Yokohama F. Marinos

Yokohama F-Marinos
横浜F・マリノス

Full name

Yokohama F·Marinos

Nickname(s)

Marinos

Founded

1972

Ground

Nissan Stadium
(International Stadium Yokohama)
Kohoku-ku, Yokohama
(Capacity: 72,327)

Chairman

Akira Kaetsu

Manager

Kazushi Kimura (2010 - )

League

J. League Division 1

2010

8th Place

Home colours

Away colours

Current season

Yokohama F. Marinos (横浜F・マリノス, Yokohama Efu Marinosu^?) is a Japanese association football team that participates in the fully professional J. League Division 1; the top Japanese professional football league. Having won the J-League title three times and finished second twice, they are one of the most successful J-League clubs. The team are based in Yokohama and were 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. Yokohama F. Marinos are the longest serving team in the top flight of Japanese football having played at the top level since 1982.

1 History
2 Players
3 Record as J. League member
4 Honours
5 Managers
6 External links

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. They 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 FC, F. Marinos' new crosstown rivals. In 2010, Shunsuke Nakamura made a come-back to Yokohama F. Marinos.

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

Players

Current squad

As of July 17, 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	Tetsuya Enomoto
2	DF	Takashi Amano
4	DF	Yuzo Kurihara
5	DF	Kim Kun-Hoan
6	MF	Shōhei Ogura
7	MF	Shingō Hyōdō (vice-captain)
8	MF	Aria Jasuru Hasegawa
9	FW	Kazuma Watanabe
10	FW	Yuji Ono
11	FW	Masashi Oguro
13	DF	Yuzo Kobayashi
14	MF	Kenta Kano
15	FW	Jin Hanato
16	DF	Eijiro Takeda
18	MF	Rei Matsumoto

No.	Position	Player
19	MF	Kentaro Moriya
20	DF	Yasuhiro Hato
21	GK	Hiroki Iikura
22	DF	Yuji Nakazawa
23	MF	Sho Matsumoto
24	DF	Takashi Kanai
25	MF	Shunsuke Nakamura (captain)
26	DF	Naoaki Aoyama
29	MF	Hiroyuki Taniguchi
31	GK	Yota Akimoto
40	MF	Andrew Kumagai (youth)
41	GK	Ryota Suzuki (youth)
42	DF	Kazuki Miyamoto (youth)
43	MF	Yuto Suzuki (youth)
44	FW	Hwang Byung-In (youth)

Retired Number

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
3		DF	Naoki Matsuda

Out on loan

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
		DF	Masato Fujita (to Yokohama F.C.)
		DF	Masakazu Tashiro (to Machida Zelvia)
		DF	Jeong Dong-Ho (to Gainare Tottori)
		MF	Kota Mizunuma (to Tochigi S.C.)
		FW	Manabu Saito (to Ehime F.C.)

International Players

Japan

AFC

CONMEBOL

UEFA

Most appearances

Rank	Name	Career	Appearances	Goals
1	Naoki Matsuda	1995–2010	507	27
2	Yoshiharu Ueno	1994–2007	393	29
3	Yuji Nakazawa	2002–present	331	23
4	Daisuke Sakata	2001–2010	323	64
5	Norio Omura	1993–2001	311	36
6	Akihiro Endo	1994–2005	273	18
7	Masami Ihara	1993–1999	270	5
8	Satoru Noda	1993–1998	245	14
9	Hayuma Tanaka	2000–2002 2004–2008	240	14
10	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	1994–2001	238	0

Most goals

Rank	Name	Career	Goals	Appearances	Goals/Game Ratio
1	Shoji Jo	1997–2001	69	129	0.534
2	Daisuke Sakata	2001–2010	64	323	0.198
3	David Bisconti	1993–1996	61	149	0.409
4	Ramón Díaz	1993–1995	59	90	0.655
5	Ramón Medina Bello	1994–1995	47	66	0.712
6	Shunsuke Nakamura	1997–2002 2010–present	44	209	0.210
7	Koji Yamase	2005–2010	44	199	0.221
8	Hideo Ōshima	2005–2008	41	155	0.265
9	Julio Salinas	1997–1998	40	57	0.702
10	Tatsuhiko Kubo	2003–2006	37	108	0.343

World Cup Players

World Cup 1994

Ramón Medina Bello

World Cup 1998

World Cup 2002

Naoki Matsuda

World Cup 2006

Yuji Nakazawa

World Cup 2010

Shunsuke Nakamura
Yuji Nakazawa

Record as J. League member

Season	Div.	Tms.	Pos.	Attendance/G	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Asia
1992	-	-	-	-	Group Stage	Winner	-	-
1993	J1	10	4	16,781	Group Stage	Quarter-final	CWC	Winner
1994	J1	12	6	19,801	Semi-final	Semi-final	-	-
1995	J1	14	1	18,326	-	2nd Round	-	-
1996	J1	16	3	14,589	Group Stage	3rd Round	-	-
1997	J1	17	3	9,211	Group Stage	4th Round	CC	Quarter-final
1998	J1	18	4	19,165	Group Stage	3rd Round	-	-
1999	J1	16	5	20,095	Quarter-final	Quarter-final	-	-
2000	J1	16	2	16,644	Quarter-final	Quarter-final	-	-
2001	J1	16	13	20,595	Winner	3rd Round	-	-
2002	J1	16	2	24,108	Group Stage	4th Round	-	-
2003	J1	16	1	24,957	Quarter-final	Quarter-final	-	-
2004	J1	16	1	24,818	Quarter-final	5th Round	CL	Group Stage
2005	J1	18	9	25,713	Semi-final	5th Round	CL	Group Stage
2006	J1	18	9	23,663	Semi-final	Quarter-final	-	-
2007	J1	18	7	24,039	Semi-final	5th Round	-	-
2008	J1	18	9	23,682	Quarter-final	Semi-final	-	-
2009	J1	18	10	22,057	Semi-final	4th Round	-	-
2010	J1	18	8	25,684	Group Stage	4th Round	-	-

Honours

Nissan FC

All Japan Senior Cup: (1) 1976
Japan Soccer League Division 1: (2) 1988-89, 1989–90
JSL Cup: (3) 1988, 1989, 1990
Emperor's Cup: (5) 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991
Asian Cup Winners Cup: (1) 1991-92