Urawa Red Diamonds


























Club crest
Full name
Urawa Red Diamonds
Nickname(s)
Reds (レッズ, Rezzu)
Founded
1950; 68 years ago (1950)
Ground
Saitama Stadium 2002
Midori-ku, Saitama, Saitama
Capacity
63,700
Owner
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
Chairman
Keizo Fuchita
Manager
Oswaldo de Oliveira
League
J1 League
2017
J1 League, 7th
Website
Club website

















Home colours














Away colours



Current season


Old crest


Urawa Red Diamonds (浦和レッドダイヤモンズ, Urawa Reddo Daiyamonzu), colloquially Urawa Reds, are a professional association football club playing in Japan's football league, J1 League. The club has been able to boast the highest average gates for fourteen of the J-League's twenty season history. This includes 2016's highest average of almost 37,000. After the club began hosting games at the new Saitama Stadium in 2001, they could accommodate a sharp increase in crowd numbers, a boom which peaked in 2008 with an average of over 47,000. In 2014, the club was forced to play the March 23rd match in front of an empty stadium due to a controversial banner that was hung during the previous home fixture.


The name Red Diamonds alludes to the club's pre-professional era parent company Mitsubishi. The corporation's logo consists of three red diamonds, one of which remains within the current club badge. Its hometown is the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture, but its name comes from the former city of Urawa, which is now a part of Saitama City.




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 International affiliation


  • 3 Stadium


  • 4 Facilities


  • 5 Rivalries


  • 6 Women's and Amateur Teams


  • 7 Record


  • 8 Honours

    • 8.1 Domestic Competitions


    • 8.2 Continental


    • 8.3 International


    • 8.4 Individual Awards



  • 9 Players

    • 9.1 Current squad


    • 9.2 Out on loan


    • 9.3 World Cup Players



  • 10 Former players

    • 10.1 International capped players



  • 11 Managers


  • 12 League history


  • 13 References


  • 14 External links




History


Shin-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries established a football club in 1950[1] in Kobe and moved the club to Tokyo in 1958. In 1965 it formed the Japan Soccer League along with today's Sanfrecce Hiroshima, JEF United Ichihara Chiba, Kashiwa Reysol, Cerezo Osaka and three other clubs who have since been relegated to regional leagues.


Mitsubishi first won the JSL championship in 1969, as a break in Mazda/Sanfrecce's dominance (and also with the fact that Toyo were in Bangkok, Thailand, competing in the Asian Club Cup); their runs up the first division were sporadic but steady until the 1980s when they fell into the Second Division. In 1990 they were promoted as JSL 2 champions, and thus were ready when the J-League implementation began in earnest.


Mitsubishi were the first Japanese club to complete a domestic treble, when in 1978 they won the title, the Emperor's Cup and the Japan Soccer League Cup.


The club has enjoyed mixed fortunes since the J-League advent. The club finished bottom of the league for the first two seasons of the J-League with an average crowd of under 15,000. In 1999 they suffered relegation to the second tier of Japanese football yet again. The team has since improved in form in recent years, starting with a 2003 victory in the Nabisco Cup.


In 2006 Urawa clinched their first professional league title by defeating runners-up Gamba Osaka 3–2 on December 2 before 63,000 supporters. This came after two close calls in the previous two years. In 2005, they finished 2nd, one point behind champions Gamba Osaka. In 2004, they finished 3rd in the First Stage and won the Second Stage. Having qualified for the two-match J. League Championship decider, they lost on penalty kicks to Yokohama F. Marinos.


Urawa were back to back Emperor's Cup winners in 2005 and 2006. Winning the title for the first time since establishment as a professional team, they defeated Shimizu S-Pulse 2–1 on January 1, 2006, and retained the title in 2007 with a 1–0 win over Gamba Osaka. This win also completed a league-cup double. In the 2007 tournament they were defeated at the first hurdle by J2 outfit Ehime F.C..


In 2007, despite a seemingly unassailable lead of seven points with four games remaining, Urawa picked up only two points from their final four games. This run included losing at home to Kashima Antlers; the team who would leapfrog Urawa on the final day of the season to claim their fifth J. League title. Following their capitulation in the fourth round of the Emperor's Cup to J2 outfit Ehime F.C., Urawa had to be content with their 2007 Asian Champions League title. Urawa recorded their first international title after overcoming Iranian team Sepahan F.C. 3–1 on aggregate. The victory made them the first Japanese side to win the title since the competition was reorganised from the Asian Champions Cup in 2003. In the Club World Cup of the same year, Urawa became the first AFC team to finish in third place, beating Tunisian Étoile Sportive du Sahel side on penalty kicks in the third / fourth place play off.


