Manaka Matsukubo
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Manaka with the North Carolina Courage in 2025 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Manaka Matsukubo | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 28 July 2004 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Kagoshima, Kagoshima, Japan | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | North Carolina Courage | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 34 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | JFA Academy Fukushima | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2022 | JFA Academy Fukushima | 46 | (30) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Mynavi Sendai | 12 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | → North Carolina Courage (loan) | 18 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024– | North Carolina Courage | 44 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Japan U16 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022–2024 | Japan U20 | 16 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Japan | 10 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 03:34, 5 March 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 03:34, 5 March 2026 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
Manaka Matsukubo (松窪 真心, Matsukubo Manaka; born 28 July 2004) is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a forward or attacking midfielder for the North Carolina Courage of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL) and the Japan national team.
Manaka represented Japan at the 2022 and 2024 FIFA U-20 Women's World Cups, reaching the final at both events and earning the Silver Ball at the latter, before making her senior debut in 2025.