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Vegalta Sendai
Full nameVegalta Sendai
Founded1988; 37 years ago (1988)
GroundYurtec Stadium Sendai
Izumi-ku, Sendai
Capacity19,694
ChairmanTomohiro Sasaki
ManagerAkira Ito
LeagueJ2 League
2024J2 League, 6th of 20
Websitehttps://www.vegalta.co.jp/
Current season

Vegalta Sendai (ベガルタ仙台, Begaruta Sendai) is a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in J2 League. The team is located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture.

History

Founded in 1988 as Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc. Soccer Club, Vegalta joined the J-League in 1999 after playing a few years in the JFL, with the nickname Brummell Sendai, to which they had been promoted in 1995 from the Tohoku Regional League. When joining the J-League, the name Vegalta was chosen as a homage to the famous Tanabata festival in Sendai. The names of the two celestial stars of the Tanabata legend, Vega and Altair were combined to form Vegalta.[1]

They were first promoted to the top flight in 2002 but in the following season the team went back down the following season. They were promoted again for the 2010 season.

In 2011, despite the earthquake and tsunami, they achieved their highest position up to that time, 4th place in the top division.

In 2012, despite leading the table for most of the season, Sanfrecce Hiroshima's challenge proved too strong, and losing the penultimate week game to relegation battler Albirex Niigata cost them the title, rendering them second-place winners, their highest position in history.

In 2018, the Vegalta reached vice place in the Emperor's Cup, losing the cup to the Urawa Reds.[2]

Stadium

Yurtec Stadium Sendai
Miyagi Stadium

Their home stadium is Yurtec Stadium Sendai, in Izumi-ku, Sendai, although a few home games have also been played at nearby Miyagi Stadium.

Sendai Stadium ranks among the top stadiums in Japan for its presence, comfort, and accessibility, and was once ranked second in an evaluation by a famous Japanese football media.It was also used by Azzurri as a camp site during the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Miyagi Stadium is famous not only for the Japanese national team, but also for hosting matches of the Argentine national team in the 2002 FIFA World Cup.

Supporters and rivalries

As with most football clubs, fans in Sendai can hear singing and dancing during matches. However, most of the songs used by fans from other clubs are avoided due to the more eclectic set. Club themes sung before each game are Take Me Home, Country Roads, and during the game. Toy Dolls, Blitzkrieg Bop and other KISS and Twisted Sister songs. Twisted became popular all over the world after the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Since it is the hometown of Hirohiko Araki, the writer of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, you can see flags with the same motif Araki portrays his characters in the manga.

Michinoku derby

Vegalta's traditional rivals are Montedio Yamagata from Yamagata Prefecture. The two have been rivals since meeting in the Tohoku Football League in 1991. Among the Tohoku derbies, this match is famous as the Michinoku derby.

Tohoku Derby

This is the derby played by the Tohoku region teams, currently the most important match is that of Vegalta Sendai and Montedio Yamagata. Other teams evaluated for this classic are Blaublitz Akita, Iwate Grulla Morioka, Iwaki FC.

Record

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
Season League Tier Teams Pos. P W (OTW / PKW) D L (OTL) F A GD Pts Attendance
Brummell Sendai
1995 JFL 2 16 15th 30 9 - 21 40 79 -39 27
1996 16 6th 30 18 - 12 67 52 15 56
1997 16 8th 30 12 (1 / 2) - 15 37 43 -6 40
1998 16 7th 30 1 (5 / 3) - 12 55 53 2 43
Vegalta Sendai
1999 J2 2 10 9th 36 7 (3) 4 18 (4) 30 58 -28 31 134,462
2000 11 5th 40 15 (4) 2 15 (4) 60 69 -9 55 177,967
2001 12 2nd 44 24 (3) 5 9 (3) 78 56 22 83 308,243
2002 J1 1 16 13th 30 9 (2) 1 18 40 57 -17 32 327,925
2003 16 15th 30 5 9 16 31 56 -25 24 325,621
2004 J2 2 12 6th 44 15 14 15 62 66 -4 59 356,359
2005 12 4th 44 19 11 14 66 47 19 68 350,544
2006 13 5th 48 21 14 13 75 43 32 77 346,868
2007 13 4th 48 24 13 11 72 54 18 83 352,432
2008 15 3rd 42 18 16 8 62 47 15 70 295,679
2009 18 1st 51 32 10 9 87 39 48 106 336,719
2010 J1 1 18 14th 34 10 9 15 40 46 -6 39 294,644
2011 18 4th 34 14 14 6 39 25 14 56 266,144
2012 18 2nd 34 15 12 7 59 43 16 57 282,200
2013 18 13th 34 11 12 11 41 38 3 45 252,725
2014 18 14th 34 9 11 14 35 50 -15 38 257,949
2015 18 14th 34 9 8 17 44 48 -4 35 234,442
2016 18 12th 34 13 4 17 39 48 -9 43 262,937
2017 18 12th 34 11 8 15 44 53 -9 41 250,677
2018 18 11th 34 13 6 15 44 54 -10 45 242,791
2019 18 11th 34 12 5 17 38 45 -7 41 254,503
2020 † 18 17th 34 6 10 18 36 61 -25 28 36,113
2021 20 19th 38 5 13 20 31 62 -31 28 116,884
2022 J2 2 22 7th 42 18 9 15 67 59 8 63 188,810
  • Pos. = Position in league; P = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals difference; Pts = Points gained
  • Attendance = Total home league attendance
  • † 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
  • Source: J.League Data Site

