Vegalta Sendai

Vegalta Sendai
Basic data
Surname	Vegalta Sendai ( Japaneseベ ガ ル タ 仙台)
Seat	Sendai , Miyagi Prefecture
founding	1988
Colours	gold-blue-red
president	Yoshitaka Nagawa
Website	vegalta.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Takashi Kiyama
Venue	Yurtec Stadium Sendai Miyagi Stadium
Places	19,694 49,133
league	J1 League
2019	11th place
home Away

Vegalta Sendai ( Japanese ベ ガ ル タ 仙台 , Begaruta Sendai ) is a Japanese football club from Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture . The club plays in the J1 League .

Surname

Vegalta refers to the two stars Wega and Altair . These meet annually on July 7th , which is celebrated in Japan with the Tanabata Festival. Sendai is known for a particularly lavishly celebrated Tanabata festival.

history

The club was founded in 1988 as a factory team of Tōhoku Denryoku and renamed Brummell Sendai in 1994 . From 1995 to 1998 the club played in the Japan Football League , the second highest division in Japan at the time. In 1998 the food company Japan Health Summit became the new main sponsor and in 1999 the association was given the current name Vegalta. At the same time there was a reorganization of the league system: The J. League Division 2 was introduced as the new second highest division; Vegalta Sendai started in this class from then on.

In the 2001 season, the club was able to achieve second place and thus move up to Division 1. Vegalta played in the first division for two years before relegating back to Division 2 in the 2003 season.

In the following five years the club was able to place itself among the best six teams in Division 2, but always missed the promotion ranks. In the 2009 season, they finally rose again to Division 1 as Division 2 champions. With a 2nd place in 2012 they qualified for the AFC Champions League .

Vegalta Sendai is known for its enthusiastic fans; the atmosphere at home games is considered one of the best in the country by Japanese football fans.

organization

Largest shareholders in 1994 founded KK Vegalta Sendai ( Engl. Vegalta Sendai Co., Ltd. ), the Miyagi Prefecture with 24.9% of the shares, the city of Sendai with 23.5% and the construction company Higashi Nihon House 8.8 % of the shares. Vegalta Sendai's 2008 sales were approximately 1.5 billion yen .

successes

as Brummell Sendai

• Tohoku Football League Division 1

Winner: 1994

• Regional League Promotion Series

Winner: 1994

as Vegalta Sendai

• J1 League

Runner-up: 2012

• J. League Division 2

Master: 2009

Runner-up: 2001

• Imperial Cup

2nd place: 2018

Stadion

Yurtec Stadium

The club plays its home games at the Yurtec Stadium in Sendai in Miyagi Prefecture . The stadium, owned by the city of Sendai, has a capacity of 19,694 spectators. The sports facility is operated by the Sendai City Park Association.

Coordinates: 38 ° 19 ′ 9.2 ″  N , 140 ° 52 ′ 54.5 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 2 FROM Pará 3 MF Ryutaro Iio 4th FROM Kōji Hachisuka 5 MF Keiya Shiihashi 6th MF Shingō Hyōdō 7th MF Kunimitsu Sekiguchi 8th MF Yoshiki Matsushita 9 MF Isaac Cuenca 11 ST Shuhei Akasaki 13 FROM Yasuhiro Hiraoka 14th MF Takayoshi Ishihara 15th ST Takuma Nishimura (on loan from PFC CSKA Moscow ) 16 FROM Kyōhei Yoshino 17th MF Shingo Tomita 18th MF Ryōhei Michibuchi 19th ST Ryō Germain 20th ST Shun Nagasawa 21st TW Kentaro Seki 22nd TW Goro Kawanami

No. position Surname 23 FROM Simão Mate 24 TW Yuma Obata 26th FROM Takuma Hamasaki 27 TW Jakub Słowik 28 MF Takumi Sasaki 29 ST Alexandre Guedes 30th MF Wataru Tanaka 31 FROM Hayato Teruyama 36 FROM Takahiro Yanagi 37 MF Shogo Nakahara 39 FROM Kim Jung-ya 42 ST Hiroto Yamada (on loan from Cerezo Osaka ) FROM Hisashi Appiah Tawiah MF Fumiya Suzuki FROM Takumi Mase ST Naito Yoshida

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Takekazu Suzuki	Japan	July 1, 1990	December 31, 1995
Branko Elsner	Slovenia	February 1, 1997	January 31, 1998
Toshiya Miura	Japan	October 1, 1997	January 31, 1998
Takekazu Suzuki	Japan	February 1, 1998	July 24, 1999
Hidehiko Shimizu	Japan	July 27, 1999	September 14, 2003
Hajime Ishii	Japan	September 15, 2003	September 20, 2003
Zdenko Verdenik	Slovenia	September 21, 2003	January 30, 2005
Satoshi tsunami	Japan	February 1, 2005	January 31, 2006
Joel Santana	Brazil	December 1, 2005	January 31, 2007
Tatsuya Mochizuki	Japan	February 1, 2007	January 31, 2008
Makoto Teguramori	Japan	February 1, 2008	January 31, 2014
Graham Arnold	Australia	1st of February 2014	April 9, 2014
Susumu Watanabe	Japan	April 10, 2014	January 31, 2020
Takashi Kiyama	Japan	February 1, 2020	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	space	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	spectator
1995	JFL	16	15th		2nd round
1996	JFL	16	6th		3rd round
1997	JFL	16	8th.		2nd round
1998	JFL	16	7th		4th round
1999	J2	10	9.		2nd round	134,462
2000	J2	11	5.		1 round	177.967
2001	J2	12	2. ▲		3rd round	308.243
2002	J1	16	13.		4th round	327,925
2003	J1	16	15. ▼		3rd round	325,621
2004	J2	12	6th		4th round	356.359
2005	J2	12	4th		4th round	350,544
2006	J2	13	5.		4th round	346,868
2007	J2	13	4th		3rd round	352,432
2008	J2	15th	3.		4th round	295,679
2009	J2	18th	1. ▲		Semifinals	336.719
2010	J1	18th	14th	Quarter finals	2nd round	294,644
2011	J1	18th	4th	1 round	4th round	266.144
2012	J1	18th	2.	Quarter finals	3rd round	282.200
2013	J1	18th	13.	-	Quarter finals	252.725
2014	J1	18th	14th	Group stage	2nd round	257.949
2015	J1	18th	14th	Group stage	Quarter finals	234,442
2016	J1	18th	12.	Group stage	2nd round	262.937
2017	J1	18th	12.	Semifinals	2nd round	250,677
2018	J1	18th	11.	PlayOff	2nd place	242,791
2019	J1	18th	11.	PlayOff	4th round
2020	J1	17th

Awards

Eleven of the year

• Wilson (2012)

Former German players

• Reinhard Stumpf (1996)
• Pierre Littbarski (1996–1997)

Web links

• Official website
• Vegalta Sendai in the database of weltfussball.de
• Vegalta Sendai in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Vegalta Sendai in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vegalta Sendai: 会 社 概要
2. ↑ J. League Data Site