Azul Claro Numazu

Azul Claro Numazu
Basic data
Surname	Azul Claro Numazu
Seat	Numazu , Japan
founding	1977
Colours	Light Blue
president	Hiroyoshi Yamamoto
Website	azul-claro.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Masataka Imai
Venue	Ashitaka Park Stadium
Places	10,000
league	J3 League
2019	12th place
home Away

Azul Claro Numazu , also spelled azul claro Numazu ( Japanese ア ス ル ク ラ ロ 沼 津 , Asuru Kuraro Numazu ) is a Japanese football club from Numazu , Shizuoka Prefecture . The club has been a member of the J. League since the 2017 season ; He currently plays in the J3 League , the third division of the Japanese football system.

history

azul claro Numazu was founded in 1977 as Numazu Arsenal ( 沼 津 ア ー セ ナ ル ) and renamed the Numazu Kōryō Club ( 沼 津 香 陵 ク ラ ブ ) in 1980 . Initially, the club played in the regional leagues of Shizuoka Prefecture. In order to create a more professional environment, the club was restructured in 2006, with the goal of an early promotion to the top division, the J. League Division 1 , given. The name has also been changed to its current form. azul claro comes from Portuguese and Spanish and means "light blue".

In 2012, the club rose to the second division of the Tōkai Adult Soccer League (6th division) for the first time, where the renewed promotion succeeded immediately. At the end of the following season, despite a fourth place in the league, azul claro were given good chances of being accepted into the newly founded J3 League ; However, since only one place was given to clubs from the regional leagues, Grulla Morioka had to be given preference. Nevertheless, one rose to the Japan Football League, as azul claro was appointed as one of the successors for the J3 founding clubs. This was not least due to the J. League Associate Member status received on September 17, 2013 , which means that the club meets the necessary criteria for inclusion in the professional leagues. At the end of the 2016 season, they finished third in the championship and thus met the athletic criteria necessary for admission to the J. League ; this took place on November 16, 2016.

In mid-September 2015, the club caused a stir with the signing of the former Japanese national player and the record scorer of the J. League Division 1 Masashi Nakayama .

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Ashitaka Park Stadium , also known as Shizuoka Ashitaka Athletic Stadium , in Numazu . The stadium has a capacity of 10,000 people.

Coordinates: 35 ° 9 ′ 10 ″  N , 138 ° 50 ′ 52 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Park Seung-ri 2 FROM Tomoki Fujisaki 3 FROM Tatsuya Anzai 4th FROM Akira Osako 5 ST Shūsuke Sakamoto 6th MF Kenshirō Suzuki 7th MF Tomoki Taniguchi 8th MF Makoto Fukōin 9 ST Naoki Tanaka 10 MF Kazuki Someya 11 MF Kōki Maezawa 13 TW Yūya Nagasawa 14th ST Yuki Nakayama 15th MF Takuya Sugai 16 ST Kota Suzuki

No. position Surname 18th FROM Eiichirō Ozaki 20th MF Naoki Sato 21st MF Yuma Mori 22nd FROM Masayuki Tokutake 23 FROM Kōsuke Gotō 24 FROM Yuki Fukai 25th MF Teruyoshi Itō 26th FROM Seiji Shindo 28 FROM Koki Inoue 29 FROM Yusuke Imamura 32 TW Ryusuke Otomo 34 MF Kōtarō Tokunaga 35 ST Ryō Watanabe 38 FROM Takumi Hama 39 ST Masashi Nakayama

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	Emperor's Cup
2014	JFL	14th	8th.
2015	JFL	16	5.
2016	JFL	16	3. ▲
2017	J3	17th	3.
2018	J3	17th	4th
2019	J3	18th	12.
2020	J3	19th

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Kazuhito Mochizuki	Japan	1st of February 2014	January 31, 2015
Ken Yoshida	Japan	February 1, 2015	January 31, 2020
Masataka Imai	Japan	February 1, 2020	today

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Azul Claro Numazu at transfermarkt.de
• Azul Claro Numazu at soccerway.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TOP チ ー ム . In: Azu Claro Numazu. Retrieved September 21, 2015 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ ア ス ル ク ラ ロ 沼 津 ​​の Ｊ３ 入会 を 承認 【明 治安 田 Ｊ３】. In: www.jleague.jp. J. League , November 16, 2016, accessed November 16, 2016 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ Nakayama: Comeback at the age of 47 at 4-4-2.com
4. ↑ J. League Data Site