FC Machida Zelvia

FC Machida Zelvia
Basic data
Surname	Football Club Machida Zelvia
Seat	Machida , Tokyo Prefecture , Japan
founding	1977
Colours	blue
president	Minoru Moriya
Website	zelvia.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Ranko Popović
Venue	Machida Municipal Athletics Stadium , Machida , Tokyo
Places	10,328
league	J2 League
2019	18th place
home Away

The FC Machida Zelvia ( Japanese FC 町 田 ゼ ル ビ ア, Efu Shī Machida Zerubia ) is a Japanese football club from Machida in Tokyo Prefecture . The club currently plays in the J2 League .

The team gave itself the nickname Zelvia in 2009 and is a combination of the Japanese Zelkove (the tree of the city of Machida) and the English . Term salvia (English sage ).

history

The city of Machida is also known as the " Brazil of Tokyo", as there is an incomparable football culture. Some of the best-known players in the J. League come from the Machida FC football school founded in 1977 . In order to be able to keep these talents, a top team was founded in 1989. This went on to the Athletic Club Machida in 2003 and made the leap into the Kantō League in 2005 , until in 2008 the promotion to the Japan Football League was achieved.

The goal of the club to be included in the J. League Division 2 was quickly announced . However, at that time neither the sporting performance nor the average number of viewers of around 3,000 viewers per game was sufficient.

After the engagement of Naoki Soma (player during the 1998 World Cup ) as head coach and some players known from the J. League, sporting success came in 2010, culminating in the victory against arch rivals Tokyo Verdy in the Emperor's Cup found, however, the loss to Albirex Niigata ended the club's cup ambitions. Despite the expansion of the stadium, it still did not meet the requirements of the J. League and was renovated again by early 2011.

Ranko Popovic, former coach of the J.League veteran Ōita Trinita , was hired as head coach , and with third place they got the desired place in the second Japanese professional league for the 2012 season. After only one season, however, Zelvia rose from bottom of the table back in the Japan Football League . For the 2014 season , the club was one of the founding members of the J3 League . At the end of the 2015 season , the team reached second place, which entitles them to participate in the relegation games against the penultimate of the 2015 J2 League . There opponent Ōita Trinita could be defeated, which was equivalent to returning to the J2 League.

Stadion

The " Municipal Athletics Stadium Machida" ( Japanese町 田 市立 陸上 競技場, Machida-shiritsu rijujō kyōgijō , English Machida Municipal Athletic Stadium ), also named after the Nozuta district in which it stands, Nozuta Stadium ( Nozuta-kyōgijō ) was prepared for the ascent since 2009. A lighting system was installed to enable games at night and the audience capacity was increased from 6,200. The capacity of 10,000 seats required for the J2 League was finally achieved after an expansion for the 2013 season.

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Yōta Akimoto 2 MF Masayuki Okuyama 3 FROM Naoki Ōtani 4th FROM Yuki Mizumoto 5 FROM Kota Fukatsu 6th MF Ri Han-jae 7th ST Alen Mašović 8th MF Jeong Chung-geun 9 ST Stefan Šćepović 10 MF Taiki Hirato 13 ST Yūki Okada 14th MF Kaina Yoshio 15th MF Yūdai Inoue 16 ST Mizuki Andō 17th FROM Kōki Shimosaka

No. position Surname 18th MF Leo Takae 19th MF Shūta Doi 20th ST Dorian Babunski 22nd FROM Itsuki Oda 23 FROM Ryūsuke Sakai 24 FROM Yoshitaka Aoki 25th MF Kaishu Sano 27 MF Misaki Haruyama 28 ST Ryūjoseph Hashimura 29 MF Kota Morimura 30th ST Yuki Nakashima 31 TW Riku Hirosue 42 TW Kōki Fukui

Borrowed Players

No. position Surname TW Kenta Watanabe (to Fukushima United ) FROM Jung Han-chol (at YSCC Yokohama )

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from
Naoki Sōma	Japan	February 1, 2010	January 31, 2011
Ranko Popović	Serbia Austria	December 15, 2010	January 31, 2012
Osvaldo Ardiles	Argentina	February 1, 2012	17th November 2012
Yutaka Akita	Japan	November 26, 2012	June 25, 2013
Naoki Kusunose	Japan	June 25, 2013	January 31, 2014
Naoki Sōma	Japan	1st of February 2014	January 31, 2020
Ranko Popović	Serbia Austria	February 1, 2020

Season placement

Seasons	League	space	Emperor's Cup	web
2014	J3	3.
2015	J3	2. ▲	4th round
2016	J2	7th	1 round
2017	J2	16.	2nd round
2018	J2	4th	3rd round
2019	J2	18th	2nd round
2020	J2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site
2. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2014.html
3. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2015.html
4. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2016.html
5. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2017.html#jl2
6. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2018.html
7. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2019.html#jl2

Web links

• official website
• FC Machida Zelvia in the database of transfermarkt.de
• FC Machida Zelvia in the soccerway.com database