Yokohama F. Marinos

Yokohama F. Marinos

Full name	Yokohama F·Marinos
Nickname(s)	Marinos, Tricolore
Founded	1972 (1972) (as Nissan Motors F.C.)
Ground	Nissan Stadium (International Stadium Yokohama) Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama
Capacity	72,327
Owner	Nissan (80%) City Football Group (20%)
Chairman	Ryōji Kurosawa
Manager	Ange Postecoglou
League	J1 League
2017	J1 League, 5th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Yokohama F. Marinos (横浜F・マリノス, Yokohama Efu Marinosu) is a Japanese association football team that participates in the J1 League.^[1][2][3]

Having won the J-League title three times and finishing second twice, they are 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. Yokohama F. Marinos is the longest serving team in the top flight of Japanese football, having played at the top level since 1982, also making them, along with Kashima Antlers, one of only two teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since its inception.

History

Nissan F.C. Yokohama Marinos

In 1972, 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 comeback to Yokohama F. Marinos.

Since Naoki Matsuda left the team, F.Marinos' number 3 has been retired. Naoki Matsuda had participated 385 matches as a member of F.Marinos. On 2 August, in the year after he left the club, he collapsed during training due to a cardiac arrest after finishing a 15-minute warmup run. Doctors diagnosed his condition as "extremely severe". Two days later, he died at the age of 34. As a result, his ex-number, 3 has been a retired as an active number for this team. On 23 July 2013, Yokohama F. Marinos faced Manchester United in a 3–2 win for a friendly match.

Yokohama F. Marinos won the Emperor's Cup on New Years Day 2014, their first in twenty-one years. On 20 May 2014, it was announced that City Football Group, the holding company of Manchester City F.C., had invested in a minority share of Yokohama F. Marinos, creating a partnership with both the football club and car manufacturer Nissan.^[4] The investment is designed to offer an integrated approach to football, marketing, media, commercial, training and medical care consistent with other City Football Group investments such as Manchester City F.C., Melbourne City FC and the New York City FC. City Football Group holds 19.95 percent of Yokohama F. Marinos' existing shares,^[5] but through the establishment of a Japan-based subsidiary may seek to eventually own a controlling stake in the club.^[6]

Kits and crests

Yokohama F. Marinos utilizes a three colour system composed of blue, white and red.

In 2012, Yokohama F. Marinos have unveiled a special edition 20th Anniversary jersey.^[7]

Stadiums

Mitsuzawa Stadium, one of the two home stadiums of the Yokohama F. Marinos

International Stadium Yokohama, one of the two home stadiums of the Yokohama F. Marinos

The team's home stadiums are Nissan Stadium, otherwise known as International Stadium Yokohama, and Mitsuzawa Stadium. The team trained at Marinos Town located in the area of Minato Mirai, but moved to Kozukue Field located next to the home ground in 2016.

Players

Current squad

As of 7 September 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 2 DF Dušan Cvetinović 4 DF Yuzo Kurihara 5 MF Takuya Kida 6 MF Takahiro Ogihara 7 FW Hugo Vieira 8 MF Kosuke Nakamachi 9 MF Yūki Ōtsu 11 MF Keita Endo 13 DF Thiago Martins (on loan from Palmeiras) 14 MF Jun Amano 15 FW Takefusa Kubo (on loan from FC Tokyo) 16 FW Sho Ito 19 FW Teruhito Nakagawa 20 FW Olivier Boumal 21 GK Hiroki Iikura 22 DF Yuji Nakazawa

No. Position Player 24 DF Ryosuke Yamanaka 25 MF Yun Il-lok 26 MF Ippei Shinozuka 27 DF Ken Matsubara 29 FW Masashi Wada 30 GK Ayaki Suzuki 31 GK Daichi Sugimoto 32 GK Gaku Harada 34 DF Taiga Nishiyama 35 MF Kaina Yoshio 37 MF Kenta Hori 38 MF Kota Yamada 39 FW Shuto Machino 40 MF Naoki Tsubaki 44 DF Shinnosuke Hatanaka

The official club website lists the club mascot as player #0 and the supporters as player #12.

