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Ventforet Kofu (ヴァンフォーレ甲府, Vanfōre Kōfu) is a Japanese football club from Kōfu in Yamanashi Prefecture. The team currently competes in the J2 League and play their home games in JIT Recycle Ink Stadium, located in Kōfu.

Ventforet Kofu
Full nameVentforet Kofu
Nickname(s)Ventforet
Founded1965; 57 years ago (1965) as Kofu Club
StadiumJIT Recycle Ink Stadium
Kōfu
Capacity17,000
ChairmanKazuyuki Umino
ManagerTatsuma Yoshida
LeagueJ2 League
2022J2 League, 18th of 22
WebsiteClub website
Home colours
Away colours
Current season

The word "Ventforet" is a compound formed from two French root words: "vent" (wind) and "forêt" (forest). The name alludes to the famous phrase Fū-rin-ka-zan (風林火山)that Takeda Shingen, a prominent Kōfu-based daimyō in the Sengoku period, emblazoned on his war banners. The phrase contains four similies: as swift as the wind; as silent as a forest; as fierce as fire; as immovable as a mountain.

Having won J2 League in 2012, they won their first major honour a decade later in the Emperor's Cup, thus qualified for the AFC Champions League for the first time in the club's history, entering the 2023–24 edition from the group stage.


History


Kofu Club (1965–1994)

The club was founded in 1965 when the old boys' club of Kofu Dai-ichi High School, the Kakujo Club, started to recruit graduates of other high schools with the intention of promotion to the Japan Soccer League.

The club joined the newly formed JSL Division 2 in 1972. They stayed there until the conclusion of the league in 1992 when it became a founding member of the former Japan Football League.

Kofu Club was formed by volunteers, unlike other mainstream football clubs at that time in Japan, whose players were mostly the employees of their sponsoring companies.

Ventforet Kofu (1995–present)

The club was renamed Ventforet Kofu in 1995 and joined J.League Division 2 in 1999 when it was formed. The club survived a difficult period between 1999 and 2001, when it suffered from financial troubles as well as miserable results on the pitch, including a streak of twenty-five consecutive losses. Ventforet finished bottom for three seasons in succession and was dubbed as "Excess baggage of J2".

Ventforet improved in 2002, and in 2005 finished third, gaining promotion to the Japanese first division by winning the promotion/relegation play-offs against Kashiwa Reysol. However, the team was relegated with a week remaining in the 2007 season.

At the end of 2010 season, the team was promoted a second time. Despite having striker Mike Havenaar contend for the Top Scorer award in division one the following year, the club was relegated again at the end of 2011. However, it returned after only one year's absence as champions of division two, Ventforet's first championship in its thirty-six year history. Ventforet remained in J.League 1 until 2017, consistently staying as a top tier J.League 2 team after relegation


Emperor's Cup win (2022)


Kofu participated in the 2022 Emperor's Cup, earning a direct second round entry alongside all J1 and J2 League teams. Following a 5-1 win over Okayama-based International Pacific University, they then only faced J1 League opponents the rest of the tournament. They would beat Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo and Sagan Tosu away from home by 2-1 and 3-1 respectively to advance to the quarter-finals, in a stage which they had been on 4 times without ever getting past it. In another match away from home, now against Avispa Fukuoka, the game would be tied up 1-1 and head into extra time, with Yoshiki Torikai scoring in the 97th minute to bring Kofu to their first Emperor's Cup Semi-final, where they would beat Kashima Antlers thanks to Jumma Miyazaki's goal in the 37th minute to reach their first Emperor's Cup Final.

In the final, Kofu were up against Sanfrecce Hiroshima, a J1 team who hadn't won an Emperor's Cup since 1969 (including amateur era). Kazushi Mitsuhira scored in the 26th minute to give Kofu the lead, before Sanfrecce midfielder Takumu Kawamura tied the match in the 84th minute. After a scoreless extra time, the final was decided in a penalty shootout. After Sanfrecce missed their fourth penalty, 42-year-old Hideomi Yamamoto scored Kofu's fifth and final penalty to win the Emperor's Cup champions for the first time. Their win marked the first time that a J2 League team had won the Emperor's Cup since FC Tokyo in 2011, the fourth J2 champion overall, and the first occasion in which the winner was not the tier champions. Thus, they will play the AFC Champions League while playing in their domestic second-tier league.


League history



League and cup record


Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
LeagueJ.League
Cup
Emperor's
Cup
YearDivisionTierPos.PWDLFAGDPtsAttendance/G
1992 former JFL
Div. 2
35th189182629-328Not eligible
1993 9th186-121537-22-
1994 former
JFL
214th309-213674-38-2nd round
1995 9th3014-165454043
1996 11th3011-195056-6332nd round
1997 6th3019-11594118523rd round
1998 4th3022-8744034594th round
1999 J2210th3654273285-53181,4691st round2nd round
2000 11th4053323184-53181,8501st round4th round
2001 12th4482343898-60253,1301st round3rd round
2002 7th441610185155-4584,914Not eligible3rd round
2003 5th44191213584612695,7963rd round
2004 7th4415131651465586,3704th round
2005 3rd44191213786414696,9314th round
2006 J1115th34126154264-224212,211Group StageQuarter Finals
2007 17th3476213365-322713,734Quarter Finals5th round
2008 J227th42151413564795910,354Not eligible4th round
2009 4th512813107646309711,0594th round
2010 2nd36191347140317012,4313rd round
2011 J1116th3491964263-213312,1061st round3rd round
2012 J221st42244146335288610,4072nd round
2013 J1115th34813133041-113712,614Group StageQuarter Finals
2014 13th34911142731-44112,171Group StageRound of 16
2015 13th34101772643-173711,612Group Stage4th round
2016 14th34717103258-263110,833Group Stage2nd round
2017 16th34716112339-163210,829Group Stage2nd round
2018 J229th42161511564610597,384Quarter FinalsQuarter Finals
2019 5th42201111644024718,273Not eligibleQuarter Finals
2020 4th421617950419652,485Did not qualify
2021 3rd4223118653827804,3252nd round
2022 18th421115164754-7484,930Winner
2023 TBA42
Key

