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Yukitaka Omi
is a former Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team. Club career Omi was born in Tokyo on December 15, 1952. He joined new club Yomiuri in 1969. The club was promoted to new division Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1972 and Division 1 in 1978. In 1979, the club won their first major title, 1979 JSL Cup. The club won the league champions in 1983 and 1984. The club also won 1984 Emperor's Cup and 1985 JSL Cup. He retired in 1986. National team career On May 23, 1978, Omi debuted for Japan national team against Thailand. In 1980, he was selected Japan for 1980 Summer Olympics qualification. He played 6 games for Japan until 1980. Coaching career After retirement, Omi started coaching career at Yomiuri (later ''Tokyo Verdy''). In July 2001, he became a manager as Yasutaro Matsuki successor. However, he was sacked in April 2002. In April 2005, he signed with Arte Takasaki was a Japanese football club based in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, form ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo
Tokyo (; ja, 東京, , ), officially the Tokyo Metropolis ( ja, 東京都, label=none, ), is the capital and largest city of Japan. Formerly known as Edo, its metropolitan area () is the most populous in the world, with an estimated 37.468 million residents ; the city proper has a population of 13.99 million people. Located at the head of Tokyo Bay, the prefecture forms part of the Kantō region on the central coast of Honshu, Japan's largest island. Tokyo serves as Japan's economic center and is the seat of both the Japanese government and the Emperor of Japan. Originally a fishing village named Edo, the city became politically prominent in 1603, when it became the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. By the mid-18th century, Edo was one of the most populous cities in the world with a population of over one million people. Following the Meiji Restoration of 1868, the imperial capital in Kyoto was moved to Edo, which was renamed "Tokyo" (). Tokyo was devastate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1978 Japan Soccer League ...
Statistics of Japan Soccer League for the 1978 season. First Division By winning the 1978 Emperor's Cup and 1978 Japan Soccer League Cup along with the title, Mitsubishi completed the first Japanese treble ever. Promotion/Relegation Series Nissan promoted, Fujitsu relegated. Second Division Promotion/Relegation Series Yamaha promoted, Kyoto Shiko relegated. ReferencesJapan - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{Japanese Club Football, group=first 1978 1 Jap Jap ''Jap'' is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese". Today, it is generally regarded as an ethnic slur. In the United States, some Japanese Americans have come to find the term very offensive, even when used as an abbreviation. Prior to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Japan Soccer League ...
Statistics of Japan Soccer League for the 1977 season. This was the inaugural season of the Regional League promotion series, which replaced the Senior Cup as the source of the clubs promoted from the regional Japanese football leagues. First Division Promotion/Relegation Series Yomiuri promoted, Toyota Motors relegated. Second Division Promotion/Relegation Series Toshiba promoted, Furukawa Chiba relegated. ReferencesJapan - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{Japanese Club Football, group=first 1977 1 Jap Jap ''Jap'' is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese". Today, it is generally regarded as an ethnic slur. In the United States, some Japanese Americans have come to find the term very offensive, even when used as an abbreviation. Prior to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 Japan Soccer League
Statistics of Japan Soccer League for the 1976 season. League tables First Division Promotion/Relegation Series Since Eidai dropped out of the league and folded in March 1977, Fujitsu was promoted, meaning no team was relegated. Second Division JSL Promotion/Relegation Series Nissan Motors, future Yokohama Marinos, currently Yokohama F. Marinos, joined the league for the first time. Nissan promoted. Furukawa Chiba was not relegated due to Eidai's withdrawal. ReferencesJapan - List of final tables (RSSSF) {{Japanese Club Football, group=first 1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 ... 1 Jap Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1975 Japan Soccer League
League tables First Division Towa Real Estate was renamed Fujita Industries when the latter absorbed its subsidiary. Promotion/Relegation Series No relegations. Second Division JSL Promotion/Relegation Series NTT Kinki and Dainichi relegated, Furukawa Chiba and Yanmar Club promoted. References {{Japanese Club Football, group=first 1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 - Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ... 1 Jap Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Japan Soccer League
