New uniform, 2013 fixtures and a reminder of why the number 8 is so important!

First match of the season in Nagai Stadium

New kit revealed

"Adventure" (Dancing Heart) Our slogan for this season

Here are the first set of fixtures in J1 with the kick off times available. The rest can be found here in Japanese. There's a pleasing number of Saturday afternoon games before summer and we start the season in Nagai Stadium. Golden week fixtures this year feature an away trip to Shonan Bellmare and Nagoya Grampus at home. Strange not seeing another Kansai team here as we keep our fingers crossed that Gamba can make it to the JFL this year. The new kits are looking good. New signing Kusukami has the number 10 while Kakitani inherits the number 8 once worn by club legend Hiroaki Morishima. No number 9 yet as the club have yet to finalise the Edno Cunha signing. Pre-season we're heading to Thailand to face our partner club Bangkok Glass on the 7th this month. Click here for more information on the partnership.

1 2/3 Sat 14：00  Albirex Niigata 大阪長居スタジアム 2 9/3 Sat 14：00  Ventforet Kofu (A) 山梨中銀スタジアム 3 16/3 Sat 15：00  ＦＣ Tokyo 大阪長居スタジアム 4 30/3 Sat 13：00  Vegalta Sendai 大阪長居スタジアム 5 6/4 Sat 15：00  Kashima Antlers (A) 県立カシマサッカースタジアム 6 13/4 Sat 19：00  Omiya Ardija 大阪長居スタジアム 7 20/4 Sat 13：00  Shimizu S-Pulse (A) 日本平スタジアム 8 27/4 Sat 14：00  Oita Trinita キンチョウスタジアム 9 3/5 Fri 16：00  Shonan Bellmare (A) Shonan BMWスタジアム平塚 10    6/5 Mon 16：00  Urawa Reds 大阪長居スタジアム 11 11/5 Sat 15：00  Kawasaki Frontale (A) 等々力陸上競技場 12 18/5 Sat 15：00  Kashiwa Reysol (A) 日立柏サッカー場 13 25/5 Sat 19：00  Nagoya Grampus キンチョウスタジアム 14 6/7 Sat 19：00  Jubilo Iwata (A) ヤマハスタジアム（磐田） 15 10/7 Sat 19：00  Yokohama F. Marinos キンチョウスタジアム 16 13/7 Sat 19：00  Sanfrecce Hiroshima (A) エディオンスタジアム広島 17 17/7 Wed 19：00  Sagan Tosu キンチョウスタジアム 18 31/7 Wed 19：00  Albirex Niigata (A) 東北電力ビッグスワンスタジアム 19 3/8 Sat 19：00  Venforet Kofu キンチョウスタジアム 20 10/8 Sat 19：00  Omiya Ardija (A) NACK５スタジアム大宮 21 17/8 Sat 19：00  Shimizu S-Pulse キンチョウスタジアム 22 24/8 Sat 19：00  Nagoya Grampus (A) 名古屋市瑞穂陸上競技場 23 28/8 Wed 19：00  Vegalta Sendai (A) ユアテックスタジアム仙台 24 31/8 Sat 19：00  Kawasaki Frontale 大阪長居スタジアム

Cerezo Asian Champions League Group G Fixtures

Here are all of the fixtures for our group known by me as 'the group of the unknown.'

	02 March 2011 19:00	JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)-SHANDONG LUNENG FC (CHN)	Jeonju World Cup Stadium
	02 March 2011 19:00	CEREZO OSAKA (JPN)-AREMA INDONESIA (IDN)	Osaka Nagai Stadium
	16 March 2011 15:30	SHANDONG LUNENG FC (CHN)-CEREZO OSAKA (JPN)	Shandong Luneng Stadium
	16 March 2011 15:30	AREMA INDONESIA (IDN)-JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)	Kanjuruhan Stadium
	05 April 2011 15:30	AREMA INDONESIA (IDN)-SHANDONG LUNENG FC (CHN)	Kanjuruhan Stadium
	05 April 2011 19:00	CEREZO OSAKA (JPN)-JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)	Osaka Nagai Stadium
	20 April 2011 15:30	SHANDONG LUNENG FC (CHN)-AREMA INDONESIA (IDN)	Shandong Luneng Stadium
	20 April 2011 19:00	JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)-CEREZO OSAKA (JPN)	Jeonju World Cup Stadium
	03 May 2011 15:30	AREMA INDONESIA (IDN)-CEREZO OSAKA (JPN)	Kanjuruhan Stadium
	03 May 2011 19:30	SHANDONG LUNENG FC (CHN)-JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)	Shandong Luneng Stadium
	10 May 2011 15:00	JEONBUK HYUNDAI MOTORS (KOR)-AREMA INDONESIA (IDN)	Jeonju World Cup Stadium
	10 May 2011 19:00	CEREZO OSAKA (JPN)-SHANDONG LUNENG FC (CHN)	Osaka Nagai Stadium

 

Waiting for the season to kick off!

Our first game will be against Gamba away with Adriano lining up for the home team. Gamba have also signed Seung-Yong Kim from Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors, the team we face in the ACL, so perhaps they may have done us a favour? Our fixtures for the season have recently been added to the Cerezo site. We have signed a young centre-back from North Korea, Song-Gi Kim and Amaral has left the club. We also have Shu Kurata on loan from Gamba. In the last few seasons Cerezo have followed an odd pattern of being very good, then getting relegated so I'm not sure what to hope for this season. If Inui can up his game once more and remind people why he has been capped at full international level and Bo-Kyung Kim, who has returned from loan in J2 with Oita, (8 goals in 27 matches for the attacking midfielder) contributes and Pimpao scores some of those goals you can see elsewhere on this site, and Mr.Nagai steps up  we need not worry. But we are Cerezo and after the highs come the lows. Too much thinking too little football...