Kashiwa Reysol

Kashiwa Reysol
柏レイソル
Full name	Kashiwa Reysol
Nickname(s)	"Sun Kings"
Founded	1940
Ground	Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium; Kashiwa no Ha Park Stadium; Kashiwa, Chiba; (Capacity: 15,900; 20,000)
Chairman	Shigeyuki Onodera
Manager	Shinichiro Takahashi(2009 - )
League	J. League Div.1
2008	11th place
Home colours	Away colours

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Kashiwa Reysol (柏レイソル, Kashiwa Reisoru^?) is a J. League team. The name Reysol comes from the Spanish words rey ('king') and sol ('sun') and reflect the fact that the team had originally been a company team of Hitachi in the Japan Soccer League. Its home town is Kashiwa, Chiba, about an hour northeast of Tokyo.

[edit] History

Founded in 1940 as Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in Koganei, Tokyo, the team was a founding member of the Japan Soccer League. It had some success during the mid-1970s, winning several Emperor's Cup and JSL titles and contributing several players to the Japanese national team.

In 1986, the team relocated from Koganei to Kashiwa, but it took a while to adapt to the new town, as they were relegated to the JSL Division 2 at the season's closing. They made it back to the top flight in 1989, only to drop back in 1990 and return in 1991. As the J. League advent had come too soon for them, Hitachi chose to relegate itself in the last JSL season.

The team joined the Japan Football League in 1992 and added Careca of the Brazil national football team with the aim of winning the JFL champion for promotion to the J1 league in 1993. The quest was unsuccessful and the team barely managed to come in at the fifth spot. In 1994 the team secured the second spot in the JFL and earned the promotion to the top league. From 1995, it was in the J1 and in 1998, the team welcomed the former manager for Japan's Olympic team, Akira Nishino as its manager. In 1999, it won its first title, the Nabisco Cup championship. The 1999 and 2000 seasons marked the highpoint in the club's recent history.

Over the next two seasons, management changes, in particular the tenure of English coach Steve Perryman, unsettled the team and they lost ground. Things got worse still. Following a 16th place out of 18 finish in the 2005 standings, Kashiwa Reysol lost the promotion/relegation play-offs against the 3rd place J2 team Ventforet Kofu. For the first time, three J1 teams were sent down to J2.

Following relegation the team lost all its former players. It began 2006 with both a new coach, Nobuhiro Ishizaki, and an almost entirely new squad. Kashiwa lead J2 for much of 2006, but a series of poor performances in the later stages saw them slip down the table. It was only in the final game of the season that the team secured automatic promotion to J1 as first placed runners up.

[edit] Team Record

[edit] J.League

Season	League	Place	GP	Pts	Win	Draw	Lose	Average Crowd
1995	J1 1st stage	14 / 14	26	22	7	-	19	16,102
	J1 2nd stage	5 / 14	26	43	14	-	12
	J1 Total	12 / 14	52	65	21	-	31
1996	J1	5 / 16	30	60	20	-	10	13,033
1997	J1 1st stage	3 / 17	16	32	11	-	5	8,664
	J1 2nd stage	10 / 17	16	20	7	-	9
	J1 Total	7 / 17	32	52	18	-	14
1998	J1 1st stage	10 / 18	17	22	9	-	8	9,932
	J1 2nd stage	8 / 18	17	25	9	-	8
	J1 Total	8 / 18	34	47	18	-	16
1999	J1 1st stage	4 / 16	15	29	10	0	5	10,122
	J1 2nd stage	4 / 16	15	29	10	1	4
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	58	20	1	9
2000	J1 1st stage	4 / 16	15	26	10	0	5	10,037
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 16	15	32	11	1	3
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	58	21	1	8
2001	J1 1st stage	6 / 16	15	22	8	0	7	12,477
	J1 2nd stage	7 / 16	15	21	6	3	6
	J1 Total	6 / 16	30	43	14	3	13
2002	J1 1st stage	14 / 16	15	11	4	0	11	11,314
	J1 2nd stage	9 / 16	15	21	6	3	6
	J1 Total	12 / 16	30	32	10	3	17
2003	J1 1st stage	9 / 16	15	21	6	3	6	10,873
	J1 2nd stage	11 / 16	15	16	3	7	5
	J1 Total	12 / 16	30	37	9	10	11
2004	J1 1st stage	15 / 16	15	12	3	3	9	10,513
	J1 2nd stage	15 / 16	15	13	2	7	6
	J1 Total	16 / 16	30	25	5	10	15
2005	J1	16 / 18	34	35	8	11	15	12,492
2006	J2	Runners-up / 13	48	88	27	7	14	8,328
2007	J1	8 / 18	34	50	14	8	12	12,967
2008	J1	11 / 18	34	46	13	7	14	12,308

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

[edit] Other Domestic Competitions

See other domestic competitions record

[edit] Titles

[edit] Hitachi

Japan Soccer League: (1) 1971
Japan Soccer League Division 2: (1) 1990/91
JSL Cup: (1) 1976
Emperor's Cup: (2) 1972, 1975

[edit] Kashiwa Reysol

J. League Cup: (1) 1999

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Zé Sérgio	Brazil	1995
Antoninho	Brazil	1995
Nicanor	Brazil	1996-1997
Akira Nishino	Japan	1998-2001
Steve Perryman	England	2001-2002
Marco Aurelio	Brazil	2002-2003
Tomoyoshi Ikeya	Japan	2004
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	2004-2005
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	2006-2008
Shonichiro Takahashi	Japan	2009-

[edit] Players

[edit] Current Squad

As of June 18, 2009

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Kazushige Kirihata
2	DF	Jiro Kamata
3	DF	Naoya Kondo
4	DF	Naoki Ishikawa
5	DF	Masahiro Koga
7	MF	Hidekazu Otani (captain)
8	FW	Masakatsu Sawa
9	FW	Hideaki Kitajima
10	FW	França
11	MF	Popo
13	DF	Yuzo Kobayashi
14	MF	Keisuke Ota
15	MF	Minoru Suganuma
16	FW	Ancelmo Ramon
18	MF	Iwao Yamane
19	MF	Shu Abe
20	FW	Tadanari Lee

No.	Position	Player
21	GK	Yuta Minami
22	DF	Wataru Hashimoto
23	DF	Yohei Kurakawa
24	MF	Jun Yanagisawa
25	DF	Yusuke Murakami
27	MF	Yuki Otsu
28	MF	Ryoichi Kurisawa
29	MF	Kohei Higa
33	GK	Takanori Sugeno
34	MF	Kota Sugiyama
35	MF	Ren Sengoku
36	FW	Masato Kudo
37	MF	Masato Yamazaki
38	DF	Adigun Adebayo
39	MF	Akimi Barada
40	MF	Yoshiyuki Kobayashi

* Players in bold have senior international caps.

[edit] Out on loan

No.		Position	Player
		GK	Shinya Kato (to Ehime F.C.)
		DF	Hiroki Sakai (to Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube)
		DF	Takahiro Oshima (to AC Nagano Parceilo)
		MF	Kosuke Taketomi (to Mogi Mirim Esporte Clube)
		MF	Shunta Nagai (to Ehime F.C.)