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| Full name | Yokohama F·Marinos | |||
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| Nicknames | Marinos,Tricolor | |||
| Founded | 1972; 53 years ago (1972) as Nissan Motor | |||
| Stadium | Nissan Stadium | |||
| Capacity | 72,327 | |||
| Owners |
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| Chairman | Akihiro Nakayama | |||
| Manager | Hideo Ōshima | |||
| League | J1 League | |||
| 2024 | J1 League, 8th of 20 | |||
| Website | www | |||
 Current season | ||||
| 2008 |  Manchester City* |
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| 2009–2012 | |
| 2013 |  New York City FC§ |
| 2014 |  Melbourne City* |
 Yokohama F. Marinos*§ | |
| 2015–2016 | |
| 2017 |  Montevideo City* |
 Girona*§ | |
| 2018 | |
| 2019 |  Shenzhen Peng City*§ |
 Mumbai City*§ | |
| 2020 |  Lommel* |
 Troyes* | |
| 2021 | |
| 2022 |  Palermo*§ |
| 2023 |  Bahia*§ |
Yokohama F. Marinos (横浜F・マリノス,Yokohama Efu Marinosu), stylised asYokohama F·Marinos, is aJapanese professionalfootball club based inYokohama,Kanagawa Prefecture, part of theGreater Tokyo Area. The club competes in theJ1 League, which is the top tier offootball in the country.[1][2][3]
Having won the J-League title five times and finishing second twice, they are one of the most successful J-League clubs. The team is based inYokohama and was founded as the company team ofNissan Motor. The club was formed by the merger of Yokohama Marinos andYokohama Flügels in1999. The current name is intended to reflect both of the original names. Yokohama F. Marinos is the longest serving team in the top flight of Japanese football, having played at the top level since1982, also making them, along withKashima Antlers, one of onlytwo teams to have competed in Japan's top flight of football every year since the league was professionalized.
The team traces its origins to 1972 as theNissan Motors Football Club, based inYokohama. Nissan won promotion to Division 2 Football League in 1976. Under coachShu Kamo, the team won theJapan Soccer League in 1988 and 1989, as well as theJSL Cup in 1988, 1989 and 1990 and theEmperor's Cup in 1983, 1985, 1988, 1989 and 1991. The 1989 team won the "Triple Crown" - all three major tournaments in Japan - with famous players such asKazushi Kimura,Takashi Mizunuma and BrazilianOscar. At the end of the 1991–92 season, the team won theAsian Cup Winners' Cup.
Nissan obtained registration in the newly formedJ.League to acquire professional club status and changed the club's name toYokohama Marinos, a reference to Yokohama's status as a major port city.[4] In their first seasons as a professional team, Yokohama Marinos continued to win competitions: triumphant in theEmperor's Cup, a second consecutiveAsian Cup Winners' Cup, and their firstJ.League title in 1995. Matches between Yokohama Marinos andVerdy Kawasaki were known as the National Derby.
In 1999, the club was renamedYokohama F. Marinos after the technical and financial merger withYokohama Flügels, which had declared bankruptcy. An F was added to the name to represent the Flügels half of the club. However, many Flügels fans have rejected the new team, feeling that their team was dissolved into the F. Marinos rather than merged with it. As a result, they refused to follow F. Marinos and instead createdYokohama FC, the new city rival of F. Marinos, with the help of public donations and an affiliation withIMG, a talent agency.
In 2000, Marinos were runner-up in the2000 J1 League, whereShunsuke Nakamura was named the best player of the season.
On 27 October 2001, Marinos won theJ.League Cup, defeatingJúbilo Iwata in a 0–0 match where Marinos won the penalty shootout 3–1.
In the 2002 season, Marinos were league runners-up behind Júbilo Iwata.
In 2003 and 2004, Marinos became back-to-back league champions for the second time, in the professional era, with the stars of the team being South KoreansAhn Jung-hwan,Yoo sang-chul and Japanese playersDaisuke Oku,Tatsuhiko Kubo andYuji Nakazawa (who was the best player of the year in 2004). Their coach was the JapaneseTakeshi Okada, who was named the 'Best Coach of the Year' in 2003 and 2004.
From 2005 to 2008, with notable playersHayuma Tanaka,Hideo Ōshima,Daisuke Sakata andKoji Yamase, Marinos didn't achieve any single honours. The highest they reached during this period was the2008 Emperor's Cup semi-final where they were knockout byGamba Osaka in extra time.
