Vissel Kobe

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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 GermanyGermany Thorsten Fink
Venue Noevir Stadium Kobe
Places 30,132
league J1 League
2019 8th place
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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
Winner: 2019
Winner: 2020
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 JapanJapan TW Daiya Maekawa
3 JapanJapan FROM Hirofumi Watanabe
4th BelgiumBelgium FROM Thomas Vermaelen
5 JapanJapan MF Hotaru Yamaguchi
6th SpainSpain MF Sergi Samper
8th SpainSpain MF Andrés Iniesta ( team captain )
9 JapanJapan ST Noriaki Fujimoto
11 JapanJapan ST Kyōgo Furuhashi
13 JapanJapan ST Keijirō Ogawa
14th JapanJapan MF Takuya Yasui
17th JapanJapan FROM Ryūho Kikuchi
18th JapanJapan TW Hiroki Iikura
19th JapanJapan FROM Ryō hatsuse
21st JapanJapan ST Jun'ya Tanaka
No. position Surname
22nd JapanJapan FROM Daigo Nishi
23 JapanJapan FROM Tetsushi Yamakawa
24 JapanJapan FROM Gotoku Sakai
25th JapanJapan FROM Leo Ōsaki
27 JapanJapan MF Yūta Gōke
28 JapanJapan TW Kenshin Yoshimaru
30th JapanJapan TW Genta Ito
31 JapanJapan MF Yūya Nakasaka
33 BrazilBrazil FROM Dankler
38 JapanJapan MF Daiju Sasaki
41 JapanJapan ST Yūtarō Oda
44 JapanJapan FROM So Fujitani
49 BrazilBrazil ST Douglas

Borrowed Players

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

Coach chronicle

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

Eleven of the year

Best goal scorers

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

Web links

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

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