The is the local derby in Saitama, Japan, between fierce city rivals Urawa Red Diamonds and RB Omiya Ardija.
History Mitsubishi Heavy Industries SC was founded in 1950 by the employees of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries in Kobe, and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Kanto SC was founded in 1969 by the employees of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in Urawa. Mitsubishi SC moved to Tokyo in 1958, and was sold to group company Mitsubishi Motors in 1990. Mitsubishi and NTT Kanto first faced each other in 1987 but at the time it was a match between clubs from Tokyo and Saitama and not a derby match, and they had to wait until 1996 for their first Saitama derby. Mitsubishi moved to Urawa that the same place as NTT Kanto in 1992 and went professional as Urawa Red Diamonds, and NTT Kanto moved to Omiya in 1998 and went professional as Omiya Ardija. The cities of Urawa and Omiya merged to form the city of Saitama in 2001.
The Saitama derby is known as one of the most intense derby matches in Japan. The stronger rivalry between Urawa and Omiya began with Omiya's promotion to the 2005 J.League Division 1. On the 17 July 2016 derby, the Omiya's ultras displayed insulting banners for Urawa. On the 30 April 2017 derby, the Urawa's ultras kicked the buffer zone fence, destroyed the mesh covering and threw objects onto the pitch after the defeat.
Honours
CompetitionUrawaOmiyaJSL Division 1 / J1 League50JSL Division 2 / JFL (1992–1998) / J2 League11Emperor's Cup80JSL Cup / J.League Cup40Japanese Super Cup50All Japan Senior Football Championship01Japanese Regional Football League Competition01Asian Club Championship / AFC Champions League30J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship10Total273
Statistics
CompetitionPlayedUrawa winsDrawsOmiya winsUrawa goalsOmiya goalsJ1 League 24 9 7 8 31 23J2 League 4 3 0 1 8 1Emperor's Cup 4 4 0 0 10 3J.League Cup 6 6 0 0 17 6Total 38 22 7 9 66 33
Matches J1 League #DateHome scorersHomeResultAwayAway scorersReport19 July 2005TulioUrawa1–2OmiyaToninho, SakuraiReport222 October 2005SakuraiOmiya1–3UrawaSantos, Tulio, MarićReport329 April 2006Washington, NagaiUrawa2–0OmiyaReport410 September 2006Omiya0–2UrawaWashington, NagaiReport56 May 2007KobayashiOmiya1–1UrawaWashingtonReport61 September 2007Urawa0–1OmiyaMoritaReport720 April 2008Urawa0–0OmiyaReport821 September 2008Omiya0–1UrawaTakaharaReport924 May 2009ParkOmiya1–1UrawaHosogaiReport1025 October 2009Urawa0–3OmiyaRafael (2), IshiharaReport1131 July 2010Urawa0–1OmiyaRafaelReport122 October 2010RafaelOmiya1–2UrawaTakasaki, KashiwagiReport1311 June 2011Rafael, FukayaOmiya2–2UrawaEdmílson, HaraguchiReport1415 October 2011Urawa0–1OmiyaRafaelReport1521 April 2012Cho, RafaelOmiya2–0UrawaReport161 September 2012HaraguchiUrawa1–1OmiyaHigashiReport1720 April 2013ZlatanOmiya1–0UrawaReport185 October 2013Abe, Haraguchi, Koroki, SekiguchiUrawa4–0OmiyaReport1910 May 2014Omiya0–2UrawaKoroki, KashiwagiReport2030 August 2014Umesaki, Koroki, Moriwaki, UgajinUrawa4–0OmiyaReport218 May 2016Omiya0–1UrawaKashiwagiReport2217 July 2016Kashiwagi, MutoUrawa2–2OmiyaEsaka, MateusReport2330 April 2017BaradaOmiya1–0UrawaReport245 August 2017Koroki, KashiwagiUrawa2–2OmiyaMateus, SegawaReport
J2 League #DateHome scorersHomeResultAwayAway scorersReport125 March 2000OnoUrawa1–0OmiyaReport222 May 2000Omiya0–6UrawaNagai, Oshiba, Kubica, unknown (o.g.), Miyazawa, unknown (o.g.)Report316 September 2000Urawa0–1OmiyaJorginhoReport416 November 2000Omiya0–1UrawaOshibaReport
Emperor's Cup #DateHome scorersHomeResultAwayAway scorersReport119 December 1987unknownMitsubishi1–0NTT KantounknownReport217 November 1996Okano (2), IwaseUrawa3–0NTT KantoReport314 December 1997Petrović, FukunagaUrawa2–1NTT KantoHiramotoReport429 December 2005Kataoka, TomitaOmiya2–4 UrawaMarić, Hasebe (2), No. YamadaReport
J.League Cup #DateHome scorersHomeResultAwayAway scorersReport126 March 2005Tanaka, EmersonUrawa2–1OmiyaTomitaReport24 June 2005TutoOmiya1–3UrawaSuzuki, Emerson, TanakaReport313 June 2009Na. Yamada, Edmílson (2), Takahara, Haraguchi, No. YamadaUrawa6–2OmiyaTokita, FujitaReport414 September 2011Márcio Richardes, HaraguchiUrawa2–0OmiyaReport528 September 2011KanazawaOmiya1–2UrawaDespotović (2)Report62 April 2014Lee, AokiUrawa2–1OmiyaHashimotoReport
Goalscorers
RankPlayerClubGoals1 RafaelOmiya72 Genki HaraguchiUrawa5 Yosuke KashiwagiUrawa4 Shinzo KorokiUrawa45 EdmílsonUrawa3 Yuichiro NagaiUrawa WashingtonUrawa8 Ranko DespotovićUrawa2 EmersonUrawa Makoto HasebeUrawa Tomislav MarićUrawa MateusOmiya Masayuki OkanoUrawa Kenji OshibaUrawa Naoto SakuraiUrawaOmiya Naohiro TakaharaUrawa Marcus Tulio TanakaUrawa Tatsuya TanakaUrawa Daisuke TomitaOmiya Nobuhisa YamadaUrawa
Players who played for both clubs PlayerUrawaOmiya Akihiro Kameda19921989–1991 Yuki Takita1992–20001990–1992 Seiichi Makita19931991–1992 Hiroki Aratani1994–19971999–2008 Ken Iwase1994–19981998–2002 Naoto Sakurai1994–19992005–2008 Tomoyasu Ando1997, 1998–20022002–2006 Kohei Morita1999–20002002–2004 Tuto2001–20022004–2005 Takuro Nishimura2001–20042004–2008 Nobuhiro Kato2003–20142015–2018 Mizuki Hamada2009–2012, 20142024– Shinya Yajima2011–2014, 20172022 Takuya Aoki2014–20202008–2013 Rikiya Motegi2015, 2018–20192022– Naoki Ishihara2015–20162009–2011 Zlatan Ljubijankić2015–20182012–2014 Kenyu Sugimoto2019–20212024– Hidetoshi Takeda2020–2021, 20242022 Hitoshi Shiota20212015–2019 Ataru Esaka2021–20222016–2017 Kazuaki Mawatari2022–20232021 Tetsuya Chinen2022–20232024
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