In 2010, club legendShunsuke Nakamura returned to Yokohama F. Marinos after 8 years and stayed until the end of the2017 J1 League season.
On August 4, 2011, a year after leaving the club, former Marinos playerNaoki Matsuda collapsed during training withMatsumoto Yamaga due to cardiac arrest and died at the age of 34. As a result, his former number 3 has been retired.
And after two semi-final defeats in 2011 and 2012, Marinos won the2013 Emperor's Cup on 1 January 2014, the first after 21 years and in 2013, they were runner-up in theJ.League for the second time in their history.
On 20 May 2014, it was announced that theCity Football Group, a subsidiary ofAbu Dhabi United Group, had invested in a minority stake in Yokohama F. Marinos, creating a partnership with the football club and the automakerNissan.
And after consecutive defeats, such as a loss in the2017 Emperor's Cup Final and in the2018 J.League Cup Final, the team managed to get a good shape thanks to the direction of the Australian coachAnge Postecoglou, which ended 15 years of drought by winning the2019 J1 League title, with emphasis on the participation of Teruhito Nakagawa being the 'Best Player of the Season' and top scorer with 15 goals together with BrazilianMarcos Júnior.
In 2020, Marinos made it out of the2020 AFC Champions League group stage for the first time since theAFC Champions League switched to the current format. The club were drawn in Group H alongside ChineseShanghai SIPG, South KoreanJeonbuk Hyundai Motors and AustralianSydney FC. Marinos qualified to the knockout stages as group leaders with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 losses. However the club was bowed out from the tournament in the Round of 16 losing 3–2 to South KoreanSuwon Samsung Bluewings.
In 2021, Marinos finished in second place 13 points behind league champions,Kawasaki Frontale where on 18 July 2021, Head coachAnge Postecoglou was signed by Scottish club,Celtic whileHideki Matsunaga will be the caretaker for the club until 18 July 2021, Marinos signed another Australian head coach,Kevin Muscat.
In 2022, Kevin Muscat steered the club to win their fifthJ1 League title. The club also finished as group leaders in the 2022 AFC Champions League group stage being placed in Group H alongside South Korean Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, VietnameseHoang Anh Gia Lai and Australian Sydney FC. Marinos qualified to the knockout stages with 4 wins, 1 draw and 1 losses where they faced another Japanese sideVissel Kobe in the Round of 16, however, the club suffered a 3–2 defeat to Vissel Kobe thus crashing out from the competition.
In 2023, Marinos than finished as league runners up with 64 points behind Vissel Kobe who got 71 points. Kevin Muscat than guided the club in the2023–24 AFC Champions League group stage being drawn in Group G with ChineseShandong Taishan, South KoreanIncheon United and FilipinoKaya–Iloilo. Marinos finished the group tied with 12 points along with Shandong Taishan and Incheon United but qualified to theround of 16 as group leaders.
On 6 December 2023, Kevin Muscat resigned as the head coach in whichHarry Kewell were appointed as the new head coach of the club on 31 December 2023 becoming the third consecutive Australian manager in the club history. Harry Kewell than guided the club in the round of 16 fixture against ThaiBangkok United, winning the match 3–2 on aggregate withAnderson Lopes scoring an injury time penalty in the 120th minute of extra time during the second leg sending the team to the quarter-finals. Marinos then faced off againstShandong Taishan again in which Marinos won 3–1 on aggregate thus seeing them to the semi-finals against South KoreanUlsan Hyundai. Marinos suffered a 1–0 defeat away in which the club bounced back in the second leg at home winning the match 3–2 thus seeing both club tied with 3–3 on aggregate sending the match into extra time and then penalties shootout. Marinos went on to win the penalties shootout 5–4 where vice-captainEduardo scored the winning penalty to send the team to their first-ever Champions League final against EmiratiAl Ain. They would start losing 0-1 during the first leg at home, but then came back with two goals fromAsahi Uenaka andKota Watanabe to make it 2–1 at the end of the match, but, unfortunately, they'd lose 5–1 away in the second leg (6–3 on aggregate), thus ending as runners-up of the competition.
Kanagawa derby
Previously,Verdy Kawasaki and the extinctYokohama Flügels were Kanagawa derby rivals. With Verdy moving to Tokyo from Kawasaki, matches between the two clubs are no longer considered Kanagawa derbies.
Yokohama F. Marinos utilizes a three colour system composed of blue, white and red.
In 2012, Yokohama F. Marinos have unveiled a special edition 20th Anniversary jersey
| Ano | Slogan |
|---|---|
| 2009 | Enjoy・Growing・Victory |
| 2010 | ACTIVE |
| 2011 | ACTIVE 2011 |
| 2012 | All for Win |
| 2013 | All for Win -Realize |
| 2014 | All For Win -Fight it out! |
| 2015-2017 | Integral Goal - All for Win |
| 2018 | Brave and Challenging |
| 2019 | URBAN ELEGANCE TRICOLORE |
| 2020 | Brave and Challenging BRAVE BLUE |
| 2021–2024 | Brave and Challenging |
| 2025 | Be a Stunner |
| Period | Kit supplier | Shirt sponsor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1992–1996 | Mizuno (J-League) andAdidas (Emperor's Cup) | Nissan | Kodak |
| 1997–2007 | Adidas | ANA | |
| 2008–2011 | Nike | ||
| 2012– | Adidas | SANEI ARCHITECTURE | |
| MUGEN ESTATE | |||
| NISSHIN OILLIO |
| Home - 1st kits | ||||
          1992 |      1993 - 1994 |      1995 - 1996 |      1997 - 1998 |      1999 - 2000 |
    2001 |     2002 |      2003 |      2004 - 2005 |      2006 |
     2007 |      2008 - 2009 |     2010 |     2011 |      2012 |
    2013 |      2014 |      2015 |      2016 |      2017 |
     2018 |     2019 |    2020 |     2021 |      2022 |
    2023 |      2024 |      2025 | ||
| Away - 2nd kits | ||||
     1992 |      1993 - 1996 |      1997 - 1998 |      1999 - 2000 |     2001 - 2002 |
     2003 - 2004 |     2005 - 2006 |      2007 |      2008 - 2009 |     2010 |
    2011 |     2012 |      2013 |      2014 |      2015 |
     2016 |    2017 |    2018 |      2019 |     2020 |
    2021 |      2022 |     2023 |      2024 |      2024 |
| Other - 3rd kits | ||||
     1993 3rd |      2001 - 2002 3rd |   2004 ACL 1st |    2009 Yokohama Port 150th anniversary |    2012 20 year anniversary |
   2013 PSM Memorial |      2014 ACL 1st |      2014 ACL 2nd |    2014 commemoration of the 2014 Emperor's Cup victory |      2015 Cup 1st |
     2015 CUP 2nd |      2016 Cup 1st |     2016 CUP 2nd |      2016 Yokohama Port Opening Commemorative |     2017 CUP 1st |
   2017 Cup 2nd |  2017 SP |     2018 SP |     2019 SP Yokohama 160th Anniversary |    2020 SP |
    2021 SP |      2022 SP |      2023 SP |      2024 SP | |
The team's home stadiums areNissan Stadium, otherwise known as International Stadium Yokohama, andMitsuzawa Stadium. The team trained at Marinos Town located in the area ofMinato Mirai, but moved to Kozukue Field located next to the home ground in 2016.
The club's official theme song is "We Are F. Marinos" by Japanese duoYuzu.[7] The song was first released in 2005, with the song being used at games up to today, sometimes having mascot Marinos-kun dance to the song on a pedestal on the running track of Nissan Stadium.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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The official club website lists the club mascot as player #0 and the supporters as player #12.
