Matsumoto Yamaga FC

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History

The club was founded in 1965 by the players who represented Nagano Prefecture. The players frequented a cafe called Yamaga in front of Matsumoto railway station and initially they were simply called Yamaga Club. In 2004, they were renamed as Matsumoto Yamaga when nonprofit organisation Alwin Sports Project were set up to support the club with the intention of promotion to J. League. The very coffee shop where they founded the club no longer exists, but the club opened a new one in 2017.

In the 2007 and 2008 season they finished respectively 1st and 4th in the Hokushin'etsu First Division, but failed to gain the promotion to the Japan Football League as they exited at the group stage of the Regional League promotion series against other regional champions. 2008 also brought a crucial Emperor's Cup run, where they defeated former Japanese champions Shonan Bellmare in the third round by penalty kicks, only to be eliminated 8–0 by Vissel Kobe.

The 2009 season brought inconsistency, as they took 4th place in the regional league but knocked Urawa Red Diamonds out of the Emperor's Cup in the second round, their biggest giant-killing ever.

By virtue of winning the Shakaijin Cup, they earned a berth in the Regional League promotion series, and won the series at home to earn promotion to the Japan Football League for 2010. They earned 7th place on their first season in the third tier.

In 2011, despite a season thrown off by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the resulting inability of Sony Sendai to play a full schedule, Yamaga earned 4th place and were promoted to J. League Division 2. After three seasons they earned their first ever promotion to J1 League, only to be relegated after one season.

After failing to secure promotion in 2016 and 2017, Yamaga finished their 2018 season at the top of the J2 table, winning their first ever league title and securing automatic promotion to J1 in the process.

This began the downfall of Matsumoto Yamaga, due to the club's bad idea of high player turnover. Ahead of the 2020 J2 League, Yamaga turned over more than 20 players, in which began a slow start in 2020, as the club also went through many winless runs, including 5 losses in a row, which at the time was a record number of defeats for the club in J2. Eventually, in September 2020, manager Keiichiro Nuno was sacked, and the club finished 13th that season. Things were about to get worse as they continued high player turnover, with twenty-seven players leaving and twenty-four coming to the club before the 2021 J2 League. In June that year, Nuno's replacement, Kei Shibata, was fired from the club, and was replaced with Hiroshi Nanami, who couldn't help the club escape relegation after finishing dead last that season.[1]

In 2022, Matsumoto played its first season on the J3. Matsumoto failed to be promoted back to the J2 League, as it finished on fourth place in the final standings of the 2022 J3 League season. The club ended tied on points with Kagoshima United, with both having earned 66 points in 34 matches. However, the goal difference stood out in Kagoshima's favour. The club will play its third consecutive season at the J3 during 2024.

Rivalry

The biggest rival of Matsumoto Yamaga are the prefectural neighbours and former Hokushin'etsu League fellows Nagano Parceiro. Matches between those teams are labelled "Shinshū derby" and generate a lot of interest in both cities.[2] For 2011 season, Parceiro joined their rivals in JFL bringing the derby to the national level.

Stadium

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Matsumoto Stadium (Alwin)

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Mascot

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Theme song

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Affiliated clubs

On 23 November 2016, Matsumoto Yamaga and Geylang International signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in a press event which was held at the Marina Bay Floating Platform. This MOU will enable both clubs to establish a platform to exchange expertise and knowledge with the objective of promoting cohesion and development of football between the two clubs. The MOU spells out possible areas of collaboration such as the exchange of players and technical staff for training attachments and loans. Geylang will be looking to select promising players from its Active SG-GIFC Soccer Academy and junior teams to send on short training stints with Matsumoto Yamaga while the Japanese club is also looking into the possibility of sending players from their junior team to Singapore for pre-season training stints. Amongst the key initiatives of the partnership with Matsumoto Yamaga is the exchange programmes for head coach, Mohd Noor Ali, who had a one-year attachment with the club in 2018, where he guided the club U18 B team to the Japan FA's Under-18 Football League Nagano prefecture title while on 17 August 2018, Anders Aplin become the first Singaporean football player to sign for a J.League team signing on loan until the end of the 2018 J2 League season in November.

