V-Varen Nagasaki

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V-Varen Nagasaki
V-VarenNagasaki.png
Full nameV-Varen Nagasaki
Nickname(s)VVN
Founded2004; 17 years ago (2004)
GroundTranscosmos Stadium Nagasaki,
Isahaya, Nagasaki
Capacity20,246
OwnerJapanet Holdings
ChairmanHaruna Takata
ManagerHiroshi Matsuda
LeagueJ2 League
2020J2 League 3rd of 22
WebsiteClub website
Away colours

V-Varen Nagasaki (V・ファーレン長崎, Vi Fāren Nagasaki) is a Japanese J2 League football club based in Nagasaki. The club was established in 1985 as Ariake SC till they merged with Kunimi FC in 2004 and adopted the present name in 2005.

The club gained promotion into the J. League Division 2 in 2012 for the first time in their history after finishing as the champions in the 2012 Japan Football League and hired Nagasaki native Takuya Takagi to coach the club for the 2013 season.[1]

On 11 November 2017, the club clinched promotion to the J1 League for the first time in their history after a 3-1 home win over Kamatamare Sanuki.[2]

History[]

V-Varen Nagasaki, since 2006, had been contending for the Kyūshū Soccer League championship and thus a place in the Japan Football League, but they only won it in November 2008, as second place in the Regional League promotion series.

In January 2009, they applied for J. League Associate Membership and their application was accepted at the J. League board meeting in February. In 2012, they won the Japan Football League title and thus promotion to the J. League Division 2.[1] Five years later they won promotion to the J1 League for the first time after finishing runners-up in the 2017 J2 League.

J. League: 2013–[]

In preparation for the club's first season in the J. League Division 2 the club hired local-born Takuya Takagi as their coach for the season.[1] On 3 March 2013 V-Varen Nagasaki played in their first ever J. League Division 2 match against Fagiano Okayama at the Kanko Stadium in Okayama in which the club drew the match 1–1 with Kōichi Satō scoring the first J. League Division 2 goal for V-Varen Nagasaki in the 25th minute. The club then played their first home match in the J. League Division 2 on 10 March 2013 at the Nagasaki Athletic Stadium against former J. League champions Gamba Osaka in which V-Varen Nagasaki lost 3–1 in front of a huge crowd of 18,153.

Financial troubles[]

After facing dire financial difficulties, on 8 March 2017 the club was purchased by Japanet Holdings, the parent company of Japanese television shopping giant Japanet Takata Co.,Ltd., becoming a fully owned subsidiary. Japanet have invested significant sums into the club, securing promotion to the top tier of Japanese football and publishing plans to build a new football-specific stadium on the former site of Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipbuilding operations, opening in 2023.[3]

Club Name[]

The "V" in the club's name comes from the Portuguese word vitória (meaning 'victory') as well as the Dutch word vrede (meaning 'peace'), while varen is the Dutch verb meaning 'to sail', relating to Nagasaki's heritage as port of call of Portuguese and Dutch traders during the sakoku period in the Tokugawa shogunate (see Dejima).[4]

League and cup record[]

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League League Cup Emperor's Cup
Season Div Teams Pos. GP W D L F A GD Pts Attendance/G
2009 JFL 18 11th 34 12 8 14 38 43 -5 44 2,763 2nd round
2010 18 5th 34 15 8 11 50 38 12 53 2,525 2nd round
2011 18 5th 33 15 11 7 61 44 17 56 1,513 2nd round
2012 17 1st 34 20 7 5 57 24 33 67 3,656 2nd round
2013 J2 22 6th 42 19 9 14 48 40 8 66 6,167 2nd round
2014 22 14th 42 12 16 14 45 42 3 52 4,839 Round of 16
2015 22 6th 42 15 15 12 42 33 9 60 4,931 2nd round
2016 22 15th 42 10 17 15 39 51 -12 47 5,225 2nd round
2017 22 2nd 42 24 8 10 59 41 18 80 5,941 2nd round
2018 J1 18 18th 34 8 6 20 39 59 -20 30 11,225 Group stage 3rd round
2019 J2 22 12th 42 17 5 20 57 61 -4 56 7,737 Semi final
2020 † 22 3rd 42 23 11 8 66 39 27 80 3,714 Did not qualify
2021 22 42
Key

  • Pos. = Position in league; GP = Games Played; W = Games won; D = Games Drawn; L = Games Lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals Difference; Pts = Points gained
  • Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
  • † 2020 season attendance reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
  • Source: J.League Data Site

Honours[]

Further information: List of V-Varen Nagasaki seasons
  • J2 League:
Runner-up (1): 2017
  • Japan Football League:
Winners (1): 2012
Runners-up (1): 2008
  • Kyūshū Soccer League:
Runners-up (1): 2008


Current squad[]

As of 19 Jun 2021.[5]

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 Masaya Tomizawa
3 DF Japan JPN Masashi Kamekawa
4 DF Brazil BRA Freire
5 DF Japan JPN Takuma Shikayama
6 MF Brazil BRA Caio César
7 FW Brazil BRA Edigar Junio
8 MF Japan JPN Ryota Isomura
9 FW Japan JPN Cayman Togashi
10 MF Brazil BRA Luan
11 FW Japan JPN Keiji Tamada
13 MF Japan JPN Masaru Kato
14 MF Japan JPN Takumi Nagura
15 DF Japan JPN Hijiri Kato
16 FW Japan JPN Seiya Maikuma
17 MF Japan JPN Hiroki Akino
18 FW Japan JPN Ryohei Yamazaki
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 MF Japan JPN Takashi Sawada
20 MF Japan JPN Yohei Otake
21 GK Japan JPN Toru Takagiwa (On loan from Shimizu S-Pulse)
22 DF Japan JPN Yuya Kuwasaki
23 DF Japan JPN Shunya Yoneda
24 DF Japan JPN Yusei Egawa
25 DF Japan JPN Ryo Shinzato
26 DF Japan JPN Hiroshi Futami
27 FW Japan JPN Ken Tokura
28 MF Brazil BRA Wellington Rato (On loan from Atlético Goianiense)
30 GK Japan JPN Kenta Tokushige
31 GK Japan JPN Gaku Harada (On loan from Yokohama F. Marinos)
32 FW Colombia COL Víctor Ibarbo
33 FW Japan JPN Asahi Uenaka
34 MF Japan JPN Seiya Satsukida
35 MF Japan JPN Taisei Abe

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 Japan JPN Junki Hata (at Tochigi SC)

Managers[]

Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
JapanJapan 2005 2007
Yoshinori Higashikawa JapanJapan 2008 2009
Toru Sano JapanJapan 2010 2012
Takuya Takagi JapanJapan 2013 2018
Makoto Teguramori JapanJapan 2019 2020
Takayuki Yoshida JapanJapan 2021 2021
Hiroshi Matsuda JapanJapan 2021

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c "Takagi named V-Varen Nagasaki coach". Japan Times. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. ^ "V-Varen Nagasaki promoted to J1 for first time". The Japan Times Online. 11 November 2017. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  3. ^ "New V-Varen Nagasaki Stadium to Open in 2023" (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  4. ^ "V・ファーレン マークについて". V-Varen Nagasaki (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  5. ^ "Team Part 1".

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