Yokohama FC
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| Yokohama F.C. 横浜FC |
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| Full name | Yokohama F.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Flie | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1998 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Mitsuzawa Stadium Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama |
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| Capacity | 15,046 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Yasuhiko Okudera | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Takuya Takagi (2006 - ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | J. League Division 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| J. League 2005 | 11th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yokohama FC (横浜FC Yokohama Efushī?) are a Japanese football club based in the city of Yokohama. The club was formed in 1998 following the merger of the city's two J-League clubs, Yokohama Flügels and Yokohama Marinos. The response of fans of the Flügels (which was essentially abolished) to the suggestion that they should start supporting the Marinos was to set up their own club. Despite attempts to get straight entry into the J-League, the Japanese Football Association only permitted the team to enter the Japan Football League. Within three years however, the team managed to gain promotion to the J2 Division of the J-League. Once the team remains a mid-table outfit in J2, with an eighth place finish in the 2004 season.
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[edit] Fight for the Promotion
Although they finally falled into a breakdown in 2005, ended with the 11th of 12, at the moment(Nov. 2006) they keep the 1st, upper than the 3rd of Division 2 with which they will be promoted to the aim, Division 1.
This successful story is so dramatic as to make people somewhat excited in Japan. Yokohama FC are financially extremely poor so that they don't have even their own football ground or a club house. Some of the main players are very veteran stars, such as Kazuyoshi Miura 39, Shoji Jo 31, Motohiro Yamaguchi 37, those who once played for the National Team and later once have been labeled "No longer useful". Not only all pre-season matches, they lost the first game of the season. After them, they suddenly changed the player-manager to an utterly inexperienced freshman Takuya Takagi 38. At the beggining of the season, almost no one believed them to reach such a consequense.
[edit] J-League Division 1 Record
- 1993 - Didn't enter
- 1994 - Didn't enter
- 1995 - Didn't enter
- 1996 - Didn't enter
- 1997 - Didn't enter
- 1998 - Didn't enter
- 1999 - Didn't enter
- 2000 - Didn't enter
- 2001 - Division 2 9th/12
- 2002 - Division 2 12th/12
- 2003 - Division 2 11th/12
- 2004 - Division 2 8th/12
- 2005 - Division 2 11th/12
- 2006 - Division 2 1st/13 (Nov.2006, 45/48games)
[edit] Honors
- Japan Football League
- Champion:2(1999, 2000)
[edit] Current Stars
[edit] Former Players
Dirk Lehman
Steven Tweed
Rudi Vata
Silvio Spann
Takuya Jinno- Yuji Hironaga
- Shigeyoshi Mochizuki
- Yasunori Takada
[edit] External link
| Japan Professional Football League Members in 2006 season |
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| Division 1 (J1) | |
| Niigata | Kashima | Chiba | Omiya | Urawa | FC Tokyo | Kawasaki | Yokohama FM | |
| Kofu | Shimizu | Iwata | Nagoya | Kyoto | G.Osaka | C.Osaka | Hiroshima | Fukuoka | Oita | |
| Division 2 (J2) | |
| Sapporo | Sendai | Yamagata | Mito | Kusatsu | Kashiwa Tokyo V. | Yokohama FC | Shonan | Kobe | Tokushima | Ehime | Tosu |
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