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Yokohama F. Marinos
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Full name Yokohama F·Marinos
Nickname(s) Marinos, Tricolor
Founded 1972; 52 years ago (1972) as Nissan Motor F.C.
Stadium Nissan Stadium
Stadium
capacity
72,327
Owner Nissan (80%)
City Football Group (20%)
Chairman Akihiro Takayama
Manager Kevin Muscat
League J1 League
2022 J1 League, 1st of 18 (champions)
(listed in order of acquisition/foundation)
Bold indicates the club was founded by CFG.
* indicates the club was acquired by CFG.
§ indicates the club is co-owned.
Clubs owned by CFG
2008 Manchester City F.C.*
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013 New York City FC§
2014 Melbourne City FC*
Yokohama F. Marinos*§
2015
2016
2017 Montevideo City Torque*
Girona FC*§
2018
2019 Sichuan Jiuniu F.C.*§
Mumbai City FC*§
2020 Lommel S.K.*
ES Troyes AC*
2021
2022 Palermo F.C.*§

Yokohama F. Marinos (横浜F・マリノス, Yokohama Efu Marinosu) is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club competes in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country.

Having won the J-League title four 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 Motor. 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 FC

In 1972, Japan started as Nissan Motor Football Club, based in Yokohama, and went from football to Division 2 Football League Division 2 Football League 1976. Take civil measures, build friendly relationship with schools secondary schools and local universities and start junior teams. And under coach Shu Kamo, the team won Japan Soccer League in 1988 and 1989, as well as the JSL Cup in 198,1989 and 1990 and the Emperor's Cup in 1983,1985,1988,1989 and 1991, winning all three major tournaments in Japan at that time, known as the Triple Crown with legends such as Takashi Mizunuma, Kazushi Kimura and Masami Ihara.

Yokohama Marinos

At the end of the 1991-92 season, in which the team had consolidated internationally with the victory of the 1991-1992 AFC Asian Cup, Nissan Motors obtained registration in the newly formed J-League to acquire professional club status and change the name to Yokohama Marinos, a reference to Yokohama's status as a major port city. In their first seasons as a professional team, Yokohama Marinos confirmed the results of previous years by winning Emperor's Cup 1992 and for the second consecutive year the AFC Asian Cup and obtaining their first national title in 1995 with prominence the legend Mr.Marinos Masami Ihara. and matches between Yokohama Marinos and Verdy Kawasaki were known as the National Derby.

Yokohama F. Marinos

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The usual starting line-up of the 2019 J1 League winning team

In 1999, the club was renamed Yokohama F Marinos after the technical and financial merger with Yokohama Flügels that declared bankruptcy and since then an F has been added to the name to represent the Flügels half of the club. Because of that, many Flügels fans have rejected the new team. Flügels fans felt that their team was dissolved into the F Marinos, rather than being merged with. As a result, they refused to follow F. Marinos and instead created Yokohama FC, the new city-wide rival of F. Marinos, with the help of public donations and an affiliation with IMG, a talent agency company.

In 2000 Marinos was runner-up in the J-League and Shunsuke Nakamura was named the best player of the season.

In 2001 Marinos won the Japanese League Cup.

In 2003 and 2004 Marinos was a two-time J-League champion with the stars of the team being South Koreans Ahn Jung-hwan, Yoo sang-chul and Japanese players Daisuke Oku, Tatsuhiko Kubo and Yuji Nakazawa was the best player of the year 2004. The coach was the Japanese Takeshi Okada and he was named the best coach of the Japanese League in the years 2003 and 2004.

And from 2005 to 2008 with Hayuma Tanaka, Hideo Oshima, Daisuke Sakata and Koji Yamase, Marinos didn't achieve anything, the most they reached was the 2008 Emperor's Cup semi-final.

In 2010, Shunsuke Nakamura returned to Yokohama F. Marinos.

In August 4, 2011, a year after leaving the club, former Marinos player Naoki Matsuda collapsed during training with Matsumoto Yamaga FC due to cardiac arrest and died at the age of 34. As a result, his former number 3 has been retired.

And after two semi-final defeats in 2011 and 2012 and Marinos won the 2013 Emperor's Cup on New Year's Day 2014, the first after 21 years and in 2013, they were runner-up in the J-League.

