FC Ganju Iwate (FCガンジュ岩手, FC Ganju Iwate) is a football (soccer) club based in Hachimantai, a city of Iwate Prefecture in Japan. They play in the Tohoku Soccer League, which is part of Japanese Regional Leagues. The name of the club refers to Mount Iwate, symbol of their prefecture due to this volcano and also present on the club's logo.

FC Ganju Iwate
FCガンジュ岩手
Full nameFC Ganju Iwate
Nickname(s)Ganju
Founded2006
GroundIwate Morioka Stadium
Capacity30,000
ChairmanKentaro Ihara
LeagueTohoku Soccer League
20227th of 12

History edit

Founded in 2006, the club was a separated entity from Grulla Morioka (still in the Iwate Prefecture, but in Morioka).[1] Shinichi Muto was fundamental to start club's history with the proper amount of experience and he was hired as player-manager for 2006 and 2007. The creation of another club in the Prefecture - Unsommet Iwate Hachimantai - didn't stop FC Ganju Iwate from climbing Japanese football's pyramid: they won several promotion in Iwate Prefectural Football, even going unbeaten for whole four seasons.

Unfortunately, then bigger clubs - like Grulla, ReinMeer Aomori FC and Vanraure Hachinohe - risked to block their growth. After these clubs went up to Japan Football League, FC Ganju Iwate won the Tohoku Soccer League in 2014 and 2015. Still, the club wasn't able to reach JFL because they didn't perform in 2014 and 2015 Japanese Regional Football League Competition, being eliminated in the group stage. They featured just once in Emperor's Cup, losing against Saitama SC in the first round of 2007 edition.

As for 2017 season, their aim remains to reach Japan Football League.

League record edit

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
Season League Tier Pos. GP W D L F A GD Pts
2007 Iwate Prefecture (Div. 4) 9 1st 10 10 0 0 30
2008 Iwate Prefecture (Div. 3) 8 1st 10 10 0 0 30
2009 Iwate Prefecture (Div. 2) 7 1st 10 9 1 0 28
2010 Iwate Prefecture (Div. 1) 6 1st 10 10 0 0 30
2011 Tohoku Soccer League (Div. 2) 5 2nd 10 9 0 1 27
2012 Tohoku Soccer League (Div. 2, North) 1st 14 13 0 1 39
2013 Tohoku Soccer League (Div. 1) 5 3rd 18 13 1 4 67 17 50 40
2014 1st 18 16 2 0 129 5 124 50
2015 1st 18 15 2 1 107 11 96 47
2016 3rd 18 9 5 4 48 31 17 32
2017 8th 18 5 0 13 31 58 -27 15
2018 2nd 18 11 3 4 71 29 42 36
2019 6th 18 6 3 9 42 56 -14 21
2020 4th 9 4 1 4 16 17 -1 13
2021 3rd 8 4 1 3 10 7 3 13
2022 7th 16 8 3 5 32 17 15 27
2023 TBA 16
Key
  • Pos. = Position in league; GP = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; Pts = Points gained

Honours edit

Tohoku Soccer League
  • Champions (2) : 2014, 2015
  • Champions
    • Iwate Prefecture (Div. 4) 2007
    • Iwate Prefecture (Div. 3) 2008
    • Iwate Prefecture (Div. 2) 2009
    • Iwate Prefecture (Div. 1) 2010
    • Tohoku Soccer League (Div. 2, North) 2012

Current squad edit

As of 13 September 2022.[2]

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 Yuya Yoshida
2 DF   JPN Tomoya Terada
3 DF   JPN Junya Hashimoto
4 DF   JPN Tadayoshi Hiranaka
5 MF   JPN Genki Yokobori
6 DF   JPN Itsuki Nishiyama
7 MF   JPN Tetsuya Nakanishi
8 FW   JPN Shimon Sato
9 MF   JPN Yu Mita
10 FW   JPN Shimma Kumagai
No. Pos. Nation Player
11 MF   JPN Yoshiki Makino
13 MF   JPN Tomoya Sato
14 MF   JPN Daiji Matoba
16 MF   JPN Yuya Yamamoto
17 FW   JPN Shinnosuke Fujiwara
18 FW   JPN Yuta Wada
19 MF   JPN Yugo Fujita
20 MF   JPN Yuki Jahana
22 DF   JPN Shu Ouchi
32 FW   JPN Monji Kumagai

References edit

  1. ^ "盛岡タイムス Web News". Archived from the original on 2017-04-15. Retrieved 2017-07-05.
  2. ^ "PLAYER - FC GANJU IWATE" (in Japanese). Retrieved 23 August 2023.

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