2018 Vissel Kobe season

Vissel Kobe
2018 season
Chairman	Katsuhiro Shimizu
Manager	Takayuki Yoshida
J1 League	10th
Emperor's Cup	Fourth round
J. League Cup	Quarter-final
Top goalscorer	League: ; Hirotaka Mita (6 goals); All: ; Wellington (11 goals)
Highest home attendance	26,603 (vs. Sagan Tosu, 10 November, J1 League)
Lowest home attendance	2,202 (vs. Fukuoka University, 6 June, Emperor's Cup)
	← 2017 2019 →

The 2018 Vissel Kobe season was Vissel Kobe's fifth season back in the J1 League following their promotion in 2013 and their 20th J1 League season. They also competed in the 2018 Emperor's Cup and the 2018 J.League Cup.

Squad

As of 14 August 2018.^[1]

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


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
20	MF	JPN	Asahi Masuyama
21	FW	JPN	Junya Tanaka
22	DF	JPN	Wataru Hashimoto
23	MF	JPN	Yoshiki Matsushita
24	MF	JPN	Masatoshi Mihara
25	DF	JPN	Leo Osaki
27	MF	JPN	Yuta Goke
29	GK	JPN	Kota Ogi
30	DF	THA	Theerathon Bunmathan (on loan from Muangthong United)
33	FW	JPN	Shuhei Otsuki
34	DF	JPN	So Fujitani
35	MF	JPN	Takuya Yasui
39	DF	JPN	Masahiko Inoha
40	DF	JPN	Yuki Kobayashi
50	FW	JPN	Shun Nagasawa

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
—	MF	BRA	Wescley (at Ceará)
—	FW	JPN	Daiju Sasaki (at Palmeiras)
—	FW	JPN	Akito Mukai (at MIO Biwako)
—	FW	JPN	Keijiro Ogawa (at Shonan Bellmare)
—	FW	JPN	Mike Havenaar (at Vegalta Sendai)

Transfers

Winter

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

Summer

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

Competitions

J. League

Table

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts
8	Shimizu S-Pulse	34	14	7	13	56	48	+8	49
9	Gamba Osaka	34	14	6	14	41	46	−5	48
10	Vissel Kobe	34	12	9	13	45	52	−7	45
11	Vegalta Sendai	34	13	6	15	44	54	−10	45
12	Yokohama F. Marinos	34	12	5	17	56	56	0	41

Source: Meiji Yasuda J1 League
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored

Results summary


Overall								Home						Away
Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
24	10	6	8	31	26	+5	36	5	2	5	18	16	+2	5	4	3	13	10	+3

Last updated: 26 August 2018.
Source: see below

Results by round

Round	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22	23	24	34
Ground	A	H	A	H	A	A	H	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	A	H	H	A	A	H	H	A	H
Result	D	L	D	W	L	W	L	W	W	D	L	D	L	W	W	W	L	W	D	L	W	D	W	L
Position	6	15	14	8	13	10	9	9	7	6	8	8	10	7	6	6	6	4	5	5	4	4	4	5	10

Updated to match(es) played on 26 August 2018. Source: See Below
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Results

23 February 2018 1	Sagan Tosu	1 – 1	Vissel Kobe	Tosu
20:00 JST (UTC+9)	Tagawa 3' (pen.) Takahashi 67'	Report	Nasu 2' Matsushita 31' Podolski 67' Havenaar 87' H.Watanabe 90+2'	Stadium: Best Amenity Stadium Attendance: 19,633 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

3 March 2018 2	Vissel Kobe	2 – 4	Shimizu S-Pulse	Kobe
16:00 JST (UTC+9)	Tanaka 32' Podolski 39' Jung 60' 69' Havenaar 74'	Report	Freire 6' Crislan 13' Kaneko 26' Tatsuta 72' Kitagawa 82' Rokutan 84' Jong 90'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 24,058 Referee: Akihiro Ikeuchi

10 March 2018 3	Vegalta Sendai	1 – 1	Vissel Kobe	Sendai
14:00 JST (UTC+9)	Kobayashi 58' Ishihara 86'	Report	Tanaka 3' Mihara 27' Jung 56' Bunmathan 68'	Stadium: Yurtec Stadium Sendai Attendance: 14,270 Referee: Futoshi Nakamura

