Sanfrecce Hiroshima
サンフレッチェ広島

Full name	Sanfrecce Hiroshima F.C.
Nickname(s)	Sanfrecce, Sanf, Sanfre
Founded	1938
Ground	Hiroshima Big Arch Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima (Capacity: 50,000)
Chairman	Yūichi Mototani
Manager	Mihailo Petrović (Jun. 2006 -)
League	J. League Div.1
2008	Champions (Promoted)
Home colours Away colours

Sanfrecce Hiroshima (サンフレッチェ広島, Sanfuretche Hiroshima^?) is a football team in the J. League.

Contents 1 Team name 2 Location 3 Foundation from former Mazda team 3.1 1965 Inaugural League Champions Team 4 Team history 5 Team record 5.1 J.League record 5.2 Other domestic competitions 5.2.1 Emperor's Cup 5.2.2 J. League Cup 5.2.3 Super Cup 6 Honours 6.1 Toyo kogyo SC & Mazda SC 6.2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 6.3 Domestic Leagues 6.4 Domestic Cups 7 League history 8 Players 8.1 Current squad 8.2 Out on loan 8.3 2010 season transfers 8.4 Notable players 8.5 World Cup players 9 Managers 10 Trivia 11 External links

[edit] Team name

The team name comes from the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'. This is based on the story of Mori Motonari who told his three sons that while an arrow might be easily snapped, three arrows would not be broken and urged them to work for the good of the clan and its retainers.

[edit] Location

The team's home town is Hiroshima, Hiroshima and plays at Hiroshima Big Arch and Hiroshima Perfectural Stadium. It practices at Yoshida Soccer Park in Akitakata, Hiroshima and Hiroshima 1st Ball Park.

[edit] Foundation from former Mazda team

The team was a former company team of Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (東洋工業サッカー部^?) in 1938 and played in the semi-professional Japan Soccer League. They dominated the JSL's early years, winning the title 4 times in a row - a feat that was later equaled by Yomiuri S.C./Verdy Kawasaki. The name change was made at Mazda SC (マツダSC^?) in 1981. When JSL disbanded and became the J. League in 1992, it dropped the company name and became "Sanfrecce Hiroshima". Alongside JEF United Ichihara Chiba and Urawa Red Diamonds they co-founded both leagues.

During the 1969 season they participated in the Asian Club Cup, forerunner to today's AFC Champions League; at the time, the tournament was done in a single locale (in that year it was Bangkok, Thailand), and they ended up in third place, the first participation of a Japanese club in the continental tournament. This also cost them the league title to Mitsubishi/Urawa, and although they won another title in 1970, since then the club has been out of the running for the title, with exceptional seasons such as 1994 when they won runner-up.

• 1938-1970 : Toyo Kogyo Syukyu Club (東洋工業蹴球部^?) {"Syukyu" means "football" in Japanese.}
  • 1943-1946 : This period was suspend the activities of a clubbing under the influence of the Pacific War.
• 1971-1980 : Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (東洋工業サッカー部^?)
• 1981-1983 : Mazda Sports Club Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (マツダスポーツクラブ東洋工業サッカー部^?)
• 1984-1985 : Mazda Sports Club Soccer Club (マツダスポーツクラブサッカー部^?)
• 1986-1992 : Mazda Soccer Club (マツダサッカークラブ^?)
• 1992-present : Sanfrecce Hiroshima (サンフレッチェ広島^?)

[edit] 1965 Inaugural League Champions Team

The Toyo Industries team that became the first JSL champions also completed the first double by taking the Emperor's Cup.

• Formation: 4-2-4.

• Members: Koji Funamoto; Hiroyuki Kuwahara, Michihiro Ozawa, Kazuo Imanishi, Yosuke Niwa; Aritatsu Ogi, Yoshinobu Ishii; Ikuo Matsumoto, Takayuki Kuwata, Yasuyuki Kuwahara, Ryuzo Okamitsu.

Matsumoto, Ogi, and Yasuyuki Kuwahara went on to win the 1968 Olympic bronze medal for the national team.

