Vissel Kobe

Vissel Kobe
Basic data
Surname	Vissel Kobe ( Japanese ヴ ィ ッ セ ル 神 戸 )
Seat	Kobe , Japan
founding	June 30, 1994 ( Kawasaki Steel: 1966 )
Colours	red-white-black
president	Hiroshi Mikitani
Website	vissel-kobe.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Thorsten Fink
Venue	Noevir Stadium Kobe
Places	30,132
league	J1 League
2019	8th place
home Away

Vissel Kobe ( Japanese ヴ ィ ッ セ ル 神 戸 , rōm. Visseru Kobe ) is a Japanese football club and has been a member of the J. League , Japan's highest professional league , since 1997 . The club from the megacity of Kobe in the prefecture of Hyōgo has its origins, like most Japanese professional clubs, in the works team of an industrial group. Today it is an independent stock corporation , the KK Crimson Football Club ( 株式会社 ク リ ム ゾ ン フ ッ ト ボ ー ル ク ラ ブ , kabushiki-gaisha kurimson futtobōru kurabu ; English Crimson Football Club, Inc. ).

Club history

In 1966, the club, as today was Vissel is known as Kawasaki Seitetsu Mizushima Soccer-bu in Kurashiki in Okayama Prefecture established. In 1987 the name was shortened to Kawasaki Seitetsu Soccer-bu ( Kawasaki Steel Soccer Club ). The owner, the large steel company Kawasaki Steel , pushed his team up to the national top class, but less committed than many other competitors. Until 1993, when the J. League was founded, it had never appeared in the top amateur league, the Japan Soccer League .

When the J. League and under it the new Japan Football League (JFL) were introduced, Kawasaki narrowly missed promotion to the JFL. He then succeeded the following year, as the league was increased from 10 to 16 teams. In the summer of 1994 the name was changed to Vissel Kobe . The artificial word vissel is composed of the English terms victory (victory) and vessel (ship) and should combine the claim to success of the club leadership with the maritime tradition of the seaport of Kobe. A cow with a captain's hat was chosen as the mascot (a reference to the butcher's Ito Ham , one of the club's most important supporters) and the first club's coat of arms adorned a sailing ship .

The luck that Kawasaki had lacked in 1993 overtook Vissel in 1996, just a year after the great Hanshin earthquake devastated large parts of the city and plunged the entire region into crisis. Although the promotion to the first division had failed because of the competitor Honda FC , this was refused admission to the J. League (officially for economic reasons, but rumor has it that the engine manufacturer Toyota ( Nagoya Grampus Eight ), Yamaha ( Júbilo Iwata ) and Nissan ( Yokohama Marinos ) had thwarted the rise of Honda ), and so Vissel moved up.

Former club logo of Vissel Kobe

Since 1997, Vissel has only left the House of Lords once. The club, which in 2002 moved from the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium (built 1985) to the new World Cup arena Kobe Wing Stadium (currently Noevir Stadium Kobe ), has never really established itself and has never finished a season in the top ten. Despite many top-class players (primarily Kazu Miura , the Cameroonian Patrick M'Boma or the Dane Michael Laudrup ), the team did not conquer a national title until 2019 and was mostly on the verge of relegation, as was again in 2005 when they were knocked-down bottom of the table had to go to the second division founded in 1999 for the first time. In 2006, however, they immediately returned to the House of Lords.

At the beginning of 2017, the club received international attention when the change of the former German national player and world champion Lukas Podolski (32 years old at the time) was announced in the middle of the year. The German Gert Engels has also been working for the club as an assistant trainer since January 10, 2018. In July 2018, another world champion joined the club with the Spaniard Andrés Iniesta (34). For the 2019 season , the third world champion was signed with the Spaniard David Villa (37). Under the German coach Thorsten Fink , Vissel Kobe finally won a national competition for the first time in 2020 with the Kaiserpokal 2019.

successes

• Chūgoku Soccer League (as Kawasaki Steel Mizushima)

Winner: 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985

• Imperial Cup

Winner: 2019

• Supercup

Winner: 2020

• J2 League

Vice champion: 2013 ▲ 

Stadion

Noevir Stadium Kobe

The Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium , occasionally home to Vissel

The club carries out its home games at Noevir Stadium in Kobe in Hyogo Prefecture . The sports facility, owned by the city of Kobe, has a capacity of 31,132 spectators. The stadium is operated by the Kobe Wing Stadium Co., Ltd.

