V-Varen Nagasaki facts for kids
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| Full name | V-Varen Nagasaki | ||
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| Nickname(s) | VVN | ||
| Founded | 2004 | ||
| Stadium | Peace Stadium Connected by Softbank, Nagasaki, Nagasaki |
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20,000 | ||
| Owner | Japanet Holdings | ||
| Chairman | Hideki Iwashita | ||
| Manager | Takahiro Shimotaira | ||
| League | J2 League | ||
| 2022 | J2 League, 11st of 22 | ||
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V-Varen Nagasaki (V・ファーレン長崎, Vi Fāren Nagasaki) is a Japanese football club based in Nagasaki, Capital of Nagasaki Prefecture. They currently play in J2 League, the Japanese second tier professional in football league.
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History
The club was established in 1985 as Ariake SC until the club decided to merge with Kunimi FC in 2004. The merger led the club to adopt the new name V-Varen Nagasaki in 2005, which has been used ever since.
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. Five years later they won promotion to the J1 League for the first time after finishing runners-up in the 2017 season.
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. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Stadium
V-Varen Nagasaki will have Transcosmos Stadium Nagasaki as its home stadium until 2024.
Their new stadium, Peace Stadium Connected by Softbank, has been in construction in downtown Nagasaki since 2022, and its scheduled to be completed around August 2024. The club plans to the new stadium on 10 October 2024. Softbank signed a sponsor partnership with V-Varen for 4 years.
On 6 October 2024, V-Varen Nagasaki first match in new stadium against Oita Trinita and win 4-1.
League and cup record
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| League | J League Cup |
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| Season | Div | Teams | Pos. | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Attendance/G | ||
| 2009 | JFL | 18 | 11th | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 38 | 43 | -5 | 44 | 2,763 | Not eligible | 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 | Not eligible | Semi-final |
| 2020 † | 22 | 3rd | 42 | 23 | 11 | 8 | 66 | 39 | 27 | 80 | 3,714 | Did not qualify | ||
| 2021 † | 22 | 4th | 42 | 23 | 9 | 10 | 69 | 44 | 25 | 78 | 4,956 | 4th round | ||
| 2022 | 22 | 11th | 42 | 15 | 11 | 16 | 50 | 54 | -4 | 56 | 5,061 | Round of 16 | ||
| 2023 | 22 | 7th | 42 | 18 | 11 | 13 | 70 | 56 | 14 | 65 | 7,300 | 2nd round | ||
| 2024 | 20 | 3rd | 38 | 21 | 12 | 5 | 74 | 39 | 36 | 75 | 9,814 | Playoff round | Round of 16 | |
| 2025 | 20 | TBA | 38 | TBD | TBD | |||||||||
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- 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 home league attendance
- † 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
- Source: J.League Data Site
Honours
| Honour | No. | Years |
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| Japan Football League | 1 | 2012 |
Current squad
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Coaching staff
| Position | Staff |
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| Manager |  Takahiro Shimotaira |
| Assistant manager | Keiji Kuraishi |
| First-team coach | Naoyuki Saito Yusuke Murakami |
| Goalkeeper coach | Takanori Miyoshi |
| Analyst | Yukimura Yoshizawa |
| Physical coach | Keita Kikuchi Toshiki Yoshimitsu |
| Interpreter | Jefferson Youei Tonaki Tetsuya Ozawa Asuka Takegoshi |
| Chief trainer | Takeshi Mochizuki |
| Trainer | Yujiro Sakae Hiroaki Shibata Ryota Suzuki |
| Chief manager | Takashi Yonetani |
| General manager | Toshiya Wada |
| Kit man | Keita Kusunoki |
Managerial history
| Manager | Nationality | Tenure | |
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| Fumiaki Iwamoto |  Japan |
1 February 2005 | 31 January 2008 |
| Yoshinori Higashikawa | Japan |
1 February 2008 | 13 June 2009 |
| Takeshi Okubo | Japan |
4 June 2009 | 30 June 2009 |
| Fumiaki Iwamoto | Japan |
1 July 2009 | 31 January 2010 |
| Tōru Sano | Japan |
1 February 2010 | 31 January 2013 |
| Takuya Takagi | Japan |
1 February 2013 | 31 January 2019 |
| Makoto Teguramori | Japan |
1 February 2019 | 31 January 2021 |
| Takayuki Yoshida | Japan |
1 February 2021 | 3 May 2021 |
| Kazuki Satō | Japan |
4 May 2021 | 6 May 2021 |
| Hiroshi Matsuda | Japan |
4 May 2021 | Current |
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See also
In Spanish: V-Varen Nagasaki para niños
