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JEF United Ichihara Chiba
ジェフユナイテッド市原・千葉

Full name

JEF United Ichihara Chiba

Nickname(s)

JEF

Founded

1946

Ground

Ichihara Seaside Stadium
Fukuda Denshi Arena
(Capacity 16,933
19,781)

Chairman

Takahiro Yodogawa

League

J. League Division 1

2007

13th Place





Home colours





Away colours

JEF United Ichihara Chiba (ジェフユナイテッド市原・千葉, Jefu Yunaiteddo Ichihara Chiba^?) is a football (soccer) club that plays in J. League. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric- and United, represents the unity of the team and its home town. The club is also known as JEF United Chiba (ジェフユナイテッド千葉, Jefu Yunaiteddo Chiba^?) or JEF Chiba (ジェフ千葉, Jefu Chiba^?). JEF are one of only six teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since its inception in 1993.

1 History
2 Stadiums
3 Team Record
4 Titles
- 4.1 Furukawa Electric FC
- 4.2 JEF United Ichihara / JEF United Ichihara Chiba
5 Players
6 Managers
7 External links

The team began as the company team, Furukawa Electric Soccer Club (古河電気工業サッカー部, Furukawa Electric Soccer Club^?) in 1946. As the company team, it won the Japan Soccer League twice, the Emperor's Cup four times and the JSL League Cup three times. Furukawa also won the 1986/87 Asia Club Championship, the top club honor in Asia.

Since its inception, the team has always played in the top flight in Japan and is the only Japanese team to never be relegated. They did finish the 1978 season in a relegation position (last of 10) but stayed up after beating Honda F.C. 1-0 on aggregate in a two-legged playoff. The last place was not automatically relegated until the 1980 season.

In 1991, it merged with the JR East's company team to become East Japan JR Furukawa Football Club (東日本ジェイアール古河サッカークラブ, East Japan JR Furukawa Football Club^?) and rebranded itself as JEF United Ichihara upon the J. League's founding in 1993. The team initially built itself around the former Germany national football team player Pierre Littbarski.

From 1998 to 2000, the team struggled to stay in the J1 league and it began a series of efforts to be a competitive team. Since the hiring of Ivica Osim in 2003, JEF United has contended for the league title each year despite limited resources and struggling attendance.

On July 16, 2006, Osim left the team to take over the coach of the Japan national team and was succeeded by Amar Osim, his son and assistant coach.[1]. On December 5, 2007, it was announced that Osim had been sacked after the club's lowly 13th place finish in the 2007 season.[2]

It had played its home matches at Ichihara Seaside Stadium, but has since moved to the larger, more conveniently located Fukuda Denshi Arena, which opened in Chiba during the 2005 season. The club had initially practiced at Urayasu, Chiba planning to base itself in Narashino, Chiba before opposition by those living around Akitsu Stadium forced it to be based in Ichihara. Since 2000, training has been held at Footpark Anesaki in Ichihara.

