Kawasaki Frontale 川崎フロンターレ
Full name	Kawasaki Frontale
Founded	1955
Ground	Todoroki Athletics Stadium, Nakahara, Kawasaki, Japan
Capacity	25,000
Chairman	Shimpei Takeda
Manager	Takashi Sekizuka (2004-)
League	J. League Div.1
2006	Runners-up
Home colours Away colours

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Founded in 1955 as Fujitsu soccer club, this club turned itself to be professional in 1997, and change its own name - "Frontale", means "front" in Italian. This club joined the second division of the J. League in 1999, and became the champion of this division. But, in the next 2000 season, it sank to the bottom of division one, and returned to the lower. Year 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1955 Gregorian calendar). ... For the district in Saga, Japan, see Fujitsu, Saga. ... Year 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1997 Gregorian calendar). ... Year 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1999 Gregorian calendar). ... 2000 (MM) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In 2004, they were champions of J2 and won promotion to J1 for the second time. shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Their home stadium is Todoroki Athletics Stadium, in Nakahara Ward, in the central area of Kawasaki. Todoroki Athletics Stadium is a multi-use stadium in Kawasaki, Japan. ...

Frontale are the first Japanese team to advance to the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League in 2007. The AFC Champions League is an annual international inter-club football competition between the champions and cup winners of the top 14 Asian leagues. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is now the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Competitions Records

Main article: Kawasaki Frontale Competitions Record

This page details Kawasaki Frontale competitions record. ...

Players

Current Squad

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No. Position Player 1 GK Eiji Kawashima 2 DF Hiroki Ito 3 DF Hideki Sahara 4 DF Yusuke Igawa 5 DF Yoshinobu Minowa 6 MF Takahiro Kawamura 7 FW Masaru Kurotsu 8 MF Francismar 9 FW Kazuki Ganaha 10 FW Juninho 11 MF Magnum 13 DF Shuhei Terada 14 MF Kengo Nakamura 15 MF Taku Harada 16 FW Chong Tese 17 MF Masayuki Ochiai

No. Position Player 18 MF Satoshi Hida 19 MF Yusuke Mori 20 MF Yuji Yabu 21 GK Takashi Aizawa 22 GK Yuki Uekusa 23 FW Satoshi Kukino 24 MF Masahiro Ohashi 25 MF Tatsuya Suzuki 26 MF Kazuhiro Murakami 27 FW Ken Tokura 28 GK Rikihiro Sugiyama 29 MF Hiroyuki Taniguchi 30 MF Yuji Kimura 32 DF Masato Okubo 33 DF Jun Sonoda 34 MF Kyohei Sugiura 35 MF Yūsuke Tasaka

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Notable Players

 Japan

• Tetsuya Asano
• Teruo Iwamoto
• Tetsuo Nakanishi
• Ryosuke Okuno
• Naoki Soma
• Takayuki Suzuki

 Brazil

• Emerson
• Robert
• Sheidt
• Tinga

 China

• Shen Xiang Fu (in Fujitsu era)

 Panama

• Jorge Dely Valdés

 Paraguay

• Guido Alvarenga

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Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Beto	Brazil	1999
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	1999
Zeca	Brazil	2000
Toshiaki Imai	Japan	2000
Hiroshi Kobayashi	Japan	2000
Yoshiharu Kobayashi	Japan	2001
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	2001-2003
Takashi Sekiduka	Japan	2004-

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League history

• Japan Soccer League : 1972 - 1991 (as Fujitsu)
• Japan Football League (former) : 1993 - 1998 (as Fujitsu : 1992 - 1995; Fujitsu Kawasaki : 1996; Kawasaki Frontale : 1997 - 1998)
• Division 2 (J. League Div.2) : 1999
• Division 1 (J. League Div.1) : 2000
• Division 2 (J. League Div.2) : 2001 - 2004
• Division 1 (J. League Div.1) : 2005 - present

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External link

• Kawasaki Frontale Official Site