Shonan Bellmare
Shonan Bellmare (湘南ベルマーレ, Shōnan Berumāre) is a Japanese professional association football club currently playing in J2 League. The team is located in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium. Shonan refers to a coastal area along Sagami Bay that includes Hiratsuka. Bellmare is a portmanteau of the Italian words bello and mare, meaning "beautiful sea".
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| Full name | Shonan Bellmare | ||
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| Founded | 1968 | ||
| Ground | Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka Hiratsuka, Kanagawa (capacity: 18,500) | ||
| Chairman | Kiyoshi Makabe | ||
| Manager | Cho Kwi-jea | ||
| League | J2 League | ||
| Website | Club home page | ||
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History
The club was founded in 1968.[1]
- 1968-1974 Towa Real Estate SC
- 1975-1993 Fujita Industries SC
- 1994-1999 Bellmare Hiratsuka
- 2000-present Shonan Bellmare
League title
- Japan Soccer League Division 1 : 3
- 1977, 1979, 1981
- Japan Soccer League Division 2 : 1
- 1991/92
- Japan Football League Division 1 : 1
- 1993
League position
Former position
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Notable achievement
The team has some notable achievements.
In 2010, Frode Johnsen made three goals in one game against Shimizu S-Pulse.[2]
Shonan Bellmare Media
Hidetoshi Nakata, who won the Asian Cup Winners' Cup trophy in 1996
Related pages
References
- ↑ Shonan Bellmare. Soccerway.com. Retrieved 2012-03-03.
- ↑ WorldFootball.net, "3 Goals in one game"[dead link]; retrieved 2012-7-5.
Other websites
Media related to Shonan Bellmare at Wikimedia Commons
- Shonan Bellmare website (in Japanese)
- J.League Club Guide Archived 2013-01-31 at the Wayback Machine
