Urawa Red Diamonds
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The Urawa Red Diamonds (浦和レッドダイヤモンズ, Urawa Reddo Daiyamonzu) or simply Urawa Reds (浦和レッズ, Urawa Rezzu), also known as Mitsubishi Urawa Football Club from April 1992 to January 1996, are a professional football club in the city of Saitama, part of the Greater Tokyo Area in Japan, who play in the J1 League, the top tier of Japanese football. The Reds are one of the most successful clubs in the country, having won three AFC Champions League titles (most recently in 2022) and various domestic titles including a joint-record eight Emperor's Cups, as well as participating at three FIFA Club World Cups. The club's name comes from the former city of Urawa, now part of Saitama, and pre-professional era parent company Mitsubishi, whose logo consists of three red diamonds, one of which remains within the current club badge.
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| Home kit - 1st | ||||
| 1992 | 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 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025– |
| Away kit - 2nd | ||||
| 1992 | 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 | 2022 | 2023 |
| 2024 | 2025– | |||
| Alternative kit - 3rd | ||||
| 1992 - 1993Cup 1st | 1992 - 1993Cup 2nd | 1994 - 1996Cup 1st | 1994 - 1996Cup 2nd | 1997Cup 1st |
| 1997Cup 2nd | 2012 3rd | 2013 3rd | 2014 3rd | 2017 3rd |
| 2019 3rd | 2020 3rd | 2022PSG game | 2022Eintracht Frankfurt game | 2023 3rd |
| 2023ACL 2022 | ACL2023/241stFIFA 20231st | ACL 2023/242ndFIFA 20232nd | 2024 3rd | 2025 3rd |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | JPN | Shūsaku Nishikawa (vice-captain) |
| 3 | DF | BRA | Danilo Boza |
| 4 | DF | JPN | Hirokazu Ishihara |
| 5 | DF | NOR | Marius Høibråten (vice-captain) |
| 6 | MF | JPN | Taishi Matsumoto |
| 7 | FW | JPN | Hiroki Abe |
| 8 | MF | BRA | Matheus Sávio (vice-captain) |
| 10 | MF | JPN | Shōya Nakajima |
| 11 | MF | SWE | Samuel Gustafson |
| 12 | FW | BRA | Thiago Santana |
| 13 | MF | JPN | Ryōma Watanabe (vice-captain) |
| 14 | MF | JPN | Takahiro Sekine (captain) |
| 15 | GK | JPN | Kenta Matsuyama (on loan from Mito HollyHock) |
| 16 | GK | JPN | Ayumi Niekawa |
| 17 | FW | JPN | Hiiro Komori |
| 21 | MF | JPN | Tomoaki Ōkubo |
| 22 | MF | JPN | Kai Shibato |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 24 | MF | JPN | Yūsuke Matsuo |
| 25 | MF | JPN | Kaito Yasui |
| 26 | DF | JPN | Takuya Ogiwara |
| 27 | FW | JPN | Toshikazu Teruuchi |
| 28 | DF | JPN | Kenta Nemoto |
| 31 | GK | JPN | Shun Yoshida |
| 34 | DF | JPN | Yūdai Fujiwara |
| 39 | MF | JPN | Jumpei Hayakawa |
| 44 | FW | JPN | Hayate Ueki DSP |
| 45 | DF | JPN | Yoshitaka Tanaka Type 2 |
| 46 | MF | JPN | Takeshi Wada Type 2 |
| 77 | MF | JPN | Takurō Kaneko |
| 88 | MF | JPN | Yōichi Naganuma |
| 99 | FW | SWE | Isaac Kiese Thelin |
| — | GK | JPN | Ryusei Sato DSP |
| — | MF | JPN | Renji Hidano DSP |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 19 | MF | JPN | Shion Honma (at Cerezo Osaka) |
| 20 | FW | JPN | Motoki Nagakura (at FC Tokyo) |
| 41 | FW | JPN | Rio Nitta (at Shonan Bellmare) |
| — | DF | JPN | Kōta Kudō (at Fagiano Okayama) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | JPN | Yūta Miyamoto (at Kyoto Sanga) |
| — | MF | JPN | Yota Horiuchi (at Tochigi SC) |
| — | FW | JPN | Rei Kihara (at Reilac Shiga) |
| Position | Name |
| Sporting director | Hisashi Tsuchida |
| Manager | Maciej Skorża |
| Coach | Rafal Janas Wojciech Makowski Nobuyasu Ikeda Masato Maesako |
| Physical coach | Tatsuru Ishiguri Wojciech Ignatiuk |
| Goalkeeper coach | Juan Miret |
| Assistant goalkeeper coach | Tomoyasu Ando |
| Coach & analyst | Maiki Hayashi |
| Honour | No. | Years |
