Cerezo Osaka

Cerezo Osaka (Japaneseセレッソ大阪, from Spanish: cerezo = cherry tree ) is a football club from Japan's professional league J. League. The association of Japan's third largest city, Osaka overlooks a glorious history as one of the strongest teams in the 1970s, but has not won a national title more since the introduction of professional football in the country in 1993. Cerezo is known in Japan for extraordinary bad luck in the Emperor's Cup: Since 1976, they were six times in the final of the competition and lost six times.

Club history

The club was founded in 1957 as the works team of the Osaka -based company Yanmar diesel, a manufacturer of tractors and other agricultural machinery. The first year was the Yanmar diesel Football Club a pure company sports group that served the physical training of the workforce, but in 1965 joined to the national amateur league Japan Soccer League ( JSL ), the precursor to the J. League, at. Soon followed what is now called football fans from the city's golden age of football Ōsakaer: The sporty rise announced in 1967 with the first finals in the Emperor's Cup. As early as next year, followed by the longed-for cup victory and the runner-up of the JSL. Until 1980, followed by four league titles and two more Cup wins before Yanmar's star faded slowly. 1990 - the club played in the struggle for national titles long since ceased to matter much - followed the descent of the JSL. This happened just at the time when Japan anliefen the plans for the introduction of professional football, and in these Yanmar was not even considered. Despite the direct resurgence fans and players had to watch as ten other clubs founded the J. League, including their anger and who always smiled at local rivals Matsushita, who was represented under the new name Gamba Osaka city nationwide.

Nevertheless Yanmar pushed forward their own plans to professionalize and founded in 1993 under the name Osaka Football Club new. The team took on as the new name Cerezo Osaka, cerezo is Spanish for the cherry tree is the tree of Osaka. Similarly, a cherry blossom adorns the club crest and pink was chosen as the club color (this is in football an extremely rare color; else has almost only U.S. Palermo pink jerseys). Under the new Brazilian coach Paulo Emilio succeeded in 1994 with the championship of the Japan Football League not only the hoped-for promotion to the J. League (next to Kashiwa Reysol ), but also feed into the Cup final, which was, however, lost 0-3 to Bellmare Hiratsuka. Already in 1976, 1977 and 1983 Yanmar had each lost in the final, and other defeats were to follow in 2001 and 2003, which Cerezo has earned the reputation as the eternal second in the competition.

The association, which after a second relegation in 2001 and failed to re- promotion to the first division, plays its home games at Nagai Stadium from Osaka, which was also the venue of the soccer World Cup 2002. However Cerezos games are rarely sold out, because in Greater Osaka has ( in contrast to the Tokyo region ) not yet developed the right football fan base and also attract the local derbies with Gamba lack of quality sporting relatively few viewers. But the team also get sporty Notable successes: in addition to the three cup finals since the renaming of Yanmar in Cerezo is especially the 2000 season highlight, as the victory of the J. League first round and thus the participation missed the championship final in extra time of the last game been. 2005 underscored Cerezo his image as "eternal second " again on painful: The table leadership that had been adopted only in the penultimate round, you defended until the injury time of the last game, just to get by a late goal for FC Tokyo still to fifth place in the table fall back and leave the title just Gamba.

Honours

Honours National

As Yanmar

  • Japan Soccer League: Winners (1971, 1974, 1975, 1980)
  • JSL Cup: Winners ( 1973 ( shared ), 1983, 1984)
  • Emperor's Cup: Winners 1968, 1970, 1974

Cerezo Osaka

  • Japan Football League: winner 1994 ( as a work team)

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Former Players

Shonan Bellmare Albirex Niigata Kashima Antlers Kawasaki Frontale Nagoya Grampus Sagan Tosu Sanfrecce Hiroshima Shimizu S-Pulse Tokushima Vortis Ventforet Kofu
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