Mitsubishi Mizushima FC

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Mizushima F.C.
三菱水島

Full name	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima Football Club
Nickname(s)	Red Adamant
Founded	1946; 78 years ago (1946)
Ground	Okayama Kasaoka Athletic Stadium Kasaoka, Okayama
Capacity	5,000
Owner	Mitsubishi Motors
Manager	Toshiya Yamashita
League	Chugoku Soccer League
2024	5th of 10
Home colours Away colours

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.

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 five 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 eighteen 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 Chūgoku 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 Chūgoku Soccer League.

In 2021, they won for the 7th time the Chūgoku 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.

As of 30 April 2024. ^[2]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Takeru Hanafusa 2 DF  JPN Nagi Kishimoto 3 DF  JPN Takuma Yasuda 4 MF  JPN Moeto Omura 5 DF  JPN Yuki Nagaya 6 MF  JPN Koki Fukuda 7 MF  JPN Kazuma Saito 8 MF  JPN Yutaro Imai 9 MF  JPN Noriya Okamoto 10 FW  JPN Ryuji Miyazawa 11 FW  JPN Shota Takase 13 DF  JPN Soma Yamamoto

No. Pos. Nation Player 14 DF  JPN Tatsunori Maehara 16 FW  JPN Kaito Tanaka 17 FW  JPN Komei Ozaki 18 FW  JPN Kenshiro Tsunashima 19 FW  JPN Haruto Ikemoto 20 FW  JPN Asafu Yamamura 21 MF  JPN Tomoya Nakagawa 22 MF  JPN Shunto Uemura 26 GK  JPN Naoki Kitamura 30 GK  JPN Hironori Taki 33 MF  JPN Shinta Nagao

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