| Japan Soccer League Division 1/J1 League | 5 | 1969, 1973, 1978, 1982, 2006 |
| Japan Soccer League Division 2 | 1 | 1989–90 |
| Emperor's Cup | 8 | 1971, 1973, 1978, 1980, 2005, 2006, 2018, 2021 |
| JSL Cup/J.League Cup | 4 | 1978, 1981, 2003, 2016 |
| Japanese Super Cup | 5 | 1979, 1980, 1983, 2006, 2022 |
| AFC Champions League Elite | 3 | 2007, 2017, 2022 |
| J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship | 1 | 2017 |
| JFA. Masayuki Okano Shinji Ono Keisuke Tsuboi Alex Masahiro Fukuda Yuichiro Nagai Nobuhisa Yamada Marcus Tulio Tanaka Tatsuya Tanaka Teruaki Kurobe Tomoyuki Sakai Hiromitsu Isogai Ryōta Tsuzuki Naohiro Takahara Hajime Hosogai Yuki Abe Makoto Hasebe Keita Suzuki Tadanari Lee Ryota Moriwaki Naoki Yamada Genki Haraguchi Shusaku Nishikawa Wataru Endo Tomoaki Makino Shinzo Koroki Yōsuke Kashiwagi Tomoya Ugajin Yuki Muto Kazuki Nagasawa Kenyu Sugimoto Ataru Esaka Hiroki Sakai Zion Suzuki Atsuki Ito Hiroki Abe Shoya Nakajima | AFC/ CAF/ OFC. Matthew Spiranovic Ned Zelić Andrew Nabbout Thomas Deng Emerson Cho Kwi-jea Gwak Kyung-keun Ekanit Panya Wilfried Sanou Faisal Mohammed José Kanté | UEFA. Michael Baur Tomislav Marić Brian Steen Nielsen Basile Boli Uwe Bein Guido Buchwald Uwe Rahn Michael Rummenigge Giuseppe Zappella Željko Petrović Alfred Nijhuis Andrzej Kubica Yuriy Nikiforov Ranko Despotović Ľubomír Luhový Miroslav Mentel Zlatan Ljubijankič Txiki Begiristain Alpay Özalan David Moberg | CONMEBOL. Osvaldo Escudero Victor Ferreyra Marcelo Morales Marcelo Trivisonno Adiel Adriano Donizete Oliveira Edmilson Edmundo Harison Márcio Richardes Mazola Nenê Robson Ponte Popo Santos Toninho Tuto Washington Fernando Picun |
| Manager | Nationality | Tenure | |
| Start | Finish | ||
| Hiroshi Ninomiya | Japan | 1 February 1967 | 31 January 1975 |
| Kenzo Yokoyama | 1 February 1975 | 31 January 1984 | |
| Kuniya Daini | 1 February 1984 | 30 June 1989 | |
| Kazuo Saito | 1 July 1989 | 30 June 1992 | |
| Takaji Mori | 1 July 1993 | 31 January 1994 | |
| Kenzo Yokoyama (2) | 1 February 1994 | 31 January 1995 | |
| Holger Osieck | Germany | 1 February 1995 | 31 December 1996 |
| Horst Köppel | 1 February 1997 | 31 December 1998 | |
| Hiromi Hara | Japan | 1 February 1998 | 30 June 1999 |
| Aad de Mos | Netherlands | 1 July 1999 | 3 December 1999 |
| Yasushi Yoshida | Japan | 4 December 1999 | 31 January 2000 |
| Kazuo Saito (2) | 2 February 2000 | 2 October 2000 | |
| Kenzo Yokoyama (3) | 3 October 2000 | 31 January 2001 | |
| Tita | Brazil | 1 February 2001 | 27 August 2001 |
| Pita | 28 August 2001 | 31 January 2001 | |
| Hans Ooft | Netherlands | 1 February 2002 | 31 January 2004 |
| Guido Buchwald | Germany | 1 February 2004 | 31 January 2007 |
| Holger Osieck (2) | 1 February 2007 | 16 March 2008 | |
| Gert Engels | 16 March 2008 | 27 November 2008 | |
| Volker Finke | 1 February 2009 | 31 January 2011 | |
| Željko Petrović | Montenegro | 1 February 2011 | 20 October 2011 |
| Takafumi Hori (caretaker) | Japan | 20 October 2011 | 31 January 2012 |
| Mihailo Petrović | Serbia | 1 February 2012 | 30 July 2017 |
| Takafumi Hori | Japan | 31 July 2017 | 2 April 2018 |
| Tsuyoshi Otsuki | 3 April 2018 | 24 April 2018 | |
| Oswaldo de Oliveira | Brazil | 25 April 2018 | 28 May 2019 |
| Tsuyoshi Otsuki (2) | Japan | 29 May 2019 | 22 December 2020 |
| Ricardo Rodríguez | Spain | 22 December 2020 | 30 October 2022 |
| Maciej Skorża | Poland | 10 November 2022 | 30 December 2023 |
| Per-Mathias Høgmo | Norway | 1 January 2024 | 27 August 2024 |
| Nobuyasu Ikeda (interim) | Japan | 27 August 2024 | 1 September 2024 |
| Maciej Skorża (2) | Poland | 1 September 2024 | Current |
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| Season | mw- Div. | Teams | Pos. | Avg. Attd. | J.League Cup | Emperor's Cup | Super Cup | AFC CL | Others | |
