Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus
Basic data
Surname	Nagoya Grampus (Japanese: 名古屋 グ ラ ン パ ス)
Seat	Nagoya , Japan
founding	July 17, 1991 (1939 as Toyota Motor SC)
Colours	yellow Red
president	Toyo Kato
Website	nagoya-grampus.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Massimo Ficcadenti
Venue	Paloma Mizuho Stadium & Toyota Stadium
Places	27,000 & 45,000
league	J1 League
2019	13th place
home Away

Nagoya Grampus ( Japanese 名古屋 グ ラ ン パ ス , Nagoya Gurampasu ; Nagoya Grampus Eight until 2008 and officially continued ) is a club from Japan's professional football league , the J. League . The club from the industrial city of Nagoya ( prefecture Aichi ) emerged in 1991 from a factory team of the Toyota group and was a member of the J. League from its foundation until 2016, but until 2010 it had hardly any countable successes apart from two imperial cups. In the 2010 season, the club was then champions of the J. League. After relegation to the J2 League in 2016, he was directly promoted again in the 2017 season by participating in the promotion playoffs.

Club history

The Toyota Stadium, which is also the home ground of Nagoya Grampus

The name Grampus refers to the team's mascot , the orca , which is often called grampus in English . According to official statements, the term eight derives from the "eight principles of civic life" of the Nagoya City Charter, but other versions are also circulating.

The Toyota Jidōsha Kōgyō Soccer-bu , English Toyota Soccer Club , was founded in 1939 and for some time was considered one of the best teams in the country, but could never win a championship or cup. When the professional league was founded, Toyota, which gave itself the new name Grampus Eight and moved to the provincial capital, then also played the role of solid but ultimately hopeless underdog in the title fight.

This only changed when Nagoya tried to raise the level of the game with the help of foreign experts. Successively the English striker Gary Lineker , the Serbian midfield director Dragan Stojković and the French Arsène Wenger were signed . As early as 1995, in Wenger's first season in Nagoya, he was able to win his first title with the Kaiser Cup ( Sanfrecce Hiroshima was defeated 3-0 in the final), and in 1996 he also took part in the Asian Cup final (defeat against Al Hilal from Saudi Arabia ) the runner-up (behind the Kashima Antlers ) the biggest success of Grampus in the league. Although showered with praise and awards (e.g. coach of the year 1995), Wenger followed Arsenal's call to England, where he had his greatest successes.

After Wenger's departure, Grampus soon sank into insignificance again, but the club achieved a small renaissance in 1999: After the collapse of the Yokohama wing , Nagoya strengthened itself with some wing players and was able to receive another Kaiser Cup (again against Sanfrecce, this time 2: 0).

When Dragan Stojković became a coach in 2008, he put Grampus back on the road to success. In the 2008 season, 3rd place in the J. League was achieved, then the championship was won in 2010 and 2nd place was achieved in 2011. In 2009, the final was reached in the Kaiser Cup , but it was lost to Gamba Osaka. In the AFC Champions League 2009 Grampus was also very successful and was only eliminated in the semifinals; In 2011 and 2012 the last sixteen ended. In the following years Grampus fell back into midfield of the J. League (places 7 to 11), in the national cup competitions you could never get further than the quarter-finals. At the end of the 2016 season, Nagoya was relegated to the J2 League for the first time since the J. League was founded.

Since 1991 the team has been an independent stock corporation, KK Nagoya Grampus Eight , based in Nagoya. Grampus is still closely intertwined with the Toyota group: the car manufacturer is the main sponsor and shareholder of the association, and when there is a special crowd the team occasionally deviates from the local Nagoya-shi Mizuho rikujō-kyōgijō ( 名古屋 市 瑞 穂 陸上 競技場 , "Mizuho -Athletics Stadium of the City of Nagoya “), English Mizuho Athletic Stadium , into the Toyota Stadium with its 45,000 spectator seats.

successes

as Toyota Motor SC (amateur club)

• All Japan Senior Football Championship

Winner: 1968, 1970

• Japan Soccer League Division 2

Winner: 1972

• Konica Cup

Winner: 1991

as Nagoya Grampus (professional club)

• J. League Division 1

Winner: 2010

• Imperial Cup

Winner: 1995, 1999

• Xerox Super Cup

Winner: 1996, 2011

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Paloma Mizuho Stadium or the Toyota Stadium .

Stadion	Location	capacity	owner	Coordinates
Toyota Stadium	Toyota , Aichi Prefecture , Honshu	45,000	Toyota Stadium Co., Ltd.	35 ° 5 '4.2 "  N , 137 ° 10' 14.2"  E
Paloma Mizuho Stadium	Nagoya , Aichi Prefecture , Honshu	27,000	Nagoya city	35 ° 7 '21.8 "  N , 136 ° 56' 39.5"  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Mitchell Langerak 2 MF Takuji Yonemoto 3 FROM Yūichi Maruyama 4th FROM Shinnosuke Nakatani 5 FROM Kazuhiko Chiba 6th FROM Kazuya Miyahara 7th ST Jô 8th MF João Schmidt 9 MF Ariajasuru Hasegawa 10 ST Gabriel Xavier 11 MF Hiroyuki Abe 13 FROM Haruya Fujii 14th MF Yōsuke Akiyama 15th MF Shō Inagaki

