Urawa Red Diamonds
Urawa Red Diamonds | ||||
Basic data | ||||
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Surname | Urawa Red Diamonds ( Japanese 浦 和 レ ッ ド ダ イ ヤ モ ン ズ ) |
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Seat | Urawa | |||
founding | 1992 ( Mitsubishi FC: 1950 ) |
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Colours | red-white-black | |||
president | Mitsunori Fujiguchi | |||
Website | urawa-reds.co.jp | |||
First soccer team | ||||
Head coach | Tsuyoshi Otsuki | |||
Venue |
Saitama Stadium 2002 Urawa Komaba Stadium |
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Places | 63,718 21,500 |
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league | J1 League | |||
2019 | 14th place | |||
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The Urawa Red Diamonds ( Japanese 浦 和 レ ッ ド ダ イ ヤ モ ン ズ , Urawa reddo daiyamonzu ), often also called Urawa Reds ( 浦 和 レ ッ ズ , Urawa rezzu ), are a Japanese football club from the Urawa district of the Saitama community . The club plays in the top division of Japan, the J1 League .
Predecessor clubs
In 1950, dominated as Japan Football Still of university teams, was in Urawa the bu Sakka-Naka-Nihon Jukogyo founded, the company sports group of Naka-Nihon Jukogyo, a company based in Kobe , which in breaking up of the Mitsubishi Zaibatsu by the GHQ was born. Two years later, the company and works team were renamed, and the Shin- Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō Kobe Sakkā-bu was created . In 1958 the team moved to Tokyo and was renamed in 1964 in Mitsubishi Jūkōgyō Sakkā-bu (English Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Football Club ). In 1990 the team was transferred to Mitsubishi Jidōsha Kōgyō (English Mitsubishi Motors ) and was consequently called Mitsubishi Jidōsha Kōgyō Sakkā-bu , before the team was converted into an independent company in 1992.
This makes the club older than most of its comrades in the J. League, most of whom were founded around 1970. When football became increasingly popular during the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo and companies discovered the sport as an advertising platform, the club was expanded. As a result of this work, Mitsubishi was the dominant team in the country with four championships and four Imperial Cup victories between 1969 and 1982. It is worth mentioning here that the club finished the championship in one of the first two places for ten years in a row between 1969 and 1978.
Naming
When the decision to found a professional league was made in 1992, Mitsubishi had ceded the leadership role to teams like Yomiuri or Nissan , but was nonetheless a founding member of the J.League. Like other clubs, the club adopted a new, western-style name: Urawa Red Diamonds. On the one hand, this referred to the owner Mitsubishi, whose company logo consists of three red diamonds , through the colloquial nickname Reds and the playing clothes with a red jersey, white shorts and black stockings, they also referred to the English top club Manchester United .
organization
In 1992 the team was founded in its current form as a stock company: The KK Mitsubishi Jidōsha Football Club ( 株式会社 三菱 自動 車 フ ッ ト ボ ー ル ク ラ ブ , KK Mitsubishi Jidōsha Futtobōru Kurabu ) belongs to over 50% Mitsubishi Jidōsha Kōgyō , and the city of Saitama is five percent prefecture; the remaining shares are distributed among 27 companies. The board of directors ( torishimariyakukai ) has three representatives from Mitsubishi Jidōsha Kōgyō, the lieutenant governor of Saitama and the mayor of Saitama (as of April 2010).
history
Transfers from Germany
After Urawa had finished the first three J. League half-series as the last, which at that time did not lead to relegation, as the league was continuously topped up, two world champions from 1990 with Guido Buchwald and Uwe Bein were committed in 1994 , which quickly became The league's audience favorites advanced. After a German coach was signed with Holger Osieck a year later, things went uphill for a short time. After Bein, Buchwald and Osieck left the club again, a decline set in, which neither newcomer Michael Rummenigge nor the new coach Horst Köppel could stop. In the 1999 season, the club finally rose to the Japanese second division.
Resurgence and first successes
Despite the relegation, the fans remained loyal to the Red Diamonds; the club achieved in the second division season 2000 a higher average attendance than all first division clubs. After the direct resurgence, Urawa achieved the highest number of visitors in J.League history in the newly built World Cup stadium in Saitama on the first day of the 2001 season. In the 2003 season, the Red Diamonds were finally able to win their first title since the introduction of the J. League with the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup . In addition, the club was also in the final for this cup in 2002 and 2004.
