Kamatamare Sanuki

Kamatamare Sanuki
カマタマーレ讃岐

Full name	Kamatamare Sanuki
Founded	1956; 65 years ago (1956)
Ground	Pikara Stadium, Marugame, Kagawa
Capacity	30,099
Chairman	Nobuhiro Kawamura
Manager	Zdravko Zemunović
League	J3 League
2020	J3 League, 16th
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

Emblem was used until 2010

Kamatamare Sanuki (カマタマーレ讃岐、Kamatamare Sanuki) is a football club based in Takamatsu, the capital city of Kagawa Prefecture of Japan. They currently play in the J3 League. They entered the J League in 2014 after finishing as runner-up in the Japan Football League in 2013. The first part of their name was coined by combining the Japanese word Kamatama (a type of udon noodle bowl) and the Italian Mare ("Sea"). The second part is what Kagawa Prefecture used to be called. Their name as well as their crest, which also features a kamatama udon bowl, are so unique that the club instantly became one of the best-known non-J. League sides in Japan when announced in October 2005.^{[citation needed]}

History[]

The club was founded in 1956 as Takasho OB (Old Boys) Soccer Club (高商OBサッカークラブ) by the former students of Takamatsu Commercial High School's soccer club. Since renaming themselves Kagawa Shiun Football Club (香川紫雲フットボールクラブ) in 1991, they have been the leading football club in Kagawa, winning the Shikoku League Championship twice. The club's name changed again in 2000 to Sun Life (サンライフ) Football Club, when a consumer loan company Sun Life signed a sponsorship deal that continued until the end of the 2004 season. In October 2005, after briefly being called Takamatsu Football Club, the club officially announced their intention to rise to J. League status and changed their name to Kamatamare Sanuki. In 2010 they won the non-league treble by winning the Shikoku League, the Shakaijin Cup and the Regional League Promotion Series, and by virtue of the latter they were at last promoted to the Japan Football League.

Record[]

• Note: The 1994 season saw one game cancelled due to the disqualification of Alex SC who fielded ineligible players. The 2011 season saw one game cancelled as Sony Sendai could not play a full schedule due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami barring regular use of facilities.

Current squad[]

As of 16 July 2021.^[1] 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  JPN Takuya Takahashi 2 DF  JPN Takaharu Nishino 3 DF  JPN Naoya Matsumoto 4 DF  JPN Atsuki Satsukawa 5 DF  JPN Takumi Komatsu 6 MF  JPN Hayato Hasegawa 7 MF  JPN Masataka Nishimoto 8 MF  JPN Yuga Watanabe 9 FW  JPN Mark Ajay Kurita 10 MF  JPN Kazumasa Takagi 13 FW  JPN Kentaro Shigematsu 14 MF  JPN Wataru Sasaki 15 MF  JPN Kazuki Iwamoto 16 GK  JPN Kenta Watanabe 17 MF  JPN Takuma Goto 18 MF  JPN Ryo Nakamura

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 MF  JPN Ikki Kawasaki 20 MF  JPN Taiyo Shimokawa 21 DF  JPN Takaya Yoshinare (On loan from Cerezo Osaka) 22 DF  JPN Danto Sugiyama (On loan from JEF United Chiba) 23 DF  JPN Ko Ikeda (On loan from Yokohama F. Marinos) 24 GK  JPN Suguru Asanuma 25 MF  JPN Kenta Sawada 27 FW  JPN Tomoya Hayashi 28 FW  JPN Shunta Nakamura (On loan from Montedio Yamagata) 29 FW  PAR (On loan from Nagoya Grampus) 30 DF  JPN Akira Takeuchi (captain) 31 DF  JPN Tomoya Takeshita 32 GK  JPN 33 DF  JPN Genichi Endo 34 FW  JPN Eugene Fukui

Out on loan[]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player - FW  JPN Ryoto Kamiya (at FC Kariya until 31 January 2022)

Honours[]

• Shikoku Football League (5): 1994, 1997, 2006, 2008, 2010
• Shakaijin Cup: 2010
• Regional League Promotion Series: 2010

In pop culture[]

The Kamatamare players made cameo appearances in the 2006 film "UDON" directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro[1].

References[]

External links[]

• (Japanese) Official Site
• (Japanese) 2014 Squad