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Mitsubishi Mizushima FC

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Mizushima F.C.
三菱水島
Full nameMitsubishi Motors Mizushima Football Club
Nickname(s)Red Adamant
Founded1946; 78 years ago (1946)
GroundOkayama Kasaoka Athletic Stadium
Kasaoka, Okayama
Capacity5,000
OwnerMitsubishi Motors
ManagerToshiya Yamashita
LeagueChugoku Soccer League
20245th 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

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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 five 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 eighteen 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 Chūgoku 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 Chūgoku Soccer League.

In 2021, they won for the 7th time the Chūgoku 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

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As of 30 April 2024. [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 Takeru Hanafusa
2 DF Japan JPN Nagi Kishimoto
3 DF Japan JPN Takuma Yasuda
4 MF Japan JPN Moeto Omura
5 DF Japan JPN Yuki Nagaya
6 MF Japan JPN Koki Fukuda
7 MF Japan JPN Kazuma Saito
8 MF Japan JPN Yutaro Imai
9 MF Japan JPN Noriya Okamoto
10 FW Japan JPN Ryuji Miyazawa
11 FW Japan JPN Shota Takase
13 DF Japan JPN Soma Yamamoto
No. Pos. Nation Player
14 DF Japan JPN Tatsunori Maehara
16 FW Japan JPN Kaito Tanaka
17 FW Japan JPN Komei Ozaki
18 FW Japan JPN Kenshiro Tsunashima
19 FW Japan JPN Haruto Ikemoto
20 FW Japan JPN Asafu Yamamura
21 MF Japan JPN Tomoya Nakagawa
22 MF Japan JPN Shunto Uemura
26 GK Japan JPN Naoki Kitamura
30 GK Japan JPN Hironori Taki
33 MF Japan JPN Shinta Nagao

League record

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Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League Emperor's Cup
Season League Tier Position P W D L F A GD Pts
2005 Japan Football
League
3 16th 30 2 2 26 24 85 -61 8 3rd round
2006 17th 34 7 6 21 32 74 -42 27 3rd round
2007 15th 34 11 2 21 36 53 -17 35 2nd round
2008 18th 34 3 7 24 30 76 -46 16 Did not qualify
2009 18th 34 4 6 24 28 69 -41 18 1st round
2010 Okayama Prefectural League 5 1st 12 11 1 0 34 Did not qualify
2011 Chugoku Soccer
League
4 4th 18 12 1 5 47 33 14 37
2012 5th 18 7 5 6 45 43 2 26
2013 7th 18 4 5 9 26 37 -11 17
2014 5 3rd 18 10 3 5 41 23 18 33
2015 3rd 18 13 1 4 38 22 16 40
2016 3rd 18 10 2 6 49 25 24 32
2017 1st 18 15 1 2 47 18 29 46 1st round
2018 2nd 18 10 2 6 46 25 21 32 1st round
2019 2nd 18 15 2 1 60 13 47 47 Did not qualify
2020 Cancelled 3rd round
2021 1st 18 11 3 2 42 10 32 36 2nd round
2022 5th 18 7 7 4 41 16 25 28 Did not qualify
2023 5th 18 10 2 6 30 15 15 32
2024 5th 18 9 3 6 29 18 11 30 1st round
2025 TBA 18 TBA
Key
  • Tier'. = Level in Japanese soccer structure; P = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals for; A = Goals against; GD = Goals difference; Pts = Points won

Honours

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Mitsubishi Mizushima honours
Honour No. Years
Okayama Prefectural
Soccer Championship
17 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004,
2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021
Chugoku Soccer League 7 1992, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2017, 2021
Okayama Prefectural League 1 2010
Shakaijin Cup 1 2016

References

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  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. ^ "選手 スタッフ紹介". Retrieved 30 April 2024.
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