Tokyo Verdy

Tokyo Verdy
Basic data
Surname	Tokyo Verdy 1969 Football Club
Seat	Tokyo prefecture
founding	October 1, 1991 1969 as Yomiuri FC
Colours	green white
president	Yasuo Shimada
Website	verdy.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Hideki Nagai
Venue	Ajinomoto Stadium , Chofu , Tokyo
Places	49,970
league	J2 League
2019	13th place
home Away

Tokyo Verdy ( Japanese 東京 ヴ ェ ル デ ィ , Tōkyō Verudi ) is a football club of the Japanese professional football league J2 League with the prefecture of Tokyo as its hometown.

The club, which emerged from the very successful Yomiuri Football Club in 1991 and moved from Kawasaki ( Kanagawa Prefecture ) to Tokyo Prefecture in 1999 , has already won several national titles, most recently the coveted Imperial Cup in 2004 . The club plays like rival FC Tokyo in the Ajinomoto stadium in Chofu city . The club's training ground is located in Kodaira .

Following the general trend, the club owns the “western sounding” art name Verdy , which is supposed to be reminiscent of the green club color ( ital . Verdi = green ) and at the same time has an English sound.

history

Foundation and promotion to the House of Lords (1969–1979)

After the unexpected success of the Japanese national team at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , national interest in football increased. In order to maintain the enthusiasm for the sport, the then president of the Japan Football Association Ken Nozu and Matsutaro Shorioki , chairman of the Yomiuri Giants , asked the publishing house Yomiuri Shimbun- sha to found their own professional club. Shorioku agreed and realized this plan shortly before his death.

Thus, in 1969, when Japan's football was dominated by factory teams , the influential publishing house which, in addition to the Yomiuri Shimbun (the world's largest newspaper) and various radio and television stations, already owned the extremely successful baseball team of the Yomiuri Giants , the Yomiuri Soccer Club based in Kawasaki at the gates of Tokyo. The club started in the then fifth class Tokyo Local League B, reached the Kanto Soccer League in 1971 and played second class of the Japan Soccer League for the first time in 1972 . After establishing itself in the league, it was promoted to Division 1 in 1978 and won its first title in the Japan Soccer League Cup in 1979. Due to its dominance, the club was nicknamed FC Nippon (FC Japan) and was about to soar.

Golden Era (1979-1994)

A well-known trainer was Rudi Gutendorf between 1982 and 1984 .

The goal of the club management was to establish Yomiuri FC as a star-studded top team and a nationwide fan base - just like the Yomiura Giants baseball team. Winning the title in 1983 was followed by four more championships and three cup victories by 1992 and, as the culmination of the 1987 Asian Cup , Yomiuri was considered the strongest team in the country together with Nissan (later the Yokohama Marinos ).

With the establishment of J. League Division 1 in the early 1990s, Yomiuri invested in buying stars and entertaining national players like Kazuyoshi Miura , Ruy Ramos and Tsuyoshi Kitazawa . The club retained its supremacy and underlined this with four consecutive titles: 1990/91 and 1991/92 as Yomiuri Nippon Soccer Club and 1993 and 1994 in the newly founded J. League. This was previously only achieved by the Toyo Industrial factory team in the 1960s . From 1992 the club was also called Verdy Kawasaki , due to the planned separation of the club from Yomiuri, but remained in its possession until it was taken over by Nippon Television Network (the broadcasting division Yomiuris) in 1997.

Lack of success and support (1995-2000)

Verdy was undoubtedly at the height of its success in the mid-1990s, but already here it became clear that Yomiuri's strategy was not working: the publisher had already made its Giants the nationwide most popular baseball team and successfully marketed the club through its newspapers and television stations . But the strategy could not be repeated at Verdy despite the sporting success, as the fans preferred small clubs rooted in their home regions rather than the Japan-wide brand FC Nippon ; who also appeared with a mascot that is very reminiscent of a vulture .

