Kashiwa Reysol

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Kashiwa Reysol

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Full name	Kashiwa Reysol
Nickname(s)	-
Founded	1940
Ground	Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium Kashiwa, Chiba
Capacity	15,900
Chairman	Shigeyuki Onodera
Manager	Hiroshi Hayano (2005 - )
League	J. League Div.1
J. League 2004	16th place (1st: 15th, 2nd:15th)
Image:Kit left arm.png Image:Kit body.png Image:Kit right arm.png Image:Kit shorts.png Image:Kit socks.png 　 Home colours Image:Kit left arm.png Image:Kit body.png Image:Kit right arm.png Image:Kit shorts.png Image:Kit socks.png 　 Away colours

Kashiwa Reysol is a J. League team. Its name Reysol comes from two Spanish words rey or 'king' and sol or 'sun' and reflects the fact that the team had originally been a company team of Hitachi. Its home town is Kashiwa, Chiba.

Founded in 1940 as Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in Koganei, Tokyo. The team joined the JFL in 1992 and added Careca of the Brazil national football team with the aim of winning the JFL champion for promotion to the J1 league in 1993. The quest was unsuccessful and the team barely managed to come in at the fifth spot. In 1994 the team secured the second spot in the JFL and earned the promotion to the top league. Since 1995, it had been in the J1 and on 1998, the team welcomed the former manager for Japan's Olympic team, Akira Nishino as its manager. In 1999, it won its first title, the Nabisco Cup championship.

Titles

• 1999 - Nabisco Cup championship

Current Stars

• França
• Tomokazu Myojin
• Keiji Tamada
• Yoshiteru Yamashita

Former Players

• Careca
• Saša Drakulić
• Edilson
• Hong Myung-Bo
• Hwang Seon-Hong
• Hristo Stoitchkov
• Yoo Sang-Chul

Japan Professional Football League Members in 2005 season	Image:J league.gif
Division 1 (J1)
Niigata | Kashima | Kashiwa | Chiba | Omiya | Urawa | F.C. Tokyo | Tokyo V. | Kawasaki
Yokohama F.M. | Shimizu | Iwata | Nagoya | G.Osaka | C.Osaka | Kobe | Hiroshima | Oita
Division 2 (J2)
Sapporo | Sendai | Yamagata | Mito | Kusatsu | Yokohama FC | Shonan | Kofu | Kyoto | Tokushima | Fukuoka | Tosu