Norio Tsukitate
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Norio Tsukitate | ||
| Date of birth | April 2, 1960 | ||
| Place of birth | Aichi Prefecture, Japan | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Toyota Nishi Senior High School | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1979–1988 | Toyota Motor Corp. SC | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1992–1994 | Nagoya Grampus Eight | ||
| 2002–2005 | Shimizu S-Pulse youth | ||
| 2005–2009 | Guam | ||
| 2013 | Timor-Leste under-19s | ||
| 2014 | Laos | ||
| 2014 | Bangladesh women | ||
| 2015 | Bhutan | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Norio Tsukitate (築舘 範男? Tsukitate Norio, born on 2 April 1960) is a Japanese football manager and former player. He was most recently head coach of the Bhutan national football team.
Tsukitate coached the Nagoya Grampus and the youth team of Shimizu S-Pulse.
Tsukitate led the national team of Guam from February 2005 to 2009. The highlight of his Guamanian stint was when he led the team to winning the top of its group at the first round of the preliminary competition of the 2010 East Asian Football Championship held in March 2009.
The national under-19 team of Timor-Leste was led by Tsukitate during the 2013 AFF U-19 Youth Championship. Timor-Leste finished third at said tournament.
In October 2014, Tsukitate was appointed as head coach of the women's national team of Bangladesh. This was his first time to coach a women's team. He was tasked to lead the team until the 2014 SAFF Women's Championship. He was also named adviser of the under-16 team for the 2015 AFC U-16 Women's Championship qualifiers.
Tsukitate was appointed coach of the Bhutan national team taking over from Chokey Nima who led the team through the first round of the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers. His first task as coach is to lead the team through the second round of the qualifiers.
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