The 28-year-old scored 14 goals in 115 games in all competitions for Sapporo having joined the Japanese side from Muangthong United, initially on loan, in the summer of 2017.
 
Chanathip made the move permanent at the start of the 2019 campaign after impressing in the 2018 season as Consadole finished fourth in the J1 League standings, and he was part of the team that reached the final of the J.League Cup later that year.
 
The playmaker was in stellar form for Thailand in Singapore during the AFF  Cup, scoring four times to finish the tournament as joint highest scorer as he won the regional title for a third time.

He joins a Kawasaki side that has been the dominant force in Japanese football in recent seasons, winning four of the last five J1 League titles, but who have struggled to turn that dominance into success in the AFC Champions League.
 
Frontale’s best performance in the continental club championship came in 2017, when they reached the quarter-finals for the third time after also advancing to the last eight in 2007 and 2009.

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