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| Position[9] | Name |
|---|---|
| Manager | Hideo Oshima |
| Fitness coach | Tomoo Tsukoshi |
| Goalkeeper coach | Shigetatsu Matsunaga |
| Assistant goalkeeper coach | Tetsuya Enomoto |
| Conditioning coach | Yusuke Tanaka |
| Chief analyst | Satoru Okada |
| Analyst | Jun Yamaguchi |
| Performance data analyst | Yuki Masui |
| Manager | Nationality | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | Finish | ||
| Hidehiko Shimizu | Japan | 1993 | 1994 |
| Jorge Solari |  Argentina | 1995 | 1995 |
| Hiroshi Hayano | Japan | 1995 | 1996 |
| Xabier Azkargorta | Spain | 1997 | August 1998 |
| Antonio de la Cruz | August 1998 | 1999 | |
| Osvaldo Ardiles | Argentina | Jan 1, 2000 | Dec 31, 2000 |
| Yoshiaki Shimojo | Japan | 2001 | 2001 |
| Sebastião Lazaroni | Brazil | 2001 | 2002 |
| Yoshiaki Shimojo | Japan | 2002 | Dec 31, 2002 |
| Takeshi Okada | Jan 1, 2003 | Aug 24, 2006 | |
| Takashi Mizunuma | Aug 25, 2006 | Dec 31, 2006 | |
| Hiroshi Hayano | Jan 1, 2007 | Dec 31, 2007 | |
| Takashi Kuwahara | Jan 1, 2008 | July 17, 2008 | |
| Kokichi Kimura | July 18, 2008 | Dec 31, 2009 | |
| Kazushi Kimura | Feb 16, 2010 | Dec 31, 2011 | |
| Yasuhiro Higuchi | Dec 30, 2011 | Dec 7, 2014 | |
| Erick Mombaerts | France | Dec 16, 2014 | Jan 1, 2018 |
| Ange Postecoglou | Australia | Jan 1, 2018 | June 10, 2021 |
| Hideki Matsunaga (caretaker) | Japan | June 10, 2021 | July 18, 2021 |
| Kevin Muscat | Australia | July 18, 2021 | December 13, 2023 |
| Harry Kewell | Dec 31, 2023 | July 15, 2024 | |
| John Hutchinson (caretaker) |  Malta | July 16, 2024 | December 9, 2024 |
| Steve Holland | England | December 17, 2024 | April 18, 2025 |
| Patrick Kisnorbo | Australia | April 18, 2025 | June 19, 2025 |
| Hideo Ōshima | Japan | June 19, 2025 | Present |
| Honour | No. | Years |
|---|---|---|
| All Japan Senior Football Championship | 1 | 1976 |
| Emperor's Cup | 7 | 1983,1985,1988,1989,19911992,2013 |
| Japan Soccer League Division 1/J1 League | 7 | 1988–89,1989–90,1995,2003,2004,2019,2022 |
| JSL Cup/J.League Cup | 4 | 1988,1989,1990,2001 |
| Asian Cup Winners' Cup | 2 | 1991–92,1992–93 |
| Japanese Super Cup | 1 | 2023 |
This list includes players that were called up to their national teams while playing at Yokohama F. Marinos, either to participate in official or friendly competitions, friendly matches or in training camps.
Shigetatsu Matsunaga 1993Masami Ihara 1994–1998Yoshiharu Ueno 1999–2000Norio Omura 2001Naoki Matsuda 2002–2003Daisuke Oku 2004Naoki Matsuda 2005–2006Yuji Nakazawa 2007Ryuji Kawai 2008–2009Yuzo Kurihara 2010Shunsuke Nakamura 2011–2016Manabu Saito 2017Yuji Nakazawa 2018Takuya Kida 2019–presentThe list includes players who were called up to their national teams while playing at Yokohama F. Marinos, to represent their country in theFIFA World Cup .
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| Season | Div. | Teams | Pos. | Attendance/G | J.League Cup | Emperor's Cup | Asia | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1992 | – | – | – | – | Group stage | Winners | CWC | Winners |
| 1993 | J1 | 10 | 4th | 16,781 | Quarter-final | CWC | Withdrew | |
| 1994 | 12 | 6th | 19,801 | Semi-final | Semi-final | – | ||
| 1995 | 14 | 1st | 18,326 | – | 2nd round | |||
| 1996 | 16 | 8th | 14,589 | Group stage | 3rd round | CC | Group stage | |
| 1997 | 17 | 3rd | 9,211 | Round of 16 | – | |||
| 1998 | 18 | 4th | 19,165 | 3rd round | ||||
