Urawa Reds

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Urawa Reds
浦和レッズ

Full name

Urawa Red Diamonds

Nickname(s)

Reds

Founded

March 10, 1992

Ground

Urawa Komaba Stadium and
Saitama Stadium 2002

Capacity

21,500 and 63,700

Chairman

Motoaki Inukai

Manager

Guido Buchwald

League

J.LEAGUE Div.1

2006

Champions





Home colours





Away colours

The Urawa Reds (浦和レッズ, Urawa Rezzu^?), or Urawa Red Diamonds (浦和レッドダイヤモンズ, Urawa Reddo Daiyamonzu^?) are one of the most popular football clubs in the J.LEAGUE. Its hometown is the city of Saitama, Saitama. The club began as the company team of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries that played in the Japan Soccer League, and the club name comes from the red logo of Mitsubishi, whose name means three diamonds.

Urawa has two home stadiums, Urawa Komaba Stadium and Saitama Stadium 2002 (FIFA World Cup 2002 venue). The club is also notable in that former Feyenoord midfielder Shinji Ono began his professional career playing for Urawa. Ono returned for the 2006 season for a second stint with the club.

In August 2004, Urawa appeared in a pre-season four-team friendly tournament, the Vodafone Cup, at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. The Japanese club lost their first game 5-2 against the Argentinian side Boca Juniors. The second fixture against the hosts, Manchester United, was called off due to a massive electric storm. Some 800 Urawa fans had travelled to the game and were later compensated.

In 2004 J. League campaign, Urawa placed 3rd in the First Stage and won the Second Stage, thus qualifying for the Suntory Championship (the two-match final to decide the J-League Champion) against Yokohama F. Marinos. After losing 1–0 in Yokohama, the Reds won with the same result the return match in Saitama Stadium; penalties resulted into a victory for the F. Marinos.

In 2005, Urawa finished 2nd, only 1 point after the champion, Gamba Osaka, in their J. League campaign. However, they won the first ever Emperor's Cup title since the establishment as a professional team, by defeating Shimizu S-Pulse by 2-1 in January 1, 2006

In 2006 Urawa clinched the premiership by defeating the runner-up Gamba Osaka by 3-2 in December 2. This was the first time since its establishment as a professional club.

1 J-League Division 1 Record
2 Current players
3 Former players
4 Title
5 External links

[edit] J-League Division 1 Record

1993 - 10th
1994 - 12th
1995 - 4th
1996 - 6th
1997 - 10th
1998 - 6th
1999 - 15th
2000 - 2nd Division
2001 - 10th
2002 - 11th
2003 - 6th
2004 - Runners-up
2005 - Runners-up
2006 - Champions

[edit] Current players

As of November 27, 2006

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Norihiro Yamagishi
2	DF	Keisuke Tsuboi
3	MF	Hajime Hosogai
4	DF	Marcus Tulio Tanaka
5	DF	Nenê
6	MF	Nobuhisa Yamada
7	MF	Tomoyuki Sakai
8	MF	Alessandro Santos
9	FW	Yuichiro Nagai
10	MF	Robson Ponte
11	FW	Tatsuya Tanaka
12	FW	Teruaki Kurobe
13	MF	Keita Suzuki
14	MF	Tadaaki Hirakawa
16	MF	Takahito Soma
17	MF	Makoto Hasebe
18	MF	Shinji Ono
19	MF	Hideki Uchidate

No.	Position	Player
20	MF	Satoshi Horinouchi
21	FW	Washington
22	MF	Shunsuke Oyama
23	GK	Ryota Tsuzuki
24	DF	Tetsushi Kondo
25	MF	Takafumi Akahoshi
26	DF	Yuzo Minami
27	FW	Takuya Yokoyama
28	GK	Nobuhiro Kato
29	MF	Shota Arai
30	FW	Masayuki Okano
31	MF	Yuya Nakamura
32	FW	Junki Koike
33	DF	Kazuya Sakamoto
34	FW	Sergio Ariel Escudero
35	MF	Yoshiya Nishizawa
36	DF	Shunsuke Tsutsumi

[edit] Former players

[edit] Title

[edit] External links

(English) Urawa Red Diamonds Official Site
(Japanese) Urawa Reds Supporters Media Site (not officially affiliated with the club)

	Japan Professional Football League J.LEAGUE clubs, seasons, and tournaments
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
Abolished Club
Yokohama Flügels
J.LEAGUE Seasons
1993 \| 1994 \| 1995 \| 1996 \| 1997 \| 1998 \| 1999 \| 2000 2001 \| 2002 \| 2003 \| 2004 \| 2005 \| 2006 \| 2007 \| 2008
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