On 20 May 2014, it was announced that the City Football Group, a Manchester City company, had invested in a minority stake in Yokohama F. Marinos, creating a partnership with the football club and the automaker Nissan.

And after consecutive defeats, such as a loss in the 2017 Emperor's Cup Final and in the 2018 J.League Cup Final, the team managed to get a good shape thanks to the direction of the Australian coach Ange Postecoglou, which ended 15 years of drought by winning the 2019 J1 League title, with emphasis on the participation of Teruhito Nakagawa being the best player of the season and top scorer with 15 goals together with Marcos Júnior.

In 2020, Marinos made it out of the group stage for the first time since the AFC Champions League switched to the current format.

Stadiums

Nissan International Stadium Yokohama
International Stadium Yokohama, one of the two home stadiums of the Yokohama F. Marinos
Mitsuzawa1
Mitsuzawa Stadium, 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.

Theme song

The club's official theme song is "We Are F. Marinos" by Japanese duo Yuzu. The song was first released in 2005, with the song being used at games up to today, sometimes having mascot Marinos-kun dance to the song on a pedestal on the running track of Nissan Stadium.

Players and staff

Current squad

No. Position Player
1 Japan GK Yohei Takaoka
2 Japan DF Katsuya Nagato
4 Japan DF Shinnosuke Hatanaka
5 Brazil DF Eduardo
6 Japan MF Kota Watanabe
7 Brazil MF Élber
8 Japan MF Takuya Kida (captain)
9 Brazil FW Léo Ceará
10 Brazil MF Marcos Júnior
11 Brazil FW Anderson Lopes
14 Japan MF Kaina Yoshio
16 Japan MF Joel Chima Fujita
17 Japan MF Ryo Miyaichi
18 Japan MF Kota Mizunuma
19 Japan DF Yuki Saneto
20 Brazil MF Yan Matheus
23 Japan FW Teruhito Nakagawa
No. Position Player
24 Japan DF Tomoki Iwata
25 Japan DF Ryuta Koike
26 Japan DF Yuta Koike
27 Japan DF Ken Matsubara
28 Japan MF Riku Yamane
30 Japan FW Takuma Nishimura
32 Japan GK Tomoki Tagawa
33 Japan DF Ryotaro Tsunoda
34 Japan GK Hirotsugu Nakabayashi
36 Japan DF Yusuke Nishida
44 Japan MF Takuto Kimura DSP
45 Japan FW Yuhi Murakami DSP
46 Japan MF Kosuke Matsumura Type 2
47 Japan MF Haruto Shimada Type 2
48 Japan FW Kotaro Uchino Type 2
49 Japan DF Yuma Hatano Type 2
50 Japan GK Powell Obinna Obi

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

Out on loan

No. Position Player
29 Japan DF Ko Ikeda (on loan to Maruyasu Okazaki)
35 Japan FW Ryonosuke Kabayama (on loan to Montedio Yamagata)
39 Japan FW Talla Ndao (on loan to Maruyasu Okazaki)
Japan GK Riku Terakado (on loan to Renofa Yamaguchi)
Japan GK Shunsuke Hirai (on loan to ReinMeer Aomori)
Japan GK Fuma Shirasaka (on loan to Kagoshima United)
Japan MF Eitaro Matsuda (on loan to Albirex Niigata)
No. Position Player
Japan MF Keigo Sakakibara (on loan to ReinMeer Aomori)
Japan MF Takuto Minami (on loan to Iwate Grulla Morioka)
Japan MF Jun Amano (on loan to Ulsan Hyundai)
Japan MF Naoki Tsubaki (on loan to Mito HollyHock)
Japan MF Keita Ueda (on loan to Tochigi SC)
Japan FW Takumi Tsukui (on loan to ReinMeer Aomori)
Japan FW Yushi Yamaya (on loan to Yokohama FC)

Retired number

No. Position Player
3 Japan DF Naoki Matsuda

Reserve squad (U-18s)

