Shonan Bellmare

Shonan Bellmare
Basic data
Surname	Shonan Bellmare
Seat	Hiratsuka , Kanagawa
founding	1968
Colours	green Blue
president	Kiyoshi Makabe
Website	bellmare.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Cho Kwi-jea (2012–)
Venue	Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka , Hiratsuka , Kanagawa
Places	15,100
league	J1 League
2019	16th place
home Away

Shonan Bellmare ( Japanese 湘南 ベ ル マ ー レ , Shōnan berumāre , after the Shōnan area and from Italian bella mare = "beautiful sea") is a Japanese professional football club from the port city of Hiratsuka in Kanagawa prefecture . After an extremely successful period in the late 1970s, the club was relegated to the J. League Division 2 in 1999 after financial difficulties . After returning to the J. League Division 1 for the 2010 season, Bellmare has the status of an elevator team and regularly switches back and forth between the two highest professional leagues. At the beginning of the 2017 season, the team returns to the J2 League after two years in the J1 League.

history

The club was founded in 1968 under the name Tōwa Fudōsan Soccer-bu , English Towa Real Estate Development Soccer Club , in Tochigi Prefecture as a works team of the real estate company of the same name, a spin-off from the Zenekon KK Fujita-gumi. After it became more and more popular among the large industrial associations ( Keiretsu ) to adorn themselves with a high-class football club in the 60s and 70s , Fujita-gumi, now Fujita Kōgyō, soon became involved with Tōwa. The football team was renamed for the 1975 season in Fujita Kōgyō Soccer-bu (English Fujita Industries Soccer Club ).

This was followed by the most successful phase in the history of the club, with two doubles won from the championship and the Imperial Cup in 1977 and 1979 as well as a third championship title in 1981. But while with direct competitors such as Mitsubishi (today Urawa Red Diamonds ), Yanmar Diesel ( Cerezo Osaka ) or Furukawa ( JEF United Ichihara Chiba ) continued to invest heavily, Fujita fell back into midfield, but was able to hold out in the Japan Soccer League (JSL) until 1990 .

The reluctance of the management was also evident when the J. League was founded in 1992: Although qualified in sports, Fujita initially decided not to participate in the professional league and entered the newly created Japan Football League (JFL). Only when the club was established a year later as the first JFL champion, he decided to join the J. League. In addition, like the founding members, a new name was given: Bellmare Hiratsuka . The word Bellmare , which is based on the Italian bella mare (for "beautiful sea"), made the connection to the hometown Hiratsuka, which is located in Shonan , one of the most popular holiday regions on the main island of Honshu .

What followed was a renewed phase of success: in 1994 they won again in the Kaiser Cup and almost reached the final of the championship (in the end only one victory was missing to win the second half of the season), in the following season they secured themselves in the final against the Iraqi club Al Talaba won the Asian Cup Winners' Cup and thus their first international title. Then, however, a phase of decline set in, in which many critics blame conservative management for selling talent rather than investing in it. For example, Hidetoshi Nakata , perhaps the most important Japanese player of the late 1990s, was carelessly transferred to Italy's AC Perugia without an equivalent replacement being provided. In 1999 they rose from the bottom of the table.

As a result of relegation Fujita withdrew completely from the club, which then plunged into a major financial crisis. Only the commitment of the former star Nakata, whose Internet company stepped in as a sponsor, could prevent bankruptcy . A fundamental reorganization resulted in another name change, this time in Shonan Bellmare , in order to secure support from the entire region. Nevertheless, it was not until the end of the 2009 season before Bellmare found its way back on the road to success. Since then, the club has been moving back and forth between the top two professional leagues, promotions to the J1 League at the end of the 2009, 2012 and 2014 seasons contrasted with relegations to the J2 League at the end of the 2010, 2013 and 2016 seasons.

In its current form, the team was founded in 1999 as a joint stock company ( KK ) Shōnan Bellmare.

successes

as Towa / Fujita

• All Japan Senior Football Championship

Winner: 1971

• Japan Soccer League

Winner: 1977, 1979, 1981

• JSL Cup

Winner: 1973

• Imperial Cup

Winner: 1977, 1978

• Japan Soccer League Division 2

Winner: 1991/1992

• Japan Football League Division 1

Winner: 1993

as Bellmare Hiratsuka / Shonan Bellmare

• Imperial Cup

Winner: 1994

• Asian Cup Winners' Cup

Winner: 1995

• J. League Cup

Winner: 2018

• J2 League

Winner: 2014, 2017

rivalry

Historically, Shonan was part of the former Sagami Province , while Yokohama and Kawasaki were part of Musashi Province . Because of this, there is a local rivalry with the local clubs Yokohama F. Marinos and Kawasaki Frontale .

Other rivalries are held with Cerezo Osaka , the Urawa Red Diamonds and Júbilo Iwata .

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka in Hiratsuka in Kanagawa Prefecture . The stadium has a capacity of 15,200 spectators. The city of Hiratsuka is the owner and operator.

Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka

Coordinates: 35 ° 20 ′ 37 ″  N , 139 ° 20 ′ 28.6 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Daiki Tomii 2 MF Daiki Kaneko 3 FROM Kazuaki Mawatari (loaned from Kawasaki Frontale ) 4th FROM Keisuke Saka 5 MF Shota Kobayashi 6th FROM Takuya Okamoto 7th MF Tsukasa Umesaki 8th FROM Kazunari Ōno 9 ST Hiroshi Ibusuki 10 MF Naoki Yamada 11 ST Tarik Elyounoussi 13 ST Naoki Ishihara 14th MF Hiroto Nakagawa 15th MF Akito Fukuta 16 MF Mitsuki Saitō 17th ST Yūki Ōhashi

No. position Surname 18th MF Temma Matsuda 19th FROM Koki Tachi 20th ST Yūto Iwasaki (on loan from Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo ) 21st TW Masaaki Gotō 22nd FROM Kazuki Ōiwa 23 MF Akimi Barada 24 MF Ko Sawada 25th TW Kosei Tani (loaned from Gamba Osaka ) 26th FROM Taiga Hata 28 MF Toichi Suzuki 29 MF Hidetoshi Miyuki 30th MF Sōsuke Shibata 31 TW Daiki Hotta 32 MF Satoshi Tanaka 33 MF Asahi Yokoyama 34 FROM Haneto Sakuma 35 MF Naoki Hara 36 FROM Taisei Ishii 37 ST Ryo Nemoto 38 FROM Hirokazu Ishihara 44 FROM Shunya Mori

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	Add./sp.	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Asia
1970-71	KSL
1972-89	JSL1
1990-91	JSL2
1992-93	JFL1
1994	J1	12	5.	17,836	1 round	winner	-	-
1995		14th	11.	16,111	-	2nd round	-	-
1996		16	11.	10,483	Semifinals	Quarter finals	APdP	winner
1997		17th	8th.	7,841	Group stage	Quarter finals	-	-
1988		18th	11.	10.158	Group stage	4th round	-	-
1999		16	16.	7,388	1 round	3rd round	-	-
2000	J2	11	8th.	4,968	1 round	3rd round	-	-
2001		12	8th.	4.112	1 round	2nd round	-	-
2002		12	5.	4,551	-	4th round	-	-
2003		12	10.	4,731	-	4th round	-	-
2004		12	10.	4,691	-	5th round	-	-
2005		12	7th	5,746	-	3rd round	-	-
2006		13	11.	5,365	-	4th round	-	-
2007		13	6th	4,677	-	4th round	-	-
2008		15th	5.	5,994	-	3rd round	-	-
2009		18th	3.	7,273	-	2nd round	-	-
2010	J1	18th	18th	11,095	Group stage	3rd round	-	-
2011	J2	20th	14th	6,943	-	Quarter finals	-	-
2012		22nd	2.	6,852	-	3rd round	-	-
2013	J1	18th	16.	9,911	Group stage	3rd round	-	-
2014	J2	22nd	1. ▲	8,478	-	3rd round	-	-
2015	J1	18th	8th.	12.208	Group stage	3rd round	-	-
2016		18th	17th	11,530	Group stage		-	-
2017	J2	22nd	1. ▲	8,454	-	3rd round	-	-
2018	J1	18th	13.	12,120	winner	4th round	-	-
2019	J1	18th	16.	12,848	Group stage	2nd round	-	-
2020	J1	18th					-	-

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Yukio Shimomura	Japan	February 1, 1972	January 31, 1979
Yoshinobu Ishii	Japan	1st January 1975	December 31, 1980
Tsutomu Nakamura	Japan	1st February 1981	January 31, 1985
Hidemitsu Hanaoka	Japan	February 1, 1985	June 30, 1988
Yoshinobu Ishii	Japan	January 1, 1988	December 31, 1990
Mitsuru Komaeda	Japan	July 1, 1990	November 27, 1995
Shigeharu Ueki	Japan	November 28, 1995	January 31, 1996
Toninho Moura	Brazil	February 1, 1996	September 19, 1996
Shigeharu Ueki	Japan	September 20, 1996	January 31, 1999
Eiji Ueda	Japan	February 1, 1999	June 30, 1999
Mitsuru Komaeda	Japan	July 1, 1999	January 31, 2000
Hisashi Kato	Japan	February 1, 2000	January 31, 2001
Kōji Tanaka	Japan	February 1, 2001	November 30, 2002
Ajam Boujarari Mohammed	Morocco	February 1, 2003	May 25, 2003
Matsuichi Yamada	Japan	May 16, 2003	July 14, 2004
Tatsuya Mochizuki	Japan	July 15, 2004	September 13, 2004
Eiji Ueda	Japan	September 15, 2004	June 5, 2006
Masaaki Kanno	Japan	June 5, 2006	January 31, 2009
Yasuharu Sorimachi	Japan	February 1, 2009	January 31, 2012
Cho Kwi-jae	South Korea	February 1, 2012	October 8, 2019
Kenji Takahashi	Japan	13th August 2019	October 9, 2019
Am Ukishima	Japan	October 10, 2019	today

Awards

Young Player of the Year

• Kazuaki Tasaka (1994)

Eleven of the year

• Yoshihiro Natsuka (1994)
• Betinho (1994)
• Hidetoshi Nakata (1997)

Web links

Commons : Shonan Bellmare  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Shonan Bellmare Official Website
• Shonan Bellmare in the database of weltfussball.de
• Shonan Bellmare in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Shonan Bellmare in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shōnan Bellmare: ク ラ ブ 概要
2. ↑ J. League Data Site