Branches of Kanazawa

Branches of Kanazawa
Basic data
Seat	Kanazawa
founding	1956
Colours	red-black-yellow
president	Hiroshi Yonezawa
Website	twigs-kanazawa.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Masaaki Yanagishita
Venue	Ishikawa Kanazawa Stadium
Places	20,261
league	J2 League
2019	11th place
home Away

Branches Kanazawa ( Japanese ツ エ ー ゲ ン 金 沢 Tsuēgen Kanazawa ) is a Japanese football club from Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture . He has played in the J2 League since 2015 .

history

The club was founded as Kanazawa Soccer Club ( 金 沢 サ ッ カ ー ク ラ ブ , Kanazawa Sakkā Kurabu ) in 1956. In 2004 the name was changed to branches Kanazawa. The Hokushinetsu region, traditionally one of the weaker football regions in Japan, offered little opportunities for branches to advance to the higher football leagues in the country until the late 2000s. On December 19, 2009, however, succeeded after a third place in the national regional league finals and subsequent promotion playoff games against FC Kariya , in which they prevailed 2-1 after a total of 2: 1, promotion to Japan Football League .

At the end of the following season, a new operating company called KK Branches was founded for the club, which was given the first task of applying for membership in the J. League. This happened on January 7th, 2011. After a few improvements, Zweigen Kanazawa was admitted to the J. League as an extraordinary member in November 2012 . The actual ascent to paid football finally followed at the beginning of the 2014 season, when Branches was accepted as one of twelve clubs in the newly created J3 League . At the end of this season, the team was champions of this division and rose to the J2 League .

Club name

The name "Zweigen" is a portmanteau of the German words two and go (here shortened to gen ). It is also a play on words with the phrase tsuyoin da! (such as “be strong!”) which say in the local Kanazawa dialect ! is pronounced. The proximity to the word branch (e) also plays a role in the shape of the club's coat of arms, which is modeled on a fleur de lis .

successes

• J3 League

Champion: 2014

Stadion

The club carries out its home games at Ishikawa Athletics Stadium (石川 県 西部 緑地 公園 陸上 競技場, Ishikawa-ken Seibu Ryokuchi-kōen Rikujōkyōgijō), also known as Ishikawa Kanazawa Stadium , in Kanazawa in Ishikawa Prefecture . The stadium, owned by Ishikawa Prefecture, has a capacity of 20,000 spectators.

Coordinates: 36 ° 34 ′ 33 ″  N , 136 ° 36 ′ 19 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 2 FROM Masayuki Yamada 3 FROM Yuji Sakuda 4th FROM Ryōga Ishio 6th MF Hisashi Ōhashi 7th ST Towa Yamane 8th MF Keita Fujimura 9 ST Lucão 11 MF Kyohei Sugiura 13 ST Ryūhei Ōishi 14th ST Masahiro Kaneko 16 MF Toshiya Motozuka 17th ST Mutsuki Kato 18th MF Ryo Kubota

No. position Surname 19th MF Raisei Shimazu 20th MF Megumu Nishida 21st TW Ryo Ishii 23 TW Yūto Shirai 24 FROM Takumi Hasegawa 25th FROM Takayuki Takayasu 26th MF Yosuke Toji 27 FROM Tomonobu Hiroi (team captain) 29 FROM Rodolfo 31 TW Itsuki Ueda 34 FROM Hayate Sugii 39 FROM Yōta Shimokawa

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Nobuhiro Ueno	Japan	February 1, 2009	January 31, 2012
Hitoshi Morishita	Japan	January 1, 2012	December 31, 2016
Masaaki Yanagishita	Japan	1st February 2017

Season placement

season	League	space	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	web
2007				3rd round
2008				3rd round
2009				2nd round
2010				1 round
2011				2nd round
2012				1 round
2013				3rd round
2014	J3	1. ▲		2nd round
2015	J2	12.		2nd round
2016	J2	21st		2nd round
2017	J2	17th		3rd round
2018	J2	13.		3rd round
2019	J2	11.		3rd round
2020	J2

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Branches Kanazawa in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Branches Kanazawa in soccerway.com's database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ishikawafc.sv.bigsite.jp ( Memento from December 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ ク ラ ブ 紹 介 . In: Branches of Kanazawa. Retrieved July 19, 2015 (Japanese). 
4. ↑ J. League Data Site
5. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2014.html#jl3
6. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2015.html#jl2
7. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2016.html#jl2
8. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2017.html#jl2
9. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2018.html#jl2
10. ↑ http://www.rsssf.com/tablesj/jpn2019.html#jl2