Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Sanfrecce Hiroshima サ ン フ レ ッ チ ェ 広 島
Basic data
Surname	Sanfrecce Hiroshima FC
Seat	Hiroshima
founding	1938
president	Yūichi Mototani
Website	sanfrecce.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Hiroshi Jofuku
Venue	Edion Stadium Hiroshima Asaminami-ku , Hiroshima
Places	50,000
league	J1 League
2019	6th place
home Away

Sanfrecce Hiroshima ( Japanese サ ン フ レ ッ チ ェ 広 島 , Sanfuretche Hiroshima ; from Japanese san = three , Italian frecce = arrows ) is a Japanese football club and a founding member of the national professional league J. League .

Club history

Although it was only founded in 1992 as an independent stock corporation ( KK Sanfrecce Hiroshima, English Sanfrecce Hiroshima FC Co., Ltd. ), Sanfrecce can still claim to be the oldest club in the league, because it goes to a factory team of the Mazda founded in 1938 - Group (until 1984: Tōyō Kōgyō KK) back, which won the first Japanese football championship held in 1965.

At that time, the mechanical engineering conglomerate Tōyō Kōgyō was just emerging in the industrial city of Hiroshima , when the club was founded in 1938 as its company sports group. When in the 1960s - Hiroshima and the Toyo plant had since been destroyed by an atomic bomb and rebuilt - the company teams overtook the university teams as the leading football teams in the country and a national championship was introduced in Tokyo after the 1964 Olympic Games the traditional Tōyō Kōgyō Soccer-bu ( 東洋 工業 サ ッ カ ー 部 ), English Toyo Industrial Football Club , took part and secured the first title of this kind. Five years later, in 1970, Toyo had the fourth championship and three times the prestigious Won the Imperial Cup and is therefore rightly considered the best Japanese team of the 1960s.

After these "golden years" for Hiroshima, it became quiet around Toyo and other teams such as Yanmar Diesel , Mitsubishi and Yomiuri took over the leadership role in Japanese football. Toyo, which in the 80s like the entire group had renamed itself to Mazda , only achieved a minor success in 1987, when they reached the cup final again (0: 2 against Yomiuri). This was in part why Mazda was accepted into the new J. League in 1992.

Like the other new professional clubs, Mazda also adopted a new, European-themed art name. But in Hiroshima was particularly gave a lot of effort, western chic with Japanese tradition to join: in the prefecture of Hiroshima is remembered today in a parable , the Mori Motonari , a resident samurai from the 16th century is attributed to Mori shall one day asked his three sons to break an arrow each . After they had all succeeded, they were supposed to break a bundle of three arrows, which no one was able to do. Since then, the three arrows adorn the coat of arms of the Mōri clan and are a widely known symbol in Japan that one can achieve more with united forces than alone. When the club management combined the Japanese word san (three) with the Italian word frecce (arrow) to create the art term Sanfrecce and included three arrowheads in the club's coat of arms, they wanted to emphasize the team spirit.

In 1992 the prefecture and city of Hiroshima and 59 companies including Mazda, DEODEO (today: Edion West), Chūgoku Denryoku and Hiroshima Ginkō founded the stock corporation in its current form.

It is thanks to this team spirit that Sanfrecce did surprisingly well at the start of the J. League: in the new Big Arch Stadium , which was built for the 1992 Asian Cup, the team took an unexpectedly good sixth place in the first half of the season and in the second half of the season even finished fifth. The biggest coup so far came a year later when he won the first half of the season in 1994 and made it to the championship finals. There, however, it became clear what would be the biggest problem for Sanfrecce in the coming years: In the final they were twice defeated 0: 1 to Verdy Kawasaki , and the three cup finals they reached in 1995, 1996 and 1999 ended with three defeats and 0: 8 goals. Demoralized by so many missed opportunities, Hiroshima was relegated from the J. League in 2002 without winning a title. Although the direct re-promotion succeeded in the following season, the placements in the years after that remained mediocre, and the 2007 season ended unhappily in the relegation with relegation again.

