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Gainare Tottori
ガイナーレ鳥取
Gainare Tottori logo.svg
Full name SC Gainare Tottori Football
Nickname(s) Gainare
Founded 1983; 41 years ago (1983)
Stadium Axis Bird Stadium
Tottori, Tottori
Stadium
capacity
16,033
Chairman Masaki Tsukano
Manager Kim Jong-song
League J3 League
2022 J3 League, 12th of 18

SC Gainare Tottori (ガイナーレ鳥取, Gaināre Tottori) are a Japanese football club, based in Tottori, Tottori. They play in the J3 League. Their team colour is green.

Their team name Gainare derives from the Tottori dialect word gaina meaning "great" and Italian sperare meaning "to hope".

Their team mascot was a Japanese horror anime character Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro created by Shigeru Mizuki, a native of Sakaiminato, Tottori.

History

The club was founded in 1983 as Tottori Teachers' Soccer Club (鳥取教員団サッカー部 Tottori Kyōin Dan Sakkā Bu). They opened their gate to players with other professions in 1989, renaming themselves S.C. Tottori. They adopted their current name in 2007.

They were promoted to the Japan Football League after finishing runners-up in the 2001 Regional League play-off. Nonprofit organisation Yamatsumi Sports Club operate the club.

After defeating Arte Takasaki 1–0 on October 3, 2010 in their home stadium, at last they could secure JFL top four after failed attempts on two previous seasons. The confirmation from J. League about their promotion to J2 came on November 29. They won the JFL title on October 24, 2010 with five games remaining.

Stadiums

They play their home games mainly at Axis Bird Stadium in Tottori City. Tottori Soccer Stadium is the only stadium in San'in region that meets the J. League requirements.

In recent years, they also play some games at Fuse Athletic Park Stadium in Tottori City, Matsue Athletics Stadium in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture and Hamayama Athletic Park Stadium in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture.

League and cup records

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League Emperor's
Cup
Season Div. Tier Teams Pos. P W D L F A GD Pts Attendance/G
2007 JFL 3 18 14th 34 10 9 15 42 51 -9 39 1,755 2nd round
2008 18 5th 34 17 6 11 57 37 20 57 3,215 1st round
2009 18 5th 34 16 8 10 65 37 28 56 3,419 2nd round
2010 18 1st 34 24 5 5 64 31 33 77 3,489 2nd round
2011 J2 2 20 19th 38 8 7 23 36 60 -24 31 3,692 3rd round
2012 22 20th 42 11 5 26 33 78 -45 38 3,133 3rd round
2013 22 22nd 42 5 16 21 38 74 -36 31 4,097 2nd round
2014 J3 3 12 4th 33 14 11 8 34 25 9 53 3,069 2nd round
2015 13 6th 36 14 8 14 47 41 6 50 1,932 2nd round
2016 16 15th 30 8 6 16 30 47 -17 30 1,898 2nd round
2017 17 17th 32 4 9 19 31 63 -32 21 1,559 1st round
2018 17 3rd 32 15 8 9 61 47 14 53 2,657 2nd round
2019 18 7th 34 14 8 12 49 59 -10 50 2,228 2nd round
2020 18 5th 34 17 6 11 47 37 10 57 703 Did not qualify
2021 15 12th 28 9 2 17 36 53 -17 29 1,186 2nd round
2022 18 12th 34 12 5 17 55 56 -1 41 1,745 1st round
2023 20 TBD 38 TBD
Key
*Pos. = Position in league; P = 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 league home attendance
  • 2020 season attendance reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
  • Source: J.League Data Site

Honours

Current squad

As of 25 July 2022.

No. Position Player
1 Japan GK Kengo Fukudome
2 Japan DF Yusuke Ishida
3 Japan DF Kosuke Masutani
4 Japan DF Junya Suzuki
6 Japan MF Taiki Arai
7 Japan MF Ryosuke Tamura
8 Japan MF Kazuya Ando
9 Japan FW Yuya Taguchi
10 Japan MF Hiroto Sese
11 Japan FW Yu Okubo
13 Japan GK Ken Tajiri
14 Japan MF Naoya Uozato
15 Japan MF Kosuke Chiku
16 Japan DF Koki Ishii
17 Japan MF Naoya Senoo
No. Position Player
18 Japan FW Daichi Ishikawa
19 Japan MF Takeru Kiyonaga
20 Japan MF Hideatsu Ozawa
21 Japan MF Yushi Nagashima
23 Japan DF Hibiki Nagai
24 Japan DF Kei Sakamoto
25 North Korea MF Mun In-ju
26 Japan MF Sota Maruyama
27 Japan MF Meguru Odagaki
28 Japan DF Riku Kobayashi
29 Japan FW Ryusei Takao
30 Japan MF Takumi Baba
31 Japan GK Koshiro Itohara
39 Japan FW Ryuji Sawakami (on loan from Cerezo Osaka)

Out on loan

No. Position Player
22 Japan DF Shuri Koyama (on loan at MIO Biwako Shiga)

Coaching Staff

Position Name
Manager North Korea Kim Jong-song
Assistant manager Japan Kohei Masumoto
First Team coach Japan Shimizu Yasutaka
Goalkeeper coach Japan Koichi Toyoshima
Trainer Japan Kiyoshi Otani
Conditioning trainer Japan Hitoshi Kuboki
Competent Japan Atsumu Ugata
Side affairs Japan Hajime Iwasa

Managerial history

Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
Yoji Mizuguchi  Japan February 1, 2007 August 15, 2007
Witthaya Laohakul  Thailand August 23, 2007 February 1 ,2010
Takeo Matsuda  Japan February 1, 2010 January 31, 2012
Hideo Yoshizawa  Japan February 1, 2012 January 31, 2013
Norio Omura  Japan December 7, 2013 August 12, 2013
Koji Maeda  Japan August 12, 2013 January 31, 2014
Masanobu Matsunami  Japan February 1, 2014 January 31, 2016
Tetsuji Hashiratani  Japan February 1, 2016 January 31, 2017
Ryuzo Morioka  Japan February 1, 2017 June 4, 2018
Daisuke Sudo  Japan June 4, 2018 January 31, 2019
Riki Takagi  Japan February 1, 2019 May 4, 2021
Kim Jong-song  North Korea May 10, 2021 Current

Kit evolution

Home kit - 1st
2007 - 2008
2009 - 2010
2011 - 2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 -
Away kit - 2nd
2007 - 2008
2009 - 2010
2011 - 2012
2013
2014 - 2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022 -

See also

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