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Sanfrecce Hiroshima
サンフレッチェ広島

Full name	Sanfrecce Hiroshima F.C.
Nickname(s)	Sanfrecce, Sanfre
Founded	1938
Ground	Hiroshima Big Arch Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima (capacity: 50,000)
Owner	Mazda
Chairman	Yūichi Mototani
Manager	Hajime Moriyasu (Dec. 2011 - )
League	J. League Division 1
2012	Champions
Home colours Away colours Third colours
Current season

Sanfrecce Hiroshima (サンフレッチェ広島, Sanfuretche Hiroshima^?) is a Japanese association football club in the J. League Division 1.

Club name [edit]

The club name is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'. This is based on the story of Mori Motonari who told his three sons that while a single arrow might be easily snapped, three arrows held together would not be broken and urged them to work for the good of the clan and its retainers.^[1]

• 1938-70 : Toyo Kogyo Syukyu Club (東洋工業蹴球部^?) {"Syukyu" means "football" in Japanese.}
  • 1943-46 : Play was suspended during this period due to the Pacific War.
• 1971-80 : Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (東洋工業サッカー部^?)
• 1981-83 : Mazda Sports Club Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (マツダスポーツクラブ東洋工業サッカー部^?)
• 1984-85 : Mazda Sports Club Soccer Club (マツダスポーツクラブサッカー部^?)
• 1986-92 : Mazda Soccer Club (マツダサッカークラブ^?)
• 1992- : Sanfrecce Hiroshima (サンフレッチェ広島^?)

Location [edit]

The team's home town is Hiroshima, Hiroshima and the side plays at Hiroshima Big Arch and Hiroshima Prefectural Stadium. It holds training sessions at Yoshida Soccer Park in Akitakata, Hiroshima and Hiroshima 1st Ball Park.

History [edit]

As Mazda team [edit]

The team was a former company team of Toyo Kogyo Soccer Club (東洋工業サッカー部^?) in 1938 and played in the semi-professional Japan Soccer League. They dominated the JSL's early years, winning the title 4 times in a row - a feat that was later equaled by Yomiuri S.C./Verdy Kawasaki. The name change was made at Mazda SC (マツダSC^?) in 1981. When JSL disbanded and became the J. League in 1992, it dropped the company name and became "Sanfrecce Hiroshima". Alongside JEF United Ichihara Chiba and Urawa Red Diamonds they co-founded both leagues.

During the 1969 season they participated in the Asian Club Cup, forerunner to today's AFC Champions League; at the time, the tournament was done in a single locale (in that year it was Bangkok, Thailand), and they ended up in third place, the first participation of a Japanese club in the continental tournament. This also cost them the league title to Mitsubishi/Urawa, and although they won another title in 1970, since then the club has been out of the running for the title, with exceptional seasons such as 1994 when they won runner-up.

1965 Inaugural League Champions Team [edit]

The Toyo Industries team that became the first JSL champions also completed the first double by taking the Emperor's Cup. They were also the first of three "Invincibles", undefeated champion teams in Japan (the others were Mitsubishi Motors in 1969 and Yamaha Motors in 1987–88), although only Toyo completed a double.

Matsumoto, Ogi, and Yasuyuki Kuwahara went on to win the 1968 Olympic bronze medal for the national team.

2000s [edit]

former logo

In 2002, Sanfrecce became the first former stage winner (first stage, 1994) to be relegated to the lower division, J2. But it only spent a year there, finishing second the very next season to regain promotion back to J1. The club finished 16th in the 2007 season and were relegated to J. League Division 2 after they were beaten by Kyoto Sanga in the promotion/relegation play-off. In 2008 they nevertheless won the J2 title at the first attempt, having 84 points (a difference of 25 points with the runner-up teams) with six matches left.

By virtue of earning fourth place in the 2009 season and Gamba Osaka retaining the Emperor's Cup, Sanfrecce qualified for the Asian Champions League, where they were knocked out in the group phase.

