Vissel Kobe

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Vissel Kobe
ヴィッセル神戸
Hyōgo-ku, Kōbe, Hyōgo
Capacity30,134
OwnerRakuten
ChairmanYuki Chifu[2]
ManagerTakayuki Yoshida
LeagueJ1 League
2023J1 League, 1st of 18 (champions)
WebsiteClub website
Current season
Noevir Stadium, the home of Vissel Kobe

Vissel Kobe (ヴィッセル神戸, Visseru Kōbe) is a

Suma-ku
.

Vissel have won 1 J1 League title, 1 Emperor's Cup and 1 Japanese Super Cup in their history.

History

Beginnings in Chugoku

The club was founded in 1966 as the semi-professional Kawasaki Steel Soccer Club in

Japanese football league system
) and stayed there until the tiers were reunited into a single second tier for 1994.

Move to Kansai and professionalism

In 1995, the city of Kobe reached an agreement with

Kawasaki Steel, the parent company, to move the club to Kobe and compete for a spot in the professional J.League as Vissel Kobe. Vissel is a combination of the words "victory" and "vessel", in recognition of Kobe's history as a port city.[3] (Owing to its importance to the city of Kobe, Kawasaki Heavy Industries, parent company of former team patron Kawasaki Steel, remains a Vissel Kobe sponsor. Kawasaki Steel was eventually sold off to become part of JFE Holdings
.)

Vissel Kobe began play in 1995 in the Japan Football League, a league below J.League, and the supermarket chain Daiei was slated as the club's primary investor. However, the economic downturn following the Great Hanshin earthquake forced Daiei to pull out and the city of Kobe became responsible for operating the club.

Despite finishing 2nd in the JFL in 1996, Vissel was promoted to the J.League (the champions,

bankruptcy protection
.

Crimson Group years (2004–2014)

In January 2004, Vissel was sold to Crimson Group, parent company of online merchant

Sendai and Rakuten Monkeys, a baseball team in Taoyuan, Taiwan
, wear the same colours.

Vissel finished 11th in the league in 2004, the same position as the previous year, and finished 18th and last place in 2005, resulting in automatic relegation from J.League Division 1, or J1, to J2. During the two-year span, Vissel had five different head coaches. 2006 was Vissel's first season in J2 after nine years in the top division of soccer in Japan. They finished 3rd in the 2006 season and were promoted to J1 after beating Avispa Fukuoka in the promotion/relegation play-offs.

During the period of 2007 to 2011 Vissel finished in the bottom half of the table each year. In 2012 they finished 16th, third from last, and were again relegated to J2. In 2013, Vissel finished in second place, 4 points behind Gamba Osaka, which secured their return to J1 for the 2014 season.

On 6 December 2014, Rakuten Inc. bought the team from the Crimson Group.[4]

Rakuten years and first successes (2015–present)

World reowned footballer, Andrés Iniesta playing for Vissel Kobe in 2018.
Another World reowned footballer, Lukas Podolski playing for Vissel Kobe in 2020

In 2017, Vissel signed 2014 FIFA World Cup winner Lukas Podolski. He was the first international prominent player Vissel was able to sign since Michael Laudrup in 1996. Shortly after in May 2018, Vissel signed another 2010 FIFA World Cup winner Andrés Iniesta from FC Barcelona.[5] In December 2018 Vissel Kobe managed to sign also David Villa from New York City. The Spanish striker scored 13 goals in 28 games. Alongside Sergi Samper and Andrés Iniesta, Villa was the third Spaniard in the team in that season in which they guided Vissel Kobe to win the 2019 Emperor's Cup.

On 1 January 2020, first time finalist Vissel beat

Ulsan Hyundai
however, Vissel was knocked out by the Korean club losing 2–1 in extra time in which the club conceded a reckless penalty.

In 2021, Vissel achieved an historic third place in the table, thus qualifying for the 2022 AFC Champions League yet again in which the club has another good run in the campaign before losing to Korean Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors 3–1 in the quarter-finals.

On 3 September 2023, Vissel signed World Class midfielder, Juan Mata as a replacement for Andrés Iniesta who has decided to leave the club after 6 years. On 25 November 2023, Vissel Kobe was confirmed as J1 League champions for the first time in history, following a 2–1 win over Nagoya Grampus in the second last week of the season. Kobe thus became the first Japanese football champions to be promoted to the top tier after the J.League era started, as well as the first to play third division football (the old Japan Football League Division 2) before winning the title. On 17 February 2024, Vissel played their second Japanese Super Cup appearance against 2023 Emperor's Cup winner, Kawasaki Frontale but lost 1–0 against them.