On 30 October 2022, both clubs reaffirmed their close and long-standing relationship as Geylang International officials went to Japan to explore future collaborations going into the seventh year of partnership since 2016. Geylang International has a memorandum of understanding with J.League outfits, Matsumoto Yamaga that was signed in 2016, while Epson's relationship with the club also dates back to the same year when it became the club's platinum sponsor. In the last seven years, Epson has enjoyed premium hospitality access to the club's home matches and has also supported the Singaporean football community and youths with the staging of the Epson Youth Cup.

League & cup record

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League J. League
Cup		 Emperor's
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1975 Hokushin'etsu 3 6th 8 3 1 4 14 13 1 7 Not eligible Did not qualify
1976 6th 9 2 4 3 17 14 3 8
1977 8th 9 2 3 4 17 22 −5 7
1978 10th 9 1 0 8 9 27 −18 2
1979 2nd 9 6 1 2 18 11 7 13
1980 4th 9 6 2 1 19 8 11 14
1981 3rd 9 5 1 3 15 9 6 11
1982 5th 9 4 1 4 11 10 1 9
1983 7th 9 2 3 4 12 14 −2 7
1984 7th 9 2 3 4 13 15 −2 7
1985 1st 9 7 1 1 23 7 16 15
1986 4th 9 4 2 3 21 13 8 10
1987 4th 9 4 2 3 12 11 1 10
1988 3rd 9 4 3 2 19 8 11 11
1989 2nd 9 6 1 2 17 10 7 13
1990 4th 9 3 4 2 16 14 2 10
1991 5th 9 4 1 4 17 12 5 9
1992 4 5th 9 4 3 2 15 12 3 11
1993 6th 9 3 3 3 15 17 −2 9
1994 3 5th 9 2 5 2 11 13 −2 9
1995 6th 9 2 2 5 8 14 −6 8
1996 5th 9 3 2 4 9 19 −10 11
1997 8th 9 2 1 6 11 23 −12 7 1st round
1998 3rd 8 4 - 4 17 24 −7 12 Did not qualify
1999 4 9th 9 2(1) - 7 4 29 −25 4
2000 8th 8 1 0 7 6 18 −12 3
2001 9th 8 0 2 6 4 24 −20 2
2002 8th 9 3 1 5 12 18 −6 9
2003 9th 12 1 4 7 13 42 −29 7
2004 Hokushin'etsu
(Div. 2)		 5 6th 14 4 2 8 16 27 −11 14
2005 1st 13 8 3 2 36 11 25 27
2006 Hokushin'etsu
(Div. 1)		 4 2nd 14 11 1 2 34 10 24 34 2nd round
2007 1st 14 10 1 3 47 15 32 31 Did not qualify
2008 4th 14 7 3 4 31 18 13 24 4th round
2009 4th 14 9 2 3 40 14 26 29 3rd round
2010 JFL 3 7th 34 15 7 12 48 41 7 52 2nd round
2011 4th 34 17 8 8 60 38 22 59 4th round
2012 J2 League 2 12th 42 15 14 13 46 43 3 59 2nd round
2013 7th 42 19 9 14 54 54 0 66 3rd Round
2014 2nd 42 24 11 7 65 35 30 83 3rd round
2015 J1 League 1 16th 34 7 7 20 30 54 −24 28 Group stage 4th round
2016 J2 League 2 3rd 42 24 12 6 62 32 30 84 Not eligible 2nd round
2017 8th 42 19 9 14 61 45 16 66 4th round
2018 1st 42 21 14 7 54 34 20 77 3rd round
2019 J1 League 1 17th 34 6 13 15 21 40 -19 31 Group stage 2nd round
2020 J2 League 2 13th 42 13 15 14 44 52 -8 54 Group stage Did not qualify
2021 22nd 42 7 13 22 36 71 -35 34 Not eligible 3rd round
2022 J3 League 3 4th 34 20 6 8 46 33 13 66 2nd round
2023 9th 38 15 9 14 51 47 4 54 Did not qualify
2024 4th 38 16 12 10 61 45 16 60 2nd round
2025 TBD 38 2nd round 2nd round
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Honours

