V-Varen Nagasaki

V-Varen Nagasaki (V・ファーレン長崎, Vi Fāren Nagasaki) is a Japanese J2 League football club based in Nagasaki. The club was established in 1985 as Ariake SC till they merged with Kunimi FC in 2004 and adopted the present name in 2005.

Nickname(s)VVN
Founded2004 (2004)
GroundTranscosmos Stadium Nagasaki,
Isahaya, Nagasaki
Capacity20,246
ChairmanAkira Takata
ManagerTakuya Takagi
LeagueJ2 League
201912th
WebsiteClub website

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.[1]

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.[2]

History

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.[1] Five years later they won promotion to the J1 League for the first time after finishing runners-up in the 2017 J2 League.

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.[1] 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.

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.[3]

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).[4]

Players

First-team squad

As of 4 July 2020.[5]

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  JPN Masaya Tomizawa
3 DF  JPN Masashi Kamekawa
4 DF  BRA Freire
5 DF  JPN Takuma Shikayama
6 DF  JPN Makoto Kakuda
7 MF  JPN Masakazu Yoshioka
8 MF  JPN Ryota Isomura
9 FW  JPN Cayman Togashi
10 MF  BRA Luan
11 FW  JPN Keiji Tamada
13 MF  JPN Masaru Kato
14 MF  JPN Takumi Nagura
15 DF  JPN Hijiri Kato
16 FW  JPN Seiya Maikuma
17 MF  JPN Hiroki Akino
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF  JPN Ryoma Kida
19 MF  JPN Takashi Sawada
20 MF  JPN Yohei Otake
21 GK  JPN Toru Takagiwa
22 DF  JPN Yuhei Tokunaga
23 DF  JPN Shunya Yoneda
24 DF  JPN Yusei Egawa
26 DF  JPN Hiroshi Futami
27 MF  JPN Ryo Niizato
29 FW  JPN Junki Hata
30 GK  JPN Kenta Tokushige
31 GK  JPN Takahiro Koga
32 FW  COL Víctor Ibarbo
33 FW  JPN Asahi Uenaka
40 MF  BRA Caio César

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF  NED Jordy Buijs (at Tokushima Vortis)
— MF  JPN Ryusuke Hayashida (at Verspah Oita)
— MF  JPN Teppei Usui (at Kataller Toyama)

Current technical staff
As of 1 May 2016 [6]
Position Name
Manager Takuya Takagi
First-team coach Tamotsu Nakamura
Goalkeeper coach Takanori Miyoshi

Former Coaches

Honours
Further information: List of V-Varen Nagasaki seasons
Runner-up (1): 2017
Winners (1): 2012
Runners-up (1): 2008
Runners-up (1): 2008

References
  1. "Takagi named V-Varen Nagasaki coach". Japan Times. Retrieved 20 March 2013.
  2. "V-Varen Nagasaki promoted to J1 for first time". The Japan Times Online. 11 November 2017. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 3 December 2017.
  3. "New V-Varen Nagasaki Stadium to Open in 2023" (in Japanese). Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  4. "V・ファーレン マークについて". V-Varen Nagasaki (in Japanese). Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  5. "Team Part 1".
  6. "staff". Retrieved 20 March 2016.
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