Urawa Red Diamonds (浦和レッドダイヤモンズ, Urawa Reddo Daiyamonzu?) are a professional association football club playing in Japan's football league, J. League Division 1. The club has been able to boast the highest average crowds for fourteen of the J-League's twenty one season history. In 2008 the team attracted an average gate of over 47,000 in all competitions, which included one game at the smaller Komaba stadium, the highest in both Japan and Asia as a whole. The club moved in 2001 to the newly built Saitama Stadium, and were able to accommodate a sharp increase in crowd numbers between 2003 and 2006; a period rich in silverware. Its hometown is the city of Saitama in Saitama Prefecture, but its name comes from the former city of Urawa, which is now a part of Saitama City.
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