Vissel Kobe

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Club · Japan · J1 League

«Ushi»

326 Matches

163 wins

70 draws

93 losses

490–360 Goals

+130 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.

Fixtures and results

23 Sep	Emperor’s Cup	Sagan Tosu H	1:0	W
20 Sep	J1 League	Gamba Osaka A	1:0	W
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

AFC Champions League

Group stage · East Region

Full table

matches counted in total: 326

326 Matches

163 wins

70 draws

93 losses

490–360 Goals

+130 Difference

1.5 Scored per game

Match outcomes matches counted in total: 326

163 70 93

wins losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	326	174	152
Scored	490	277	213
Conceded	360	176	184
Scored per game	1.5	1.6	1.4
Conceded per game	1.1	1.0	1.2
Difference	+130	+101	+29

by appearances over the last year

Katsuya Nagato Forward 34 Matches

Yuta Goke Midfielder 34 Matches

Shuichi Gonda Goalkeeper 33 Matches

Daiya Maekawa Goalkeeper 33 Matches

Yosuke Ideguchi Midfielder 32 Matches

Ren Komatsu Forward 30 Matches

Matheus Soares Thuler Defender 30 Matches

Mitsuki Hidaka Midfielder 29 Matches

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by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Matches
41	Katsuya Nagato	Forward	34
5	Yuta Goke	Midfielder	34
71	Shuichi Gonda	Goalkeeper	33
1	Daiya Maekawa	Goalkeeper	33
7	Yosuke Ideguchi	Midfielder	32
29	Ren Komatsu	Forward	30
3	Matheus Soares Thuler	Defender	30
44	Mitsuki Hidaka	Midfielder	29
25	Yuya Kuwasaki	Midfielder	29
80	Boniface Nduka	Defender	29
16	João Victor Andrade Caetano	Defender	28
10	Yuya Osako	Forward	26
4	Tetsushi Yamakawa	Defender	26
24	Gotoku Sakai	Midfielder	25
11	Yoshinori Muto	Forward	25
15	Diego	Defender	25
23	Rikuto Hirose	Defender	23
2	Nanasei Iino	Defender	21
26	Jean Patrick Lima dos Reis	Forward	21
28	Kento Hamasaki	Midfielder	21
14	Takashi Inui	Midfielder	21
13	Daiju Sasaki	Forward	18
18	Haruya Ide	Midfielder	11
43	Kaito Yamada	Defender	11
6	Takahiro Ohgihara	Midfielder	11
19	Makoto Mitsuta	Forward	10
17	Issei Takahashi	Defender	9
31	Takuya Iwanami	Defender	8
23	Yuan Iwamoto	Midfielder	6
40	K. Uchino	Forward	6
20	Kota Watanabe	Midfielder	5
30	Kakeru Yamauchi	Midfielder	4
94	Erik Nascimento de Lima	Forward	3
62	H. Kawabata	Forward	3
35	Nina Tomonaga	Forward	3
21	Shota Arai	Goalkeeper	2
43	K. Yamada	Defender	2
38	Yuzo Urabe	Midfielder	1
53	Hayato Watanabe	Forward	1
32	Richard Ubong	Goalkeeper	1