In 2008, Urawa attempted to win their second consecutive Asian Champions League title and progressed to the semi finals where they were defeated by fellow J-League rivals, and eventual Champions League winners, Gamba Osaka 3–1 on aggregate.


On March 8, 2014, a banner which read "JAPANESE ONLY" was hung at one of the entrances to the stands.[2] As punishment for this racist behavior, the March 23rd match was played in an empty stadium.[3]



International affiliation


The club is also notable in that former Feyenoord midfielder Shinji Ono began his professional career playing for Urawa. Ono returned for the 2006 season for a second stint with the club. Urawa is affiliated with German club FC Bayern Munich, whose nickname is also "The Reds".[4]Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the chairman of the FC Bayern Munich, announced that "We have been looking for clubs which have potential ability, management stability and cordial confidence. We could fulfill the desire to affiliate with this great club, Urawa Reds."[5] Some other foreign clubs, such as Arsenal FC, Club Atlético Independiente, Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, VfB Stuttgart, Manchester United F.C., Feyenoord, Hamburger SV and Perth Glory FC, visited Japan and played friendly games at the Saitama Stadium.


In August 2004, Urawa appeared in a pre-season four-team friendly tournament, the Vodafone Cup, at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. The Japanese club, missing key players, lost their first game 5–2 against the Argentinian side Boca Juniors. The second fixture against the hosts, Manchester United, was called off due to a massive electric storm. Some 800 Urawa fans had travelled to the game and were later compensated.



Stadium




International friendly match against Manchester United, July 30, 2005, Saitama Stadium


Since the establishment of J. League in 1992, the team had used tracked Urawa Komaba Stadium as its home stadium. Due to the increasing popularity of the matches, Saitama City, owner of the stadium, expanded the seat capacity some times. The team used Ōmiya Park Soccer Stadium until the works were complete. In spite of the poor performance of the team, the stadium was filled with faithful supporters, drawing an average audience of twenty thousand people.


In October 2001, Saitama Prefecture built new football-specific Saitama Stadium in Saitama city. This stadium was used as a venue for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. After the World Cup the club gradually increased home games in Saitama Stadium and in 2003 the stadium was formally designated as the home stadium. In 2008, only two games were held at Komaba Stadium.



Facilities


Urawa Reds uses Ohara City Field for training. In addition to this facility, the club opened Redsland in 2005, which has three grass fields, one artificial turf field, one baseball field, futsal courts and tennis courts.[6] Redsland is opened to the public and club members can use the facilities at relatively cheap fees.



Rivalries


Urawa Red Diamonds has a local derby with Omiya Ardija, from Omiya-ku, Saitama city. They first met in the 1987 Emperor's Cup, with Mitsubishi defeating NTT Kanto by 5 to 0 at Nishigaoka National Stadium. The derby first took place in the JSL Second Division in the 1989–90 season, and it wouldn't take place until the 2000 season when Urawa was relegated to the second tier again. In 2003 the formerly separate Omiya and Urawa cities merged to become Saitama city, and since 2005 the derby became a top flight fixture after Omiya was promoted.


During the JSL years and into the 1990s, Urawa's main top flight rivals were JEF United Ichihara Chiba and Kashiwa Reysol, both now based in Chiba Prefecture. Because of their former parent companies' headquarters being all based in Marunouchi, Tokyo, the three clubs were known as 丸の内御三家 Marunouchi Gosanke ("Marunouchi Big Three") and fixtures between them were known as Marunouchi derbies, although the term is falling out of use as they are now based in different prefectures and rarely play home games in Tokyo stadiums.


Rivals further afield include Kashima Antlers, F.C. Tokyo, Yokohama Marinos, Kawasaki Frontale, and, even farther away, Gamba Osaka. Old JSL championship rivalries with Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Cerezo Osaka and Shonan Bellmare have ebbed down as those clubs had nadirs in the second tier.



Women's and Amateur Teams


The club also has women's and amateur teams.


