V-Varen Nagasaki

Club · Japan · J1 League

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283 Matches

134 wins

69 draws

80 losses

453–349 Goals

+104 Difference

1.6 Scored per game

Form L W L L W L

Ariake SC, founded in 1985, played prefectural football; Kunimi FC was built around graduates of a high school programme. Their merger in 2004 produced a single management corporation and in 2005 the merged side took the name V-Varen Nagasaki.

The climb ran through the amateur pyramid: the Kyushu Soccer League title in 2006, then the JFL championship in 2012. That second one mattered more than the trophy — it took the club straight into J2 for 2013, so V-Varen have never played a match in J3.

Promotion to J1 came with second place in J2 in 2017. The first season in the top flight, 2018, finished 18th and ended in relegation, and the club spent the following years within reach without getting through: third in 2020, third again in 2024, before finishing second in 2025 to go back up for 2026.

The cup runs are worth a line. Nagasaki reached the Emperor's Cup semi-finals in 2019, and the same year beat Real Salt Lake 3–1 to win the Pacific Rim Cup. Elsewhere the record is thinner: the last sixteen in 2014, 2022 and 2024.

Home is PEACESTADIUM Connected by SoftBank, a 20,000-seat ground whose name carries the city's own history rather than the club's. The blue and orange shirt is played in front of a crowd that waited two decades for a J1 season and has now been given a second.

Latest results

All matches

29 Aug	J1 League	FC Tokyo H	0:3	L
26 Aug	Emperor’s Cup	Ehime FC H	3:2	W
21 Aug	J1 League	Kashiwa Reysol A	2:4	L
15 Aug	J1 League	Fagiano Okayama A	0:1	L
9 Aug	J1 League	Kyoto Sanga H	2:1	W
17 Jul	Friendlies Clubs	Utrecht A	2:3	L

Standing

J1 League

#	Team	M	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
16	Shimizu S-Pulse	4	1	0	3	1:3	3
17	Urawa	4	1	0	3	8:13	3
18	V-Varen Nagasaki	4	1	0	3	4:9	3
19	Tokyo Verdy	4	0	2	2	2:6	2
20	JEF United Chiba	4	0	0	4	2:13	0

Full table

Team statistics

matches counted: 283

283 Matches

134 wins

69 draws

80 losses

453–349 Goals

+104 Difference

1.6 Scored per game

Season results matches counted: 283

134 69 80

wins draws losses

Scored and conceded last matches

scored — above the line conceded — below the line

Metric	Total	Home	Away
Matches	283	142	141
Scored	453	235	218
Conceded	349	160	189
Scored per game	1.6	1.7	1.5
Conceded per game	1.2	1.1	1.3
Difference	+104	+75	+29

Key players

by appearances over the last year

Hijiri Onaga Midfielder 22 Matches

Hatano Go Goalkeeper 22 Matches

Motoki Hasegawa Forward 22 Matches

Yamaguchi Hotaru Midfielder 22 Matches

Masaaki Goto Goalkeeper 22 Matches

Diego Cristiano Evaristo Midfielder 21 Matches

Tenmu Matsumoto Midfielder 21 Matches

Shunya Yoneda Midfielder 20 Matches

Squad of V-Varen Nagasaki

by appearances over the last year

Number	Player	Position	Matches
22	Hijiri Onaga	Midfielder	22
13	Hatano Go	Goalkeeper	22
41	Motoki Hasegawa	Forward	22
5	Yamaguchi Hotaru	Midfielder	22
1	Masaaki Goto	Goalkeeper	22
21	Diego Cristiano Evaristo	Midfielder	21
34	Tenmu Matsumoto	Midfielder	21
23	Shunya Yoneda	Midfielder	20
18	Yamasaki Ryogo	Forward	20
11	Norman Campbell	Midfielder	19
10	Matheus Sousa de Jesus	Forward	19
8	Yuto Iwasaki	Forward	18
24	Riku Yamada	Midfielder	18
9	Thiago Santos Santana	Forward	17
33	Tsubasa Kasayanagi	Forward	17
3	Masahiro Sekiguchi	Defender	16
4	Carlos Eduardo Bendini Giusti	Defender	16
48	Hayato Teruyama	Defender	16
6	Yusei Egawa	Defender	14
19	Takashi Sawada	Midfielder	13
50	Shindo Ryosuke	Defender	11
29	Arai Ikki	Defender	10
25	Kazuki Kushibiki	Defender	10
17	Keita Takahata	Midfielder	9
45	Roh Hyeong-Jun	Defender	4
25	Takuma Ominami	Defender	3
38	Rio Tadokooro	Defender	3
20	Nakamura Keita	Midfielder	2
39	Reijin Kou	Forward	1
26	Kaito Ioka	Goalkeeper	1
16	Emerson Deocleciano	Midfielder	1
31	Kanta Doyi	Defender	1
44	H. Nabeshima	Midfielder	1
37	N. Sasaki	Defender	1
23	Shunya Yoneda	Defender	1