| 1999 | 16 | 4th | 20,095 | Quarter-final | Quarter-final | |||
| 2000 | 16 | 2nd | 16,644 | |||||
| 2001 | 16 | 13th | 20,595 | Winners | 3rd round | |||
| 2002 | 16 | 2nd | 24,108 | Group stage | Round of 16 | |||
| 2003 | 16 | 1st | 24,957 | Quarter-final | Quarter-final | |||
| 2004 | 16 | 1st | 24,818 | Round of 16 | CL | Group stage | ||
| 2005 | 18 | 9th | 25,713 | Semi-final | CL | Group stage | ||
| 2006 | 18 | 9th | 23,663 | Quarter-final | – | |||
| 2007 | 18 | 7th | 24,039 | Round of 16 | ||||
| 2008 | 18 | 9th | 23,682 | Quarter-final | Semi-final | |||
| 2009 | 18 | 10th | 22,057 | Semi-final | Round of 16 | |||
| 2010 | 18 | 8th | 25,684 | Group stage | ||||
| 2011 | 18 | 5th | 21,038 | Quarter-final | Semi-final | |||
| 2012 | 18 | 4th | 22,946 | Group stage | ||||
| 2013 | 18 | 2nd | 27,496 | Semi-final | Winners | |||
| 2014 | 18 | 7th | 23,088 | Quarter-final | 3rd round | CL | Group stage | |
| 2015 | 18 | 7th | 24,221 | Group stage | Round of 16 | – | ||
| 2016 | 18 | 10th | 24,004 | Semi-final | Semi-final | |||
| 2017 | 18 | 5th | 24,180 | Group stage | Runners-up | |||
| 2018 | 18 | 12th | 21,788 | Runners-up | Round of 16 | |||
| 2019 | 18 | 1st | 27,010 | Group stage | ||||
| 2020† | 18 | 9th | 7,968 | Semi-final | Did not qualify | CL | Round of 16 | |
| 2021† | 20 | 2nd | 8,991 | Play-off | 2nd round | – | ||
| 2022 | 18 | 1st | 19,811 | Quarter-final | 3rd round | CL | Round of 16 | |
| 2023 | 18 | 2nd | 27,716 | Semi-final | 3rd round | CL | Runner-up | |
| 2024 | 20 | 9th | 24,843 | Semi-final | Semi-final | CLE | Quarter-final | |
| 2025 | 20 | TBD | Quarter-final | 2nd round | ||||
| Rank | games | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yuji Nakazawa | 2002–2018 | 510 |
| 2 | Naoki Matsuda | 1995–2010 | 385 |
| 3 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 1997–2002 2010–2016 | 338 |
| 4 | Yuzo Kurihara | 2002-2019 | 316 |
| 5 | Yoshiharu Ueno | 1994-2007 | 287 |
| 6 | Shingo Hyodo | 2008-2016 | 268 |
| 7 | Takuya Kida | 2012- | 267 |
| 8 | Norio Omura | 1992-2001 | 248 |
| 9 | Daisuke Sakata | 2001-2010 | 247 |
| 10 | Hiroki Iikura | 2005-2019 2023- | 243 |
| Rank | goals | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 1997–2002 2010–2016 | 68 |
| 2 | Shoji Jo | 1997–2001 | 59 |
| 3 | Anderson Lopes | 2022-2025 | 58 |
| 4 | David Bisconti | 1993-96 | 53 |
| 5 | Ramón Díaz | 1993–95 | 52 |
| 6 | Daisuke Sakata | 2001-2010 | 46 |
| 7 | Marcos Jr | 2019-2023 | 37 |
| 8 | Ramón Medina Bello | 1994–1995 | 36 |
| 9 | Teruhito Nakagawa | 2015-2022 | 35 |
| 10 | Hideo Oshima | 2005-2008 | 34 |
| Julio Salinas | 1997-1998 | 34 | |
| Marquinhos | 2003 2012–2013 | 34 |
In themanga series –Captain Tsubasa, one of the characters was Yokohama Marinos midfielder Mamoru Izawa.[citation needed]
The base category of Yokohama F. Marinos started in 1986, before the opening of the J-League, and it is divided into 3 categories U-12, U-15 and U-18 and these are some of the best players formed at the base of Marinos,Shunsuke Nakamura,Manabu Saito,Jungo Fujimoto,Mike Havenaar,Hiroki Iikura,Takashi Amano,Hiroyuki Taniguchi,Tetsuya Enomoto,Yuzo Kurihara,Hayuma Tanaka,Yuki Kaneko,Daisuke Sakata,Naohiro Ishikawa,Rikizo Matsuhashi,Eitaro Matsuda,Kota Yamada,Keita Endo,Ryo Takano,Takuya Kida,Andrew Kumagai,Yuji Ono,Jun Amano,Sho Matsumoto,Jin Hanato,Kota Mizunuma,Takashi Kanai,Masakazu Tashiro,Yota Akimoto etc. ....[10]
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