Cerezo Osaka

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Basic data
Surname Cerezo Osaka
(Japanese セ レ ッ ソ 大阪 )
Seat Osaka
founding ( Yanmar Diesel: 1957 )
Colours pink, blue
president JapanJapan Masao Okano
Website cerezo.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach SpainSpain Miguel Ángel Lotina
Venue Nagai Stadium / Kinchō Stadium
Places 50,000 / 19,904
league J1 League
2019 5th place
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Cerezo Osaka ( Japanese セ レ ッ ソ 大阪 , from Spanish : cerezo = cherry tree ) is a football club from Japan's professional league J. League . The club from Japan's third largest city, Osaka, can look back on a successful history as one of the strongest teams in the 1970s, but has not won a national title since professional football was introduced in the country in 1993. Cerezo is known in Japan for extraordinary bad luck in the Imperial Cup : since 1976 they have made it to the finals six times and lost six times. In 2017, the team was able to win the Kaiser Cup with a 2-1 win (n.V.) against Yokohama F. Marinos for the first time in 41 years.

Cerezo Osaka is currently playing two teams in the J. League. After two years in the J2 League, the first team has been back in the J1 League since the 2017 season . In addition, an U-23 team has been taking part in the J3 League since 2016 .

history

Old club logo

The association was founded in 1957 as a works team for the Osaka-based Yanmar Diesel concern , a manufacturer of tractors and other agricultural machinery. In the first few years, the Yanmar Diesel Football Club was a pure company sports group that served the physical exercise of the workforce, but in 1965 they joined the national amateur league Japan Soccer League (JSL), the forerunner of the J. League. This was soon followed by what football fans from the city today call the golden days of Osaka football: the sporting rise was announced in 1967 with the first participation in the final in the Kaiser Cup. The long-awaited cup victory and the JSL runner-up followed in the next year. Four league titles and two more cup wins followed by 1980 before Yanmar's star slowly faded. In 1990 - the club no longer played a major role in the battle for national titles - relegation from the JSL followed. This happened just as the plans for the introduction of professional football were starting in Japan, and Yanmar was not taken into account in these plans. Despite the direct resurgence, fans and players watched as ten other clubs founded the J. League, including, to their annoyance, local rival Matsushita , who was to represent the city nationwide under the new name Gamba Osaka .

Despite this, Yanmar pushed ahead with its own plans for professionalization and re-established itself in 1993 under the name Osaka Football Club . The team adopted the new name Cerezo Osaka , cerezo is Spanish for the cherry tree , which is the tree of Osaka. Similarly, a cherry blossom adorns the club's coat of arms and pink was chosen as the club color (this is an extremely rare color in football; otherwise almost only US Palermo wears pink jerseys). Under the new Brazilian managed coach Paulo Emilio in 1994 with the championship of the Japan Football League not only the hoped-for promotion to the J. League (next to Kashiwa Reysol ), but also the entry into the Cup final, although each with 0: 3 against Bellmare Hiratsuka was lost . Yanmar had already lost in the final in 1976, 1977 and 1983, and more defeats were to follow in 2001 and 2003, which earned Cerezo the reputation of an all-time runner-up in the competition.

The club, which succeeded in direct promotion to the first division after relegation in 2001, plays its home games at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, which was also the venue for the 2002 World Cup . However, Cerezo's games are rarely sold out, as the Osaka area (in contrast to the Tokyo region ) has not yet developed a real soccer fan base and the local derbies with gamba attract relatively few spectators due to a lack of sporting quality. But the team also achieved impressive sporting successes: in addition to the three cup finals since the renaming from Yanmar to Cerezo , the 2000 season is particularly noteworthy, when the victory of the J. League first round and thus participation in the championship finals only missed in the extension of the last game has been. In 2005, Cerezo underpinned its image as "eternal runner-up" again in the most painful way: The table lead, which they had only taken over on the penultimate match day, was defended into stoppage time in the last game, only to be fifth with a late goal from FC Tokyo to fall behind and leave the title to Gamba of all people.

successes

as Yanmar

  • Japan Soccer League : Winners (1971, 1974, 1975, 1980)
  • JSL Cup : Winner (1973 (shared), 1983, 1984)
  • Imperial Cup : winners 1968, 1970, 1974

as Cerezo Osaka

Winner 1994 (as a works team)
Winner: 2017
Finalist: 2001, 2003
Winner: 2017
Vice champion: 2002 , 2009   

Stadion

Nagai Stadium

The club carries out its home games in Nagai Stadium ( Japanese 大阪 市長 居 陸上 競技場 , Ōsaka-shi Nagai rikujō kyōgijō ). The stadium is located in Nagai Park Borough Higashisumiyoshi in Osaka . The sports facility, owned by the city of Osaka, has a capacity of 50,000 spectators.

Coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 50 ″  N , 135 ° 31 ′ 6 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname
1 JapanJapan TW Takumi Nagaishi
2 JapanJapan FROM Riku Matsuda
3 JapanJapan FROM Yasuki Kimoto
4th JapanJapan FROM Yūta Koike
5 JapanJapan MF Naoyuki Fujita
6th ArgentinaArgentina MF Leandro Desábato
8th JapanJapan ST Yoichiro Kakitani
9 JapanJapan ST Ken Tokura
10 JapanJapan MF Hiroshi Kiyotake
11 BrazilBrazil MF Lucas Mineiro (on loan from Chapecoense )
13 JapanJapan ST Toshiyuki Takagi
14th JapanJapan FROM Yūsuke Maruhashi
15th JapanJapan FROM Ayumu Seko
16 JapanJapan FROM Eiichi Katayama
17th JapanJapan MF Tatsuhiro Sakamoto
18th JapanJapan ST Kōji Suzuki
19th JapanJapan ST Ryūji Sawakami
20th BrazilBrazil ST Bruno Mendes
21st Korea SouthSouth Korea TW Kim Jin-hyeon
22nd CroatiaCroatia FROM Matej Jonjić
24 AustraliaAustralia ST Pierce Waring
No. position Surname
25th JapanJapan MF Hiroaki Okuno
26th JapanJapan MF Daichi Akiyama
27 Korea SouthSouth Korea TW Ahn Joon-soo
28 JapanJapan ST Motohiko Nakajima
29 JapanJapan MF Takuya Shimamura (on loan from Kyoto Sanga )
30th JapanJapan MF Hinata Kida
31 JapanJapan ST Hirofumi Yamauchi
32 JapanJapan ST Yūta Toyokawa
33 ThailandThailand ST Tawan Khotrsupho (on loan from BG Pathum United FC )
35 JapanJapan MF Yūji Yoshida
37 JapanJapan MF Ryudai Maeda
38 JapanJapan MF Masataka Nishimoto
39 JapanJapan FROM Honoya Shōji
41 JapanJapan MF Nagi Matsumoto
42 JapanJapan ST Shōta Fujio
43 JapanJapan FROM Ryūya Nishio
44 JapanJapan MF Takaya Yoshinare
45 JapanJapan TW Shu Mogi
46 JapanJapan FROM Tatsuya Tabira
47 JapanJapan MF Taiga Maekawa
48 JapanJapan ST Kaili Shimbo
49 JapanJapan MF Jun Nishikawa
50 JapanJapan TW Go Kambayashi
51 JapanJapan TW Ryoga Shimonaka
52 JapanJapan FROM Kota Ohashi

Coach chronicle

Trainer nation from to
Yoshiaki Furukawa JapanJapan Japan February 1, 1960 January 31, 1967
Kenji Onitake JapanJapan Japan February 1, 1967 January 31, 1979
Kuniya Mita JapanJapan Japan February 1, 1985 June 30, 1990
Daishiro Yoshimura JapanJapan Japan July 1, 1990 January 31, 1994
Paulo Emilio BrazilBrazil Brazil February 1, 1994 May 30, 1996
Hiroshi Sowa JapanJapan Japan May 31, 1996 January 31, 1997
Levir Culpi BrazilBrazil Brazil February 1, 1997 January 31, 1998
Yasutaro Matsuki JapanJapan Japan February 1, 1998 January 31, 1999
René Desaeyere BelgiumBelgium Belgium February 1, 1999 January 31, 2000
Hiroshi Soejima JapanJapan Japan February 1, 2000 August 19, 2001
João Carlos BrazilBrazil Brazil August 20, 2001 November 4, 2001
Akihiro Nishimura JapanJapan Japan November 5, 2001 October 6, 2003
Yūji Tsukada JapanJapan Japan October 7, 2003 January 31, 2004
Petar Nadoveza CroatiaCroatia Croatia January 31, 2004 February 1, 2004
Fuad Muzurović Bosnia and HerzegovinaBosnia and Herzegovina Bosnia and Herzegovina February 1, 2004 March 22, 2004
Albert Pobor CroatiaCroatia Croatia March 23, 2004 June 28, 2004
Shinji Kobayashi JapanJapan Japan June 29, 2004 April 17, 2006
Yūji Tsukada JapanJapan Japan April 18, 2006 January 31, 2007
Satoshi tsunami JapanJapan Japan February 1, 2007 May 7, 2007
Levir Culpi BrazilBrazil Brazil May 8, 2007 January 31, 2012
Sérgio Soares BrazilBrazil Brazil February 1, 2012 August 26, 2012
Levir Culpi BrazilBrazil Brazil August 27, 2012 January 31, 2014
Ranko Popović SerbiaSerbia Serbia AustriaAustriaAustria  1st of February 2014 June 9, 2014
Marco Pezzaiuoli GermanyGermany Germany ItalyItalyItaly  June 16, 2014 September 8, 2014
Yūji Ōkuma JapanJapan Japan September 8, 2014 January 31, 2015
Paulo Autuori BrazilBrazil Brazil February 1, 2015 17th November 2015
Kiyoshi Ōkuma JapanJapan Japan 18th November 2015 January 31, 2017
Yoon Jong-hwan Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 1st February 2017 January 31, 2019
Miguel Ángel Lotina SpainSpain Spain 1st February 2019 today

