Yokohama FC

This article deals with the Japanese football club, for the Hong Kong football club of the same name, see Yokohama FC (Hong Kong) .

Yokohama FC
Basic data
Surname	Yokohama Football Club ( Japanese横 浜 FC)
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
home Away

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

• Japan Football League

Winner: 1999, 2000

• J. League Division 2

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.

NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium

Coordinates: 35 ° 28 '12.1 "  N , 139 ° 36' 5.5"  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Akihiko Takeshige 3 FROM Maguinho 4th FROM Yūki Kobayashi 5 FROM Masakazu Tashiro 6th MF Tatsuki Seko 7th MF Takuya Matsuura 8th MF Kensuke Sato 9 ST Kazunari Ichimi 10 ST Ibba Laajab 11 ST Kazuyoshi Miura 13 ST Yūji Senuma 14th FROM Takaaki Shichi 15th ST Kosuke Saitō 16 ST Yūsuke Minagawa 17th MF Eijirō Takeda 18th TW Yūta Minami 19th FROM Masahiko Inoha

No. position Surname 20th FROM Calvin Jong-a-Pin 21st TW Akinori Ichikawa 22nd MF Daisuke Matsui 23 ST Koki Saito 25th ST Yūki Kusano 26th FROM Yūtarō Hakamata 27 MF Katsuhiro Nakayama 28 MF Reo Yasunaga 29 FROM Kyowaan Hoshi 30th MF Kohei Tezuka 32 MF Riku Furuyado 33 FROM Yasumasa Kawasaki 34 FROM Kakeru Kumagaya 37 MF Yūsuke Matsuo 40 MF Leandro Domingues 44 TW Yūji Rokutan 46 MF Shunsuke Nakamura FROM Yuya Takagi

Borrowed Players

No. position Surname MF Yōta Maejima (to Mito Hollyhock )

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
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
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

Commons : Yokohama FC  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official club website
• Yokohama FC in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Yokohama FC in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site