JEF United Ichihara Chiba (Short name: JEF United) (
JEF United Ichihara Chiba - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Colors:Yellow and Blue
Manager: Atsuhiko Ejiri (Japan) (start of 2009 season: Alex Miller (Scotland)
Home Stadium:Fukuda Denshi Arena (
Fukuda Denshi Arena - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Capacity: 19,781 (18,500 seated)
2008 Average Attendance: 14,084
2008 Finish: 15th (out of 18 teams)
Notes: Only Japanese Team to play at the highest level of Japanese soccer (both pre and post J-league formation) consecutively since 1965 without ever being relegated. Won the Asian Champions Cup (the Asian version of the Champions League) in 1987, the first Japanese team to do so.
Now former Manager Alex Miller (fired in July, 2009) played for Glasgow Rangers for 15 years, racking up 306 appearances and 30 goals, and managed Scottish Premier League side Hibernian for a decade.