Ventforet Kofu

Ventforet Kofu
Basic data
Surname	Ventforet Kofu ( Japaneseヴ ァ ン フ ォ ー レ 甲 府)
Seat	Kofu
founding	1965
Colours	blue-red-white
president	Kazuyuki Umino
Website	ventforet.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Akira Ito
Venue	Yamanashi Chuo Bank Stadium , Kofu
Places	17,000
league	J2 League
2019	5th place (J2)
home Away

Ventforet Kofu ( Japanese ヴ ァ ン フ ォ ー レ 甲 府 ; Vanfōre Kōfu ) is a Japanese professional football club that plays in the J1 League .

The name is a construct from the French words "vent" (wind) and "forêt" (forest) and is derived from the quote Fūrinkazan (風 林 火山) from Sun Tzu's The Art of War . It means "Be swift as the wind, compact as the grove, attack wild as a fire, and defend steadfast as a mountain." This graced the war flags of the resident daimyo Takeda Shingen during the Sengoku period .

history

Foundation and establishment (1965–2001)

The club from Kofu , the capital of Yamanashi Prefecture near Tokyo , was founded in 1965 under the name Kofu Soccer Club on the initiative of former members of a high school soccer team who moved to what was then Japan with the help of players from other high schools Soccer League wanted to advance. The team reached the JSL in 1972 and remained in it until it was dissolved 20 years later. As a sports club in the classic sense, the club had a special position in the newly formed Japan Football League . Most of the other teams were works teams from large companies, some of whom invested heavily in their teams.

The club followed the example of most of its competitors and in 1995 gave itself a new, European-sounding name. Ventforet moved in 1999 as a founding member in the new J. League Division 2 , without having previously caused a stir in the JFL. In the second division, the team did poorly at first: three years in a row they finished last and was already referred to as "ballast of the J2" before things started to improve in 2002.

Between the Leagues (2002 to date)

The financial bottlenecks were overcome by restructuring the club and with a lot of support from the fans. Finally, Ventforet reached third place in the 2005 season , which entitles them to participate in the relegation games against the 16th of the first division, Kashiwa Reysol . After a happy 2-1 win in the first leg, Ventforet traveled to Kashiwa as an outsider for the decisive second leg - and won sensationally 6-2, thanks to two hat-tricks by the Brazilian Baré . Thus, in 2006, Kofu played for the first time in the upper house of Japanese football, albeit as a team with the smallest budget, the smallest stadium and the smallest fan base in the league.

After two years of Lords, he was relegated to Division 2 . In the 2010 season Ventforet Kofu was able to realize the renewed promotion to the J. League Division 1 with second place , which had to be left after only one year.

successes

• J2 League

Master: 2012

Runner-up: 2010

• All Japan Senior Football Championship

Winner: 1969

• Kantō Soccer League

Winner: 1969, 1970

Stadion

The club carries out its home games in the Yamanashi Chūō Bank Stadium ( Japanese 山 梨 県 小 瀬 ス ポ ー ツ 公園 陸上 競技場 , "Athletics Stadium in the Kose Sports Park of Yamanashi Prefecture") in Kofu in Yamanashi Prefecture . The stadium, owned by Yamanashi Prefecture, has a seating capacity of 17,000.

Yamanashi Chūō Bank Stadium

Coordinates: 35 ° 37 '20.6 "  N , 138 ° 35' 23.1"  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Kohei Kawata 2 FROM Masato Yuzawa 3 FROM Tatsushi Koyanagi 4th FROM Hideomi Yamamoto ( team captain ) 5 FROM Yūta Imazu 6th MF Hideyuki Nozawa 7th MF Riku Nakayama 8th MF Ryohei Arai 9 ST Rafael 10 ST Dudu 11 MF Jin Izumisawa 14th MF Shōhei Takeda 15th MF Ryotaro Nakamura 16 ST Riki Matsuda

No. position Surname 17th ST Hidetaka Kanazono 18th ST Shūsuke Ōta 19th ST Jumma Miyazaki 20th FROM Daiki Nakashio 21st MF Shō Araki 24 MF Riku Yamada 27 MF Iwana Kobayashi 28 FROM Yūki Hashizume 29 ST Junior Barros 31 TW Kosuke Okanishi 32 FROM Keita Irumagawa 33 TW Yuto Koizumi 35 MF Motoki Hasegawa 39 FROM Kenta Uchida 44 ST Mike Havenaar

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Susumu Katsumata	Japan	January 1, 1994	December 31, 1994
Susumu Katsumata	Japan	January 1, 1999	December 31, 1999
Yuji Tsukada	Japan	February 1, 2000	January 31, 2001
Luis dos Reis	Brazil	January 1, 2001	December 31, 2001
Takeshi Oki	Japan	February 1, 2002	January 31, 2003
Hideki Matsunaga	Japan	February 1, 2003	January 31, 2005
Takeshi Oki	Japan	February 1, 2005	January 31, 2008
Takayoshi Amma	Japan	February 1, 2008	January 31, 2010
Kazuo Uchida	Japan	February 1, 2010	January 31, 2011
Toshiya Miura	Japan	February 1, 2011	August 7, 2011
Satoru Sakuma	Japan	August 8, 2011	December 31, 2011
Hiroshi Jofuku	Japan	February 1, 2012	January 31, 2015
Yasuhiro Higuchi	Japan	February 1, 2015	May 13, 2015
Satoru Sakuma	Japan	May 13, 2015	December 31, 2016
Tatsuma Yoshida	Japan	1st February 2017	April 30, 2018
Nobuhiro Ueno	Japan	1st May 2018	January 31, 2019
Akira Ito	Japan	1st February 2019

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
1992	old JFL2	10	5	-	-
1993		10	9.	-	-
1994	old JFL1	16	14th	-	-
1995		16	9.	-	-
1996		16	11.	-	-
1997		16	6th	-	-
1998		16	4th	-	-
1999	J2	10	10.	-	-
2000		11	11.	-	-
2001		12	12.	-	-
2002		12	7th	-	-
2003		12	5.	-	-
2004		12	7th	-	-
2005		12	3. ▲	-	-
2006	J1	18th	15th	Group stage	-
2007		18th	17. ▼	Quarter finals	Round of 16
2008	J2	15th	7th	-	Fourth round
2009		18th	4th	-	Round of 16
2010		19th	2. ▲	-	Round of 16
2011	J1	18th	16. ▼	1 round	3rd round
2012	J2	22nd	1. ▲	-	2nd round
2013	J1	18th	15th	Group stage	Quarter finals
2014		18th	13.	Group stage	Round of 16
2015		18th	13.	Group stage	Round of 16
2016		18th	14th	Group stage	2nd round
2017		18th	16. ▼	Group stage	2nd round
2018	J2	22nd	9.	-	Quarter finals
2019		22nd	5.	-	Quarter finals
2020		22nd

Awards

Eleven of the year

• Mike Havenaar (2011)

Web links

• official website
• Ventforet Kofu in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Ventforet Kofu in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site