Mizushima F.C.
三菱水島
Full nameMitsubishi Motors Mizushima Football Club
Nickname(s)Red Adamant
Founded1946 (1946)
GroundOkayama Kasaoka Athletic Stadium
Kasaoka, Okayama
Capacity5,000
OwnerMitsubishi Motors
ManagerShinya Suga
LeagueChugoku Soccer League
20225th of 10

Mitsubishi Mizushima F.C. (三菱水島FC, Mitsubishi Mizushima Efu Shī) are a Japanese football club based in Kurashiki, Okayama. They play in the Chūgoku Soccer League.

History

The club was founded in 1946 to provide recreational activities in the war-torn Mizushima area of Kurashiki city. They joined the Okayama Prefecture League in 1965 and were promoted to the Chūgoku Regional League in 1979 for the first time.[1]

They were relegated to the Prefecture League in 1982 and stayed there for 8 years. After re-entering the Chūgoku League, they won 5 championships before being promoted to the JFL in 2005.

In recent years they have adopted the moniker "Red Adamant" (after their parent company Mitsubishi Motors and its former flagship football club, now known as Urawa Red Diamonds), with an aim to eventually join J. League and be a star club in their own right. A potential obstacle to this will be the newly promoted Fagiano Okayama, with whom they have had to share Momotaro Athletic Stadium in Okayama City for recent JFL fixtures.

In 2008 they finished dead last of 18, but were spared the drop due to the promotion of Okayama, Kataller Toyama and Tochigi SC.

In November 2009, the club announced they would withdraw from the JFL after the end of the 2009 season because of the lack of the financial resources to operate in the league. After their membership application was refused by the Chugoku Regional League, they decided to compete in the Okayama Prefectural League Division 1 in 2010.

In November 2016 they rebounded by winning the Shakaijin Cup, and one year later the 2017 Chugoku Soccer League.

In 2021, they won for the 7th time the Chugoku Soccer League, but as was the situation in 2017, they weren't able to win the promotion spot for JFL, as in both times they failed to pass through the group stage of the Japanese Regional Champions League.

Current squad

As of 23 August 2023. [2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Japan JPN Naoki Kitamura
2 DF Japan JPN Tatsunori Maehara
3 DF Japan JPN Takuma Yasuda
4 DF Japan JPN Kentaro Uchida
5 DF Japan JPN Yuki Nagaya
6 FW Japan JPN Asafu Yamamura
7 MF Japan JPN Kazuma Saito
8 MF Japan JPN Tomoya Nakagawa
9 MF Japan JPN Koki Fukuda
10 MF Japan JPN Ryuji Miyazawa
11 FW Japan JPN Shota Takase
13 MF Japan JPN Ryotaro Mizuno
14 DF Japan JPN Akira Yamabe
No. Pos. Nation Player
15 MF Japan JPN Noriya Okamoto
16 DF Japan JPN Nagi Kishimoto
17 MF Japan JPN Kyoyi Yorimoto
18 FW Japan JPN Kenshiro Tsunashima
19 MF Japan JPN Komei Ozaki
20 DF Japan JPN Ryusei Nomura
21 GK Japan JPN Takeru Hanafusa
22 MF Japan JPN Sanaya Iwasaki
23 MF Japan JPN Koya Nakajima
24 MF Japan JPN Hiroaki Samabe
25 MF Japan JPN Yutaro Imai
30 GK Japan JPN Hironori Taki
31 GK Japan JPN Sota Hida

League record

SeasonLeagueGPPtsWDLPosition
2005 Japan Football
League
308222616th
2006 3427762117th
2007 34351122115th
2008 3416372418th
2009 3418462418th
2010 Okayama Prefectural League 123411101st
2011 Chugoku Soccer
League
183712154th
2012 18267565th
2013 18174597th
2014 183310353rd
2015 184013143rd
2016 183210263rd
2017 184615121st
2018 183210262nd
2019 184715212nd
2020 00000Canceled
2021 183511321st
2022 18287745th
2023 TBD

Honours

  • Chugoku Soccer League
    • Champions (7): 1992, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2017, 2021
  • Shakaijin Cup
    • Champions (1): 2016
  • Okayama Prefectural Soccer Championship
    • Champions (16): 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021

References

  1. "三菱自動車水島Fc-チーム紹介". Archived from the original on 2023-12-01. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
  2. "三菱自動車水島 FC-選手・スタッフ紹介". Archived from the original on 2023-09-26. Retrieved 2023-12-23.
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