Saitama derby

The Saitama derby (さいたまダービー, Saitama dābī) is the local derby in Saitama, Japan, between fierce city rivals Urawa Red Diamonds and Omiya Ardija.

Saitama derby

Saitama derby, 21 April 2012
Location	Saitama
Teams	Urawa Red Diamonds Omiya Ardija
First meeting	Urawa Red Diamonds 3–0 NTT Kanto 1996 Emperor's Cup (17 November 1996)
Latest meeting	Urawa Red Diamonds 2–2 Omiya Ardija 2017 J1 League (5 August 2017)
Stadiums	Saitama Stadium 2002 Urawa Komaba Stadium NACK5 Stadium Omiya
Statistics
Meetings total	37
Most wins	Urawa Red Diamonds (21)
Top scorer	Rafael (7)
All-time series	Urawa Red Diamonds: 21 Draw: 7 Omiya Ardija: 9
Largest victory	Omiya Ardija 0–6 Urawa Red Diamonds 2000 J.League Division 2 (22 May 2000)

Honours

As of 6 May 2023

Competition	Urawa	Omiya
JSL Division 1 / J1 League	5	0
JSL Division 2 / JFL (1992–1998) / J2 League	1	1
Emperor's Cup	8	0
JSL Cup / J.League Cup	4	0
Japanese Super Cup	5	0
All Japan Senior Football Championship	0	1
Japanese Regional Football League Competition	0	1
Asian Club Championship / AFC Champions League	3	0
J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship	1	0
Total	27	3

Statistics

As of 5 August 2017, competitive matches only

Competition	Played	Urawa wins	Draws	Omiya wins	Urawa goals	Omiya goals
J1 League	24	9	7	8	31	23
J2 League	4	3	0	1	8	1
Emperor's Cup	3	3	0	0	9	3
J.League Cup	6	6	0	0	17	6
Total	37	21	7	9	65	33

Matches

J1 League

#	Date	Home scorers	Home	Result	Away	Away scorers	Report
1	9 July 2005	Tulio	Urawa	1–2	Omiya	Toninho, Sakurai	Report
2	22 October 2005	Sakurai	Omiya	1–3	Urawa	Santos, Tulio, Marić	Report
3	29 April 2006	Washington, Nagai	Urawa	2–0	Omiya		Report
4	10 September 2006		Omiya	0–2	Urawa	Washington, Nagai	Report
5	6 May 2007	Kobayashi	Omiya	1–1	Urawa	Washington	Report
6	1 September 2007		Urawa	0–1	Omiya	Morita	Report
7	20 April 2008		Urawa	0–0	Omiya		Report
8	21 September 2008		Omiya	0–1	Urawa	Takahara	Report
9	24 May 2009	Park	Omiya	1–1	Urawa	Hosogai	Report
10	25 October 2009		Urawa	0–3	Omiya	Rafael (2), Ishihara	Report
11	31 July 2010		Urawa	0–1	Omiya	Rafael	Report
12	2 October 2010	Rafael	Omiya	1–2	Urawa	Takasaki, Kashiwagi	Report
13	11 June 2011	Rafael, Fukaya	Omiya	2–2	Urawa	Edmílson, Haraguchi	Report
14	15 October 2011		Urawa	0–1	Omiya	Rafael	Report
15	21 April 2012	Cho, Rafael	Omiya	2–0	Urawa		Report
16	1 September 2012	Haraguchi	Urawa	1–1	Omiya	Higashi	Report
17	20 April 2013	Zlatan	Omiya	1–0	Urawa		Report
18	5 October 2013	Abe, Haraguchi, Koroki, Sekiguchi	Urawa	4–0	Omiya		Report
19	10 May 2014		Omiya	0–2	Urawa	Koroki, Kashiwagi	Report
20	30 August 2014	Umesaki, Koroki, Moriwaki, Ugajin	Urawa	4–0	Omiya		Report
21	8 May 2016		Omiya	0–1	Urawa	Kashiwagi	Report
22	17 July 2016	Kashiwagi, Muto	Urawa	2–2	Omiya	Esaka, Mateus	Report
23	30 April 2017	Barada	Omiya	1–0	Urawa		Report
24	5 August 2017	Koroki, Kashiwagi	Urawa	2–2	Omiya	Mateus, Segawa	Report

J2 League

#	Date	Home scorers	Home	Result	Away	Away scorers	Report
1	25 March 2000	Ono	Urawa	1–0	Omiya		Report
2	22 May 2000		Omiya	0–6	Urawa	Nagai, Oshiba, Kubica, unknown (o.g.), Miyazawa, unknown (o.g.)	Report
3	16 September 2000		Urawa	0–1	Omiya	Jorginho	Report
4	16 November 2000		Omiya	0–1	Urawa	Oshiba	Report

Emperor's Cup

#	Date	Home scorers	Home	Result	Away	Away scorers	Report
1	17 November 1996	Okano (2), Iwase	Urawa	3–0	NTT Kanto		Report
2	14 December 1997	Petrović, Fukunaga	Urawa	2–1	NTT Kanto	Hiramoto	Report
3	29 December 2005	Kataoka, Tomita	Omiya	2–4 (a.e.t.)	Urawa	Marić, Hasebe (2), No. Yamada	Report

J.League Cup

#	Date	Home scorers	Home	Result	Away	Away scorers	Report
1	26 March 2005	Tanaka, Emerson	Urawa	2–1	Omiya	Tomita	Report
2	4 June 2005	Tuto	Omiya	1–3	Urawa	Suzuki, Emerson, Tanaka	Report
3	13 June 2009	Na. Yamada, Edmílson (2), Takahara, Haraguchi, No. Yamada	Urawa	6–2	Omiya	Tokita, Fujita	Report
4	14 September 2011	Márcio Richardes, Haraguchi	Urawa	2–0	Omiya		Report
5	28 September 2011	Kanazawa	Omiya	1–2	Urawa	Despotović (2)	Report
6	2 April 2014	Lee, Aoki	Urawa	2–1	Omiya	Hashimoto	Report

Goalscorers

As of 5 August 2017, competitive matches only

Rank	Player	Club	Goals
1	Rafael	Omiya	7
2	Genki Haraguchi	Urawa	5
	Yosuke Kashiwagi	Urawa
4	Shinzo Koroki	Urawa	4
5	Edmílson	Urawa	3
	Yuichiro Nagai	Urawa
	Washington	Urawa
8	Ranko Despotović	Urawa	2
	Emerson	Urawa
	Makoto Hasebe	Urawa
	Tomislav Marić	Urawa
	Mateus	Omiya
	Masayuki Okano	Urawa
	Kenji Oshiba	Urawa
	Naoto Sakurai	Urawa Omiya
	Naohiro Takahara	Urawa
	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	Urawa
	Tatsuya Tanaka	Urawa
	Daisuke Tomita	Omiya
	Nobuhisa Yamada	Urawa

Players who played for both clubs

Player	Urawa	Omiya
Akihiro Kameda	1992	1989–1991
Yuki Takita	1992–2000	1990–1992
Seiichi Makita	1993	1991–1992
Hiroki Aratani	1994–1997	1999–2008
Ken Iwase	1994–1998	1998–2002
Naoto Sakurai	1994–1999	2005–2008
Tomoyasu Ando	1997, 1998–2002	2002–2006
Kohei Morita	1999–2000	2002–2004
Tuto	2001–2002	2004–2005
Takuro Nishimura	2001–2004	2004–2008
Nobuhiro Kato	2003–2014	2015–2018
Mizuki Hamada	2009–2012, 2014	2024–
Shinya Yajima	2011–2014, 2017	2022
Takuya Aoki	2014–2020	2008–2013
Rikiya Motegi	2015, 2018–2019	2022–
Naoki Ishihara	2015–2016	2009–2011
Zlatan Ljubijankić	2015–2018	2012–2014
Kenyu Sugimoto	2019–2021	2024–
Hidetoshi Takeda	2020–2021, 2024–	2022
Hitoshi Shiota	2021	2015–2019
Ataru Esaka	2021–2022	2016–2017
Kazuaki Mawatari	2022–2023	2021