Yokohama Flügels
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yokohama Flügels (横浜フリューゲルス Yokohama Furyūgerusu?) was a Japanese soccer team that played in the J. League between 1993 and 1999. The club was originally the company team of All Nippon Airways and played in the Japan Soccer League, before it became a professional club and joined the J. League.
In 1998, one of the team's primary sponsors, Sato Kogyo, announced that it was pulling its financial support of the club. However, instead of simply dissolving the club or finding another investor, ANA, the team's other chief sponsor, met with Nissan Motors, the primary sponsor of the crosstown Yokohama Marinos, and announced that the two Yokohama clubs would merge, with Flügels players joining the Marinos.
Although the "F" added to the new club name, "Yokohama F. Marinos" is meant to represent the merger of the two clubs, Flügels supporters rejected the merger. Instead, the supporter club followed the socio model used by FC Barcelona and founded Yokohama FC, the first professional Japanese soccer club owned and operated by its members.[1]
On January 1, 1999, Flügels won their final match, the Emperor's Cup final against Shimizu S-Pulse, 2-1.
Contents |
[edit] J. League results
| Year | Stage | Place | Pld | W | L | D | F | A |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 1st | 7 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 21 | |
| 2nd | 7 | 18 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 30 | ||
| 1994 | 1st | 5 | 22 | 13 | 9 | 36 | 27 | |
| 2nd | 8 | 22 | 9 | 13 | 31 | 33 | ||
| 1995 | 1st | 13 | 26 | 9 | 17 | 42 | 54 | |
| 2nd | 11 | 26 | 11 | 15 | 36 | 57 | ||
| 1996 | 3 | 30 | 21 | 9 | 58 | 44 | ||
| 1997 | 1st | 2 | 16 | 12 | 4 | 35 | 16 | |
| 2nd | 11 | 16 | 7 | 9 | 23 | 27 | ||
| 1998 | 1st | 8 | 17 | 10 | 7 | 33 | 32 | |
| 2nd | 7 | 17 | 8 | 8 | 37 | 32 | ||
| Total | 228 | 117 | 111 | 375 | 373 |
[edit] Honours
[edit] Domestic
Emperor's Cup (2): 1993-94, 1998-99
[edit] International
Asian Cup Winners Cup (1): 1994-95
Asian Super Cup (1): 1994-95
[edit] Former players
Yasuharu Sorimachi 1988-1993- Motohiro Yamaguchi 1990-1998
Jaime Rodríguez "Chelona" 1992-1993- Masakiyo Maezono 1992-1996
Edu Marangon 1993-1994
Moner 1993-1994
Raúl Vicente Amarilla 1993-1994- Evair Aparecido Paulino 1995-1996
- Naoto Otake 1991-1997
- Zinho 1995-1997
- César Sampaio 1995-1998
- Yasuhiro Hato 1995-1998
- Seigo Narazaki 1995-1998
- Atsuhiro Miura 1995-1998
- Hideyuki Ujiie 1997-1998
Igor Lediakhov 1998- Yasuhito Endo 1998
- Kazuki Teshima 1998
- Shigeki Tsujimoto 1998
Paulo Futre 1998
[edit] See also
[edit] Trivia
- In Japanese popular soccer manga Captain Tsubasa, one of the main characters Wakashimazu joined Flügels after he graduated from his high school.
[edit] References
- ^ Maurer, Harry. "As Fans Build a Team of Their Own...Yokohama Readies for the World Cup", 2000-12-11. Retrieved on January 16, 2007.
[edit] Further reading
- Ultra Nippon: How Japan Reinvented Football by Jonathan Burchill, Headline Book Publishing Ltd., London: 2000 (ISBN 0747274770).
- Rising Sun News: J. League in 1998 - details the Flügels/Marinos controversy
- 78th Emperor's Cup playback : the Flügels' last challenge - Nippon Ganbare (French)
 This article about an Asian football club is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 |
This Japan-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
