Kawasaki Frontale

Kawasaki Frontale
Basic data
Surname	Kawasaki Frontale ( Japanese : 川 崎 フ ロ ン タ ー レ)
Seat	Kawasaki , Japan
founding	November 21, 1996 ( Fujitsu: 1955 )
Colours	light blue-black
president	Shimpei Takeda
Website	frontale.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Tōru Oniki
Venue	Todoroki Athletics Stadium
Places	26,232
league	J1 League
2019	4th Place
home Away

Kawasaki Frontale ( Japanese 川 崎 フ ロ ン タ ー レ , Kawasaki Furontāre ; from Italian frontale = front) is a Japanese football club that has been playing in the country's top professional league, the J1 League , for the second time since 2000 .

Club history

Frontale, which comes from the city of Kawasaki ( Kanagawa Prefecture ) and plays its home games there at the Todoroki Athletics Stadium (where the multiple champion Verdy Kawasaki played until he moved to Tokyo in 1998 ), has its origins in the factory team of the electronics company Fujitsu, which was founded in 1955 . The Fujitsū Soccer-bu ( 富士 通 サ ッ カ ー 部 ), in German Fujitsu soccer club , played several decades with some success in various regional leagues, but never managed to attract national attention. At the end of the 1970s, Fujitsu played briefly in the Japan Soccer League , but was relegated after two years without ever returning to the JSL.

When the J. League was founded after the 1992 season, Fujitsu placed itself in the newly created Japan Football League and renamed itself after its hometown in Kawasaki Fujitsu , and in 1996 finally in Kawasaki Frontale . The Italian name Frontale , which means something like front, at the top , is intended to be reminiscent of the European style of play and underline the ambitious club's claim to leadership. The club, which has not completely separated from its parent company even after the re-establishment and continues to be known as Fujitsu FC , became a founding member of the new J. League Division 2 (J2) in 1999, which it won straight away.

In 2000, Frontale was eligible to play in the first division for the first time, but the relegation should not be granted to the promoted team: As the last in the annual table, they immediately relegated to J2. This season went down in the club's history as a success, however, with the final participation in the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup , the Japanese league cup , for the first time a national final was achieved, even if it was lost 2-0 to the Kashima Antlers .

The renewed promotion succeeded Frontale in an impressive way in 2004, with a goal difference of 104: 38 and 29 points ahead of a non-promotion place, the team from Kanagawa dominated the league like never before.

Club successes

• Yamazaki Nabisco Cup

Final: 2000,2007,2009

• Japan Football League

Runner-up: 1998

• J1 League

Master: 2017, 2018

• Japanese soccer supercup

Winner: 2019

• J. League Cup

Winner: 2019

Shareholders

KK Kawasaki Frontale , incorporated in 1996, is based in the Takatsu District of Kawasaki. The shareholders include numerous large companies including Ajinomoto , Fujitsū or Shōwa Denkō , the city of Kawasaki and a shareholder community ( Kawasaki Frontale mochikabu-kai ), in which local companies and individual investors have come together.

Stadion

Todoroki Athletics Stadium

Its home games in the club wearing Todoroki Athletics Stadium in Kawasaki in Kanagawa Prefecture from. The stadium has a capacity of 26,232 people. The sports facility is owned by the city of Kawasaki.

Coordinates: 35 ° 35 ′ 9.2 ″  N , 139 ° 39 ′ 9.8 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Jung Sung-ryong 2 FROM Kyōhei Noborizato 4th FROM Jesiel 5 MF Shōgo Taniguchi 6th MF Hidemasa Morita 7th FROM Shintaro Kurumaya 8th MF Yasuto Wakizaka 9 ST Leandro Damião 10 MF Ryōta Ōshima 11 ST Yu Kobayashi ( team captain ) 13 FROM Miki Yamane 14th MF Kengo Nakamura 15th FROM Zain Issaka 16 MF Tatsuya Hasegawa 17th FROM Diogo Mateus

No. position Surname 18th MF Kaoru Mitoma 19th MF Manabu Saitō 20th ST Taisei Miyashiro 22nd MF Hokuto Shimoda 23 TW Eisuke Fujishima 24 TW Shunsuke Andō 25th MF Ao Tanaka 26th FROM Kaito Kamiya 27 TW Kenta Tanno 28 MF Koki Harada 30th ST Reo Hatate 34 MF Kazuya Yamamura 41 MF Akihiro Ienaga

