is a Japanese

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and former player. He is currently manager of

Kawasaki Frontale is a Japanese professional football club based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. The club plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. Their home stadium is Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium, in Nakahara W ...

Playing career

Oniki was born in

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on April 20, 1974. After graduating from high school, he joined

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in 1993. He played as mainly defensive midfielder. However he could not become a regular player behind Jorginho and

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. In 1998, he moved to

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club

on loan. He played as regular player and the club won the 2nd place. In 1999, although he returned to Antlers, he could not play many matches. In 2000, he moved to newly promoted

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club, Kawasaki Frontale again. In 2000, he played many matches and the club won the 2nd place

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. Although the club finished at bottom place in the league and was relegated to

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, he became a regular player from 2001 season. Although his opportunity to play decreased from 2003, the club won the champions in 2004 and was promoted to J1 League. He could hardly play in the match from 2005 and he retired end of 2006 season.

Coaching career

After retirement, Oniki started coaching career at

in 2007. He mainly served as coach for top team until 2016. In 2017, he became a manager. Frontale won the

2017 J1 League The 2017 J1 League (known as the 2017 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (2017 明治安田生命J1リーグ) for sponsorship reasons) was the 25th season of the J1 League, the top Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its esta ...

and came 2nd place in the

2017 Emperor's Cup The was the 2017 edition of the annual Japanese national cup tournament, which began on 22 April 2017 and ended with the finals on 1 January 2018. Cerezo Osaka won the tournament for the first time as a J.League club. It had won the cup 43 year ...

. In 2018, Frontale won the

and won again for the next 2 years in a row.

Club statistics

Managerial statistics

Honours

Manager

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References

External links

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Profile at Kawasaki Frontale

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