Shimizu S-Pulse

Shimizu S-Pulse
Basic data
Surname	Shimizu S-Pulse
Seat	Shimizu , Japan
founding	1991
president	Hayao Iwakawa
Website	s-pulse.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Shinji Kobayashi
Venue	IAI Stadium Nihondaira
Places	20,339
league	J1 League
2019	12th place
home Away Alternatively

Shimizu S-Pulse ( Japanese 清水 エ ス パ ル ス , Shimizu esu parusu ) is a Japanese football club and a founding member of the Japanese professional league J. League .

The association is organized in a stock corporation founded in 1998, the KK S-Pulse ( 株式会社 エ ス パ ル ス , kabushiki-gaisha esu parusu ), English S-Pulse Co., Ltd.

history

S-Pulse occupies a special position in the J. League in two respects: on the one hand, because the club is not based on a works team from a large Japanese company (e.g. Toyota , Mitsubishi , Yamaha or Hitachi ), like most of its competitors , but with the introduction of the Professional league was founded specifically. On the other hand, because he succeeded in an international curiosity in 2000: winning the Asian Cup Winners' Cup without ever having been a cup winner .

When planning for a professional football league across Japan began in 1989, several small and medium-sized companies founded the S-Pulse project with the aim of establishing an advertising platform for the prefecture in professional football and promoting sport in the region. This explains the name of the association, which was officially registered on May 1, 1991 : it was supposed to symbolize the dynamism ( pulse ) of Shizuoka. Initially the project was under the leadership of the ES-lap-Communications group, from 1998 the Suzuyo group took over the leadership. Most recently, in Shimizu (which has been incorporated into the city of Shizuoka since 2003 ; however, the association will retain its old name for the time being), Japan Airlines was the main sponsor and sponsor.

Supported by Shizuoka's university teams, which are among the strongest in the country, S-Pulse was a heavyweight in the league and cup from the start, but soon gained the reputation of "eternal runner-up": by 1999 they had three semi-series second place (in the J. League only the first qualify for the championship finals) and was twice unsuccessful in the cup finals. When the opponents in the 1998 final, the Yokohama Wings , stopped playing after their victory due to financial problems, Shimizu moved up to the Asian Cup and promptly won it: In the final, the Iraqi team was defeated by Al Zawraa. This was the first triumph of S-Pulse, which, apart from the little-regarded Yamazaki Nabisco Cup in 1996, has never won a title. Two years later they moved up again without a win in the Asian Cup (this time for the double winner Kashima Antlers ), but could not repeat their success.

In 1999 S-Pulse finally succeeded in winning the second half of the season and qualifying for the championship finals. This they lost to local rivals Jubilo Iwata, of all places, and then on penalties . The club has not recovered from this failure to this day: although on New Year's Day 2002 with the final victory over Cerezo Osaka in the Imperial Cup, the first serious national title after Shimizu, S-Pulse has since lagged behind its form and can no longer end the successful times of the 1990s. At the end of the 2015 season , the team was even relegated to the J2 League , but not least thanks to a nine-game winning streak at the end of the season, they managed to return directly to the J1 League.

Club successes

National

• Imperial Cup

Winner: 2001

Final: 1998, 2000, 2005, 2010

• League Cup

Winner: 1996

Final: 1992, 1993, 2008, 2012

• Xerox Super Cup

Winner: 2001, 2002

Final: 1999

Continental

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup

Winner: 2000

• Asian Super Cup

Final: 2000

Stadion

Shimizu S-Pulse Stadium

The club plays its home games at the IAI Stadium Nihondaira in Shimizu . The sports facility has a capacity of 20,339 people. The facility is owned by the Shizuoka City Council. The stadium is operated by the Shizuoka City Public Facility Corporation.

Coordinates: 34 ° 59 ′ 4 ″  N , 138 ° 28 ′ 52 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Yohei Nishibe 2 FROM Yūgo Tatsuta 3 FROM Hwang Seok-ho 4th FROM Kazunori Yoshimoto 5 FROM Valdo 6th MF Ryō Takeuchi ( team captain ) 7th MF Mitsunari Musaka 8th MF Hideki Ishige 9 ST Jong Tae-se 10 ST Carlinhos Junior 11 ST Junior Dutra 13 MF Kota Miyamoto 14th ST Yūsuke Gotō 15th FROM Takashi Kanai 16 MF Kenta Nishizawa 17th MF Yōsuke Kawai 18th FROM Elsinho 19th ST Jin Hiratsuka

