Mito HollyHock

Mito HollyHock
水戸ホーリーホック
Full name	Football Club Mito HollyHock Ibaraki
Nickname(s)	HollyHock, FC Mito, Mitochan
Founded	1994; 30 years ago
Stadium	K's denki Stadium Mito; Mito, Ibaraki
Capacity	12,000
Chairman	Kunio Numata
Manager	Yoshimi Hamasaki
League	J2 League
2023	J2 League, 17th of 22
Website	Club website
Home colours	Away colours
	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	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
1997	Old JFL	16	16th	30	3 (1)	-	26	24	69	-45	10		Not eligible	2nd round
1998	Old JFL	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

Pos. = Position in league; GP = 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 home league attendance
† 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
Source: J.League Data Site

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	JPN	Koji Homma
2	DF	JPN	Koki Gotoda
3	DF	JPN	Koshi Osaki
4	DF	JPN	Nao Yamada
5	DF	JPN	Takumi Kusumoto
6	MF	JPN	Kenshin Takagishi
7	MF	JPN	Haruki Arai
8	MF	JPN	Riku Ochiai (on loan from Kashiwa Reysol)
9	FW	JPN	Mizuki Ando
10	MF	JPN	Ryosuke Maeda
11	FW	JPN	Yuki Kusano
13	MF	JPN	Ryusei Nose
14	MF	JPN	Fumiya Sugiura
15	MF	JPN	Yuto Nagao
16	DF	JPN	Tatsuya Tabira
18	DF	JPN	Yuhi Ono
19	DF	JPN	Koichi Murata
20	FW	JPN	Kaito Umeda
21	GK	JPN	Shuhei Matsubara


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
22	FW	JPN	Seiichiro Kubo
23	MF	JPN	Hidemasa Koda (on loan from Nagoya Grampus)
24	MF	JPN	Kiichi Yamazaki
27	DF	JPN	Sora Okita ^DSP
30	FW	JPN	Soki Tokuno
32	MF	JPN	Asuma Ikari
33	DF	JPN	Takeshi Ushizawa
35	DF	JPN	Ryoya Iizumi
37	GK	JPN	Minato Kamiyama ^{Type 2}
38	MF	JPN	Shunsuke Saito
41	GK	JPN	Kaiho Nakayama
42	DF	JPN	Hayata Ishii
45	FW	JPN	Shimon Teranuma
49	FW	JPN	Yusei Uchida
51	GK	JPN	Ryusei Haruna
77	MF	JPN	Ren Inoue
88	DF	JPN	Kazuma Nagai
—	MF	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	JPN	Takaya Kuroishi (on loan at Nagano Parceiro)
—	DF	JPN	Hayate Matsuda (on loan at Hannover 96)


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
—	MF	JPN	Yota Tanabe (on loan at Kochi United)

Club officials

Position	Name
Manager	Yoshimi Hamasaki
Assistant manager	Yoshitaka Yasuda Daisuke Kimori
First-team coach	Naoki Mori
Analyst & First-team coach	Ryosuke Sato
Development coach	Naoki Mori
Goalkeeper coach	Takahiro Kono
Analyst	Tsukasa Takahashi
Physical coach	Yuki Nakamura
Chief trainer	Tatsuya Doi
Trainer	Takahiro Yamada
Physiotherapist	Toru Yaguchi
Equipment manager	Shunki Iwata Yoshifumi Yoshida
Competent	Hiromitsu Nonaka

Managerial history

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
Manager	Nationality	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^[3]	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

Home side goal seat section
Home side A seat section, with supporters
Mito vs. Sapporo, 18 November 2006

References

^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "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.

External links

[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] "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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Stadium	K's denki Stadium Mito
Seasons	2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
Training ground	Atsumare Holly Pitch Twin Field
Former stadiums	Hitachinaka City Stadium Hitachi Stadium Kasamatsu Stadium