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Ōita Trinita (大分トリニータ, Ōita Torinīta) is a Japanese football club currently playing in J2 League, having been relegated after the 2021 season after a three-year stint in J1 League. The club's home town is Ōita city, but the club draws support from Beppu, Saiki, and the entire Ōita Prefecture.

Ōita Trinita
大分トリニータ

Full name	Oita Trinita
Nickname(s)	Trinita (トリニータ, Torinīta) Azzurro (Azūro) Camenaccio (カメナチオ, Kamenachio)
Founded	1994; 28 years ago (1994)
Ground	Showa Denko Dome Oita Ōita
Capacity	31,997
Chairman	Toru Enoki
Manager	Takahiro Shimotaira
League	J2 League
2022	J2 League, 5th of 22
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

The club's name, Trinita, is the Italian translation of the word trinity (trinità), which was the club's original name before being changed in 1999, and Ōita, the club's home town.[1] The combined word expresses the will of the local citizens, companies, and government to support the team. Another connection to the Italian culture can be found in the city nickname Azzurro ("light blue" in English).

The club's home ground is Ōita Bank Dome, also known as the "Big Eye", which was one of the venues built for the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The club practices at the adjacent football and rugby field, and Ōita City Public Ground.

History

The club was formed as Ōita Trinity in 1994 and advanced through the Ōita Prefectural League and the Kyushu League before finishing as the runner-up of the 1996 National League, resulting in promotion to the JFL. In 1999, the club changed its name to Trinita due to copyright infringement concerns. The same year, the club joined J.League Division 2, the second-highest flight in Japanese football (renamed to its current name of J2 League in 2015) and placed third. The club also placed third in 2000, and despite being in contention for promotion until the final game of the season in 2001, finished sixth. The following year, the club won J.League Division 2 and finally earned promotion to the top-flight Division 1. In 2008, the club won the J.League Cup, the first major title won by a Kyūshū club since Yawata Steel SC shared the 1964 Emperor's Cup.[2]

In 2009, the club suffered their worst-ever results in their seven-year history in the topflight, including 14 straight losses in league matches, which is the current worst record in the J.League since the golden goal system was eliminated. The club even fired cup-winning manager Pericles Chamusca in mid-July.[3] On October 25, the club's relegation was confirmed after being held to a 1–1 draw by ten-man Kyoto Sanga F.C., although the club would have faced relegation anyway as they had outstanding loans from the JFL's emergency fund and league rules prohibit clubs with such loans from participating in the top tier.[4]

During the 2012 J.League Division 2 season, Oita Trinita finished in sixth place, qualifying for the promotion playoffs in the first year of its introduction in Japan's second flight as the club had also paid back all its emergency loans that October. Despite being the lowest seed, Oita Trinita defeated Kyoto Sanga F.C. 4–0 in the semi-final and JEF United Ichihara Chiba 1–0 in the final, earning promotion to 2013 J.League Division 1, returning to the top tier after a 5-year absence[5] This time, however, their top tier stay lasted only one season. In 2015 they were further relegated to J3 League after losing in the promotion playoffs to Machida Zelvia on December 6,[6] becoming the first major trophy winner to be relegated to the third tier. The club immediately gained promotion back to J2 League by winning the J3 League title in 2016. In 2018, after finishing as runner's up in the J2 League in 2018, Oita Trinita gained promotion back to J1. After finishing 18th in 2021, Trinita would be relegated back to J2 League, but in the background of that, the club made a Cinderella run to the Emperor's Cup Final. Just 1 week after the confirmation to be relegated, they defeated defending Emperor's Cup champion Kawasaki Frontale in stunning fashion in the semis; after the game was tied 1 all, Trinita won 4-5 on penalty kicks. They would lose however, to Urawa Red Diamonds in the finals, giving the Reds their 8th Emperor's Cup.

Record as J.League member

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted

Relegated

Season	Div.	Teams	Pos.	P	W (OTW)	D	L (OTL)	F	A	GD	Pts	Attendance/G	J.League Cup	Emperor's Cup
1999	J2	10	3rd	36	18 (3)	3	8 (4)	62	42	20	63	3,886	2nd round	3rd round
2000		11	3rd	40	26 (0)	3	8 (3)	80	38	42	81	4,818	1st round	3rd round
2001		12	6th	44	24 (1)	4	9 (6)	75	52	23	78	6,638	2nd round	3rd round
2002		12	1st	44	28	10	6	67	34	33	94	12,349	Not eligible	4th round
2003	J1	16	14th	30	5	11	14	27	37	-10	26	21,373	Group stage	3rd round
2004		16	13th	30	8	6	16	35	56	-21	30	21,889	Group stage	5th round
2005		18	11th	34	12	7	15	44	43	1	43	22,080	Group stage	5th round
2006		18	8th	34	13	8	13	47	45	2	47	20,350	Group stage	5th round
2007		18	14th	34	12	5	17	42	60	-18	41	19,759	Group stage	5th round
2008		18	4th	34	16	8	10	33	24	9	56	20,322	Winners	4th round
2009		18	17th	34	8	6	20	26	45	-19	30	18,428	Group stage	3rd round
2010	J2	19	15th	36	10	11	15	39	49	-10	41	10,463	Not eligible	3rd round
2011		20	12th	38	12	14	12	42	45	-3	50	8,779		2nd round
2012		22	6th	42	21	8	13	59	40	19	71	9,721		2nd round
2013	J1	18	18th	34	2	8	24	31	67	-36	14	11,915	Group stage	Quarter finals
2014	J2	22	7th	42	17	12	13	52	55	-3	63	8,422	Not eligible	3rd round
2015		22	21st	42	8	14	20	41	51	-10	38	7,533		3rd round
2016	J3	16	1st	30	19	4	7	50	24	26	61	7,771		3rd round
2017	J2	22	9th	42	17	13	12	58	50	8	64	8,063		3rd round
2018		22	2nd	42	23	7	12	76	51	25	76	8,907		2nd round
2019	J1	18	9th	34	12	11	11	35	35	0	47	15,347	Group stage	Quarter finals
2020 †		18	11th	34	11	10	13	36	45	-9	43	5,147	Group stage	Did not qualify
2021 †		20	18th	38	9	8	21	31	55	-24	35	6,722	Group stage	Runners-up
2022	J2	22	5th	42	17	15	10	62	52	10	66	6,618	Group stage	3rd round
2023		22	TBA	42

Key

Honours

League

• J2 League
  • Champions: 2002
• J3 League
  • Champions: 2016
• Kyushu Soccer League
  • Champions: 1995

Cups

• J.League Cup
  • Winners: 2008

Players

Current squad

As of 18 August 2022[7]

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 Shun Takagi 2 DF  JPN Yuki Kagawa 3 DF  JPN Yuto Misao 4 DF  JPN Keisuke Saka 6 MF  JPN Yuki Kobayashi 7 MF  JPN Rei Matsumoto 8 MF  JPN Yamato Machida 10 MF  JPN Naoki Nomura 11 MF  JPN Hokuto Shimoda 13 FW  JPN Kohei Isa 14 DF  JPN Yukitoshi Ito 15 DF  JPN Yuta Koide 16 FW  JPN Arata Watanabe 17 MF  JPN Kenta Inoue 18 FW  JPN Kazuki Fujimoto 19 DF  JPN Katsunori Ueebisu 20 FW  JPN Shun Nagasawa 21 MF  BRA Eduardo Neto 22 FW  BRA Samuel 23 MF  JPN Hiroto Nakagawa 24 GK  JPN Konosuke Nishikawa

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  JPN Seigo Kobayashi 26 MF  JPN Kenshin Yasuda Type 2 27 MF  JPN Tsukasa Umesaki 28 MF  JPN Junya Nodake 29 FW  JPN Shinya Utsumoto 31 MF  BRA Pereira (on loan from Atlético Goianiense) 32 GK  JPN Taro Hamada 33 FW  JPN Hiroto Goya 35 MF  JPN Josei Sato Type 2 38 MF  JPN Keita Takahata 39 MF  JPN Asahi Masuyama 40 FW  JPN Mu Kanazaki 41 DF  JPN Ryosuke Tone 43 MF  JPN Masaki Yumiba 44 GK  JPN Shun Yoshida 45 FW  JPN Taiga Kimoto Type 2 46 MF  JPN Hayato Matsuoka Type 2 47 DF  JPN Shunsuke Ono Type 2 48 DF  JPN Yusuke Matsuo DSP 49 DF  JPN Kento Haneda 50 FW  JPN Yusei Yashiki

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  JPN Yusho Takahashi (at Veroskronos Tsuno) — DF  JPN Kenta Fukumori (at Tochigi SC) — FW  JPN Yuya Takazawa (at Giravanz Kitakyushu)

Club captains

• Cui Daewoo (1999)
• Tomohiro Katanosaka (2000)
• Tetsuro Uki (2002–2003)
• Sandro (2004)
• Takayuki Yoshida (2005)
• Takashi Miki (2006–2007)
• Daiki Takamatsu (2008–2010)
• Masashi Miyazawa (2011–2013)
• Kazumichi Takagi (2014)
• Daniel (2015)
• Satoru Yamagishi (2016–2017)
• Akira Takeuchi (January – August 2018)
• Kenji Baba (August – December 2018)
• Yoshinori Suzuki (2019–2020)
• Shun Takagi (2021)
• Hokuto Shimoda (2022–present)

Coaching staff

The Coaching Staff for the 2022 J2 League season

Position	Staff
First-team Manager	Takahiro Shimotaira
First-team Assistant Manager	Ken Iwase
First-team Coach	Kazuki Fukui
	Kazunari Okayama
First-team Goalkeeper Coach	Keisuke Yoshisaka
First-team Physical Coach	Jun Sato
Trainer	Hidenori Hisano Takafumi Kazama Yuta Hamada Shota Harada
Competent	Kenta Motoya
Side affairs	Yasushi Nakayama Kei Kaburagi Hikaru Kikuzumi
Interpreter & Portuguese	Riku Muramatsu

Managerial history

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
		Start	Finish
Moon Jung-sik	South Korea	1 February 1994	31 January 1997
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	1 February 1999	30 April 2001
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	1 May 2001	31 January 2004
Han Berger	Netherlands	1 February 2004	31 January 2005
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	1 February 2005	28 August 2005
Arie Schans	Netherlands	1 September 2005	8 September 2005
Pericles Chamusca	Brazil	9 September 2005	13 July 2009
Ranko Popovic	Serbia  Austria	1 August 2009	31 December 2009
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	1 February 2010	31 January 2011
Kazuaki Tasaka	Japan	1 February 2011	2 June 2015
Nobuaki Yanagida	Japan	1 June 2015	3 January 2016
Tomohiro Katanosaka	Japan	1 February 2016	31 January 2022
Takahiro Shimotaira	Japan	1 February 2022	current

Kit evolution

FP 1st
1999	2000 - 2001	2002 - 2003	2004	2005 - 2006
2007	2008	2009	2010 - 2011	2012 - 2013
2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
2019	2020	2021	2022 -

FP 2nd
1999 - 2001	2002 - 2003	2004	2005	2006
2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
2012 - 2013	2014	2015	2016	2017 - 2018
2019	2020	2021	2022 -

FP Other
2020 Limited

References

External links

• Official Website (in Japanese)

На других языках

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[de] Ōita Trinita

Ōita Trinita (jap. 大分トリニータ, Ōita torinīta) ist ein japanischer Fußballverein aus Ōita, einer Stadt in der gleichnamigen Präfektur Ōita. Aktuell spielt der Verein in der zweiten japanischen Liga, der J2 League.

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- [en] Oita Trinita

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[es] Oita Trinita

El Oita Trinita (大分トリニータ, Ōita Torinīta?) es un equipo de fútbol japonés de la J1 League. El club está situado en la ciudad de Ōita.

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[ru] Оита Тринита

«Оита Тринита» (яп. 大分トリニータ О:ита Торинийта, англ. Oita Trinita) — японский футбольный клуб из города Оита, префектура Оита.

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