Kashiwa Reysol

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Kashiwa Reysol
柏レイソル
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Full name Kashiwa Reysol
Nickname(s) "Sun Kings"
Founded 1940
Ground Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
Kashiwa no Ha Park Stadium
Kashiwa, Chiba
Capacity 15,900
20,000
Chairman Shigeyuki Onodera
Manager Nobuhiro Ishizaki(2006 - )
League J. League Div.1
2006 Runners-up, Promoted (J2)
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Kashiwa Reysol (柏レイソル Kashiwa Reisoru?) is a J. League team. The name Reysol comes from the Spanish words rey ('king') and sol ('sun') and reflect the fact that the team had originally been a company team of Hitachi in the Japan Soccer League. Its home town is Kashiwa, Chiba, about an hour northeast of Tokyo.

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[edit] History

Founded in 1940 as Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in Koganei, Tokyo, the team had some success during the mid-1970s, winning several Emperor's Cup and JSL titles and contributing several players to the Japanese national team. In 1986, the team relocated from Koganei to Kashiwa.

The team joined the Japan Football League in 1992 and added Careca of the Brazil national football team with the aim of winning the JFL champion for promotion to the J1 league in 1993. The quest was unsuccessful and the team barely managed to come in at the fifth spot. In 1994 the team secured the second spot in the JFL and earned the promotion to the top league. From 1995, it was in the J1 and in 1998, the team welcomed the former manager for Japan's Olympic team, Akira Nishino as its manager. In 1999, it won its first title, the Nabisco Cup championship. The 1999 and 2000 seasons marked the highpoint in the club's recent history.

Over the next two seasons, management changes, in particular the tenure of English coach Steve Perryman, unsettled the team and they lost ground. Things got worse still. Following a 16th place out of 18 finish in the 2005 standings, Kashiwa Reysol lost the promotion/relegation play-offs against the 3rd place J2 team Ventforet Kofu. For the first time, three J1 teams were sent down to J2.

Following relegation the team lost all its former players. It began 2006 with both a new coach, Nobuhiro Ishizaki, and an almost entirely new squad. Kashiwa lead J2 for much of 2006, but a series of poor performances in the later stages saw them slip down the table. It was only in the final game of the season that the team secured automatic promotion to J1 as first placed runners up.

[edit] J-League Record

  • 1993 - Didn't enter
  • 1994 - Didn't enter
  • 1995 - 12th
  • 1996 - 5th
  • 1997 - 7th
  • 1998 - 8th
  • 1999 - 3rd
  • 2000 - 3rd
  • 2001 - 6th
  • 2002 - 12th
  • 2003 - 12th
  • 2004 - 16th
  • 2005 - 16th - Relegated to Division 2
  • 2006 - Runners-up in Division 2

[edit] Titles

[edit] Hitachi

[edit] Kashiwa Reysol

[edit] Manager

  • Brazil Zé Sérgio 1995 1st Stage
  • Brazil Antoninho 1995 2nd Stage
  • Brazil Nicanor 1996-1997
  • Japan Akira Nishino 1998-2001 1st Stage
  • England Steve Perryman 2001 2nd Stage-2002 1st stage
  • Brazil Marco Aurelio Moreira 2002 2nd Stage-2003
  • Japan Tomoyoshi Ikeya 2004 1st Stage
  • Japan Hiroshi Hayano 2004 2nd Stage-2005
  • Japan Nobuhiro Ishizaki 2006-present

[edit] Current players

As of November 27, 2006

No. Position Player
1 Japan GK Yuta Minami
2 Japan DF Ryo Kobayashi
3 Japan DF Naoya Kondo
4 Japan DF Kensuke Nebiki
6 Japan DF Yusuke Nakatani
7 Japan MF Hidekazu Otani
8 Brazil MF Ricardinho
9 Japan FW Yoshiteru Yamashita
10 Brazil FW França
11 Brazil MF Diego
13 Japan DF Yuzo Kobayashi
14 Japan MF Masayuki Ochiai
15 Japan MF Haruki Seto
16 Brazil GK Noguchipinto
17 Japan MF Shunta Nagai
18 Japan MF Iwao Yamane
19 Japan FW Yuji Unosawa
20 South Korea FW Lee Chun-Son
No. Position Player
21 Japan GK Katsushige Kirihata
22 Japan MF Tatusya Suzuki
23 Japan DF Yohei Kurakawa
24 Japan MF Tomonori Hirayama
25 Japan FW Hideaki Kitajima
26 Japan DF Naoki Ishikawa
27 Japan MF Jun Yanagisawa
28 Japan MF Tatsuya Yazawa
30 Japan MF Yasuki Ishidate
31 Japan GK Shinya Kato
32 Japan DF Kasunari Okayama
33 Japan MF Shota Suzuki
34 Japan DF Ryo Okawara
35 Côte d'Ivoire FW Doumbia
36 Brazil MF Marcos
40 Japan DF Jiro Kamata
41 Japan DF Kota Fukatsu
42 Japan MF Yukihiko Sato

[edit] Former Players

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