The rebuilding of the team that began in the 2007 season showed its full effect in the 2008 season. The season began with winning the Japanese Supercup against the reigning champions Kashima Antlers and ended after 47 league games with 100 points and 99 goals scored with a triumphant rise. The 2009 season ended 4th. Because Gamaba Osaka won the Imperial Cup, Hiroshima was able to qualify for the 2010 AFC Champions League . There the team was eliminated in the group stage.

In the 2010 season, the team made it to the final of the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup . There she lost to Júbilo Iwata on penalties. The league ended in 7th place. In the 2011 season they also finished 7th, at the end of the season, the contract of coach Michael Petrović was not renewed, his successor was the former Japanese international Hajime Moriyasu .

One day before the end of the 2012 season, the championship of the J. League Division 1 was secured .

At the FIFA Club World Cup 2015 , which was held in Japan, you were eligible to start as the reigning Japanese champion and could achieve 3rd place.

successes

Toyo kogyo SC and Mazda SC

• Japan Soccer League : 5th

1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970

• Kaiser Cup : 3

1965, 1967, 1969

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

• J. League Division 1:

Winner: 2012 , 2013 , 2015

Runner-up: 2018

• J. League Division 2 :

Winner: 2008

Runner-up: 2003

• Japanese Supercup :

Winner: 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016

• Emperor's Cup

Finalist: 1995, 1996, 2007, 2013

• J. League Cup

Finalist: 2010, 2014

Stadion

The club plays its home games at Edion Stadium Hiroshima in Hiroshima in Hiroshima prefecture from. The stadium, which is owned by the city of Hiroshima, has a capacity of 50,000 spectators. The sports facility is operated by the Hiroshima City Sports Association.

Edion Stadium Hiroshima

Coordinates: 34 ° 26 '26.8 "  N , 132 ° 23' 39.3"  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Takuto Hayashi 2 FROM Yūki Nogami 3 FROM Akira Ibayashi 5 MF Hiroya Matsumoto 6th MF Toshihiro Aoyama 7th MF Gakuto Notsuda 8th MF Hayao Kawabe 9 ST Douglas Vieira 10 MF Tsukasa Morishima 13 TW Takuya Masuda 14th MF Ezequiel 15th FROM Kazuki Kushibiki 16 MF Kohei Shimizu 17th MF Taishi Matsumoto

No. position Surname 18th MF Yoshifumi Kashiwa 19th FROM Sho Sasaki 20th ST Ryo Nagai 21st TW Ryotaro Hironaga 23 FROM Hayato Araki 24 MF Shunki Higashi 25th MF Yūsuke Chajima 26th MF Kodai Dohi 27 ST Shun Ayukawa 29 MF Yūya Asano 30th MF Kosei Shibasaki 38 TW Keisuke Ōsako 39 ST Leandro Pereira (on loan from Matsumoto Yamaga FC ) 44 MF Rhayner (on loan from Tombense FC ) MF Tomoya Fujii