Promotion to the top club
With the return of Guido Buchwald as coach for the 2004 season, the Red Diamonds were finally able to establish themselves at the top of Japanese club football. By winning the return series of the 2004 season, the club was able to qualify for the championship finals for the first time, but lost it to Yokohama F. Marinos . For the 2005 season, the previous separate evaluation of the first and second round with a final final of the two winners for the championship title of the J.League was given up and replaced by a normal championship round with home and away games. Even under the new mode, the Red Diamonds were again runner-up behind Gamba Osaka ; they also won the Kaiser Cup at the end of the season with a 2-1 win over Shimizu S-Pulse .
Double and Champions League victory
In the 2006 season, the Red Diamonds finally managed to win the Japanese championship ahead of Kawasaki Frontale . In addition, at the end of the season, the club defended the Kaiser Cup with a 2-1 win in the final against Gamba Osaka. After three doubles from the predecessor club Mitsubishi FC, this was the Red Diamonds' first double win. Buchwald left the club after the season and the new coach was again Holger Osieck.
Under him, the Red Diamonds finally achieved the greatest success in the club's history when they won the AFC Champions League in the 2007 season . In the finals , they defeated Sepahan Isfahan from Iran 1: 1 and 2: 0. Urawa thus qualified for the first time for the FIFA Club World Cup , where the team was eliminated in the semifinals against eventual tournament winners AC Milan and ultimately came third. In the J-League, the club missed the title defense when they lost 1-0 to the relegated Yokohama FC on the last day of the match and were intercepted by the Kashima Antlers .
Since 2008
After two match days in the 2008 season, when you couldn't get a single point, coach Holger Osieck was dismissed. His successor was the previous assistant coach Gert Engels . The season ended with the Red Diamonds in seventh place. For the 2009 season, Volker Finke, another German, was hired as a coach. Finke signed a two-year contract and ended the season with the club in sixth place. When Finke moved to 1. FC Köln as sports director in February 2011 , Željko Petrović took over the team. At the end of the season, Urawa RD landed in 15th place - one place and three points ahead of the first relegated Ventforet Kofu . The following season, 2012, went much better and ended with third place and qualification for the AFC Champions League 2013 . There the team failed in the group stage to Guangzhou Evergrande and Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors . In the J-League, 6th place jumped out at the end of the season, with the gap to 4th place being only one point. 4th place would have entitled to participate in the AFC Champions League again.
On March 23, 2014, the Red Diamonds became the first Japanese team to play a home game without spectators (against Shimizu S-Pulse ). The League Association imposed this penalty because Urawa fans hung a poster over a grandstand entrance at the home game against Sagan Tosu on March 8, 2014 , saying "For Japanese only". This was seen by the league association as a racist attack on opposing professionals from abroad. The club itself had this poster removed only after the game.
Second Asian Champions League victory, Emperor's Cup victory and instability
In 2015 and 2016, the J1 was again held in two phases, consisting of round-trip rounds and play-offs for the two winners and the winner of the overall points. Although Urawa would have won both years in regular rankings, they lost in the playoffs in 2015 in the semifinals against Gamba Osaka and in 2016 in the final against Kashima Antlers . These two years were playfully the highlight of Urawa's in the JLeague. In 2017, inconsistent ideas in the JLeague and the corresponding place in the middle of the table led to Misha Petrovic being dismissed in July 2017. Originally planned as an interim coach, Takafumi Hori took over the team as coach. With a more cautious style of play, Urawa stabilized a little in the JLeague and won the JLeague Cup. Despite almost hopeless first leg defeats at Jeju United (2: 0) and Kawasaki Frontale (3: 1), Urawa was able to win the second legs in eighth (3: 0) and quarter-finals (4: 1) and move into the semi-finals. Urawa was also able to prevail against the superstars at Shanghai SIPG around Hulk (soccer player) and Oscar (soccer player, 1991) and won the Asian Champions League title again after 10 years in the final against Al-Hilal (Saudi Arabia) . After the ACL win, Takafumi Hori remained the coach, but since the beginning of the JLeague season was again very moderate, Tsuyoshi Otsuki took over until Oswaldo de Oliveira , a well-known coach, was signed at the end of April 2018. The situation in the JLeague improved again, but it was no longer possible to catch up with the first 4 places, which would have made at least an ACL qualification possible. The victory of the Kaiser Cup ensured direct participation in the ACL from the group stage (without having to contest the ACL qualification).