Honours

Team awards

Individual awards

Players

Current squad

As of 13 August 2022[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Japan JPN Yuma Obata
3 DF Japan JPN Naoya Fukumori
4 DF Japan JPN Koji Hachisuka
5 DF Japan JPN Masashi Wakasa
6 MF Argentina ARG Leandro Desábato
8 MF Japan JPN Yoshiki Matsushita
9 FW Japan JPN Masato Nakayama
10 MF North Korea PRK Ryang Yong-gi
13 DF Japan JPN Yasuhiro Hiraoka
14 MF Japan JPN Takayoshi Ishihara
15 FW Brazil BRA Felippe Cardoso (on loan from Santos FC)
16 DF Japan JPN Kyohei Yoshino
17 MF Japan JPN Shingo Tomita
18 MF Japan JPN Ryoma Kida
19 FW Japan JPN Yusuke Minagawa
20 DF South Korea KOR Kim Tae-hyeon (on loan from Ulsan Hyundai)
21 GK Japan JPN Kaito Ioka
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 GK Serbia SRB Nedeljko Stojisic
23 GK Japan JPN Daichi Sugimoto
24 MF Japan JPN Kota Osone
25 DF Japan JPN Takumi Mase
26 MF Japan JPN Chihiro Kato
28 MF Japan JPN Takumi Nagura (on loan from V-Varen Nagasaki)
32 MF Japan JPN Hiromu Kamada
35 MF Brazil BRA Foguinho
40 MF Japan JPN Ryota Kobayashi Type 2
41 DF Japan JPN Yuto Uchida
42 FW Japan JPN Cayman Togashi
43 DF Japan JPN Taiki Yamada Type 2
44 FW Japan JPN Motohiko Nakajima (on loan from Cerezo Osaka)
46 MF Japan JPN George Onaiwu DSP
47 DF Japan JPN Yota Sato (on loan from Gamba Osaka)
48 MF Japan JPN Ryunosuke Sugawara DSP
50 MF Japan JPN Yasushi Endo

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 MF Japan JPN Yosuke Akiyama (on loan at JEF United Chiba)
30 MF Japan JPN Wataru Tanaka (on loan at Renofa Yamaguchi FC)
31 DF Japan JPN Hayato Teruyama (on loan at FC Imabari)

Famous players and coaches

International convention

National Team
FIFA Confederations Cup
EAFF E-1 Football Championship
Under National Team
AFC U-23 Asian Cup
  • 2016
    • Japan Makoto Teguramori
      ※Winner
  • 2020
    • Australia Graham Arnold
      ※3rd place
Toulon Tournament(U-22)

Club staff

Position Staff
Manager Japan Akira Ito
Assistant managers Japan Kentaro Yoshida
Japan Kazuhiro Murakami
First-Team coach Japan Makoto Kakuda
Japan Keisuke Kaizaki
Goalkeeper coach Japan Tomoaki Ōgami
Physical coach Japan Junichi Matsumoto
Athletic trainer Japan Tomoki Okabe
Trainer Japan Hiroaki Shibata
Physio Japan Takuya Matsuda
Interpreter Japan Asuka Takekoshi
South Korea Cha Geo-nin
Spain Rodrigo Simões
Brazil Andrés Nakandakari Ferreyra
Competent Japan Shinya Naganuma
Side affairs Japan Motoki Kanayama

Managerial history

Manager Nationality Tenure
Start date Finish date
Takekazu Suzuki  Japan 1 July 1990 31 December 1995
Choei Sato  Japan 1996
Branko Elsner  Slovenia 1 February 1997 31 December 1997
Toshiya Miura  Japan 1 January 1998 31 January 1998
Takekazu Suzuki  Japan 1 February 1998 24 July 1999
Hidehiko Shimizu  Japan 27 July 1999 14 September 2003
Hajime Ishii  Japan 15 September 2003 20 September 2003
Zdenko Verdenik  Slovenia 21 September 2003 31 December 2004
Satoshi Tsunami  Japan 1 January 2005 30 November 2005
Joel Santana  Brazil 1 December 2005 31 December 2006
Tatsuya Mochizuki  Japan 1 January 2007 31 December 2007
Makoto Teguramori  Japan 1 February 2008 14 November 2013
Graham Arnold  Australia 14 November 2013 9 April 2014
Susumu Watanabe  Japan 10 April 2014 31 January 2020
Takashi Kiyama  Japan 1 February 2020 31 January 2021
Makoto Teguramori  Japan 1 February 2021 22 November 2021
Masato Harasaki  Japan 23 November 2021 5 September 2022
Akira Ito  Japan 6 September 2022

