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Ōita Trinita
大分トリニータ

Full name	Oita Trinita
Nickname(s)	Trinita (トリニータ, Torinīta) Azzurro (Azūro) Camenaccio (カメナチオ, Kamenachio)
Founded	1994; 30 years ago (1994) as Ōita Trinity
Stadium	Resonac Dome Oita Ōita
Stadium capacity	40,000
Chairman	Masakaze Ozawa
Manager	Tomohiro Katanosaka
League	J2 League
2022	J2 League, 5th of 22
Home colours Away colours

Ōita Trinita (大分トリニータ, Ōita Torinīta) is a Japanese football club located in Ōita, Capital of Ōita Prefecture. They currently play in J2 League, Japanese second tier of professional football.

Name origin

The club's name, Trinita, is the Italian translation of the word trinity (trinità), which was the club's original name before being changed in 1999, and Ōita, the club's home town. The combined word expresses the will of the local citizens, companies, and government to support the team. Another connection to the Italian culture can be found in the city nickname Azzurro ("light blue" in Italian).

History

The club was formed as Ōita Trinity in 1994 and advanced through the Ōita Prefectural League and the Kyushu League before finishing as the runner-up of the 1996 National League, resulting in promotion to the JFL. In 1999, the club changed its name to Trinita due to copyright infringement concerns. The same year, the club joined J.League Division 2, the second-highest flight in Japanese football (renamed to its current name of J2 League in 2015) and placed third. The club also placed third in 2000, and despite being in contention for promotion until the final game of the season in 2001, finished sixth. The following year, the club won J.League Division 2 and finally earned promotion to the top-flight Division 1. In 2008, the club won the J.League Cup, the first major title won by a Kyūshū club since Yawata Steel SC shared the 1964 Emperor's Cup.

In the 2009 season, Ōita suffered their worst-ever results in their seven-year history in the topflight, including 14 straight losses in league matches, which is the current worst record in the J.League since the golden goal system was eliminated. Ōita even fired cup-winning manager Pericles Chamusca in mid-July. On October 25, the club's relegation was confirmed after being held to a 1–1 draw by ten-man Kyoto Sanga, although the club would have faced relegation anyway as they had outstanding loans from the JFL's emergency fund and league rules prohibit clubs with such loans from participating in the top tier.

During the 2012 J.League Division 2 season, Ōita finished in sixth place, qualifying for the promotion playoffs in the first year of its introduction in Japan's second flight as the club had also paid back all its emergency loans that October. Despite being the lowest seed, Ōita defeated Kyoto Sanga 4–0 in the semi-final and JEF United Chiba 1–0 in the final, earning promotion to 2013 J.League Division 1, returning to the top tier after a 5-year absence This time, however, their top tier stay lasted only one season. In 2015 they were further relegated to J3 League after losing in the promotion playoffs to Machida Zelvia on December 6, becoming the first major trophy winner to be relegated to the third tier. The club immediately gained promotion back to J2 League by winning the J3 League title in 2016. In 2018, after finishing as runner's up in the J2 League in 2018, Oita Trinita gained promotion back to J1. After finishing 18th in 2021, Trinita would be relegated back to J2 League, but in the background of that, the club made a Cinderella run to the Emperor's Cup Final. Just 1 week after the confirmation to be relegated, they defeated defending Emperor's Cup champion Kawasaki Frontale in stunning fashion in the semis; after the game was tied 1 all, Trinita won 4–5 on penalty kicks. They ended up losing to Urawa Red Diamonds in the final, giving the Reds their eighth Emperor's Cup title.

The club will play its second consecutive season at the J2 League in the 2023 season.

Stadium

Ōita Stadium

The club's home town is the city of Ōita, but the club draws support from the entire Ōita Prefecture. The stadium originally had a capacity of 43,000. After the 2002 FIFA World Cup, 3,000 movable seats on the track were removed, giving the stadium its current capacity of 40,000.

The club's home ground is Resonac Dome Oita, also known as the "Big Eye", which was one of the venues built for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The club practices at its adjacent football and rugby field, and Ōita City Public Ground.