Season placement

season league Teams space spectator J. League Cup Emperor's Cup AFC CL Supercup
1995 J1 14th 8th. 12.097 2nd round
1996 J1 16 13. 8,229 Group stage 4th round
1997 J1 17th 11. 9,153 Group stage 4th round
1998 J1 18th 9. 9,864 Group stage 3rd round
1999 J1 16 6th 10,216 2nd round 4th round
2000 J1 16 5. 13,548 2nd round Quarter finals
2001 J1 16 16.   11,857 1 round final
2002 J2 12 2.   7,952 4th round
2003 J1 16 9. 13,854 Group stage final
2004 J1 16 15th 14,323 Group stage 4th round
2005 J1 18th 5. 17,648 Quarter finals Semifinals
2006 J1 18th 17.   13,026 Quarter finals 4th round
2007 J2 13 5. 6,627 4th round
2008 J2 15th 4th 10,554 4th round
2009 J2 18th 2.   9,912 2nd round
2010 J1 18th 3. 15,026 Group stage 4th round
2011 J1 18th 12. 14,145 Quarter finals Semifinals Quarter finals
2012 J1 18th 14th 16,815 Quarter finals Quarter finals
2013 J1 18th 4th 18,819 Quarter finals 4th round
2014 J1 18th 17.   21,627 Quarter finals Quarter finals Round of 16
2015 J2 22nd 4th 12,232 1 round
2016 J2 22nd 4.   12,509 3rd round
2017 J1 18th 3. 20,970 winner winner
2018 J1 18th 7th 18,542 Quarter finals 4th round Group stage winner
2019 J1 18th 5. 21,518 PlayOffs 4th round
2020 J1

Awards

Top scorer of the year

Young Player of the Year

Eleven of the year

Best goal scorers

season Surname nation Gates
2008 Shinji Kagawa JapanJapan Japan 17 goals
2009 Takashi Inui JapanJapan Japan 20 goals
2010 Adriano Ferreira Martins BrazilBrazil Brazil 14 goals
2011 Ryūji Bando
Shū Kurata
JapanJapan Japan Japan
JapanJapan 
10 goals
2012 Yōichirō Kakitani JapanJapan Japan 11 goals
2013 Yōichirō Kakitani JapanJapan Japan 21 goals
2014 Diego Forlan UruguayUruguay Uruguay 7 goals
2015 Diego Forlan UruguayUruguay Uruguay 10 goals
2016 Ken'yu Sugimoto JapanJapan Japan 14 goals
2017 Ken'yu Sugimoto JapanJapan Japan 22 goals
2018 Yusuke Maruhashi
Toshiyuki Takagi
JapanJapan Japan Japan
JapanJapan 
6 goals
2019 Kota Mizunuma
Hiroaki Okuno
JapanJapan Japan Japan
JapanJapan 
7 goals
2020

Cerezo Osaka U23

Cerezo Osaka U23
Surname Cerezo Osaka U23
Venue Kincho Stadium
Places 19,904
Head coach JapanJapan Kazuhiro Murata
league J3 League
2019 6th place
home
Away

Cerezo Osaka U23 is the reserve team of Cerezo Osaka and has been playing in the J3 League since 2016 . The team cannot be promoted to the J2 League and only three players over the age of 23 can be used in a game.

Stadion

The club plays its home games at Kincho Stadium , also known as Nagai Ball Gall Field , in the Higashisumiyoshi-ku district of Osaka City . The Kincho Stadium has a capacity of 19,904 people. The sports facility is owned by the city of Osaka.

Panasonic Stadium Suita coordinates: 34 ° 36 ′ 55.2 ″  N , 135 ° 30 ′ 59.7 ″  E

Season placement

season league Teams Item spectator
2016 J3 16 12. 1488
2017 J3 17th 13. 909
2018 J3 17th 7th 1112
2019 J3 18th 6th 1196
2020 J3

Coach chronicle

Trainer nationality from to
Yoji Mizuguchi JapanJapan Japan 1st February 1977 January 31, 1980
Yūji Ōkuma JapanJapan Japan February 1, 2016 January 31, 2020
Kazuhiro Murata JapanJapan Japan February 1, 2020 today

Best goal scorers

season Surname Gates
2018 JapanJapan Rei Yonezawa 12
2019 JapanJapan Mizuki Andō 11
2020

Web links

Commons : Cerezo Osaka  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. J. League Data Site