Gainare Tottori

Gainare Tottori
ガイナーレ鳥取
Full name	SC Gainare Tottori Football
Nickname(s)	Gainare
Founded	1983; 41 years ago
Stadium	Axis Bird Stadium ; Tottori, Tottori
Capacity	16,033
Chairman	Masaki Tsukano
Manager	Kohei Masumoto (caretaker)
League	J3 League
2023	J3 League, 6th of 20
Website	http://www.gainare.co.jp/
Home colours	Away colours

Gainare Tottori (ガイナーレ鳥取, Gaināre Tottori) are a Japanese football club, based in Tottori, capital of Tottori Prefecture. They play in the J3 League, the Japanese third tier of professional football league. Their team colour is green.

Name origin

Their team name Gainare derives from the Tottori dialect word gaina meaning "great" and Italian sperare meaning "to hope".

Their team mascot was a Japanese horror anime character Ge Ge Ge no Kitaro created by Shigeru Mizuki, a native of Sakaiminato, Tottori.

History

The club was founded in 1983 as Tottori Teachers' Soccer Club (鳥取教員団サッカー部　Tottori Kyōin Dan Sakkā Bu). They opened their gate to players with other professions in 1989, renaming themselves S.C. Tottori. They adopted their current name in 2007.

They were promoted to the Japan Football League after finishing runners-up in the 2001 Regional League play-off. Nonprofit organisation Yamatsumi Sports Club operate the club.

After defeating Arte Takasaki 1–0 on October 3, 2010, in their home stadium, at last they could secure JFL top four after failed attempts on two previous seasons. The confirmation from J. League about their promotion to J2 came on November 29. They won the JFL title on October 24, 2010, with five games remaining.

On the 2013 J2–J3 promotion/relegation playoff, Gainare Tottori lost by 2–1 to Kamatamare Sanuki on aggregate score, and ended up relegated to the newly launched J3 League (from now on the 3rd tier of professional league football) ahead of the 2014 season. The club spent three seasons at the J2 League, and has not returned since their relegation. They are also one of the four teams to have competed in J3 League every year since its inception.

Stadiums

They play their home games mainly at Axis Bird Stadium in Tottori City. Tottori Soccer Stadium is the only stadium in San'in region that meets the J. League requirements.

In recent years, they also play some games at Fuse Athletic Park Stadium in Tottori City, Matsue Athletics Stadium in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture and Hamayama Athletic Park Stadium in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture.

League and cup records

Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Promoted	Relegated

League														J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
Season	Div.	Tier	Teams	Pos.	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Attendance/G	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
SC Tottori
2006	JFL	3	18	11th	34	7	15	12	61	62	-1	36	1,146	Not eligible	2nd round
Gainare Tottori
2007	JFL	3	18	14th	34	10	9	15	42	51	-9	39	1,755	Not eligible	2nd round
2008			18	5th	34	17	6	11	57	37	20	57	3,215		1st round
2009			18	5th	34	16	8	10	65	37	28	56	3,419		2nd round
2010			18	1st	34	24	5	5	64	31	33	77	3,489		2nd round
2011	J2	2	20	19th	38	8	7	23	36	60	-24	31	3,692		3rd round
2012			22	20th	42	11	5	26	33	78	-45	38	3,133		3rd round
2013			22	22nd	42	5	16	21	38	74	-36	31	4,097		2nd round
2014	J3	3	12	4th	33	14	11	8	34	25	9	53	3,069		2nd round
2015			13	6th	36	14	8	14	47	41	6	50	1,932		2nd round
2016			16	15th	30	8	6	16	30	47	-17	30	1,898		2nd round
2017			17	17th	32	4	9	19	31	63	-32	21	1,559		1st round
2018			17	3rd	32	15	8	9	61	47	14	53	2,657		2nd round
2019			18	7th	34	14	8	12	49	59	-10	50	2,228		2nd round
2020 †			18	5th	34	17	6	11	47	37	10	57	703		Did not qualify
2021 †			15	12th	28	9	2	17	36	53	-17	29	1,186		2nd round
2022			18	12th	34	12	5	17	55	56	-1	41	1,745		1st round
2023			20	6th	38	14	14	10	57	52	5	56	2,131		1st round
2024			20	TBD	38									2nd round	1st round

Key

Pos. = Position in league; P = 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
Source: J.League Data Site

Honours

Gainare Tottori Honours
Honour	No.	Years
Japan Football League	1	2010
Chugoku Soccer League	1	2000

Current squad

As of 9 August 2024.^[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
3	DF	JPN	Kei Sakamoto
4	DF	JPN	Seiya Nikaido
6	DF	JPN	Hayato Nukui
7	FW	JPN	Shunnosuke Matsuki
8	DF	JPN	Keita Tanaka
9	FW	JPN	Yuta Togashi
11	MF	JPN	Atsuki Tojo
13	FW	JPN	Ryusei Takao
14	MF	JPN	Makoto Fukoin
15	MF	JPN	Sota Higashide
16	MF	JPN	Sota Maruyama
17	MF	JPN	Hideatsu Ozawa
18	FW	JPN	Shota Tanaka
19	FW	JPN	Naoto Miki
20	MF	JPN	Mio Tsuneyasu


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
21	GK	JPN	Kaito Ioka
22	DF	JPN	En Ushida
23	FW	JPN	Shinnosuke Kinoshita (on loan from Cerezo Osaka)
26	MF	JPN	Fumiya Takayanagi (on loan from Omiya Ardija)
27	MF	JPN	Yuhei Nishida
29	DF	JPN	Ryuto Koizumi
31	GK	JPN	Ryota Koma
32	MF	JPN	Taku Ikawa
33	MF	JPN	Ariajasuru Hasegawa
34	MF	JPN	Daichi Soga
35	FW	JPN	Yuto Hasegawa ^{Type 2}
39	GK	JPN	Riki Sakuraba
41	DF	JPN	Kei Oshiro
42	MF	JPN	Masaki Kaneura
55	DF	JPN	Taiki Yoshii ^{Type 2}

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	Hibiki Nagai (on loan at Okinawa SV)
—	DF	JPN	Hibiki Nishio (on loan at Fukuyama City)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	JPN	Takumi Baba (on loan at FC Kariya)

Coaching staff

Position	Name
Manager	Kentaro Hayashi
Assistant manager	Hiromu Koyano
First-team coach	Daichi Niwa
Goalkeeper coach	Hiroki Abe
Technical coach	Shoma Kurata
Trainer	Kiyoshi Otani Sota Maeda
Competent	Atsumu Ugata
Side affairs	Takuma Kawada

Managerial history

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
Manager	Nationality	Start	Finish
Yoji Mizuguchi	Japan	February 1, 2007	August 15, 2007
Witthaya Laohakul	Thailand	August 23, 2007	February 1, 2010
Takeo Matsuda	Japan	February 1, 2010	January 31, 2012
Hideo Yoshizawa	Japan	February 1, 2012	January 31, 2013
Norio Omura	Japan	December 7, 2013	August 12, 2013
Koji Maeda	Japan	August 12, 2013	January 31, 2014
Masanobu Matsunami	Japan	February 1, 2014	January 31, 2016
Tetsuji Hashiratani	Japan	February 1, 2016	January 31, 2017
Ryuzo Morioka	Japan	February 1, 2017	June 4, 2018
Daisuke Sudo	Japan	June 4, 2018	January 31, 2019
Riki Takagi	Japan	February 1, 2019	May 4, 2021
Kim Jong-song	North Korea	May 10, 2021	June 19, 2023
Kohei Masumoto (caretaker)	Japan	June 20, 2023	current