How this season compares with the ones before it. 2026-27 is drawn dashed — it is only 7 appearances old.

SeasonClubMinMin/matchStartsGAxGxADefCon/90CSFPL ptsFPL pts/90
2025-26Leeds United130734.414211.441.3910.123674.61
2026-27Leeds United40557.95020.860.069.112173.78

Elsewhere

league seasons outside this league · API-Football
SeasonClubCompetitionAppsMinGA
2018-19Kawasaki FrontaleJ1 League416410
2019-20Kawasaki FrontaleJ1 League24196701
2020-21Kawasaki FrontaleJ1 League31218551
2021-22Fortuna Düsseldorf2. Bundesliga29177911
2021-22Kawasaki FrontaleJ1 League20165214
2022-23Fortuna Düsseldorf2. Bundesliga22175111
2023-24Fortuna Düsseldorf2. Bundesliga30225873
2024-25LeedsChampionship43331752
2024-25Fortuna Düsseldorf2. Bundesliga327000

Playing time

minutes per club match · 2025-26 → 2026-27
Min / club match, 2026-27
57.9 of 90 · 405 min in 7 matches
Min / club match, 2025-26 (any club)
34.4 1307 min over 38
Min / club match trend
▲ +23.5 trend

Ball-winning

defensive contribution per 90 · 2026-27 vs 2025-26
DefCon / 90, 2026-27
9.11 41 in 405 min
DefCon / 90, 2025-26
10.12
DefCon / 90 trend
▼ -1.01 trend
Tackles
12 this season only
Recoveries
16 this season only
Clearances, blocks, interceptions
13 this season only

The trend

2026-27 vs 2025-26 · per 90 minutes
Rate2026-272025-26Trend
xGI/900.200.19+0.01
Goals/900.000.14-0.14
Assists/900.440.07+0.37
xG/900.190.10+0.09
xA/900.010.10-0.09
DefCon/909.1110.12-1.01
FPL pts/903.784.61-0.83

Gameweek by gameweek

2026-27 · 7 appearances logged
GWOppResultMinGAxGxABonusPts
GW1A NFOW 1–00000.000.0000
GW2H BRED 1–145000.000.0101
GW3A BHAD 1–172010.530.0105
GW4H NEWW 4–171010.060.0306
GW5H CRYD 0–067000.140.0002
GW6A ARSL 1–270000.080.0001
GW7H MUND 1–180000.050.0102
About these numbers

Where the numbers come from. Every figure on this page is read from the official Fantasy Premier League API; a blank reads "—". Per-90 rates are the total × 90 ÷ minutes. "Points" are FPL fantasy points, the game's own scoring. xG, xA and xGC are the expected goals, assists and goals conceded the FPL API publishes.

Past seasons are the totals the FPL API records for him league-wide, and a season spent outside the league leaves a gap rather than a bridged line. The club column does not come from the API, which does not record it: it is read off his Wikipedia career table, and is blank where Wikipedia has no entry for that season. Expected goals and assists begin in 2022-23, and ball-winning actions in 2024-25; before those the API published none, so the seasons are blank rather than zero. A per-90 rate needs 90 minutes behind it, so a shorter season shows no rate at all. Minutes per club match is minutes over 38 for a past season.

Playing time = minutes ÷ the club's matches played, so a starter reads near 90 and a substitute reads his true share. 2026-27: 7 club matches so far. 2025-26: minutes over 38 matches for any Premier League club — the FPL API does not attribute a past season to a club, so a player who moved is measured at his previous club. The trend needs 450+ minutes last season and 90+ this season.

Defensive contribution is the Fantasy Premier League's composite of ball-winning actions: for defenders, clearances + blocks + interceptions + tackles; for midfielders and forwards, the same plus ball recoveries. Tackles, recoveries and clearances-blocks-interceptions are this-season counts only: the API's past-season totals carry just the composite, so no trend is available for those three.

Trend = this season's rate minus last season's (2026-27: 405 min; 2025-26: 1307 min).