2019 Sanfrecce Hiroshima season

The 2019 Sanfrecce Hiroshima season involves the team competing in the J1 League, they finished runners-up in the 2018 J1 League.[1] They will also compete in the J.League Cup, Emperor's Cup, and AFC Champions League.

Sanfrecce Hiroshima

2019 season
Chairman	Kaoru Koyano
Manager	Hiroshi Jofuku
Stadium	Hiroshima Big Arch
AFC Champions League	Last 16
Home colours Away colours

Squad

As of 25 February 2019[2]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Takuto Hayashi 2 DF  JPN Yuki Nogami 3 DF  SWE Emil Salomonsson 4 DF  JPN Hiroki Mizumoto 5 MF  JPN Kyohei Yoshino 6 DF  JPN Toshihiro Aoyama (captain) 7 MF  JPN Gakuto Notsuda 8 FW  KVX Besart Berisha 10 FW  BRA Patric 13 DF  JPN Akira Ibayashi 14 MF  JPN Tsukasa Morishima 15 MF  JPN Sho Inagaki 16 FW  JPN Daiki Watari 17 MF  JPN Taishi Matsumoto 18 MF  JPN Yoshifumi Kashiwa (vice-captain) 19 DF  JPN Sho Sasaki

No. Pos. Nation Player 20 FW  BRA Douglas Vieira 21 GK  JPN Ryotaro Hironaga 22 MF  JPN Yusuke Minagawa 23 DF  JPN Hayato Araki 24 FW  JPN Shunki Higashi 25 MF  JPN Hiroya Matsumoto 26 MF  JPN Ayumu Kawai 27 DF  JPN Kohei Shimizu (on loan from Shimizu S-Pulse) 30 MF  JPN Kosei Shibasaki 33 DF  JPN Takuya Wada 34 GK  JPN Hirotsugu Nakabayashi 38 GK  JPN Keisuke Osako 40 MF  JPN Hayao Kawabe 44 MF  BRA Rhayner (on loan from Tombense) 50 DF  JPN Soya Takahashi

Competitions

J1 League

Results

23 February 2019 1	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	1 – 1	Shimizu S-Pulse	EDION Stadium
14:03 JST[3]	Salomonsson  57'	Report	Kitagawa  30' Hwang  36'	Attendance: 14,084 Referee: Yusuke Araki

1 March 2019 2	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	0 – 0	Jubilo Iwata	EDION Stadium
19:03 JST[4]	Yoshino  8' Patric  69'	Report		Attendance: 7,741 Referee: Hajime Matsuo

9 March 2019 3	Cerezo Osaka	0 – 1	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Yanmar Stadium Nagai
14:03 JST[5]	Katayama  33' Matsuda  58' Desábato  81'	Report	Douglas Vieira  5' Salomonsson  18'	Attendance: 12,044 Referee: Koei Koya

17 March 2019 4	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	v	Matsumoto Yamaga
		Report

J. League Cup

Quarterfinals

Team 1	Agg.	Team 2	1st leg	2nd leg
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	4 - 3	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3 - 2	1 - 1

Emperor's Cup

3 July 2019 Round 2	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	4 - 0	Okinawa SV	Fukuyama
18:30		Report		Stadium: Fukuyama Stadium

14 August 2019 Round 3	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2 - 1	Zweigen Kanazawa	Hiroshima
19:00		Report		Stadium: Edion Stadium Hiroshima

18 September 2019 Round of 16	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	v	Oita Trinita	Hiroshima
19:00				Stadium: Edion Stadium Hiroshima

AFC Champions League

Group standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification		SAN	GZE	DAE	MVC
1	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	6	5	0	1	9	4	+5	15	Advance to knockout stage		—	1–0	2–0	2–1
2	Guangzhou Evergrande	6	3	1	2	9	5	+4	10			2–0	—	1–0	4–0
3	Daegu FC	6	3	0	3	10	6	+4	9			0–1	3–1	—	4–0
4	Melbourne Victory	6	0	1	5	4	17	−13	1			1–3	1–1	1–3	—

Source: AFC
Rules for classification: Group stage tiebreakers

Results

5 March 2019 Group F	Guangzhou Evergrande	2–0	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou
20:00 UTC+8	Talisca  19' Paulinho  26'	Live Report Stats Report		Attendance: 48,216 Referee: Abdulrahman Al-Jassim (Qatar)

12 March 2019 Group F	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2–1	Melbourne Victory	Hiroshima Big Arch, Hiroshima
19:00 UTC+9	Higashi  3' Watari  86'	Live Report Stats Report	Honda  71'	Attendance: 8,968 Referee: Ali Sabah (Iraq)

10 April 2019 Group F	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2 – 0	Daegu FC	Hiroshima Big Arch, Hiroshima
19:00 UTC+9	Douglas Vieira  10' (pen.) Watari  26' Kawabe  29' Minagawa  82'  89'	Live Report Stats Report	Park Han-bin  7' Kim Jin-hyuk  13' Cesinha  68'	Attendance: 2,611 Referee: Ahmed Al-Ali (Jordan)

23 April 2019 Group F	Daegu FC	0 – 1	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	DGB Daegu Bank Park, Daegu
20:00 UTC+9	Nishi  58' Jung Seung-won  82'	Live Report Stats Report	Mizumoto  7' Kawabe  20' Araki  34' Notsuda  90+3'	Attendance: 10,074 Referee: Mohd Amirul Izwan Yaacob (Malaysia)

8 May 2019 Group F	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	1 – 0	Guangzhou Evergrande	Hiroshima Big Arch, Hiroshima
19:00 UTC+9	Sasaki  15' Higashi  60' Morishima  83'	Live Report Stats Report	Park Ji-soo  32' Zhang Linpeng  55' Gao Lin  62'	Attendance: 4,302 Referee: Alireza Faghani (Iran)

22 May 2019 Group F	Melbourne Victory	1 – 3	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Melbourne Rectangular Stadium, Melbourne
20:00 UTC+10	Toivonen  8'  70' Valeri  10' Barbarouses  87'	Live Report Stats Report	Matsumoto  5' Mizumoto  28' Minagawa  73' Morishima  75'	Attendance: 6,053 Referee: Turki Al Khudair

18 June 2019 Last 16 First Leg	Kashima Antlers	1 – 0	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Kashima Soccer Stadium, Kashima
19:00	Serginho  24'	Report	Inagaki  82'  86'	Attendance: 13,179 Referee: Aziz Asimov

25 June 2019 Last 16 Second Leg	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3 – 2 (3 – 3 agg.)	Kashima Antlers	Hiroshima Big Arch, Hiroshima
19:00	Araki  54' Sasaki  65'  72' Patric  66'  90+6' (pen.) Nakabayashi  74' Douglas Vieira  80' Kashiwa  82'	Report	Misao  27' Doi  33'  89' Nago  35'	Attendance: 4,279 Referee: Ali Sabah

References

1. https://us.soccerway.com/national/japan/j1-league/2018/regular-season/r45564/
2. "サンフレッチェ広島 ２０１９シーズン　選手背番号について" [About Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2019 season player number] (in Japanese). Sanfrecce Hiroshima. 11 January 2019.
3. https://www.jleague.jp/en/match/j1/2019/022303/live/
4. https://www.jleague.jp/en/match/j1/2019/030102/live/
5. https://www.jleague.jp/en/match/j1/2019/030906/live/