When successes slowly became rarer from 1996 (only winning the Emperor's Cup this year can be seen as the last rebellion) and the supporters turned away from the club, Verdy broke the financial basis for the success. The aging stars could not be replaced by expensive players, so only seventh place was possible. As early as 1998, the season ended not only in penultimate place in the league, but was also on the verge of financial ruin. In 1999 it was renamed FC Nippon .

New beginning in Tokyo (2001-2005)

The new beginning came in 2001 after the club parted ways with almost all of the expensive stars and left Kawasaki - which was now dominated by Kawasaki Frontale , the Yokohama Marinos and Yokohama Wings - for Tokyo. With the move to Chofu , Tokyo , the club also called itself Tokyo Verdy in 1969 , but this only became the official name in 2009. On the one hand this should do justice to the new hometown and on the other hand keep the roots of Yomiuri FC alive. With the economical use of foreign stars (for example the Brazilian Edmundo "o animal" or the Cameroonian Patrick M'Boma ) and talents from their own youth work, a new fan base could be built up. As a new club, Verdy had to present itself in the shadow of the top dog FC Tokyo . The number of spectators increased, but did not reach the level of the city rivals who had been promoted to the upper house in 2000.

In terms of sport, too, FC Tokyo overtook former FC Nippon, which can usually only hold its own in the J. League Division 1 with great difficulty . It wasn't until New Year's Day 2005 that Verdy won the 2004 edition of the Emperor's Cup and thus his last title to date. Despite the success at the beginning of the year, the 2005 season was the worst in the club's history. Among other things, because of the three victories of the opponents in July (July 2nd: 0: 7 against Gamba Osaka ; July 6: 0: 7 against the Urawa Red Diamonds ; July 17: 0: 6 against Júbilo Iwata ) the club dismissed his Coach Osvaldo Ardiles , under whom Verdy conceded 23 goals in the last 5 games and has not won for 9 games in a row. On July 26th, 2005, however, Verdy achieved an unexpected highlight in a previously unsatisfactory season: being penultimate in the table, they sensationally defeated Real Madrid 3-0 in a friendly . But this was the only success of the season. Verdy finished the season in 17th place in the table and was relegated to the House of Lords for the first time in 28 years.

Second division and new sponsorship (2006 to today)

Despite the relegation Verdy played thanks to the cup success in 2005 as a second division team in 2006 in the Asian Cup of national champions . Many experienced players had to be sold, which meant that the club had to work with its own youth. It is worth mentioning Takayuki Morimoto , who became the youngest goalscorer in J. League history in 2004 when he was 15 years old. The season did not go well. All the more surprising was the 5-0 win against Thespa Kusatsu on the first day of the 2007 season and promotion to the J. League Division 1 for the 2008 season as second in the table. The addition 1969 was removed from the club name, but remained with the management.

On September 17, 2009, NTV announced it would sell its stake in the club and form a new Tokyo Verdy Holdings . This ended the 40-year Yomiuri / NTV sponsorship for Verdy. Under the condition that Tokyo Verdy finds a new sponsor by November 16, the league management agreed to the decision - otherwise the club would lose its approval for the 2010 season in the J. League.

In October 2010, Tokyo Verdy signed a five-year deal with sporting goods retailer Xebio. Since then, the company's logo has been on the jersey, she has the naming rights for two home games of the season and the in-house sports brand "Ennerre" produces the team's jersey sets.

successes

National

• Japan Soccer League : 5th

1983, 1984, 1986-87, 1990-91, 1991-92

• Japan Soccer League Cup : 3rd

1979, 1985, 1991

• J. League Division 1 : 2

1993, 1994

• J. League Cup : 3

1992, 1993, 1994

• Kaiser Cup : 5

1984, 1986, 1987, 1996, 2004

• Xerox Super Cup : 3rd

1994, 1995, 2005

Continental

• AFC Club Championship : 1

1987-88

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Ajinomoto Stadium in Chofu in Tokyo from. The stadium, owned by Tokyo Prefecture, has a capacity of 49,970 spectators.

