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Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies
was a women's football team which played in Division 1 of Japan's L. League, Nadeshiko League. It was one of the founding clubs in the league when it was created in 1989. The club was disbanded in 1999. Founding The Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies team was a new team created specifically for the new Japan Women’s Football League competition, mostly using the best players from the previous Shimizudaihachi Pleiades, Shimizudaihachi SC team, which had been dominant in the Shizuoka League, winning 7 consecutive titles between 1980 and 1986, but which was unable to afford to participate in the new completion. The players chosen to move to the new team were forward Etsuko Handa, midfielders Chiaki Yamada and Futaba Kioka, and defender Sayuri Yamaguchi. Along with these veteran players, the team chose a number of younger players, and also imported a foreign player - a practice which was common in men’s teams of the era, but unusual until that point in Japan’s domestic women’s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimizudaihachi Pleiades
is a women's football (soccer), football club playing in Japan's football league, Tokai.League Div.1. Its hometown is Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Shimizu. Squad Current squad As of 7 June 2015 Honors Domestic competitions *Empress's Cup, Empress's Cup All-Japan Women's Football Tournament **Champions (7) : 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986'' **Runners-up (2) : 1979, 1987 Results Transition of team name *Shimizudaihachi SC : 1978 – 2006 *Shimizudaihachi Pleiades : 2007 – Present References External links Shimizudaihachi Pleiades official site * List of women's football clubs in Japan, Japanese Club Teams Women's football clubs in Japan Association football clubs established in 1991 1991 establishments in Japan Sports clubs and teams in Shizuoka Prefecture {{Japan-footyclub-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Etsuko Handa
is a Japanese former professional footballer. She was also a member of the Japan national team. Club career Handa was born in Shizuoka on 10 May 1965. She played for her local club Shimizudaihachi SC and Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies (formerly ''Shimizu FC Ladies''). In 1989, Handa helped Shimizu FC Ladies win the L.League in its inaugural season, while also earning the Best player award. During the 1993 season, she scored 14 goals and was the league's top scorer. She was selected Best Eleven four times (1989, 1990, 1993, 1994). National team career In June 1981, when Handa was 16 years old, she was selected to the Japan national team for the 1981 AFC Championship. At this competition on 7 June, she debuted against Chinese Taipei. This fixture was also Japan's first International A Match. On 13 June, she scored a goal in Japan's (1–0) victory against Indonesia. It was Japan's first goal and win in an "A" match. She also played at the 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 and 1995 AF ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chiaki Yamada
is a former Japanese football player. She played for the Japan national team. Club career Yamada was born in Shizuoka on August 2, 1966. She played for her local club Shimizudaihachi SC in the Shizuoka League where teams she belonged to won the championship in seven consecutive years from1980-1986, and for the Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies, in the Japan Women’s Football League where she belonged to the team which won the inaugural title in 1989. The Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies team was a new team created specifically for the new competition mostly using the best players from the previous dominant Shimizudaihachi SC team, which was unable to afford to participate in the new completion. As one of the key players in Shimizuhachidai, Yamada was chosen for the new team. National team career On October 17, 1984, when Yamada was 18 years old, she debuted for the Japan national team against Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Futaba Kioka
is a former Japanese football player. She played for Japan national team. Club career Kioka was born in Shizuoka Prefecture on 22 November 1965. She played for her local club Shimizudaihachi SC until 1988. In 1989, she moved to Shimizu FC Ladies (later ''Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies''). In 1989, the club won championship in L.League first season and from next season, won 2nd place for 4 years in a row until 1993 season. She was selected Best Eleven 3 times (1989, 1990 and 1995). National team career In June 1981, when Kioka was 16 years old, she was selected Japan national team for 1981 AFC Championship. At this competition, on 7 June, she debuted against Chinese Taipei. This match is Japan team first match in International A Match. She also played at 1986, 1989, 1993, 1995 AFC Championship, 1990, 1994 Asian Games. She was a member of Japan for 1991, 1995 World Cup and 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Oly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayuri Yamaguchi
is a former Japanese football player. She played for Japan national team. Club career Yamaguchi was born in Shizuoka Prefecture on July 25, 1966. She played for Shimizudaihachi SC, Suzuyo Shimizu FC Lovely Ladies and Tasaki Perule FC from 1981 to 2000. She was selected Best Eleven 4 times (1989, 1991, 1992 and 1993) in L.League. National team career On September 6, 1981, when Yamaguchi was 15 years old, she debuted for Japan national team against England. She was a member of Japan for 1991 World Cup. She also played at 1986, 1991, 1993 AFC Championship and 1990 Asian Games ) , nations = 31 , athletes = 6,122 , events = 308 in 27 sports , opening = 22 September 1990 , closing = 7 October 1990 , opened_by = Yang Shangkun , closed_by = Roy de Silva , athlete_oath = Chen L .... She played 29 games and scored 1 goal for Japan until 1993. National team statistics References External links * * * 1966 births Living ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chou Tai-ying
Chou Tai-ying (; born 16 August 1963) is a Taiwanese female association football coach and former player. She is considered the most successful Taiwanese footballer so far. Domestic Career She was Chinese Taipei's key player in the 1980s and early 1990s, winning three AFC Women's Championships (1977, 1979, 1981) and two OFC Women's Championships (1986, 1989). Overseas career Chou was also one of the few Taiwanese players who have played for foreign professional clubs. In 1987, she joined the German football club SV Bergisch Gladbach 09 and won two championships. She was chosen by the Japanese team Suzuyo Shimizu F.C. Ladies for their inaugural team in the newly formed Japanese L. League in 1989, to add power to the team’s offence, which had been lacking. The Shimizu F.C. Ladies won the first league season title and Chou was the stand out player, scoring 12 goals, earning the Golden Boot and a spot as member of Best XI. International career Chou was the captain of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empress's Cup
