JEF United Ichihara Chiba
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| Surname | JEF United Ichihara Chiba | ||
| Seat | Ichihara , Japan | ||
| founding | June 11, 1991 (Furukawa: 1946) | ||
| Colours | yellow-green-red | ||
| president |
 Hideyuki Maeda
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| Website | jefunited.co.jp | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Head coach |
 Yun Jeong-hwan
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| Venue | Fukuda Denshi Arena , Chiba , Chiba | ||
| Places | 19,781 | ||
| league | J2 League | ||
| 2019 | 17th place | ||
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JEF United Ichihara Chiba ( Japanese ジ ェ フ ユ ナ イ テ ッ ド 市 原 ・ 千葉 , Jefu Yunaiteddo Ichihara Chiba ), short: JEF United, is a Japanese professional football club from the city of Ichihara ( Chiba Prefecture ). The club, which until February 2005 was called JEF United Ichihara , is a founding member of the J. League Division 1 professional league and is best known in Germany for its former player, the 1990 world champion Pierre Littbarski . Since relegation at the end of the 2009 season , the club has played in the J2 League .
The mascots are the Akita brothers Jeffy (No. 2) and Unity (No. 9).
history
Foundation and merger (1946–1991)
The club goes back to the Furukawa Electric Soccer Club ( Japanese古河 電 気 工業 サ ッ カ ー 部, Furukawa Denki Kōgyō Soccer-bu ), a works team of the electronics company of the same name . This was founded in 1946 , making it one of the oldest still active football clubs in Japan.
Since the introduction of the first soccer league in 1965, the club has always been represented in the upper house and held this record until the 2009 season. Especially in the 1960s and 70s, Furukawa was one of the dominant teams in the country, with four successes in the Imperial Cup between 1959 and 1959 1976 and winning the championship in 1976. Another championship title in the 1985/86 season should be the last title for Furukawa to date, as the relatively small company could not keep up economically with large corporations such as Mitsubishi or Matsushita and their works teams.
Was considered the beginning of the 1990s decided to introduce a professional league, it was decided in Chiba to cooperate with another group: So merged Furukawa his team with the financially strong railway company Japan Railway East that emerged in 1987 through the privatization of the Japanese National Railways was. The result of this merger was the East Japan JR Furukawa Football Club (Japanese 東 日本 ジ ェ イ ア ー ル 古河 サ ッ カ ー ク ラ ブ, Higashi Nihon Jei Āru Furukawa Sakka Kurabu ), founded in 1991 , which renamed itself JEF United Ichihara when the J. League was founded in 1993 .
J. League and First Relegation (1991-present)
These years mark a new beginning for the club, not only economically, but also in terms of sport: A completely renewed team was built up for the new league around the world champion Littbarski, signed by 1. FC Köln , and his companion Frank Ordenewitz (J. League top scorer in 1994) actually held successfully in the league, although they could never rise to the circle of title contenders.
After Littbarski and Ordenewitz left the club, things went downhill in terms of sport: between 1997 and 2000, JEF United was regularly on the verge of relegation, and the relatively small Ichihara Seaside Stadium had also prevented a strong fan base from building up in better times.
The sporting success returned in 2001 with the help of the Eastern European trainers Zdenko Veredenik , Jozef Vengloš and Ivica Osim , and until the 2005 season the club, which renamed itself JEF United Ichihara Chiba in February 2005 in order to attract more fans from the metropolis of Chiba , regularly the front seats of the table. After the Osim era, it was no longer possible to build on the successes of bygone days. After several coach changes in the 2008 season, the sporting success was no longer a.
After Furukawa Electric withdrew its support from the club, Fuji Electric took over the sponsorship. On November 8, 2009, the club rose to the J. League Division 2 after 44 years of Oberhaus . In the new league, JEF United is regularly one of the clubs that achieve participation in the promotion playoffs of the clubs in places three to six, but without having so far achieved a return to the J1 League .
Stadion
The team has played at Ichihara Seaside Stadium since 1993 , but moved to Fukuda Denshi Arena during the 2005 season . The arena in Chiba has a capacity of 19,781 spectators. The sports facility is owned by the city of Chiba.
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Coordinates: 35 ° 34 ′ 39 ″ N , 140 ° 7 ′ 22 ″ E
successes
as Furukawa Denki Kōgyō Soccer-bu
- Japan Soccer League
- Winner: 1976, 1985
- JSL Cup
- Winner: 1977, 1982, 1986, 1987
- Winner: 1960, 1961, 1964, 1976
- Winner: 1987
as JEF United Ichihara
- Winner: 2005, 2006
player
Status: June 2020
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Coach chronicle
| Trainer | nation | from | |
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| Ken Naganuma |
Japan
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February 1, 1958 | December 31, 1962 |
| Ryūzō Hiraki |
Japan
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January 1, 1962 | June 30, 1965 |
| Masao Uchino |
Japan
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1st February 1966 | January 31, 1967 |
| Shigeo Yaegashi |
Japan
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February 1, 1967 | January 31, 1968 |
| Takeshi Sakurai |
Japan
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1st February 1968 | January 31, 1970 |
| Hirokuni Ogawa |
Japan
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1st February 1970 | January 31, 1971 |
| Saburō Kawabuchi |
Japan
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February 1, 1972 | January 31, 1976 |
| Mitsuo Kamata |
Japan
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February 1, 1976 | January 31, 1979 |
| Masao Uchino |
Japan
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1st February 1979 | January 31, 1984 |
| Eijun Kiyokumo |
Japan
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July 1, 1984 | June 30, 1990 |
| Osamu Kawamoto |
Japan
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July 1, 1990 | June 30, 1992 |
| Yoshikazu Nagai |
Japan
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January 1, 1992 | December 31, 1993 |
| Eijun Kiyokumo |
Japan
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January 1, 1994 | December 31, 1995 |
| Yasuhiko Okudera |
Japan
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January 1, 1996 | December 31, 1996 |
| Jan Versleijen |
 Netherlands
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January 1, 1997 | December 31, 1998 |
| Gert Engels |
 Germany
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February 1, 1999 | May 31, 1999 |
| Nicolae Zamfir |
 Romania
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July 1, 1999 | August 7, 2000 |
| Sugao Kambe |
Japan
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August 10, 2000 | October 14, 2000 |
| Zdenko Verdenik |
 Slovakia
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October 15, 2000 | December 31, 2001 |
| Sugao Kambe |
Japan
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December 1, 2001 | December 31, 2001 |
| Jozef Vengloš |
Slovakia
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January 1, 2002 | December 31, 2002 |
| Ivica Osim |
 Bosnia and Herzegovina
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January 23, 2003 | July 19, 2006 |
| Amar Osim |
Bosnia and Herzegovina
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July 20, 2006 | December 31, 2007 |
| Josip Kuže |
 Croatia
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February 1, 2008 | May 7, 2008 |
| Shigeo Sawairi |
Japan
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May 8, 2008 | May 18, 2008 |
| Alex Miller |
 Scotland
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May 19, 2008 | July 28, 2009 |
| Atsuhiko Ejiri |
Japan
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August 1, 2009 | January 31, 2011 |
| Dwight Lodeweges |
Netherlands Canada
