# 2011 Albirex Niigata season

The 2011 Albirex Niigata season was Albirex Niigata's eighth consecutive season in J.League Division 1. It also includes the 2011 J. League Cup, and the 2011 Emperor's Cup.

## Match results
### J. League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 12 | Cerezo Osaka | 34 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 67 | 53 | +14 | 43 | |
| 13 | Omiya Ardija | 34 | 10 | 12 | 12 | 38 | 48 | −10 | 42 | |
| 14 | Albirex Niigata | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 38 | 46 | −8 | 39 | |
| 15 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 34 | 8 | 12 | 14 | 36 | 43 | −7 | 36 | |
| 16 | Ventforet Kofu (R) | 34 | 9 | 6 | 19 | 42 | 63 | −21 | 33 | Relegation to 2012 J.League Division 2 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: 1 February 2012. Source: "J. League". Archived from the original on 2012-10-14. Retrieved 2012-02-03.

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 |
| Ground | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | H | H | A | A | H | A | H | H | A | H | A | H | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H |
| Result | W | D | D | W | D | L | L | D | L | L | D | L | D | W | L | W | L | W | W | W | L | L | D | L | D | L | L | W | W | W | L | D | L | L |
| Position | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 11 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 13 | 13 | 14 |

### Emperor's Cup
## Players
### First team squad

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 | Takaya Kurokawa |
| 3 | MF | JPN | Kazuhiko Chiba |
| 4 | DF | JPN | Daisuke Suzuki |
| 5 | DF | JPN | Naoki Ishikawa |
| 6 | MF | JPN | Yuta Mikado |
| 7 | FW | BRA | Anderson |
| 8 | MF | JPN | Fumiya Kogure |
| 9 | FW | KOR | Cho Young-Cheol |
| 10 | MF | BRA | Michael |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Bruno Lopes |
| 13 | MF | JPN | Masaru Kato |
| 14 | MF | JPN | Seiya Fujita |
| 15 | MF | JPN | Isao Homma (captain) |
| 17 | DF | JPN | Jun Uchida |
| 18 | FW | JPN | Kengo Kawamata |
| 19 | DF | JPN | Ayato Hasebe |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | DF | JPN | Shigeto Masuda |
| 21 | GK | JPN | Masaaki Higashiguchi |
| 22 | GK | JPN | Yasuhiro Watanabe |
| 23 | MF | JPN | Atomu Tanaka |
| 24 | DF | JPN | Gotoku Sakai |
| 26 | DF | JPN | Yusuke Murakami |
| 27 | MF | JPN | Hidetoshi Nakata |
| 28 | MF | BRA | Rafael |
| 29 | FW | JPN | Noriyoshi Sakai |
| 30 | GK | JPN | Hideaki Ozawa |
| 31 | MF | JPN | Fumiya Hayakawa (youth) |
| 32 | MF | JPN | Yoshiyuki Kobayashi |
| 33 | DF | JPN | Ryoma Nishimura (youth) |
| 34 | DF | JPN | Yohei Iwasaki |
| 36 | DF | JPN | Naoya Kikuchi |
| 39 | GK | JPN | Yohei Takeda (on loan from Shimizu S-Pulse) |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | DF | NZL | Michael Fitzgerald (to Zweigen Kanazawa) |
| — | DF | JPN | Kazunari Ono (to Ehime FC) |
| — | MF | JPN | Musashi Okuyama (to Albirex Niigata Singapore) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| — | FW | JPN | Bruno Castanheira (to Albirex Niigata Singapore) |
| — | FW | JPN | Kazuhisa Kawahara (to Tochigi SC) |
| — | FW | JPN | Hideo Ōshima (to JEF United Chiba) |

### Starting XI

    Last updated on 3 February 2012.
| No. | Pos. | Name | MS | Notes |
| 30 | GK | Hideaki Ozawa | 15 | Masaaki Higashiguchi had 14 starts |
| 25 | RB | Yusuke Murakami | 15 | Seiya Fujita had 12 starts |
| 3 | CB | Kazuhiko Chiba | 28 | |
| 4 | CB | Daisuke Suzuki | 20 | Naoya Kikuchi had 14 starts |
| 24 | LB | Gotoku Sakai | 23 | Naoki Ishikawa had 9 starts |
| 15 | DM | Isao Homma | 34 | |
| 32 | DM | Yoshiyuki Kobayashi | 14 | Naoya Kikuchi had 9 starts |
| 23 | RM | Atomu Tanaka | 22 | |
| 9 | LM | Cho Young-Cheol | 21 | Fumiya Kogure had 6 starts |
| 10 | SS | Michael | 25 | Kengo Kawamata had 5 starts |
| 11 | CF | Bruno Lopes | 32 | |