JEF United Ichihara Chiba

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JEF United Ichihara Chiba
ジェフユナイテッド市原・千葉

Full name

JEF United Ichihara Chiba

Nickname(s)

JEF

Founded

1946

Ground

Ichihara Rinkai Studium
Fukuda Denshi Arena

Capacity

16,933
19,781

Chairman

Takahiro Yodogawa

Manager

Amar Osim

League

J. League Division 1

2006

11th Place





Home colours





Away colours

JEF United Ichihara Chiba (ジェフユナイテッド市原・千葉, Jefu Yunaiteddo Ichihara Chiba^?) is a football (soccer) club that plays in J. League. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric- and United, represents the unity of the team and its home town. The club is also known as JEF United Chiba (ジェフユナイテッド千葉, Jefu Yunaiteddo Chiba^?) or JEF Chiba (ジェフ千葉, Jefu Chiba^?).

1 History
2 Stadiums
3 Team Record
4 Titles
- 4.1 Furukawa Electric FC
- 4.2 JEF United Ichihara / JEF United Ichihara Chiba
5 Players
6 Managers
7 External links

[edit] History

The team began as the company team, Furukawa Electric Soccer Club in 1946. Since its inception, the team has always played in the top league in Japan and is the only team to do so. As the company team, it won the Japan Soccer League twice, the Emperor's Cup four times and the JSL League Cup three times. Furukawa alson won the 1986/87 Asia Club Championship, the top club honor in Asia.

In 1991, it merged with the JR East's company team to become East Japan JR Furukawa Football Club and rebranded itself as JEF United Ichihara upon the J. League's founding in 1993. The team initially built itself around the former Germany national football team player Pierre Littbarski.

From 1998 to 2000, the team struggled to stay in the J1 league and it began a series of efforts to be a competitive team. Since the hiring of Ivica Osim in 2003, JEF United has contended for the league title each year despite limited resources and struggling attendance.

On July 16, 2006, Osim left the team to take over the coach of the Japan national team and was succeeded by Amar Osim, his son and assistant coach.[1]

[edit] Stadiums

It had played its home matches at Ichihara Seaside Stadium, but has since moved to the larger, more conveniently located Fukuda Denshi Arena, which opened in Chiba during the 2005 season. The club had initially practiced at Urayasu, Chiba planning to base itself in Narashino, Chiba before opposition by those living around Akitsu Stadium forced it to be based in Ichihara. Since 2000, training has been held at Footpark Anesaki in Ichihara.

[edit] Team Record

[edit] J.League

Season	League	Place	GP	Pts	Win	Draw	Lose	Average Crowd
1993	J1 1st stage	5 / 10	18	-	9	-	9	20,273
	J1 2nd stage	9 / 10	18	-	5	-	13
	J1 Total	8 / 10	36	-	14	-	22
1994	J1 1st stage	6 / 12	22	-	10	-	12	22,262
	J1 2nd stage	9 / 12	22	-	9	-	13
	J1 Total	9 / 12	44	-	19	-	25
1995	J1 1st stage	6 / 14	26	45	14	-	12	15,418
	J1 2nd stage	7 / 14	26	43	14	-	12
	J1 Total	5 / 14	52	88	28	-	24
1996	J1	9 / 16	30	40	13	-	17	12,008
1997	J1 1st stage	15 / 17	16	13	5	-	11	5,693
	J1 2nd stage	14 / 17	16	15	6	-	10
	J1 Total	13 / 17	32	28	11	-	21
1998	J1 1st stage	11 / 18	17	21	7	-	10	5,365
	J1 2nd stage	18 / 18	17	4	2	-	15
	J1 Total	16 / 18	34	25	9	-	25
1999	J1 1st stage	15 / 16	15	12	4	2	9	5,774
	J1 2nd stage	11 / 16	15	16	6	0	9
	J1 Total	13 / 16	30	28	10	2	18
2000	J1 1st stage	11 / 16	15	19	6	1	8	6,338
	J1 2nd stage	16 / 16	15	9	3	1	11
	J1 Total	14 / 16	30	28	9	2	19
2001	J1 1st stage	Runners-up / 16	15	27	10	0	5	7,818
	J1 2nd stage	5 / 16	15	23	7	2	6
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	50	17	2	11
2002	J1 1st stage	8 / 16	15	23	7	3	5	7,897
	J1 2nd stage	11 / 16	15	18	6	0	9
	J1 Total	7 / 16	30	41	13	3	14
2003	J1 1st stage	3 / 16	15	27	8	3	4	9,709
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 16	15	26	7	5	3
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	53	15	8	7
2004	J1 1st stage	7 / 16	15	22	5	7	3	10,012
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 16	15	28	8	4	3
	J1 Total	4 / 16	30	50	13	11	6
2005	J1	4 / 18	34	59	16	11	7	9,535
2006	J1	11 / 18	34	44	13	5	16	13,393
2007	J1

