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Mitsubishi Mizushima F.C. (三菱水島FC, Mitsubishi Mizushima Efu Shī) are a Japanese football club based in Kurashiki, Okayama. They play in the Chūgoku Soccer League.

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Mizushima F.C.
三菱水島

Full name	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima Football Club
Nickname(s)	Red Adamant
Founded	1946; 76 years ago (1946)
Ground	Okayama Kasaoka Athletic Stadium Kasaoka, Okayama
Capacity	5,000
Owner	Mitsubishi Motors
Manager	Shinya Suga
League	Chugoku Soccer League
2021	Champions
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was founded in 1946 to provide recreational activities in the war-torn Mizushima area of Kurashiki city. They joined the Okayama Prefecture League in 1965 and were promoted to the Chūgoku Regional League in 1979 for the first time.[1]

They were relegated to the Prefecture League in 1982 and stayed there for 8 years. After re-entering the Chūgoku League, they won 5 championships before being promoted to the JFL in 2005.

In recent years they have adopted the moniker "Red Adamant" (after their parent company Mitsubishi Motors and its former flagship football club, now known as Urawa Red Diamonds), with an aim to eventually join J. League and be a star club in their own right. A potential obstacle to this will be the newly promoted Fagiano Okayama, with whom they have had to share Momotaro Athletic Stadium in Okayama City for recent JFL fixtures.

In 2008 they finished dead last of 18, but were spared the drop due to the promotion of Okayama, Kataller Toyama and Tochigi SC.

In November 2009, the club announced they would withdraw from the JFL after the end of the 2009 season because of the lack of the financial resources to operate in the league. After their membership application was refused by the Chugoku Regional League, they decided to compete in the Okayama Prefectural League Division 1 in 2010.

In November 2016 they rebounded by winning the Shakaijin Cup, and one year later the 2017 Chugoku Soccer League.

In 2021, they won for the 7th time the Chugoku Soccer League, but as was the situation in 2017, they weren't able to win the promotion spot for JFL, as in both times they failed to pass through the group stage of the Japanese Regional Champions League.

Current squad

As of 14 October 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 Motoki Uechi 2 DF  JPN Tatsunori Maehara 3 DF  JPN Takuma Yasuda 4 DF  JPN Kentaro Uchida 5 DF  JPN Tatsuya Narumi 6 FW  JPN Asafu Yamamura 7 FW  JPN Kazuma Saito 8 MF  JPN Ryota Morisako 9 FW  JPN Kiyoshi Yamamoto 10 MF  JPN Ryuji Miyazawa 11 FW  JPN Shota Takase 13 MF  JPN Kensuke Harada 14 DF  JPN Akira Yamabe

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  JPN Takayuki Tsurumaru 16 DF  JPN Riku Tanaka 17 MF  JPN Tomoya Nakagawa 18 DF  JPN Hiroto Fujii 19 MF  JPN Ryotaro Mizuno 20 DF  JPN Noriya Okamoto 21 GK  JPN Takeru Hanafusa 22 DF  JPN Yuki Nagaya 23 FW  JPN Nagi Kishimoto 24 MF  JPN Kohei Kusachi 25 MF  JPN Ryusei Komo 30 GK  JPN Hironori Taki

League record

Season	League	GP	Pts	W	D	L	Position
2005	Japan Football League	30	8	2	2	26	16th
2006		34	27	7	6	21	17th
2007		34	35	11	2	21	15th
2008		34	16	3	7	24	18th
2009		34	18	4	6	24	18th
2010	Okayama Prefectural League	12	34	11	1	0	1st
2011	Chugoku Soccer League	18	37	12	1	5	4th
2012		18	26	7	5	6	5th
2013		18	17	4	5	9	7th
2014		18	33	10	3	5	3rd
2015		18	40	13	1	4	3rd
2016		18	32	10	2	6	3rd
2017		18	46	15	1	2	1st
2018		18	32	10	2	6	2nd
2019		18	47	15	2	1	2nd
2020		0	0	0	0	0	Canceled
2021		18	35	11	3	2	1st

Honours

• Chugoku Soccer League (7): 1992, 1999, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2017, 2021
• Shakaijin Cup (1): 2016
• Okayama Prefectural Soccer Championship (16): 1985, 1986, 1988, 1991, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021

References

External links

• Official Website (in Japanese)

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