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Júbilo Iwata
ジュビロ磐田

Full name	Júbilo Iwata
Nickname(s)	Júbilo
Founded	1972; 47 years ago (1972)
Ground	Yamaha Stadium, Iwata, Shizuoka
Capacity	15,165[1]
Owner	Yamaha Motor Company
Chairman	Yoshirou Takahira
Manager	Hiroshi Nanami
League	J1 League
2018	J1 League, 16th Relegation play-offs
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Júbilo Iwata (Japanese: ジュビロ磐田, Hepburn: Jubiro Iwata) is a professional Japanese association football team that currently play in the J1 League. The team name Júbilo means 'joy' in Spanish and Portuguese. The team's hometown is Iwata, Shizuoka prefecture and they play at Yamaha Stadium. For big fixtures such as the Shizuoka Derby with Shimizu S-Pulse and against some of the top teams in J1, Júbilo play at the much larger Ecopa Stadium in Fukuroi City, a venue built specifically for the 2002 FIFA World Cup finals. They practice at Okubo Ground in Iwata and Iwata Sports Park Yumeria.^[2]

One of the most successful teams in the J.League, Júbilo have three times won the J.League title and three times finished as runners up. Júbilo hold the distinction of being Japan's most successful team in international club football, making three successive appearances in the Asian Club Cup final, being champions once and runners up twice.^[1]

History

Origins and rise to the top

The team started out as the company team for Yamaha Motor Corporation in 1970. After making its way through the Shizuoka and Tōkai football leagues, it played in the Japan Soccer League until it reorganized as the J.League at the end of 1992.

Their first glory happened when they won both the Emperor's Cup and promotion as champions of the JSL Division 2 in 1982. They won their first Japanese league title in the 1987/88 season. Due to problems in the upcoming professionalization, Yamaha decided to relegate themselves and not be one of the J.League founder members.

They finished in 2nd place of the JFL 1st division, a division below the top flight, in 1993 and were promoted to the J1 league for 1994. The team welcomed Marius Johan Ooft as its manager, as well as the Brazilian national team captain Dunga and a number of foreign players to build a winning team.^[3] Dunga's football philosophy deeply influenced the club, initially as a player and currently as an advisor.

Glory Years

In a seven-year period between 1997 and 2003, the club won a number of titles relying on Japanese players instead of foreigners who may leave on a transfer during the middle of the season. Within this period Júbilo won the J.League title three times, finished second three more and won each of the domestic cup competitions once. In 1999 they were also crowned Champions of Asia after winning the final match against Esteghlal F.C. and
121.000 spectators in Azadi Stadium.

In one of the most fruitful periods in J.League history, Júbilo broke several records and created some new ones. Amongst these are the most goals scored in a season (107 in 1998); the fewest goals conceded in a season (26 in 2001); the biggest goal difference (plus 68 goals in 1998); and the largest win (9–1 against Cerezo Osaka in 1998).^[4] In 2002, the team won both stages of the championship, a first in J.League history, and the same year the team had a record seven players selected for the J.League Team of the Year. All of these records still stand today.

Today

Yamaha Stadium Jubilo Iwata

Since their last cup triumph in the 2003 Emperor's Cup, the squad which took them to such heights began to age. Without similarly skilled replacements coming through the youth team or from outside, Júbilo's power started to fade, and in 2007 the club ended the season in a record worst position of 9th. Perhaps more concerning to Júbilo supporters is their eclipse in recent seasons by bitter local rivals Shimizu S-Pulse who, in ending the season above Júbilo every year since 2006, have become Shizuoka prefecture's premier performing team. In 2008 they finished 16th out of 18 – their lowest position in the 18-club table – but kept their J1 position by defeating Vegalta Sendai in the promotion/relegation playoff.

In 2013 season, it took them until 8th week to make their first win in the league matches, and never move up higher than 16th since they were ranked down to 17th as of the end of 5th week. Then eventually suffered their first relegation to 2014 J.League Division 2 after they were defeated by Sagan Tosu at their 31st week match.
Júbilo were promoted back to J1 in 2015 after finishing runners-up.

Honours

Rivalries

Júbilo's closest professional rivals are S-Pulse from Shizuoka.^[5] Júbilo also has rivalries with Kashima Antlers and Yokohama Marinos, with whom they traded the Japanese league championship since the late 1980s. During the Japan Soccer League days they had a more local derby with Honda, across the Tenryu in Hamamatsu, but as Honda has long resisted professionalism, competitive matches between them since 1994 are a rarity.