In 2019 the picture was similar to previous years. Although they had supposedly strengthened themselves (and had declared the victory of the JLeague and the ACL as a goal), the first half of the JLeague went very badly again, which cost Oswaldo de Oliveira his job at the end of May 2019. This time Tsuyoshi Otsuki was made head coach on a regular basis.
Stadion
The club plays its home games at the Saitama Stadium 2002 in Saitama in Saitama Prefecture from. The stadium has a capacity of 63,718 spectators. The sports facility is owned by Saitama Prefecture.
Coordinates: 35 ° 54 '10.8 " N , 139 ° 43' 3.1" E
Current squad
Status: June 2020
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Borrowed Players
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successes
(until 1992 as Mitsubishi Urawa FC; since 1992 as Urawa Red Diamonds)
National
- Japan Soccer League : 4th
- 1969, 1973, 1978, 1982
- Japan Soccer League Cup : 2nd
- 1978, 1981
- J. League Cup : 2
- 2003, 2016
- Kaiser Cup : 7
- 1971, 1973, 1978, 1980, 2005, 2006, 2018
- Japanese Supercup : 4th
- 1979, 1980, 1983, 2006
International
Former German players
- Michael Rummenigge (1993–1995)
- Uwe Rahn (1993–1995)
- Uwe Bein (1994–1996)
- Guido Buchwald (1994–1997)
Coach chronicle
Trainer | nation | from | to |
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Yoshisada Okano | Japan | February 1, 1950 | January 31, 1966 |
Tomohiko Ikoma | Japan | 1st February 1966 | January 31, 1967 |
Hiroshi Ninomiya | Japan | February 1, 1967 | January 31, 1976 |
Kenzō Yokoyama | Japan | February 1, 1976 | January 31, 1984 |
Kuniya Daini | Japan | 1st February 1984 | June 30, 1989 |
Kazuo Saitō | Japan | July 1, 1989 | June 30, 1992 |
Takaji Mori | Japan | July 1, 1992 | January 31, 1994 |
Kenzō Yokoyama | Japan | February 1, 1994 | January 31, 1995 |
Holger Osieck | Germany | February 1, 1995 | December 31, 1996 |
Horst Köppel | Germany | February 1, 1997 | January 31, 1998 |
Hiromi Hara | Japan | February 1, 1998 | June 30, 1999 |
Yasushi Yoshida | Japan | 4th December 1999 | January 31, 2000 |
Aad de Mos | Netherlands | July 1, 1999 | December 3, 1999 |
Kazuo Saitō | Japan | February 1, 2000 | October 2, 2000 |
Kenzō Yokoyama | Japan | October 3, 2000 | January 31, 2001 |
Tita | Brazil | February 1, 2001 | August 27, 2001 |
Pita | Brazil | August 28, 2001 | January 31, 2002 |
Hans Ooft | Netherlands | February 1, 2002 | January 31, 2004 |
Guido Buchwald | Germany | February 1, 2004 | January 31, 2007 |
Holger Osieck | Germany | February 1, 2007 | March 16, 2008 |
Gert Engels | Germany | March 16, 2008 | November 27, 2008 |
Volker Finke | Germany | February 1, 2009 | January 31, 2011 |
Željko Petrović | Montenegro Netherlands | February 1, 2011 | October 20, 2011 |
Takafumi Hori | Japan | October 20, 2011 | January 31, 2012 |
Michael Petrovic | Austria , Serbia | February 1, 2012 | July 30, 2017 |
Takafumi Hori | Japan | July 30, 2017 | 2nd April 2018 |
Tsuyoshi Otsuki | Japan | 3rd April 2018 | April 24, 2018 |
Oswaldo de Oliveira | Brazil | April 25, 2018 | May 28, 2019 |
Tsuyoshi Otsuki | Japan | May 28, 2019 | today |
Season placement
season | league | Teams | Item | Add./sp. | Emperor's Cup | J. League Cup | Supercup | AFC CL | FIFA Club World Cup |
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1992 | Semifinals | Group stage | |||||||
1993 | J1 | 10 | 10. | 11,459 | 2nd round | Group stage | |||
1994 | J1 | 12 | 12. | 18,475 | 3rd round | Quarter finals | |||
1995 | J1 | 14th | 4th | 19,560 | Quarter finals | ||||
1996 | J1 | 16 | 6th | 24,329 | Semifinals | Group stage | |||
1997 | J1 | 17th | 10. | 20,504 | 4th round | Quarter finals | |||
1998 | J1 | 18th | 6th | 22,706 | Quarter finals | Group stage | |||
1999 | J1 | 16 | 15. | 21,206 | 4th round | Quarter finals | |||
2000 | J2 | 11 | 2. | 16,923 | 4th round | 1 round | |||
2001 | J1 | 16 | 10. | 26,720 | Semifinals | Quarter finals | |||
2002 | J1 | 16 | 11. | 26,296 | 3rd round | 2nd place | |||
2003 | J1 | 16 | 6th | 28,855 | 3rd round | winner | |||
2004 | J1 | 16 | 2. | 36,660 | Semifinals | 2nd place | |||
2005 | J1 | 18th | 2. | 39,357 | winner | Semifinals | |||
2006 | J1 | 18th | 1. | 45,573 | winner | Quarter finals | winner | ||
2007 | J1 | 18th | 2. | 46,667 | 4th round | Quarter finals | 2nd place | winner | 3rd place |
2008 | J1 | 18th | 7th | 47,609 | 5th round | Group stage | Semifinals | ||
2009 | J1 | 18th | 6th | 44.210 | 2nd round | Quarter finals | |||
2010 | J1 | 18th | 10. | 39,941 | Quarter finals | Group stage | |||
2011 | J1 | 18th | 15th | 33,910 | Quarter finals | 2nd place | |||
2012 | J1 | 18th | 3. | 36,634 | 4th round | Group stage | |||
2013 | J1 | 18th | 6th | 37,100 | 3rd round | 2nd place | Group stage | ||
2014 | J1 | 18th | 2. | 35,516 | 3rd round | Quarter finals | |||
2015 | J1 | 18th | 3. | 38,745 | 2nd place | Quarter finals | 2nd place | Group stage | |
2016 | J1 | 18th | 2. | 36,935 | 4th round | winner | Round of 16 | ||
2017 | J1 | 18th | 7th | 33,542 | 4th round | Quarter finals | 2nd place | winner | 5th place |
2018 | J1 | 18th | 5. | 34,798 | winner | PlayOff | |||
2019 | J1 | 18th | 14th | 34,184 | 4th round | Quarter finals | 2nd place | 2nd place | |
2020 | J1 | 18th |
Awards
Player of the year
- Emerson (2003)
- Marcus Tulio Tanaka (2006)
- Robson Ponte (2007)
Top scorer of the year
- Masahiro Fukuda (1995)
- Emerson (2004)
- Washington (2006)
Young Player of the Year
- Shinji Ono (1998)
- Keisuke Tsuboi (2002)
Eleven of the year
- Guido Buchwald (1995, 1996)
- Masahiro Fukuda (1995)
- Masayuki Okano (1996)
- Shinji Ono (1998)
- Emerson (2002, 2003, 2004)
- Keisuke Tsuboi (2003)
- Marcus Tulio Tanaka (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009)
- Makoto Hasebe (2004)
- Keita Suzuki (2006, 2007)
- Washington (2006)
- Yūki Abe (2007, 2016)
- Ryota Tsuzuki (2007)
- Robson Ponte (2007)
- Daisuke Nasu (2013)
- Shūsaku Nishikawa (2014, 2015, 2016)
- Tomoaki Makino (2015, 2016)
- Yōsuke Kashiwagi (2016)
- Shinzo Koroki (2017)
Web links
- Official website of the Urawa Reds (Japanese, English)
- Urawa Red Diamonds Fan Website (Japanese)
- Urawa Red Diamonds in the database of weltfussball.de
- Urawa Red Diamonds in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Urawa Red Diamonds in the soccerway.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Urawa Red Diamonds: 年表
- ↑ Urawa Red Diamonds: 会 社 概況
- ↑ spox.com: Racism scandal in the Japanese league
- ↑ J. League Championship 2016 at transfermarkt.de
- ↑ Squad of Urawa Red Diamonds - season 2017 at transfermarkt.de
- ↑ AFC CHAMPIONS LEAGUE (ACL) 2017 日程 ・ 結果 at jleague.jp
- ↑ Table 2018 (Japanese) at jleague.jp
- ↑ Emperor's Cup JFA 98th Japan Football Championship at jfa.jp
- ↑ J. League Data Site