Urawa Reds

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Urawa Reds
浦和レッズ

Full name

Urawa Red Diamonds

Nickname(s)

Reds

Founded

1950

Ground

Urawa Komaba Stadium and
Saitama Stadium 2002

Capacity

21,500 and 63,700

Chairman

Mitsunori Fujiguchi

Manager

Holger Osieck

League

J.LEAGUE Div.1

2006

Champions





Home colours





Away colours

old crest

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 Japan's professional soccer league, J. League. Its hometown is the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture.

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.

In 2006 Urawa clinched the league title by defeating the runner-up Gamba Osaka 3-2 on December 2. This was the team's first title since its establishment as a professional club, and came after two close calls in the previous two years. In 2005, Urawa finished 2nd, only 1 point behind the champion, Gamba Osaka, in their J. League campaign.

And, in the 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; penalty kicks resulted in a victory for the F. Marinos.

Urawa is also the two-time defending Emperor's Cup holder. The Reds won their first title since their establishment as a professional team by defeating Shimizu S-Pulse 2-1 on January 1, 2006. Playing as the team of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, the club had won four titles previously. Urawa retained the Emperor's Cup and completed a league-cup double with a 1-0 win over Gamba on January 1, 2007.

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.

1 Competitions Record
2 Honors
- 2.1 Japanese Competitions
- 2.2 Individual Awards
3 Players
4 Managers
5 Miscellaneous
6 Images
7 External links

[edit] Competitions Record

Main article: Urawa Reds Competitions Record

[edit] Honors

[edit] Japanese Competitions

J. League Division 1
- Winners (1) : 2006
- Runners-up (2) : 2004, 2005
J. League Division 2
- Runners-up (1) : 2000
Emperor's Cup
- Winners (2) : 2005, 2006
J. League Cup
- Winners (1) : 2004
- Runners-up (2) : 2003, 2005
Super Cup
- Winners (1) : 2006

[edit] Individual Awards

See Individual Award Winners (Urawa Reds)

[edit] Players

[edit] Current Squad

As of February 9, 2007

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	Shinji Ono
9	FW	Yuichiro Nagai
10	MF	Robson Ponte
11	FW	Tatsuya Tanaka
12	DF	Shunsuke Tsutsumi
13	MF	Keita Suzuki
14	MF	Tadaaki Hirakawa
15	FW	Sergio Ariel Escudero

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Takahito Soma
17	MF	Makoto Hasebe
18	FW	Junki Koike
19	MF	Hideki Uchidate
20	MF	Satoshi Horinouchi
21	FW	Washington
22	MF	Yuki Abe
23	GK	Ryota Tsuzuki
24	DF	Kazuya Sakamoto
25	MF	Takafumi Akahoshi
26	MF	Yuya Nakamura
27	MF	Yoshiya Nishizawa
28	GK	Nobuhiro Kato
29	GK	Koki Otani
30	FW	Masayuki Okano

[edit] Notable Players

[edit] World Cup Players

World Cup 1998

World Cup 2006

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Takaji Mori	Japan	1993
Kenzo Yokoyama	Japan	1994
Holger Osieck	Germany	1995-1996
Horst Köppel	Germany	1997
Hiromi Hara	Japan	1998–1999
Aad De Mos	Netherlands	1999
Yasushi Yoshida	Japan	1999
Kazuo Saito	Japan	2000
Kenzo Yokoyama	Japan	2000
Tita	Brazil	2001
Pita	Brazil	2001
Hans Ooft	Netherlands	2002-2003
Guido Buchwald	Germany	2004-2006
Holger Osieck	Germany	2007-

[edit] Miscellaneous

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.
Urawa Reds are affiliated with German Champions FC Bayern Munich, whose nickname is also "the reds". [1]