| 1992 | – | Group stage | Semi-final | – | – | |||||
| 1993 | J1 | 10 | 10th | 11,459 | 2nd round | |||||
| 1994 | 12 | 12th | 18,475 | 3rd round | – | |||||
| 1995 | 14 | 4th | 19,560 | – | Quarter-final | |||||
| 1996 | 16 | 6th | 24,329 | Semi-final | – | |||||
| 1997 | 17 | 10th | 20,504 | Round of 16 | ||||||
| 1998 | 18 | 6th | 22,706 | Group stage | Quarter-final | |||||
| 1999 | 16 | 15th | 21,206 | Round of 16 | – | |||||
| 2000 | J2 | 11 | 2nd | 16,923 | ||||||
| 2001 | J1 | 16 | 10th | 26,720 | Quarter-final | Semi-final | ||||
| 2002 | 11th | 26,296 | Runners-up | 3rd round | ||||||
| 2003 | 6th | 28,855 | Winners | |||||||
| 2004 | 2nd | 36,660 | Runners-up | Semi-final | ||||||
| 2005 | 18 | 39,357 | Semi-final | Winners | ||||||
| 2006 | 1st | 45,573 | Quarter-final | Winners | ||||||
| 2007 | 2nd | 46,667 | Round of 16 | Runners-up | Winners | A3 | 3rd place | |||
| FIFA CWC | ||||||||||
| 2008 | 7th | 47,609 | Group stage | 5th round | – | Semi-finals | – | |||
| 2009 | 6th | 44,210 | Quarter-final | 2nd round | – | |||||
| 2010 | 10th | 39,941 | Group stage | Quarter-final | ||||||
| 2011 | 15th | 33,910 | Runners-up | |||||||
| 2012 | 3rd | 36,634 | Group stage | Round of 16 | ||||||
| 2013 | 6th | 37,100 | Runners-up | 3rd round | Group stage | |||||
| 2014 | 2nd | 35,516 | Quarter-final | – | ||||||
| 2015 | 3rd | 38,745 | Runners-up | Group stage | ||||||
| 2016 | 2nd | 36,935 | Winners | Round of 16 | – | Round of 16 | ||||
| 2017 | 7th | 33,542 | Quarter-final | Runners-up | Winners | Suruga | Winners | |||
| FIFA CWC | 5th place | |||||||||
| 2018 | 5th | 34,798 | Play-off stage | Winners | – | |||||
| 2019 | 14th | 34,184 | Quarter-final | Round of 16 | Runners-up | – | ||||
| 2020 † | 10th | 7,869 | Group stage | Did not qualify | – | |||||
| 2021 † | 20 | 6th | 8,244 | Semi-final | Winners | |||||
| 2022 | 18 | 9th | 23,617 | 3rd round | Winners | – | ||||
| 2023 | 4th | 30,509 | Runners-up | Round of 16 | – | Group stage | FIFA CWC | 4th Place | ||
| 2024 | 20 | 13th | 37,519 | Group stage (3) | Banned | |||||
| 2025 | 7th | 37,350 | Play-off stage | Quarter-final | FIFA CWC | Group stage | ||||
| Sporting positions | ||
| Preceded byJeonbuk Hyundai Motors | Champions of Asia 2007 | Succeeded byGamba Osaka |
| Preceded byJeonbuk Hyundai Motors | Champions of Asia 2017 | Succeeded byKashima Antlers |
References
- The original clubs of the Japan Soccer League in 1965 were Mitsubishi Motors, Furukawa Electric, Hitachi, Yanmar Diesel,
- The original clubs of the J.League in 1993 were Kashima Antlers, Urawa, JEF United Ichihara, Verdy Kawasaki, Yokohama Ma
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- Japan Timeshttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/community/2014/03/12/issues/j-league-and-media-must-show-red-card-to-racism#.VuQK6OJ9600
- BBC Sporthttps://www.bbc.com/sport/football/26704368
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- 06.01.18 FCバイエルン・ミュンヘン(ドイツ)とのパートナーシップ締結について Archived 2008-12-08 at the Wayback Machine, Urawa Red Diamondshttp://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/Club/fcb05-06.htm
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- A brief history of J.League mascots | Mascot madness in Japanese footballhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1iiQfid1XCw
- www.urawa-reds.co.jphttps://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/english/club-profile.html
- URAWA REDS LADIES Archived 2008-10-24 at the Wayback Machine, Urawa Red Diamondshttp://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/ladies/index.html
- "TOP TEAM"https://www.urawa-reds.co.jp/topteam/
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