Tokushima Vortis

Tokushima Vortis
Basic data
Surname	Tokushima Vortis
Seat	Tokushima , Tokushima Prefecture
founding	1955
Colours	blue White
president	Koji Takamoto
Website	vortis.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Ricardo Rodríguez
Venue	Pocarisweat Stadium , Naruto , Tokushima
Places	20,000
league	J2 League
2019	4th Place
home Away

Tokushima Vortis ( Japanese 徳 島 ヴ ォ ル テ ィ ス , Tokushima Vorutisu ) is a Japanese football club from Tokushima , in Tokushima Prefecture . The club has been a member of the J. League since 2005 and currently plays in the J2 League .

history

The club was founded in 1955 as the Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical Soccer Club (Japanese 大 塚 製 薬 株式会社, Ōtsuka Seiyaku Kabushiki kaisha ). The association is still sponsored today by Ōtsuka's best-known brand Pocari Sweat .

The promotion to the Japan Soccer League (JSL) Division 2 took place in 1989. However, in order to meet the desired goal of professionalizing the club, participation in the Japan Football League was necessary. The first name change in Vortis Tokushima took place in the 1997 season in order to mobilize the fans. But this did not succeed, which is why the company name was reintroduced shortly afterwards. In 1999 Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical SC was one of the founding members of the now third-rate Japan Football League . The club gave itself the current name Tokushima Vortis in 2004 after winning the championship in the JFL and the associated promotion to the J. League Division 2 .

In the first season, the newcomer convinced with his determination and quality of play. The briefly achieved 4th place could not be held until the end of the season. The squad soon reached the end of their skills and the club invested in rejuvenating the team. Due to the associated drop in performance, Vortis placed himself in the last place in the league in the following seasons, but stabilized and has been sovereign in Division 2 since then.

Naruto Athletic Degree

The greatest success in the club's history so far is the promotion to Division 1 as the winner of the promotion playoffs at the end of the 2013 season. Vortis is the last professional team of the former JSL to reach the upper house of the J. League. However, they only stayed there for a year and got down again at the end of the season .

Club name

Vortis comes from the Italian term "vortice" (dt. Eddy current) and alludes to the Naruto vortices in the strait of the same name . With the modification Vor tis one would like to address the neighboring regions of Shikoku around the cities of T osa , I yo and S anuki .

successes

• Japan Football League

Winner: 2003, 2004

• Shikoku Football League

Winner: 1978, 1979, 1981, 1989

Stadion

The club plays its home games in the Naruto Otsuka Sports Park Pocari Sweat Stadium (Jap.鳴門·大塚スポーツパークポカリスエットスタジアム) or short Pocari Sweat Stadium (ポカリスエットスタジアム) in Naruto in Tokushima prefecture from. The stadium, which is owned by Tokushima Prefecture, has a capacity of around 20,000 spectators.

Coordinates: 34 ° 10 ′ 5.6 ″  N , 134 ° 37 ′ 4.2 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Takuya Seguchi 2 FROM Taiki Tamukai 3 FROM Dušan Cvetinović 4th FROM Diego 5 FROM Hidenori Ishii 6th MF Kōhei Uchida 7th MF Yūdai Konishi 8th MF Ken Iwao 9 ST Atsushi Kawata 10 MF Masaki Watai 11 MF Yatsunori Shimaya 13 MF Kōki Kiyotake 14th ST Yūki Oshitani 15th MF Takeru Kishimoto 16 MF Daiki Enomoto 17th MF Genta Omotehara 18th ST Akihiro Sato 19th ST Yūki Kakita

No. position Surname 20th FROM Shota Fukuoka 21st TW Naoto Kamifukumoto 22nd MF Seiya Fujita 23 MF Tokuma Suzuki 24 MF Kazuki Nishiya 25th FROM Takashi Abe 26th FROM Takuya Akiyama 27 FROM Noriki Fuke 29 TW Koki Matsuzawa 30th ST Taichi Takeda 31 TW Tōru Hasegawa 32 FROM Yudai Okuda 34 MF Chie Edoojon Kawakami 37 MF Akira Hamashita 38 MF Ryota Kajikawa 41 MF Rin Morita 45 MF Kōki Sugimori

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	Add./sp.	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
2005	J2	12	9.	4,366	-	4th round
2006		13	13.	3,477	-	4th round
2007		13	13.	3,289	-	4th round
2008		15th	15th	3,862	-	3rd round
2009		18th	9.	4,073	-	2nd round
2010		19th	8th.	4,614	-	3rd round
2011		20th	4th	5,207	-	2nd round
2012		22nd	15th	3,991	-	3rd round
2013		22nd	3. ▲	4,348	-	2nd round
2014	J1	18th	18. ▼	8,884	Group stage	3rd round
2015	J2	22nd	14th	5,019	-	3rd round
2016	J2	22nd	9.	4,565	-	3rd round
2017	J2	22nd	7th	4,979	-	2nd round
2018	J2	22nd	11.	4,997	-	3rd round
2019	J2	22nd	4th	5,736	-	3rd round
2020	J2	22nd			-	-

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Hajime Ishii	Japan	February 1, 1993	January 31, 1996
Shinji Tanaka	Japan	January 1, 1999	September 28, 2006
Yutaka Azuma	Japan	September 28, 2006	January 31, 2007
Masataka Imai	Japan	January 1, 2007	January 31, 2008
Naohiko Minobe	Japan	February 1, 2008	January 31, 2012
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	February 1, 2012	January 31, 2016
Hiroaki Nagashima	Japan	November 25, 2015	January 31, 2017
Ricardo Rodríguez	Spain	1st February 2017

Web links

Commons : Tokushima Vortis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Tokushima Vortis in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Tokushima Vortis in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site