18 March 2018 4	Vissel Kobe	2 – 0	Cerezo Osaka	Kobe
16:00 JST (UTC+9)	Fujita 34' Podolski 53' 83'	Report	Osmar 21' Matsuda 72'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 20,108 Referee: Jumpei Iida

30 March 2018 5	Kashiwa Reysol	2 – 1	Vissel Kobe	Kashiwa
19:30 JST (UTC+9)	Yun 35' Koizumi 43' Nakatani 51' Ito 68', 86'	Report	Mihara 23' Mita 57' Tanaka 74'	Stadium: Sankyo Frontier Kashiwa Stadium Attendance: 9,642 Referee: Yoshiro Imamura

8 April 2018 6	Gamba Osaka	0 – 1	Vissel Kobe	Suita
15:00 JST (UTC+9)		Report	Mihara 70' Otsuki 90+5'	Stadium: Panasonic Stadium Suita Attendance: 20,606 Referee: Minoru Tojo

11 April 2018 7	Vissel Kobe	2 – 3	Urawa Red Diamonds	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Hashimoto 15' Wellington 51' Sasaki 63' Podolski 75'	Report	Muto 24' Iwanami 72' Jung 90+2' (o.g.)	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 9,758 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

15 April 2018 8	Yokohama F. Marinos	1 – 2	Vissel Kobe	Yokohama
14:00 JST (UTC+9)	Boumal 58' Nakazawa 69'	Report	Mita 67' K.Watanabe 79'	Stadium: Nissan Stadium Attendance: 16,313 Referee: Ryuji Sato

21 April 2018 9	Vissel Kobe	3 – 0	Nagoya Grampus	Kobe
16:00 JST (UTC+9)	Jung 12' Podolski 51', 81'	Report	Washington 30' Gabriel Xavier 35' Kobayashi 51' Hasegawa 90+4'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 18,681 Referee: Masuya Ueda

25 April 2018 10	Kashima Antlers	1 – 1	Vissel Kobe	Kashima
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Suzuki 55'	Report	Yasui 22' Mita 34' Podolski 47' H.Watanabe 88'	Stadium: Kashima Soccer Stadium Attendance: Hajime Matsuo Referee: 7,672

28 April 2018 11	Vissel Kobe	1 – 2	Kawasaki Frontale	Kobe
16:00 JST (UTC+9)	Jung 43' 81' Mita 69' 78'	Report	Taniguchi 7' Kobayashi 88'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 19,847 Referee: Jumpei Iida

2 May 2018 12	Vissel Kobe	0 – 0	Tokyo	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Wellington 63' Fujita 90+1'	Report	Omori 3' Nagai 45+1' Maeda 75'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 9,015 Referee: Takuto Okabe

6 May 2018 13	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2 – 0	Vissel Kobe	Hiroshima
17:00 JST (UTC+9)	Aoyama 44' (pen.) Patric 90+3'	Report	Fujita 21' Hashimoto 74' H.Watanabe 85'	Stadium: Edion Stadium Hiroshima Attendance: 11,100 Referee: Akihiro Ikeuchi

12 May 2018 14	Júbilo Iwata	0 – 2	Vissel Kobe	Iwata
14:00 JST (UTC+9)		Report	K.Watanabe 11' Wellington 25' Mita 68'	Stadium: Yamaha Stadium Attendance: 14,912 Referee: Hiroyuki Kimura

20 May 2018 15	Vissel Kobe	4 – 0	Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	Kobe
17:00 JST (UTC+9)	Wellington 9', 23' 66' K.Watanabe 55', 87'	Report	Miyazawa 38' 73' Kim 57' 69' Fukumori 61' Hayasaka 85'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 18,725 Referee: Hajime Matsuo

18 July 2018 16	V-Varen Nagasaki	0 – 1	Vissel Kobe	Isahaya
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Tagami 22'	Report	Wellington 26' 39' Mita 34' Bunmathan 85'	Stadium: Transcosmos Stadium Nagasaki Attendance: 9,366 Referee: Nobutsugu Murakami

