Avispa Fukuoka

Avispa Fukuoka
Basic data
Surname	Avispa Fukuoka (Japanese: ア ビ ス パ 福岡)
Seat	Fukuoka , Japan
founding	September 29, 1994 1982 as Chuo Bohan
Colours	white - blue - green
president	Tadashi Otsuka
Website	avispa.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Shigetoshi Hasebe
Venue	Level-5 Stadium , Hakata-ku , Fukuoka
Places	22,563
league	J2 League
2019	16th place ( J2 League )
home Away

Avispa Fukuoka ( Japanese ア ビ ス パ 福岡 , from Spanish avispa , German "wasp") is a Japanese football club from Fukuoka in the prefecture of the same name . After relegation at the end of the 2016 season , Avispa will compete in the J2 League in the 2017 season.

history

Foundation and promotion to the J. League (1982–1996)

Avispa is a relatively young association. The predecessor club was only founded in 1982 in Fujieda , ( Shizuoka Prefecture ), by employees of the security company Chūō Bōhan under the name Chūō Bōhan Soccer Club . However, the sporting development stagnated at first, as the game community could not really assert itself in the national competition dominated by works teams . This changed in 1985 when the club secured the support of several sponsors.

The club managed to rise to the Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1991. When the Japan Football League (JFL) was founded in 1992 , Chūō Bōhan came under in the Second Division. A twelfth place there was enough to move up to the J. League Division 1 after the founding of the professional league J. League . With the name change in Chūō Bōhan FC Fujieda Blux , the club aimed at promotion to the J. League. There was fierce competition between Júbilo Iwata and Shimizu S-Pulse in Shizuoka Prefecture . The Chūō Bōhan FC lost out and decided to relocate to Fukuoka in 1994; the amateurs of Chūō Bōhan FC stayed in Fujieda. The initiator was the city of Fukuoka, which wanted to attract a high-class team to its architecturally impressive Hakatanomori Stadium , built in 1989, and in return wanted to get involved financially in the club. As Fukuoka Blux , they became members of the J. League and prepared their promotion.

In 1995 the Brooks project finally achieved its goal: through the championship of the JFL (so far the only national title of the club) they secured (together with Kyoto Purple Sanga ) the right to play in the J. League - as the first team from Kyushu up to then. At the same time, the team was renamed Avispa Fukuoka , which was the last until then . The Spanish word avispa , in German wasp , was supposed to embody aggressiveness and aggressiveness - and Avispa actually lived up to its name.

Division 2 and financial difficulties (1997-2006)

In the years to come, the club made a name for itself in the J. Liga as an uncomfortable opponent, primarily through hard physical play, and was regularly at the bottom of the “ fair play ” table. With experienced players such as national player Satoshi Tsunami and defender Hideaki Mori, Avispa wanted to assert itself in the top division, but it was always only just enough to keep the league. Nevertheless, some players like Yoshiteru Yamashita and Chikara Fujimoto have been nominated for the national team. Thanks to a combination of veteran stars, young talents and strong foreigners, Avispa stayed afloat until 2001, despite its relatively small budget.

The relegation to the second division in 2001 after six years of constant relegation battle came as no surprise, and yet it took Avispa four years to restructure itself both sportingly and financially. From then on, Avispa relied on the youth players from local high schools and was able to achieve a good fourth place in 2003. In the following year they made it into the relegation, but lost 2-0 back and forth against the first division side Kashiwa Reysol .

It was not until 2005 that the club was able to rise again. The quality of the team was also evident in the nomination of two players for the Junior World Cup in 2005 , which Japan only survived until the round of 16. The 2006 season was a steady relegation battle, which was lost in the relegation game with 0-0 and 1-1 because of the goals conceded at home against Vissel Kobe . As a result of the descent, the association got into financial crisis and, according to a report by the Yomiuri Shimbun, was saved by the prefecture and municipality with 535 million yen .

Rearing up again (2007-present)

For the 2007 season, Pierre Littbarski came back from Australia to the J.League and coached Avispa for two years. But since the sporting success did not materialize, the club separated from "Litti". Blux and Avispa veteran Yoshiyuki Shinoda took over the fortunes of his former club. Avispa replaced the Australian graduates who came and left with Littbarski with students from various universities on Kyushu. After the good start to the 2009 season, a series of defeats followed (including 0: 6 in Kofu and 0: 5 in Mito ) and a disappointing place in the lower half of the table.

With more young players Shinoda tried to strengthen the team, but the team could only show one point after five matchdays. The season was more successful with 17 wins from the next 25 games, also against the aspiring promotion and thus direct competitor JEF United . JEF dropped more points and Avispa secured promotion to the 2011 season. But it was still not enough for the upper house. The first 13 games were all lost and despite a slight upward trend towards the halfway point, Shinoda cleared his place for Tetsuya Asano . Despite a better performance in the second half of the season, it was not enough at the end of the season beyond a 17th place, which sealed the relegation. In the following three years Avispa did not get beyond placements in the lower midfield of the J. League Division 2 . All the more surprising was the achievement of 3rd place in the 2015 season , the associated participation in the promotion playoffs and the eventual renewed promotion to the J1 League . As in 2006 and 2011, the club was only able to stay in the top division for one season and was relegated straight away.

successes

• Japan Football League

Master: 1995

• J2 League

Vice champion: 2005 ▲ 

Stadion

The club carries out its home games in the Level 5 Stadium ( Japanese 東 平 尾 公園 博 多 の 森 球技 場 Higashihirao-kōen Hakata no mori kyūgijō , English Hakata no mori Stadium ) in Fukuoka in Fukuoka Prefecture . The stadium, owned by the city of Fukuoka, has a capacity of 22,563 spectators.

