Júbilo Iwata
Júbilo Iwata (Japaneseジュビロ磐田, Jubiro Iwata, from Portuguese: Júbilo = joy) is one of the most successful clubs from Japan men's Profifußballiga J. League. The team from the city of Iwata ( Shizuoka Prefecture ) has won every major Japanese competition and the Asian State Champion Cup ( forerunner of the AFC Champions League). Play their home games, the club either in the domestic or Yamaha Stadium in large crowds (about the local derby against Shimizu S-Pulse ) in ecopa Stadium ( World Cup Stadium 2002) from.
The " club " is a public company founded in 1992 with headquarters in Iwata, KK Yamaha Football Club (株式会社 ヤマハ フットボール クラブ, kabushiki - gaisha Yamaha futtobōru kurabu; . Engl Yamaha Football Club Co., Ltd.)..
Club history
Júbilo was founded in 1972 under the name Yamaha Hatsudoki Soccer- bu, English Yamaha FC, as a works team of the motorcycle manufacturer Yamaha. After rapid development Yamaha rose in 1978 in the top Japanese game class (which at that time, however, was still a purely amateur league), winning in 1982 the first major competition, the Japanese Emperor's Cup (comparable to the DFB Cup in Germany ). At the latest after the first league title in 1988, the team from Iwata was one of the big names in the emerging Japanese football.
When the Japanese Football Association ( JFA ) decided at the beginning of the 90s to introduce a professional league, even Yamaha would have liked to have been a founding member there. But a disappointing season in 1991 eventually led to the fact that they were not considered in the establishment of the J. League. Nevertheless, the works team was outsourced to an independent company (on the Yamaha is still the largest shareholder) and how the new professional clubs renamed in Júbilo Iwata. The Portuguese name should convey the South American flair and enjoyment of the game - apparently with success: after the premiere season 1993 Júbilo rose along with Bell Mare Hiratsuka become the first team in the J. League, which they have since remained.
Since the rise it went with Júbilo steadily uphill, not least lay on foreign aid workers: for the first professional season undertook the management of the Dutch coach Hans Ooft and the former Oranje -National player Gerald Vanenburg (later as a player and coach at 1860 Munich). During the season, yet the Italian Salvatore Schillaci was added ( World Cup top scorer in 1990 ), and the following year came with Carlos Dunga (former VfB Stuttgart) added the captain of the current Brazilian world champion team. With this team, it went steadily uphill ( Toto Schillaci scored in only 78 games for Iwata 56 goals), and by 1997 they qualified as winter champions for the finale to the Japanese championship, which they won promptly against defending champions Kashima Antlers.
The biggest success for Júbilo was winning the Asian European Cup the following year. The team reached the finals in the next two years, but lost just under. It was followed by two more championships, a victory in the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup, the Japanese League Cup, and most recently in 2003, the second Cup win after 1982.
Achievements
National success
- J. League Division 1: Master ( 1997.1999, 2002), vice-champion (1998, 2001, 2003 )
- Emperor's Cup: Winners (2003), Final (2004)
- Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Winners (1998 ) Finale ( 1994, 1997, 2001)
Continental Achievements
- AFC Champions League: Winners (1999 ) Finale ( 2000, 2001 )
- Asian Super Cup: Winners (1999)
- Xerox Super Cup: Winners (2000, 2003, 2004)
Coach Chronicle
Former notable players
- Japan Yasuhiko Okudera
- Japan Takashi Fukunishi
- Japan Naoya Kikuchi
- Japan Toshiya Fujita
- Naohiro Takahara Japan
- Japan Masami Ihara
- Brazil Dunga
- Italy Salvatore Schillaci
- Netherlands Gerald Vanenburg