22 July 2018 17	Vissel Kobe	0 – 3	Shonan Bellmare	Kobe
18:00 JST (UTC+9)		Report	Saka 10' Yamasaki 32' Saito 48' Kikuchi 67'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 26,146 Referee: Ryuji Sato

28 July 2018 18	Vissel Kobe	1 – 0	Kashiwa Reysol	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Masuyama 66'	Report	Yamazaki 88'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 22,879 Referee: Masuya Ueda

1 August 2018 19	Cerezo Osaka	1 – 1	Vissel Kobe	Osaka
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Souza 38' Kakitani 39' K.Watanabe 40' (o.g.)	Report	Mihara 67' Osaki 71' Jonjić 74' (o.g.)	Stadium: Kincho Stadium Attendance: 14,241 Referee: Yuichi Nishimura

5 August 2018 20	FC Tokyo	1 – 0	Vissel Kobe	Chōfu
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Lins 90'	Report		Stadium: Ajinomoto Stadium Attendance: 44,801 Referee: Itaru Hirose

11 August 2018 21	Vissel Kobe	2 – 1	Júbilo Iwata	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Iniesta 15' Furuhashi 25' 56' Fujita 90+2' Kim 90+3'	Report	Takahashi 59' Matsuura 77' Kawamata 84' (pen.)	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 24,731 Referee: Yoshiro Imamura

15 August 2018 22	Vissel Kobe	1 – 1	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Iniesta 17' Fujita 31' Goke 50' Wellington 55'	Report	Patric 15' Nogami 89'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 25,499 Referee: Yosuke Kubota

19 August 2018 23	Shonan Bellmare	0 – 2	Vissel Kobe	Hiratsuka
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Takayama 73'	Report	Osaki 28' Mita 37' Goke 76'	Stadium: Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka Attendance: 15,351 Referee: Yusuke Araki

26 August 2018 24	Vissel Kobe	0 – 2	Yokohama F. Marinos	Kobe
18:00 JST (UTC+9)		Report	Kurihara 54' Kubo 56' Ogihara 81' Nakagawa 85'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 25,541 Referee: Yudai Yamamoto

1 September 2018 25	Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	–	Vissel Kobe	Sapporo
14:00 JST (UTC+9)				Stadium: Sapporo Dome

J. League Cup

Group stage

7 March 2018 1	Vissel Kobe	2 – 2	V-Varen Nagasaki	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Podolski 51', 62' Wellington 70'	Report	Choi 3' Nagura 44' Maeda 80'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 4,881 Referee: Koei Koya

14 March 2018 2	Sagan Tosu	0 – 2	Vissel Kobe	Tosu
20:00 JST (UTC+9)	Kim 57' Takahashi 90+3' Anzai 90+4'	Report	K.Watanabe 4' Kitamoto 41' Otsuki 90'	Stadium: Best Amenity Stadium Attendance: 5,118 Referee: Hajime Matsuo

4 April 2018 3	Shonan Bellmare	0 – 3	Vissel Kobe	Hiratsuka
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Sugioka 66' 85'	Report	Nasu 6' Bunmathan 8' Matsushita 12' Sasaki 23' Wellington 30' Yasui 62' Maekawa 78' K.Watanabe 86' (pen.)	Stadium: Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka Attendance: 5,802 Referee: Takuto Okabe

18 April 2018 4	V-Varen Nagasaki	1 – 2	Vissel Kobe	Isahaya
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Juanma 22' Usui 61' Maeda 81' T.Shikayama 90+5'	Report	Wellington 67' Miya 71' Goke 90+5'	Stadium: Transcosmos Stadium Nagasaki Attendance: 3,488 Referee: Koichiro Fukushima

9 May 2018 5	Vissel Kobe	3 – 4	Shonan Bellmare	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Saito 29' (o.g.) Leandro 72' Masuyama 90+2'	Report	André Bahia 33' Omotehara 35' Okazaki 45+1' Noda 56' Umesaki 73'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 4,001 Referee: Yosuke Kubota

