Yokohama FC
Yokohama FC | |||
Basic data | |||
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Surname | Yokohama Football Club ( Japanese横 浜 FC) |
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Seat | Yokohama , Japan | ||
founding | 1999 | ||
Colours | blue | ||
president | Yasuhiko Okudera | ||
Website | yokohamafc.com | ||
First soccer team | |||
Head coach | Takahiro Shimotaira | ||
Venue | NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium , Kanagawa , Yokohama | ||
Places | 15,454 | ||
league | J1 League | ||
2019 | 2nd place, J2 League | ||
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Yokohama FC ( Japanese横 浜 FC, Yokohama Efushī ) is a Japanese football club from the J2 League . The hometown is Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture .
history
The team was founded in 1999 after the two teams of the Yokohama Marinos and Yokohama Wings were united the previous year . Founders were the fans of the wing, who refused to support the new Yokohama F. Marinos , basically the previous local rivals . The support association Yokohama Fulie Sports Club was founded with numerous donations by the fans , which ultimately set up the first fan-supported team for professional football. Since the blue and white colors of the Yokohama wings were already used by the F. Marinos, the club decided to use the cyan color of the former works team NKK FC . The club came from Kawasaki , but played some games at the local NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium when their own stadium was used by other clubs such as Verdy Kawasaki , Toshiba or Fujitsu .
The team had to spend the first two years in the lower class Japan Football League . The well-known German Pierre Littbarski was won as a coach . The club's president was Yasuhiko Okudera , who was the first Japanese professional footballer in Europe in 1977 . In 2001 the team then moved up to the second division of the J-League. With the still very moderate financial resources, the sporting success was initially limited. The team was therefore on the verge of collapse after the 2005 season, when they could only finish the season in eleventh place out of twelve teams.
In 2006 this changed abruptly: After losing all preparatory games, mostly against student teams, and finally losing the first game of the season, the club decided to change coach early on. Takuya Takagi , previously unknown as a coach, turned the team inside out, especially to strengthen the defensive. The result was 15 unbeaten games in a row. The team, which was built around old stars like Kazuyoshi Miura , Shōji Jō , Motohiro Yamaguchi and Norio Omura , made it to the top of the second division. This dramatic rise also caused a stir among football fans across the country. One reason for this was that the club's financial resources were still very poor. At that time, the players from Yokohama FC were among the few Japanese football professionals who had to wash their jerseys and clean their football boots themselves; this only changed with the support of the catering company Leoc as the main sponsor of the association. The club was able to finish the season successfully as champions and was promoted to the House of Lords for the first time after only seven years.
The club was unable to establish itself there and was relegated with a disappointing performance 5 game days before the end of the season. However, the team still intervened in the championship battle: with the victory over the defending champions of the Urawa Red Diamonds on the last day of the match, the club enabled the Kashima Antlers to win their fifth title .
successes
- Winner: 1999, 2000
- Master: 2006
- Runner-up: 2019
Stadion
The club carries its home games in the NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium ( Japanese 三 ツ 沢 公園 球技 場 , "Mitsuzawa Park Ball Sports Stadium ") in Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture . The stadium, owned by the City of Yokohama, has a capacity of 15,454.
Coordinates: 35 ° 28 '12.1 " N , 139 ° 36' 5.5" E
player
Status: June 2020
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Borrowed Players
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Coach chronicle
Trainer | nation | from | to |
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Pierre Littbarski | Germany | February 1, 1999 | December 31, 2000 |
Yoshikazu Nagai | Japan | January 1, 2001 | September 10, 2001 |
Yūji Sakakura | Japan | September 11, 2001 | September 15, 2001 |
Katsuyoshi Shinto | Japan | September 16, 2001 | December 31, 2002 |
Pierre Littbarski | Germany | February 1, 2003 | January 31, 2005 |
Yusuke Adachi | Japan | January 1, 2005 | March 6, 2006 |
Takuya Takagi | Japan | March 7, 2006 | August 27, 2007 |
Júlio César Leal Junior | Brazil | August 28, 2007 | December 31, 2007 |
Satoshi tsunami | Japan | February 1, 2008 | January 31, 2009 |
Yasuhiro Higuchi | Japan | February 1, 2009 | January 31, 2010 |
Yasuyuki Kishino | Japan | February 1, 2010 | March 18, 2012 |
Takahiro Taguchi | Japan | March 18, 2012 | March 21, 2012 |
Motohiro Yamaguchi | Japan | March 21, 2012 | January 31, 2015 |
Miloš Rus | Slovenia | January 1, 2015 | September 14, 2015 |
Hitoshi Nakata | Japan | September 14, 2015 | 1st December 2015 |
Miloš Rus | Slovenia | 1st December 2015 | June 15, 2016 |
Hitoshi Nakata | Japan | June 16, 2016 | 15th October 2017 |
Tomonobu Hayakawa | Japan | 15th October 2017 | 17th October 2017 |
Yasuhiko Okudera | Japan | 19th October 2017 | 23 October 2017 |
Edson Tavares | Brazil | October 24, 2017 | May 13, 2019 |
Takahiro Shimotaira | Japan | May 14, 2019 |
Season placement
season | league | Teams | Item | J. League Cup | Emperor's Cup |
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1999 | JFL | 9 | 1. | - | - |
2000 | 12 | 1. | - | - | |
2001 | J2 | 12 | 9. | 2nd round | - |
2002 | 12 | 12. | - | - | |
2003 | 12 | 11. | - | - | |
2004 | 12 | 8th. | - | - | |
2005 | 12 | 11. | - | - | |
2006 | 13 | 1. | - | - | |
2007 | J1 | 18th | 18. | Group stage | - |
2008 | J2 | 15th | 10. | - | 4th round |
2009 | 18th | 16. | - | 3rd round | |
2010 | 19th | 6th | - | 3rd round | |
2011 | 20th | 16. | - | 2nd round | |
2012 | 22nd | 4th | - | 3rd round | |
2013 | 22nd | 11. | - | 2nd round | |
2014 | 22nd | 11. | - | 2nd round | |
2015 | 22nd | 15th | - | 2nd round | |
2016 | 22nd | 8th. | - | 4th round | |
2017 | 22nd | 10. | - | 2nd round | |
2018 | 22nd | 3. | - | 3rd round | |
2019 | 22nd | 2. | - | 3rd round | |
2020 | J1 | 18th | - | - |
Web links
- Official club website
- Yokohama FC in the database of transfermarkt.de
- Yokohama FC in the soccerway.com database