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" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Founded | 1940 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ground | Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium Kashiwa no Ha Park Stadium Kashiwa, Chiba |
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Capacity | 15,900 20,000 |
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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
- J. League Cup: (1) 1999
[edit] Manager
- Zé Sérgio 1995 1st Stage
- Antoninho 1995 2nd Stage
- Nicanor 1996-1997
- Akira Nishino 1998-2001 1st Stage
- Steve Perryman 2001 2nd Stage-2002 1st stage
- Marco Aurelio Moreira 2002 2nd Stage-2003
- Tomoyoshi Ikeya 2004 1st Stage
- Hiroshi Hayano 2004 2nd Stage-2005
- Nobuhiro Ishizaki 2006-present
[edit] Current players
As of November 27, 2006
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[edit] Former Players
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[edit] External links
- (Japanese) Official Site
Japan Professional Football League J.LEAGUE clubs, seasons, and tournaments |
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J.LEAGUE Division 1 (J1) | |
Kashima | Omiya | Urawa | Chiba | Kashiwa | F.C. Tokyo | Kawasaki | Yokohama F. Marinos | |
Yokohama F.C. | Kofu | Niigata | Shimizu | Iwata | Nagoya | Gamba Osaka | Kobe | Hiroshima | Oita | |
J.LEAGUE Division 2 (J2) | |
Sapporo | Sendai | Yamagata | Mito | Kusatsu | Tokyo Verdy 1969 Shonan | Kyoto | Cerezo Osaka | Tokushima | Ehime | Fukuoka | Tosu |
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Abolished Club | |
Yokohama Flügels | |
J.LEAGUE Seasons | |
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 |
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Other J.LEAGUE Tournaments/Cups | |
Yamazaki Nabisco Cup | Xerox Super Cup | Promotion/Relegation Series | JOMO All-Stars Soccer Emperor's Cup | A3 Champions Cup | Suntory Championship | Sanwa Bank Cup |