Mitsubishi Mizushima FC

Mizushima F.C.
三菱水島

Full name	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima Football Club
Nickname(s)	Red Adamant
Founded	1946 (1946)
Ground	Okayama Kasaoka Athletic Stadium Kasaoka, Okayama
Capacity	5,000
Owner	Mitsubishi Motors
Manager	Shinya Suga
League	Chugoku Soccer League
2022	5th of 10
Home colours Away colours

Mitsubishi Mizushima F.C. (三菱水島FC, Mitsubishi Mizushima Efu Shī) are a Japanese football club based in Kurashiki, Okayama. They play in the Chūgoku Soccer League.

History

The club was founded in 1946 to provide recreational activities in the war-torn Mizushima area of Kurashiki city. They joined the Okayama Prefecture League in 1965 and were promoted to the Chūgoku Regional League in 1979 for the first time.

They were relegated to the Prefecture League in 1982 and stayed there for 8 years. After re-entering the Chūgoku League, they won 5 championships before being promoted to the JFL in 2005.

In recent years they have adopted the moniker "Red Adamant" (after their parent company Mitsubishi Motors and its former flagship football club, now known as Urawa Red Diamonds), with an aim to eventually join J. League and be a star club in their own right. A potential obstacle to this will be the newly promoted Fagiano Okayama, with whom they have had to share Momotaro Athletic Stadium in Okayama City for recent JFL fixtures.

In 2008 they finished dead last of 18, but were spared the drop due to the promotion of Okayama, Kataller Toyama and Tochigi SC.

In November 2009, the club announced they would withdraw from the JFL after the end of the 2009 season because of the lack of the financial resources to operate in the league. After their membership application was refused by the Chugoku Regional League, they decided to compete in the Okayama Prefectural League Division 1 in 2010.

In November 2016 they rebounded by winning the Shakaijin Cup, and one year later the 2017 Chugoku Soccer League.

In 2021, they won for the 7th time the Chugoku Soccer League, but as was the situation in 2017, they weren't able to win the promotion spot for JFL, as in both times they failed to pass through the group stage of the Japanese Regional Champions League.

Current squad

As of 14 October 2022

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	Motoki Uechi
2	DF	JPN	Tatsunori Maehara
3	DF	JPN	Takuma Yasuda
4	DF	JPN	Kentaro Uchida
5	DF	JPN	Tatsuya Narumi
6	FW	JPN	Asafu Yamamura
7	FW	JPN	Kazuma Saito
8	MF	JPN	Ryota Morisako
9	FW	JPN	Kiyoshi Yamamoto
10	MF	JPN	Ryuji Miyazawa
11	FW	JPN	Shota Takase
13	MF	JPN	Kensuke Harada
14	DF	JPN	Akira Yamabe

No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
15	DF	JPN	Takayuki Tsurumaru
16	DF	JPN	Riku Tanaka
17	MF	JPN	Tomoya Nakagawa
18	DF	JPN	Hiroto Fujii
19	MF	JPN	Ryotaro Mizuno
20	DF	JPN	Noriya Okamoto
21	GK	JPN	Takeru Hanafusa
22	DF	JPN	Yuki Nagaya
23	FW	JPN	Nagi Kishimoto
24	MF	JPN	Kohei Kusachi
25	MF	JPN	Ryusei Komo
30	GK	JPN	Hironori Taki

League record

Season	League	GP	Pts	W	D	L	Position
2005	Japan Football League	30	8	2	2	26	16th
2006		34	27	7	6	21	17th
2007		34	35	11	2	21	15th
2008		34	16	3	7	24	18th
2009		34	18	4	6	24	18th
2010	Okayama Prefectural League	12	34	11	1	0	1st
2011	Chugoku Soccer League	18	37	12	1	5	4th
2012		18	26	7	5	6	5th
2013		18	17	4	5	9	7th
2014		18	33	10	3	5	3rd
2015		18	40	13	1	4	3rd
2016		18	32	10	2	6	3rd
2017		18	46	15	1	2	1st
2018		18	32	10	2	6	2nd
2019		18	47	15	2	1	2nd
2020		0	0	0	0	0	Canceled
2021		18	35	11	3	2	1st
2022		18	28	7	7	4	5th
2023							TBD

Honours

• Chugoku Soccer League (7): 1992, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2017, 2021
• Shakaijin Cup (1): 2016
• Okayama Prefectural Soccer Championship (16): 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021

External links

• Official Website (in Japanese)