Kashiwa Reysol

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Kashiwa Reysol
柏レイソル
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Full name Kashiwa Reysol
Nickname(s) "Sun Kings"
Founded 1940
Ground Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium
Kashiwa no Ha Park Stadium
Kashiwa, Chiba
(Capacity 15,900
20,000)
Chairman Shigeyuki Onodera
Manager Nobuhiro Ishizaki(2006 - )
League J. League Div.1
2007 8th place
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Kashiwa Reysol (柏レイソル Kashiwa Reisoru?) is a J. League team. The name Reysol comes from the Spanish words rey ('king') and sol ('sun') and reflect the fact that the team had originally been a company team of Hitachi in the Japan Soccer League. Its home town is Kashiwa, Chiba, about an hour northeast of Tokyo.

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[edit] History

Founded in 1940 as Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in Koganei, Tokyo, the team was a founding member of the Japan Soccer League. It had some success during the mid-1970s, winning several Emperor's Cup and JSL titles and contributing several players to the Japanese national team. In 1986, the team relocated from Koganei to Kashiwa.

The team joined the Japan Football League in 1992 and added Careca of the Brazil national football team with the aim of winning the JFL champion for promotion to the J1 league in 1993. The quest was unsuccessful and the team barely managed to come in at the fifth spot. In 1994 the team secured the second spot in the JFL and earned the promotion to the top league. From 1995, it was in the J1 and in 1998, the team welcomed the former manager for Japan's Olympic team, Akira Nishino as its manager. In 1999, it won its first title, the Nabisco Cup championship. The 1999 and 2000 seasons marked the highpoint in the club's recent history.

Over the next two seasons, management changes, in particular the tenure of English coach Steve Perryman, unsettled the team and they lost ground. Things got worse still. Following a 16th place out of 18 finish in the 2005 standings, Kashiwa Reysol lost the promotion/relegation play-offs against the 3rd place J2 team Ventforet Kofu. For the first time, three J1 teams were sent down to J2.

Following relegation the team lost all its former players. It began 2006 with both a new coach, Nobuhiro Ishizaki, and an almost entirely new squad. Kashiwa lead J2 for much of 2006, but a series of poor performances in the later stages saw them slip down the table. It was only in the final game of the season that the team secured automatic promotion to J1 as first placed runners up.

[edit] Team Record

[edit] J.League

Season League Place GP Pts Win Draw Lose Average Crowd
1995 J1 1st stage 14 / 14 26 22 7 - 19 16,102
J1 2nd stage 5 / 14 26 43 14 - 12
J1 Total 12 / 14 52 65 21 - 31
1996 J1 5 / 16 30 60 20 - 10 13,033
1997 J1 1st stage 3 / 17 16 32 11 - 5 8,664
J1 2nd stage 10 / 17 16 20 7 - 9
J1 Total 7 / 17 32 52 18 - 14
1998 J1 1st stage 10 / 18 17 22 9 - 8 9,932
J1 2nd stage 8 / 18 17 25 9 - 8
J1 Total 8 / 18 34 47 18 - 16
1999 J1 1st stage 4 / 16 15 29 10 0 5 10,122
J1 2nd stage 4 / 16 15 29 10 1 4
J1 Total 3 / 16 30 58 20 1 9
2000 J1 1st stage 4 / 16 15 26 10 0 5 10,037
J1 2nd stage Runners-up / 16 15 32 11 1 3
J1 Total 3 / 16 30 58 21 1 8
2001 J1 1st stage 6 / 16 15 22 8 0 7 12,477
J1 2nd stage 7 / 16 15 21 6 3 6
J1 Total 6 / 16 30 43 14 3 13
2002 J1 1st stage 14 / 16 15 11 4 0 11 11,314
J1 2nd stage 9 / 16 15 21 6 3 6
J1 Total 12 / 16 30 32 10 3 17
2003 J1 1st stage 9 / 16 15 21 6 3 6 10,873
J1 2nd stage 11 / 16 15 16 3 7 5
J1 Total 12 / 16 30 37 9 10 11
2004 J1 1st stage 15 / 16 15 12 3 3 9 10,513
J1 2nd stage 15 / 16 15 13 2 7 6
J1 Total 16 / 16 30 25 5 10 15
2005 J1 16 / 18 34 35 8 11 15 12,492
2006 J2 Runners-up / 13 48 88 27 7 14 8,328
2007 J1 8 / 18 34 50 14 8 12 12,967
 
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          Played in 1st division league
          Played in 2nd division league

[edit] Other Domestic Competitions

See other domestic competitions record

[edit] Titles

[edit] Hitachi

  • Japan Soccer League: (1) 1971
  • Japan Soccer League Division 2: (1) 1990/91
  • JSL Cup: (1) 1976
  • Emperor's Cup: (2) 1972, 1975

[edit] Kashiwa Reysol

[edit] Managers

Manager Nat. Tenure
Zé Sérgio Flag of Brazil Brazil 1995
Antoninho Flag of Brazil Brazil 1995
Nicanor Flag of Brazil Brazil 1996-1997
Akira Nishino Flag of Japan Japan 1998-2001
Steve Perryman Flag of England England 2001-2002
Marco Aurelio Flag of Brazil Brazil 2002-2003
Tomoyoshi Ikeya Flag of Japan Japan 2004
Hiroshi Hayano Flag of Japan Japan 2004-2005
Nobuhiro Ishizaki Flag of Japan Japan 2006-

[edit] Players

[edit] Current Squad

As of February 16, 2008

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Japan GK Kazushige Kirihata
2 Flag of Japan DF Jiro Kamata
3 Flag of Japan DF Naoya Kondo
4 Flag of Japan DF Naoki Ishikawa
5 Flag of Japan DF Masahiro Koga
6 Flag of Brazil MF Alex
7 Flag of Japan MF Hidekazu Otani
8 Flag of Japan MF Takehito Shigehara
9 Flag of Japan FW Hideaki Kitajima
10 Flag of Brazil FW França
11 Flag of Brazil MF Popo
13 Flag of Japan DF Yuzo Kobayashi
14 Flag of Japan MF Keisuke Ota
15 Flag of Japan MF Minoru Suganuma
17 Flag of Japan MF Shunta Nagai
18 Flag of Japan MF Iwao Yamane
No. Position Player
19 Flag of Japan MF Shu Abe
20 Flag of Japan FW Tadanari Lee
21 Flag of Japan GK Yuta Minami
22 Flag of Japan FW Tatusya Suzuki
23 Flag of Japan DF Yohei Kurakawa
24 Flag of Japan MF Jun Yanagisawa
25 Flag of Japan DF Yusuke Murakami
26 Flag of Japan DF Takahiro Oshima
27 Flag of Japan MF Yuki Otsu
29 Flag of Japan MF Kohei Higa
30 Flag of Japan DF Hiroki Sakai
31 Flag of Japan GK Shinya Kato
33 Flag of Japan GK Takanori Sugeno
34 Flag of Japan MF Kota Sugiyama

[edit] Notable Players

[edit] World Cup Players

World Cup 2002

[edit] External links

Preceded by
Yanmar Diesel
Japanese Football Champions
1972
Succeeded by
Mitsubishi Motors