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Kawasaki Frontale
川崎フロンターレ
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Full name Kawasaki Frontale
Founded 1955
Ground Todoroki Athletics Stadium,
Nakahara, Kawasaki, Japan
(Capacity 25,000)
Chairman Shimpei Takeda
Manager Takashi Sekizuka (2004-)
League J. League Div.1
2007 5th place
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Kawasaki Frontale (川崎フロンターレ Kawasaki Furontāre?) is a J. League football club. The team is located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. Their home stadium is Todoroki Athletics Stadium, in Nakahara Ward, in the central area of Kawasaki.

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History

Founded in 1955 as Fujitsu soccer club. The club was one of many city clubs that comprised the Japan Soccer League, including Yomiuri Shimbun (later Tokyo Verdy 1969), Toshiba (later Consadole Sapporo) and NKK (now defunct). Fujitsu's club became professional in 1997, and changed its name - "Frontale" means "front" in Italian. The club joined the second division of the J. League in 1999, and became the champion of the division. But in the next season, it sank to the bottom of division one, and was relegated. In 2004, they were champions of J2 and won promotion to J1 for the second time.

Competitions Records

Players

Current Squad

As of December 13, 2007

No. Position Player
1 Flag of Japan GK Eiji Kawashima
2 Flag of Japan DF Hiroki Ito
3 Flag of Japan DF Hideki Sahara
4 Flag of Japan DF Yusuke Igawa
5 Flag of Japan DF Yoshinobu Minowa
6 Flag of Japan MF Takahiro Kawamura
7 Flag of Japan FW Masaru Kurotsu
8 Flag of Brazil MF Francismar
9 Flag of Japan FW Kazuki Ganaha
10 Flag of Brazil FW Juninho
11 Flag of Brazil MF Magnum
13 Flag of Japan DF Shuhei Terada
14 Flag of Japan MF Kengo Nakamura
15 Flag of Japan MF Taku Harada
16 Flag of North Korea FW Chong Tese
17 Flag of Japan MF Masayuki Ochiai
No. Position Player
18 Flag of Japan MF Satoshi Hida
19 Flag of Japan MF Yusuke Mori
20 Flag of Japan MF Yuji Yabu
21 Flag of Japan GK Takashi Aizawa
22 Flag of Japan GK Yuki Uekusa
23 Flag of Japan FW Satoshi Kukino
24 Flag of Japan MF Masahiro Ohashi
25 Flag of Japan MF Tatsuya Suzuki
26 Flag of Japan MF Kazuhiro Murakami
27 Flag of Japan FW Ken Tokura
28 Flag of Japan GK Rikihiro Sugiyama
29 Flag of Japan MF Hiroyuki Taniguchi
30 Flag of Japan MF Yuji Kimura
33 Flag of Japan DF Jun Sonoda
34 Flag of Japan MF Kyohei Sugiura
35 Flag of Japan MF Yūsuke Tasaka

2008 Season transfers

In
No. Position Player
4 Flag of Japan DF Yusuke Igawa (Transferred from Gamba Osaka)
Flag of Japan DF Tomonobu Yokoyama (Transferred from Waseda University)
Flag of Brazil FW Hulk (End of loan from Tokyo Verdy 1969)
Flag of Japan DF Yuki Yoshida (Promoted from youth team)
Flag of Japan MF Kosuke Kikuchi (Transferred from Komazawa University)
Out
No. Position Player
Flag of Japan FW Takahisa Nishiyama (On loan to Vegalta Sendai)
8 Flag of Brazil FW Francismar (End of loan from Cruzeiro Esporte Clube)
11 Flag of Brazil MF Magnum (End of loan from Santos Futebol Clube)
17 Flag of Japan MF Masayuki Ochiai (Released)
18 Flag of Japan MF Satoshi Hida (Released)
Flag of Japan DF Masato Okubo (Released)

Notable Players

Flag of Japan Japan
Flag of Brazil Brazil
Flag of the People's Republic of China China
  • Shen Xiang Fu (in Fujitsu era)
Flag of Panama Panama
Flag of Paraguay Paraguay

Managers

Manager Nat. Tenure
Beto Flag of Brazil Brazil 1999
Ikuo Matsumoto Flag of Japan Japan 1999
Zeca Flag of Brazil Brazil 2000
Toshiaki Imai Flag of Japan Japan 2000
Hiroshi Kobayashi Flag of Japan Japan 2000
Yoshiharu Kobayashi Flag of Japan Japan 2001
Nobuhiro Ishizaki Flag of Japan Japan 2001-2003
Takashi Sekizuka Flag of Japan Japan 2004-

League history

  • Japan Soccer League : 1972 - 1991 (as Fujitsu)
  • Japan Football League (former) : 1993 - 1998 (as Fujitsu : 1992 - 1995; Fujitsu Kawasaki : 1996; Kawasaki Frontale : 1997 - 1998)
  • Division 2 (J. League Div.2) : 1999
  • Division 1 (J. League Div.1) : 2000
  • Division 2 (J. League Div.2) : 2001 - 2004
  • Division 1 (J. League Div.1) : 2005 - present

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