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	Add./sp.	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Asia		FIFA Club World Cup
1992	-	-	-	-	Group stage	2nd round	-	-	-
1993	J1	10	5	16,644	Group stage	Semifinals	-	-	-
1994	J1	12	2	17.191	1 round	Quarter finals	-	-	-
1995	J1	14th	10	11,689	-	finalist	-	-	-
1996	J1	16	14th	8,469	Group stage	finalist	-	-	-
1997	J1	17th	12	6,533	Group stage	4th round	-	-	-
1998	J1	18th	10	8,339	Group stage	Quarter finals	-	-	-
1999	J1	16	8th	9,377	2nd round	finalist	-	-	-
2000	J1	16	11	8,865	2nd round	4th round	-	-	-
2001	J1	16	9	9,916	Quarter finals	4th round	-	-	-
2002	J1	16	15th	10,941	Group stage	Semifinals	-	-	-
2003	J2	12	2	9,000	-	4th round	-	-	-
2004	J1	16	12	14,800	Group stage	4th round	-	-	-
2005	J1	18th	7th	12,527	Group stage	5th round	-	-	-
2006	J1	18th	10	11,180	Group stage	5th round	-	-	-
2007	J1	18th	16	11,423	Quarter finals	finalist	-	-	-
2008	J2	15th	1	10,840	-	Quarter finals	-	-	-
2009	J1	18th	4th	15,723	Group stage	3rd round	-	-	-
2010	J1	18th	7th	14,562	finalist	3rd round	CL	Group stage	-
2011	J1	18th	7th	13,203	1 round	3rd round	-	-	-
2012	J1	18th	1	17,721	Group stage	2nd round	-	-	5th place
2013	J1	18th	1	17.406	Quarter finals	finalist	CL	Group stage	-
2014	J1	18th	8th	16,552	finalist	Round of 16	CL	Round of 16	-
2015	J1	18th	1	16,382	Group stage	Quarter finals	-	-	3rd place
2016	J1	18th	6th	15,464	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	-	Group stage	-
2017	J1	18th	15th	14,042	PlayOffs	Round of 16	-	-	-
2018	J1	18th	2.	14,346	Group stage	Round of 16	-	-	-
2019	J1	18th	6th	13,886	Quarter finals	4th round	-	Round of 16	-
2020	J1	18th

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Yoshiki Yamasaki	Japan	February 1, 1938	January 31, 1943
Yoshiki Yamasaki	Japan	February 1, 1947	January 31, 1950
Minoru Obata	Japan	February 1, 1951	January 31, 1964
Yukio Shimomura	Japan	February 1, 1964	January 31, 1972
Kenzō Ōhashi	Japan	February 1, 1972	January 31, 1976
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	February 1, 1976	January 31, 1977
Aritatsu Ogi	Japan	1st February 1977	January 31, 1981
Teruo Nimura	Japan	1st February 1981	January 31, 1984
Kazuo Imanishi	Japan	1st February 1984	June 30, 1987
Hans Ooft	Netherlands	July 1, 1987	June 30, 1988
Kazuo Imanishi	Japan	July 1, 1988	June 30, 1992
Stuart Baxter	Scotland	July 1, 1992	January 31, 1995
Wim Jansen	Netherlands	February 1, 1995	January 31, 1997
Eddie Thomson	Scotland	February 1, 1997	January 31, 2001
Valery Nepomnyashchi	Turkmenistan Russia	February 1, 2001	January 31, 2002
Gadzhi Gadzhiev	Russia	February 1, 2002	July 15, 2002
Takahiro Kimura	Japan	July 16, 2002	November 30, 2002
Takeshi Ono	Japan	December 1, 2002	April 1, 2006
Kazuyori Mochizuki	Japan	April 2, 2006	June 9, 2006
Michael Petrovic	Austria Serbia	June 10, 2006	January 31, 2012
Hajime Moriyasu	Japan	February 1, 2012	3rd July 2017
Akinobu Yokouchi	Japan	4th July 2017	July 16, 2014
Jan Jonsson	Sweden	18th July 2017	January 31, 2018
Hiroshi Jofuku	Japan	1st February 2018	today

Awards

Player of the year

• Hisato Sato (2012)
• Toshihiro Aoyama (2015)

Top scorer of the year

• Hisato Sato (2012)
• Peter Utaka (2016)

Young Player of the Year

• Kazuyuki Morisaki (2000)
• Takuma Asano (2015)

Eleven of the year

• Takuya Takagi (1994)
• Hisato Sato (2005, 2012)
• Tomoaki Makino (2010)
• Toshihiro Aoyama (2012, 2013, 2015)
• Shūsaku Nishikawa (2012, 2013)
• Hiroki Mizumoto (2012)
• Yōjirō Takahagi (2012)
• Tsukasa Shiotani (2014, 2015, 2016)
• Douglas (2015)

Web links

Commons : Sanfrecce Hiroshima  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Sanfrecce Hiroshima Official Website (Japanese)
• Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the database of weltfussball.de
• Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sanfrecce Hiroshima: ク ラ ブ 概要 ( Memento from September 1, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ J. League Data Site