Ajinomoto Stadium

Coordinates: 35 ° 39 ′ 51 ″  N , 139 ° 31 ′ 37 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Takahiro Shibasaki 2 FROM Masashi Wakasa 3 FROM Naoya Kondo 4th MF Naoto Sawai 5 FROM Tomohiro Taira 6th FROM Shohei Takahashi 7th MF Hiroki Kawano 8th MF Kanya Fujimoto 9 MF Yuhei Sato 10 ST Leandro 11 MF Haruya Ide 13 ST Yoshito Ōkubo 14th MF Kōki Morita 15th MF Masaomi Nakano 16 FROM Takayuki Fukumura 17th FROM Klebinho

No. position Surname 18th MF Mizuki Arai 19th MF Junki Koike 20th MF Shion Inoue 21st MF Rihito Yamamoto 24 MF Yuta Narawa 25th ST Jin Hanato 26th FROM Daiki Fukazawa 30th MF Mahiro Ano 31 TW Matheus Vidotto 33 MF Yuan Matsuhashi 34 MF Taiga Ishiura 35 FROM Seiya Baba 36 MF Joel Chima Fujita 41 TW Ko Hasegawa 48 ST Ryōya Yamashita

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Jujiro Narita	Japan	1st February 1970	June 30, 1973
Frans van Balkom	Netherlands Australia	1st February 1973	January 31, 1976
Shoichi Nishimura	Japan	February 1, 1976	January 31, 1981
Ryoichi Aikawa	Japan	1st February 1981	June 30, 1983
Susumu Chiba	Japan	July 1, 1983	January 31, 1984
Rudi Gutendorf	Germany	January 1, 1984	June 30, 1986
George Yonashiro	Japan	July 1, 1986	June 30, 1989
Carlos Alberto Silva	Brazil	July 1, 1990	June 30, 1991
José Macia "Pepe"	Brazil	January 1, 1991	December 31, 1992
Yasutaro Matsuki	Japan	February 1, 1993	January 31, 1995
Nelsinho Baptista	Brazil	February 1, 1995	April 25, 1996
Yasuyuki Kishino	Japan	April 26, 1996	May 9, 1996
Émerson Leão	Brazil	May 10, 1996	January 31, 1997
Hisashi Kato	Japan	February 1, 1997	June 1, 1997
Valdir Espinosa	Brazil	June 2, 1997	October 30, 1997
Ryōichi Kawakatsu	Japan	November 1, 1997	January 31, 1998
Nicanor	Brazil	February 1, 1998	September 7, 1998
Ryōichi Kawakatsu	Japan	September 8, 1998	January 31, 1999
Hideki Matsunaga	Japan	February 1, 1999	January 31, 2000
Chang Woe-ryong	South Korea	February 1, 2000	January 1, 2001
Yasutaro Matsuki	Japan	February 1, 2001	July 16, 2001
Yukitaka Omi	Japan	July 17, 2001	April 9, 2002
Lori Paulo Sandri	Brazil	January 1, 2002	June 30, 2003
Osvaldo Ardiles	Argentina	May 16, 2003	July 18, 2005
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	July 19, 2005	July 31, 2005
Vadão	Brazil	August 1, 2005	December 14, 2005
Ruy Ramos	Japan	February 1, 2006	January 31, 2008
Tetsuji Hashiratani	Japan	February 1, 2008	January 31, 2009
Takuya Takagi	Japan	February 1, 2009	October 14, 2009
Takeo Matsuda	Japan	October 14, 2009	January 31, 2010
Ryōichi Kawakatsu	Japan	February 1, 2010	September 6, 2012
Shinichiro Takahashi	Japan	September 6, 2012	January 31, 2013
Yasutoshi Miura	Japan	1st February 2013	15th September 2014
Kōichi Togashi	Japan	September 1, 2014	December 31, 2016
Miguel Ángel Lotina	Spain	1st February 2017	January 31, 2019
Gary White	England	1st February 2019	17th July 2019
Hideki Nagai	Japan	17th July 2019

