
Rooney set up all three on 2 March 2013 and he finished each one without fuss, a 4-0 win over Norwich that made him the first Asian player to score a Premier League hat-trick. Two Bundesliga titles at Dortmund in 2011 and 2012 came with the 2012 German cup, followed by the 2012-13 Premier League with Manchester United, the 2011 Asian Cup with Japan, and a second DFB-Pokal back in Dortmund in 2017. Career record: 97 caps and 31 goals for Japan; club career at Cerezo Osaka, Borussia Dortmund, Manchester United.
| 2006–2010 | Cerezo Osaka |
| 2010–2012 | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2012–2014 | Manchester United |
| 2014–2019 | Borussia Dortmund |
| 2019–2019 | Beşiktaş J.K. (Football) |
| 2019–2020 | Real Zaragoza |
| 2021–2021 | PAOK |
| 2022–2023 | Sint-Truidense V.V. |
| 2023–today | Cerezo Osaka |
| Japan | 97 caps, 31 goals |
Japan legends whose careers overlapped Kagawa's
One rank above: Hidetoshi Nakata at #1.
One rank below: Keisuke Honda at #3.
Japan's editorial top five: Hidetoshi Nakata · Shinji Kagawa · Keisuke Honda · Makoto Hasebe · Shunsuke Nakamura.