Retired number

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

No. Position Player 17 FW Cayman Togashi (to FC Tokyo) 23 DF Takumi Shimohira (to JEF United Chiba) 28 DF Ryo Takano (to Ventforet Kofu)

No. Position Player 36 DF Jin Ikoma (to Kataller Toyama) FW Kayke (to Esporte Clube Bahia)

Current staff

Position	Name
Head coach	Ange Postecoglou
Personal assistant	Peter Cklamovski
Assistant Manager	Yuki Kosaka
Assistant Manager	Yasushi Okamura
Goalkeeper coach	Shigetatsu Matsunaga
Fitness coach	Greg King
Sport director	Doru Isac

International players

Japan Akihiro Endo Yasuhiro Hato Masami Ihara Shoji Jo Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi Kazushi Kimura Tatsuhiko Kubo Yuzo Kurihara Naoki Matsuda Shigetatsu Matsunaga Takashi Mizunuma Shunsuke Nakamura Eisuke Nakanishi Yuji Nakazawa Daisuke Oku Norio Omura Daisuke Sakata Hayuma Tanaka Yoshiharu Ueno Kazuma Watanabe Koji Yamase

AFC/OFC/CAF Miloš Degenek Ahn Jung-Hwan Kim Kun-Hoan Shin Byung-Ho Yoo Sang-Chul Yun Il-lok

CONMEBOL Alberto Acosta Pablo Bastianini David Bisconti Ramón Díaz Darío Figueroa Néstor Gorosito Raul Maldonado Pedro Massacessi Ramón Medina Bello Gustavo Zapata Julio César Baldivieso Marcelo Lipatín

UEFA David Babunski Igor Jovićević Goran Jurić Dušan Petković Andoni Goikoetxea Julio Salinas

CONCACAF Quenten Martinus

Most appearances

Rank	Name	Career	Appearances	Goals
1	Naoki Matsuda	1995–10	507	27
2	Yuji Nakazawa	2002–present	435	29
3	Shunsuke Nakamura	1997–02 2010–16	415	83
4	Yoshiharu Ueno	1994–07	393	29
5	Daisuke Sakata	2001–10	323	64
6	Norio Omura	1993–01	311	36
7	Akihiro Endo	1994–05	273	18
8	Masami Ihara	1993–99	270	5
9	Satoru Noda	1993–98	245	14
10	Hayuma Tanaka	2000–02 2004–08	240	14

Most goals

Rank	Name	Career	Goals	Appearances	Goals/Game Ratio
1	Shunsuke Nakamura	1997–02 2010–16	83	415	0.200
2	Shoji Jo	1997–01	69	129	0.534
3	Daisuke Sakata	2001–10	64	323	0.198
4	David Bisconti	1993–96	61	149	0.409
5	Ramón Díaz	1993–95	59	90	0.655
6	Ramón Medina Bello	1994–95	47	66	0.712
7	Koji Yamase	2005–10	44	199	0.221
8	Hideo Ōshima	2005–08	41	155	0.265
9	Julio Salinas	1997–98	40	57	0.702
10	Tatsuhiko Kubo	2003–06	37	108	0.343

Record

Honours

Awards

J.League MVP: Shunsuke Nakamura (2000, 2013), Yuji Nakazawa (2004)

J.League Top Scorer: Ramón Díaz (1993)

J.League Rookie of the Year: Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (1995), Daisuke Nasu (2003), Kazuma Watanabe (2009)

J.League Manager of the Year: Takeshi Okada (2003–04)

J.League awards Fair Play: Daisuke Sakata (2007)

J.League Best XI 1993: Shigetatsu Matsunaga, Masami Ihara, Ramón Díaz

J.League Best XI 1994: Masami Ihara

J.League Best XI 1995: Masami Ihara, Masaharu Suzuki

J.League Best XI 1996: Masami Ihara

J.League Best XI 1997: Masami Ihara

J.League Best XI 1999: Shunsuke Nakamura

J.League Best XI 2000: Naoki Matsuda, Shunsuke Nakamura

J.League Best XI 2002: Naoki Matsuda

J.League Best XI 2003: Yuji Nakazawa, Daisuke Oku, Tatsuhiko Kubo, Dutra

J.League Best XI 2004: Yuji Nakazawa, Daisuke Oku, Dutra

J.League Best XI 2005: Yuji Nakazawa

J.League Best XI 2008: Yuji Nakazawa

J.League Best XI 2013: Yuji Nakazawa, Shunsuke Nakamura

MVP J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Tatsuya Enomoto (2001)

New Hero J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Manabu Saito (2013)

MVP Japan Soccer League: Tetsuji Hashiratani (1988–89), Kazushi Kimura (1989–90)

Top Scorer Japan Soccer League: Renato (1989–90), Renato (1990–91)

Leaders assists Japan Soccer League: Kazushi Kimura (1984), Takashi Mizunuma (1986–87)

Best goalkeeper Japan Soccer League: Shigetatsu Matsunaga (1988–89), Shigetatsu Matsunaga (1990–91)

Rookie of the Year Japan Soccer League: Koichi Hashiratani (1983), Masami Ihara (1990–91)

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1983: Takeshi Koshida, Nobutoshi Kaneda, Kazushi Kimura, Koichi Hashiratani

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1984: Takashi Mizunuma, Kazushi Kimura, Koichi Hashiratani

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1985–86: Kazushi Kimura

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1986–87: Takashi Mizunuma

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1987–88: Jose Oscar Bernardi, Toru Sano, Takashi Mizunuma

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1988–89: Shigetatsu Matsunaga, Jose Oscar Bernardi, Toru Sano, Takashi Mizunuma, Kazushi Kimura, Kenta Hasegawa, Koichi Hashiratani

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1989–90: Tetsuji Hashiratani, Shinji Tanaka, Kazushi Kimura, Renato

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1990–91: Shigetatsu Matsunaga, Tetsuji Hashiratani, Renato

Best XI Japan Soccer League 1991–92: Shigetatsu Matsunaga, Tetsuji Hashiratani, Masami Ihara

Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Hidehiko Shimizu	Japan	1993–94
Jorge Solari	Argentina	1995
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	1995–96
Xabier Azkargorta	Spain	July 1, 1997 – June 30, 1998
Gert Engels	Germany	Sept 1998 – Dec 98
Antonio de la Cruz	Spain	1999
Osvaldo Ardiles	Argentina	Jan 1, 2000 – Dec 31, 2000
Yoshiaki Shimojo	Japan	2001
Sebastião Lazaroni	Brazil	2001–02
Yoshiaki Shimojo	Japan	2002
Takeshi Okada	Japan	Jan 1, 2003 – Aug 24, 2006
Takashi Mizunuma	Japan	Aug 25, 2006 – Dec 31, 2006
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	Jan 1, 2007 – Dec 31, 2007
Takashi Kuwahara	Japan	Jan 1, 2008 – July 17, 2008
Kokichi Kimura	Japan	July 18, 2008 – Dec 31, 2009
Kazushi Kimura	Japan	Feb 16, 2010 – Dec 31, 2011
Yasuhiro Higuchi	Japan	Dec 30, 2011 – Dec 7, 2014
Erick Mombaerts	France	Dec 16, 2014 – Jan 1, 2018
Ange Postecoglou	Australia	Jan 1, 2018 –

In popular culture

In the Captain Tsubasa manga series, one character was player of Yokohama Marinos and is the midfielder Mamoru Izawa.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Yokohama F. Marinos.

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Yokohama F. Marinos at J.League (in English)