Affiliated clubs

On 19 October 2023,

English Premier League
club, Aston Villa is delighted to announce a new collaborative partnership with Vissel Kobe, further strengthening the international network and player development pipeline in which as part of this exciting step forward for both clubs, Villa and Vissel Kobe will work to create a bilateral development framework for players and staff which will enhance youth development, alongside the cooperative sharing of ideas, techniques and best practice. The partnership will look to further open up pathways for talented Japanese players to play in Europe and, ultimately, at Aston Villa. This synergy between the clubs will also extend to first team level, with the exchange of technical knowledge and coaching methodology together with collaboration in the areas of performance, scouting & recruitment, data analysis and overall squad management.

Kit evolution

Home kit - 1st
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2002
2003 - 2004
2005 - 2006
2007
2008
2009 - 2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024 -
Away kit - 2nd
1997 - 1998
1999 - 2001
2002 - 2003
2004
2005 - 2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024 -
Alternative Kit - 3rd
2014
10th Anniversary
Crimson FC
2015
Club's 20th
anniversary
2017
Kobe Port's 150th
Anniversary
2018 3rd
2019 3rd
2020
Club's
25th Anniversary
2021 3rd
2022 3rd


Current squad

As of 19 April 2024.[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Japan JPN Daiya Maekawa
2 MF Japan JPN Nanasei Iino
3 DF Brazil BRA Matheus Thuler
4 DF Japan JPN Tetsushi Yamakawa
6 MF Japan JPN Takahiro Ogihara
7 MF Japan JPN Yosuke Ideguchi
9 FW Japan JPN Taisei Miyashiro
10 FW Japan JPN Yuya Osako
11 FW Japan JPN Yoshinori Muto
14 MF Japan JPN Koya Yuruki
15 DF Japan JPN Yuki Honda
16 MF Japan JPN Mitsuki Saito
17 MF Japan JPN Tatsunori Sakurai
18 MF Japan JPN Haruya Ide
19 DF Japan JPN Ryo Hatsuse
21 GK Japan JPN Shota Arai
22 MF Japan JPN Daiju Sasaki
23 DF Japan JPN Rikuto Hirose
No. Pos. Nation Player
24 DF Japan JPN Gōtoku Sakai
25 MF Japan JPN Yuya Kuwasaki
26 FW Brazil BRA Jean Patric
30 MF Japan JPN Kakeru Yamauchi
31 MF Japan JPN Yuya Nakasaka
33 DF Japan JPN Justin Homma
37 DF Japan JPN Shogo Terasaka
38 MF Japan JPN Juzo Ura
39 GK Japan JPN Shioki Takayama
44 MF Japan JPN Mitsuki Hidaka
50 GK Japan JPN Powell Obinna Obi
55 DF Japan JPN Takuya Iwanami
81 DF Japan JPN Ryuho Kikuchi
96 MF Japan JPN Hotaru Yamaguchi (captain)
— DF Japan JPN Kaito Yamada Type 2
— MF Japan JPN Kento Hamasaki Type 2
— MF Japan JPN Yuan Iwamoto Type 2
— MF Japan JPN Shoei Oka Type 2

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
— GK Japan JPN Yuya Tsuboi (on loan to Júbilo Iwata)
— DF Japan JPN Yusei Ozaki (on loan to Ehime FC)
— MF Japan JPN Shuto Adachi (on loan to Iwate Grulla Morioka)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Japan JPN Toya Izumi (on loan to Montedio Yamagata)
— FW Japan JPN Niina Tominaga (on loan to Kamatamare Sanuki)

Vissel Kobe U-18

As of 16 April 2024.

The main U-18 team of Vissel Kobe currently plays in the Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League, the top-flight league for U-18 clubs in the country. Only the registered players for the competition will be displayed.[10][11]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Japan JPN Taiga Kameda
3 DF Japan JPN Riku Ibaraki
4 DF Japan JPN Kaito Yamada
5 DF Japan JPN Shido Matsuda
6 MF Japan JPN Yuan Iwamoto
7 FW Japan JPN Ran Yoshioka
8 MF Japan JPN Teruya Imatomi
9 FW Japan JPN Hayato Watanabe
10 MF Japan JPN Kento Hamasaki
11 FW Japan JPN Oga Morita
12 GK Japan JPN Kosuke Yoshioka
13 FW Japan JPN Tokiya Takamura
14 MF Japan JPN Taiga Seguchi
15 MF Japan JPN Fuga Koizumi
16 DF Japan JPN Yuto Kawai
No. Pos. Nation Player
17 FW Japan JPN Shoei Oka
18 DF Japan JPN Tomohiro Nobe
19 DF Japan JPN Sota Hara
20 MF Japan JPN Riku Fujimoto
21 GK Japan JPN Shunsuke Koike
22 MF Japan JPN Aiku Nishikawa
23 FW Japan JPN Sota Onishi
24 MF Japan JPN Hiroto Taniguchi
25 MF Japan JPN Tsubasa Takeishi
26 DF Japan JPN Yuma Teraoka
28 MF Japan JPN Kota Katayama
30 GK Japan JPN Go Young-haon
37 FW Japan JPN Hyoei Kawabata
39 FW Japan JPN Ritsu Doiguchi
43 DF Japan JPN Nagi Nishimura

