is a Japanese professional

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club based in

Kashiwa is a city located in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 433,436 in 194,216 households and a population density of 3800 persons per km². The total area of the city is . The name of the city is written with a si ...

Chiba Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Chiba Prefecture has a population of 6,278,060 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Chiba Prefecture borders Ibaraki Prefecture to the north, Saitama Prefecture to the ...

, part of the

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. The club plays in the

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, which is the top tier of football in the country. Their home stadium is

Sankyo Frontier Kashiwa Stadium The is a association football, football stadium in Kashiwa, Chiba, Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, Chiba, Japan. It serves as the home ground of the J1 League club Kashiwa Reysol. The stadium holds 15,349 people and was built in 1985. The stadium is ...

, also known as "Hitachidai". ''Reysol'' is a

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, whose name means "rising sun" in Japanese. The club was formed in 1940 and was a founding member ("Original Eight") of the

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(JSL) in 1965. Since the league's inception, they have spent the majority of their existence in the top tier of Japanese football. They have been Japanese League champions twice in

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and

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, and have won three League Cups in

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and

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, and three

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s in

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History

Hitachi SC (1939–1992)

The club started in 1939 and was officially formed as the

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, Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in 1940 in Kodaira, Tokyo. The club formed the

(JSL) in 1965, along with today's Urawa Reds,

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Cerezo Osaka is a Japanese professional football club based in Osaka. The club currently plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. The club's name ''Cerezo'' (Spanish for cherry blossom) is also the flower of the city of Osaka. ...

, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and three other clubs (''"Original Eight"''). They had some successes during the mid-1970s, winning several Emperor's Cups and JSL titles and contributing several players to the Japanese national team. The club relocated from Kodaira to

in 1986, but it took a while to adapt to the new town, as they were relegated to the JSL Division 2 at the season's closing. They made it back to the top flight in 1989–90, but dropped back in 1990–91 and returned again in 1991–92. As the

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advent had come too soon for them, the club abandoned to be a founding member of the newly formed professional league. The club joined the Japan Football League (called "former JFL") Division 1 in

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, the second tier of the Japanese football hierarchy following the J.League.

Kashiwa Reysol (1993–)

The club changed its name to Kashiwa Reysol in 1993. Reysol added Careca of the Brazil national football team in the autumn of this year with the aim of winning the JFL champion for promoting to the

. The club struggled, however, with the help of Careca and Brazilian manager Zé Sérgio, they secured the 2nd place in the JFL in

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and earned promotion to the top league. Reysol debuted in the

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. They welcomed Akira Nishino in 1998 who was the former manager of Japan's Olympic team,

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of the

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, and Hong Myung-bo of the Korea national football team. The club won the J.League Cup in

, their first title as Kashiwa Reysol. However, next English manager,

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, unsettled the team and the club struggled over the next several seasons. After finishing at the 16th place out of 18 clubs in

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, the club lost the promotion/relegation play-offs against

Ventforet Kofu is a Japanese football club from Kōfu in Yamanashi Prefecture. The team currently competes in the J2 League and play their home games in JIT Recycle Ink Stadium, located in Kōfu. The word "Ventforet" is a compound formed from two French roo ...

, the 3rd place of the

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, and relegated to the J2 League. A new manager,

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, led an almost entirely new squad in

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and the club secured automatic promotion to the J1 League in the last game of the season. The club was relegated again at the end of

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. However, once they won the J2 League led by Nelsinho Baptista in

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and came back to the top flight, the club won the J1 League in

with some talented footballers such as Hiroki Sakai,

Junya Tanaka is a Japanese professional footballer who plays for FC Gifu. Career He played 9 games for Kashiwa Reysol in 2009 as System Specially Designated Player during his last studying year in Juntendo University. After spending nearly six years play ...

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and

Leandro Domingues Leandro Domingues Barbosa (born 24 August 1983 in Vitória da Conquista), known as Leandro Domingues, is a Brazilian footballer who plays as an attacking midfielder for Yokohama F.C. Club career After four seasons with Kashiwa Reysol, he was t ...

, and became the first Japanese club to win the second tier and the top tier two seasons in a row. The club qualified for the

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as the host nation's league champion and became semifinalist after defeating

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and

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. For the period of 2010 through 2014, Reysol won six different titles for five consecutive seasons; the

in 2010, the

in 2011, the

and the

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in 2012, the J.League Cup in 2013 and the

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in 2014.

Rivalries

Marunouchi Gosanke

Historically, Kashiwa Reysol's fiercest rivals have been

and Urawa Reds, both close neighbors. The three were co-founders of the

(JSL) in 1965, and spent most seasons in the top tier through the JSL era. Because of their former parent companies' headquarters being all based in

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, 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.

Chiba derby

Reysol and JEF United Chiba first met in 1941 in ancient

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regional football league. The two clubs both now based in

, and their rivalry is known as the Chiba derby. They annually contest a pre-season friendly match well known as the Chibagin Cup (i.e., '' Chiba Bank Cup'') since 1995.

Others

Reysol also has a rivalry with

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(commonly called Tonegawa clásico),

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(commonly called Kanamachi derby) and Omiya Ardija (commonly called Nodasen derby).

Anthem

Kashiwa Reysol's anthem is We Are Reysol, which is sung by anime singer

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. The song released in 1994, the same year Reysol got promoted to J1.

Record as J.League member

;Key

Honours

League history

*Division 1 (

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): 1965–1971 (as Hitachi SC) *Division 1 (

Div. 1): 1972 to 1986–87 *Division 2 (

Div. 2): 1987–88 to 1988–89 *Division 1 (

Div. 1): 1989–90 *Division 2 (

Div. 2): 1990–91 *Division 1 (

Div. 1): 1991–92 *Division 2 ( former JFL Div. 1): 1992–1993 *Division 2 ( former JFL): 1994 (as Kashiwa Reysol) *Division 1 (

): 1995–1998 *Division 1 ( J1): 1999–2005 *Division 2 ( J2): 2006 *Division 1 ( J1): 2007–2009 *Division 2 ( J2): 2010 *Division 1 ( J1): 2011–2018 *Division 2 ( J2): 2019 *Division 1 ( J1): 2020–present

Current squad

Out on loan

Kashiwa Reysol U-18

The main U-18 team of Kashiwa Reysol currently plays in the Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League.

Club captains

Coaching staff

Managerial history

Kit and colours

Colours

Kashiwa Reysol's main colour is yellow, like sunshine that is based on the club's name "Sun King". The uniform is yellow-black (called ''Aurinegro'' in Spanish) reminiscent of Peñarol or Borussia Dortmund. Reysol is the only top division club in the country to wear yellow-black.

Kit evolution

Continental record

Notes

References

External links

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