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Yokohama F. Marinos
横浜F・マリノス
Full name	Yokohama F. Marinos
Nickname(s)	-
Founded	1972
Ground	Nissan Stadium; (International Stadium Yokohama); Kohoku-ku, Yokohama; (Capacity: 72,327)
Chairman	Shigeo Hidaritomo
Manager	Kokichi Kimura (2008 - )
League	J. League Div.1
2008	9th Place
Home colours	Away colours

Yokohama F. Marinos (横浜F・マリノス, Yokohama Efu Marinosu^?) is a Japanese football team which participates in the fully professional Japan Professional Football League; the top professional football (soccer) league in Japan.

Having won the J-League title three times and finished second twice, the team is one of the most successful J-League clubs. The team is based in Yokohama and was founded as the company team of Nissan Motors. The club was formed by the merger of Yokohama Marinos and Yokohama Flügels in 1999. The current name is intended to reflect both Marinos and Flügels. The team name Marinos means 'sailors' in Spanish. Marinos 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

Nissan F.C. Yokohama Marinos

In 1973, the team started as the Nissan Motors F.C. based in Yokohama, and were promoted to the Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1976. It took necessary steps like building a friendly relationship with local high schools and universities and starting junior teams for school kids to be a winning team. Under the first paid or professional team manager in Japan Shu Kamo, the team won championships in 1988 and 1989 as well as the JSL Cup and Emperor's Cup winning all three major tournaments in Japan at that time.

In 1991, it was one of the founding members of the J. League. In 1998, after losing one of their primary sponsors, it was announced that crosstown rivals Yokohama Flügels would merge with Marinos. Since then, an F was added to the name to represent the Flügels half of the club. Many Flügels fans rejected the merger, rather believing their club to have been dissolved into Marinos. As a result, they refused to follow F. Marinos and instead created Yokohama F.C., F. Marinos' new crosstown rivals.

The team's home stadiums are Nissan Stadium, otherwise know as International Stadium Yokohama, and Mitsuzawa Stadium. However, the squad trains in the newly constructed Marinos Town in the Minato Mirai area of Yokohama.

[edit] Players

[edit] Current Squad

As of June 15, 2009

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Tetsuya Enomoto
3	DF	Naoki Matsuda
5	DF	Yūsuke Tanaka
6	MF	Ryuji Kawai
7	DF	Yuzo Kurihara
9	FW	Kazuma Watanabe
10	MF	Koji Yamase
11	FW	Daisuke Sakata
13	DF	Takanobu Komiyama
14	MF	Kenta Kano
15	DF	Kim Kun-Hoan
17	MF	Shingō Hyōdō
18	FW	Norihisa Shimizu
19	FW	Manabu Saito
20	FW	Kota Mizunuma

No.	Position	Player
21	GK	Hiroki Iikura
22	DF	Yuji Nakazawa (captain)
23	DF	Masakazu Tashiro
24	DF	Takashi Kanai
27	FW	Yosuke Saito
28	DF	Nobuhisa Urata
29	MF	Aria Jasuru Hasegawa
30	MF	Shōhei Ogura
31	GK	Yota Akimoto
33	DF	Daiki Umei
34	DF	Jeong Dong-Ho
35	MF	Takashi Amano
36	GK	Yosuke Abe
37	FW	Jin Hanato

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Fumiya Yamamoto (to Grulla Morioka)
		MF	Yukihiro Yamase (to Sagan Tosu)
		FW	Mike Havenaar (to Sagan Tosu)
		FW	Kenta Furube (to Zweigen Kanazawa)

