JEF United Ichihara Chiba

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is a J. League team.  On February 1, 2005, the team name changed from JEF United Ichihara. The team name JEF is taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric and United shows the unity of the team and its home town.

The team's hometown is Ichihara, Chiba and from 2003, Chiba, Chiba. 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.

The team began as the company team, Furukawa Electric Soccer Club in 1946. Since its inception, the team has always played in the top league in Japan and is the only team to do so. 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 alson won the 1986/87 Asia Club Championship, the top club honor in Asia.

In 1991, it merged with the JR East's company team to become 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.

Contents

1 Titles
2 Current Stars
3 Former Players
4 Managers
5 External links

Titles

2005 - J. League Cup winner

Current Stars

Former Players

Wynton Rufer

Managers

2003- Ivica Osim
2002 Jozef Vengloš
2000-2001 Zdenko Verdenik
1999-2000 Nicolae Zamfir
1999 Gert Engels
1997-1998 Jan Versleijen
1996 Yasuhiko Okudera
1994-1995 Eijyun Kiyokumo
1992-1994 Yoshikazu Nagai

External links

[JEF United Official Site] (in Japanese)

Japan Professional Football League Members in 2006 season
Division 1 (J1)
Niigata \| Kashima \| Chiba \| Omiya \| Urawa \| FC Tokyo \| Kawasaki \| Yokohama FM
Kofu \| Shimizu \| Iwata \| Nagoya \| Kyoto \| G.Osaka \| C.Osaka \| Hiroshima \| Fukuoka \| Oita
Division 2 (J2)
Sapporo \| Sendai \| Yamagata \| Mito \| Kusatsu \| Kashiwa Tokyo V. \| Yokohama FC \| Shonan \| Kobe \| Tokushima \| Ehime \| Tosu

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