, since 2018 renamed "Empress's Cup JFA Japan Women's Football Championship" () or The JFA Empress's Cup (from 2024 onwards), is a Japanese Women's football competition. As an elimination tournament, it can be considered the female counterpart to the men's Emperor's Cup in Japan. The name "Empress's Cup" has been used since the 2012 season as the Empress's Cup trophy was founded in that year. From 2004 to 2011 season (New Year's Day of 2005 to 2012), the final was played on New Year's Day at the National Olympic Stadium in Tokyo before the Emperor's Cup final, and was regarded as the traditional closing match of the season. Since 2012, the final has been played separately from the Emperor's Cup final. Past winners Past winners are: See also * Football in Japan * Women's football in Japan * Japan Football Association (JFA) * Japanese association football league system * WE League (I) * Nadeshiko League ** Nadeshiko League Division 1 (II) ** Nadeshiko League Division 2 (III) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anneli Andelén
Anneli Andelén (born 21 June 1968) is a Swedish former association football forward who won 88 caps for the Sweden women's national football team, scoring 37 goals. She represented Sweden at the FIFA Women's World Cup in 1991 and 1995. Andelén also played professional club football in Japan with Suzuyo Shimizu Lovely Ladies. Club career Andelén joined Öxabäcks IF as a 15-year-old in 1983 and won the league title in her first season. She was Damallsvenskan top goalscorer on three consecutive occasions (1992, 1993 and 1994). Andelén played in seven consecutive Svenska Cupen finals with the club, who became known as Öxabäck/Marks IF in 1991. In August 1994 she scored all six goals in Öxabäck/Marks IF's 6–1 destruction of Gideonsberg. In 1997, while playing for Suzuyo Shimizu Lovely Ladies, Andelén was L. League top goalscorer with 19 goals and was named in the league all-star team. International career Andelén made her senior Sweden debut on 22 August 1985, a 5� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristin Bengtsson
Gärd Kristin "Kicki" Bengtsson (born 12 January 1970) is a Swedish former footballer who played as a defender. She represented the Sweden national team from 1991 to 2005. International career She holds 157 caps for the Swedish women's national team. Bengtsson has appeared in three World Cups, 1995, 1999, and 2003 competitions. She netted one goal in the 1999 competition, scoring the opening goal on her team's first day of match play against China. She competed at three Olympic Games with Sweden: Atlanta 1996, Sydney 2000, and Athens 2004. Bengtsson also appeared in four UEFA Championships with Sweden, 1995, 1997, 2001, and 2005 competitions. Career statistics International :''Scores and results list Sweden's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Bengtsson goal.'' Honours Djurgårdens IF * Damallsvenskan: winner 2004 *Svenska Cupen: Winner 2004, 2005 Hammarby IF *Svenska Cupen: Winner 1994, 1995 Sweden *FIFA Women's World Cup runner-up: 2003 *Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cindy Daws
Cynthia Erin Mosley (; born October 1, 1975) is an American former soccer player. A midfielder, she played for the Suzuyo Shimizu F.C. Lovely Ladies of Japan's L. League and won two caps for the senior United States women's national soccer team. In college soccer with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, Daws scored a record 61 goals and won the Hermann Trophy, the Honda Sports Award as the nation's top female soccer player, and the Honda-Broderick Cup The Honda-Broderick Cup is a sports award for college-level female athletes. The awards are voted on by a national panel of more than 1000 collegiate athletic directors. It was first presented by Tom Broderick, an American owner of a women's sports ... as the nation's top female athlete. She married former Notre Dame football player Emmett Mosley IV and had four children: Jalyn, Emmett V, a wide receiver at Stanford, Trent and Grant West Hills-born Daws suffered from a persistent foot injury. References Living people 1975 bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nathalie Geeris
Nathalie Geeris (born 20 December 1971) is a Dutch retired football midfielder or forward. She played for clubs in the Netherlands, Japan, the United States and Sweden, as well as for the Netherlands women's national football team. Club career After beginning her football with local minnows HFC Spaarnestad, Geeris transferred to top division Ter Leede to secure her national team place. At 21 years old she moved to America and participated in college soccer with Franklin Pierce Ravens. In 1996, Geeris secured a contract with Suzuyo Shimizu Lovely Ladies, a professional club in the Japanese L. League. In 2000 Geeris was back in America, playing for Boston Renegades of the USL W-League. She scored nine goals in 14 appearances. She was in evidence at a pre-draft combine prior to the 2000 WUSA Draft, but was not selected. As a veteran Geeris enjoyed a prolific spell in the Swedish lower divisions with IF Böljan. International career On 11 April 1989, 17-year-old Geeris debuted f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keri Sanchez
Keri Lynn Sanchez (formerly Raygor; born December 25, 1972) is an American women's soccer coach who serves as head coach of the Colorado College Tigers women's soccer team. She is also a former player who last played as a defender for Los Angeles Sol of Women's Professional Soccer and the United States women's national soccer team. Early life and education Sanchez was a dual sport athlete at Santa Teresa High School in San Jose, California, where she also excelled in track and field. At the CIF California State Meet, between 1988 and 1990, she achieved three second-place and three third-place finishes spread between hurdles, long jump, and triple jump. Playing career Sanchez played for the Silicon Valley Red Devils of the USL W-League and Women's Premier Soccer League from 1995 to 2000. College career Sanchez played for the North Carolina Tar Heels women's soccer team from 1991 to 1994, winning four consecutive NCAA Division I women's soccer tournament championships and scori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |