South Korean striker Cho Dong-geon scored a strong contender for goal of the season to give Sagan Tosu a 1-0 win at struggling Sanfrecce Hiroshima in the J. League first division on Sunday night. Substitute Cho secured Tosu its first away league victory of the ...
FC Tokyo and Cerezo Osaka booked their spots in the quarterfinals of the J. League Cup with second-leg home wins in the group stage playoffs on Wednesday night. Tokyo beat Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1-0, Sei Muroya grabbing the winner with a superb second-half strike to send ...
Struggling Sanfrecce Hiroshima have signed Australian striker Nathan Burns, the J. League first-division club said Thursday. A member of Australia's 2015 Asian Cup-winning squad, the 29-year-old Burns joined FC Tokyo in July that year and left after his contract expired at the end of last ...
Former Sanfrecce Hiroshima midfielder Jan Jonsson has been appointed the club's new manager, the J. League first-division side said Monday. The 57-year-old Swede arrived in Hiroshima in 1993 initially as an assistant coach, but wound up playing six games and scoring once for the team ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima striker Anderson Lopes says the shock resignation of three-time J. League championship winning manager Hajime Moriyasu left him deeply saddened, but the Brazilian insists the players must shoulder most of the blame for their slide into the relegation mire. "I have worked together ...
Brazilian striker Anderson Lopes earned a vital point for troubled Sanfrecce Hiroshima with a late equalizer in a 1-1 draw away to in-form Yokohama F Marinos in the J. League first division on Saturday night. Playing their first game since Hajime Moriyasu stepped down in ...
It was probably in the best interests of everyone at Sanfrecce Hiroshima that Hajime Moriyasu stood down as manager on Tuesday, but that should not obscure the debt of gratitude that the three-time J. League champions owe him. Moriyasu, who led Sanfrecce to three titles ...
Sanfrecce Hiroshima coach Hajime Moriyasu has resigned to take responsibility for his side's poor performance this season, the J. League first-division club said Tuesday. Moriyasu, 48, offered to step down after Hiroshima's 4-3 away defeat to Urawa Reds on Saturday and the club could not ...
Rather than retire or play against Chelsea, John Terry decided to join a team that was unlikely to face the Premier League champions. The former Chelsea captain signed a one-year deal with second-division club Aston Villa on Monday, three days after ending a 22-year association ...
Takahiro Sekine scored an injury-time wonder goal as Urawa Reds beat Sanfrecce Hiroshima 4-3 in a wild J. League encounter on Saturday night. Both teams went into the game at Saitama Stadium on the back of three straight defeats but it was Reds who seized ...
Mihael Mikic believes the relegation fear factor is inspiring misfiring Sanfrecce Hiroshima, and the Croatian winger insists he will put "an arm and a leg" on the three-time J. League champions escaping the drop. Hiroshima was the better team for long stretches of Saturday's match ...
Kawasaki Frontale edged troubled Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1-0 at home on Saturday as J. League top flight action resumed following a two-week international break. Hiroyuki Abe scored what proved to be the winner shortly before the hour mark in front of 23,209 at Todoroki Stadium to ...