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Shigeo Yaegashi	Japan	1st February 1973	January 31, 1982
Shigeo Yaegashi	Japan	February 1, 1985	June 30, 1991
Kazuo Saitō	Japan	February 1, 1997	January 31, 1998
Beto	Brazil	February 1, 1998	April 15, 1999
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	April 16, 1999	January 31, 2000
Zeca	Brazil	February 1, 2000	May 4, 2000
Toshiaki Imai	Japan	May 5, 2000	September 14, 2000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	Japan	September 15, 2000	January 31, 2001
Yoshiharu Horii	Japan	February 1, 2001	July 16, 2001
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	July 17, 2001	January 31, 2004
Takashi Sekizuka	Japan	February 1, 2004	April 30, 2008
Tsutomu Takahata	Japan	May 1, 2008	January 31, 2009
Takashi Sekizuka	Japan	February 1, 2009	January 31, 2010
Tsutomu Takahata	Japan	February 1, 2010	January 31, 2011
Naoki Sōma	Japan	February 1, 2011	April 11, 2012
Tatsuya Mochizuki	Japan	April 12, 2012	April 22, 2012
Yahiro Kazama	Japan	April 23, 2012	January 31, 2017
Tōru Oniki	Japan	1st February 2017	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Supercup	AFC CL
2000	J1	16	16. ▼	2nd place	3rd round
2001	J2	12	7th		Semifinals
2002	J2	12	4th		Quarter finals
2003	J2	12	3.		4th round
2004	J2	12	1. ▲		5th round
2005	J1	18th	8th.	Group stage	Quarter finals
2006	J1	18th	2.	Semifinals	5th round
2007	J1	18th	5.	Quarter finals	Semifinals		Quarter finals
2008	J1	18th	2.	Group stage	5th round
2009	J1	18th	2.	2nd place	Quarter finals		Quarter finals
2010	J1	18th	5.	Semifinals	4th round		Group stage
2011	J1	18th	11.	2nd round	4th round
2012	J1	18th	8th.	Group stage	4th round
2013	J1	18th	3.	Semifinals	Quarter finals
2014	J1	18th	6th	Semifinals	3rd round		Round of 16
2015	J1	18th	6th	Group stage	4th round
2016	J1	18th	2.	Group stage	2nd place
2017	J1	18th	1.	2nd place	4th round		Quarter finals
2018	J1	18th	1.	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	2nd place	Group stage
2019	J1	18th	4th	winner	4th round	winner	Group stage
2020	J1	18th

Awards

Player of the year

• Kengo Nakamura (2006)
• Yū Kobayashi (2017)
• Akihiro Ienaga (2018)

Top scorer of the year

• Juninho (2007)
• Yoshito Ōkubo (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Yū Kobayashi (2017)

Young Player of the Year

• Ao Tanaka (2019)

Eleven of the year

• Kengo Nakamura (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017, 2018)
• Hiroyuki Taniguchi (2006)
• Juninho (2007)
• Eiji Kawashima (2009)
• Yoshito Ōkubo (2013, 2014, 2015)
• Yū Kobayashi (2016, 2017)
• Elsinho (2017, 2018)
• Shintarō Kurumaya (2017, 2018)
• Jung Sung-ryong (2018)
• Shōgo Taniguchi (2018)
• Akihiro Ienaga (2018)
• Ryōta Ōshima (2018)

Best goal scorers

season	league	Surname	Gates
1997	JFL	Mutairu Momodu	21st
1998	JFL	Valdney	33
1999	J2	Tuto	17th
2000	J1	Akira Konno	3
2001	J2	Emerson	19th
2002	J2	Betinho	16
2003	J2	Juninho	28
2004	J2	Juninho	37
2005	J1	Juninho	16
2006	J1	Juninho	20th
2007	J1	Juninho	22nd
2008	J1	Jong Tae-se	14th
2009	J1	Juninho	18th
2010	J1	Juninho	14th
2011	J1	Yu Kobayashi	12
2012	J1	Renato	10
2013	J1	Yoshito Ōkubo	26th
2014	J1	Yoshito Ōkubo	18th
2015	J1	Yoshito Ōkubo	23
2016	J1	Yoshito Ōkubo Yu Kobayashi	15th
2017	J1	Yu Kobayashi	23
2018	J1	Yu Kobayashi	15th
2019	J1	Yu Kobayashi	13
2020	J1

Web links

Commons : Kawasaki Frontale  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kawasaki Frontale Official Website
• Kawasaki Frontale Fan Blog
• Kawasaki Frontale in the database of weltfussball.de
• Kawasaki Frontale in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Kawasaki Frontale in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kawasaki Frontale: チ ー ム の ご 紹 介 ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : 株 主 一 覧 
2. ↑ 川 崎 フ ロ ン タ ー レ 持 株 会 ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ J. League Data Site