Record as J.League member

Key

• Tms. = Number of teams


• Pos. = Position in league


• Attendance/G = Average league attendance


• Source: J.League Data Site
  

Players

Current Squad

As of 16 January 2019.^[6]

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Naoki Hatta 3 DF Kentaro Oi 4 DF Ryo Shinzato 5 DF Nagisa Sakurauchi 6 DF Eren Albayrak 7 MF Taishi Taguchi 8 MF Fozil Musaev 9 MF Yoshiaki Ota 10 MF Shunsuke Nakamura 11 FW Gerson Rodrigues 13 MF Tomohiko Miyazaki 14 MF Masaya Matsumoto 15 MF Adaílton 16 FW Seiya Nakano 17 MF Kentaro Moriya 18 FW Koki Ogawa 19 MF Hiroki Yamada

No. Position Player 20 FW Kengo Kawamata 21 GK Krzysztof Kamiński 22 FW Yoshito Ōkubo 23 MF Kosuke Yamamoto 24 DF Daiki Ogawa 25 DF Takuma Ominami 26 MF Kotaro Fujikawa 27 MF Daigo Araki 28 DF Ryoma Ishida 30 MF Rikiya Uehara 31 GK Ko Shimura 32 FW Masato Nakayama 33 DF Yoshiaki Fujita 34 MF Takeaki Harigaya 35 DF Shun Morishita 36 GK Ryuki Miura 41 DF Shohei Takahashi

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player MF Hiroki Ito (at Nagoya Grampus)

World Cup players

The following players have been selected by their country in the World Cup, while playing for Júbilo Iwata:

• 
  Dunga (1998)


• 
  Hiroshi Nanami (1998)


• 
  Masashi Nakayama (1998, 2002)


• 
  Toshihiro Hattori (1998, 2002)


• 
  Takashi Fukunishi (2002, 2006)


• 
  Kim Jin-Kyu (2006)


• 
  Yuichi Komano (2010)


• 
  Masahiko Inoha (2014)

Award winners

The following players have won the awards while at Júbilo Iwata:

• 
  J. League Player of the Year
  
  • 
    Dunga (1997)
  
  
  • 
    Masashi Nakayama (1998)
  
  
  • 
    Toshiya Fujita (2001)
  
  
  • 
    Naohiro Takahara (2002)
  
  


• 
  J. League Top Scorer
  
  • 
    Masashi Nakayama (1998, 2000)
  
  
  • 
    Naohiro Takahara (2002)
  
  
  • 
    Ryoichi Maeda (2009, 2010)
  
  


• 
  J. League Best Eleven
  
  • 
    Hiroshi Nanami (1996, 1997, 1998, 2002)
  
  
  • 
    Dunga (1997, 1998)
  
  
  • 
    Tomoaki Ōgami (1997)
  
  
  • 
    Masashi Nakayama (1997, 1998, 2000, 2002)
  
  
  • 
    Daisuke Oku (1998)
  
  
  • 
    Toshiya Fujita (1998, 2001, 2002)
  
  
  • 
    Makoto Tanaka (1998)
  
  
  • 
    Takashi Fukunishi (1999, 2001, 2002, 2003)
  
  
  • 
    Arno van Zwam (2001)
  
  
  • 
    Toshihiro Hattori (2001)
  
  
  • 
    Go Oiwa (2001)
  
  
  • 
    Hideto Suzuki (2002)
  
  
  • 
    Makoto Tanaka (2002)
  
  
  • 
    Naohiro Takahara (2002)
  
  
  • 
    Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (2006)
  
  
  • 
    Ryoichi Maeda (2009, 2010)
  
  
  • 
    Yuichi Komano (2012)
  
  


• 
  J. League Rookie of the Year
  
  • 
    Robert Cullen (2005)


• 
  J. League Cup MVP
  
  • 
    Nobuo Kawaguchi (1998)
  
  
  • 
    Ryoichi Maeda (2010)
  
  


• 
  J. League Cup New Hero Award
  
  • 
    Hiroshi Nanami (1996)
  
  
  • 
    Naohiro Takahara (1998)
  
  


• 
  J2 League Top Scorer
  
  • 
    Jay Bothroyd (2015)

Former players

Players with senior international caps:

Managers

In popular culture

In the Captain Tsubasa manga series, three characters was players of Júbilo Iwata. The midfielders Taro Misaki and Hanji Urabe, and the defender Ryo Ishizaki.

References

External links

• Official Jubilo Iwata site


• 
  (in Japanese) Official Jubilo Iwata site
  

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Achievements
Preceded by Pohang Steelers	Champions of Asia 1998–99	Succeeded by Al Hilal