[edit] Team history

In 2002, Sanfrecce became the first former stage winner (first stage, 1994) to be relegated to the lower division, J2. But it only spent a year there, finishing second the very next season to regain promotion back to J1. The club finished 16th in the 2007 season and were relegated to J. League Division 2 after they were beaten by Kyoto Sanga in the promotion/relegation play-off. In 2008 they nevertheless won the J2 title at the first attempt, having 84 points (a difference of 25 points with the runner-up teams) with six matches left.

[edit] Team record

[edit] J.League record

Season League Place GP Pts Win Draw Lose Average Crowd 1993 J1 1st stage 6 / 10 18 - 9 - 9 16,644 J1 2nd stage 5 / 10 18 - 9 - 9 J1 Total 5 / 10 36 - 18 - 18 1994 J1 1st stage Champions / 12 22 - 17 - 5 17,191 J1 2nd stage 4 / 12 22 - 12 - 10 J1 Total Runners-up / 12 44 - 29 - 15 1995 J1 1st stage 10 / 14 26 39 13 - 13 11,689 J1 2nd stage 12 / 14 26 28 9 - 17 J1 Total 10 / 14 52 67 22 - 30 1996 J1 14 / 16 30 30 10 - 20 8,469 1997 J1 1st stage 10 / 17 16 21 8 - 8 6,533 J1 2nd stage 13 / 17 16 15 5 - 11 J1 Total 12 / 17 32 36 13 - 19 1998 J1 1st stage 13 / 18 17 19 7 - 10 8,339 J1 2nd stage 9 / 18 17 24 9 - 8 J1 Total 10 / 18 34 43 16 - 18 1999 J1 1st stage 6 / 16 15 27 9 0 6 9,377 J1 2nd stage 8 / 16 15 21 7 1 7 J1 Total 8 / 16 30 48 16 1 13 2000 J1 1st stage 10 / 16 15 19 7 1 7 8,865 J1 2nd stage 11 / 16 15 18 6 1 8 J1 Total 11 / 16 30 37 13 2 15 2001 J1 1st stage 13 / 16 15 13 5 0 10 9,916 J1 2nd stage 3 / 16 15 24 8 0 7 J1 Total 9 / 16 30 37 13 0 17 2002 J1 1st stage 15 / 16 15 10 3 1 11 10,941 J1 2nd stage 14 / 16 15 16 5 2 8 J1 Total 15 / 16 30 26 8 3 19 2003 J2 2 / 12 44 86 25 11 8 9,000 2004 J1 1st stage 13 / 16 15 15 3 6 6 14,800 J1 2nd stage 11 / 16 15 16 3 7 5 J1 Total 12 / 16 30 31 6 13 11 2005 J1 7 / 18 34 50 13 11 10 12,527 2006 J1 10 / 18 34 45 13 6 15 11,180 2007 J1 16 / 18 34 34 8 8 18 11,423 2008 J2 1 / 15 42 100 31 7 4 10,840

Key to colors           Played in 1st division league           Played in 2nd division league

[edit] Other domestic competitions

[edit] Emperor's Cup Season Result 1954 Runners-up 1957 Runners-up 1965 Champions 1966 Runners-up 1967 Champions 1969 Champions 1970 Runners-up 1978 Runners-up 1987 Runners-up 1992 2nd Round 1993 Semi-finals 1994 Quarter-finals 1995 Runners-up 1996 Runners-up 1997 4th Round 1998 Quarter-finals 1999 Runners-up 2000 4th Round 2001 4th Round 2002 Semi-finals 2003 4th Round 2004 4th Round 2005 5th Round 2006 5th Round 2007 Runners-up 2008 Quarter-finals

[edit] J. League Cup Season Result 1992 Group Stage 1993 Group Stage 1994 1st Round 1995 Not Held 1996 Group Stage 1997 Group Stage 1998 Group Stage 1999 2nd Round 2000 2nd Round 2001 Quarter-finals 2002 Group Stage 2003 Didn't qualify 2004 Group Stage 2005 Group Stage 2006 Group Stage 2007 Quarter-finals 2008 Didn't qualify

[edit] Super Cup Season Result 2008 Champions

[edit] Honours

[edit] Toyo kogyo SC & Mazda SC

• Japan Soccer League: (5) 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970
• Emperor's Cup: (3) 1965, 1967, 1969
• AFC Club Championship: Third place 1969