No. Position Player
1 Japan GK Taiya Takahashi
2 Japan DF Kengo Takahashi
3 Japan DF Ryusei Ishii
4 Japan DF Yuki Yoshizawa
5 Japan DF Ren Onodera
6 Japan MF Haruto Shimada
7 Japan MF Kashin Isagaya
8 Japan MF Yudai Shinohara
9 Japan FW Kotaro Uchino
10 Japan MF Kosuke Matsumura
11 Japan MF Sota Mikuya
12 Japan DF Haruto Kajihara
13 Japan MF Nobuhide Sasahara
14 Japan MF Kaede Hosokawa
15 Japan DF Koki Nakao
16 Japan GK Takumi Haremaki
17 Japan MF Maiya Kawamura
18 Japan MF Takuma Mitsuhashi
19 Japan DF Haruki Shimizu
20 Japan GK Ojiro Fukui
21 Japan GK Kippei Sekino
22 Japan DF Yuma Hatano
23 Japan MF Yuma Saito
No. Position Player
24 Japan DF Daisuke Funaki
25 Japan MF Shunta Ikeda
26 Japan MF Sota Kuwahara
27 Japan MF Atsumu Daito
28 Japan FW Haruki Ikawa
29 Japan FW Kotaro Hamada
30 Japan FW Dan Nakahara
31 Japan GK Shoma Yamashita
32 Japan DF Katsuki Asano
33 Japan DF Yusei Wada
34 Japan DF Reno Noguchi
35 Japan DF Masaki Furuya
36 Japan FW Mizuki Akita
37 Japan MF Haru Miyata
38 Japan MF Yuma Tokuda
39 Japan MF Kai Elchetabu Bright
40 Japan MF Kohei Mochizuki
41 Japan MF Haruki Uenishi
42 Japan MF Aiki Sekino
43 Japan MF Kento Shirasu
44 Japan FW Shunsuke Yokoyama
45 Japan FW Mirai Yoshizawa
47 Japan MF Taiki Iimura

Current staff

Position Name
Manager Australia Kevin Muscat
Assistant Manager Australia Ross Aloisi
Australia Shaun Ontong
Japan Hideo Oshima
Goalkeeper Coach Japan Shigetatsu Matsunaga
Japan Tetsuya Enomoto
Fitness Coach Australia Gregory John King
Conditioning Coach Japan Yusuke Tanaka
Chief Analyst Japan Satoru Okada
Analyst Japan Jun Yamaguchi
Japan Satoshi Yasui
Chief Trainer Japan Kiyoshi Higure
Doctor Japan Atsushi Fukai
Trainer Japan Yasuyuki Sasaki
Japan Nobuyasu Miyauchi
Japan Daisuke Kikukawa
Interpreter Japan Yutaka Matsuzaki
Japan Shintaro Oda
Japan Shinji Kinoshita
Top team director Japan Junji Nishizawa
Club Co-Ordinator Japan Shin Yamazaki
Side affairs (kit) Japan Tokunaga Daigi
Side affairs / interpreter (English / Portuguese) Brazil Pedro Sebastian
Hopeiro Japan Keisuke Ogata

International players

This list includes players that were called-up to their national teams while playing at Yokohama F. Marinos, either to participate in official or friendly competitions, friendly matches or in training camps.

Japan
AFC/OFC/CAF
CONMEBOL
UEFA
CONCACAF
  • Curaçao Quenten Martinus

Club captains

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

Slogan

Ano Slogan
2009 Enjoy・Growing・Victory
2010 ACTIVE
2011 ACTIVE 2011
2012 All for Win
2013 All for Win -Realize
2014 All For Win -Fight it out!
2015 Integral Goal - All for Win
2016 Integral Goal - All for Win
2017 Integral Goal - All for Win
2018 Brave and Challenging
2019 URBAN ELEGANCE TRICOLORE
2020 Brave and Challenging BRAVE BLUE
2021 Brave and Challenging
2022 Brave and Challenging

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Period Kit supplier Shirt sponsor Notes
1992–1996 Mizuno (J-League) and Adidas (Emperor's Cup) Nissan Kodak
1997–2007 Adidas ANA
2008–2011 Nike
2012– Adidas SANEI ARCHITECTURE
MUGEN ESTATE
NISSHIN OILLIO

