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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.[1]

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FC Ganju Iwate
ＦＣガンジュ岩手

Full name	FC Ganju Iwate
Nickname(s)	Ganju
Founded	2006
Ground	Iwate Morioka Stadium
Capacity	30,000
Chairman	Kentaro Ihara
League	Tohoku Soccer League
2020	4th
Home colours Away colours

History

Founded in 2006, the club was a separated entity from Grulla Morioka (still in the Iwate Prefecture, but in Morioka).[2] 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.[3]

League record

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			3th	8	4	1	3	10	7	3	13
2022			7th	16	8	3	5	32	17	15	27

Key

• Pos. = Position in league; GP = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; Pts = Points gained

Honours

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

As of 13 September 2022

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

External links

• Official Site (Japanese)

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