Masahiro Wada

Masahiro Wada (和田 昌裕, Wada Masahiro, born January 21, 1965) is a Japanese former football player and manager. His sons Atsuki Wada and Tomoki Wada are also footballer.

Wada was born in Kobe on January 21, 1965. After graduating from Juntendo University, he joined Matsushita Electric (later Gamba Osaka) in 1987. He played as regular player as left side back and left midfielder from first season. In 1990, the club won the champions 1990 Emperor's Cup first major title in club history. However his opportunity to play decreased from 1994. In July 1995, he moved to his local club Vissel Kobe in Japan Football League. He played as regular player and the club was promoted to J1 League in 1997. However he could hardly play in the match from 1997 and he retired end of 1998 season.

After the retirement from football, Wada remained as the coaching staff of Vissel Kobe. In 2009, he was appointed as the senior team caretaker after the resignation of Caio Júnior. Wada managed the team for five games in J1 and stepped down from the head coach position after the appointment of Toshiya Miura. He still worked as the assistant coach for the club.

On 12 September 2010, after the dismissal of Miura, Wada was promoted to be the club head coach again. In the later season, Masahiro Wada led Vissel Kobe to finish in the ninth position on J1 League, the highest rank in the club history. However, Wada was sacked by the club in 2012 season after 8 games with 3 wins and 5 losses in J1 since the club had aimed for the top four position for the continental football.

He still worked as the executive staff for Vissel Kobe until November 2013.

In 2014, Masahiro Wada has become the first foreign head coach of Chonburi in Thai Premier League, followed the invitation of Wittaya Laohakul who was the director of Chonburi and his teammate at Matsushita Electric. Wada finished his season in Thailand with the second place of 2014 Thai Premier League, runner-up of 2014 Thai FA Cup and received the TPL Coach of the Year award. However, he decided to turn down the new contract from Chonburi and return to Japan.

In December 2014, Mashiro Wada has returned to Japan and become the manager of Kyoto Sanga FC in J2 League. He later stepped down from his position on 10 July 2015 after dropping the club to the relegation zone.

On 22 October 2015, Port F.C. made the official appointment of Masahiro Wada for the last nine games of relegation avoiding in Thai Premier League. Wada made the impressive run with Port but could not save them from relegation. He has maintained his role as the club head coach down in Division 1. Wada was sacked by Port F.C. on 11 July 2016 when the club was in third place and has 5 points away from leading position after 19 games. He was replaced by Jadet Meelarp.^[1]

As of 24 September 2016

Nat.	Team	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
	Vissel Kobe[2]	2009	2012	63	23	14	26	0	0	+0	036.51
	Chonburi	2 December 2013	10 November 2014	48	27	14	7	80	42	+38	056.25
	Kyoto Sanga FC[3]	16 December 2014	10 July 2015	22	6	4	12	0	0	+0	027.27
	Port	22 October 2015	11 July 2016	32	16	10	6	58	36	+22	050.00
	Sisaket	1 September 2016	28 October 2016	3	1	0	2	8	8	+0	033.33
Career totals				168	73	42	53	146	86	+60	043.45

¹ A win or loss by the penalty shoot-out is counted as the draw in time.

• Player statistics at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
• Manager statistics manager profile at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
• Vissel Kobe at the Wayback Machine (archived April 9, 2010)