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Vegalta Sendai

Full name

Vegalta Sendai

Nickname(s)

Founded

1988

Ground

Yurtec Stadium Sendai
Izumi-ku, Sendai

Capacity

19,694

Chairman

Yoshitaka Nagawa

Manager

Tatsuya Mochizuki (2007– )

League

J. League Div.2

2006

5th Place





Home colours





Away colours

Vegalta Sendai (ベガルタ仙台, Begaruta Sendai^?) is a Japanese professional football (soccer) club, currently playing in Division 2 of the J-league. The team is located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture. Their home stadium is Yurtec Stadium Sendai, in Izumi-ku, Sendai, although a few home games have also been played at nearby Miyagi Stadium.

1 History
2 Current players
3 Former players
4 Managers
5 Season results
6 Finances
7 References
8 External links

[edit] History

Founded in 1988 as Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. Soccer Club, Vegalta joined the J-League in 1999 after playing a few years in the JFL, with the nickname Brummell Sendai. When joining the J-League, the name Vegalta was chosen as a homage to the famous Tanabata festival in Sendai. The names of the two celestial stars of the Tanabata legend, Vega and Altair were combined to form Vegalta.

[edit] Current players

As of January 21, 2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Kiyomitsu Kobari
2	DF	Kosuke Kitani
3	DF	Kodai Watanabe
4	DF	Hiroyuki Shirai
5	MF	Jonilson
6	MF	Shingo Kumabayashi
7	MF	Naoki Chiba
8	MF	Lopes
9	FW	Takayuki Nakahara
10	MF	Ryan Yon-Gi
11	FW	William
13	FW	Yuki Nakashima
14	DF	Yosuke Nakata
15	FW	Goshi Okubo
17	DF	Keita Isozaki
18	FW	Hiroki Bandai

No.	Position	Player
19	FW	Dan Suzuki
20	MF	Kunimitsu Sekiguchi
21	GK	Tatsuro Hagihara
22	GK	Junnosuke Schneider
23	MF	Naoya Tamura
24	MF	Atsushi Nagai
25	MF	Naoki Sugai
26	MF	Shinya Tanoue
27	MF	Shingo Tomita
28	DF	Yoshitaka Ohashi
29	MF	Shinji Kaneko
30	DF	Shinpei Sayama
31	DF	Yoshiaki Maruyama
32	DF	Junya Hosokawa
33	FW	Felipe
34	MF	Leandro

[edit] Former players

Kenji Fukuda
Shohei Ikeda
Teruo Iwamoto
Pierre Littbarski
Shigeyoshi Mochizuki
Hajime Moriyasu
Kazuhiro Murakami
Jun Muramatsu
Norio Omura
Katsutomo Oshiba
Hisato Satō
Goce Sedloski
Koya Shimizu
Daijiro Takakuwa
Thiago Neves
Takahiro Yamada
Yoshiteru Yamashita
Borges

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Takekazu Suzuki	Japan	1995
Choei Sato	Japan	1996
Branko Elsner	Slovenia	1997
Milos Rus	Slovenia	1997
Toshiya Miura	Japan	1997
Takekazu Suzuki	Japan	1998-1999
Hidehiko Shimizu	Japan	1999-2003
Hajime Ishii	Japan	2003
Zdenko Verdenik	Slovenia	2003-2004
Satoshi Tsunami	Japan	2005
Joel Santana	Brazil	2006
Tatsuya Mochizuki	Japan	2007-

[edit] Season results

Season	League	Standing	Points	Wins	Losses	Ties	Attendance
1995	JFL	15(16)	27	9	21	0
1996	JFL	6(16)	56	18	12	0
1997	JFL	8(16)	40	15	15	0
1998	JFL	7(16)	43	18	12	0
1999	J2	9(10)	31	10	22	4	134,462
2000	J2	5(11)	55	19	19	2	177,967
2001	J2	2(12)	83	27	12	5	308,243
2002	J1 (stage1)	9(16)	20	7	8	0
	J1 (stage2)	15(16)	12	4	10	1
	J1 (season)	13(16)	32	11	18	1	327,925
2003	J1 (stage1)	15(16)	12	3	9	3
	J1 (stage2)	15(16)	12	2	6	7
	J1 (season)	15(16)	24	5	15	10	325,621
2004	J2	6(12)	59	15	15	14	356,359
2005	J2	4(12)	68	19	14	11	350,544
2006	J2	5(13)	77	21	13	14	346,868

[edit] Finances

Despite leading J2 in attendance for the past three years, the club has struggled financially since being relegated from J1. In 2005, the team ran a deficit of 163 million yen, the first year since joining the J. League that they failed to turn a profit.^[1] Expectations are that the 2006 season will also be in the red.