Montedio Yamagata

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Montedio Yamagata
モンテディオ山形

Full name

Montedio Yamagata

Nickname(s)

Montedio

Founded

1984

Ground

Yamagata Prefectural General Athletics Park

Capacity

20,315

Chairman

Manager

Yasuhiro Higuchi (2006 - )

League

J. League Div.2

2006

8th Place





Home colours





Away colours

Montedio Yamagata is a professional football (soccer) club based in Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. The club plays in J. League division 2.

Montedio is a coined word combining two Italian words Monte ("Mountain") and Dio ("God").

1 History
2 Current players
3 Season by season results and managers
4 Former players
5 External Links

[edit] History

The club was founded in 1984 as NEC Yamagata Soccer Club. It gained the promotion to the Japan Football League (former) in 1994. After renaming itself as Montedio Yamagata in 1996, it has been playing in J. League Division 2 since its inaugural 1999 season.

[edit] Current players

As of November 27, 2006

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Shigeru Sakurai
2	DF	Masayuki Ota
3	DF	Leonard
4	DF	Shogo Kobara
5	MF	Takumi Watanabe
6	MF	Hayato Sasaki
7	MF	Kenji Takahashi
8	MF	Atsushi Nagai
9	FW	Leandro
10	MF	Takumi Motohashi
11	FW	Ryuta Hara
13	DF	Toshihiko Uchiyama
14	FW	Kohei Hayashi
15	FW	Ryoji Ujihara
16	DF	Kohei Usui

No.	Position	Player
17	DF	Makoto Kumura
18	MF	Yuki Takabayashi
19	MF	Masaru Akiba
20	FW	Ryosuke Nemoto
21	GK	Kenta Shimizu
22	FW	Yutaro Abe
23	MF	Ryohei Suzuki
24	FW	Shogo Sakai
25	MF	Lee Jong-Min
26	DF	Kenta Kifuji
27	GK	Yuta Suzuki
28	MF	Nobuyuki Zaizen
29	DF	Douglas
30	DF	Kazuya Maeda
31	MF	Katsuyuki Miyazawa

[edit] Season by season results and managers

Year	League	Pld	Pt	W	L	D	Place	Manager	General Manager
1994	Former JFL	30	―	10	20	―	13th	Naoki Sugisawa	―
1995		30	41	13	17	―	10th	Nobuhiro Ishizaki	―
1996		30	49	16	14	―	8th		―
1997		30	56	19	11	―	5th		―
1998		30	64	22	8	―	3rd		―
1999	J2	36	48	15	17	4	7th	Shigeharu Ueki	―
2000		40	33	11	27	2	10th	Shigeharu Ueki	―
2001		44	80	27	14	6	3rd	Koichi Hashiratani	―
2002		44	35	6	21	17	11th		―
2003		44	55	15	19	10	8th		―
2004		44	71	19	11	14	4th	Jun Suzuki	―
2005		44	64	16	12	16	5th	Jun Suzuki	―
2006		48	65	17	17	14	8th	Yasuhiro Higuchi	―

[edit] Former players

Yukihiko Sato

[edit] External Links

(Japanese)Official Site

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