No. position Surname 20th MF Keita Nakamura 21st FROM Ryō Okui 22nd MF Renato Augusto 23 ST Teerasil Dangda 24 FROM Makoto Okazaki 26th MF Yūta Taki 28 MF Yasufumi Nishimura 29 FROM Naoya Fukumori 30th MF Shota Kaneko 31 TW Togo Umeda 32 TW Neto Volpi 33 ST Riyo Kawamoto 34 FROM Noriega Erick 35 FROM Kenta Ito 36 ST Ibrahim Junior Kuribara 37 MF Yuito Suzuki 38 TW Yoshiaki Arai 39 TW Takuo Ōkubo

Coach chronicle

Surname	nation	from	to
Émerson Leão	Brazil	July 1, 1992	June 30, 1994
Roberto Rivelino	Brazil	July 1, 1994	January 31, 1995
Masakatsu Miyamoto	Japan	February 1, 1995	January 31, 1996
Osvaldo Ardiles	Argentina	February 1, 1996	January 31, 1999
Steve Perryman	England	February 1, 1999	January 31, 2001
Zdravko Zemunović	Serbia	December 1, 2000	January 31, 2003
Takeshi Oki	Japan	February 1, 2003	November 30, 2003
Koji Gyotoku	Japan	December 1, 2003	January 31, 2004
Antoninho	Brazil	February 1, 2004	September 7, 2004
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	June 26, 2004	November 28, 2004
Kenta Hasegawa	Japan	February 1, 2005	January 31, 2011
Afschin Ghotbi	Iran United States	February 1, 2011	29th July 2014
Katsumi Ōenoki	Japan	July 30, 2014	July 30, 2015
Kazuaki Tasaka	Japan	2nd August 2015	January 31, 2016
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	February 1, 2016	5th December 2017
Jan Jonsson	Sweden	1st February 2018	5th May 2019
Yoshiyuki Shinoda	Japan	May 13, 2019	January 31, 2020
Peter Cklamovski	Australia	February 1, 2020	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	Add./sp.	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Supercup	AFC CL
1992					2nd place	Quarter finals
1993	J1	10	3.	18,462	2nd place	Semifinals
1994	J1	12	4th	19,726	1 round	1 round
1995	J1	14th	9.	19,747		1 round
1996	J1	16	10.	12,962	winner	Quarter finals
1997	J1	17th	5.	9,888	Group stage	Quarter finals
1998	J1	18th	3.	12,298	Semifinals	2nd place
1999	J1	16	2nd place	12,883	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	final
2000	J1	16	8th.	12,422	Quarter finals	2nd place
2001	J1	16	4th	15,973	2nd round	winner	winner
2002	J1	16	8th.	14,963	Semifinals	Quarter finals	winner
2003	J1	16	11.	16,284	Semifinals	Semifinals		Group stage
2004	J1	16	14th	13,568	Quarter finals	4th round
2005	J1	18th	15th	12,752	Quarter finals	2nd place
2006	J1	18th	4th	14.302	Group stage	Quarter finals
2007	J1	18th	4th	15,952	Group stage	Quarter finals
2008	J1	18th	5.	16,599	2nd place	Quarter finals
2009	J1	18th	7th	17,935	Semifinals	Semifinals
2010	J1	18th	6th	18.001	Semifinals	2nd place
2011	J1	18th	10.	15,801	Semifinals	Quarter finals
2012	J1	18th	9.	15.121	2nd place	4th round
2013	J1	18th	9.	14,137	Group stage	4th round
2014	J1	18th	15th	14.210	Group stage	Semifinals
2015	J1	18th	17. ▼	14,083	Group stage	2nd round
2016	J2	22nd	2. ▲	11,274		Round of 16
2017	J1	18th	14th	15,116	Group stage	Round of 16
2018	J1	18th	8th.	14,671	Group stage	3rd round
2019	J1	18th	12.	15,043	Group stage	Semifinals
2020	J1	18th

Awards

Player of the year

• Alex (1999)

Young Player of the Year

• Masaaki Sawanobori (1993)
• Toshihide Saitō (1996)
• Jungo Fujimoto (2006)

Eleven of the year

• Takumi Horiike (1993)
• Masanori Sanada (1999)
• Toshihide Saitō (1999)
• Ryūzō Morioka (1999)
• Alex (1999)
• Teruyoshi Itō (1999)
• Masaaki Sawanobori (1999)
• Shinji Okazaki (2009)
• Jungo Fujimoto (2010)

Web links

Commons : Shimizu S-Pulse  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shimizu S-Pulse Official Website (Japanese, English)
• Shimizu S-Pulse in the database of weltfussball.de
• Shimizu S-Pulse in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Shimizu S-Pulse in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shimizu S-Pulse: 会 社 概要 ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2010 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. 
2. ↑ J. League Data Site