Coordinates: 34 ° 39 ′ 23 ″  N , 135 ° 10 ′ 8 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Daiya Maekawa 3 FROM Hirofumi Watanabe 4th FROM Thomas Vermaelen 5 MF Hotaru Yamaguchi 6th MF Sergi Samper 8th MF Andrés Iniesta ( team captain ) 9 ST Noriaki Fujimoto 11 ST Kyōgo Furuhashi 13 ST Keijirō Ogawa 14th MF Takuya Yasui 17th FROM Ryūho Kikuchi 18th TW Hiroki Iikura 19th FROM Ryō hatsuse 21st ST Jun'ya Tanaka

No. position Surname 22nd FROM Daigo Nishi 23 FROM Tetsushi Yamakawa 24 FROM Gotoku Sakai 25th FROM Leo Ōsaki 27 MF Yūta Gōke 28 TW Kenshin Yoshimaru 30th TW Genta Ito 31 MF Yūya Nakasaka 33 FROM Dankler 38 MF Daiju Sasaki 41 ST Yūtarō Oda 44 FROM So Fujitani 49 ST Douglas

Borrowed Players

No. position Surname FROM Yūki Kobayashi (at Yokohama FC ) ST Asahi Masuyama (at Avispa Fukuoka )

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from
Stuart Baxter	Scotland	February 1, 1995	January 31, 1998
Benito Floro	Spain	February 1, 1998	September 24, 1998
Harumi Kori	Japan	September 25, 1998	January 31, 1999
Ryōichi Kawakatsu	Japan	February 1, 1999	July 25, 2002
Hiroshi Matsuda	Japan	July 1, 2002	January 31, 2003
Ivan Hašek senior	Czech Republic	January 1, 2003	December 31, 2004
Hiroshi Soejima	Japan	February 1, 2003	January 31, 2004
Hiroshi Kato	Japan	October 1, 2004	January 31, 2005
Hideki Matsunaga	Japan	February 1, 2005	April 19, 2005
Émerson Leão	Brazil	April 20, 2005	June 14, 2005
Pavel Řehák	Czech Republic	June 15, 2005	January 31, 2006
Stuart Baxter	Scotland	February 1, 2006	September 4, 2006
Hiroshi Matsuda	Japan	September 5, 2006	January 31, 2009
Caio Junior	Brazil	December 11, 2008	June 30, 2009
Masahiro Wada	Japan	July 1, 2009	August 5, 2009
Toshiya Miura	Japan	August 5, 2009	September 11, 2010
Masahiro Wada	Japan	September 11, 2010	April 30, 2012
Ryō Adachi	Japan	May 1, 2012	May 21, 2012
Akira Nishino	Japan	May 22, 2012	November 8, 2012
Ryō Adachi	Japan	November 9, 2012	January 31, 2015
Nelsinho Baptista	Brazil	February 1, 2015	16th August 2017
Takayuki Yoshida	Japan	16th August 2017	17th September 2018
Kentaro Hayashi	Japan	17th September 2018	3rd October 2018
Juanma Lillo	Spain	4th October 2018	April 16, 2019
Takayuki Yoshida	Japan	17th April 2019	June 8, 2019
Thorsten Fink	Germany	June 9, 2019	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	space	spectator	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Supercup
1997	J1	17th	16.	6,567	Group stage	4th round
1998	J1	18th	17th	7,686	Group stage	3rd round
1999	J1	16	10.	7,691	1 round	3rd round
2000	J1	16	13.	7,512	2nd round	Semifinals
2001	J1	16	12.	13,872	2nd round	4th round
2002	J1	16	14th	10,467	Group stage	3rd round
2003	J1	16	13.	11,195	Group stage	Quarter finals
2004	J1	16	11.	15,735	Group stage	4th round
2005	J1	18th	18. ▼	14,913	Group stage	4th round
2006	J2	13	3. ▲	6,910		3rd round
2007	J1	18th	10.	12,460	Group stage	5th round
2008	J1	18th	10.	12,981	Group stage	5th round
2009	J1	18th	14th	13,068	Group stage	4th round
2010	J1	18th	15th	12,824	Group stage	3rd round
2011	J1	18th	9.	13,233	1 round	3rd round
2012	J1	18th	16. ▼	14,638	Group stage	2nd round
2013	J2	22nd	2. ▲	11,516		3rd round
2014	J1	18th	11.	15,010	Quarter finals	2nd round
2015	J1	18th	12.	16,265	Semifinals	Quarter finals
2016	J1	18th	7th	17,018	Quarter finals	Round of 16
2017	J1	18th	9.	18,272	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
2018	J1	18th	10.	21,450	PlayOffs	4th round
2019	J1	18th	8th.	21,491	Group stage	winner
2020	J1	18th					winner

Awards

Top scorer of the year

• Leandro (2016)

Eleven of the year

• Leandro (2016)
• Andrés Iniesta (2019)

Best goal scorers

season	Surname	nation	Gates
2017	Kazuma Watanabe	Japan	8th
2018	Hirotaka Mita	Japan	6th
2019	David Villa	Spain	13
2020

Web links

Commons : Vissel Kobe  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Vissel Kobe Official Website
• Vissel Kobe in the database of weltfussball.de
• Vissel Kobe in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Vissel Kobe in the database of soccerway.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vissel Kobe: ク ラ ブ 情報 ( Memento from February 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Lukas Podolski moves to Japan, Andy Carroll rejects China , foxsports.com (Australia), March 3, 2017
3. ↑ Rakuten Announces Signing of David Villa to Vissel Kobe , vissel-kobe.co.jp, December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018.
4. ↑ J. League Data Site