Club official

Position Name
Manager Japan Takayuki Yoshida
Assistant manager Japan Tomo Sugawara
First-team coach Japan Kunie Kitamoto
Young player development coach Japan Yuji Miyahara
Goalkeeper coach Brazil Sidmar
Analytical coach Japan Tatsuro Takenaka
Japan Daichi Matsumoto
Physical coach Japan Akira Umeki
Japan Hikaru Fujii
Interpreter Japan Eiji Kumon
Japan Daisuke Kawashima
Chief trainer Japan Yoshio Shibata
Trainer Japan Masaaki Morita
Japan Ryota Matsuda
Japan Minoru Onogawa
Japan Naoto Nakayama
Dietitian Japan Rika Kawabata
Chief side manager Japan Shusuke Sasagawa
Equipment manager Japan Takuya Arai
Japan Tomoki Ishiguro
Side manager Japan Yuto Kato

Honours


Manager history

Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
Stuart Baxter  Scotland 1 February 1995 31 January 1998
Benito Floro  Spain 1 February 1998 24 September 1998
Harumi Kori  Japan 25 September 1998 31 January 1999
Ryoichi Kawakatsu  Japan 1 February 1999 25 July 2002
Hiroshi Matsuda  Japan 1 July 2002 31 January 2003
Hiroshi Soejima  Japan 1 February 2003 31 January 2004
Ivan Hašek  Czech Republic 1 February 2004 30 September 2004
Hiroshi Kato  Japan 1 October 2004 31 January 2005
Hideki Matsunaga  Japan 1 February 2005 19 April 2005
Émerson Leão  Brazil 19 April 2005 14 June 2005
Pavel Řehák  Czech Republic 15 June 2005 31 January 2006
Stuart Baxter  Scotland 1 February 2006 4 September 2006
Hiroshi Matsuda  Japan 5 September 2006 11 December 2008
Caio Júnior (interim)  Brazil 11 December 2008 30 June 2009
Masahiro Wada (interim)  Japan 1 July 2009 5 August 2009
Toshiya Miura  Japan 5 August 2009 11 September 2010
Masahiro Wada  Japan 11 September 2010 30 April 2012
Ryo Adachi (interim)  Japan 1 May 2012 21 May 2012
Akira Nishino  Japan 22 May 2012 8 November 2012
Ryo Adachi (interim)  Japan 9 November 2012 31 December 2012
Ryo Adachi  Japan 1 January 2013 31 January 2015
Nelsinho Baptista  Brazil 1 February 2015 15 August 2017
Takayuki Yoshida  Japan 16 August 2017 16 September 2018
Kentaro Hayashi (interim)  Japan 17 September 2017 3 October 2018
Juan Manuel Lillo  Spain 4 October 2018 16 April 2019
Takayuki Yoshida　  Japan 17 April 2019 8 June 2019
Thorsten Fink  Germany 9 June 2019 21 September 2020
Marcos Vives  Spain 22 September 2020 23 September 2020
Atsuhiro Miura[12]  Japan 24 September 2020 20 March 2022
Lluís Planagumà (interim)  Spain 21 March 2022 7 April 2022
Miguel Ángel Lotina  Spain 8 April 2022 29 June 2022
Takayuki Yoshida  Japan 30 June 2022 current

League history

  • Chugoku Soccer League: 1978–85 (as Kawasaki Steel Mizushima)
  • Division 2 (Japan Soccer League Div. 2): 1986–91 (Kawasaki Steel Mizushima until 1987; Kawasaki Steel afterwards)
  • Division 3 (
    Old JFL
    Div. 2): 1992–93 (as Kawasaki Steel)
  • Division 2 (
    Old JFL
    ): 1994–96 (Kawasaki Steel 1994; Vissel Kobe since 1995)
  • Division 1 (J.League): 1997–2005
  • Division 2 (J.League Division 2): 2006
  • Division 1 (J.League Division 1): 2007–12
  • Division 2 (J.League Division 2): 2013
  • Division 1 (J1 League): 2014–present

Total (as of 2014): 16 seasons in the top tier, 11 seasons in the second tier, 2 seasons in the third tier and 8 seasons in the Regional Leagues.