Kit evolution

Home kit - 1st
1999	2000 - 2001	2002 - 2003	2004	2005 - 2006
2007	2008	2009	2010 - 2011	2012 - 2013
2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
2024 -

Away kit - 2nd
1999 - 2001	2002 - 2003	2004	2005	2006
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
2012 - 2013	2014	2015	2016	2017 - 2018
2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
2024 -

Special kits - 3rd
2020 Limited	2021 Limited	2022 Limited	2023 Limited

Players

Current squad

No. Position Player 2 DF Yuki Kagawa 3 DF Derlan 4 DF Atsuki Satsukawa 5 MF Hiroto Nakagawa 6 MF Masaki Yumiba 7 MF Tsukasa Umesaki 8 MF Yamato Machida 9 FW Samuel 10 MF Naoki Nomura 11 FW Arata Watanabe (captain) 13 FW Kohei Isa 14 MF Ren Ikeda 15 FW Yusei Yashiki 16 MF Taira Shige 17 DF Kento Haneda 18 MF Junya Nodake 19 MF Arata Kozakai 20 FW Taiga Kimoto 21 FW Shun Ayukawa (on loan from Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 22 GK Mun Kyung-gun 23 DF Shunsuke Ono 24 GK Konosuke Nishikawa

No. Position Player 25 DF Tomoya Ando 26 MF Kenshin Yasuda 27 DF Yusuke Matsuo 29 FW Shinya Utsumoto 30 DF Yusho Takahashi 31 DF Pereira 32 GK Taro Hamada 33 DF Ayuki Miyakawa DSP 34 DF Yudai Fujiwara (on loan from Urawa Red Diamonds) 35 MF Josei Sato 36 MF Hayato Matsuoka 37 MF Manato Kimoto DSP 39 FW Shuto Udo DSP 41 FW Kim Hyun-woo 42 MF Seiryu Ono Type 2 43 DF Soha Yano Type 2 44 DF Manato Yoshida (on loan from Yokohama F. Marinos) 48 GK Hiroto Kono Type 2 93 FW Shun Nagasawa 99 FW Daigo Takahashi (on loan from Machida Zelvia)

Club captains

• Cui Daewoo (1999)
• Tomohiro Katanosaka (2000)
• Tetsuro Uki (2002–2003)
• Sandro (2004)
• Takayuki Yoshida (2005)
• Takashi Miki (2006–2007)
• Daiki Takamatsu (2008–2010)
• Masashi Miyazawa (2011–2013)
• Kazumichi Takagi (2014)
• Daniel (2015)
• Satoru Yamagishi (2016–2017)
• Akira Takeuchi (January – August 2018)
• Kenji Baba (August – December 2018)
• Yoshinori Suzuki (2019–2020)
• Shun Takagi (2021)
• Hokuto Shimoda (2022)
• Tsukasa Umesaki (2023)
• Arata Watanabe (2024–present)

Club official

Position	Staff
Manager	Tomohiro Katanosaka
Head coach	Minoru Takenaka
First-team coach	Kazuki Fukui Satoshi Yasui
Goalkeeper coach	Keisuke Yoshisaka
Physical coach	Ryo Yano
Trainer	Kiyohisa Shibata Toru Mizoguchi Ryosuke Shibata Shota Harada
Competent	Hikaru Kikuzumi
Side affairs	Keishiro Seto Akito Shimoyama
Interpreter	Alejandro Masafumi Matsumura

Managerial history

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
		Start	Finish
Moon Jung-sik	South Korea	1 February 1994	31 January 1997
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	1 February 1999	30 April 2001
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	1 May 2001	31 January 2004
Han Berger	Netherlands	1 February 2004	31 January 2005
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	1 February 2005	28 August 2005
Arie Schans	Netherlands	1 September 2005	8 September 2005
Pericles Chamusca	Brazil	9 September 2005	13 July 2009
Ranko Popović	Serbia	1 August 2009	31 December 2009
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	1 February 2010	31 January 2011
Kazuaki Tasaka	Japan	1 February 2011	2 June 2015
Nobuaki Yanagida	Japan	1 June 2015	3 January 2016
Tomohiro Katanosaka	Japan	1 February 2016	31 January 2022
Takahiro Shimotaira	Japan	1 February 2022	10 November 2023
Tomohiro Katanosaka (2)	Japan	30 November 2023

Record as J.League member

Key

Honours

See also

In Spanish: Oita Trinita para niños