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Matsumoto Yamaga
松本山雅
Full nameMatsumoto Yamaga Football Club
Nickname(s)Ptarmigans, Gans
Founded1965; 59 years ago (1965) as Yamaga Club
2004; 20 years ago (2004) as Matsumoto Yamaga
StadiumMatsumoto Stadium
(Alwin)
Matsumoto, Nagano
Capacity20,396
ChairmanFumiyuki Kanda
ManagerMasahiro Shimoda
LeagueJ3 League
2023J3 League, 9th of 20
Websitehttp://www.yamaga-fc.com/
Current season

Matsumoto Yamaga Football Club (松本山雅フットボールクラブ, Matsumoto Yamaga Futtobōru Kurabu) or simply Matsumoto Yamaga (松本山雅FC, Matsumoto Yamaga Efu Shī) is a Japanese football (soccer) club based in the city of Matsumoto, located in the Nagano Prefecture. The club currently plays in the J3 League, Japanese third tier of professional football.

History

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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

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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)
Main article: Matsumoto Stadium

Matsumoto Yamaga's home ground is Matsumoto Stadium (popularly known as Alwin) located in the Kambayashi area of Matsumoto city. The stadium has a capacity of 20,000 (16,000 seats and 4,000 standings).[3] It is the third largest Sport venue in Nagano Prefecture.

Mascot

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The mascot of the club is named "Gans-kun" (ガンズくん), who is a Ptarmigan (ターミガン, Tāmigan), the symbol bird of Nagano Prefecture.[4]

Theme song

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The club's theme song is "wanna be a superstar" by local rock band ASIAN2.[citation needed]

Affiliated clubs

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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

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Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League J. League
Cup		 Emperor's
Cup
Season Division Tier Pos P W D L F A GD Pts
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 TBD 38 2nd round Did not qualify
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
  • Source: J.League Data Site

Honours

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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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As of 7 August 2024.[6]

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 Issei Ouchi
2 DF Japan JPN Taiki Miyabe
4 DF Japan JPN Shohei Takahashi
5 DF Japan JPN Masato Tokida
6 MF Japan JPN Kazuma Yamaguchi
7 DF Japan JPN Kazuaki Mawatari
8 MF Japan JPN Sho Sumida
9 FW Japan JPN Kazuma Takai
10 MF Japan JPN Yusuke Kikui
11 FW Japan JPN Hayato Asakawa
13 DF Japan JPN Yuya Hashiuchi
14 FW Japan JPN Tsubasa Ando
15 MF Japan JPN Kosuke Yamamoto
16 GK Japan JPN Tomohiko Murayama
17 DF Japan JPN Ryuhei Yamamoto
20 MF Japan JPN Rio Maeda
No. Pos. Nation Player
21 GK Spain ESP Víctor Ibáñez
22 DF Japan JPN Kazuaki Saso
23 MF Japan JPN Yuta Taki
25 MF Japan JPN Jiro Nakamura (on loan from Gamba Osaka)
27 DF Japan JPN Jiyo Ninomiya
30 MF Japan JPN Ryuji Kokubu
32 MF Japan JPN Shusuke Yonehara
33 FW Japan JPN Naoto Arai
35 GK Japan JPN Shoma Kanda
36 MF Japan JPN Gen Matsumura DSP
40 DF Japan JPN Daiki Higuchi
41 MF Japan JPN Kaiga Murakoshi
42 FW Japan JPN Sora Tanaka
44 DF Japan JPN Takato Nonomura
46 MF Japan JPN Reo Yasunaga
48 DF Japan JPN So Fujitani

Out on loan

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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
28 DF Japan JPN Yuya Fujimoto (at ReinMeer Aomori)
— GK Japan JPN Haruto Usui (at Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
— DF Japan JPN Ko Shimura (at Briobecca Urayasu)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Japan JPN Taku Inafuku (at Veertien Mie)
— FW Japan JPN Mao Hamana (at Atletico Suzuka)
— FW Brazil BRA Lucas Rian (at Brazil Ceará)

Club officials

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

Managerial history

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Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
Katsua Kobayashi  Japan 2004
Keiju Karashima  Japan 1 February 2005 31 January 2008
Hideo Yoshizawa  Japan 21 February 2008 8 June 2011
Yoshiyuki Katō  Japan 9 June 2011 31 January 2012
Yasuharu Sorimachi  Japan 1 February 2012 31 January 2020
Keiichirō Nuno  Japan 1 February 2020 24 September 2020
Kei Shibata  Japan 25 September 2020 20 June 2021
Hiroshi Nanami  Japan 21 June 2021 31 January 2023
Masahiro Shimoda  Japan 1 February 2023 Current

Kit evolution

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First kit - home
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024 -
Second kit - away
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024 -
Third kit
2015
Club
50th anniversary
2016
Mountain Day
2017 3rd
2017
Mountain Day
2018
Mountain Day
2019
Mountain Day
2020
Club
55th anniversary
2021 SP
2022
Summer
2023
Summer
2024
Summer

References

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  1. ^ From J1 to J3 in three years | What happened to Matsumoto Yamaga?, 7 April 2022, retrieved 22 August 2022
  2. ^ Senta, Houji. 信州ダービー (in Japanese). JAPAN PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE. Archived from the original on 17 September 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  3. ^ 【松本平広域公園】 信州スカイパーク アルウィン (in Japanese). TOYBOX. Retrieved 29 July 2011.
  4. ^ Matsumoto Yamaga F.C. - Club Profile
  5. ^ "Geylang International and Matsumoto Yamaga FC reaffirm strong ties - Geylang International FC". 30 October 2022. Retrieved 14 August 2023.
  6. ^ "選手・スタッフ". yamaga-fc.com. 1 July 2022.
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