Record as J.League member

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League J.League
Cup		 Emperor's
Cup
Season Div. Teams Pos. P W (OTW / PKW) D L (OTL / PKL) F A GD Pts Attendance/G
1997 J1 17 16th 32 6 (1 / 0) – 21 (2 / 0) 43 78 -35 24 6,567 Group stage Round of 16
1998 18 17th 34 8 (0 / 1) – 23 (2 / 0) 45 89 -44 25 7,686 Group stage 3rd round
1999 16 10th 30 9 (3) 4 12 (2) 38 45 -7 37 7,691 1st round 3rd round
2000 16 13th 30 10 (1) 1 16 (2) 40 49 -9 33 7,512 2nd round Semi-finals
2001 16 12th 30 8 (1) 7 10 (4) 41 52 -11 33 13,872 2nd round Round of 16
2002 16 14th 30 8 (2) 3 17 33 44 -11 31 10,467 Group stage 3rd round
2003 16 13th 30 8 6 16 35 63 -28 30 11,195 Group stage Quarter-finals
2004 16 11th 30 9 9 12 50 55 -5 36 15,735 Group stage 4th round
2005 18 18th 34 4 9 21 30 67 -37 21 14,913 Group stage 4th round
2006 J2 13 3rd 48 25 11 12 78 53 25 86 6,910 – 3rd round
2007 J1 18 10th 34 13 8 13 58 48 10 47 12,460 Group stage Round of 16
2008 18 10th 34 12 11 11 39 38 1 47 12,981 Group stage Round of 16
2009 18 14th 34 10 9 15 40 48 -8 39 13,068 Group stage Round of 16
2010 18 15th 34 9 11 14 37 45 -8 38 12,824 Group stage 3rd round
2011 18 9th 34 13 7 14 44 45 -1 46 13,233 1st round 3rd round
2012 18 16th 34 11 6 17 41 50 -9 39 14,638 Group stage 2nd round
2013 J2 22 2nd 42 25 8 9 78 41 37 83 11,516 – 3rd round
2014 J1 18 11th 34 11 12 11 49 50 -1 45 15,010 Quarter-finals 2nd round
2015 18 12th 34 10 8 16 44 49 -5 38 16,265 Semi-finals Quarter-finals
2016 18 7th 34 16 7 11 56 43 13 55 17,018 Quarter-finals Round of 16
2017 18 9th 34 13 5 16 40 45 -5 44 18,272 Quarter-finals Semi-finals
2018 18 10th 34 12 9 13 45 52 -7 45 21,450 Play-off stage Round of 16
2019 18 8th 34 14 5 15 61 59 2 47 21,491 Group stage Winners
2020 † 18 14th 34 9 9 16 50 59 -9 36 6,041 Quarter-finals Did not qualify
2021 † 20 3rd 38 21 10 7 62 36 26 73 7,120 Play-off stage Round of 16
2022 18 13th 34 11 7 16 35 41 -6 40 15,572 Quarter-finals Quarter-finals
2023 18 1st 34 21 8 5 60 29 31 71 22,405 Group stage Quarter-finals
2024 20 TBD 38
Key
  • Pos. = Position in league; P = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals difference; Pts = Points gained
  • OTW / PKW = Overtime wins / penalty kicks wins 1997 and 1998 seasons – 1999, 2000, 2001 & 2002 overtime wins only
  • OTL / PKL = Overtime losses / penalty kicks losses 1997 and 1998 seasons – 1999, 2000 & 2001 overtime losses only
  • Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
  • † 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
  • Source: J.League Data Site

Continental record

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2020 AFC Champions League Group G Malaysia Johor Darul Ta'zim
5–1
Cancelled
 1st
South Korea Suwon Samsung Bluewings
0–2
1–0
Guangzhou Evergrande
0–2
3–1
Round of 16 China Shanghai Port
2–0
Quarter-finals South Korea Suwon Samsung Bluewings
1–1 (
a.e.t.)
(7–6 p
)
Semi-finals
Ulsan Hyundai
1–2 (
a.e.t.
)
2022 AFC Champions League Play-off round
Melbourne Victory
4–3 (
a.e.t.
)
Group J China Shanghai Port
Cancelled
Hong Kong Kitchee
2–1
2–2
 1st
Thailand Chiangrai United
6–0
0–0
Round of 16 Japan Yokohama F. Marinos
3–2
Quarter-finals South Korea Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors
1–3 (
a.e.t.
)

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