[edit] Other Domestic Competitions

See other domestic competitions record

[edit] Major International Competitions

Season	Competition	Result	Average Crowd
2006	A3 Champions Cup	3rd	-

[edit] Titles

[edit] Furukawa Electric FC

Japan Soccer League: (2) 1976, 1985
JSL Cup: (3) 1977, 1982, 1986/1987
Emperor's Cup: (4) 1960, 1961, 1964, 1976
Asian Club Championship: (1) 1986/1987

[edit] JEF United Ichihara / JEF United Ichihara Chiba

J. League Cup: (2) 2005, 2006

[edit] Players

[edit] Current Squad

As of February 9, 2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Tomonori Tateishi
3	DF	Daisuke Saito
4	DF	Hiroki Mizumoto
5	DF	Ilian Stoyanov
6	MF	Tomi Shimomura
7	MF	Yuto Sato
8	MF	Koki Mizuno
9	FW	Teruaki Kurobe
11	FW	Tatsunori Arai
13	DF	Mitsuki Ichihara
13	DF	Shohei Ikeda
15	MF	Koji Nakajima
16	MF	Satoru Yamagishi
18	FW	Seiichiro Maki
19	MF	Atsushi Ito
20	MF	Kohei Kudo
21	GK	Daisuke Nakamaki

No.	Position	Player
22	MF	Naotake Hanyu
23	MF	Takashi Rakuyama
24	DF	Kozo Yuki
25	FW	Hibiki Kato
26	FW	Ryo Kanazawa
27	FW	Tomoya Kumagai
28	FW	Kyohei Horikawa
29	FW	Kota Aoki
30	GK	Masahiro Okamoto
31	MF	Koki Yonekura
32	FW	Kim Dong Soo
33	DF	Seiko Yamanaka
34	MF	Kosuke Nakahara
35	MF	Koji Asato
36	DF	Tadashi Takeda
37	MF	Park Jong Jin
38	DF	Norihiro Kawakami
39	MF	Ken Matsumoto
40	DF	Nenad Đorđević
41	GK	Masao Tachibana
42	GK	Kazuo Tachibana

[edit] Notable Players

[edit] World Cup Players

World Cup 1998

Eisuke Nakanishi

World Cup 2002

Choi Yong-Soo
Željko Milinovič

World Cup 2006

Seiichiro Maki

[edit] Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Yoshikazu Nagai	Japan	1992-1994
Eijyun Kiyokumo	Japan	1994-1995
Yasuhiko Okudera	Japan	1996
Jan Versleijen	Netherlands	1997-1998
Gert Engels	Germany	1999
Nicolae Zamfir	Romania	1999-2000
Zdenko Verdenik	Slovenia	2000-2001
Jozef Vengloš	Slovakia	2002
Ivica Osim	Bosnia & Herzegovina	2003-2006
Amar Osim	Bosnia & Herzegovina	2006-