Kyoto Sanga

Kyoto Sanga
Basic data
Surname	Kyōto Sanga Football Club ( Japanese 京都 サ ン ガ FC)
Seat	Kyoto , Japan
founding	January 13, 1994 ( Kyōto Shikō Club , 1922)
Colours	purple
president	Tōru Umemoto
Website	sanga-fc.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Noritada Saneyoshi
Venue	Nishikyōgoku Athletic Stadium , Kyōto , Kyōto Prefecture
Places	20,588
league	J2 League
2019	8th place
home Away

Old logo of the club

Kyoto Sanga FC ( Jap . 京都サンガFC , Kyoto Sanga efu shī ) is a Japanese football club from Kyoto and plays in the since 2011 J2 League . It is by far the oldest professional club in the country.

The nickname Sanga comes from India and means “crowd” or “community” in Buddhist terminology - an allusion to the team's university past. The name also refers to the Buddhist tradition of the former imperial city .

history

The association has its origin in the Kyōto Shikō Club ( 京都 紫 郊 ク ラ ブ , Kyōto Shikō Kurabu , literally: "Kyōto-Purple Suburb Club"), which was not - like most clubs - founded from a factory team, but from a university team. The club color, which can also be found in the coat of arms of the prefecture and city of Kyoto, is intended to remind of the city's former imperial status. In 1954, the spelling was changed to 京都 紫光 ク ラ ブ (literally: " Purple Ray Club Kyōto") with the same pronunciation . The teachers team took in the 50s and 60s several times at the Emperor's Cup in part, but without reaching the final. It was accepted into the nationwide Japan Soccer League - which was originally reserved for company teams - in 1973. When the J. League was founded in 1993, the club took part in the then second-rate Japan Football League .

For the 1994 season the club was re-established as a joint stock company KK Kyōto Purple Sanga ( 株式会社 京都 パ ー プ ル サ ン ガ , kabushiki kaisha Kyōto Pāpuru Sanga , English Kyoto Purple Sanga Co. Ltd. ), with investors such as Kyōcera , Nintendō and the Kyōto Shimbun as well Kyōto prefecture and city belong.

Benefiting from the constant expansion of the J. League, Sanga moved continuously up in the table until the club finally finished second in 1995 behind the Fukuoka Brooks and rose to the House of Lords. The increase in the league in the following season also favored relegation. With moderate success, Sanga remained in the J. League, but had to accept relegation in the 2000 season. After the immediate resurgence in 2001, the German coaching duo Gert Engels and Michael Weiß took over the team and, with the support of the Kyoto-based Kyōcera group , was able to hold onto Division 1. The title in the Kaiser Cup also caused increasing euphoria and audience numbers.

After the departure of some top performers - Engels had also been dismissed - Kyoto Sanga rose again in 2003 to the J. League Division 2. The new coach Kōichi Hashiratani parted ways with the old stars Daisuke Matsui and Teruaki Kurobe in 2005 and secured promotion to the House of Lords with a rejuvenated team seven game days before the end. But the relegation was denied to the club and as bottom table rose Kyoto Sanga 2006 again. The nickname Purple was removed in 2007 and the current name Kyōto Sanga FC was presented. The new club logo should also make the club more modern and attractive. With the victory over Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the relegation - through the 2-1 victory in the first leg, the 0-0 draw in the second leg in Hiroshima was enough - Kyōto Sanga succeeded again in the direct rise.

Most recently, the club was relegated in 2010 after the defeat against the Urawa Red Diamonds and has since played in Division 2. Sanga only had four wins and had the second worst goal difference in the league with −30 (30:60).

successes

• All Japan Senior Football Championship: Winner (1988) (as Kyōto Shikō)
• Emperor's Cup : Winner (2002)
• J. League Division 2 : Winner (2001, 2005)

Stadion

When the club was founded, it played on a field in the Murasakino ( 紫 野 ) district in the Kitaku district . The new Nishikyōgoku Athletic Stadium ( 西京 極 ス タ ジ ア ム , Nishikyōgoku Sutajiamu ), a football stadium with an athletics facility , was built in 1942 in the Nishikyōgoku district, Ukyō-ku and has since served as the venue for home games. The expansion took place in 1985 and 1996, so that there is space for up to 20,588 spectators today.

After nearly two decades of planning since the 1990s, a new football stadium is to be built for JPY 9 billion with 21,610 seats. The first groundbreaking is planned for February 1, 2018. The Kyoto Stadium is to be completed by the end of December 2019, so that the venue could be opened in early 2020.

