- Nippon Steel Yawata S.C.
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Nippon Steel Yawata Full name Nippon Steel Yawata Soccer Club Founded 1950
(as Yawata Steel)Dissolved 1999 Ground Sayagatani Stadium
Kitakyushu, Fukuoka, JapanHome coloursAway coloursNippon Steel Yawata Soccer Club (新日本製鐵八幡サッカー部 Shin-Nihon Seitetsu Yawata Sakkā-Bu) was a Japanese football club based in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture.
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History
Yawata Steel S.C. was originally founded in 1950 as the works team of the Yawata Steel company, which in 1970 merged with Fuji Steel to become Nippon Steel. During the 1960s the club provided the Japan national football team with many quality players which strengthened the squad for the 1964 and 1968 Olympic tournaments.
Yawata Steel was one of the original 8 clubs that founded the Japan Soccer League in 1965, and building on its Emperor's Cup win, it was runner-up to Toyo Industries (now Sanfrecce Hiroshima) in 1965 and 1966.
In 1981, however, after an uneventful decade in which the club did not win any honours nor was in danger of relegation, Nippon Steel was relegated to Division 2 and never played top flight football again. In 1990 they were relegated yet again, this time leaving the JSL for good after 26 seasons. They thus joined the Kyushu Football League.
1999 was the last season of Nippon Steel Yawata in the Kyushu league.
In 2007, New Wave Kitakyushu, formerly part of Mitsubishi Chemical, assumed the mantle of representative of Kitakyushu in the national football leagues by earning promotion to the Japan Football League.
Name
- 1950-1970 Yawata Steel SC
- 1970-1991 Nippon Steel SC
- 1991-1999 Nippon Steel Yawata SC
Titles
- Emperor's Cup : 1964 (shared with Furukawa Electric).
Notable players
- Masashi Watanabe
- Teruki Miyamoto
- Nobuyuki Oishi
- Hiroshi Saeki
- Kiyoshi Tomizawa
- Masahiro Hamazaki
- Yuji Kishioku
- Hisao Kami
- Masafumi Yokoyama
Sister clubs
Japanese Club Football First-tier club football seasons, 1965–present Japan Soccer League
1965–1992
Japan Soccer League Division 1
since 19721965 · 1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969
1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985–86 · 1986–87 · 1987–88 · 1988–89 · 1989–90
1990–91 · 1991–92J. League
1993–present
J. League Division 1
since 19991993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
2010 · 2011List of champions · J. League Championship · Promotion/Relegation series · Super Cup Second-tier club football seasons, 1972–present Japan Soccer League Division 2
1972–19921972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985–86 · 1986–87 · 1987–88 · 1988–89 · 1989–90
1990–91 · 1991–92(former) Japan Football League
1992–1998
(former) Japan Football League Division 1
1992–19931992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998J. League Division 2
1999–present1999
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
2010 · 2011List of champions · Promotion/Relegation series Third-tier club football seasons, 1992–1993, 1999–present (former) Japan Football League Division 2
1992–19931992 · 1993No national third tier, 1994–1998Japan Football League
1999–present1999
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
2010 · 2011List of champions Regional level club football seasons, 1966–present Japanese Regional Leagues
1966–present1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969
1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989
1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
2010 · 2011Regional Promotion Series · Shakaijin Cup Emperor's Cup seasons, 1921–present Emperor's Cup
1921–present1921 · 1922 · 1923 · 1924 · 1925 · 1926 · 1927 · 1928 · 1929
1930 · 1931 · 1932 · 1933 · 1934 · 1935 · 1936 · 1937 · 1938 · 1939
1940 · 1941 · 1942 · 1943 · 1944 · 1945 · 1946 · 1947 · 1948 · 1949
1950 · 1951 · 1952 · 1953 · 1954 · 1955 · 1956 · 1957 · 1958 · 1959
1960 · 1961 · 1962 · 1963 · 1964 · 1965 · 1966 · 1967 · 1968 · 1969
1970 · 1971 · 1972 · 1973 · 1974 · 1975 · 1976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989
1990 · 1991 · 1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
2010 · 2011Super Cup League Cup seasons, 1976–present JSL Cup
1976–19911976 · 1977 · 1978 · 1979
1980 · 1981 · 1982 · 1983 · 1984 · 1985 · 1986 · 1987 · 1988 · 1989
1990 · 1991J. League Cup
1992–present1992 · 1993 · 1994 · 1995 · 1996 · 1997 · 1998 · 1999
2000 · 2001 · 2002 · 2003 · 2004 · 2005 · 2006 · 2007 · 2008 · 2009
2010 · 2011Suruga Bank Championship Original Japan Soccer League clubs (1965) Categories:- Defunct Japanese football clubs
- Japan Soccer League clubs
- Association football clubs established in 1950
- Association football clubs disestablished in 1999
- Kitakyūshū
- Emperor's Cup winners
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