Japan And South Korea Women's League Championship
Japan and South Korea Women's League Championship (, ) was a women's association football competition between the clubs of L. League, Nadeshiko League (Japan Football Association, Japan Women's Football League division 1) winners and WK-League (Korea Football Association, Korea Republic Women's Football League) winners. History The first edition was held in March 2010, where the two league winners of 2009 season competed. This competition aims at being developed into women's version of AFC Champions League, that is, many other Asian countries taking part. Results 2010 The first edition was held at the home ground of the 2009 Japanese champion Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies. Urawa Reds reversed the one-goal behind Goyang Daekyo WFC, Daekyo Kangaroos in the last five minutes and won the title. 2011 The second edition was moved to South Korea. 2012 The third edition was held at the home ground of Japanese champion INAC Leonessa, INAC Kobe Leonessa. References {{Football in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies
, known for sponsorship reasons as Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Urawa Reds Ladies, is a professional women's football (soccer), football club playing in Japan's football league, WE League. Its hometown is the city of Saitama, Saitama, Saitama in Saitama Prefecture. Kits Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors Other teams * Men's: Urawa Red Diamonds play in J1 League. * Youth: Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies Youth (Under-18) play in Kantō region, Kantō League. * Junior Youth: Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies Junior Youth (Under-14) play in Saitama Prefecture, Saitama League. Players Current squad Notable players *GK ** Nozomi Yamago (2005–2012) *DF ** Kyoko Yano (2007–2012) ** Saki Kumagai (2009–2011) ** Moeka Minami (2017–2022) *MF ** Fūka Nagano, Fuka Nagano (2014–2017) ** Kiko Seike (2014-2024) Club officials Season-by-season records Record in AFC Women's Club Championship/AFC Women's Champions League ''All results list Urawa Red Diamond ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Suwon FMC WFC
Suwon FC Women (Korean: 수원 FC 위민) is a South Korean women's football team based in Suwon. They compete in the WK League, the highest division of women's football in South Korea. History In 2007, amid dwindling participation in women's and girls' football nationwide, the Suwon City Government announced its intention to form South Korea's sixth women's works football team. The club was founded in February 2008 as Suwon Facilities Management Corporation WFC. The team has played in the WK League since its inaugural season in 2009. They have won the championship title twice, in 2010 and 2024. Before the 2022 WK League season, the team merged with the Suwon FC men's team and changed their name to Suwon FC Women. Current squad Coaching staff *Head coach: Park Gil-young *Coach: Song Yu-na *Goalkeeping coach: Lee Sang-yeop *Fitness coach: Lee Dong-hwan *Playing coach: Lee Eun-mi *Medical trainers: Lee Han-na, Ham Ji-young *Kit manager: Kim ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Women's Football Competitions In Japan
A woman is an adult female human. Before adulthood, a female child or adolescent is referred to as a girl. Typically, women are of the female sex and inherit a pair of X chromosomes, one from each parent, and women with functional uteruses are capable of pregnancy and giving birth from puberty until menopause. More generally, sex differentiation of the female fetus is governed by the lack of a present, or functioning, ''SRY'' gene on either one of the respective sex chromosomes. Female anatomy is distinguished from male anatomy by the female reproductive system, which includes the ovaries, fallopian tubes, uterus, vagina, and vulva. An adult woman generally has a wider pelvis, broader hips, and larger breasts than an adult man. These characteristics facilitate childbirth and breastfeeding. Women typically have less facial and other body hair, have a higher body fat composition, and are on average shorter and less muscular than men. Throughout human history, traditional gen ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kobe
Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Tokyo, Tokyo and Port of Yokohama, Yokohama. It is located in the Kansai region, which makes up the southern side of the main island of Honshu, Honshū, on the north shore of Osaka Bay. It is part of the Keihanshin metropolitan area along with Osaka and Kyoto. The Kobe city centre is located about west of Osaka and southwest of Kyoto. The earliest written records regarding the region come from the , which describes the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in AD 201.Ikuta Shrine official website – "History of Ikuta Shrine" (Japanese) [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Home's Stadium Kobe
The , a.k.a. , is a football stadium in Misaki Park, Hyogo-ku, Kobe, Japan. The stadium has a capacity of 30,132. This stadium, which features a retractable roof, is the home ground of J1 League club Vissel Kobe and the rugby union Japan Rugby League One team Kobelco Kobe Steelers. In 1970, was opened at the site of the Kobe Keirin Track. It was the first football stadium in Japan to be able to host games at night following the installation of floodlights. 2002 FIFA World Cup In order to host the 2002 FIFA World Cup, the stadium was renovated to install a removable roof and increase spectator capacity. It was opened under the name Kobe Wing Stadium in November 2001 with a capacity of 42,000. Reopened in 2003 with a reduced capacity of 32,000 Kobe Wing Stadium became the home of the Vissel Kobe football club. 2019 Rugby World Cup The stadium was announced as one of the venues for 2019 Rugby World Cup which will be the first Rugby World Cup to be held in Asia. Four group ga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mai Kyokawa
is a Japanese Association football, footballer who plays as Forward (association football), forward. She plays for 1. FFC Turbine Potsdam in the German Frauen Bundesliga. She has played for the Japan women's national football team, Japan national team. Club career Kyokawa was born in Omitama on December 28, 1993. After graduating from high school, she joined INAC Kobe Leonessa in 2012. National team career In 2010, Kyokawa was selected by the Japan women's national under-17 football team, Japan U-17 national team for the 2010 FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup, 2010 U-17 World Cup. She played six games and scored three goals, helping Japan to a second-place finish. In February 2012, when she was 18 years old, she was selected by the Japan women's national football team, Japan national team for the 2012 Algarve Cup. At that competition on February 29, she debuted against Norway women's national football team, Norway. She played five games for Japan until 2015. National team statistics L ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shinobu Ohno
