Nagoya Grampus

Nagoya Grampus
名古屋グランパス

Full name	Nagoya Grampus Eight
Nickname(s)	Grampus
Founded	1983 (as Nagoya FC)
Ground	Mizuho Athletic Stadium (Capacity: 27,000)
Chairman	Toyo Kato
Manager	Dragan Stojković
League	J. League Division 1
2010	Champion
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Nagoya Grampus (名古屋グランパス, Nagoya Guranpasu^?) (formerly Nagoya Grampus Eight) are a Japanese association football club that play in the J. League. Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and originally founded as the company team of the Toyota Motor Corp. in 1939, the club shares its home games between Mizuho Athletic Stadium (capacity 27,000 and the J.League's oldest-serving stadium) and the much larger Toyota Stadium (capacity 45,000).

Grampus are one of only five teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since its inception in 1993. The team previously had its most successful season in 1995 when it was managed by current Arsenal manager Arsène Wenger, winning the prestigious Emperor's Cup and finishing runners-up in the J.League, and which featured, among others, Dragan Stojković and Gary Lineker on the team, until it was eclipsed in 2010 on November 20, 2010, when the club won their first ever J. League trophy, under the management of Wenger protégé and former Grampus player Dragan Stojković.^[1]

The team's name was derived from the two most prominent symbols of Nagoya: the two golden grampus dolphins on the top of Nagoya Castle (which can be more accurately described as shachihoko, a mythological creature part of the local folklore), and the Maru-Hachi (Circle eight), the city's official symbol.

The use of an orca in the team's logo is likely a reference to the fact that the kanji for shachichoko (鯱) can be pronounced "shachichoko" (the aforemention mythical creature) or "shachi" (orca).

History

Toyota Motor S.C. was initially overshadowed by its colleague Toyota Automated Loom Works F.C. (founded in 1946 and which was one of the founding members of the JSL) but when Toyota ALW were relegated to regional leagues in 1968, Toyota Motor saw an opportunity to rise at their expense. In 1972 Toyota Motors were founding members of the JSL's Second Division and its inaugural champions. They remained in the JSL until the J. League's founding in 1993. They were relegated to the JSL Division 2 in 1977. After a brief return in 1987-88, they were promoted for good in 1989-90 and remain in the top flight ever since. In 1996, Arsene Wenger led Grampus to the 1996 Emperor's Cup and a runners-up finish in the J.League, the club's best ever finish. The team's name "Nagoya Grampus Eight" was changed to just "Nagoya Grampus" at the start of the 2008 season. In 2008, Nagoya appointed former player Dragan Stojković as manager. They finished in 3rd place and qualified for the AFC Champions League for the first time. Stojković has since led the club to winning the J.League in the 2010 season, featuring a squad consisting of Marcus Tulio Tanaka, Mu Kanazaki, Seigo Narazaki, Yoshizumi Ogawa, Keiji Tamada and Joshua Kennedy.^[1]

Old Logo

Record as J. League member

See also: List of Nagoya Grampus records and statistics

Season	Div.	Tms.	Pos.	Attendance/G	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Asia
1992	-	-	-	-	Semi-final	1st Round	-	-
1993	J1	10	9	19,858	Group Stage	Quarter-final	-	-
1994	J1	12	11	21,842	1st Round	2nd Round	-	-
1995	J1	14	3	21,463	-	Winners	-	-
1996	J1	16	2	21,699	Group Stage	3rd Round	-	-
1997	J1	17	9	14,750	Semi-final	3rd Round	CWC	Runners-up
1998	J1	18	5	13,993	Group Stage	Semi-final	-	-
1999	J1	16	4	14,688	Semi-final	Winners	-	-
2000	J1	16	9	14,114	Semi-final	4th Round	-	-
2001	J1	16	5	16,974	Semi-final	3rd Round	CWC	Quarter-final
2002	J1	16	6	16,323	Group Stage	4th Round	-	-
2003	J1	16	7	16,768	Semi-final	4th Round	-	-
2004	J1	16	7	15,712	Semi-final	5th Round	-	-
2005	J1	18	14	13,288	Group Stage	5th Round	-	-
2006	J1	18	7	14,924	Group Stage	5th Round	-	-
2007	J1	18	11	15,585	Group Stage	5th Round	-	-
2008	J1	18	3	16,555	Semi-final	Quarter-final	-	-
2009	J1	18	9	15,928	Quarter-final	Runners-up	CL	Semi-final
2010	J1	18	1	19,979	Group Stage	Quarter-final		-

Key

• Tms. = Number of teams
• Pos. = Position in league
• Attendance/G = Average league attendance

Players

Current squad

As of November 1, 2011 Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 1 GK Seigo Narazaki 3 DF Mitsuru Chiyotanda 4 DF Tulio 5 DF Takahiro Masukawa 6 DF Shohei Abe 7 MF Naoshi Nakamura 8 MF Jungo Fujimoto 10 MF Yoshizumi Ogawa 11 FW Keiji Tamada 14 MF Keiji Yoshimura 16 FW Joshua Kennedy 18 FW Kensuke Nagai 20 MF Danilson Córdoba 21 GK Koji Nishimura

No. Position Player 22 MF Koji Hashimoto 23 DF Genta Matsuo 25 MF Mu Kanazaki 26 DF Tatsuya Arai 27 MF Sho Hanai 28 MF Taishi Taguchi 29 FW Hikaru Kuba 32 DF Hayuma Tanaka 33 MF Ryota Isomura 34 MF Makito Yoshida 35 MF Teruki Tanaka 38 MF Alessandro Santos 50 GK Yoshinari Takagi

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as has been defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player GK Toru Hasegawa (to Tokushima Vortis) DF Akira Takeuchi (to JEF United Chiba) MF Yoshiki Hiraki (to Shonan Bellmare) FW Yuki Maki (to Shonan Bellmare) FW Tomohiro Tsuda (to Tokushima Vortis)

World Cup players

1998 FIFA World Cup

• Takashi Hirano
• Dragan Stojković

2002 FIFA World Cup

• Seigo Narazaki

2006 FIFA World Cup

• Seigo Narazaki
• Keiji Tamada

2010 FIFA World Cup

• Seigo Narazaki
• Keiji Tamada
• Marcus Tulio Tanaka
• Joshua Kennedy

International Players

Japan Yutaka Akita Tetsuya Asano Chikara Fujimoto Toshiya Fujita Takashi Hirano Keisuke Honda Teruo Iwamoto Keiji Kaimoto Eiji Kawashima Wagner Lopes Shigeyoshi Mochizuki Naoshi Nakamura Seigo Narazaki Takafumi Ogura Go Oiwa Tomoyuki Sakai Alessandro Santos Masaharu Suzuki Keiji Tamada Hayuma Tanaka Marcus Tulio Tanaka Motohiro Yamaguchi Maya Yoshida

AFC Joshua Kennedy Kim Jung-Woo

CONMEBOL Jorginho Luizão Magnum Marques Torres Ueslei Valdo Danilson Córdoba

UEFA Ivica Vastić Andrej Panadić Gary Lineker Franck Durix Gérald Passi Tarik Oulida Frode Johnsen Tomasz Frankowski Dragiša Binić Dragan Stojković Marek Špilár

Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Ryuzou Hiraki	Japan	1992-93
Gordon Milne	England	1994
Tetsuro Miura ‡	Japan	1994
Arsène Wenger	France	1995-96
José Alberto Costa ‡	Portugal	1996
Carlos Queiroz	Portugal	1996-97
Koji Tanaka	Japan	1997-99
Daniel Sanchez	France	1999
Mazaroppi ‡	Brazil	1999
João Carlos	Brazil	1999-01
Tetsuro Miura	Japan	2001
Zdenko Verdenik	Slovenia	2002-03
Nelsinho	Brazil	2003-05
Hitoshi Nakata ‡	Japan	2005
Sef Vergoossen	Netherlands	2006-07
Dragan Stojković	Serbia	2008-

‡ As caretaker manager

Honours

• J. League Division 1:
  • Champions (1): 2010
• Emperor's Cup:
  • Champions (2): 1995, 1999
• Japanese Super Cup: 2

1996, 2011

• All Japan Senior Football Championship: 2

1968, 1970

• Japan Soccer League Division 2: 1

1972

• Konica Cup: 1

1991

League history

• Tōkai Football League: 1966-1971
• Division 2 (JSL Div. 2): 1972
• Division 1 (JSL Div. 1): 1973-1977
• Division 2 (JSL Div. 2): 1978-1986
• Division 1 (JSL Div. 1): 1987
• Division 2 (JSL Div. 2): 1988-1989
• Division 1 (JSL Div. 1): 1990-1991
• Division 1 (J. League Div. 1): 1992–present

References

1. ^ ^{a b} John Duerden (2010-11-05). "Stojkovic doing things the Wenger way". ESPNsoccernet. http://soccernet.espn.go.com/columns/story?id=839046&cc=5901. Retrieved 2010-11-20. 

External links

• Official site
• (Japanese) Official site