[edit] Sanfrecce Hiroshima

[edit] Domestic Leagues

• J. League Division 1:
  • 1st Stage Champions (1): 1994
• J. League Division 2:
  • Champions (1): 2008

[edit] Domestic Cups

• Japanese Super Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2008

[edit] League history

• Division 1 (Japan Soccer League Div. 1): 1965 - 1983
• Division 2 (Japan Soccer League Div. 2): 1984 - 1985
• Division 1 (Japan Soccer League Div. 1): 1986 - 1987
• Division 2 (Japan Soccer League Div. 2): 1988 - 1990
• Division 1 (Japan Soccer League Div. 1): 1991/92
• Division 1 (J. League Div. 1): 1993 - 2002
• Division 2 (J. League Div. 2): 2003
• Division 1 (J. League Div. 1): 2004 - 2007
• Division 2 (J. League Div. 2): 2008
• Division 1 (J. League Div. 1): 2009 - present

[edit] Players

[edit] Current squad

As of December 14, 2009

No. Position Player 1 GK Takashi Shimoda 2 DF Ilian Stoyanov 5 DF Tomoaki Makino 6 MF Toshihiro Aoyama 7 MF Koji Morisaki 8 MF Kazuyuki Morisaki 9 FW Tadanari Lee 11 FW Hisato Satō 14 MF Mihael Mikić 15 MF Yōjiro Takahagi 17 MF Kota Hattori 18 FW Ryuichi Hirashige 19 DF Kohei Morita 20 MF Shinichiro Kuwada

No. Position Player 22 MF Tsubasa Yokotake 24 DF Ryota Moriwaki 25 MF Issei Takayanagi 27 FW Kohei Shimizu 28 FW Takuya Marutani 30 MF Sho Shinohara 31 GK Akihiro Sato 32 MF Tomotaka Okamoto 34 GK Hirotsugu Nakabayashi 35 MF Koji Nakajima 36 GK Yutaro Hara 38 FW Junya Osaki MF Satoru Yamagishi MF Hironori Ishikawa

[edit] Out on loan

No. Position Player DF Shogo Nishikawa (to Montedio Yamagata) DF Yuya Hashiuchi (to Gainare Tottori) MF Kenta Uchida (to Ehime F.C.)

[edit] 2010 season transfers

For recent transfers, see List of Japanese football transfers winter 2009-10.

In

No. Position Player MF Satoru Yamagishi (On loan from Kawasaki Frontale) MF Hironori Ishikawa (Transferred from Ryutsu Keizai University F.C.) 38 FW Junya Osaki (Promoted from youth team)

Out

No. Position Player 10 MF Yosuke Kashiwagi (Transferred to Urawa Red Diamonds) 16 MF Ri Han-Jae (Released) 33 MF Takashi Rakuyama (Released) 39 FW Tatsuhiko Kubo (Released)

[edit] Notable players

Lists of "famous" or "notable" sports persons with no clear inclusion or exclusion criteria should be avoided. Such lists should be removed or replaced with verifiable lists of players recognized by the club, league, or another reliable source and be properly referenced.

For details on notable players, see Category:Sanfrecce Hiroshima players.

Kazuya Maekawa 1986-99 Yahiro Kazama 1989-95 Hajime Moriyasu 1987-97,99-01 Yoshiro Moriyama 1991-95 Takuya Takagi 1991-97 Ryuji Michiki 1992-97 Hiroshige Yanagimoto 1991-98 Toshihiro Yamaguchi 1998-00 Chikara Fujimoto 1999-01 Kenichi Uemura 1993-03 Kentaro Sawada 1999-03 Norio Omura 2003-06 Yūichi Komano 2000-07 Túlio 2001-02

Antônio Carlos Santos 1995-96 Marcelo Silva Ramos 2003 César Sampaio 2003-04 Beto 2004-06 Dininho 2005-06 Ueslei 2006-07 Graham Arnold 1997-98 Tony Popović 1997-01 Hayden Foxe 1999-01 Aurelio Vidmar 1998-99 Steve Corica 2000-01 Július Bielik 1991-92 Pavel Černý 1992-94 Ivan Hašek 1994-95 Jan Jönsson 1993 Jean-Paul Vondenburg 1993 John van Loen 1995 Pieter Huistra 1995-96 Ian Crook 1997-98 Don Goodman 1998

