football club
Old crest Urawa Red Diamonds ( 浦和レッドダイヤモンズ, Urawa Reddo Daiyamonzu ), colloquially Urawa Reds ( 浦和レッズ ) ( 1950–present, besides Mitsubishi Urawa Football Club ( April 1992–January 1996 ) ), are a professional football club in the city of Saitama, function of the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan. The club plays in the J1 League, the circus tent tier of football in the state. Its diagnose comes from the former city of Urawa, now part of Saitama.
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The name Red Diamonds alludes to the club ‘s pre-professional era rear party Mitsubishi. The corporation ‘s logo consists of three red diamonds, one of which remains within the current club badge .
history [edit ]
Shin-Mitsubishi Heavy Industries established a football club in 1950 [ 1 ] in Kobe and moved the club to Tokyo in 1958. In 1965 it formed the Japan Soccer League ( JSL ) along with today ‘s JEF United Chiba, Kashiwa Reysol, Cerezo Osaka, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and three other clubs who have since been relegated to regional leagues ( “Original Eight” [ a ] ). Mitsubishi inaugural won the JSL backing in 1969, as a bankrupt in Mazda/Sanfrecce ‘s dominance ( and besides with the fact that Toyo were in Bangkok, Thailand, competing in the asian Club Cup ) ; their runs up the first division were sporadic but steady until the 1980s when they fell into the second Division. In 1990 they were promoted as JSL Division 2 champions, and thus were ready when the J-League implementation began in earnest. Urawa Red Diamonds was an original member ( “Original Ten” [ b-complex vitamin ] ) of the J.League in 1993. Mitsubishi were the first gear japanese club to complete a domestic soprano, when in 1978 they won the entitle, the Emperor ‘s Cup and the Japan Soccer League Cup. The club has enjoyed mixed fortunes since the J-League second coming. The club finished bottom of the league for the inaugural two seasons of the J-League with an modal crowd of under 15,000. In 1999 they suffered relegation to the second tier of japanese football yet again. The club has since improved in kind in holocene years, starting with a 2003 victory in the Nabisco Cup. In 2006 Urawa clinched their first professional league title by defeating runner-up Gamba Osaka 3–2 on December 2 before 63,000 supporters. This came after two airless calls in the former two years. In 2005, they finished 2nd, one point behind champions Gamba Osaka. In 2004, they finished 3rd in the first stage and won the second stage. Having qualified for the two-match J.League Championship decider, they lost on penalty kicks to Yokohama F. Marinos. Urawa were back to back Emperor ‘s Cup winners in 2005 and 2006. Winning the title for the first time since administration as a professional club, they defeated Shimizu S-Pulse 2–1 on January 1, 2006, and retained the title in 2007 with a 1–0 succeed over Gamba Osaka. This succeed besides completed a league-cup doubling. In the 2007 tournament they were defeated at the first vault by J2 equip Ehime FC. In 2007, despite a apparently unassailable lead of seven points with four games remaining, Urawa picked up alone two points from their final four games. This streak included lose at home to Kashima Antlers ; the club who would leapfrog Urawa on the concluding day of the season to claim their fifth J.League championship. Following their capitulation in the fourth round of the Emperor ‘s Cup to J2 kit Ehime FC, Urawa had to be content with their 2007 asian Champions League title. Urawa recorded their first external title after overcoming irani cabaret Sepahan F.C. 3–1 on aggregate. The victory made them the beginning japanese english to win the style since the competition was reorganised from the asian Champions Cup in 2003. In the Club World Cup of the lapp year, Urawa became the beginning AFC club to finish in third place, beating tunisian Étoile Sportive du Sahel side on penalty kicks in the third / one-fourth place play off. In 2008, Urawa attempted to win their second consecutive asian Champions League title and progressed to the semifinal finals where they were defeated by fellow J-League rivals, and eventual Champions League winners, Gamba Osaka 3–1 on sum. On March 8, 2014, a banner which read “ JAPANESE ONLY ” was hung at one of the entrances to the stands. [ 2 ] As punishment for this racist demeanor, the March 23 equal was played in an empty stadium. [ 3 ]
