Akira Nishino (footballer)

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Akira Nishino
Personal information
Nishino managing Gamba Osaka in July 2011
Full name	Akira Nishino
Date of birth	(1955-04-07) April 7, 1955
Place of birth	Urawa, Saitama, Japan
Height	1.82 m (5 ft 11 ¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Club information
Current team	Nagoya Grampus (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1978–1990	Hitachi
National team
1977–1978	Japan	12	(1)
Teams managed
1991–1992	Japan U-20
1994–1996	Japan U-23
1998–2001	Kashiwa Reysol
2002–2012	Gamba Osaka
2012	Vissel Kobe
2014–2015	Nagoya Grampus
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (goals)

Akira Nishino (西野朗, Nishino Akira, born April 7, 1955 in Urawa, Saitama) is a former Japanese footballer and currently a football manager, currently in charge of Nagoya Grampus. He coached Japan at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Nishino became the first coach at Gamba Osaka to have won four different titles—the AFC Champions League in 2008, the Emperor's Cup twice in 2008 and 2009 and the 2005 J-League titles as well as the J. League Cup twice in 1999 and 2007.^[1]

Club career statistics

Club performance			League
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals
Japan			League
1978	Hitachi	JSL Division 1	13	1
1979			12	0
1980			15	6
1981			8	1
1982			15	4
1983			18	2
1984			17	2
1985/86			22	12
1986/87			17	1
1987/88		JSL Division 2
1988/89		JSL Division 2
1989/90		JSL Division 1	6	0
Country	Japan		143	29
Total			143	29

International career statistics

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Japan national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1977	4	0
1978	8	1
Total	12	1

Managerial career statistics

Season	Div.	Tms.	Pos.	Attendance/G	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Asia
2002	J1	16	3	12,762	Semi-final	4th Round	-	-
2003	J1	16	10	10,222	Quarter-final	4th Round	-	-
2004	J1	16	3	12,517	Quarter-final	Semi-final	-	-
2005	J1	18	1	15,966	Runners-up	Semi-final	-	-
2006	J1	18	3	16,259	Quarter-final	Runners-up	CL	Group Stage
2007	J1	18	3	17,439	Winners	Semi-final	-	-
2008	J1	18	8	16,128	Semi-final	Winners	CL	Winners
2009	J1	18	3	17,712	Quarter-final	Winners	CL	Round of 16
2010	J1	18	2	16,654	Quarter-final	Semi-final	CL	Round of 16

Honours

Manager

Kawashiwa Reysol

J. League Cup (1): 1999

Gamba Osaka

Individual

Japan Soccer League Best Eleven (1): 1985-86
J. League Manager of the Year (2): 2000, 2005
AFC Coach of the Year (1): 2008

References

↑ "Nishino: I'm not satisfied". FIFA. 2008-12-19.
↑ Akira Nishino at National-Football-Teams.com

J.League Manager of the Year

1993: Matsuki 1994: Matsuki 1995: Wenger 1996: Nicanor 1997: João Carlos 1998: Ardiles 1999: Perryman 2000: Nishino 2001: Suzuki 2002: Suzuki 2003: Okada 2004: Okada 2005: Nishino 2006: Buchwald 2007: Oliveira 2008: Oliveira 2009: Oliveira 2010: Stojković 2011: Nelsinho 2012: Moriyasu 2013: Moriyasu 2014: Hasegawa 2015: Moriyasu

AFC Coach of the Year

1994: Polcheewin 1995: Park Jong-hwan 1996: Ma Yuanan 1997: Cha Bum-kun 1998: Kuwahara 1999: Rakhimov 2000: Troussier 2001: Al-Johar 2002: Hiddink 2003: Cha Kyung-bok 2004: Hamad 2006: Choe Kwang-sok 2007: Inileev 2008: Nishino 2009: Huh Jung-moo 2010: Okada 2011: Sasaki 2012: Kim Ho-gon 2013: Choi Yong-soo 2014: Popovic 2015: Postecoglou

Japan men's football squad – 1996 Summer Olympics

1 Kawaguchi 2 Shirai 3 Suzuki 4 Hironaga 5 Tanaka 6 Hattori 7 Maezono 8 Ito 9 Jo 10 Endō 11 Morioka 12 Uemura 13 Matsuda 14 Nakata 15 Akiba 16 Matsubara 17 Michiki 18 Shimoda Coach: Nishino

Akira Nishino managerial positions

Kashiwa Reysol – managers

Zé Sérgio (1995) Antoninho (1995) Nicanor (1996–97) Nishino (1998–01) Perryman (2001–02) Ikeya (2002) Marco Aurélio (2002–03) Ikeya (2004) Hayano (2004–05) Takemoto (2005) Ishizaki (2006–08) Takahashi (2009) Ihara (2009) Nelsinho (2009–14) Yoshida (2015) Mendes (2016) Shimotaira (2016–)

Gamba Osaka – managers

Kamamoto (1992–94) Held (1995) Kuže (1996–97) Koncilia (1997–98) Antonetti (1998–99) Hayano (1999–01) Takemoto (2001) Nishino (2002–11) Serrão (2012) Matsunami (2012) Hasegawa (2013–)

Vissel Kobe – managers

Baxter (1995–97) Kato (1998) Floro (1998) Kori (1998) Kawakatsu (1999–02) Matsuda (2002) Soejima (2003) Hašek (2004) Kato (2004) Matsunaga (2005) Leão (2005) Pavel Řehák (2005) Baxter (2006) Matsuda (2006–08) Caio Júnior (2009) Wada (2009^c) Miura (2009–10) Wada (2010–12) Adachi (2012) Nishino (2012) Adachi (2012–14) Nelsinho (2015–)

Nagoya Grampus – managers

Hiraki (1992–93) Milne (1994) Miura (1994) Wenger (1995–96) Costa (1996) Queiroz (1996–97) Tanaka (1997–99) Sanchez (1999) Mazarópi (1999) João Carlos (1999–01) Miura (2001) Verdenik (2002–03) Nelsinho (2003–05) Nakata (2005) Vergoossen (2006–07) Stojković (2008–13) Nishino (2013–15) Ogura (2015–)

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