On December 20, Shanghai Football Association officially announced that Ms. Asako Takakura, the Japanese coach, was officially appointed as the head coach of Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank Women's Football.In 2022, Shanghai Rural Commercial Bank Women's Football finished fourth in the Women's Super League.
Born in 1968, Asako Takakura is a Japanese women's international soccer player. He was twice the best player of the Japan Women's Football League and was named to the best team of the Japan Women's Football League seven times. He participated in many international tournaments, such as the 1991 and 1995 Women's World Cups and the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.
In 2004, Asako Takakura officially retired. From 2007, she was hired as a women's soccer coach of the Japan Football Association National Training Base, successively served as the Japanese women's soccer coach U13 to U2013, the national team head coach led the team to win the 2013 AFC U2014 FIFA Women's Soccer Championship Championship U2015 Border Cup Championship, 2015 AFC U19 Women's Soccer Championship Championship Championship. From 2016, Coach Takakura was hired as the head coach of the Japan Women's National Team, leading the team to the 2018 Asian Women's Cup and the 2018 Asian Games Women's Championship.
Since 2012, Asako Takakura has been named AFC Women's Coach of the Year seven times.