16 May 2018 6	Vissel Kobe	1 – 1	Sagan Tosu	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Havenaar 90+4'	Report	Ishikawa 39' Kawano 50' Anzai 52' 67'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 4,017 Referee: Yusuke Araki

Knockout stage

2 June 2018 Quarterfinal 1st leg	Yokohama F. Marinos	4 – 2	Vissel Kobe	Yokohama
14:00 JST (UTC+9)	Ōtsu 23' Nakagawa 30' Boumal 45+1' Amano 70' Vieira 76'	Report	Wellington 8' Watanabe 55' Mita 88'	Stadium: NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium Attendance: 8,827 Referee: Ryuji Sato

9 June 2018 Quarterfinal 2nd leg	Vissel Kobe	1 – 1 (3 – 5 agg.)	Yokohama F. Marinos	Kobe
14:00 JST (UTC+9)	Fujita 14' 86' Bunmathan 45' Tanaka 61' Takahashi 64'	Report	Kanai 31' Nakagawa 45' Vieira 66'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 6,895 Referee: Yudai Yamamoto

Emperor's Cup

6 June 2018 Second Round	Vissel Kobe	3 – 0	Fukuoka University	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Mita 25' Mihara 51' 54' Wellington 73'	Report	T.Umeki 31'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Attendance: 2,202

11 July 2018 Third Round	Vissel Kobe	6 – 1	JEF United Chiba	Kobe
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Yasui 31' Wellington 36', 90+1' Mita 39', 56' Otsuki 74'	Report	Masushima 52' Ibusuki 75'	Stadium: Noevir Stadium Kobe Referee: 3,540

22 August 2018 Fourth Round	Sagan Tosu	3 – 0	Vissel Kobe	Tosu
19:00 JST (UTC+9)	Watanabe 37' (o.g.) Anzai 50' Torres 84'	Report	Podolski 23' Bunmathan 90+3'	Stadium: Best Amenity Stadium Attendance: 17,361

Squad statistics

As of match played 26 August 2018

Appearances and goals

No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Total		J-League		J-League Cup		Emperor's Cup
No.	Pos	Nat	Player	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
1	GK	JPN	Daiki Maekawa	8	0	0	0	7	0	1	0
2	DF	JPN	Daisuke Nasu	12	0	2+4	0	4+1	0	1	0
3	DF	JPN	Hirofumi Watanabe	27	0	22	0	2	0	3	0
4	DF	JPN	Kunie Kitamoto	7	0	1	0	5+1	0	0	0
5	DF	QAT	Ahmed Yasser	3	0	2	0	0	0	0+1	0
6	DF	JPN	Shunki Takahashi	15	0	8+1	0	3+1	0	2	0
7	MF	JPN	Hirotaka Mita	27	7	20+2	4	2	0	3	3
8	MF	ESP	Andrés Iniesta	7	2	5+1	2	0	0	0+1	0
10	FW	GER	Lukas Podolski	17	5	15	3	1	2	1	0
14	MF	JPN	Naoyuki Fujita	26	2	18+2	1	4	1	2	0
15	DF	JPN	Daiki Miya	9	0	3	0	4	0	2	0
16	FW	JPN	Kyogo Furuhashi	4	1	3+1	1	0	0	0	0
17	FW	BRA	Wellington	28	11	10+9	5	5+1	3	3	3
18	GK	KOR	Kim Seung-gyu	26	0	24	0	0	0	2	0
20	MF	JPN	Asahi Masuyama	12	2	5+2	1	2+3	1	0	0
21	FW	JPN	Junya Tanaka	21	2	10+7	2	2	0	0+2	0
22	DF	JPN	Wataru Hashimoto	13	0	8+2	0	2+1	0	0	0
23	MF	JPN	Yoshiki Matsushita	12	0	2+5	0	4	0	1	0
24	MF	JPN	Masatoshi Mihara	23	2	12+4	1	4+1	0	1+1	1
25	DF	JPN	Leo Osaki	8	0	7	0	0	0	1	0
27	MF	JPN	Yuta Goke	25	2	13+4	1	5+1	1	1+1	0
30	DF	THA	Theerathon Bunmathan	27	0	16+4	0	4	0	3	0
33	FW	JPN	Shuhei Otsuki	22	3	13+3	1	1+2	1	2+1	1
34	DF	JPN	So Fujitani	10	0	4+2	0	3+1	0	0	0
35	MF	JPN	Takuya Yasui	10	1	2+2	0	4	0	2	1
39	DF	JPN	Masahiko Inoha	4	0	3+1	0	0	0	0	0
40	DF	JPN	Yuki Kobayashi	4	0	2	0	1+1	0	0	0
50	FW	JPN	Shun Nagasawa	2	0	1+1	0	0	0	0	0
Players away on loan:
9	FW	JPN	Mike Havenaar	9	2	3+1	1	2+3	1	0	0
13	FW	JPN	Keijiro Ogawa	12	0	2+3	0	5+2	0	0	0
28	GK	JPN	Kenshin Yoshimaru	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
31	MF	JPN	Yuya Nakasaka	6	0	0	0	3+1	0	0+2	0
36	MF	JPN	Tatsuki Noda	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0
38	FW	JPN	Daiju Sasaki	10	2	6	1	2+2	1	0	0
Players who left Vissel Kobe during the season:
5	MF	KOR	Jung Woo-young	12	2	12	2	0	0	0	0
11	FW	BRA	Leandro	3	1	0+2	0	1	1	0	0
19	FW	JPN	Kazuma Watanabe	26	7	10+9	4	4+1	3	2	0