Uniforms

FP 1st
1993 - 1994
1995 - 1996
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2000
2001
2002
2003
2004 - 2005
2006
2007
2008 - 2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 -
FP 2nd
1993 - 1996
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2000
2001 - 2002
2003 - 2004
2005 - 2006
2007
2008 - 2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 -
FP Other
1993 3rd
2001 - 2002 3rd
2004
ACL 1st
2009
yokohama port 150th anniversary
2012
20 year anniversary
2013
PSM Memorial
2014
ACL 1st
2014
ACL 2nd
2014
commemoration of the 2014 emperor's cup victory
2015
Cup 1st
2015
CUP 2nd
2016
Cup 1st
2016
CUP 2nd
2016
Yokohama Port Opening Commemorative
2017
CUP 1st
2017
Cup 2nd
2017 SP
2018 SP
2019 SP
Yokohama
160th
Anniversary
2020 SP
2021 SP

Players who played in the World Cup

The list includes players who were called-up to their national teams while playing at Yokohama F. Marinos, to represent their country in the FIFA World Cup .

Record

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
Season Div. Teams Pos. Attendance/G J.League Cup Emperor's Cup Asia
1992 Group stage Champions CWC Champions
1993 J1 10 4th 16,781 Group stage Quarter finals CWC Withdrew
1994 12 6th 19,801 Semi-finals Semi-finals
1995| 14 1st 18,326 Second round
1996 16 8th 14,589 Group stage Third round CC Group stage
1997 17 3rd 9,211 Group stage Fourth round
1998 18 4th 19,165 Group stage Third round
1999 16 4th 20,095 Quarter finals Quarter finals
2000 16 2nd 16,644 Quarter finals Quarter finals
2001 16 13th 20,595 Champions Third round
2002 16 2nd 24,108 Group stage Fourth round
2003 16 1st 24,957 Quarter finals Quarter finals
2004 16 1st 24,818 Quarter finals Fifth round CL Group stage
2005 18 9th 25,713 Semi-finals Fifth round CL Group stage
2006 18 9th 23,663 Semi-finals Quarter finals
2007 18 7th 24,039 Semi-finals Fifth round
2008 18 9th 23,682 Quarter finals Semi-finals
2009 18 10th 22,057 Semi-finals Fourth round
2010 18 8th 25,684 Group stage Fourth round
2011 18 5th 21,038 Quarter finals Semi-finals
2012 18 4th 22,946 Group stage Semi-finals
2013 18 2nd 27,496 Semi-finals Champions
2014 18 7th 23,088 Quarter finals Third round CL Group stage
2015 18 7th 24,221 Group stage Fourth round
2016 18 10th 24,004 Semi-finals Semi-finals
2017 18 5th 24,180 Group stage Runners-up
2018 18 12th 21,788 Runners-up 4th round
2019 18 1st 27,010 Group stage 4th round
2020 18 9th 7,968 Semi-finals Did not qualify CL Round of 16
2021 20 2nd 8,991 Play-off 2nd round
2022 18 1st 19,811 Quarter-finals 3rd round CL Round of 16
Key
*Pos. = Position
  • Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
  • 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
  • Source: J.League Data Site

Honours

National

League

Cups

  • Emperor's Cup
    • Winners (7): 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989, 1991 1992, 2013
  • Japan Soccer League Cup/J.League Cup
    • Winners (4): 1988, 1989, 1990, 2001
  • All Japan Senior Football Championship
    • Winners (1): 1976

International

  • Asian Cup Winners' Cup
    • Winners (2): 1991-92, 1992–93

Continental record

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
1989–90 Asian Club Championship Group 6 China Liaoning 0–1 2nd
Macau Hap Kuan 9–0
North Korea Chadongcha 2–0
Group A Malaysia Kuala Lumpur City 2–1 1st
Oman Fanja 1–0
Final China Liaoning 1–2 1–1 2–3
1990–91 Asian Club Championship Group 7 North Korea April 25 0–1 3rd
China Liaoning 2–3
1991–92 Asian Cup Winners' Cup Quarter-finals India East Bengal 4–0 3–1 4–1
Semi-finals Indonesia Pupuk Kaltim 2–0 0–0 2–0
Final Saudi Arabia Al-Nassr 5–0 1–1 6–1
1992–93 Asian Cup Winners' Cup Second round Indonesia Pupuk Kaltim 3–1 1–1 4–2
Semi-finals Vietnam SHB Đà Nẵng 3–0 1–1 4–1
Final Iran Persepolis 1–1 1–0 2–1
1993–94 Asian Cup Winners' Cup First round Philippines Philippine Air Force 5–0 1–0 6–0
Quarter-finals Indonesia Semen Padang 11–0 1–2 12–2
Semi-finals Hong Kong South China w/o
1996–97 Asian Club Championship First round Macau GD Artilheiros w/o
Second round Malaysia Johor Darul Ta'zim 2–0 1–1 3–1
Quarter-finals South Korea Pohang Steelers 2–2 3rd
South Korea Seongnam FC 2–3
Maldives New Radiant 10–0
2004 AFC Champions League Group G Vietnam Bình Định 6–0 3–0 2nd
Indonesia Persik Kediri 4–0 4–1
South Korea Seongnam FC 1–2 1–0
2005 AFC Champions League Group F China Shandong Taishan 0–1 1–2 2nd
Indonesia PSM Makassar 3–0 2–0
Thailand Police Tero 2–0 2–1
2014 AFC Champions League Group G South Korea Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 2–1 0–3 4th
China Guangzhou 1–1 1–2
Australia Melbourne Victory 3–2 0–1
2020 AFC Champions League Group H South Korea Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 4–1 2–1 1st
Australia Sydney FC 4–0 1–1
China Shanghai Port 1–2 1–0
Round of 16 South Korea Suwon Samsung Bluewings 2–3
2022 AFC Champions League Group H South Korea Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 0–1 1–1 1st
Vietnam Hoàng Anh Gia Lai 2–0 2–1
Australia Sydney FC 3–0 1–0
Round of 16 Japan Vissel Kobe 2–3

Awards

J.League MVP Award:

J.League Top Scorer:

  • Ramón Díaz (1993)
  • Teruhito Nakagawa (2019)
  • Marcos Júnior (2019)
  • Daizen Maeda (2021)

J.League Rookie of the Year:

J.League Manager of the Year:

  • Takeshi Okada (2003; 2004)
  • Ange Postecoglou (2019)
  • Kevin Muscat (2022)

J.League Fair Play Award:

J.League Monthly MVP :

J.League Best XI:

AFC Champions League Best XI:

  • 2020: Takuya Kida, Teruhito Nakagawa

J.League Cup MVP:

J.League Cup New Hero:

  • 2013: Manabu Saito
  • 2018: Keita Endo

Manager history

Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
Hidehiko Shimizu  Japan 1993 1994
Jorge Solari  Argentina 1995
Hiroshi Hayano  Japan 1995 1996
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 2002
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 June 10, 2021
Hideki Matsunaga (caretaker)  Japan June 10, 2021 July 18, 2021
Kevin Muscat  Australia July 18, 2021 Present

In popular culture

In the manga series – Captain Tsubasa, one of the characters was Yokohama Marinos midfielder Mamoru Izawa.

Base categories

The base category of Yokohama F. Marinos started in 1986, before the opening of the J-League, and it is divided into 3 categories U-12, U-15 and U-18 and these are some of the best players formed at the base of Marinos, Shunsuke Nakamura, Manabu Saito, Jungo Fujimoto, Mike Havenaar, Hiroki Iikura, Takashi Amano, Hiroyuki Taniguchi, Tetsuya Enomoto, Yuzo Kurihara, Hayuma Tanaka, Yuki Kaneko, Daisuke Sakata, Naohiro Ishikawa, Rikizo Matsuhashi, Eitaro Matsuda, Kota Yamada, Keita Endo, Ryo Takano, Takuya Kida, Andrew Kumagai, Yuji Ono, Jun Amano, Sho Matsumoto, Jin Hanato, Kota Mizunuma, Takashi Kanai, Masakazu Tashiro, Yota Akimoto etc. ... .

  • All Japan Club Youth Soccer Tournament
  • JFA Prince League Kanto
  • Prince Takamado Trophy
  • J-Youth Cup
  • JFA Championship
  • Danone Nations Cup

See also

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