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is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from ''JEF United Ichihara'' to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, ''JEF'' -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric- and ''United'', represents the unity of the team and its home town. The club is also known as or . == History. == The team began as the company team, in 1946. As the company team, it won the Japan Soccer League twice, the Emperor's Cup four times and the JSL League Cup three times. Furukawa also won the 1986-87 Asian Club Championship, the top club honor in Asia; they were the first Japanese club to do so. Since the league's inception in 1965, the team had always played in the top flight in Japan and was the only Japanese team to never be relegated from the JSL1, a record they kept into the J1 years. They did finish the 1978 season in a relegation position (last of 10) but stayed up after beating Honda F.C. 1-0 on aggregate in a two-legged playoff. The last place was not automatically relegated until the 1980 season. In 1991, it merged with the JR East's company team to become and rebranded itself as JEF United Ichihara upon the J. League's founding in 1993. The team initially built itself around the former Germany national football team player Pierre Littbarski. From 1998 to 2000, the team struggled to stay in the J. League and it began a series of efforts to be a competitive team. Since the hiring of Ivica Osim in 2003, JEF United has contended for the league title each year despite limited resources and struggling attendance. On July 16, 2006, Osim left the team to take over the coach of the Japan national team and was succeeded by Amar Osim, his son and assistant coach.(). On December 5, 2007, it was announced that Amar Osim had been sacked after the club's lowly 13th-place finish in the 2007 season.() After 13 games in the 2008 season Josip Kuže was sacked as team manager. On 8 May 2008 it was announced that the new manager was Alex Miller. Miller was First Team Coach at Liverpool F.C. alongside Rafael Benítez prior to joining JEF United. The Furukawa Electric is no longer the main sponsor of the club, a job these days taken over by Fuji Electric. On November 8, 2009, JEF United Chiba was relegated to J2 after 44 seasons in the Japanese top division; since 2010, JEF United Chiba is playing in J. League Division 2. JEF United Chiba was close to being promoted to J. League Division 1 during the 2012 season. The club was considered one of the favorites to be directly promoted to J1. However, after defeats to teams considered lesser than them such as F.C. Gifu and F.C. Machida Zelvia, JEF played the playoffs, making their road to the final. They defeated Yokohama F.C. by 4-0, but lost the final match to Oita Trinita by 1-0, at Tokyo National Stadium. In 2013 season they played promotion to J1 again. They lost the semi final match to Tokushima Vortis by 1-1(Chiba is 6th place and Tokushima was 3rd place on the league, regulation decides up high club can go final even draw.) In 2014 season they played primotion to J1 again and again. The club don't have to play semi-final(Chiba is 4th place but 3rd place club named Giravanz Kitakyushu had Jleague original stadium problem so Kitakyushu couln't go promotion play off). In final against Montedio Yamagata, they lost by 0-1, at Ajinomoto Stadium. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「JEF United Ichihara Chiba」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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