Nissan FC

The team traces its origins to 1972 as the Nissan Motor Football Club, based in Yokohama. Nissan FC won promotion to Division 2 Football League in 1976. Under coach Shu Kamo, the team won Japan Soccer League in 1988 and 1989, as well as the JSL Cup in 1988, 1989 and 1990 and the Emperor'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 as Takashi Mizunuma, Kazushi Kimura and Masami Ihara. At the end of the 1991–92 season, the team won the Asian Cup Winners' Cup.

Yokohama Marinos

Nissan Motors obtained registration in the newly formed J-League to acquire professional club status and changed the club's name to Yokohama 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 the Emperor's Cup 1992, a second consecutive Asian Cup Winners' Cup, and their first national title in 1995. Matches between Yokohama Marinos and Verdy Kawasaki were known as the National Derby.

Yokohama F. Marinos

In 1999, the club was renamed Yokohama F Marinos after the technical and financial merger with Yokohama Flügels which had declared bankruptcy. Since then, an F has been added to the name to represent the Flügels half of the club. Because of that, many Flügels fans have rejected the new team. Flügels fans felt that their team was dissolved into the F Marinos, rather than being merged with. As a result, they refused to follow F. Marinos and instead created Yokohama FC, the new city-wide rival of F. Marinos, with the help of public donations and an affiliation with IMG, a talent agency company.

In 2000 Marinos was runner-up in the J-League and Shunsuke Nakamura was named the best player of the season.

In 2001, Marinos won the J.League Cup.

In 2003 and 2004 Marinos was a two-time J-League champion with the stars of the team being South Koreans Ahn Jung-hwan, Yoo sang-chul and Japanese players Daisuke Oku, Tatsuhiko Kubo and Yuji Nakazawa (who was the best player of the year in 2004). Their coach was the Japanese Takeshi Okada, who was named the best coach of the Japanese League in the years 2003 and 2004.

From 2005 to 2008 with notable players Hayuma Tanaka, Hideo Oshima, Daisuke Sakata and Koji Yamase, Marinos didn't achieve anything. The highest they reached during this period was the 2008 Emperor's Cup semi-final.

In 2010, Shunsuke Nakamura returned to Yokohama F. Marinos.

On August 4, 2011, a year after leaving the club, former Marinos player Naoki Matsuda collapsed during training with Matsumoto Yamaga FC 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 and Marinos won the 2013 Emperor's Cup on New Year's Day 2014, the first after 21 years and in 2013, they were runner-up in the J-League.

On 20 May 2014, it was announced that the City Football Group, a subsidiary of Abu Dhabi United Group, had invested in a minority stake in Yokohama F. Marinos, creating a partnership with the football club and the automaker Nissan.

And after consecutive defeats, such as a loss in the 2017 Emperor's Cup Final and in the 2018 J.League Cup Final, the team managed to get a good shape thanks to the direction of the Australian coach Ange Postecoglou, which ended 15 years of drought by winning the 2019 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 Marcos Júnior.

In 2020, Marinos made it out of the group stage for the first time since the AFC Champions League switched to the current format.

Current squad

As of 13 January 2024.^[7][8]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN William Popp 2 DF  JPN Katsuya Nagato 4 DF  JPN Shinnosuke Hatanaka 5 DF  BRA Eduardo (vice-captain) 6 MF  JPN Kota Watanabe 7 FW  BRA Élber 8 MF  JPN Takuya Kida (captain) 9 FW  JPN Takuma Nishimura 10 FW  BRA Anderson Lopes 11 FW  BRA Yan Matheus 13 DF  JPN Ryuta Koike (vice-captain) 14 FW  JPN Asahi Uenaka 15 DF  JPN Takumi Kamijima 16 DF  JPN Ren Kato 17 MF  JPN Kenta Inoue 18 MF  JPN Kota Mizunuma (vice-captain) 19 DF  JPN Yuki Saneto 20 MF  JPN Jun Amano 21 GK  JPN Hiroki Iikura 23 FW  JPN Ryo Miyaichi

No. Pos. Nation Player 24 DF  JPN Hijiri Kato 25 MF  JPN Kaina Yoshio 26 DF  JPN Yuta Koike 27 DF  JPN Ken Matsubara 28 MF  JPN Riku Yamane 29 MF  KOR Nam Tae-hee 31 GK  JPN Fuma Shirasaka 35 MF  JPN Keigo Sakakibara 38 FW  JPN Yuhi Murakami 39 DF  JPN Taiki Watanabe 41 GK  JPN Riku Terakado 44 DF  JPN Manato Yoshida 47 DF  JPN Kazuya Yamamura 48 MF  JPN Keita Ueda — DF  JPN Ryotaro Tsunoda — DF  JPN Yuma Hatano — DF  JPN Daisuke Funaki Type 2 — MF  JPN Shunta Ikeda Type 2 — MF  JPN Kohei Mochizuki Type 2 — MF  JPN Kento Shirasu Type 2

The official club website lists the club mascot as player #0 and the supporters as player #12.