is a Japanese former footballer who played as a forward. She formerly played for the Japan national team. Club career Ohno was born in Zama on 23 January 1984. She played for Nippon TV Beleza from 1999 to 2010. In 12 seasons, she played 192 matches and scored 136 goals. She was the top scorer in three seasons (2007, 2008 and 2010) and she was selected for most-valuable player awards 3 times (2005, 2007 and 2010). She was also selected Best Eleven 8 times (2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010). The club won L.League championship 8 times and 2nd position 4 times. In 2011, she moved to INAC Kobe Leonessa and she became top scorer with teammate Nahomi Kawasumi. From 2013, she played for Olympique Lyonnais (2013), AS Elfen Sayama FC (2013), Arsenal (2014) and INAC Kobe Leonessa (2015–2017). She is currently playing for Nojima Stella Kanagawa Sagamihara from 2018. International career In August 2002, Ohno was selected Japan U-20 national team for 2002 U-19 World ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Icheon Daekyo WFC
Icheon Daekyo Women's Football Club () was a South Korean women's football team based in Icheon, Gyeonggi-do. It was founded in 2002 and competed in the WK League, the top division of women's football in South Korea, from the league's inaugural season in 2009 until the team's disbandment in 2017. History In August 2002, Daekyo announced the foundation of a new women's football team, with Choi Chu-kyung appointed as manager. The team was formally established under the name Daekyo Kangaroos in November 2002. In 2008, when the Korean Women's Football Federation announced a pilot scheme for a new women's league, Daekyo were one of the four teams to participate. The following year they were one of six teams to compete in the first edition of the WK League, playing in the league's opening match against Incheon Hyundai Steel. They went on to become the first league champions, beating Hyundai Steel 2–0 over two legs in the championship final. Daekyo won the championship on two fur ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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INAC Leonessa
INAC Kobe(INAC神戸レオネッサ, Ainakku-Kōbe Reonessa) is a professional Japanese football club from Kobe, founded in 2001. INAC stands for International Athletic Club, while Leonessa means Lioness in Italian. In 2006 INAC Leonessa was promoted to the Nadeshiko.League, where it has played since 2020. In 2021 they are playing in WE League. The 2008 season marked a great leap for the team as it was the runner-up both in the Nadeshiko.League and the All Japan Women's Football Championship. 2010 saw INAC lift its first title as they beat Urawa Red Diamonds in the final of the All Japan Women's Football Championship through a penalty shootout, and in 2011, coinciding with the club's 10th anniversary, the team won the double Nadeshiko.League – All Japan Women's Football Championship. Leonessa's 2011 squad included seven champions of the 2011 World Cup: Ayumi Kaihori, Yukari Kinga, Nahomi Kawasumi, Shinobu Ohno, Homare Sawa, Megumi Takase and Asuna Tanaka. Kits ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ulsan
Ulsan (; ), officially the Ulsan Metropolitan City, is South Korea's seventh-largest metropolitan city and the eighth-largest city overall, with a population of over 1.1 million inhabitants. It is located in the south-east of the country, neighboring Busan to the south and facing Gyeongju to the north. Ulsan is the industrial powerhouse of South Korea, forming the heart of the Ulsan Industrial District. It has the world's largest automobile assembly plant, operated by the Hyundai Motor Company; the world's largest shipyard, operated by Hyundai Heavy Industries; and the world's third largest oil refinery, owned by SK Energy. In 2020, Ulsan had a GDP per capita of $65,352, the highest of any region in South Korea. Ulsan is the city that built the first automobile hydrogen charging station in the country in 2009. In addition, the first hydrogen ship charging station in the country was installed in Jangsaengpo Port in 2021. Currently, the Ulsan Green Hydrogen Town project, a hydro ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ulsan Stadium
Ulsan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located in Ulsan Sports Complex, Ulsan, South Korea. Originally, there was Ulsan Civic Stadium at the same location which opened in 1970. The original stadium was demolished in 2003 and replaced with Ulsan Sport Complex. Ulsan Sports Complex consists of the Ulsan Stadium and Dongchun Gymnasium. Ulsan Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium which is mainly used for football; it was the home ground of the Ulsan Hyundai FC, Ulsan Hyundai before they moved to Ulsan Munsu Football Stadium in 2001 and was the home stadium of Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dolphin FC, Ulsan Hyundai Mipo Dockyard between 2005 and 2016. The stadium has a capacity for 19,471 spectators. See also *Ulsan Civic Stadium External links Official website World Stadiums profile Athletics (track and field) venues in South Korea Football venues in South Korea Multi-purpose stadiums in South Korea Sports venues in Ulsan Sports venues completed in 2005 K League 1 stadiums {{SouthKorea-s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Saori Ariyoshi
is a Japanese footballer who currently plays for Albirex Niigata in the WE League. She has played for the Japan national team. Club career Ariyoshi was born in Saga on November 1, 1987. In 2008, when she was at Nippon Sport Science University, she debuted in the L.League for TEPCO Mareeze. After graduating, she joined Nippon TV Beleza in 2010. She was selected for the Best Eleven four years in a row, from 2013 to 2016). National team career In February 2012, Ariyoshi was selected Japan national team for 2012 Algarve Cup. At this competition, on February 29, she debuted against Norway. In 2014, she played at 2014 Asian Cup and 2014 Asian Games. Japan won the championship at Asian Cup and 2nd place at Asian Games. In 2015, played at 2015 World Cup and Japan won 2nd place. She played 6 matches and scored a goal. She was named candidates for the Golden Ball at the tournament. She was also a member for 2018 Asian Cup and Japan won their second consecutive title. She played 63 ga ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |