Nagoya Grampus Eight

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Nagoya Grampus Eight 名古屋グランパスエイト
Full name	Nagoya Grampus Eight
Nickname(s)	Grampus
Founded	1991
Ground	Mizuho Athletic Stadium Mizuho-ku, Nagoya & Toyota Soccer Stadium, Toyota City, Aichi
Capacity	27,000 & 45,000
Chairman	Toyo Kato
Manager	Sef Vergoossen
League	J. League Div.1
2006	7th Place
Home colours 　 Away colours

Nagoya Grampus Eight (名古屋グランパスエイト, Nagoya Guranpasu Eito^?) is a Japanese football club which plays in the first division of the J. League. The team is based in Nagoya and was founded as the company team of Toyota Motor Corp. in the 1950s and played in the Japan Soccer League until the J. League's founding in 1993. The team had an excellent season in the mid 1990s when it was managed by current Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, winning the prestigious Emperor's Cup and finishing runners up, and featured, among others, Dragan Stojković and Gary Lineker on the team. Dutchman Sef Vergoossen currently manages the club.

The team's name is derived from the two most prominent symbols of Nagoya: the two golden grampus dolphins on the top of Nagoya Castle, and the Maru-Hachi (Circle eight), the city's official symbol.

Contents 1 Team Record 1.1 J. League 1.2 Other Domestic Competitions 1.3 Major International Competitions 2 Players 2.1 Current squad 2.2 Notable players 2.3 World Cup players 3 Managers 4 Honors 5 External links

[edit] Team Record

[edit] J. League

Season	League	Place	GP	Pts	Win	Draw	Lose	Average Crowd
1993	J1 1st stage	9 / 10	18	-	7	-	11	19,858
	J1 2nd stage	8 / 10	18	-	5	-	13
	J1 Total	9 / 10	36	-	12	-	24
1994	J1 1st stage	8 / 12	22	-	9	-	13	21,842
	J1 2nd stage	12 / 12	22	-	6	-	16
	J1 Total	11 / 12	44	-	15	-	29
1995	J1 1st stage	4 / 14	26	46	15	-	11	21,463
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 14	26	51	17	-	9
	J1 Total	3 / 14	52	97	32	-	20
1996	J1	Runners-up / 16	30	63	21	-	9	21,699
1997	J1 1st stage	12 / 17	16	18	6	-	10	14,750
	J1 2nd stage	5 / 17	16	30	10	-	6
	J1 Total	9 / 17	32	48	16	-	16
1998	J1 1st stage	3 / 18	17	33	12	-	5	13,993
	J1 2nd stage	6 / 18	17	30	11	-	6
	J1 Total	5 / 18	34	63	23	-	11
1999	J1 1st stage	8 / 16	15	21	7	1	7	14,688
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 16	15	33	11	1	3
	J1 Total	4 / 16	30	54	18	2	10
2000	J1 1st stage	12 / 16	15	19	7	1	7	14,114
	J1 2nd stage	7 / 16	15	22	7	1	7
	J1 Total	9 / 16	30	41	14	2	14
2001	J1 1st stage	3 / 16	15	27	10	2	3	16,974
	J1 2nd stage	6 / 16	15	22	7	1	7
	J1 Total	5 / 16	30	49	17	3	10
2002	J1 1st stage	3 / 16	15	29	10	0	5	16,323
	J1 2nd stage	13 / 16	15	16	5	1	9
	J1 Total	6 / 16	30	45	15	1	14
2003	J1 1st stage	7 / 16	15	23	5	8	2	16,768
	J1 2nd stage	8 / 16	15	22	6	4	5
	J1 Total	7 / 16	30	45	11	12	7
2004	J1 1st stage	8 / 16	15	20	5	5	5	15,712
	J1 2nd stage	5 / 16	15	24	7	3	5
	J1 Total	7 / 16	30	44	12	8	10
2005	J1	14 / 18	34	39	10	9	15	13,288
2006	J1	7 / 18	34	48	13	9	12	14,924
2007	J1

[edit] Other Domestic Competitions

See other domestic competitions record

[edit] Major International Competitions

Season	Competition	Result	Average Crowd
1996-97	Asian Cup Winners Cup	Runners-up	?
2000-01	Asian Cup Winners Cup	Quarter-finals	?

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

As of February, 2007

No. Position Player 1 GK Seigo Narazaki 3 DF Marek Spilar 4 DF Masayuki Omori 7 MF Naoshi Nakamura 8 MF Kim Jung-Woo 9 FW Frode Johnsen 10 MF Toshiya Fujita 11 FW Keiji Tamada 13 MF Kei Yamaguchi 14 MF Keiji Yoshimura 15 FW Sho Kamogawa 16 DF Takahiro Masukawa 17 DF Yuki Maki 18 MF Shunichi Nakajima 19 FW Keita Sugimoto 20 DF Makoto Tsunoda 21 GK Ryo Kushino 22 DF Kazuto Tsuyuki

No. Position Player 23 FW Yohei Toyoda 24 MF Keisuke Honda 25 MF Yusuke Sudo 26 FW Tomohiro Tsuda 27 DF Shosuke Katayama 28 MF Keiji Watanabe 29 MF Yoshizumi Ogawa 30 DF Akira Takeuchi 31 DF Shohei Abe 32 DF Jun Aoyama 33 MF Shingo Wada 34 MF Maya Yoshida 35 MF Wataru Inoue 36 GK Kouno Kouichi 37 GK Toru Hasegawa 38 FW Oribe Niikawa 39 MF Shinta Fukushima

[edit] Notable players

• Ueslei 2000-2005
• Valdo 1997-1998
• Luizão 2006
• Marcelo Ramos 2001-2002
• Torres 1995-1999
• Marques 2003-2005
• Gary Lineker 1993-1994
• Franck Durix 1995-1996
• Gérald Passi 1995
• Tarik Oulida 1998-2002
• Dragan Stojković 1994-2001
• Andrej Panadić 2002-2004
• Ivica Vastic 2002-2003
• Tomasz Frankowski 1996
• Ahn Young-Hak 2005
• Takafumi Ogura
• Dido Havenaar
• Yuji Sakakura
• Yasuyuki Moriyama
• Wagner Lopes
• Kenji Fukuda
• Keiji Kaimoto
• Shigeyoshi Mochizuki
• Tomoyuki Sakai
• Yutaka Akita

[edit] World Cup players

World Cup 1998

• Takashi Hirano
• Dragan Stojković

World Cup 2002

• Seigo Narazaki

World Cup 2006

• Seigo Narazaki
• Keiji Tamada

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Ryuzou Hiraki	Japan	1992-1993
Gordon Milne	England	1994
Tetsuro Miura ‡	Japan	1994
Arsène Wenger	France	1995-1996
Jose Alberto Costa ‡	Portugal	1996
Carlos Queiroz	Portugal	1996-1997
Koji Tanaka	Japan	1997-1999
Daniel Sanchez	France	1999
Mazaroppi ‡	Brazil	1999
João Carlos	Brazil	1999-2001
Tetsuro Miura	Japan	2001
Zdenko Verdenik	Slovenia	2002-2003
Nelsinho	Brazil	2003-2005
Hitoshi Nakata ‡	Japan	2005
Sef Vergoossen	Netherlands	2006-

‡ As caretaker manager

[edit] Honors

• Emperor's Cup: 2

1995, 1999

• Xerox Super Cup: 1

1996

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Official site

J. League Seasons v • d • e
1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
2007 J. League Division 1 (J1)
Kashima Antlers | Omiya Ardija | Urawa Reds | JEF United Ichihara Chiba | Kashiwa Reysol F.C. Tokyo | Kawasaki Frontale | Yokohama F. Marinos | Yokohama F.C. | Ventforet Kofu Albirex Niigata | Shimizu S-Pulse | Júbilo Iwata | Nagoya Grampus Eight | Gamba Osaka Vissel Kobe | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | Oita Trinita
2007 J. League Division 2 (J2)
Consadole Sapporo | Vegalta Sendai | Montedio Yamagata | Mito HollyHock | Thespa Kusatsu Tokyo Verdy 1969 | Shonan Bellmare | Kyoto Sanga F.C. | Cerezo Osaka | Tokushima Vortis Ehime F.C. | Avispa Fukuoka | Sagan Tosu
Defunct Club
Yokohama Flügels
Other Domestic Competitions
Emperor's Cup | J. League Cup | Super Cup | Promotion/Relegation Series | JOMO All-Star Soccer
International Competitions
AFC Champions League | A3 Champions Cup
Defunct Competitions
Suntory Championship | Sanwa Bank Cup
J. League Awards
Player of the Year | Top Scorer | Young Player of the Year | Team of the Year | Manager of the Year
See Also
Japanese football league system | J. League records | J. League contracts Japanese football champions | Notable J. League players