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Nagoya Grampus
名古屋グランパス
Full name	Nagoya Grampus Eight
Nickname(s)	Grampus
Founded	1939 (as Toyota Motor S.C.)
Ground	Mizuho Athletic Stadium; Mizuho-ku, Nagoya &; Toyota Stadium,; Toyota City, Aichi; (Capacity: 27,000 & 45,000)
Chairman	Toyo Kato
Manager	Dragan Stojković
League	J. League Div.1
2008	3rd Place
Home colours	Away colours

Nagoya Grampus (名古屋グランパス, Nagoya Guranpasu^?) (formerly Nagoya Grampus Eight) is a Japanese Association 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 1939. Grampus Eight are one of only six teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since its inception in 1993.

[edit] History

Toyota Motor S.C. was initially overshadowed by its colleague Toyota Automated Loom Works F.C. (founded in 1946 and which was one of the founding members of the Japan Soccer League in 1965) but when Toyota ALW were relegated to regional leagues in 1968, Toyota Motor saw an opportunity to rise at their expense. In 1972 Toyota Motors were founding members of the JSL's Second Division and its inaugural champions. They remained in the JSL until the J. League's founding in 1993. They were relegated to the JSL Division 2 in 1977. After a brief return in 1987-88, they were promoted for good in 1989-90 and remain in the top flight ever since.

The team had excellent seasons 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.

Nagoya shares its home games between Mizuho Athletic Stadium (capacity 27,000 and the J-league's oldest stadium) and the much larger Toyota Stadium (capacity 45,000).

The team's name was derived from the two most prominent symbols of Nagoya: the two golden grampus dolphins on the top of Nagoya Castle (which can be more accurately described as shachihoko, a mythological creature part of the local folklore), and the Maru-Hachi (Circle eight), the city's official symbol.

The team's name "Nagoya Grampus Eight" was changed to just "Nagoya Grampus" at the start of the 2008 season.

In 2008, Nagoya appointed their legend Stojković as manager. They finished in 3rd place and qualified for AFC Champions League for the first time.

Nagoya are currently mid-table in J League, but are in the semi-finals of the 2009 AFC Champions League in their first appearance in the competition.

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[edit] Team Record

[edit] J. League

Season	League	Place	GP	Pts	Win	Draw	Lose	Average Attendance
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	11 / 18	34	45	13	6	15	15,585
2008	J1	3 / 18	34	59	17	8	9	16,555

[edit] Other Domestic Competitions

See other domestic competitions record

[edit] Major International Competitions

Season	Competition	Result	Average Attendance
1996-97	Asian Cup Winners Cup	Runners-up	?
2000-01	Asian Cup Winners Cup	Quarter-finals	?
2009	AFC Champions League	Semi-final

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

As of July 29, 2009

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Seigo Narazaki
2	DF	Akira Takeuchi
3	DF	Miloš Bajalica
4	DF	Maya Yoshida
5	DF	Takahiro Masukawa
6	DF	Shohei Abe
7	MF	Naoshi Nakamura
8	MF	Magnum
9	MF	Igor Burzanović
10	MF	Yoshizumi Ogawa
11	FW	Keiji Tamada
13	MF	Kei Yamaguchi
14	MF	Keiji Yoshimura
16	FW	Joshua Kennedy
17	FW	Yuki Maki
18	FW	Tomohiro Tsuda

No.	Position	Player
19	FW	Keita Sugimoto
20	MF	Yoshiki Hiraki
21	GK	Koji Nishimura
22	MF	Koji Hashimoto
23	DF	Genta Matsuo
24	MF	Shinta Fukushima
25	FW	Oribe Niikawa
26	DF	Masaya Sato
27	MF	Sho Hanai
28	MF	Taishi Taguchi
29	FW	Hikaru Kuba
30	GK	Koichi Hirono
31	GK	Toru Hasegawa
32	DF	Hayuma Tanaka
33	MF	Ryota Isomura
38	MF	Alessandro Santos

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Jun Aoyama (On loan to Tokushima Vortis)
		MF	Kazuto Tsuyuki (On loan to Tokushima Vortis)

[edit] World Cup players

World Cup 1998

Takashi Hirano
Dragan Stojković

World Cup 2002

Seigo Narazaki
Alessandro Santos

World Cup 2006

[edit] Notable Players

Japan

AFC

CONMEBOL

UEFA

[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	2006-2007
Dragan Stojković	Serbia	2008-