Season	League	Place	GP	Pts	Win	Draw	Lose	Average Crowd
1993	J1 1st stage	5 / 10	18	-	9	-	9	20,273
	J1 2nd stage	9 / 10	18	-	5	-	13
	J1 Total	8 / 10	36	-	14	-	22
1994	J1 1st stage	6 / 12	22	-	10	-	12	22,262
	J1 2nd stage	9 / 12	22	-	9	-	13
	J1 Total	9 / 12	44	-	19	-	25
1995	J1 1st stage	6 / 14	26	45	14	-	12	15,418
	J1 2nd stage	7 / 14	26	43	14	-	12
	J1 Total	5 / 14	52	88	28	-	24
1996	J1	9 / 16	30	40	13	-	17	12,008
1997	J1 1st stage	15 / 17	16	13	5	-	11	5,693
	J1 2nd stage	14 / 17	16	15	6	-	10
	J1 Total	13 / 17	32	28	11	-	21
1998	J1 1st stage	11 / 18	17	21	7	-	10	5,365
	J1 2nd stage	18 / 18	17	4	2	-	15
	J1 Total	16 / 18	34	25	9	-	25
1999	J1 1st stage	15 / 16	15	12	4	2	9	5,774
	J1 2nd stage	11 / 16	15	16	6	0	9
	J1 Total	13 / 16	30	28	10	2	18
2000	J1 1st stage	11 / 16	15	19	6	1	8	6,338
	J1 2nd stage	16 / 16	15	9	3	1	11
	J1 Total	14 / 16	30	28	9	2	19
2001	J1 1st stage	Runners-up / 16	15	27	10	0	5	7,818
	J1 2nd stage	5 / 16	15	23	7	2	6
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	50	17	2	11
2002	J1 1st stage	8 / 16	15	23	7	3	5	7,897
	J1 2nd stage	11 / 16	15	18	6	0	9
	J1 Total	7 / 16	30	41	13	3	14
2003	J1 1st stage	3 / 16	15	27	8	3	4	9,709
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 16	15	26	7	5	3
	J1 Total	3 / 16	30	53	15	8	7
2004	J1 1st stage	7 / 16	15	22	5	7	3	10,012
	J1 2nd stage	Runners-up / 16	15	28	8	4	3
	J1 Total	4 / 16	30	50	13	11	6
2005	J1	4 / 18	34	59	16	11	7	9,535
2006	J1	11 / 18	34	44	13	5	16	13,393
2007	J1	13 / 18	34	42	12	6	16

See other domestic competitions record

Season	Competition	Result	Average Crowd
2006	A3 Champions Cup	3rd	-

Japan Soccer League: (2) 1976, 1985
JSL Cup: (3) 1977, 1982, 1986/1987
Emperor's Cup: (4) 1960, 1961, 1964, 1976
Asian Club Championship: (1) 1987

J. League Cup: (2) 2005, 2006

As of December 12, 2007

No.	Position	Player
1	GK	Tomonori Tateishi
3	DF	Daisuke Saito
4	DF	Hiroki Mizumoto
6	MF	Tomi Shimomura
7	MF	Yuto Sato
8	MF	Koki Mizuno
9	FW	Teruaki Kurobe
10	FW	Reinaldo
11	FW	Tatsunori Arai
13	DF	Mitsuki Ichihara
14	DF	Shohei Ikeda
15	MF	Koji Nakajima

No.	Position	Player
16	MF	Satoru Yamagishi
18	FW	Seiichiro Maki
19	MF	Atsushi Ito
20	MF	Kohei Kudo
21	GK	Daisuke Nakamaki
22	MF	Naotake Hanyu
23	MF	Takashi Rakuyama
24	DF	Kozo Yuki
29	FW	Kota Aoki
30	GK	Masahiro Okamoto
31	MF	Koki Yonekura
37	MF	Park Jong-Jin
40	DF	Nenad Đorđević

In

No.		Position	Player
		MF	Tsukasa Masuyama (Transfered from Gifu Kogyo High School)

Out

No.		Position	Player
9		FW	Teruaki Kurobe (Released)

World Cup 1998

Eisuke Nakanishi

World Cup 2002

Choi Yong-Soo
Željko Milinovič

World Cup 2006

Seiichiro Maki

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Yoshikazu Nagai	Japan	1992-1994
Eijyun Kiyokumo	Japan	1994-1995
Yasuhiko Okudera	Japan	1996
Jan Versleijen	Netherlands	1997-1998
Gert Engels	Germany	1999
Nicolae Zamfir	Romania	1999-2000
Zdenko Verdenik	Slovenia	2000-2001
Jozef Vengloš	Slovakia	2002
Ivica Osim	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2003-2006
Amar Osim	Bosnia and Herzegovina	2006-2007

Preceded by Yanmar Diesel	Japanese Football Champions 1976	Succeeded by Fujita Industries
Preceded by Yomiuri	Japanese Football Champions 1985/86	Succeeded by Yomiuri
Preceded by Daewoo Royals	Champions of Asia 1987	Succeeded by Yomiuri