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)
Owner	Nissan Motor Company
Chairman	Akira Kaetsu
Manager	Yasuhiro Higuchi
League	J. League Division 1
2012 Season	4th
Website	Club home page
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, also making them one of only four teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since its inception.

Contents 1 History 2 Stadiums 3 Players 3.1 Current squad 3.2 Retired Number 3.3 Out on loan 3.4 2013 Season Transfers 3.5 International Players 3.5.1 Most appearances 3.5.2 Most goals 3.6 World Cup Players 4 Record as J. League member 5 Honours 5.1 Nissan FC 5.2 Yokohama Marinos / Yokohama F.Marinos 6 Awards 7 Managers 8 External links

History

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.

Since Naoki Matsuda had quit this team, F.Marinos' number 3 has been disappeared. Naoki Matsuda had participated 385 matches as a member of F.Marinos. But the next year of he had quit, on 2 August, he collapsed during training due to a cardiac arrest after finishing a 15-minute warmup run, and doctors diagnosed his condition as "extremely severe". Two days later, he died at the age of 34. So, ex-his number, 3 has been a retired number of this team.

Stadiums

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 Mei 01, 2013 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 Dutra 6 MF Shōhei Ogura 7 MF Shingō Hyōdō 8 MF Kosuke Nakamachi 11 FW Manabu Saito 13 DF Yuzo Kobayashi 14 MF Andrew Kumagai 15 DF Fabio 16 DF Yusuke Higa 17 MF Jin Hanato 18 FW Marquinhos

No. Position Player 19 FW Yoshihito Fujita 20 MF Yūhei Satō 21 GK Hiroki Iikura 22 DF Yuji Nakazawa 23 DF Masakazu Tashiro 24 DF Yuta Narawa 25 MF Shunsuke Nakamura 26 DF Jeong Dong-Ho 27 DF Seitaro Tomisawa 28 MF Takuya Kida 30 GK Yuji Rokutan 31 GK Ryota Suzuki 37 MF Kazuki Nagasawa

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 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 Eijiro Takeda (to Gainare Tottori) DF Takashi Kanai (to Sagan Tosu) MF Masashi Oguro (to Hangzhou Greentown)

No. Position Player MF Sho Matsumoto (to Ehime FC) MF Rei Matsumoto (to Oita Trinita)

2013 Season Transfers

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 Ahn Jung-Hwan Kim Kun-Hoan Shin Byung-Ho Yoo Sang-Chul

CONMEBOL Alberto Acosta David Bisconti Ramón Díaz Néstor Gorosito Ramón Medina Bello Gustavo Zapata Julio César Baldivieso

UEFA Goran Jurić Dušan Petković Andoni Goikoetxea Julio Salinas

Most appearances

Rank	Name	Career	Appearances	Goals
1	Naoki Matsuda	1995–10	507	27
2	Yoshiharu Ueno	1994–07	393	29
3	Yuji Nakazawa	2002–present	331	23
4	Daisuke Sakata	2001–10	323	64
5	Norio Omura	1993–01	311	36
6	Akihiro Endo	1994–05	273	18
7	Masami Ihara	1993–99	270	5
8	Satoru Noda	1993–98	245	14
9	Hayuma Tanaka	2000–02 2004–08	240	14
10	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	1994–01	238	0

Most goals

Rank	Name	Career	Goals	Appearances	Goals/Game Ratio
1	Shoji Jo	1997–01	69	129	0.534
2	Daisuke Sakata	2001–10	64	323	0.198
3	David Bisconti	1993–96	61	149	0.409
4	Ramón Díaz	1993–95	59	90	0.655
5	Ramón Medina Bello	1994–95	47	66	0.712
6	Shunsuke Nakamura	1997–02 2010–present	44	209	0.210
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

World Cup Players

World Cup 1994

• Ramón Medina Bello

World Cup 1998

• Masami Ihara
• Shoji Jo
• Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi
• Norio Omura

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	-	-
2011	J1	18	5	21,038	Quarter-final	Semi-final	-	-
2012	J1	18	4	22,946	Group Stage	Semi-final	-	-
2013	J1	18	-	-	-	-	-	-

Honours

Nissan FC

Domestic

• Japan Soccer League Division 1
  • Winners (2): 1988-89, 1989-90

• Emperor's Cup
  • Winners (5): 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991

• JSL Cup
  • Winners (3): 1988, 1989, 1990

• Shakaijin Cup
  • Winners (1): 1976

Asia

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winners: (1) 1991-92

Yokohama Marinos / Yokohama F.Marinos

Domestic

• J. League Division 1:
  • Winners (3): 1995, 2003, 2004

• J.League 1° stage
  • Winners (4): 1995, 2000, 2003, 2004

• J.League 2° stage
  • Winners (1): 2003

• Emperor's Cup:
  • Winners (1): 1992

• J. League Cup:
  • Winners (1): 2001

Asia

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winners: (1) 1992-93

Awards

J. League MVP: Shunsuke Nakamura (2000), 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

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

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	1997–98
Gert Engels	Germany	Sept 1998–Dec 98
Antonio de la Cruz	Spain	1999
Osvaldo Ardiles	Argentina	Jan 2000–Dec 00
Yoshiaki Shimojo	Japan	2001
Sebastião Lazaroni	Brazil	2001–02
Yoshiaki Shimojo	Japan	2002
Takeshi Okada	Japan	Jan 2003–Aug 06
Takashi Mizunuma	Japan	Aug 2006–Dec 06
Hiroshi Hayano	Japan	Jan 2007–Dec 07
Takashi Kuwahara	Japan	Jan 2008–July 8
Kokichi Kimura	Japan	July 2008–Dec 09
Kazushi Kimura	Japan	Feb 2010–Dec 11
Yasuhiro Higuchi	Japan	Dec 2011–

External links

• Official website (Japanese)/(English)