Oleg Pashinin 2001 Michel Pensée 2002 Dan Calichman 1991-93 Noh Jung-Yoon 1993-97 Tore Pedersen 1994-95 Serhiy Skachenko 2001 Tomislav Erceg 2002 Mazda Sports Club Dido Havenaar 1986-88 Ron Jans 1987-88 Ian Griffiths 1988-90 [1] Tony Henry 1989-91 [2] David Hodgson 1989-90 Alan Irvine 1989-90 Scott McGarvey Yuriy Kabir 1991-92

[edit] World Cup players

World Cup 1994

• Noh Jung-Yoon

World Cup 2006

• Yūichi Komano

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure	team	major assistant coach
Yoshiki Yamazaki	Japan	1938-1942,1947-1950	Toyo Kogyo
Minoru Obata	Japan	1951-1963
Yukio Shimomura	Japan	1964-1971
Kenzo Ohashi	Japan	1972-1975
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	1976
Aritatsu Ogi	Japan	1977-1980
Teruo Nimura	Japan	1981-1983	MAZDA Sports	Eckhard Krautzun(Aug-Sep 1983)
Kazuo Imanishi	Japan	1984-1987		Hans Ooft(1984-87)Dido Havenaar(1986-87)
Hans Ooft	Netherlands	1987-1988		Dido Havenaar(1987-88)
Kazuo Imanishi	Japan	1988-1992		Bill Foulkes(1988-91)
Stuart Baxter	England	1992-1994	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Jan Jönsson(1993-94)
Wim Jansen	Netherlands	1995-1996
Eddie Thomson	Scotland	1997-2000		Tom Sermanni(1997-98)
Valeri Nepomniachi	Russia	2001
Gadzhi Gadzhiev	Russia	2002
Takahiro Kimura	Japan	2002
Takeshi Ono	Japan	2003-2006
Kazuyori Mochizuki	Japan	2006
Mihailo Petrović	Austria	2006-		Ranko Popović(2006-07)

[edit] Trivia

Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. (December 2007)

• A fictional character named Shingo Takasugi from the popular Captain Tsubasa manga, becomes a professional soccer player and joins Sanfrecce Hiroshima.

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Sanfrecce Hiroshima Official Site
• English-language fan site
• (Japanese) Sanfrecce Train 2009 (operated by Hiroden)

v • d • e Sanfrecce Hiroshima – current squad 1 Shimoda · 2 Stoyanov · 5 Makino · 6 Aoyama · 7 Kōji. M · 8 Kazu. M · 9 Lee · 11 Hisato. S · 12 Supporters · 14 Mikić · 15 Takahagi · 17 Hattori · 18 Hirashige · 19 Morita · 20 Kuwada · 22 Yokotake · 24 Moriwaki · 25 Takayanagi · 27 Shimizu · 28 Marutani · 30 Shinohara · 31 Aki. S · 32 Okamoto · 34 Nakabayashi · 35 Nakajima · 36 Hara · 38 Osaki · TBD Yamagishi · TBD Ishikawa · Manager: Petrović

v • d • e Japanese football champions 7 titles Tokyo Verdy (1983, 1984, 1986/87, 1990/91, 1991/92, 1993, 1994) Kashima Antlers (1996, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2007, 2008, 2009) 5 titles Urawa Reds (1969, 1973, 1978, 1982, 2006) Yokohama F. Marinos (1988/89, 1989/90, 1995, 2003, 2004) Sanfrecce Hiroshima (1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970) 4 titles Cerezo Osaka (1971, 1974, 1975, 1980) Júbilo Iwata (1987/88, 1997, 1999, 2002) 3 titles Shonan Bellmare (1977, 1979, 1981) 2 titles JEF United Chiba (1976, 1985/86) 1 title Kashiwa Reysol (1972) Gamba Osaka (2005)

v • d • e Original J. League clubs (1993) Kashima Antlers · Urawa Red Diamonds · JEF United Ichihara · Verdy Kawasaki · Yokohama Marinos Yokohama Flügels · Shimizu S-Pulse · Nagoya Grampus Eight · Gamba Osaka · Sanfrecce Hiroshima

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