Albirex Niigata

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Albirex Niigata
ア ル ビ レ ッ ク ス 新潟
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Basic data
Surname Albirex Niigata
Seat Niigata , Japan
founding 1996 (Niigita Eleven: 1955)
president JapanJapan Mitsugu Tamura
Website albirex.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach SpainSpain 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.

Denka Big Swan Stadium

Coordinates: 37 ° 52 ′ 57 ″  N , 139 ° 3 ′ 33 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname
1 JapanJapan TW Kōki Ōtani
2 JapanJapan FROM Naoto Arai
3 ArgentinaArgentina FROM Mauro (on loan from CD Tenerife )
4th JapanJapan FROM Shōsei Okamoto
5 JapanJapan FROM Michael James
6th JapanJapan MF Hiroki Akiyama
8th BrazilBrazil MF Silvinho
9 BrazilBrazil ST Fábio
10 JapanJapan MF Shion homma
11 JapanJapan ST Arata Watanabe
14th JapanJapan ST Tatsuya Tanaka
15th JapanJapan FROM Taiki Watanabe
16 UruguayUruguay MF Gonzalo González
No. position Surname
19th SpainSpain ST Pedro Manzi
20th JapanJapan MF Yuzuru Shimada (on loan from V-Varen Nagasaki )
21st JapanJapan TW Koto Abe
22nd JapanJapan TW Ryosuke Kojima
24 JapanJapan MF Frank Romero
27 JapanJapan MF Yūki Ōmoto
28 JapanJapan FROM Fumiya Hayakawa
29 JapanJapan MF Shunsuke Mori
31 JapanJapan FROM Yūto Horigome ( team captain )
33 JapanJapan MF Yoshiaki Takagi
39 JapanJapan ST Ken Yamura
41 JapanJapan TW Kazuki Fujita
50 JapanJapan FROM Daichi Tagami (on loan from Kashiwa Reysol )

Coach chronicle

Trainer nation from to
Frans van Balkom NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands AustraliaAustraliaAustralia  February 1, 1995 January 31, 1998
Yoshikazu Nagai JapanJapan Japan January 1, 1998 December 31, 2012
Yasuharu Sorimachi JapanJapan Japan February 1, 2001 January 31, 2006
Jun Suzuki JapanJapan Japan February 1, 2006 January 31, 2010
Nobuhiro Ueno JapanJapan Japan May 22, 2012 June 10, 2012
Masaaki Yanagishita JapanJapan Japan June 1, 2012 January 31, 2016
Tatsuma Yoshida JapanJapan Japan February 1, 2016 September 27, 2016
Kōichirō Katafuchi JapanJapan Japan September 27, 2016 January 31, 2017
Fumitake Miura JapanJapan Japan 1st February 2017 May 7, 2017
Kōichirō Katafuchi JapanJapan Japan May 8, 2017 May 10, 2017
Wagner Lopes JapanJapan Japan May 11, 2017 December 31, 2017
Masakazu Suzuki JapanJapan Japan 1st February 2018 August 8, 2018
Kōichirō Katafuchi JapanJapan Japan August 8, 2018 April 13, 2019
Kazuaki Yoshinaga JapanJapan Japan April 14, 2019 January 31, 2020
Albert Puig SpainSpain Spain February 1, 2020 today

Season placement

season league Teams Item Add./sp. J. League Cup Emperor's Cup
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

Web links

Commons : Albirex Niigata  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Explanations / individual evidence

  1. Albirex Niigata: 会 社 概要
  2. J. League Data Site