Matsumoto Yamaga FC Honours
Honour No. Years
Hokushin'etsu Football League Div. 1 2 1985, 2007
Hokushin'etsu Football League Div. 2 1 2005
Shakaijin Cup 1 2009
Regional League promotion series 1 2009
J2 League 1 2018

Current squad

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No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Template:Fba/core Issei Ouchi
4 DF Template:Fba/core Shohei Takahashi
6 MF Template:Fba/core Kazuma Yamaguchi
7 DF Template:Fba/core Kazuaki Mawatari
10 MF Template:Fba/core Yusuke Kikui
11 FW Template:Fba/core Hayato Asakawa
13 MF Template:Fba/core Aozora Ishiyama (on loan from Albirex Niigata)
14 FW Template:Fba/core Tsubasa Ando
15 MF Template:Fba/core Kosuke Yamamoto
16 DF Template:Fba/core Taiki Miyabe
17 DF Template:Fba/core Ryuhei Yamamoto
18 MF Template:Fba/core Hisashi Ohashi
19 DF Template:Fba/core Hayato Sugita (on loan from Yokohama FC)
20 MF Template:Fba/core Rio Maeda
21 GK Template:Fba/core Haruki Nishimura (on loan from Albirex Niigata)
22 DF Template:Fba/core Kazuaki Saso
23 MF Template:Fba/core Yuta Taki
24 DF Template:Fba/core Daiki Ogawa
No. Pos. Nation Player
27 DF Template:Fba/core Jiyo Ninomiya
29 FW Template:Fba/core Lucas Vargas (on loan from Barra)
30 MF Template:Fba/core Ryuji Kokubu
31 FW Template:Fba/core Naito Watanabe
33 GK Template:Fba/core Kim Jun-hyeon
34 MF Template:Fba/core Taku Inafuku
35 GK Template:Fba/core Shoma Kanda
36 MF Template:Fba/core Gen Matsumura
37 MF Template:Fba/core Shotaro Hagiwara
38 GK Template:Fba/core Rikuto Ito Type 2
40 DF Template:Fba/core Daiki Higuchi
41 MF Template:Fba/core Kaiga Murakoshi
42 FW Template:Fba/core Sora Tanaka
44 DF Template:Fba/core Takato Nonomura
46 MF Template:Fba/core Reo Yasunaga
47 DF Template:Fba/core Tiago Santana (on loan from Concórdia)
49 DF Template:Fba/core Justin Homma (on loan from Vissel Kobe)

Club officials

Position Name
Manager Template:Flagicon Tomonobu Hayakawa
Development coach Template:Flagicon Nozomu Kato
Technical coach Template:Flagicon Kohei Takeishi
Goalkeeper coach Template:Flagicon Tetsuro Yoshimoto
Physical Coach Template:Flagicon Rui Kokubo
Interpreter Template:Flagicon Felipe
Doctor Template:Flagicon Takashige Momose
Chief trainer Template:Flagicon Koji Inoue
Trainer Template:Flagicon Chisato Chiba
Template:Flagicon Fumiya Sugiuchi
Competent Template:Flagicon Makoto Shiraki
Side affairs Template:Flagicon Kazumasa Hirabayashi
Template:Flagicon Kumpei Saito

Managerial history

Manager Nationality Tenure
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Katsua Kobayashi Script error: No such module "flag". 2004
Keiju Karashima Script error: No such module "flag". 1 February 2005 31 January 2008
Hideo Yoshizawa Script error: No such module "flag". 21 February 2008 8 June 2011
Yoshiyuki Katō Script error: No such module "flag". 9 June 2011 31 January 2012
Yasuharu Sorimachi Script error: No such module "flag". 1 February 2012 31 January 2020
Keiichirō Nuno Script error: No such module "flag". 1 February 2020 24 September 2020
Kei Shibata Script error: No such module "flag". 25 September 2020 20 June 2021
Hiroshi Nanami Script error: No such module "flag". 21 June 2021 31 January 2023
Masahiro Shimoda Script error: No such module "flag". 1 February 2023 31 January 2025
Tomonobu Hayakawa Script error: No such module "flag". 1 February 2025 Current

Kit evolution

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2025
60th Anniversary
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References

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External links

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