Level 5 stage

Coordinates: 33 ° 35 ′ 9.2 ″  N , 130 ° 27 ′ 38.8 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Jon Ander Serantes 2 FROM Masato Yuzawa 3 FROM Emil Salomonsson (on loan from Sanfrecce Hiroshima ) 4th FROM Carlos Gutiérrez 6th MF Hiroyuki Mae 7th MF Takuya Shigehiro 8th MF Jun Suzuki ( team captain ) 9 ST Juanma Delgado 10 ST Hisashi Jōgo 13 ST Kōki Kido 14th MF Asahi Masuyama (on loan from Vissel Kobe ) 15th ST Takayuki Morimoto 16 ST Daisuke Ishizu 17th MF Takaki Fukumitsu (on loan from Cerezo Osaka ) 18th ST Toshiki Toya

No. position Surname 19th MF Sōtan Tanabe 20th FROM Kennedy Egbus Mikuni 21st TW Takumi Yamanoi 22nd FROM Naoki Wako 23 TW Rikihiro Sugiyama 24 FROM Kaito Kuwahara 25th MF Yūji Kitajima 26th MF Daiya Tōno (loaned from Kawasaki Frontale ) 31 TW Masaaki Murakami 33 FROM Douglas Grolli 38 MF Daisuke Kikuchi (loaned from Kashiwa Reysol ) 39 FROM Kōjiro Shinohara 41 FROM Yūta Fujii 50 FROM Takumi Kamijima (on loan from Kashiwa Reysol )

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Yoshio Kikugawa	Japan	January 1, 1982	December 31, 1994
Jorge Olguín	Argentina	July 1, 1993	December 31, 1995
Hidehiko Shimizu	Japan	February 1, 1996	January 31, 1997
Carlos Pachame	Argentina	January 1, 1997	December 31, 1997
Takaji Mori	Japan	February 1, 1998	January 31, 1999
Yoshio Kikugawa	Japan	January 1, 1999	December 31, 1999
Nests Omar Piccoli	Argentina	January 1, 2000	December 31, 2001
Masataka Imai	Japan	February 1, 2002	July 28, 2002
Tasuya Mochizuki	Japan	July 29, 2002	August 14, 2002
Shigekazu Nakamura	Japan	August 15, 2002	January 31, 2003
Hiroshi Matsuda	Japan	February 1, 2003	May 7, 2006
Ryōichi Kawakatsu	Japan	May 8, 2006	January 31, 2007
Hitoshi Okino	Japan	December 11, 2006	January 31, 2007
Pierre Littbarski	Germany	February 1, 2007	July 11, 2008
Yoshiyuki Shinoda	Japan	July 15, 2008	August 3, 2011
Tetsuya Asano	Japan	August 3, 2011	December 31, 2011
Koji Maeda	Japan	January 1, 2012	October 28, 2012
Futoshi Ikeda	Japan	October 29, 2012	January 31, 2013
Marijan Pušnik	Slovenia	January 1, 2013	December 31, 2014
Masami Ihara	Japan	February 1, 2015	January 31, 2019
Fabio Pecchia	Italy	1st February 2019	June 30, 2019
Kiyokazu Kudo	Japan	4th June 2019	January 31, 2020
Shigetoshi Hasebe	Japan	February 1, 2020	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	Add./sp.	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
1996	J1	16	15th	9,737	Group stage	4th round
1997		17th	17th	8,653	Group stage	4th round
1998		18th	18th	10,035	Group stage	4th round
1999		16	14th	11,467	2nd round	4th round
2000		16	12.	13,612	2nd round	4th round
2001		16	15. ▼	13,822	2nd round	3rd round
2002	J2	12	8th.	6,491	-	4th round
2003		12	4th	7,417	-	3rd round
2004		12	3.	8,743	-	4th round
2005		12	2. ▲	10,786		4th round
2006	J1	18th	16. ▼	14,900	Group stage	5th round
2007	J2	13	7th	9,529	-	4th round
2008		15th	8th.	10,079	-	3rd round
2009		18th	11.	7,763	-	3rd round
2010		19th	3. ▲	8,821	-	Quarter finals
2011	J1	18th	17. ▼	10,415	Group stage	3rd round
2012	J2	22nd	18th	5,586	-	3rd round
2013		22nd	14th	5,727	-	2nd round
2014		22nd	16.	5,062	-	2nd round
2015		22nd	3. ▲	8,736	-	3rd round
2016	J1	18th	18. ▼	12,857	Quarter finals	2nd round
2017	J2	22nd	4th	9,550	-	3rd round
2018		22nd	7th	8,873	-	3rd round
2019		22nd	16.	6,983	-	3rd round
2020		22nd

Web links

Commons : Avispa Fukuoka  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Jap.)
• Avispa Fukuoka in the database of weltfussball.de
• Avispa Fukuoka in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Avispa Fukuoka in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site