[edit] Notable Players

[edit] World Cup Players

World Cup 1994

Ramón Medina Bello

World Cup 1998

World Cup 2002

Naoki Matsuda

World Cup 2006

Yuji Nakazawa

[edit] Team Record

[edit] J.League

Season	League	Place	GP	Pts	Win	Draw	Lose	Average Crowd
1993	J1 1st stage	3 / 10	18	-	11	-	7	16,781
	J1 2nd stage	3 / 10	18	-	10	-	8
	J1 Total	4 / 10	36	-	21	-	15
1994	J1 1st stage	9 / 12	22	-	8	-	14	19,801
	J1 2nd stage	3 / 12	22	-	14	-	8
	J1 Total	6 / 12	44	-	22	-	22
1995	J1 1st stage	Champions / 14	26	52	17	-	9	18,326
	J1 2nd stage	3 / 14	26	46	15	-	11
	J1 Total	Champions / 14	52	98	32	-	20
1996	J1	3 / 16	30	63	21	-	9	14,589
1997	J1 1st stage	5 / 17	16	28	11	-	5	9,211
	J1 2nd stage	3 / 17	16	32	12	-	4
	J1 Total	3 / 17	32	60	23	-	9
1998	J1 1st stage	4 / 18	17	32	11	-	6	19,165
	J1 2nd stage	4 / 18	17	32	11	-	6
	J1 Total	4 / 18	34	64	22	-	12
1999	J1 1st stage	7 / 16	15	23	8	1	6	20,095
	J1 2nd stage	3 / 16	15	30	10	2	3
	J1 Total	5 / 16	30	53	18	3	9
2000	J1 1st stage	Champions / 16	15	30	10	0	5	16,644
	J1 2nd stage	5 / 16	15	24	8	1	6
	J1 Total	Runners-up / 16	30	54	18	1	11
2001	J1 1st stage	15 / 16	15	11	3	2	10	20,595
	J1 2nd stage	10 / 16	15	19	6	3	6
	J1 Total	13 / 16	30	30	9	5	16
2002	J1 1st stage	Runners-up / 16	15	33	11	3	1	24,108
	J1 2nd stage	6 / 16	15	22	8	1	6
	J1 Total	Runners-up / 16	30	55	19	4	7
2003	J1 1st stage	Champions / 16	15	32	10	2	3	24,957
	J1 2nd stage	Champions / 16	15	26	7	5	3
	J1 Total	Champions / 16	30	58	17	7	6
2004	J1 1st stage	Champions / 16	15	36	11	3	1	24,818
	J1 2nd stage	6 / 16	15	23	6	5	4
	J1 Total	Champions / 16	30	59	17	8	5
2005	J1	9 / 18	34	48	12	12	10	25,713
2006	J1	9 / 18	34	45	13	6	15	23,663
2007	J1	7 / 18	34	50	14	8	12	24,039
2008	J1	9 / 18	34	48	13	9	12	23,682

[edit] Other Domestic Competitions

See other domestic competitions record

[edit] Major International Competitions

Season	Competition	Result	Average Crowd
1992-93	Asian Cup Winners Cup	Champions	?
1996-97	Asian Club Championship	Quarter-finals	?
2004	A3 Champions Cup	Runners-up	-
2004	AFC Champions League	Round 1	?
2005	A3 Champions Cup	3rd	-
2005	AFC Champions League	Round 1	?

[edit] Honours

[edit] Nissan FC

All Japan Senior Cup: 1976
Japan Soccer League: (2) 1988/1989, 1989/1990
JSL Cup: (3) 1988, 1989, 1990
Emperor's Cup: (5) 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991
Asian Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1991/1992

[edit] Yokohama Marinos

J. League 1st stage: (1) 1995
J. League championship: (1) 1995
Asian Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1992/1993
J League Runners Up: (1) 2008/2009

[edit] Yokohama F.Marinos

J. League 1st stage: (3) 2000, 2003, 2004
J. League 2nd stage: (1) 2003
J. League Championship: (2) 2003, 2004
J. League Cup: (1) 2001

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Hidehiko Shimizu	Japan	1993-1994
Jorge Solari	Argentina	1995
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	1995-1996
Xabier Azkargorta	Spain	1997-1998
Antonio de la Cruz	Spain	1999
Osvaldo Ardiles	Argentina	2000-2001
Yoshiaki Shimojo	Japan	2001
Sebastião Lazaroni	Brazil	2001-2002
Yoshiaki Shimojo	Japan	2002
Takeshi Okada	Japan	2003-2006
Takashi Mizunuma	Japan	2006
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	2007
Takashi Kuwahara	Japan	2008
Kokichi Kimura	Japan	2008-

[edit] Trivia

A fictional character named Mamoru Izawa from the popular Captain Tsubasa manga, becomes a professional soccer player and joins Yokohama F. Marinos.

[edit] External links

Official Website (Japanese)/(English)

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