JEF United Ichihara Chiba

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JEF United Ichihara Chiba
ジェフユナイテッド市原・千葉
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Full name JEF United Ichihara Chiba
Nickname(s) JEF
Founded 1946
Ground Ichihara Rinkai Studium
Fukuda Denshi Arena
Capacity 16,933
19,781
Chairman Japanese Takahiro Yodogawa
Manager Bosnian Amar Osim
League J. League Division 1
2006 11th Place
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JEF United Ichihara Chiba (ジェフユナイテッド市原・千葉 Jefu Yunaiteddo Ichihara Chiba?) is a football (soccer) club that plays in J. League. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric- and United, represents the unity of the team and its home town. The club is also known as JEF United Chiba (ジェフユナイテッド千葉 Jefu Yunaiteddo Chiba?) or JEF Chiba (ジェフ千葉 Jefu Chiba?).

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[edit] History

The team began as the company team, Furukawa Electric Soccer Club in 1946. Since its inception, the team has always played in the top league in Japan and is the only team to do so. As the company team, it won the Japan Soccer League twice, the Emperor's Cup four times and the JSL League Cup three times. Furukawa alson won the 1986/87 Asia Club Championship, the top club honor in Asia.

In 1991, it merged with the JR East's company team to become East Japan JR Furukawa Football Club and rebranded itself as JEF United Ichihara upon the J. League's founding in 1993. The team initially built itself around the former Germany national football team player Pierre Littbarski.

From 1998 to 2000, the team struggled to stay in the J1 league and it began a series of efforts to be a competitive team. Since the hiring of Ivica Osim in 2003, JEF United has contended for the league title each year despite limited resources and struggling attendance.

On July 16, 2006, Osim left the team to take over the coach of the Japan national team and was succeeded by Amar Osim, his son and assistant coach.[1]

[edit] Stadiums

It had played its home matches at Ichihara Seaside Stadium, but has since moved to the larger, more conveniently located Fukuda Denshi Arena, which opened in Chiba during the 2005 season. The club had initially practiced at Urayasu, Chiba planning to base itself in Narashino, Chiba before opposition by those living around Akitsu Stadium forced it to be based in Ichihara. Since 2000, training has been held at Footpark Anesaki in Ichihara.

[edit] J-League Division 1 record

  • 1993 - 8th
  • 1994 - 9th
  • 1995 - 5th
  • 1996 - 9th
  • 1997 - 13th
  • 1998 - 16th
  • 1999 - 13th
  • 2000 - 14th
  • 2001 - 3rd
  • 2002 - 7th
  • 2003 - 3rd
  • 2004 - 4th
  • 2005 - 4th
  • 2006 - 11th

[edit] Titles

[edit] Furukawa Electric FC

[edit] JEF United Ichihara / JEF United Ichihara Chiba

[edit] Current players

As of November 25, 2006

No. Position Player
1 Japan GK Tomonori Tateishi
2 Japan MF Masataka Sakamoto
3 Japan DF Daisuke Saito
4 Japan DF Hiroki Mizumoto
5 Bulgaria DF Ilian Stoyanov
6 Japan MF Yuki Abe
7 Japan MF Yuto Sato
8 Japan MF Koki Mizuno
9 Serbia MF Nebojša Krupniković
11 Japan FW Yuichi Yoda
15 Japan MF Koji Nakajima
16 Japan MF Satoru Yamagishi
No. Position Player
17 Japan GK Ryo Kushino
18 Japan FW Seiichiro Maki
20 Japan MF Kohei Kudo
22 Japan MF Naotake Hanyu
23 Japan MF Takashi Rakuyama
24 Japan DF Kozo Yuki
26 Japan DF Yoshiaki Fujita
27 Japan FW Tomoya Kumagai
29 Japan FW Kota Aoki
30 Japan GK Masahiro Okamoto
36 Japan DF Tadashi Takeda
39 Japan MF Ken Matsumoto

[edit] Notable former players

[edit] Managers

[edit] External links


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