Goalscorers

Place	Position	Number	Name	J-League	J-League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Total
1	FW	17	Wellington	5	3	3	11
2	FW	19	Kazuma Watanabe	4	3	0	7
2	MF	8	Hirotaka Mita	4	0	3	7
4	FW	10	Lukas Podolski	3	2	0	5
5	FW	33	Shuhei Otsuki	1	1	1	3
6	FW	21	Junya Tanaka	2	0	0	2
	MF	5	Jung Woo-young	2	0	0	2
	MF	8	Andrés Iniesta	2	0	0	2
	FW	38	Daiju Sasaki	1	1	0	2
	FW	9	Mike Havenaar	1	1	0	2
	MF	14	Naoyuki Fujita	1	1	0	2
	MF	20	Asahi Masuyama	1	1	0	2
	MF	27	Yuta Goke	1	1	0	2
	MF	24	Masatoshi Mihara	1	0	1	2
			Own goal	1	1	0	2
14	FW	16	Kyogo Furuhashi	1	0	0	1
	FW	11	Leandro	0	1	0	1
	MF	35	Takuya Yasui	0	0	1	1
			TOTALS	31	16	9	56

Disciplinary record

Number	Nation	Position	Name
Number	Nation	Position	Name	J-League		J. League Cup		Emperor's Cup		Total
1		GK	Daiki Maekawa	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
2		DF	Daisuke Nasu	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
3		DF	Hirofumi Watanabe	3	0	0	0	0	0	3	0
4		DF	Kunie Kitamoto	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
6		DF	Shunki Takahashi	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
7		MF	Hirotaka Mita	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	0
10		FW	Lukas Podolski	5	0	0	0	1	0	6	0
14		MF	Naoyuki Fujita	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	0
15		DF	Daiki Miya	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
16		FW	Kyogo Furuhashi	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
17		FW	Wellington	4	0	1	0	0	0	5	0
18		GK	Kim Seung-gyu	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
21		FW	Junya Tanaka	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
22		DF	Wataru Hashimoto	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
23		MF	Yoshiki Matsushita	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
24		MF	Masatoshi Mihara	3	0	0	0	1	0	4	0
25		DF	Leo Osaki	2	0	0	0	0	0	2	0
27		MF	Yuta Goke	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
30		DF	Theerathon Bunmathan	2	0	2	0	1	0	5	0
35		MF	Takuya Yasui	1	0	1	0	0	0	2	0
Players away on loan:
9		FW	Mike Havenaar	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
Players who left Vissel Kobe during the season:
5		MF	Jung Woo-young	4	1	0	0	0	0	4	1
			TOTALS	41	1	13	0	3	0	57	1

References

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