  • Women's: Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies[7] in L. League Division 1

  • Amateur: Urawa Red Diamonds Amateur in Saitama Prefecture League Div. 1


Record















































































































































































































































































Season
Div.
Tms.
Pos.
Attendance/G

J. League Cup

Emperor's Cup

AFC

FIFA CWC
1992




Group Stage
Semi-final




1993
J1
10

10
11,459
Group Stage
2nd Round




1994
J1
12

12
18,475
Quarter-final
3rd Round




1995
J1
14

4
19,560

Quarter-final




1996
J1
16

6
24,329
Group Stage
Semi-final




1997
J1
17

10
20,504
Quarter-final
4th Round




1998
J1
18

6
22,706
Group Stage
Quarter-final




1999
J1
16

15
21,206
Quarter-final
4h Round




2000
J2
11

2
16,923
1st Round
4h Round




2001
J1
16

10
26,720
Quarter-final
Semi-final




2002
J1
16

11
26,296
Runners-up
3rd Round




2003
J1
16

6
28,855
Winner
3rd Round




2004
J1
16

2
36,660
Runners-up
Semi-final




2005
J1
18

2
39,357
Semi-final
Winner




2006
J1
18

1
45,573
Quarter-final
Winner




2007
J1
18

2
46,667
Quarter-final
4th Round

CL
Winner
3rd Place

2008
J1
18

7
47,609
Group Stage
5th Round

CL
Semi-final


2009
J1
18

6
44,210
Quarter-final
2nd Round




2010
J1
18

10
39,941
Group Stage
Quarter-final




2011
J1
18

15
33,910
Runners-up
Quarter-final




2012
J1
18

3
36,634
Group Stage
4th Round




2013
J1
18

6
37,100
Runners-up
3rd Round

CL
Group Stage


2014
J1
18

2
35,516
Quarter-final
3rd Round




2015
J1
18

3
38,745
Quarter-final
Runners-up

CL
Group Stage


2016
J1
18

2
36,935
Winner
Round of 16

CL
Round of 16


2017
J1
18

7
33,542
Quarter-final
4th Round

CL
Winner
5th Place
Key
  • Tms. = Number of teams

  • Pos. = Position in league

  • Attendance/G = Average league attendance


Honours



Domestic Competitions


Mitsubishi (Amateur era)



  • Japan Soccer League Division 1

    • Champions: (4) 1969, 1973, 1978, 1982


  • Japan Soccer League Division 2

    • Champions: (1) 1989/90


  • Emperor's Cup

    • Winners: (4) 1971, 1973, 1978, 1980


  • JSL Cup

    • Winners: (2) 1978, 1981


  • Super Cup

    • Winners: (3) 1979, 1980, 1983

Urawa Red Diamonds (Professional era)



  • J1 League

    • Champions: (1) 2006


    • First Stage Champions: (1) 2015


    • Second Stage Champions: (2) 2004, 2016


    • Runners-up: (5) 2004, 2005, 2007, 2014, 2016



  • J.League Division 2

    • Runners-up: (1) 2000


  • Emperor's Cup

    • Winners: (2) 2005, 2006


    • Runners-up: (1) 2015



  • J.League Cup

    • Winners: (2) 2003, 2016


    • Runners-up: (4) 2002, 2004, 2011, 2013



  • Super Cup

    • Winners: (1) 2006


    • Runners-up: (3) 2007, 2015, 2017



Continental



  • AFC Champions League

    • Winners: (2) 2007, 2017 AFC Champions League Trophy.pngAFC Champions League Trophy.png


International



  • FIFA Club World Cup

    • Third Place: (1) 2007


  • Suruga Bank Championship

    • Winners (1) : 2017


Individual Awards


See Individual Award Winners (Urawa Red Diamonds)



Players



Current squad


As of 17 January 2018.[8]Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.






























































No.

Position
Player
1

Japan

GK

Shusaku Nishikawa
2

Brazil

DF

Maurício Antônio
3

Japan

MF

Tomoya Ugajin
5

Japan

DF

Tomoaki Makino
7

Japan

MF

Kosuke Taketomi
10

Japan

MF

Yōsuke Kashiwagi (captain)
11

Curaçao

MF

Quenten Martinus
12

Brazil

FW

Fabrício
14

Japan

MF

Tadaaki Hirakawa
15

Japan

MF

Kazuki Nagasawa
16

Japan

MF

Takuya Aoki
18

Japan

MF

Naoki Yamada
19

Australia

FW

Andrew Nabbout


























































No.

Position
Player
20

Japan

FW

Tadanari Lee
21

Slovenia

FW

Zlatan Ljubijankić
22

Japan

MF

Yuki Abe
23

Japan

GK

Nao Iwadate
25

Japan

GK

Tetsuya Enomoto
26

Japan

DF

Takuya Ogiwara
27

Japan

DF

Daiki Hashioka
28

Japan

GK

Haruki Fukushima
29

Japan

MF

Kai Shibato
30

Japan

FW

Shinzo Koroki
31

Japan

DF

Takuya Iwanami
38

Japan

MF

Daisuke Kikuchi
46

Japan

DF

Ryota Moriwaki


Out on loan


Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.






















No.

Position
Player


Japan

DF

Rikiya Motegi (at Montedio Yamagata)


Japan

DF

Takuya Okamoto (at Shonan Bellmare)


Japan

MF

Ryotaro Ito (at Mito Hollyhock)


















No.

Position
Player


Japan

MF

Haruki Izawa (at Tokushima Vortis)


Japan

MF

Yoshiaki Komai (at Consadole Sapporo)


Japan

FW

Ado Onaiwu (at Renofa Yamaguchi)


World Cup Players


The following players have represented their country at the World Cup whilst playing for Urawa Red Diamonds:


World Cup 1998



  • Japan Masayuki Okano


  • Japan Shinji Ono

World Cup 2006



  • Japan Alex


  • Japan Shinji Ono


  • Japan Keisuke Tsuboi

World Cup 2010



  • Japan Yuki Abe

World Cup 2014



  • Japan Shusaku Nishikawa

World Cup 2018



  • Japan Wataru Endo


  • Japan Tomoaki Makino


  • Australia Andrew Nabbout


Former players




International capped players












JFA.

  • Japan Masayuki Okano


  • Japan Shinji Ono


  • Japan Keisuke Tsuboi


  • Japan Alex


  • Japan Masahiro Fukuda


  • Japan Yuichiro Nagai


  • Japan Nobuhisa Yamada


  • Japan Marcus Tulio Tanaka


  • Japan Tatsuya Tanaka


  • Japan Teruaki Kurobe


  • Japan Tomoyuki Sakai


  • Japan Hiromitsu Isogai


  • Japan Ryōta Tsuzuki


  • Japan Naohiro Takahara


  • Japan Hajime Hosogai


  • Japan Yuki Abe


  • Japan Makoto Hasebe


  • Japan Keita Suzuki


  • Japan Tadanari Lee


  • Japan Ryota Moriwaki


  • Japan Naoki Yamada


  • Japan Genki Haraguchi


  • Japan Shusaku Nishikawa


  • Japan Wataru Endo


  • Japan Tomoaki Makino


  • Japan Shinzo Koroki


  • Japan Yōsuke Kashiwagi


  • Japan Tomoya Ugajin


  • Japan Yuki Muto


  • Japan Kazuki Nagasawa




AFC/ CAF/ OFC.

  • Australia Matthew Spiranovic


  • Australia Ned Zelić


  • Australia Andrew Nabbout


  • Qatar Emerson


  • South Korea Cho Kwi-jea


  • South Korea Gwak Kyung-keun


  • Burkina Faso Wilfried Sanou


  • Ghana Faisal Mohammed




UEFA.

  • Austria Michael Baur


  • Croatia Tomislav Marić


  • Denmark Brian Steen Nielsen


  • France Basile Boli


  • Germany Uwe Bein


  • Germany Guido Buchwald


  • Germany Uwe Rahn


  • Germany Michael Rummenigge


  • Italy Giuseppe Zappella


  • Montenegro Željko Petrović


  • Netherlands Alfred Nijhuis


  • Poland Andrzej Kubica


  • Russia Yuriy Nikiforov


  • Serbia Ranko Despotović


  • Slovakia Ľubomír Luhový


  • Slovakia Miroslav Mentel


  • Spain Txiki Begiristain


  • Turkey Alpay Özalan




CONMEBOL.

  • Argentina Osvaldo Escudero


  • Argentina Victor Ferreyra


  • Argentina Marcelo Morales


  • Argentina Marcelo Trivisonno


  • Brazil Adiel


  • Brazil Adriano


  • Brazil Donizete Oliveira


  • Brazil Edmilson


  • Brazil Edmundo


  • Brazil Harison


  • Brazil Márcio Richardes


  • Brazil Mazola


  • Brazil Nenê


  • Brazil Robson Ponte


  • Brazil Popo


  • Brazil Santos


  • Brazil Toninho


  • Brazil Tuto


  • Brazil Washington


  • Uruguay Fernando Picun



Managers










































































ManagerNat.Tenure
Hiroshi Ninomiya
 Japan
1967–75
Takaji Mori
 Japan
1993
Kenzo Yokoyama
 Japan
1994
Holger Osieck
 Germany
Jan 1, 1995 – Dec 31, 1996
Horst Köppel
 Germany
Feb 1, 1997 – Dec 31, 1997
Hiromi Hara
 Japan
1998–99
Aad de Mos
 Netherlands
July 1, 1999 – Dec 3, 1999
Yasushi Yoshida
 Japan
1999
Kazuo Saito
 Japan
2000
Kenzo Yokoyama
 Japan
2000
Tita
 Brazil
Jan 1, 2001 – June 30, 2001
Pita
 Brazil
July 1, 2001 – Dec 31, 2001
Hans Ooft
 Netherlands
2002 – Dec 31, 2003
Guido Buchwald
 Germany
Jan 1, 2004 – Dec 31, 2006
Holger Osieck
 Germany
Jan 1, 2007 – March 16, 2008
Gert Engels
 Germany
March 16, 2008 – Nov 27, 2008
Volker Finke
 Germany
Jan 1, 2009 – Dec 31, 2010
Željko Petrović
 Montenegro
Jan 1, 2011 – Oct 20, 2011

Takafumi Hori (caretaker)

 Japan
Oct 20, 2011 – Dec 31, 2011
Mihailo Petrović
 Serbia
Jan 1, 2012– July 30, 2017
Takafumi Hori
 Japan
July 31, 2017 – April 1, 2018
Tsuyoshi Otsuki
 Japan
April 2, 2018 – April 24, 2018
Oswaldo de Oliveira
 Brazil
April 25, 2018 –


League history


Excepting two seasons in which they were in the second tier, Mitsubishi/Urawa has always competed in the top flight, thereby being the club with the most top flight seasons total.



  • Mitsubishi (Amateur era)
    • Division 1 (JSL and JSL Div.1) : 1965–66, 1988–89

    • Division 2 (JSL Div.2) : 1989–90

    • Division 1 (JSL Div.1) : 1990–91, 1991–92



  • Urawa Red Diamonds (Professional era)
    • Division 1 (J. League) : 1993–99

    • Division 2 (J. League Div.2) : 2000

    • Division 1 (J. League Div.1) : 2001–


  • Top Scorer: Masahiro Fukuda with 152 goals


References




  1. ^ 浦和レッズ年表 Archived 2008-10-25 at the Wayback Machine., Urawa Red Diamonds


  2. ^ ARUDOU, DEBITO. "J. League and media must show red card to racism". Japan Times. Retrieved 12 March 2016. 


  3. ^ "Urawa Reds play to empty stadium after fans banned for racist banner". BBC. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 12 March 2016. 


  4. ^ J-League partner Urawa seal domestic double, FC Bayern


  5. ^ 06.01.18 FCバイエルン・ミュンヘン(ドイツ)とのパートナーシップ締結について Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine., Urawa Red Diamonds


  6. ^ レッズランド | 浦和レッズ Archived 2008-10-24 at the Wayback Machine., Urawa Red Diamonds


  7. ^ URAWA REDS LADIES Archived 2008-10-24 at the Wayback Machine., Urawa Red Diamonds


  8. ^ http://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/topteamtopics/2018%E3%82%B7%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BA%E3%83%B3-%E3%83%88%E3%83%83%E3%83%97%E3%83%81%E3%83%BC%E3%83%A0%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E8%83%8C%E7%95%AA%E5%8F%B7%E3%81%AB%E3%81%A4%E3%81%84%E3%81%A6/




External links





  • Urawa Red Diamonds official website (in Japanese) (in English)


  • Urawa Red Diamonds Supporters Media website (unofficial) (in Japanese)










Awards and achievements
Preceded by
Japan national baseball team

Japan Professional Sports Grand Prize Winner
2007
Succeeded by
Ryo Ishikawa
Sporting positions
Preceded by
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
South Korea


Champions of Asia
2007
Succeeded by
Gamba Osaka
Japan

Preceded by
Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
South Korea


Champions of Asia
2017
Succeeded by
Incumbent






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