Vissel Kobe

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Club · Japan · J1 League

«Ushi»

324 Matches

161 wins

70 draws

93 losses

488–360 Goals

+128 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Form W W W W W W

The club began somewhere else entirely. It was a works team, Kawasaki Steel Soccer Club, founded in 1966 and based in Kurashiki, in Okayama Prefecture. The move to Kobe came in 1995, and with it the name: Vissel, made from "victory" and "vessel", for a port city. Two years later it joined the J.League.

Then, in December 2003, the club filed for bankruptcy. The Crimson Group, parent of the online merchant Rakuten, took it over the following month, and Rakuten bought the team directly a decade later. The colours changed with the first of those owners: the black and white stripes went, and crimson came in, with navy and gold as accents.

Rakuten's money later brought Andrés Iniesta to Kobe, and he stayed five years, from 2018 to 2023 — long enough to be there for the Emperor's Cup won in 2019, the club's first major trophy, and to leave in the season the first league title was won. David Villa and Lukas Podolski passed through in the same stretch; Michael Laudrup had come much earlier, for a single season in 1996, when the club had only just arrived in the city.

Home is Noevir Stadium Kobe, capacity 30,132.

The fixture that matters most is against Gamba Osaka.

All matches

16 Sep	AFC Champions League	Port FC A	2:1	W
11 Sep	J1 League	Kashima H	2:1	W
6 Sep	J1 League	V-Varen Nagasaki H	3:1	W
2 Sep	J1 League	Tokyo Verdy A	2:0	W
29 Aug	J1 League	Cerezo Osaka H	1:0	W
26 Aug	Emperor’s Cup	J.FC Miyazaki H	2:1	W

AFC Champions League

Group stage · East Region

Full table

matches counted: 324

324 Matches

161 wins

70 draws

93 losses

488–360 Goals

+128 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 324

161 70 93

wins losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	324	173	151
Scored	488	276	212
Conceded	360	176	184
Scored per game	1.5	1.6	1.4
Conceded per game	1.1	1.0	1.2
Difference	+128	+100	+28

by appearances over the last year

Yuta Goke Midfielder 33 Matches

Katsuya Nagato Forward 33 Matches

Daiya Maekawa Goalkeeper 32 Matches

Shuichi Gonda Goalkeeper 32 Matches

Yosuke Ideguchi Midfielder 31 Matches

Ren Komatsu Forward 29 Matches

Matheus Soares Thuler Defender 29 Matches

Boniface Nduka Defender 29 Matches

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by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Matches
5	Yuta Goke	Midfielder	33
41	Katsuya Nagato	Forward	33
1	Daiya Maekawa	Goalkeeper	32
71	Shuichi Gonda	Goalkeeper	32
7	Yosuke Ideguchi	Midfielder	31
29	Ren Komatsu	Forward	29
3	Matheus Soares Thuler	Defender	29
80	Boniface Nduka	Defender	29
44	Mitsuki Hidaka	Midfielder	28
25	Yuya Kuwasaki	Midfielder	28
16	João Victor Andrade Caetano	Defender	27
4	Tetsushi Yamakawa	Defender	25
10	Yuya Osako	Forward	25
24	Gotoku Sakai	Midfielder	24
15	Diego	Defender	24
11	Yoshinori Muto	Forward	24
23	Rikuto Hirose	Defender	23
28	Kento Hamasaki	Midfielder	21
14	Takashi Inui	Midfielder	21
2	Nanasei Iino	Forward	20
26	Jean Patrick Lima dos Reis	Midfielder	20
13	Daiju Sasaki	Forward	18
43	Kaito Yamada	Defender	11
18	Haruya Ide	Midfielder	11
6	Takahiro Ohgihara	Midfielder	11
19	Makoto Mitsuta	Forward	10
31	Takuya Iwanami	Defender	8
17	Issei Takahashi	Defender	8
40	K. Uchino	Forward	6
23	Yuan Iwamoto	Midfielder	5
20	Kota Watanabe	Midfielder	5
30	Kakeru Yamauchi	Midfielder	4
62	H. Kawabata	Forward	3
35	Nina Tomonaga	Forward	3
94	Erik Nascimento de Lima	Forward	2
21	Shota Arai	Goalkeeper	2
43	K. Yamada	Defender	2
32	Richard Ubong	Goalkeeper	1
53	Hayato Watanabe	Forward	1
38	Yuzo Urabe	Midfielder	1