Kamatamare Sanuki

Kamatamare Sanuki (カマタマーレ讃岐、Kamatamare Sanuki) is a football club based in Takamatsu, the capital city of Kagawa Prefecture of Japan. They currently play in the J3 League. They entered the J League in 2014 after finishing as runner-up in the Japan Football League in 2013. The first part of their name was coined by combining the Japanese word Kamatama (a type of udon noodle bowl) and the Italian Mare ("Sea"). The second part is what Kagawa Prefecture used to be called. Their name as well as their crest, which also features a kamatama udon bowl, are so unique that the club instantly became one of the best-known non-J. League sides in Japan when announced in October 2005.

Kamatamare Sanuki
カマタマーレ讃岐
Full nameKamatamare Sanuki
Founded1956 (1956)
GroundPikara Stadium,
Marugame, Kagawa
Capacity30,099
ChairmanNobuhiro Kawamura
ManagerZdravko Zemunović
LeagueJ3 League
2021J3 League, 15th
WebsiteClub website
Emblem was used until 2010

History

The club was founded in 1956 as Takasho OB (Old Boys) Soccer Club (高商OBサッカークラブ) by the former students of Takamatsu Commercial High School's soccer club. Since renaming themselves Kagawa Shiun Football Club (香川紫雲フットボールクラブ) in 1991, they have been the leading football club in Kagawa, winning the Shikoku League Championship twice. The club's name changed again in 2000 to Sun Life (サンライフ) Football Club, when a consumer loan company Sun Life signed a sponsorship deal that continued until the end of the 2004 season. In October 2005, after briefly being called Takamatsu Football Club, the club officially announced their intention to rise to J. League status and changed their name to Kamatamare Sanuki. In 2010 they won the non-league treble by winning the Shikoku League, the Shakaijin Cup and the Regional League Promotion Series, and by virtue of the latter they were at last promoted to the Japan Football League.

League record
Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
SeasonLeagueTierPosPldWDLFAGDPts Attendance/G
1977 Shikoku
League		 6th144283254-2210
1978 8th1412111848-304
1979 Kagawa
Pref. League		 1st?????
1980 1st?????
1981 Shikoku
League		 5th147162631-515
1982 8th144121926713
1983 2nd16101545321321
1984 2nd146533330317
1985 6th145182648-2211
1986 7th143291525-108
1987 8th1412111253-414
1988 7th145091642-2610
1989 6th145271543-2812
1990 6th143381531-169
1991 2nd14101342152721
1992 3rd1482449163318
1993 2nd14110353183522
1994 1st13111146123423
1995 2nd1493242172530
1996 2nd14101341192231
1997 1st1493247242330
1998 3rd146442117422
1999 42nd1491441251628
2000 4th148153532325
2001 3rd1473445252024
2002 2nd1410043328530
2003 6th144192836-813
2004 3rd148062926324
2005 4th146443124722
2006 1st14121145123337
2007 2nd14121168145437
2008 1st1413106245840
2009 2nd14120256104636
2010 1st1412205354838
2011 JFL311th33117153949-1040 3,025
2012 4th32158949292053 2,344
2013 2nd34215849262368 3,125
2014 J2
League		221st42712233471-3733 3.317
2015 16th421215153033-351 3,658
2016 19th421013194362-1943 3,686
2017 19th42814204161-2038 3,805
2018 22nd42710252872-4431 3,073
2019 J3
League		314th34109153349-1939 2,112
2020 16th34710173352-1931 869
2021 15th2849152041-2121
Key

  • Pos. = Position in league; GP = 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 league home attendance
  • † 2020 season attendance reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
  • Note: The 1994 season saw one game cancelled due to the disqualification of Alex SC who fielded ineligible players. The 2011 season saw one game cancelled as Sony Sendai could not play a full schedule due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami barring regular use of facilities.

Honours

Current squad

As of 6 December 2021.[1] 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 Takuya Takahashi
2 DF  JPN Takaharu Nishino
3 DF  JPN Naoya Matsumoto
4 DF  JPN Atsuki Satsukawa
5 DF  JPN Takumi Komatsu
6 MF  JPN Hayato Hasegawa
7 MF  JPN Masataka Nishimoto
8 MF  JPN Yuga Watanabe
9 FW  JPN Mark Ajay Kurita
10 MF  JPN Kazumasa Takagi
13 FW  JPN Kentaro Shigematsu
14 MF  JPN Wataru Sasaki
15 MF  JPN Kazuki Iwamoto
16 GK  JPN Kenta Watanabe
17 MF  JPN Takuma Goto
18 MF  JPN Ryo Nakamura
19 MF  JPN Ikki Kawasaki
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF  JPN Taiyo Shimokawa
21 DF  JPN Takaya Yoshinare (On loan from Cerezo Osaka)
22 DF  JPN Danto Sugiyama (On loan from JEF United Chiba)
23 DF  JPN Ko Ikeda (On loan from Yokohama F. Marinos)
24 GK  JPN Suguru Asanuma
25 MF  JPN Kenta Sawada
26 FW  JPN Kanato Abe (On loan from Montedio Yamagata)
27 MF  JPN Taiyo Namazuta
28 FW  JPN Shunta Nakamura (On loan from Montedio Yamagata)
30 DF  JPN Akira Takeuchi (captain)
31 DF  JPN Tomoya Takeshita
32 GK  JPN Kaisei Matsubara
33 DF  JPN Genichi Endo
34 FW  JPN Eugene Fukui
35 FW  JPN Shoya Koyama
36 DF  JPN Keisuke Tao

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
- FW  JPN Ryoto Kamiya (at FC Kariya until 31 January 2022)
- FW  JPN Tomoya Hayashi (at YSCC Yokohama until 31 January 2022)

Kit Evolution
FP 1st
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021 -
FP 2nd
2011 - 2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021 -


In pop culture

The Kamatamare players made cameo appearances in the 2006 film "UDON" directed by Katsuyuki Motohiro.

References
  1. https://www.kamatamare.jp/team/
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