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January 1, 2011 | October 21, 2011 |
| Sugao Kambe |
Japan
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October 21, 2011 | December 31, 2011 |
| Takashi Kiyama |
Japan
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February 1, 2012 | January 31, 2013 |
| Jun Suzuki |
Japan
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1st February 2013 | June 23, 2014 |
| Kazuo Saitō |
Japan
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June 24, 2014 | 7th July 2014 |
| Takashi Sekizuka |
Japan
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July 8, 2014 | July 25, 2016 |
| Shigetoshi Hasebe |
Japan
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July 25, 2016 | January 31, 2017 |
| Juan Esnáider |
 Argentina Spain
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1st February 2017 | 17th March 2019 |
| Atsuhiko Ejiri |
Japan
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18th March 2019 | January 31, 2020 |
| Yun Jeong-hwan |
Japan
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February 1, 2020 | today |
Former known players
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Pierre Littbarski (1993–1995)
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Željko Milinović (2001-2004) -
Gabriel Popescu (2005)
Season placement
| season | league | Teams | Item | Add./sp. | J. League Cup | Emperor's Cup |
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| 1992 | - | - | - | - | Group stage | Quarter finals |
| 1993 | J1 | 10 | 8th. | 20,273 | Group stage | Quarter finals |
| 1994 | 12 | 9. | 22,262 | 2nd round | 2nd round | |
| 1995 | 14th | 5. | 15,418 | - | 1 round | |
| 1996 | 16 | 9. | 12.008 | Group stage | 3rd round | |
| 1997 | 17th | 13. | 5,693 | Quarter finals | 4th round | |
| 1998 | 18th | 16. | 5,365 | final | 3rd round | |
| 1999 | 16 | 13. | 5,774 | 2nd round | 3rd round | |
| 2000 | 16 | 14th | 6.338 | 2nd round | Quarter finals | |
| 2001 | 16 | 3. | 7,818 | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | |
| 2002 | 16 | 7th | 7,897 | Quarter finals | Semifinals | |
| 2003 | 16 | 3. | 9,709 | Group stage | Quarter finals | |
| 2004 | 16 | 4th | 10,012 | Group stage | 4th round | |
| 2005 | 18th | 4th | 9,535 | winner | 5th round | |
| 2006 | 18th | 11. | 13,393 | winner | 4th round | |
| 2007 | 18th | 13. | 14,149 | Group stage | 4th round | |
| 2008 | 18th | 15th | 14,084 | Quarter finals | 4th round | |
| 2009 | 18th | 18. | 14,730 | Group stage | 4th round | |
| 2010 | J2 | 19th | 4th | 11,689 | - | 4th round |
| 2011 | 20th | 6th | 9,680 | - | 4th round | |
| 2012 | 22nd | 5. | 9,281 | - | Quarter finals | |
| 2013 | 22nd | 5. | 10,004 | - | 3rd round | |
| 2014 | 22nd | 3. | 9,333 | - | Semifinals | |
| 2015 | 22nd | 9. | 10,725 | - | 3rd round | |
| 2016 | 22nd | 11. | 10,292 | - | 3rd round | |
| 2017 | 22nd | 6th | 9,983 | - | 3rd round | |
| 2018 | 22nd | 14th | 9,858 | - | 3rd round | |
| 2019 | 22nd | 17th | 9,701 | - | 2nd round | |
| 2020 | 22nd | - | - | - | - |
Awards
Top scorer of the year
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Frank Ordenewitz (1994)
Eleven of the year
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Yūki Abe (2005, 2006)
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Ilian Stoyanov (2005)
Web links
- Official Website (Japanese)
- JEF United Ichihara Chiba in the database of transfermarkt.de
- JEF United Ichihara Chiba in the soccerway.com database
Individual evidence
Albirex Niigata | Avispa Fukuoka | Ehime FC | Fagiano Okayama | Giravanz Kitakyushu | JEF United Ichihara Chiba | Júbilo Iwata | Kyōto Sanga | FC Machida Zelvia | Matsumoto Yamaga FC | Mito Hollyhock | Montedio Yamagata | Ōmiya Ardija | Renofa Yamaguchi FC | FC Ryūkyū | Thespakusatsu Gunma | Tochigi SC | Tokushima Vortis | Tokyo Verdy | Ventforet Kofu | V-Varen Nagasaki | Branches of Kanazawa