Kamatamare Sanuki

Kamatamare Sanuki
Basic data
Seat	Takamatsu , Japan
founding	1956
Colours	light blue-navy blue-orange
president	Minoru Kumano
Website	kamatamare.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Kazuhito Mochizuki
Venue	Pikara Stadium
Places	30.099
league	J3 League
2019	13th place
home Away

Kamatamare Sanuki ( Japanese カ マ タ マ ー レ 讃 岐 , Kamatamāre Sanuki ) is a Japanese football club from Takamatsu , the capital of Kagawa Prefecture . The club plays in the third league, the J3 League .

history

The club was founded in 1956 as Takashō OB Soccer Club ( 高商 OB サ ッ カ ー ク ラ ブ , Takashō OB Sakkā Kurabu ) by former students (the OB in the name stands for "Old Boys") of the Takamatsu Higher Commercial School. After a first change of name to Kagawa Shiun Football Club ( 香 川 紫雲 フ ッ ト ボ ー ル ク ラ ブ , Kagawa Shiun Futtobōru Kurabu ) in 1991 successes began slowly; in 1994 and 1997 they won the Shikoku League, one of Japan's nine regional leagues. After signing a sponsorship agreement with Sun Life Financial in 2000, the name changed again, from then on they played under the name Sun Life Football Club until the end of the 2004 season. After the contract expired, they took on for one season as Takamatsu Football Club ( 高 松 フ ッ ト ボ ー ル ク ラ ブ ) before they officially announced their intention to join the J. League in October 2005 ; this was the last time the name was changed to Kamatamare Sanuki .

The year 2010 was the most successful in the history of Kamatamare, as they managed to win the amateur triple from the regional league (Shikoku League), the amateur cup (the so-called Shakaijin Cup ) and the national regional league finals . With the success in the latter one achieved promotion to the Japan Football League . They stayed there until 2013, when the last club to do so in this form was promoted from the Japan Football League to the J. League Division 2 (since then, promotion candidates from the JFL have landed in the J3 League, which was founded in 2014 ). As a runner-up you had to play in relegation games against the last of the J2, Gainare Tottori ; a 1: 1 at home in the first leg was followed by a 1-0 away win. Kamatamare finished his first season in the Japanese lower house as penultimate, which again meant relegation, this time against the runner-up in the J3 League. After a 0-0 win at Nagano Parceiro , they kept the class with a narrow 1-0 home win.

Club name

The first part of the club name is a portmanteau from the Japanese word Kamatama (a type of udon noodle soup) and the Italian mare ("sea"). The second part relates to the province of Sanuki , the area of ​​which essentially corresponds to today's prefecture of Kagawa. The name and the club crest, which includes a bowl of Kamatama udon, are so unique that Kamatamare Sanuki quickly became one of the best-known non-J. League clubs after the name was changed.

successes

• Shikoku Football League: (5)

1994, 1997, 2006, 2008, 2010

• Shakaijin Cup: (1)

2010

• Regional league final round: (1)

2010

Stadion

The club plays its home games at Pikara Stadium , the former Kagawa Marugame Stadium, in Marugame in Kagawa Prefecture . The stadium has a capacity of 30,099 people.

Coordinates: 34 ° 15 ′ 41.9 ″  N , 133 ° 47 ′ 9.3 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Kenta Shimizu 2 FROM Takaharu Nishino 3 FROM Naoya Matsumoto 4th FROM Atsuki Satsukawa 5 FROM Takumi Komatsu 6th MF Hayato Hasegawa 7th MF Ryota Nagata 8th MF Yuga Watanabe 9 ST Mark Ajay Kurita 10 MF Kazumasa Takagi 11 MF Yuki Morikawa 13 ST Kentaro Shigematsu 14th MF Wataru Sasaki 15th MF Kazuki Iwamoto 16 TW Kazuki Hattori

No. position Surname 17th MF Yuki Ikeya 18th MF Ryo Nakamura 19th ST Ikki Kawasaki 20th FROM Taiyo Shimokawa 21st ST Ryota Kamiya 22nd FROM Danto Sugiyama 23 FROM Kenta Yanagida 24 TW Suguru Asanuma 25th MF Kenta Sawada 26th ST Noah Kenshin Browne 27 MF Tomoya Hayashi 28 FROM Kim Ho-yeong 29 MF Jeon San-hae 30th FROM Akira Takeuchi (captain) 31 FROM Tomoya Takeshita

Season placement

season	league	Item	Emperor's Cup
1977	Shikoku League	6th
1978	Shikoku League	8th.
1979	Kagawa Pref. League	1.
1980	Kagawa Pref. League	1.
1981	Shikoku League	5.
1982	Shikoku League	8th.
1983	Shikoku League	2.
1984	Shikoku League	2.
1985	Shikoku League	6th
1986	Shikoku League	7th
1987	Shikoku League	8th.
1988	Shikoku League	7th
1989	Shikoku League	6th
1990	Shikoku League	6th
1991	Shikoku League	2.
1992	Shikoku League	3.
1993	Shikoku League	2.
1994	Shikoku League	1.
1995	Shikoku League	2.
1996	Shikoku League	2.
1997	Shikoku League	1.
1998	Shikoku League	3.
1999	Shikoku League	2.
2000	Shikoku League	4th
2001	Shikoku League	3.
2002	Shikoku League	2.
2003	Shikoku League	6th
2004	Shikoku League	3.
2005	Shikoku League	4th
2006	Shikoku League	1.	1 round
2007	Shikoku League	2.	1 round
2008	Shikoku League	1.	2nd round
2009	Shikoku League	2.	2nd round
2010	Shikoku League	1.	2nd round
2011	JFL	11.	2nd round
2012	JFL	4th	3rd round
2013	JFL	2. ▲	2nd round
2014	J2	21st	2nd round
2015	J2	16.	2nd round
2016	J2	19th	2nd round
2017	J2	19th	2nd round
2018	J2	22. ▼	2nd round
2019	J3	14th	2nd round
2020	J3

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Masashi Hachuda	Japan	February 1, 2008	January 31, 2010
Makoto Kitano	Japan	February 1, 2010	January 31, 2019
Kenichi Uemura	Japan	1st February 2019	January 31, 2020
Kazuhito Mochizuki	Japan	February 1, 2020	today

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Kamatamare Sanuki at transfermarkt.de
• Kamatamare Sanuki at soccerway.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site