Season placement

season	league	Teams.	Item	Add./sp.	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Asia
1992	-	-	-	-	winner	Vice	CC	2nd round
1993	J1	10	1.	25,235	winner	Quarter finals	CC	fourth place
1994		12	1.	24,926	winner	2nd round	CC	third place
1995		14th	2.	20,834	-	Quarter finals	CC	Quarter finals
1996		16	7th	17,653	Vice	winner	CC	Quarter finals
1997		17th	15th	10,933	Group stage	3rd round	-	-
1998		18th	12.	13,338	Group stage	Quarter finals	CWC	Quarter finals
1999		16	7th	9,379	2nd round	Semifinals	-	-
2000		16	10.	7,609	Quarter finals	4th round	-	-
2001		16	14th	19,396	1 round	Quarter finals	-	-
2002		16	10.	15,128	Group stage	3rd round	-	-
2003		16	8th.	17,563	Group stage	Quarter finals	-	-
2004		16	9.	15,059	Semifinals	winner	-	-
2005		18th	17th	14,716	Group stage	4th round	-	-
2006	J2	13	7th	5,705	-	3rd round	CL	Group stage
2007		13	2.	7,327	-	3rd round	-	-
2008	J1	18th	17th	14,837	Group stage	4th round	-	-
2009	J2	18th	7th	5,521	-	2nd round	-	-
2010		19th	5.	5,572	-	2nd round	-	-
2011		20th	5.	6,300	-	n / A	-	-
2012		22nd	5.	5,710	-	3rd round	-	-
2013		22nd	13.	6.343	-	3rd round	-	-
2014		22nd	20th	5,430	-	2nd round	-	-
2015		22nd	8th.	5,655	-	2nd round	-	-
2016		22nd	18th	5,402	-	3rd round	-	-
2017		22nd	5.	6.206	-	2nd round	-	-
2018		22nd	6th	5,936	-	4th round	-	-
2019		22nd	13.	5,371	-	2nd round	-	-
2020		22nd					-	-

Awards

Player of the year

• Kazuyoshi Miura (1993)
• Pereira (1994)

Top scorer of the year

• Kazuyoshi Miura (1996)

Young Player of the Year

• Yūji Nakazawa (1999)
• Takayuki Morimoto (2004)

Eleven of the year

• Tetsuji Hashiratani (1993, 1994, 1995)
• Pereira (1993, 1994)
• Ruy Ramos (1993, 1994)
• Kazuyoshi Miura (1993, 1995, 1996)
• Shinkichi Kikuchi (1994, 1995)
• Bismarck (1994, 1995)
• Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (1994)
• Nobuhiro Takeda (1994)
• Yūji Nakazawa (1999)

Women's soccer

The women's department Beleza ( ベ レ ー ザ , Berēza ), established in 1981 by the Yomiuri football club , has been called NTV Beleza ( 日 テ レ ・ ベ レ ー ザ , Nittere Berēza ) since 1999, after the main sponsor Nippon TV . NTV Beleza has played in the L. League ( Nadeshiko League ) since the league was founded in 1989 .

The team is one of the best in Japan and won a total of 8 championship titles in the years 2000–2002, 2005–2008 and 2010. Yomiuri Beleza won four championship titles in 1990-1993.

Web links

Commons : Tokyo Verdy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)
• NTV Beleza (Japanese)
• Tokyo Verdy in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Tokyo Verdy in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} ク ラ ブ プ ロ フ ィ ー ル (Club Profile). (No longer available online.) Tokyo Verdy, archived from the original on August 25, 2011 ; Retrieved July 17, 2014 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ J. League Data Site