Vissel Kobe
Vissel Kobe | |||
Basic data | |||
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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 ) |
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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 | ||
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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.
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
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
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Borrowed Players
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Coach chronicle
Trainer | nation | from | |
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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 |
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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 |
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2017 | Kazuma Watanabe | Japan | 8th |
2018 | Hirotaka Mita | Japan | 6th |
2019 | David Villa | Spain | 13 |
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Web links
- 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
- ↑ Vissel Kobe: ク ラ ブ 情報 ( Memento from February 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Lukas Podolski moves to Japan, Andy Carroll rejects China , foxsports.com (Australia), March 3, 2017
- ↑ Rakuten Announces Signing of David Villa to Vissel Kobe , vissel-kobe.co.jp, December 1, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018.
- ↑ J. League Data Site