Giravanz Kitakyushu

Giravanz Kitakyushu
Basic data
Surname	Giravanz Kitakyushu Football Club
Seat	Kitakyushu , Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan
founding	1947
president	Hidemi Hayashi
Website	giravanz.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Shinji Kobayashi
Venue	Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu , Kitakyushu
Places	15,066
league	J2 League
2019	▲ 1st place, ( J3 League )
home Away

Giravanz Kitakyūshū ( Japanese ギ ラ ヴ ァ ン ツ 北九州 , Giravantsu Kitakyūshū ) is a Japanese football club from Kitakyūshū , Fukuoka Prefecture . He has been playing in the J3 League since the 2017 season . The club name "Giravanz" consists of the two Italian words "Girasole" ( German sunflower ) and "Avanzare" ( German precede ). The sunflower is Kitakyushu's trademark.   

history

The club was founded in 1947 as part of the chemical company Mitsubishi Kagaku ( English Mitsubishi Chemical ) under the name Mitsubishi Kagaku Kurosaki Football Club ( 三菱 化学 黒 崎 フ ッ ト ボ ー ル ク ラ ブ , Mitsubishi Kagaku Kurosaki Futtobōru Kurabu ). Since 1973, the club played in the Kyushu regional league and replaced the local top club New Nippon Steel FC around 1990 . In 2001 the name was changed to New Wave Kitakyūshū ( ニ ュ ー ウ ェ ー ブ 北九州 , Nyū Wēbu Kitakyūshū ).

In 2007, New Wave reached the nationwide regional league series in second place and thus qualified for the following season of the JFL .

On April 1, 2009, the club announced that it would change its name, as the term "New Wave" is a registered trademark and the club name is therefore contrary to trademark law.

The new club name, with which the club would present itself from the 2010 season, was announced on October 2, 2009 in its current form.

On November 23, 2009, after a 2-1 away win against Arte Takasaki , Kitakyūshū had a place in the top four in the JFL and thus qualified in the 2010 season for the J. League Division 2 .

Despite many draws, Giravanz Kitakyushu set a new league record in her first year of professional football. You achieved the fewest wins and thus the lowest point yield in a season. At the end of the 2016 season , the club was relegated from bottom of the table in the J3 League . For the 2017 season , the move from the Honjō Athletic Stadium to the newly built Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyūshū took place.

In 2019, the club became champions of the J3 League and rose again to the second division.

successes

• 2010: Promotion to the J. League Division 2
• J3 League : 2019 champions

Stadion

Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu

The club plays its home games at the Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu in Kitakyushu in Fukuoka Prefecture . The stadium has a capacity of 15,066 people.

Coordinates: 33 ° 53 ′ 29.2 "  N , 130 ° 53 ′ 19.9"  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Takuya Takahashi 2 FROM Hiroto Arai 3 FROM Kenta Fukumori 4th MF Ryu Kawakami 5 FROM Masahiro Teraoka 6th FROM Kazuya Okamura 7th ST Ryō Satō 8th MF Yōhei Naitō 9 ST Akira Silvano Disaro 10 MF Daigo Takahashi 11 ST Tomoki Ikemoto 14th MF Takayuki Arakaki 15th FROM Wataru Noguchi 16 FROM Kota Muramatsu 17th MF Kōken Katō

No. position Surname 18th ST Shūto Machino 19th MF Yudai Nagano 20th FROM Takashi Kawano 21st TW Daiki Gotō 22nd MF Soya Fujiwara 23 ST Sōta Satō 24 FROM Jin Ikoma 25th MF Shintaro Kokubu 26th MF Toshiki Onozawa 27 TW Yuya Tanaka 28 ST Kunitomo Suzuki 29 FROM Yoshiki Sato 31 TW Kengo Nagai 32 FROM Takuya Nagata 39 MF Naoki Tsubaki

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Yoshinori Sembiki	Japan	February 1, 2005	January 31, 2007
George Yonashiro	Japan	February 1, 2007	January 31, 2011
Yasutoshi Miura	Japan	February 1, 2011	January 31, 2013
Kōichi Hashiratani	Japan	1st February 2013	January 31, 2017
Takeo Harada	Japan	1st February 2017	January 31, 2018
Hitoshi Morishita	Japan	1st February 2018	17th June 2018
Tetsuji Hashiratani	Japan	20th June 2018	January 31, 2019
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	1st February 2019	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	spectator	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
2010	J2	19th	19th	4189	-	3rd round
2011		20th	8th.	4051	-	3rd round
2012		22nd	9.	3346	-	2nd round
2013		22nd	16.	3175	-	3rd round
2014		22nd	5.	3622	-	Quarter finals
2015		22nd	7th	3488	-	2nd round
2016		22nd	22nd	3224	-	2nd round
2017	J3	17th	9.	5939	-	2nd round
2018		17th	17th	4501	-	-
2019		18th	1. ▲	6049	-	2nd round
2020	J2	22nd

Web links

• Official "Giravanz" page
• Old "New Wave" site
• Kitakyushu Football Club
• Giravanz Kitakyūshū in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Giravanz Kitakyushu in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated December 4, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ [2]
5. ↑ J. League Data Site