League tables First Division Promotion/Relegation Series No relegations. Second Division JSL Promotion/Relegation Series Honda promoted, Hitachi Ibaraki relegated. All-Star Game References {{Japanese Club Football, group=first 1974 1 Jap Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1973 Japan Soccer League
The 1973 season of Japanese football. League tables JSL First Division Tanabe Pharmaceuticals was relegated, thereby becoming the first Japanese team to go straight back down one season after promotion. JSL 1/2 Promotion/Relegation Series Eidai promoted, Tanabe relegated. JSL Second Division JSL Promotion/Relegation Series Sumitomo, at the time based in Osaka, would move to Kashima, Ibaraki in 1975 and become today's Kashima Antlers. Hitachi Ibaraki and Sumitomo promoted, Toyota Industries and Hagoromo Club relegated. References {{Japanese Club Football, group=first 1973 Events January * January 1 - The United Kingdom, the Republic of Ireland and Denmark 1973 enlargement of the European Communities, enter the European Economic Community, which later becomes the European Union. * January 15 – Vietnam War: ... 1 Jap Jap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Japan Soccer League
The 1972 season in Japanese football introduced a Second Division to the Japan Soccer League. Nine clubs were chosen from the 1971 Japanese Regional Leagues; when Nagoya Mutual Bank resigned from the League, a tenth club was chosen from the Kansai League. League tables JSL First Division No relegation took place as the First Division was being expanded to 10 clubs. JSL Second Division Toyota Motors, later one of the Japanese big names as Nagoya Grampus, was crowned the inaugural Second Division champion. Tanabe Pharmaceutical, a club from Osaka, followed them into the expanded 10-team First Division. No relegations took place, to keep the Second Division at 10 clubs. References {{Japanese Club Football, group=first 1972 1 Jap Jap ''Jap'' is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese". Today, it is generally regarded as an ethnic slur. In the United States, some Japanese Americans have come to find the term very offensive, even when used as an abbreviation. Prior to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Regional Leagues
are a group of parallel association football leagues in Japan that are organized on the regional basis. They form the fifth tier of the Japanese association football league system below the nationwide Japan Football League. Overview Japan is divided regionally in a variety of ways, some of them administrative and some more historical. For the football purposes, the country is divided into nine regions. All regional league champions earn the right to participate in the Regional Football League Competition (since 2016 renamed Japan Regional Football Champions League) at the end of the year. Runners-up may also qualify according to criteria set by the Japan Football Association. Regional league clubs also compete in the All Japan Senior Football Championship, a cup competition. The winner of this cup also earns a berth in the Regional League promotion series, and the runner-up may also qualify depending on space and JFA criteria. Regional league clubs must win the qualifying ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Japanese Regional Leagues
Statistics of Japanese Regional Leagues in the 1971 season. Champions list By winning the All Japan Senior Football Championship and then defeating Nagoya Bank in a promotion/relegation Series, Towa ED was promoted to the Japan Soccer League; it and the remaining JSL clubs constituted the new JSL First Division, while Toyota, Kyoto and eight other clubs were chosen for the new JSL Second Division. League standings Kanto Tokai Kansai {{1971 in Japanese football 1971 Jap Jap ''Jap'' is an English abbreviation of the word "Japanese". Today, it is generally regarded as an ethnic slur. In the United States, some Japanese Americans have come to find the term very offensive, even when used as an abbreviation. Prior to t ... 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Prefectural Leagues
The Japanese association football league system is organized in a pyramidal shape similar to football league systems in many other countries around the world. The leagues are bound by the principle of promotion and relegation; however, there are stringent criteria for promotion from the JFL to J3, which demands a club being backed by the town itself including the local government, a community of fans and corporate sponsors rather than a parent company or a corporation. Overview The top three levels of the Japanese football league system are operated by the J. League, which consists of J1 League (J1), J2 League, and J3 League. All of the clubs in the J. League are fully professional. The fourth level, the Japan Football League (JFL) is a semi-professional league consisting of amateur, professional, and company clubs from all over Japan. At the fifth and sixth levels, nine parallel regional leagues are operated by nine different regional football associations, some of whic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
