Albirex Niigata
Albirex Niigata ア ル ビ レ ッ ク ス 新潟 |
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Basic data | |||
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Surname | Albirex Niigata | ||
Seat | Niigata , Japan | ||
founding | 1996 (Niigita Eleven: 1955) | ||
president | Mitsugu Tamura | ||
Website | albirex.co.jp | ||
First soccer team | |||
Head coach | Albert Puig | ||
Venue | Denka Big Swan Stadium | ||
Places | 42,300 | ||
league | J2 League | ||
2019 | 10th place (J2) | ||
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Albirex Niigata ( Japanese ア ル ビ レ ッ ク ス 新潟 , Arubirekkusu Niigata ) is a Japanese football club and has been a member of the J. League Division 1 , the highest professional league in the country, since 2004 . The club plays its home games in the World Cup stadium " Big Swan " in Niigata ( Niigata Prefecture ) and is known in Japan for its large and loyal following despite its limited sporting success.
In many ways, Albirex is different from most of its competitors in the J. League. Firstly, the club did not emerge as a works team from a large corporation, but from an ordinary football club and is not supported by a national zaibatsu , but by a consortium of regional medium-sized companies. And secondly, the team from Niigata on the north coast of Honshū has established itself as one of the few clubs away from the metropolitan areas of Tokyo and Kobe - Osaka - Kyoto .
The "Association" is a stock corporation based in Niigata, whose share capital is held by 171 different companies, the KK Albirex Niigata ( 株式会社 ア ル ビ レ ッ ク ス 新潟 , Kabushiki-gaisha Albirekkusu Niigata ).
history
In 1955 Albirex was founded under the name Niigata Eleven Soccer Club and played more or less successfully in regional association leagues for several decades. Between 1986 and 1994 Eleven won the regional championship of their association several times, but without drawing much attention nationwide.
When in the years 1993-94 the Japanese club football was reshaped by the establishment of the J. League and Japan Football League (JFL), Eleven renamed Albireo Niigata . The name comes from astronomy , there Albireo is a star in the constellation of the swan ( Latin Cygnus ). After Albireo Niigata was selected as one of the founding members of J-League Division 2, the club changed its name to Albirex Niigata. The renaming to Albirex is said to have been the easier pronouncing of the name Albirex. In keeping with this, a white swan with the name Albi, sometimes also referred to as a goose , was chosen as mascot and heraldic animal . In 2002 Albi had a partner Swan and the entire family with three children was complete in 2008.
Albireo entered the national stage for the first time when he was promoted to the JFL in 1996 and, due to his solid financial situation, was preferred to more successful teams in 1999 when the J. League Division 2 was founded and accepted into the J2. At the same time, the club changed its name again for legal reasons, this time to Albirex .
The provincial club held up surprisingly well in the new league, which may also have something to do with the above-average sympathy of the fans (in Niigata, the club did not have to compete with a strong baseball club for the audience and could thus be considered the “pride of the province "Establish). The team was continuously strengthened and consequently rose to the top division in 2003.
A disaster there ensured that the ties between the club and the population became even closer: when an earthquake devastated large parts of the city and the prefecture in October 2004, the footballers were the top priority in the relief efforts - a commitment that the population has not forgotten and the Albirex, despite its average sporting performance, brings audience averages of around 40,000 per game (league average: 17,000 per game).
In 2004, a branch club, Albirex Niigata (Singapore) , was founded in Singapore , in which mainly Japanese players are active.
successes
- Hokushinetsu Football League
- Winner: 1986, 1996, 1997
- 2nd place: 1992
- All Japan Senior Football Championship
- 2nd place: 1995
- Master: 2003
Stadion
The club plays its home games at the Denka Big Swan Stadium ( Japanese デ ン カ ビ ッ グ ス ワ ン ス タ ジ ア ム ス タ ジ ア ム , Denka Biggu Suwan Sutajiamu ) in Niigata in Niigata Prefecture . The stadium has a capacity of 42,300 spectators. The sports facility is owned by Niigata Prefecture.