International affiliation [edit ]
The club is besides celebrated in that former Feyenoord midfielder Shinji Ono began his professional career play for Urawa. Ono returned for the 2006 temper for a second stint with the baseball club. Urawa is affiliated with german cabaret FC Bayern Munich, whose nickname is besides “ The Reds ”. [ 4 ] Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, the president of the FC Bayern Munich, announced that “ We have been looking for clubs which have electric potential ability, management constancy and cordial confidence. We could fulfill the desire to affiliate with this great golf club, Urawa Reds. ” [ 5 ] Some other alien clubs, such as Arsenal F.C., Club Atlético Independiente, Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, VfB Stuttgart, Manchester United F.C., Feyenoord, Hamburger SV and Perth Glory FC, visited Japan and played friendly games at the Saitama Stadium. In August 2004, Urawa appeared in a pre-season four-club friendly tournament, the Vodafone Cup, at Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United. The japanese club, missing key players, lost their first game 5–2 against the argentine side Boca Juniors. The second regular against the hosts, Manchester United, was called off due to a massive electric storm. Some 800 Urawa fans had travelled to the bet on and were later compensated. The club ‘s supporters besides have an unofficial relationship with Shanghai Shenhua. The clubs ‘ supporters will support each early in continental competition. For exemplar, Shenhua fans will support Urawa when Urawa plays in Shanghai against Shanghai SIPG. [ 6 ]
stadium [edit ]
Since the constitution of J.League in 1992, the club had used tracked Urawa Komaba Stadium as its dwelling stadium. Due to the increasing popularity of the matches, Saitama City, owner of the stadium, expanded the seat capacitance some times. The club used Ōmiya Park Soccer Stadium until the works were complete. In malice of the poor performance of the club, the stadium was filled with faithful supporters, drawing an modal hearing of twenty dollar bill thousand people. In October 2001, Saitama Prefecture built newfangled football-specific Saitama Stadium in Saitama city. This stadium was used as a venue for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. After the World Cup the clubhouse gradually increased home games in Saitama Stadium and in 2003 the stadium was formally designated as the home stadium. In 2008, lone two games were held at Komaba Stadium .
Facilities [edit ]
Urawa Reds uses Ohara City Field for training. In addition to this facility, the baseball club opened Redsland in 2005, which has three grass fields, one artificial turf field, one baseball field, futsal courts and tennis courts. [ 7 ] Redsland is opened to the populace and club members can use the facilities at relatively bum fees .
Rivalries [edit ]
Saitama bowler hat [edit ]
Urawa Red Diamonds has a local bowler hat with Omiya Ardija, from Ōmiya-ku, Saitama city. They first met in the 1987 Emperor ‘s Cup, with Mitsubishi defeating NTT Kanto by 5 to 0 at Nishigaoka National Stadium. The bowler hat first took space in the JSL Second Division in the 1989–90 season, and it would n’t take place until the 2000 temper when Urawa was relegated to the second tier again. In 2003 the once divide Omiya and Urawa cities merged to become Saitama city, and since 2005 the bowler hat became a acme flight fixture after Omiya was promoted .
Marunouchi Gosanke [edit ]
During the JSL years and into the 1990s, Urawa ‘s chief top flight rivals were JEF United Chiba and Kashiwa Reysol, both nowadays based in Chiba Prefecture. Because of their former parent companies ‘ headquarters being all based in Marunouchi, Tokyo, the three clubs were known as the Marunouchi Gosanke ( 丸の内御三家, “Marunouchi Big Three” ) and fixtures among them were known as the Marunouchi derbies, although the term is falling out of use as they are now based in different prefectures and rarely play home games in Tokyo stadiums .
Others [edit ]
Rivals further afield include Kashima Antlers, FC Tokyo, Yokohama Marinos, Kawasaki Frontale, and, even farther away, Gamba Osaka. Old JSL championship rivalries with Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Cerezo Osaka and Shonan Bellmare have ebbed down as those clubs had nadirs in the 3 tier .