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Nobuhiro Kato 2 FROM Takahiro Iida 3 FROM Masafumi Miyagi 5 FROM Kyohei Kuroki 6th FROM Yuki Honda 7th MF Renan Mota 8th MF Daigo Araki 9 ST Peter Utaka 10 MF Yoshihiro Shoji 11 MF Yutaka Soneda 13 ST Takumi Miyayoshi 14th MF Kazaki Nakagawa 16 FROM Jun Ando 17th MF Juninho 18th ST Ryunosuke Noda 19th MF Shogo Asada 20th ST Tadanari Lee 21st TW Keisuke Shimizu

No. position Surname 22nd MF Teppei Yachida 23 FROM Jordy Buijs 24 MF Sota Kawasaki 25th FROM Katsunori Ueebisu 26th TW Gakuji Ota 27 MF Fuki Yamada 28 FROM Kohei Tomita 29 MF Katsuya Nakano 30th FROM Yōsuke Ishibitsu 31 MF Shimpei Fukuoka 32 MF Soichiro Kozuki 33 ST Kohei Hattori 34 TW Tomoya Wakahara 35 FROM Genki Egawa 40 MF Masato Kurogi 41 MF Jun Kanakubo 46 FROM Ryota Moriwaki

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Bunji Kimura	Japan	January 1, 1983	June 30, 1990
George Yonashiro	Japan	February 1, 1994	January 31, 1995
Oscar	Brazil	February 1, 1995	June 10, 1996
George Yonashiro	Japan	June 11, 1996	January 31, 1997
Pedro Rocha	Uruguay	January 1, 1997	December 31, 1997
Hans Ooft	Netherlands	February 1, 1998	June 1, 1998
Hidehiko Shimizu	Japan	June 2, 1998	June 30, 1999
Shu Kamo	Japan	July 1, 1999	May 31, 2000
Gert Engels	Germany	June 1, 2000	May 31, 2003
Bunji Kimura	Japan	June 1, 2003	June 30, 2003
Pim Verbeek	Netherlands	July 1, 2003	December 31, 2003
Akihiro Nishimura	Japan	February 1, 2004	June 13, 2004
Kōichi Hashiratani	Japan	June 14, 2004	October 4, 2006
Naohiko Minobe	Japan	October 5, 2006	October 11, 2007
Hisashi Kato	Japan	October 12, 2007	July 27, 2010
Yutaka Akita	Japan	July 27, 2010	January 31, 2011
Takeshi Ōki	Japan	February 1, 2011	January 31, 2014
Valdeir Vieira	Brazil	1st of January 2014	June 18, 2014
Ryōichi Kawakatsu	Japan	June 29, 2014	January 31, 2015
Masahiro Wada	Japan	February 1, 2015	July 10, 2015
Kiyotaka Ishimaru	Japan	July 11, 2015	December 6, 2016
Takanori Nunobe	Japan	January 1, 2017	May 10, 2018
Boško Gjurovski	North Macedonia	May 11, 2018	January 31, 2019
Ichizo Nakata	Japan	1st February 2019	January 31, 2020
Noritada Saneyoshi	Japan	February 1, 2020

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
1996	J1	16	16.	Group stage	Quarter finals
1997		17th	14th	Group stage	4th round
1998		18th	13.	Group stage	3rd round
1999		16	12.	2nd round	4th round
2000		16	15th	Semifinals	3rd round
2001	J2	12	1.	1 round	4th round
2002	J1	16	5.	Group stage	winner
2003		16	16.	Group stage	3rd round
2004	J2	12	5.	-	4th round
2005		12	1.	-	4th round
2006	J1	18th	18th	Group stage	4th round
2007	J2	13	13.	-	3rd round
2008	J1	18th	14th	Group stage	5th round
2009		18th	12.	Group stage	3rd round
2010		18th	17th	Group stage	3rd round
2011	J2	20th	7th	-	final
2012		22nd	3.	-	3rd round
2013		22nd	3.	-	3rd round
2014		22nd	9.	-	3rd round
2015		22nd	17th	-	3rd round
2016		22nd	5.	-	2nd round
2017		22nd	12.	-	2nd round
2018		22nd	19th	-	3rd round
2019		22nd	8th.	-	2nd round
2020		22nd	-	-	-

Awards

Eleven of the year

• Atsushi Yanagisawa (2008)

Web links

Commons : Kyōto Sanga  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Kyōto Sanga in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Kyōto Sanga in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ stadiumdb.com: New design: Finally go-ahead for Kyoto stadium Article from November 2, 2017 (English)
2. ↑ stadiumdb.com: Kyoto stadium (English)
3. ↑ J. League Data Site