Montedio Yamagata

Montedio Yamagata
モンテディオ山形
Full name Montedio Yamagata
Nickname(s) Montedio
Founded 1984
Ground ND Soft Stadium
(Capacity: 20,315)
Manager Shinji Kobayashi
League J. League Division 2
2011 J. League Division 1 18th (Relegated)
Home colours
Away colours
Current season

Montedio Yamagata is a professional association football (soccer) club based in Yamagata Prefecture in Japan. The club plays in J. League Division 1.

Montedio is a coined word combining two Italian words Monte ("Mountain") and Dio ("God").

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History

The club was founded in 1984 as NEC Yamagata Soccer Club. It gained the promotion to the Japan Football League (former) in 1994. After renaming itself as Montedio Yamagata in 1996, it has been playing in J. League Division 2 since its inaugural 1999 season.

On November 30, 2008, they were promoted to J. League Division 1 for the first time. They achieved their highest league placing of 13th in 2010 before being relegated back to Division 2 at the end of 2011.

Current players

As of July 22, 2011 Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
1 GK Kenta Shimizu
2 DF Ryo Kobayashi
3 DF Hidenori Ishii
4 DF Shogo Nishikawa
5 MF Tomi Shimomura
6 MF Kohei Miyazaki
7 MF Katsuyuki Miyazawa
8 MF Yuji Funayama
9 FW Tatsuya Furuhashi
10 FW Yu Hasegawa
11 FW Tomotaka Kitamura
13 DF Tatsuya Ishikawa
14 DF Takuya Miyamoto
16 GK Yuki Uekusa
17 MF Kentaro Sato
No. Position Player
18 FW Tetsuya Okubo
19 MF Masaru Akiba
20 MF Maicon
21 MF Daichi Kawashima
22 DF Takuya Sonoda
23 DF Kei Nakano
24 MF Shun Ito
25 FW Osama Elsamni
26 DF Takumi Yamada
27 GK Yuta Suzuki
28 MF Tetsuro Ota
29 MF Tomoyasu Hirose
30 GK Hayato Nakamura
32 DF Kazuya Maeda
FW Masato Yamazaki (on loan)

Season by season results and managers

Year League Played Points Wins Losses Draws Place Manager General Manager Average Crowd
1994 Former JFL 30 ― 10 20 ― 13 (16) Naoki Sugisawa ―
1995 30 41 13 17 ― 10 (16) Nobuhiro Ishizaki ―
1996 30 49 16 14 ― 8 (16) ―
1997 30 56 19 11 ― 5 (16) ―
1998 30 64 22 8 ― 3 (16) ―
1999 J2 36 48 15 17 4 7 (10) Shigeharu Ueki ― 2,980
2000 40 33 11 27 2 10 (11) ― 3,468
2001 44 80 27 14 6 3 (12) Koichi Hashiratani ― 4,391
2002 44 35 6 21 17 11 (12) ― 3,755
2003 44 55 15 19 10 8 (12) ― 4,370
2004 44 71 19 11 14 4 (12) Jun Suzuki ― 6,420
2005 44 64 16 12 16 5 (12) ― 5,949
2006 48 65 17 17 14 8 (13) Yasuhiro Higuchi ― 5,058
2007 48 58 15 20 13 9 (13) ―
2008 42 78 23 10 9 2 (15) Shinji Kobayashi ― 6,273
2009 J1 34 39 10 15 9 15 (18) ― 12,056
2010 34 42 11 14 9 13 (18) ― 11,710

Former players

Yukihiko Sato

External links

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