Mito HollyHock
水戸ホーリーホック
Full nameFootball Club Mito HollyHock Ibaraki
Nickname(s)HollyHock, FC Mito, Mitochan
Founded1994; 30 years ago (1994)
StadiumK's denki Stadium Mito
Mito, Ibaraki
Capacity12,000
ChairmanKunio Numata
ManagerYoshimi Hamasaki
LeagueJ2 League
2023J2 League, 17th of 22
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Mito HollyHock (水戸ホーリーホック, Mito Hōrīhokku) is a Japanese professional football (soccer) club located in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture. The team currently playing in the J2 League, Japanese second tier of professional football.

Name origin

Its nickname "HollyHock" derives from the family crest of the Tokugawa clan who governed from Mito in the Edo period.

History

The club was founded in 1990 as Prima Aseno FC by the factory workers of Prima Ham (a food company) in Tsuchiura. It changed its name to Prima Ham FC Tsuchiura and gained promotion to the Japan Football League after finishing as runner-up in the 1996 Regional League play-off. It merged with FC Mito (founded in 1994) and re-branded itself as Mito HollyHock before the start of the 1997 season when Prima Ham decided to discontinue its financial support to the club.

Mito's application to play in the inaugural 1999 season of J. League Division 2 was initially turned down due to financial unstability, and low home attendance at their stadium. However, after finishing 3rd in the Japan Football League in 1999, and having an increasing stadium attendance, the club was invited into the J. League in 2000.

Mito HollyHock also fields teams in e-sports and in Ice Hockey[1] (Ibaraki Prefectural League).

League and cup record

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League J. League
Cup		 Emperor's
Cup
Season Div. Teams Pos. GP W (OTW / PKW) D L (OTL / PKL) F A GD Pts Attendance/G
1997 Old JFL 16 16th 30 3 (1) - 26 24 69 -45 10 Not eligible 2nd round
1998 16 14th 30 7 (1) - 22 37 69 -32 23 3rd round
1999 New JFL 9 3rd 24 13 (3) 0 8 (0) 48 32 16 45 891 3rd round
2000 J2 10 9th 40 9 (6) 4 19 (2) 37 61 -24 43 2,021 1st round 3rd round
2001 12 11th 44 5 (3) 4 26 (6) 41 93 -52 25 1,559 1st round 3rd round
2002 12 10th 44 11 7 26 45 73 -28 40 2,739 Not eligible 3rd round
2003 12 7th 44 15 11 18 37 41 -4 56 3,085 3rd round
2004 12 9th 44 6 19 19 33 60 -27 37 3,773 4th round
2005 12 10th 44 13 13 18 41 57 -16 52 3,334 4th round
2006 13 10th 48 14 9 25 48 69 -21 51 3,017 3rd round
2007 13 12th 48 8 10 30 32 70 -38 34 2,415 4th round
2008 15 11th 42 13 8 21 52 70 -18 47 3,044 4th round
2009 18 8th 51 21 10 20 70 79 -9 73 2,673 2nd round
2010 19 16th 36 8 14 14 29 45 -16 38 3,608 3rd round
2011 20 17th 38 11 9 18 40 49 -9 42 3,349 4th round
2012 22 13th 42 15 11 16 47 49 -2 56 3,973 3rd round
2013 22 15th 42 14 13 15 50 58 -8 55 4,630 3rd round
2014 22 15th 42 12 14 16 46 46 0 50 4,734 3rd round
2015 22 19th 42 10 16 16 40 47 -7 46 4,816 4th round
2016 22 13th 42 10 18 14 45 49 -4 48 5,365 2nd round
2017 22 14th 42 14 12 16 45 48 -3 54 4,931 2nd round
2018 22 10th 42 16 9 17 48 46 2 57 4,938 3rd round
2019 22 7th 42 19 13 10 56 37 19 70 6,087 3rd round
2020 † 22 9th 42 16 10 16 68 62 6 58 2,018 Did not qualify
2021 † 22 10th 42 16 11 15 59 50 9 59 2,696 2nd round
2022 22 13th 42 14 12 16 47 46 -1 54 3,140 2nd round
2023 22 17th 42 11 14 17 49 66 -17 47 3,726 3rd round
2024 20 TBA 38 First round TBC
Key

