Honda FC
| Honda Football Club | |||
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| Basic data | |||
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| Surname | Honda Motor Football Club | ||
| Seat | Hamamatsu , Shizuoka | ||
| founding | 1971 | ||
| Colours | red | ||
| president |
 Masaaki Miyaji
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| Website | honda-fc.gr.jp | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
Hiroyasu Ibata
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| Venue | Honda Miyakoda football stadium | ||
| Places | 4,000 | ||
| league | Japan Football League | ||
| 2019 | 1st place | ||
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Honda FC ( Japanese ホ ン ダ FC , Honda Efu Shī ) is a Japanese football club from Hamamatsu in Shizuoka Prefecture . The club plays in the Japan Football League , founded in 1999 , from which it has never been relegated since it was founded.
history
Beginnings
The club was founded in 1971 as a works team for the Japanese group of the same name . Four years later they made it to the Japan Soccer League Division 2, the promotion to Division 1 followed in 1981. Honda FC quickly established itself in the top Japanese league at the time, with a third place as the best placement in the seasons 1985 / 86 and 1990/91 is available. In general, the club experienced its most successful sporting phase at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s, because in addition to top placements in the Japan Soccer League, they also reached the semi-finals in the Kaiser Cup in 1990 and 1991.
When the founding of the J. League became apparent in the early 1990s, Honda FC also considered participating in the new professional league. A merger with the sister club Honda Motor Sayama FC was planned , the nearby Urawa was selected as a possible home ground. However, the company management of the Honda group was not convinced by the project and instead insisted on continuing to restrict itself exclusively to the core business of automobile production. As a result of this decision, many players left the club.
Continuation in the Japan Football League
Honda FC was incorporated into Division 1 of the old Japan Football League in 1992 , but was relegated to Division 2 due to the high bloodletting rate. Only one year later, however, the immediate return to Division 1 was achieved by winning the division title.
After winning the title in 1996, a new attempt was made towards profit. The club was accepted as an extraordinary member of the J. League under the name Acute Hamamatsu , but ultimately failed due to the inadequate stadium and a lack of fan support, especially since it was close to Júbilo Iwata , the former company team of Honda rival Yamaha Motor Corporation , a professional team already existed. At the time of the Japan Soccer League, the games between Honda and Yamaha were a local derby, the so-called Tenryū -side Derby ( 天 竜 川 決 戦tenryūgawa kessen ).
With the restructuring of the Japan Football League in 1999, Honda FC became a member of the new division, to which the club has been a member since then.
J. League gatekeeper
Honda FC is not looking to move up into paid football as this would mean losing funding from the parent company. Nevertheless, the club is one of the title candidates and contenders for one of the top places year after year. This fact makes life even more difficult for teams wishing to advance, because in addition to meeting the economic requirements, a sporting placement among the best teams of the season is required for admission to the J. League. The fans of these teams dubbed Honda FC the "J. League Gatekeeper", partly out of respect and partly out of anger.
Stadion
The club plays its home games at the Honda Miyakoda football stadium in Hamamatsu . The stadium is owned by Honda . In 1996, a complete renovation took place, in which, among other things, floodlight poles were added to the corners of the playing field. Since then the capacity has been 4,000 spectators.
successes
- Japan Soccer League Division 2
- 1978, 1980
- 1996
- 2001, 2002, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
player
Status: August 2020
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Coach chronicle
Status: August 2020
| Trainer | nation | from | to |
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| Katsuyoshi Kuwabara |
Japan
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1st February 1973 | January 31, 1983 |
| Masakatsu Miyamoto |
Japan
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February 1, 1983 | June 30, 1990 |
| Masataka Imai |
Japan
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July 1, 1990 | December 31, 1992 |
| Kazuaki Nagasawa |
Japan
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February 1, 1997 | January 31, 1998 |
| Akiyoshi Ohashi |
Japan
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January 1, 2000 | December 31, 2001 |
| Takayoshi Amma |
Japan
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February 1, 2002 | January 31, 2005 |
| Hideo Yoshizawa |
Japan
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February 1, 2005 | December 31, 2006 |
| Masakazu Ishibashi |
Japan
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January 1, 2007 | December 31, 2009 |
| Takahiro Ōkubo |
Japan
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January 1, 2010 | December 31, 2011 |
| Yoshitaka Maeda |
Japan
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February 1, 2012 | January 31, 2014 |
| Hiroyasu Ibata |
Japan
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1st of February 2014 | today |
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- Honda FC at transfermarkt.de
- Honda FC at soccerway.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Utsunomiya, Tetsuichi: Emperor's Cup 2009 report ( Japanese ) Y's Sports Inc. October 13, 2009. Archived from the original on September 30, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
- ↑ Stadium guide ( Japanese ) Honda FC. Retrieved July 26, 2011.
- ↑ Kader 2020 In: transfermarkt.de (German), accessed on August 8, 2020
- ↑ Trainer Chronicle In: transfermarkt.de (German), accessed on August 8, 2020
