Team Name: Urawa Red Diamonds Home Stadium: Saitama Stadium 2002 & Urawa Komaba Stadium
About: Urawa Red Diamonds is a professional football club playing in Japan's football league, J-League. Its hometown is the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture. The club has enjoyed mixed fortunes since the J-League advent. The club finished bottom of the league for the first two seasons of the J-League with an average crowd of under 15,000. In 1999 they suffered relegation to the second tier of Japanese football yet again. The team has since improved in form in recent years, starting with a 2003 victory in the Nabisco Cup. In 2006 Urawa clinched their first professional league title by defeating runners-up Gamba Osaka 3-2 on December 2 before 63,000 supporters. This came after two close calls in the previous two years. In 2005, they finished 2nd, one point behind champions Gamaba Osaka. In 2004, they finished 3rd in the First Stage and won the Second Stage. Having qualified for the two-match J-League championship decider, they lost on penalty kicks to Yokohama F.Marinos.
About this blog:
This blog is an attempt by an Australian Urawa Reds supporter to keep everyone up to date with the happenings of the Red Diamonds. This probably wont be something easy seeing as that I can't read Japanese and most information about the J-League is in Japanese. But I will try my best...
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