Urawa Red Diamonds

Urawa Red Diamonds are one of Japan's best-supported and most historically significant football clubs, based in Saitama just north of Tokyo. Playing home matches at the cavernous Saitama Stadium 2002, the club is famous for producing some of the most passionate, vocal crowds in Asian football. Urawa Reds carry a strong continental pedigree, having repeatedly represented Japan on Asia's biggest club stages. The club's deep-red identity and fervent supporter culture have made it a standard-bearer for the J.League both at home and abroad.

The club traces its roots to a company team founded in 1950 under Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, later becoming Urawa Red Diamonds with the launch of Japan's professional J.League. Urawa won its lone J.League championship in 2006, but the club's greatest successes have come continentally, with AFC Champions League titles in 2007, 2017 and 2022. That run of Asian titles makes Urawa one of the most successful Japanese clubs in continental competition. The club has used those achievements to build a lasting reputation as one of Asia's premier football institutions.