Hanami Saito

Hanami Saito is a field hockey player from Japan.

Personal life

Hanami Saito was born on 5 June 2004, in the Yamagata Prefecture.
She is a former student of Yonezawa Commercial High School.

In the Japanese national league, Matsunami represents the Crowning Glories.

Saito made her junior international debut in 2023. She made her first appearances for the Japanese U–21 team during a test series against Australia in the Gold Coast. She went on to represent Japan again at the Junior Asian Cup in Kakamigahara, winning a bronze medal. To close out 2023, Saito represented Japan again at the FIH Junior World Cup in Santiago, concluding the tournament with a seventh-place finish.
In 2024 she was a member of the junior squad at the Junior Asian Cup in Muscat.

In 2024, Saito was named in the senior national team for the first time. She made her international debut at the Asian Champions Trophy in Rajgir. At the tournament she scored her first international goal for Japan, helping the team to a bronze medal.
She was named in the squad for the 2024–25 FIH Nations Cup in Santiago.

The following is a list of goals scored by Saito at international level.

Goal	Date	Location	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	14 November 2024	Rajgir Sports Complex Hockey Stadium, Rajgir, India		1–1	1–2	2024 Asian Champions Trophy
2	26 February 2025	Centro Deportivo de Hockey Césped Estadio Nacional, Santiago, Chile		2–4	2–4	2024–25 FIH Nations Cup