Women ‘s and amateur teams [edit ]
The cabaret besides has women ‘s and amateur teams .
- Women’s: Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies[8] in WE League
- Amateur: Urawa Red Diamonds Amateur in Saitama Prefecture League Div. 1
Kit and colours [edit ]
Colours [edit ]
The chief color of Urawa Red Diamonds is red
Kit evolution [edit ]
Home
1993–1994
1995–1996
1997
1998
1999–2000
2001–2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Away
1993–1994
1995–1996
1997
1998
1999–2000
2001–2002
2003
2004–2005
2006–2007
2008–2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Others
2012 3rd
2013 3rd
2014 3rd
2017 3rd
2019 3rd
League & cup record [edit ]
Champions
Runners-up
Third place
Promoted
Relegated
Season
Teams
Emperor’s Cup
J.League Cup
Super Cup
AFC CL
Others
1992
–
–
–
–
Semi-finals
Group stage
–
–
–
1993
J1
10
10th
11,459
2nd round
Group stage
1994
12
12th
18,475
3rd round
Quarter final
1995
14
4th
19,560
Quarter final
–
1996
16
6th
24,329
Semi-finals
Group stage
1997
17
10th
20,504
4th round
Quarter final
1998
18
6th
22,706
Quarter final
Group stage
1999
16
15th
21,206
4th round
Quarter final
2000
J2
11
2nd
16,923
4th Round
1st round
2001
J1
16
10th
26,720
Semi-finals
Quarter final
2002
16
11th
26,296
3rd round
Runners-up
2003
16
6th
28,855
3rd round
Winners
2004
16
2nd
36,660
Semi-finals
Runners-up
2005
18
2nd
39,357
Winners
Semi-finals
2006
18
1st
45,573
Winners
Quarter final
Winners
2007
18
2nd
46,667
4th round
Quarter final
Runners-up
Winners
A3
3rd place
FIFA
3rd place
2008
18
7th
47,609
5th round
Group stage
–
Semi-finals
–
2009
18
6th
44,210
2nd round
Quarter final
–
2010
18
10th
39,941
Quarter final
Group stage
2011
18
15th
33,910
Quarter final
Runners-up
2012
18
3rd
36,634
4th round
Group stage
2013
18
6th
37,100
3rd round
Runners-up
Group stage
2014
18
2nd
35,516
3rd round
Quarter final
–
2015
18
3rd
38,745
Runners-up
Quarter final
Runners-up
Group stage
2016
18
2nd
36,935
4th round
Winners
–
Round of 16
2017
18
7th
33,542
4th round
Quarter final
Runners-up
Winners
Suruga
Winners
FIFA
5th place
2018
18
5th
34,798
Winners
Play-off stage
–
–
–
2019
18
14th
34,184
4th round
Quarter final
Runners-up
Runners-up
2020 †
18
10th
7,869
Did not qualify
Group stage
–
–
2021 †
20
6th
8,244
Semi-final
–
–
- Key
- Pos. = Position in league
- Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
- † 2020, 2021 seasons attendance reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
Honours [edit ]
domestic competitions [edit ]
Mitsubishi ( Amateur era )
Urawa Red Diamonds ( Professional era )
Continental [edit ]
International [edit ]
individual awards [edit ]
Players [edit ]
current squad [edit ]
- As of 30 August 2021[9]
note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
Out on lend [edit ]
notice : Flags indicate home team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .
World Cup players [edit ]
The following players have represented their nation at the World Cup whilst playing for Urawa Red Diamonds : World Cup 1998
World Cup 2006
World Cup 2010
World Cup 2014
World Cup 2018
club captains [edit ]
early players [edit ]
International capped players [edit ]
Managers [edit ]
League history [edit ]
Excepting two seasons in which they were in the second base tier, Mitsubishi/Urawa has constantly competed in the top flight, thereby being the clubhouse with the most top flight seasons entire .
Notes [edit ]
References [edit ]
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