Kawasaki Frontale

Kawasaki Frontale (Japanese川崎 フロンターレ, Kawasaki Furontāre, from Italian = frontal front) is a Japanese football club, for the second time after 2000 in the top professional league in the country, the J. League Division 1 play since 2005.

Club history

Frontal, which comes from the large city of Kawasaki ( Kanagawa Prefecture), where its home games discharges Todoroki Stadium ( where the more time champions Verdy Kawasaki until his move in 1998 played to Tokyo ), has its origins in the founded in 1955 works team of the electronics group Fujitsu. The Fujitsu Soccer- bu (富士通 サッカー 部), English Fujitsu Soccer Club, played several decades with some success in various regional leagues, but could never make the nation's attention. End of the 70s Fujitsu played briefly in the Japan Soccer League, but rose after two years off again without ever returning to the JSL.

When, after the 1992 season, the J. League was founded, Fujitsu filed in the newly created including Japan Football League and eventually renamed itself after his hometown in Fujitsu Kawasaki, 1996 Kawasaki Frontale to. The Italian name Frontale, which means as much as the front of the top is reminiscent of European style of play and underline the leadership of the ambitious club. The association, which has not quite solved even after the re-establishment of its parent company and continue the nickname Fujitsu FC leads, in 1999 a founding member of the new J. League Division 2 (J2), which won it the first time.

In 2000 Frontale was therefore eligible to play for the first time in the First Division, but the league should not be granted to the climber: As the Last Years table you climbed right back into the J2. This season was still a success in the club's history, you could but with the finals in the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup, the Japanese League Cup, reaching a national final for the first time, even if this went 0:2 against Kashima Antlers lost.

The new promotion to Frontale in 2004 to an impressive way with a goal difference of 104:38 and 29 points ahead of a Nichtaufstiegsplatz dominated the team from Kanagawa league as a team never before.

Shareholders

K. K. Kawasaki Frontale, the joint-stock company founded in 1996, has its headquarters in the district of Kawasaki Takatsu. Its shareholders include many large companies including Ajinomoto, Fujitsu or Showa Denko, the city of Kawasaki, as well as a shareholder Community ( Kawasaki Frontale mochikabu -kai ), in which local businesses and individual investors have joined forces.

Honours

Honours National

  • Yamazaki Nabisco Cup: Final ( 2000,2007,2009 )
  • Japan Football League: runner-up (1998)
  • J. League Division 1 runner-up (2006, 2008, 2009 )

Coach Chronicle

Former notable players

  • Brazil Marcio Emerson Passos
  • Japan Takayuki Suzuki
  • Brazil Robert
  • Brazil Tinga
  • Japan Eiji Kawashima
  • Brazil Hulk
  • North Korea Jong Tae- se
Kawasaki (Kanagawa) Yahiro Kazama Emerson Sheik Robert de Pinho de Souza Hulk (footballer) Albirex Niigata Cerezo Osaka Gamba Osaka Kashiwa Reysol Nagoya Grampus Sagan Tosu Sanfrecce Hiroshima Shimizu S-Pulse Tokushima Vortis Ventforet Kofu
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