Ōita Trinita

Ōita Trinita
Basic data
Surname	Ōita Trinita ( Japanese 大分 ト リ ニ ー タ )
Seat	Ōita , Japan
founding	January 7, 1999 ( Ōita FC: 1994 )
Colours	Blue yellow
president	Hiroshi Mizohata
Website	oita-trinita.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Tomohiro Katanosaka
Venue	Showa Denko Dome Oita ("Big Eye"), Ōita
Places	40,000
league	J1 League
2019	9th place ( J1 League )
home Away

Ōita Trinita ( Japanese 大分ト リ ニ ー タ , Ōita torinīta ) is a Japanese football club . Between 2003 and 2009 and 2013, the team from the city of ( ita ( Präita prefecture ) on the island of Kyushu participated in the J1 League , the country's highest professional league. In the 2017 season , the club plays in the J2 League .

The epithet comes from the Italian and means "Trinity". It can also be understood as a combination of the English word "trinity" and the city name Ōita. The Trinity is intended to symbolize the support of the club by fans, companies and local government and, like most club names in the league, have a European sound.

history

Former club logo of Ōita Trinita

At the instigation of some medium-sized companies in the northern Kyushu area, Ōita FC was founded in 1994 to respond to the recently launched J. League and the football boom it triggered. Already in the first year Oita wins the lower class regional championship and moves up to the regional league. In the following two seasons, the newcomer wins the championship of the island of Kyushu and the first national title as champion of all regional leagues. Thus, for the 1997 season, Trinita was allowed to play in what was then the second highest division, the Japan Football League , and stayed in that class.

With the introduction of the two-tier structure of the J. League in 1999, the club was re-established as Ōita Trinita . A mascot was not introduced at the time.

Ōita Trinita missed direct promotion to the top division by one point, behind Kawasaki Frontale and FC Tokyo . The two following seasons, the club also just missed promotion. It was not until the 2002 season, when they moved into the new World Cup stadium "Big Eye", that they were promoted seven points ahead of second-placed Cerezo Osaka .

With establishment in the middle of the table in the following seasons, the club's mascot was presented in 2008. The season ended Trinita in 4th place in the table, but left the House of Lords for the 2010 season as penultimate and thus rose for the first time in the club's history. After three years in the J. League Division 2 , Ōita Trinita was promoted again in 2012. However, the first class should only remain a short guest appearance, as the promoted team as bottom of the table had to accept immediate relegation. The 2014 second division season ended in 7th place in the table. A year later, the team from North Kyushu was only penultimate and lost in the relegation game against Machida Zelvia , which meant relegation to the J3 League . At the end of the 2016 season , however, the team returned as champions in the J2 League.

Even if the hometown is Ōita, the team receives support from Beppu , Saiki and other cities in Ōita prefecture. It is one of the youngest clubs in the Japanese professional league.

successes

• J2 League

Master: 2002

Runner-up: 2018

• J3 League

Champion 2016

• J. League Cup

Winner: 2008

• Suruga Bank Championship

2nd place: 2009

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Showa Denko Dome Oita in Ōita in the Ōita prefecture of the same name . The stadium on the island of Kyushu has a capacity of 40,000 spectators. The stadium, which opened in May 2001, is owned by the Ōita Prefecture.

Showa Denko Dome Oita

Coordinates: 33 ° 12 ′ 1 ″  N , 131 ° 39 ′ 26 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Shun Takagi 2 FROM Yūki Kagawa 3 FROM Yūto Misao 4th MF Toshio Shimakawa 5 FROM Yoshinori Suzuki ( team captain ) 6th MF Yūki Kobayashi 7th MF Rei Matsumoto 8th MF Yamato Machida 9 ST Kei Chinen (loaned from Kawasaki Frontale ) 10 MF Naoki Nomura 11 MF Tatsuya Tanaka 14th MF Kazuki Kozuka 15th FROM Yūta Koide 16 ST Daiki Watari 18th ST Kōhei Isa 19th FROM Yūji Hoshi 20th MF Kōki Kotegawa 22nd TW Mun Kyung-gun

No. position Surname 23 MF Kaoru Takayama 25th MF Seigō Kobayashi 26th MF Kazuhiro Satō 27 ST Kazushi Mitsuhira 29 FROM Tomoki Iwata 30th FROM Yusho Takahashi 31 ST Yūya Takazawa 32 MF Ryosuke Maeda 38 MF Keita Takahata 40 MF Yushi Hasegawa 41 FROM Ryōsuke Tone 42 TW Shoya Katsuki (Type 2 player) 43 MF Masaki Yumiba (Type 2 player) 44 TW Shun Yoshida 45 FROM Sodai Kudo (Type 2 player) 46 ST Kento Hirakawa (Type 2 player) 47 MF Kenta Inoue 49 FROM Kento Haneda

Trainer

Trainer	nation	from	to
Moon Jung-sik	South Korea	February 1, 1994	January 31, 1997
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	February 1, 1999	April 30, 2001
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	May 1, 2001	January 31, 2004
Han Berger	Netherlands	February 1, 2004	January 31, 2005
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	February 1, 2005	August 28, 2005
Arie Schans	Netherlands	September 1, 2005	September 8, 2005
Pericles Chamusca	Brazil	September 9, 2005	July 13, 2009
Ranko Popovic	Serbia Austria	August 1, 2009	December 31, 2009
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	February 1, 2010	January 31, 2011
Kazuaki Tasaka	Japan	February 1, 2011	2nd June 2015
Nobuaki Yanagida	Japan	June 1, 2015	January 3, 2016
Tomohiro Katanosaka	Japan	February 1, 2016	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
1999	J2	10	3.	2nd round	3rd round
2000		11	3.	1 round	3rd round
2001		12	6th	2nd round	3rd round
2002		12	1.	-	4th round
2003	J1	16	14th	Group stage	3rd round
2004		16	13.	Group stage	5th round
2005		18th	11.	Group stage	5th round
2006		18th	8th.	Group stage	5th round
2007		18th	4th	Group stage	5th round
2008		18th	4th	winner	4th round
2009		18th	17th	Group stage	3rd round
2010	J2	19th	15th	Group stage	3rd round
2011		20th	12.	n / A	n / A
2012		22nd	6th	n / A	2nd round
2013	J1	18th	18th	Group stage	Quarter finals
2014	J2	22nd	7th	-	3rd round
2015		22nd	21. ▼	-	3rd round
2016	J3	26th	1. ▲	-	2nd round
2017	J2	22nd	9.	-	3rd round
2018		22nd	2. ▲	-	-
2019	J1	18th	9.	Group stage	Quarter finals

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Ōita Trinita in the database of weltfussball.de
• Oita Trinita in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ōita Trinita in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site