Fagiano Okayama

Fagiano Okayama
Basic data
Surname	Fagiano Okayama Football Club
Seat	Okayama , Japan
founding	1975
Colours	wine red-dark blue
president	Masaaki Kimura
Website	fagiano-okayama.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Kenji Arima
Venue	City Light Stadium
Places	20,000
league	J2 League
2019	9th place
home Away

Fagiano Okayama FC ( Japanese フ ァ ジ ア ー ノ 岡山 FC , Fajiāno Okayama Efu Shī ) is a Japanese football club from Okayama , the capital of Okayama Prefecture, and has played in the J2 League since 2009 . His reserve team, Fagiano Okayama Next , was a member of the Japan Football League from 2014 to 2016 .

The Italian word fagiano on behalf means pheasant and plays the legendary Peach Boy Momotaro to, that of a green pheasant was accompanied. The club mascot is supposed to represent that pheasant.

history

After the formerly resident Kawasaki Steel Mizushima FC went to Kobe in 1975 and now plays as Vissel Kobe , the club was founded by old Kawasaki Steel members under the name River Free Kickers . He played in the leagues of Okayama Prefecture.

In 2003 the club called itself Fagiano Okayama FC and recorded first successes in the prefecture league. In 2005, the promotion to the Chūgoku - Regional . Two years later, in July, Fagiano became the first club that did not play in the Japan Football League to successfully seek the status of a so-called "extraordinary member" of the J. League .

After promotion to the JFL for the 2008 season, the club reached the qualifying ranks for the J. League and made it to the second class of the Japanese professional league. There they established themselves in the midfield.

Fagiano Okayama Next

The second team of Fagiano Okayama was founded under the name Fagiano Okayama Next in 2009 with the aim of giving the youth players and reservists of the J2 team more match practice. The team immediately became champions of the top division of Okayama Prefecture and rose to the Chūgoku regional league.

In 2012, Next qualified for the national regional league finals with a 3rd place in the Japanese Amateur Cup , but failed there just as last placed in the final group. After winning the regional league title a year later, they reached the final round again, this time finishing second in the final round of the Japan Football League . There, however, Fagiano Okayama Next was unable to match the form of previous years and occupied places in the lower third of the table. In mid-2016, the parent club announced on its website that the team would be dissolved at the end of the season.

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the City Light Stadium in Okayama in Okayama Prefecture from. The stadium, owned by Okayama Prefecture, has a capacity of 20,000 spectators.

Coordinates: 34 ° 40 ′ 50.6 "  N , 133 ° 55 ′ 10.2"  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Kazuma Shiina 2 FROM Yūma Hiroki 3 FROM Keita Goto 4th FROM Mizuki Hamada 5 FROM Shigeto Masuda 6th MF Kohei Kiyama 7th MF Eiji Shirai 8th FROM Yūsuke Tanaka 9 ST Lee Yong-Jae 10 ST Léo Mineiro 11 ST Makoto Mimura 13 TW Junki Kanayama 14th MF Kota Ueda 15th ST Hiroki Yamamoto 17th MF Kenji Sekido 18th ST Kazuki Saitō 19th ST Satoki Uejō 20th FROM Choi Jung-won 21st FROM Kenta Mukuhara

No. position Surname 22nd TW William Popp 23 ST Shunnosuke Matsuki 24 ST Shingo Akamine 25th ST Tatsuhiko Noguchi 26th MF Paulinho 28 ST Hadi Fayyadh 29 MF Yu Yong-hyeon 30th MF Takuma Takeda 31 MF Wakaba Shimoguchi 32 ST Tomoya Fukumoto 33 FROM Kaito Abe 34 FROM Carlos Duke 35 MF Kyoya Yamada 36 TW Hiroki Mawatari 39 FROM Kosuke Masutani 40 TW Lee Kyung-tae 41 FROM Shuhei Tokumoto 44 ST Shintaro Shimizu

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Satoshi Tezuka	Japan	January 1, 2007	December 31, 2009
Masanaga Kageyama	Japan	January 1, 2010	December 31, 2014
Tetsu Nagasawa	Japan	February 1, 2015	January 31, 2019
Kenji Arima	Japan	1st February 2019	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
2009	J2	18th	18th	-	2nd round
2010		19th	17th	-	2nd round
2011		20th	13.	-	3rd round
2012		22nd	8th.	-	3rd round
2013		22nd	12.	-	3rd round
2014		22nd	8th.	-	2nd round
2015		22nd	11.	-	1 round
2016		22nd	6th	-	3rd round
2017		22nd	13.	-	3rd round
2018		22nd	15th	-	2nd round
2019		22nd	9.	-	3rd round
2020		22nd		-	-

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Fagiano Okayama in the database of weltfussball.de
• Fagiano Okayama in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Fagiano Okayama in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ フ ァ ジ ア ー ノ 岡山 ネ ク ス ト 2016 シ ー ズ ン を 持 っ て の 活動 終了 に つ い て . Fagiano Okayama. June 24, 2016. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
2. ↑ J. League Data Site