Coordinates: 37 ° 52 ′ 57 ″ N , 139 ° 3 ′ 33 ″ E
Current squad
Status: June 2020
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Coach chronicle
Trainer | nation | from | to |
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Frans van Balkom | Netherlands Australia | February 1, 1995 | January 31, 1998 |
Yoshikazu Nagai | Japan | January 1, 1998 | December 31, 2012 |
Yasuharu Sorimachi | Japan | February 1, 2001 | January 31, 2006 |
Jun Suzuki | Japan | February 1, 2006 | January 31, 2010 |
Nobuhiro Ueno | Japan | May 22, 2012 | June 10, 2012 |
Masaaki Yanagishita | Japan | June 1, 2012 | January 31, 2016 |
Tatsuma Yoshida | Japan | February 1, 2016 | September 27, 2016 |
Kōichirō Katafuchi | Japan | September 27, 2016 | January 31, 2017 |
Fumitake Miura | Japan | 1st February 2017 | May 7, 2017 |
Kōichirō Katafuchi | Japan | May 8, 2017 | May 10, 2017 |
Wagner Lopes | Japan | May 11, 2017 | December 31, 2017 |
Masakazu Suzuki | Japan | 1st February 2018 | August 8, 2018 |
Kōichirō Katafuchi | Japan | August 8, 2018 | April 13, 2019 |
Kazuaki Yoshinaga | Japan | April 14, 2019 | January 31, 2020 |
Albert Puig | Spain | February 1, 2020 | today |
Season placement
season | league | Teams | Item | Add./sp. | J. League Cup | Emperor's Cup |
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1999 | J2 | 10 | 4th | 3rd round | ||
2000 | J2 | 11 | 7th | 3rd round | ||
2001 | J2 | 12 | 4th | 4th round | ||
2002 | J2 | 12 | 3. | 3rd round | ||
2003 | J2 | 12 | 1. | 30,339 | 4th round | |
2004 | J1 | 16 | 10. | 37,689 | Group stage | 4th round |
2005 | J1 | 18th | 12. | 40.114 | Group stage | 5th round |
2006 | J1 | 18th | 14th | 38,709 | Group stage | 5th round |
2007 | J1 | 18th | 6th | 38.276 | Group stage | 4th round |
2008 | J1 | 18th | 13. | 34,490 | Group stage | 5th round |
2009 | J1 | 18th | 8th. | 33,446 | Group stage | Quarter finals |
2010 | J1 | 18th | 9. | 19,152 | Group stage | 4th round |
2011 | J1 | 18th | 14th | 26,049 | Quarter finals | 3rd round |
2012 | J1 | 18th | 15th | 25,018 | Group stage | 3rd round |
2013 | J1 | 18th | 7th | 18,919 | Group stage | 3rd round |
2014 | J1 | 18th | 12. | 22,979 | Group stage | 3rd round |
2015 | J1 | 18th | 17th | 23,444 | Semifinals | 3rd round |
2016 | J1 | 18th | 13. | 21,181 | Group stage | 4th round |
2017 | J1 | 18th | 17. | 22,034 | Group stage | 3rd round |
2018 | J2 | 22nd | 16. | 14,913 | Group stage | 3rd round |
2019 | J2 | 22nd | 10. | 14,497 | 2nd round | |
2020 | J2 | 22nd |
Awards
Eleven of the year
- Marcio Richardes (2010)
- Kengo Kawamata (2013)
- Léo Silva (2014)
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Albirex Niigata Stadium on worldstadiums.com (English)
- Albirex Niigata in the database of weltfussball.de
- Albirex Niigata in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Albirex Niigata in the soccerway.com database
Explanations / individual evidence
- ↑ Albirex Niigata: 会 社 概要
- ↑ J. League Data Site