On 24 November 2012, Sanfrecce defeated Cerezo Osaka 4-1 to seal their first ever J. League Division 1 title.^[2][3]

Record as J. League member [edit]

Key

• Tms. = Number of teams
• Pos. = Position in league
• Attendance/G = Average league attendance

Honours [edit]

Toyo Kogyo SC & Mazda SC [edit]

• Japan Soccer League: (5)
  • 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1970
• Emperor's Cup: (3)
  • 1965, 1967, 1969
• Asian Club Championship: Third place
  • 1969
• All Japan Works Football Championship: (2)
  • 1956, 1962 (shared)
• NHK Super Cup: (1)
  • 1967

Sanfrecce Hiroshima [edit]

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Domestic Leagues [edit]

• J. League Division 1
  • Champions (1): 2012
• J.League 1° stage
  • Champions (1): 1994
• J. League Division 2:
  • Champions (1): 2008

Domestic Cups [edit]

• Japanese Super Cup:
  • Winners (2): 2008, 2013

League history [edit]

• Division 1 (Japan Soccer League Div. 1): 1965-83
• Division 2 (Japan Soccer League Div. 2): 1984-85
• Division 1 (Japan Soccer League Div. 1): 1986-87
• Division 2 (Japan Soccer League Div. 2): 1988-90
• Division 1 (Japan Soccer League Div. 1): 1991-92
• Division 1 (J. League Div. 1): 1993-02
• Division 2 (J. League Div. 2): 2003
• Division 1 (J. League Div. 1): 2004-07
• Division 2 (J. League Div. 2): 2008
• Division 1 (J. League Div. 1): 2009–present

Total (as of 2011): 40 seasons in the top tier and 7 seasons in the second tier.

Players [edit]

Current squad [edit]

Updated 25 February 2012
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 Shusaku Nishikawa 2 DF Hwang Seok-Ho 4 DF Hiroki Mizumoto 5 DF Kazuhiko Chiba 6 MF Toshihiro Aoyama 7 MF Kōji Morisaki 8 MF Kazuyuki Morisaki 9 FW Naoki Ishihara 10 MF Yojiro Takahagi 11 FW Hisato Satō 13 GK Takuya Masuda 14 MF Mihael Mikić

No. Position Player 16 MF Satoru Yamagishi 18 FW Ryuichi Hirashige 19 MF Lee Dae-Heon 20 MF Hironori Ishikawa 21 GK Yutaro Hara 22 DF Tsubasa Yokotake 23 MF Kota Sameshima 25 FW Junya Osaki 26 FW Sena Inami 27 MF Kohei Shimizu 30 DF Shinji Tsujio 33 DF Tsukasa Shiotani 35 MF Koji Nakajima

Out on loan [edit]

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 Daiki Nishioka (to Tochigi SC) MF Tomotaka Okamoto (to Sagan Tosu) MF Takuya Marutani (to Oita Trinita)

Notable players [edit]

For details on notable players, see Category:Sanfrecce Hiroshima players.

The following players have represented their country at the World Cup whilst playing for Sanfrecce Hiroshima:

World Cup 1994

• Noh Jung-Yoon

World Cup 2006

• Yūichi Komano

Managers [edit]

Manager	Nat.	Tenure	Team	Assistant coach
Yoshiki Yamazaki	Japan	1938–42, 1947–50	Toyo Kogyo
Minoru Obata	Japan	1951–63
Yukio Shimomura	Japan	1964–71
Kenzo Ohashi	Japan	1972–75
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	1976
Aritatsu Ogi	Japan	1977–80
Teruo Nimura	Japan	1981–83	MAZDA Sports	Eckhard Krautzun (Aug 1983–Sept 1983)
Kazuo Imanishi	Japan	1984–87		Hans Ooft (1984–87), Dido Havenaar (1986–87)
Hans Ooft	Netherlands	1987–88		Dido Havenaar (1987–88)
Kazuo Imanishi	Japan	1988–92		Bill Foulkes (1988–91)
Stuart Baxter	Scotland	Jul 1992–Dec 94	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Jan Jönsson (1993–94)
Wim Jansen	Netherlands	Jan 1995–Dec 96
Eddie Thomson	Scotland	Jan 1997–Dec 00		Tom Sermanni (1997–98)
Valeri Nepomniachi	Russia	Jan 2001–Dec 01
Gadzhi Gadzhiev	Russia	Jan 2002–Jun 02
Takahiro Kimura	Japan	Jun 2002–Dec 02
Takeshi Ono	Japan	Dec 2002–Apr 06
Kazuyori Mochizuki	Japan	Apr 2006–Jun 06, interim
Mihailo Petrović	Serbia	Jun 2006–Dec 11		Ranko Popović (2006–07)
Hajime Moriyasu	Japan	Jan 2012–

References [edit]

External links [edit]

• (Japanese) Sanfrecce Hiroshima Official Site
• English-language fan site
• (Japanese) Sanfrecce Train 2009 (operated by Hiroden)

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