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  JPN Tomoki Tagawa (on loan to Kataller Toyama) — DF  JPN Yusuke Nishida (on loan to AC Nagano Parceiro) — MF  JPN Eitaro Matsuda (on loan to Albirex Niigata) — MF  JPN Shunsuke Hirai (on loan to Reilac Shiga)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  JPN Takuto Kimura (on loan to Ehime FC) — MF  JPN Takuto Minami (on loan to Iwate Grulla Morioka) — FW  JPN Takumi Tsukui (on loan to Azul Claro Numazu)

Retired number

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  JPN Naoki Matsuda

Yokohama F. Marinos Youth

As of 6 April 2023.

The U-18 team of Yokohama F. Marinos currently plays in the Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League, the top-flight league for U-18 clubs in the country. Only the registered players for the competition will be displayed.^[9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Ojiro Fukui 2 DF  JPN Takuma Mitsuhashi 3 DF  JPN Daisuke Funaki 4 DF  JPN Yuma Hatano 5 MF  JPN Shunta Ikeda 6 DF  JPN Reno Noguchi 7 MF  JPN Kenta Shirasu 8 MF  JPN Sota Kuwahara 9 FW  JPN Dan Nakahara 10 MF  JPN Kohei Mochizuki 11 MF  JPN Kotaro Hamada 12 FW  JPN Atsumu Daito 13 DF  JPN Haruto Kajihara 14 MF  JPN Yuma Tokuda 15 MF  JPN Nobuhide Sasahara

No. Pos. Nation Player 16 GK  JPN Takumi Haremaki 17 MF  JPN Taiki Iimura 18 FW  JPN Mirai Yoshizawa 19 DF  JPN Haruki Shimizu 20 GK  JPN Shoma Yamashita 22 DF  JPN Masaki Furuya 23 FW  JPN Haruki Ikawa 24 DF  JPN Koki Nakao 26 MF  JPN Haru Miyata 27 MF  JPN Haruki Uenishi 28 MF  JPN Aiki Sekino 30 DF  JPN Yusei Wada 31 GK  JPN Kai Suzuki 32 MF  JPN Kai Elchetabu Bright 33 DF  JPN Katsuki Asano

Current staff

For the 2023 season.

Position	Name
Manager	Harry Kewell
Assistant manager	Ryo Adachi Shaun Ontong Hideo Oshima
Goalkeeper coach	Shigetatsu Matsunaga
Assistant goalkeeper coach	Tetsuya Enomoto
Physical coach	Gregory John King
Conditioning coach	Yusuke Tanaka
Chief Analyst	Satoru Okada
Analyst	Jun Yamaguchi
Performance data analyst	Yuki Masui
Chief trainer	Hiroyuki Otahara
Doctor	Atsushi Fukai
Trainer	Kiyoshi Higure Nobuyasu Miyauchi
Physioterapist	Daisuke Kikukawa
Interpreter (English)	Yutaka Matsuzaki Shintaro Oda
Interpreter (Portuguese)	Shinji Kinoshita
Top team director	Junji Nishizawa
Club co-ordinator	Shin Yamazaki
Side affairs (kit)	Hiroyoshi Tokunaga
Side affairs / interpreter (English / Portuguese)	Pedro Sebastian
Roupeiro	Keisuke Ogata

International players

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.

Club captains

• Shigetatsu Matsunaga 1993
• Masami Ihara 1994–1998
• Yoshiharu Ueno 1999–2000
• Norio Omura 2001
• Naoki Matsuda 2002–2003
• Daisuke Oku 2004
• Naoki Matsuda 2005–2006
• Yuji Nakazawa 2007
• Ryuji Kawai 2008–2009
• Yuzo Kurihara 2010
• Shunsuke Nakamura 2011–2016
• Manabu Saito 2017
• Yuji Nakazawa 2018
• Takuya Kida 2019–present

Slogan

Kit suppliers and shirt sponsors

Domestic

Continental

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup
  • Winners (2): 1991-92, 1992–93

Performance in AFC competitions

• AFC Champions League: 8 appearances

  1989–90: Runners-up

  1990–91: Group stage

  1996–97: Quarter-finals

  2004: Group stage

  2005: Group stage

  2014: Group stage

  2020: Round of 16

  2022: Round of 16

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup: 3 appearances

  1991–92: Winners

  1992–93: Winners

  1993–94: Semi-finals

Rivalries

National Derby

• During the late 80's and early 90's, the matches between the two most winning teams of the time, Yokohama Marinos and Verdy Kawasaki, were earlier as a National Derby. However, in the following years this classic gradually ceased to be the center of consideration, especially after Verdy moved to Toques and was no longer part of Yomiuri in 1997.

Kanagawa Derby

• This is the derby played by the Kanagawa prefecture teams, currently the most important match is that of Yokohama F. Marinos and Kawasaki Frontale. Other Kanagawa derby rivals include Shonan Bellmare, Yokohama FC and YSCC Yokohama.

Previously, Verdy Kawasaki and the extinct Yokohama Flügels were Kanagawa Derby rivals. With Verdy moving to Tokyo from Kawasaki, matches between the two clubs are no longer considered Kanagawa derbies.

Yokohama Derby

• The classic among the most representative teams in the city of Yokohama, Yokohama F. Marinos, Yokohama FC and YSCC Yokohama. Between 1993 and 1998, the Yokohama derby corresponded only to the departure between the late Yokohama Flügels and Yokohama F. Marinos.