Avispa Fukuoka

japanese football team

football club
Avispa Fukuoka ( アビスパ福岡, Abisupa Fukuoka ) is a japanese professional football club, presently play in the J1 League. The team is located in Hakata, Fukuoka. “ Avispa ” means “ wasp “ in spanish. They were originally called Fujieda Blux and based in Fujieda, Shizuoka before moving to Fukuoka in 1994. After becoming the champions of 1995 Japan Football League as Fukuoka Blux, and being admitted to the J.League since 1996 season, Avispa Fukuoka has the longest history as a J.League club being uncrowned in any nationally competitions such as J.League Division 1, Division 2, J.League Cup, or Emperor ‘s Cup.

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history [edit ]

In Fujieda [edit ]

The club was founded as Chūō Bōhan SC in 1982 by the workers of security ship’s company Chuo Bohan in Fujieda, Shizuoka. They were promoted to the Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1991. They participated in the newly founded early Japan Football League Division 2 in 1992 and were promoted to Division 1 in 1993. They changed their name to Fujieda Blux with intention to be a J.League extremity. however, with difficulties to have a stadium that met J.League requirements, and with local competition from Júbilo Iwata and Shimizu S-Pulse, the football sports fan free-base in Shizuoka prefecture was already considered saturated. As a solution, in 1994 they decided to move to Fukuoka where the community was eager to have a J.League club. They adopted new name Fukuoka Blux and became a J.League associate degree member. Amateur golf club Chūō Bōhan F.C. was active in Fujieda until 2006 .

1995 ( JFL ) [edit ]

The first gear season in Fukuoka saw them win the JFL backing with avail from Argentine Hugo Maradona and they were promoted to J.League .
They decided to change their name to Avispa Fukuoka to avoid a electric potential hallmark challenge with men ‘s clothier Brooks Brothers. The golf club acquired have players such as early Japanese international Satoshi Tsunami and defender Hideaki Mori but they finished humble 15th in the 1996 season. They finished penetrate of the league two seasons in a course from 1997 to 1998. At the end of the 1998 season, Avispa were involved in the play-offs but they narrowly escaped a relegation. Around this time, forth Yoshiteru Yamashita and midfielder Chikara Fujimoto were chosen for the japanese national team. note : No team was relegated from J.League until 1998. With a position to the foundation of J.League Division 2 in 1999, the relegation/promotion play-offs were held in 1998 for the first meter .
In 1999, they again reinforced the police squad by acquiring know players such as early internationals Nobuyuki Kojima and Yasutoshi Miura vitamin a well as yugoslavian Nenad Maslovar. They won a fierce relegation battle and finally stayed up. In 2000, Argentine David Bisconti and Romanian Pavel Badea were transferred to Fukuoka and they finished golf club criminal record 6th in the second stage. In 2001, the club acquired erstwhile Korean international Noh Jung-Yoon and Yoshika Matsubara but they finished 15th and were relegated to J2 .
In 2002, they kept feel players and released younger players such as Daisuke Nakaharai and Yoshiteru Yamashita but they finished 8th out of 10. In 2002, with raw director Hiroshi Matsuda, they decided to recruit and nurture young players who graduated from local high schools rather of acquiring know footballers from other clubs. They initially struggled but came bet on well and finished 4th. In 2004, they finished 3rd and qualified for the play-offs but Kashiwa Reysol dashed their promotion hope by beating them home and aside ( the scoreline was both 2–0 ). In 2005, they finished 2nd and gained an automatic rifle promotion to J1. Avispa players Hokuto Nakamura and Tomokazu Nagira represented Japan for the 2005 World Youth Championship in the Netherlands .

2006 ( J1 ) [edit ]

They had been involved in a relegation battle from the beginning of the temper. They finished 16th and were relegated to J2 after the promotion/relegation play-offs against Vissel Kobe, which they tied doubly, 0–0 in Kobe, then 1–1 at their home crippled. Like many J2 teams this has led to fiscal issues. The Daily Yomiuri reported that in 2006 Avispa needed 535 million yen in loans from the local prefectural and municipal governments .
With delegating came another new coach, the former German external Pierre Littbarski. “ Litti ” arrived from the australian A-League, bringing with him several experienced players such as Mark Rudan, Joel Griffiths and Ufuk Talay, but he was unable to steer Avispa to any noteworthy achiever. Having finished 7th in 2007, an inability to compete near the top of the league led to Littbarski ‘s dismissal in mid-2008. He was replaced by former Avispa player Yoshiyuki Shinoda .

2009 ( J2 ) [edit ]

The departure of Littbarski coincided with the deviation of the club ‘s australian players, who were largely replaced with youngsters from a count of Kyushu-based universities. After a reasonable start, Avispa ‘s shape has tailed off sharply, with a holocene five-game lose streak including 6–0 and 5–0 thrashings away at Ventforet Kofu and Mito HollyHock respectively. The clubhouse finished in the lower half of the J2 table with forwarding hopes dashed for another class .

2010 ( J2 ) [edit ]

Yoshiyuki Shinoda bolstered his team for the 2010 temper by adding more players from local University teams, and picked up midfielders Kosuke Nakamachi and Genki Nagasato who had previously played in concert at Shonan Bellmare. The season started slowly with the team picking up only 1 indicate out of a possible 15 in March, but then saw a dramatic improvement in performance as they went on to win 17 of the following 25 games including a derive from behind victory against promotion rivals JEF United. As JEF United went on to drop more points Avispa secured forwarding back to J1 with 2 games of the season left to play. popular striker Tetsuya Okubo was released at the end of the season, along with 4 other players as the team was prepared for J1 .

2011 ( J1 ) [edit ]

The promotion to J1 saw some meaning changes to the squad as Takuya Matsuura was brought in to replace Genki Nagasato who departed to Ventforet Kofu under a cloud, Shogo Kobara, Kim Min-je and Takumi Wada coming in to bolster defense, while Sho Naruoka and Kentaro Shigematsu arrived to try to score the goals to keep the golf club in the part. Tipped by all pundits on the J-League After Game Show to finish the season in 18th position, the players struggled to gel and went for the first 13 games of the temper without earning a point. Despite improving slightly towards the mid-season break coach Shinoda left the club to be replaced by head passenger car Tetsuya Asano. While results continued to improve, culminating in a 6–0 away win to Montedio Yamagata, the club could not pull themselves out of the relegation zone and finished the temper in 17th military position to be relegated to J2. At the end of the season the director was changed again with Koji Maeda being brought in to replace the deviate Asano .

2012 ( J2 ) [edit ]

The team was looking to bounce square back to J1 upon their rejoinder to the second tier but endured the worst temper in the history of the club as they finished a humble 18th in the table ; lone winning 9 games all temper and conceding 68 goals ( merely Gainare Tottori would concede more in the season ). The end of the temper saw Koji Maeda part ways with the golf club as they looked to rebuild towards a better 2013 .

2013 ( J2 ) [edit ]

The club returned to hiring a non-Japanese coach for the first time since Pierre Littbarski as slovenian Marijan Pusnik arrived. His arrival saw a greater emphasis given towards the exploitation of young players at the cabaret as rookies Yuta Mishima and Takeshi Kanamori were given chances in the first team. Results on the pitch immediately improved and the golf club were competing around the play-off positions until a slump in class mid-season coincided with the announcement that the baseball club needed ¥50 million to remain solvent. The club finished in 14th stead, but found the money to stay adrift, with Pusnik agreeing to remain as coach for another season .

2014 ( J2 ) [edit ]

Avispa finished in 16th identify. Pušnik ‘s condense was not renewed and he returned to Slovenia .

2015 ( Promotion to J1 ) [edit ]

The cabaret hired new coach Masami Ihara [ 1 ] who twice handled Kashiwa Reysol in a caretaker capacity. They finished third base and were promoted back to J1 in winning the promotion playoffs .

2016 ( J1 ) [edit ]

Avispa finished in 18th place .

2017 ( J2 ) [edit ]

Avispa finished in one-fourth place. In the “ J1 Promotion Play-off ”, Avispa won the semi-final game 1–0 against Tokyo Verdy. In the final examination plot however, the team had a scoreless draw, 0-0, with Nagoya Grampus leaving them in third place, meaning Avispa could not be promoted to J1 .

Season(s)
Main Shirt Sponsor
Collarbone Sponsor
Additional Sponsor(s)
Kit Manufacturer

2018
FJ.
Fukuoka Estate
Hakata Green Hotel (Left)
–
Shin Nihon Seiyaku
ピエトロ
Hakata Nakasu Fukuya
BIKEN TECHNO
YONEX

2019

2020
Japan Park (Right)
Plantel EX
ピエトロ

current players [edit ]

As of 24 September 2021[2]

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

Out on loanword [edit ]

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

League & cup criminal record [edit ]

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted
Relegated

League
J.League Cup
Emperor’s
Cup

Season
Div.
Teams
Pos.
GP
W (OT/PK)
D
L (OT/PK)
F
A
GD
Pts
Attendance/G

1996

J1
16
15th
30
9(-/-)
–
19 (-/2)
42
64
-22
29
9,737
Group stage
4th round

1997

17
17th
32
6 (-/1)
–
20 (5/-)
29
58
-29
19
8,653
Group stage
4th round

1998

18
18th
34
6 (1/1)
–
22 (2/2)
29
69
-40
21
10,035
Group stage
4th round

1999

16
14th
30
7 (3/-)
1
18 (1/-)
41
59
-18
28
11,467
2nd round
4th round

2000

16
12th
30
9 (4/-)
2
10 (5/-)
41
48
-7
37
13,612
2nd round
4th round

2001

16
15th
30
7 (2/-)
2
14 (5/-)
35
56
-21
27
13,822
2nd round
3rd round

2002

J2
12
8th
44
10
12
22
58
69
-11
42
6,491
Not eligible
4th round

2003

12
4th
44
21
8
15
67
62
5
71
7,417
3rd round

2004

12
3rd
44
23
7
14
56
41
15
76
8,743
4th round

2005

12
2nd
44
21
15
8
72
64
8
78
10,786
4th round

2006

J1
18
16th
34
5
12
17
32
56
-24
27
13,780
Group stage
5th round

2007

J2
13
7th
48
22
7
19
77
61
16
73
9,529
Not eligible
4th round

2008

15
8th
42
15
13
14
55
66
-10
58
10,079
3rd round

2009

18
11th
51
17
14
20
52
71
-19
65
7,763
3rd round

2010

19
3rd
36
21
9
6
63
34
29
69
8,821
Quarter final

2011

J1
18
17th
34
6
4
24
34
75
-42
22
10,415
Group stage
3rd round

2012

J2
22
18th
42
9
14
19
53
68
-15
41
5,586
Not eligible
3rd round

2013

22
14th
42
15
11
16
47
54
-7
56
5,727
2nd round

2014

22
16th
42
13
11
18
52
60
-8
50
5,062
2nd round

2015

22
3rd
42
24
10
8
63
37
26
82
8,736
3rd round

2016

J1
18
18th
34
4
7
23
26
66
-40
19
12,857
Quarter-final
2nd round

2017

J2
22
4th
42
21
11
10
54
36
18
74
9,550
Not eligible
3rd round

2018

22
7th
42
19
13
10
58
42
16
70
8,873
3rd round

2019

22
16th
42
12
8
22
39
62
-23
44
6,983
3rd round

2020 †

22
2nd
42
25
9
8
51
29
22
84
3,289
Did not qualify

2021

J1
20
8th
38
14
12
12
42
37
5
54
5,403
Group stage
3rd round

Key

Pos. = Position in league; GP = Games Played; W = Games won; D = Games Drawn; L = Games Lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals Difference; Pts = Points gained
Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
† 2020 season attendance reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
Source: J.League Data Site

Honours [edit ]

Managers [edit ]

Kit Evolution [edit ]

FP 1st

1996 – 1998
1999 – 2000
2001 – 2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009

2010
2011
2012
2013

2014

2015
2016

2017
2018
2019
2020

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2021 –

FP 2nd

1996 – 1998
1999 – 2000

2001 – 2002

2003
2004

2005

2006

2007

2008
2009

2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

2015

2016