Mascot and cheerleaders

Mascot

  • VEGATTA (Brother)
    • He has won "the J League mascot general election" many times and is quite popular.
    • The eagle, which is also used in the club emblem as a symbol of victory in Greek mythology, is associated with the Aquila constellation, to which Hikoboshi (Altair) belongs, which is the origin of the club's name. The name was decided by public submission. Vegatta's SNS (BLOG, Twitter), which is updated daily, is loved and popular among soccer fans because he loves mischief and is hard to believe he is a mascot.
  • LTAANA (Sister)
    • From the Sendai summer tradition "Sendai Tanabata", which is the origin of the team name, "Luta" for Vega (Orihime) and Altair (Hikoboshi), and "Tana" for Tanabata , It was named as a girlish name by combining "na" of August 7, which is the date of the event and the birthday. Sometimes she tweet with [#ルターナ] on Sendai's official Twitter.
    • On days when her team wins a game, she expresses her joy on Twitter.

Cheerleaders

  • The Vegalta Cheerleaders mainly support "Vegalta Sendai", participate in many events, and continue to work as a cheering group for people who are doing their best in the area. She has the longest history as a cheerleader for a professional sports team in Sendai, and has been active since 2003.

J Chronicle Best

This is a project to select the J.League "Best Eleven", "Best Goal" and "Best Match" over the past 20 years. A project held in 2013 to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Japan Professional Soccer League. The mentioned two game is often featured as a legendary game in each media. ① and ② were selected as "that game I want to see again" on the J League official YouTube channel, and 2 was also selected as "10 Best Matches" by J Chronicle Best.

Even in "Soccer Digest" (Japan's famous football media),the two were selected as "the best 3 selected J.League matches" by the reporter in charge of Sendai. Sendai's Yoshiaki Ota, who scored the equalizing goal against Kawasaki, said, "I think it was a goal that everyone worked together, including the thoughts of my teammates."

*The notation of the match card and the stadium where the match was held is at the time of the match.

Game Date/Stadium Overview Highlight Match data
① 2001 J League Division 2 Round 44

Kyoto Purple Sanga FC 0-1 Vegalta Sendai

November 18, 2001

Takebishi Stadium Kyoto

The long-awaited J1 first promotion match.

Head-to-head competition between leader Kyoto and 3rd place Sendai in the final round.

The first promotion to J1 as a club in the Tohoku region is decided.

CLICK HERE on YouTube Official record
② 2011 J League Division 1 Round 7

Kawasaki Frontale 1-2 Vegalta Sendai

April 23, 2011

Kawasaki Todoroki Stadium

The first match after the suspension of the league match due to the Great East Japan Earthquake.

Sendai, who suffered severe damage to the club itself, came from behind to win. Recorded the club's first victory with Todoroki Stadium.

CLICK HERE on YouTube
CLICK HERE Ⅱ on YouTube 		Official record
ACL

Continental record

Sendai also participated in the ACL for the first time in 2013.

It was a tournament with many challenges other than matches, such as long distance travel, overcrowded schedule with the J League, and local climate, but they did not lose in the extreme cold of Nanjing and the intense heat of Thailand, and the final match was a draw or better in the qualifying.

It was a good point to leave the possibility of breaking through.

Season Competition Round Club Home Away Aggregate
2013 AFC Champions League Group E Thailand Buriram United 1–1 1–1 4th
China Jiangsu Sainty 1–2 0–0
South Korea FC Seoul 1–0 2–1

Kit evolution

Asian clubs ranking

As of 14 October 2018.[4]
Current Rank Country Team Points
66 Lebanon Al-Ahed SC 1379
67 United Arab Emirates Al-Nasr Dubai SC 1377
68 Japan Vegalta Sendai 1375
69 India Salgaocar FC 1372
70 Japan Sagan Tosu 1372

Vegalta House

"Shichigashuku Town’ｓ Empty House Revitalization Project: Let's Build a Vegalta House" will start in July 2021 with the support of 143 crowdfunding people and a total of 78 local workers.[5]

It is a social collaboration activity in line with Goal 11 “Sustainable cities and communities” and Goal 17 “Partnership for the goals” of the SDGs basic guidelines.

2022 J League Sharen! The response was great, such as winning the first place in the general vote (the number of RTs by Twitter)[6] at the Awards, and it is possible to stay if you apply.[7]

Sharen! is a place to share and commend the efforts and activities of J.League clubs to solve regional and social issues, as well as to express gratitude to the many people who have cooperated.

You can see the latest information on VEGATTA's blog. (Example: November 3, 2022)

References

  1. ^ "GET TO KNOW J.LEAGUE: Vegalta Sendai".
  2. ^ "仙台、天皇杯準優勝は新時代の幕開け。渡邉体制6年目はサポーターの望むタイトル獲得へ". フットボールチャンネル (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2021-03-15. Retrieved 2021-03-15. {{cite web}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 2018-12-10 suggested (help)
  3. ^ "Team" (in Japanese). Vegalta Sendai. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Asia Football / Soccer Clubs Ranking". FootballDatabase.
  5. ^ "Vegalta House Recent Report". 2022-11-07.
  6. ^ "Introducing clubs that received a lot of RT response". 2022-11-07.
  7. ^ "You can stay at Vegalta House!". 2022-11-07.
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