Current squad

As of 26 March 2024.[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 Japan JPN Koji Homma
2 DF Japan JPN Koki Gotoda
3 DF Japan JPN Koshi Osaki
4 DF Japan JPN Nao Yamada
5 DF Japan JPN Takumi Kusumoto
6 MF Japan JPN Kenshin Takagishi
7 MF Japan JPN Haruki Arai
8 MF Japan JPN Riku Ochiai (on loan from Kashiwa Reysol)
9 FW Japan JPN Mizuki Ando
10 MF Japan JPN Ryosuke Maeda
11 FW Japan JPN Yuki Kusano
13 MF Japan JPN Ryusei Nose
14 MF Japan JPN Fumiya Sugiura
15 MF Japan JPN Yuto Nagao
16 DF Japan JPN Tatsuya Tabira
18 DF Japan JPN Yuhi Ono
19 DF Japan JPN Koichi Murata
20 FW Japan JPN Kaito Umeda
21 GK Japan JPN Shuhei Matsubara
No. Pos. Nation Player
22 FW Japan JPN Seiichiro Kubo
23 MF Japan JPN Hidemasa Koda (on loan from Nagoya Grampus)
24 MF Japan JPN Kiichi Yamazaki
27 DF Japan JPN Sora Okita DSP
30 FW Japan JPN Soki Tokuno
32 MF Japan JPN Asuma Ikari
33 DF Japan JPN Takeshi Ushizawa
35 DF Japan JPN Ryoya Iizumi
37 GK Japan JPN Minato Kamiyama Type 2
38 MF Japan JPN Shunsuke Saito
41 GK Japan JPN Kaiho Nakayama
42 DF Japan JPN Hayata Ishii
45 FW Japan JPN Shimon Teranuma
49 FW Japan JPN Yusei Uchida
51 GK Japan JPN Ryusei Haruna
77 MF Japan JPN Ren Inoue
88 DF Japan JPN Kazuma Nagai
— MF Japan JPN Atsushi Kurokawa (on loan from Machida Zelvia)

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 Japan JPN Takaya Kuroishi (on loan at Nagano Parceiro)
— DF Japan JPN Hayate Matsuda (on loan at Germany Hannover 96)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— MF Japan JPN Yota Tanabe (on loan at Kochi United)

Club officials

For the 2023 season.[3]

Position Name
Manager Japan Yoshimi Hamasaki
Assistant manager Japan Yoshitaka Yasuda
Japan Yuji Iida
Japan Toshimasa Toba
Japan Kazuki Kamizono
Japan Takuro Nishimura
Japan Daisuke Tomita
Japan Takuro Nishimura
First-team coach Japan Naoki Mori
Analyst & First-team coach Japan Ryosuke Sato
Coach Japan Daisuke Mori
Goalkeeper coach Japan Takahiro Kono
Japan Yuta Sumi
South Korea Pyeon Tae-hwi
Chief trainer and S&C coach Japan Tatsuya Doi
Trainer Japan Takahiro Yamada
Japan Toru Yaguchi
Conditioner and trainer Japan Yuki Nakamura
Competent Japan Hiromitsu Nonaka

Managerial history

Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
Gert Engels  Germany 1 July 1990 30 January 1993
Yuji Nakano  Japan 1 January 1992 31 December 1997
Toshiya Miura  Japan 1 February 1998 31 January 1999
Branko Babić  Serbia 1 January 2000 31 December 2000
Hiroshi Kobayashi  Japan 1 February 2001 16. July 2001
Masaaki Kanno  Japan 17 July 2001 31 January 2003
Hideki Maeda  Japan 1 January 2003 31 December 2007
Takashi Kiyama  Japan 1 February 2008 31 January 2011
Tetsuji Hashiratani  Japan 1 February 2011 7 June 2015
Takayuki Nishigaya  Japan 27 June 2015 31 January 2018
Shigetoshi Hasebe  Japan 1 February 2018 31 January 2020
Tadahiro Akiba  Japan 1 February 2020 31 January 2023
Yoshimi Hamasaki[4]  Japan 1 February 2023 –

Kit evolution

Home Jersey
2000 - 2002
2003 - 2004
2005
2006 - 2007
2008 - 2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021 -
2022
2023 -
Away Jersey
2000 - 2002
2003 - 2005
2006 - 2007
2008 - 2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023 -

Images from the former home stadium

References

  1. ^ "水戸ホーリーホックアイスホッケー部". Archived from the original on 2022-07-11. Retrieved 2022-07-05.
  2. ^ "トップチーム選手名鑑". 水戸ホーリーホック公式サイト. 14 August 2020. Archived from the original on 2 April 2022. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
  3. ^ "2023シーズントップチームスタッフ体制のお知らせ". mito-hollyhock.net. Mito HollyHock. 6 January 2023. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 6 January 2023.
  4. ^ "濱崎芳己ヘッドコーチ 監督就任のお知らせ". mito-hollyhock.net (in Japanese). Mito HollyHock. 27 October 2022. Archived from the original on 27 October 2022. Retrieved 27 October 2022.

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