No. position Surname 16 ST Mateus 17th ST Ryōgo Yamasaki 18th TW Tsubasa Shibuya 19th MF Ryota Aoki 20th MF Shuto Watanabe 21st TW Yōhei Takeda 22nd TW Daiki Mitsui 23 FROM Yutaka Yoshida 24 MF Ryotaro Ishida 25th ST Naoki Maeda 26th FROM Shumpei Naruse 27 ST Yūki Sōma 28 FROM Akira Yoshida 30th MF Hidemasa Koda 36 FROM Kōsuke Ōta 44 ST Mu Kanazaki

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Tatsuya Shiji	Japan	July 1, 1964	January 31, 1975
Masahiro Ozawa	Japan	1st February 1975	January 31, 1978
Kenji Sogami	Japan	February 1, 1978	June 30, 1987
Masanobu Izumi	Japan	July 1, 1987	December 31, 1987
Kenji Sogami	Japan	January 1, 1988	June 30, 1992
Ryūzō Hiraki	Japan	January 1, 1992	January 31, 1994
Gordon Milne	England	February 1, 1994	November 14, 1994
Tetsuro Miura	Japan	November 15, 1994	December 8, 1994
Arsène Wenger	France	February 1, 1995	September 30, 1996
José Alberto Costa	Portugal	September 1, 1996	October 1, 1996
Carlos Queiroz	Portugal Mozambique	October 1, 1996	January 31, 1998
Kōji Tanaka	Japan	February 1, 1998	April 15, 1999
Daniel Sanchez	France	April 15, 1999	August 23, 1999
João Carlos	Brazil	September 7, 1999	July 31, 2001
Tetsuro Miura	Japan	August 1, 2001	January 31, 2002
Zdenko Verdenik	Slovenia	February 1, 2002	August 4, 2003
Nelsinho	Brazil	July 29, 2003	September 20, 2005
Hitoshi Nakata	Japan	September 21, 2005	January 31, 2006
Sef Vergoossen	Netherlands	February 1, 2006	January 31, 2008
Dragan Stojkovic	Serbia	February 1, 2008	January 31, 2014
Akira Nishino	Japan	1st of February 2014	January 31, 2016
Takafumi Ogura	Japan	February 1, 2016	23rd August 2016
Boško Gjurovski	North Macedonia	23rd August 2016	January 31, 2017
Yahiro Kazama	Japan	1st February 2017	22nd September 2019
Massimo Ficcadenti	Italy	23 September 2019	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	Add./sp.	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	AFC CL	Supercup
1992					Semifinals	1 round
1993	J1	10	9.	19,858	Group stage	Quarter finals
1994	J1	12	11.	21,842	1 round	2nd round
1995	J1	14th	3.	21,463		winner
1996	J1	16	2.	21,699	Group stage	3rd round
1997	J1	17th	9.	14,750	Semifinals	3rd round
1998	J1	18th	5.	13,993	Group stage	Semifinals
1999	J1	16	4th	14,688	Semifinals	winner
2000	J1	16	9.	14,114	Semifinals	4th round
2001	J1	16	5.	16,974	Semifinals	3rd round
2002	J1	16	6th	16,323	Group stage	4th round
2003	J1	16	7th	16,768	Semifinals	4th round
2004	J1	16	7th	15,712	Semifinals	5th round
2005	J1	18th	14th	13,288	Group stage	5th round
2006	J1	18th	7th	14,924	Group stage	5th round
2007	J1	18th	11.	15,585	Group stage	5th round
2008	J1	18th	3.	16,555	Semifinals	Quarter finals
2009	J1	18th	9.	15,928	Quarter finals	2nd place
2010	J1	18th	1.	19,979	Group stage	Quarter finals
2011	J1	18th	2.	16,741	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Round of 16
2012	J1	18th	7th	17,155	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Round of 16
2013	J1	18th	11.	16,135	Group stage	2nd round
2014	J1	18th	10.	16,734	Group stage	Quarter finals
2015	J1	18th	9.	16,240	Quarter finals	2nd round
2016	J1	18th	16. ▼	17,729	Group stage	2nd round
2017	J2	22nd	3. ▲	15,365	-	4th round
2018	J1	18th	15th	24,961	Group stage	3rd round
2019	J1	18th	13.	27,612	Quarter finals	2nd round
2020	J1	18th

Awards

Player of the year

• Dragan Stojković (1995)
• Seigo Narazaki (2010)

Top scorer of the year

• Ueslei (2003)
• Joshua Kennedy (2010, 2011)
• Jô (2018)

Young Player of the Year

• Yoshizumi Ogawa (2008)

Eleven of the year

• Dragan Stojković (1995, 1996, 1999)
• Seigo Narazaki (2003, 2008, 2010, 2011)
• Ueslei (2003)
• Marques (2004)
• Yoshizumi Ogawa (2008)
• Marcus Tulio Tanaka (2010, 2011, 2012)
• Joshua Kennedy (2010, 2011)
• Takahiro Masukawa (2010)
• Danilson Córdoba (2010)
• Jungo Fujimoto (2011)
• Jô (2018)

Web links

Commons : Nagoya Grampus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Japanese, English)
• Nagoya Grampus in the database of weltfussball.de
• Nagoya Grampus in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Nagoya Grampus in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nagoya Grampus Eight: チ ー ム & 企業 プ ロ フ ィ ー ル
2. ↑ J. League Data Site