Honours



League



Cups



Current squad


As of 24 August 2022.[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 Kohei Kawata
2 DF  JPN Hidehiro Sugai
3 DF  BRA Renato
4 DF  JPN Hideomi Yamamoto (Captain)
5 DF  JPN Niki Urakami
6 MF  JPN Hideyuki Nozawa
7 MF  JPN Sho Araki
9 FW  JPN Kazushi Mitsuhira
10 FW  BRA Willian Lira
13 DF  JPN Fumitaka Kitatani
14 MF  JPN Riku Nakayama
15 FW  JPN Riku Iijima
16 MF  JPN Koya Hayashida
17 FW  BRA Igor Sartori
18 MF  JPN Yoshiki Torikai
19 FW  JPN Jumma Miyazaki
20 MF  JPN Nagi Matsumoto (on loan from Cerezo Osaka)
21 GK  JPN Yuto Koizumi
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 DF  JPN Riku Nozawa
23 DF  JPN Masahiro Sekiguchi
24 MF  JPN Riku Yamada
25 DF  JPN Yuzuki Yamato
26 MF  JPN Toshiki Ishikawa
27 MF  JPN Iwana Kobayashi
29 FW  BRA Getúlio (on loan from Tombense)
31 GK  JPN Kosuke Okanishi
32 DF  BRA Foguete
33 GK  JPN Kodai Yamauchi
35 DF  JPN Sota Miura DSP
36 FW  JPN Hayata Mizuno DSP
39 MF  JPN Shusuke Yonehara (on loan from Matsumoto Yamaga)
40 DF  BRA Eduardo Mancha
41 MF  JPN Motoki Hasegawa
44 FW  JPN Yamato Naito

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

Club Officials


Position Name
Head coach Tatsuma Yoshida
Assistant head coach Shinji Otsuka
Head goalkeeper coach Yuji Nakagawa
Head physical coach Wellington Valquer Coelho
Head analysis coach Yoshiki Hara
Chief Trainer Tatsuya Akabane
Trainer Ryosuke Shibata
Taku Hirai
Physiotherapist Marcos Toshifumi Kimura
Interpreter Bruno Iwasaki
Athletic Trainer Shigeru Asahina
Chief Team Secretary Yoshiki Tsuruta
Team Secretary Kazuki Yazaki

Managerial history


ManagerNationalityTenure
StartFinish
Susumu Katsumata Japan1 January 199431 January 1995
Yūji Tsukada Japan1 February 199531 January 1999
Susumu Katsumata Japan1 February 199931 January 2000
Yūji Tsukada Japan1 February 200031 January 2001
Luis dos Reis Brazil1 February 200131 January 2002
Takeshi Ōki Japan1 February 200231 January 2003
Hideki Matsunaga Japan1 February 200331 January 2005
Takeshi Ōki Japan1 February 200531 January 2008
Takayoshi Amma Japan1 February 200831 January 2010
Kazuo Uchida Japan1 February 201031 January 2011
Toshiya Miura Japan1 February 20117 August 2011
Satoru Sakuma Japan8 August 201131 December 2011
Hiroshi Jōfuku Japan1 February 201231 January 2015
Yasuhiro Higuchi Japan1 February 201513 May 2015
Satoru Sakuma Japan13 May 201531 December 2016
Tatsuma Yoshida Japan1 February 201730 April 2018
Nobuhiro Ueno Japan1 May 201831 January 2019
Akira Itō Japan1 February 201931 January 2022
Tatsuma Yoshida Japan1 February 202231 January 2023

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

References


  1. "2022 Top Players" (in Japanese). Retrieved 30 April 2022.



На других языках


[de] Ventforet Kofu

Ventforet Kofu (japanisch ヴァンフォーレ甲府; Vanfōre Kōfu) ist ein japanischer Profi-Fußballverein, der in der J2 League spielt.
- [en] Ventforet Kofu

[es] Ventforet Kofu

Ventforet Kofu (ヴァンフォーレ甲府, Vanfōre Kōfu?) es un equipo de fútbol japonés de la J2 League. El club está situado en la ciudad de Kōfu, capital de la prefectura de Yamanashi.

[ru] Ванфоре Кофу

«Ванфоре Кофу» (яп. ヴァンフォーレ甲府 Ванфо:рэ Ко:фу, фр. Ventforet Kofu) — японский футбольный клуб из города Кофу, префектура Яманаси.



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