Tokushima Vortis

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Tokushima Vortis ( 徳島ヴォルティス, Tokushima Vorutisu ) is a japanese professional football club, presently playing in the J1 League. The team is located in Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture. Their home stadium is Naruto Otsuka Sports Park Pocari Sweat Stadium, in Naruto, Tokushima. The name, “ Vortis ” was named in 1997 ( see below ), and it was explained as a combination of italian “ Vor tice ” ( meaning eddy, after the celebrated Naruto eddy in Naruto Strait ). [ 1 ]

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history [edit ]

Founded in 1955 as Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. Soccer Club, VORTIS joined the J-League in 2005. They are calm sponsored by Otsuka ‘s best-known brand, Pocari Sweat sports swallow. [ 1 ] They were first promoted to the previous Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1989, but the company ‘s reluctance to professionalize the team forced it to compete in the former JFL and current JFL. In the 1997 old JFL season, they first sported a Vortis Tokushima appoint, but the lack of fan interest at the time forced them to go bet on to the corporate identity. They last adopted the Tokushima Vortis name for full after winning the new JFL championship in 2004 and being promoted. [ 2 ] The first season in J2 was naturally a difficult one for Vortis, but they surprised many sceptics with their decision and timbre of play. The team rose deoxyadenosine monophosphate high as fourthly space, at one indicate, before slipping down the table belated in the season to finish one-ninth. In 2006, the team was forced to rebuild, as the players who took the team into the J.League began to hit the ceiling of their abilities, and made way for younger replacements. As a result, despite the encouragement of a local competition with Ehime FC, Tokushima drifted down-table, and they followed it up with a last finish in 2007 and 2008. [ 2 ] In 2013 they earned fourth plaza in J2, matching the like placement they had two years before in the division and twenty years before in the previous JFL Division 1 ; this time they won the playoff, defeating Kyoto Sanga F.C. in the final round at the National Stadium in Tokyo, thus becoming the first base professional Shikoku football club to compete in the top division of their national league. [ 3 ] Until their promotion, they were the only former JSL extremity presently a member of the J.League which has never competed in the top tier of japanese football. With forwarding and the universe of the J3 League in 2014, the distinction was taken over by Blaublitz Akita. In the 2019 season they finished 4th again and were one win away from a return key to J1 in the playoffs, but ultimately failed to beat Shonan Bellmare away in the final game. In 2020, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, they did one better and were promoted as J2 champions .

record as J.League penis [edit ]

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted
Relegated

League
J.League Cup
Emperor’s Cup

Season
Div.
Teams
Pos.
Attendance/G

2005

J2
12
9th
4,366
–
4th round

2006

13
13th
3,477
–
4th round

2007

13
13th
3,289
–
4th round

2008

15
15th
3,862
–
3rd round

2009

18
9th
4,073
–
2nd round

2010

19
8th
4,614
–
3rd round

2011

20
4th
5,207
–
2nd round

2012

22
15th
3,991
–
3rd round

2013

22
4th
4,348
–
2nd round

2014

J1
18
18th
8,884
Group stage
3rd round

2015

J2
22
14th
5,019
–
4th round

2016

22
9th
4,565
–
3rd round

2017

22
7th
4,979
–
2nd round

2018

22
11th
4,997
–
3rd round

2019

22
4th
5,736
–
3rd round

2020 †

22
1st
3,100
–
Semi-finalist

2021

J1
20
17th
5,664
Group stage
3rd round

Key

Pos. = Position in league
Attendance/G = Average league home attendance
† 2020 season attendance reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
Source: J. League Data Site

Honours [edit ]

J2 League: 1

Japan Football League: 2

2003, 2004

Shikoku Football League: 4

1978, 1979, 1981, 1989

current players [edit ]

As of 31 August 2021[4]

note : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .

Out on loan [edit ]

bill : Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality .