Criacao Shinjuku

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Criacao Shinjuku
クリアソン新宿
Full nameCriacao Shinjuku
Nickname(s)Criacao
Founded2005; 19 years ago (2005)
GroundAGF Field
Capacity2,800
OwnerCriacao Corporation
ChairmanKazutomo Maruyama[1]
ManagerIchiro Naruyama[1]
CoachHideaki Kitajima[1]
LeagueJapan Football League
202311th of 16
WebsiteClub website

Criacao Shinjuku (クリアソン新宿, Kuriason Shinjuku) is a Japanese semi-professional football club based in Shinjuku, Tokyo.[2] They currently play in the Japan Football League, Japanese fourth tier football league, since 2022.

History[edit]

The club was founded by the current chairman Kazutomo Maruyama as a leisure club under the name Criacao in 2005 to create an opportunity to play football even after completing his studies at Rikkyō University. After Maruyama's professional return to Tokyo, he first registered for the Japan Football Association in 2009.

Club name[edit]

Criacao is from the Portuguese criação and means translated as much as "creation", "production". In doing so, the club alludes to the club's philosophy, which states it aims to achieve "continuous generation of enthusiasm in the world through football".[3]

Road to the JFL[edit]

From 2010 to 2018, the club only played in the Tokyo Leagues, not going further than it until the club saw promotion on 2018, after finishing as runners-up in Tokyo's 1st division. After nine seasons the club finally got to debut at regional level, in the 2nd division of the Kantō Soccer League.

Immediately after being promoted to it, the club earned the division's title after winning 43 out of 51 possible points, and then, were promoted to the 1st division. Debuting on it in 2020, the club only earned a 5th-place finish.

In 2021, Criacao Shinjuku secured promotion for the Japan Football League (JFL), the 4th tier of Japanese football, via the Japanese Regional Football Champions League, which is JFL's promotion/relegation series.

JFL (2022–)[edit]

In 2022, Criacao Shinjuku finished in the 15th place of the competition, out of the 16 participating teams for the season. The club, however, was not relegated back to the Kantō League, as JFL's top 2 teams were promoted to the J3. Under the league system, Criacao would only be relegated as the 15th-placed team if no team earned promotion to the J3 during the season, which was not the case. The club also currently holds the Japan Football League attendance record, made on 9 October 2022. A crowd of 16,218 people watched the match between Suzuka Point Getters and Criacao Shinjuku at the Japan National Stadium, in Shinjuku, being the record heavily influenced by the presence of Japan former international Kazuyoshi Miura. The match ended in a 1–0 loss for Criacao.[4][5]

On 26 September 2023, Criacao Shinjuku officially obtained a J3 League license.[6]

The 2023 season is Criacao's second consecutive season in JFL.

League & cup record[edit]

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League Emperor's
Cup		 Shakaijin
Cup
Season Division Tier Pos. P W D L F A GD Pts
2010 Tokyo Metropolitan
League		 9 2nd 10 9 0 1 31 1 30 27 Did not qualify Ineligible
2011 8 1st 10 10 0 0 51 4 47 30
2012 7 2nd 12 10 1 1 32 5 27 31
2013 1st 13 12 0 1 59 7 52 36
2014 Tokyo 1st Division 1st 14 9 4 1 30 12 18 31
2015 3rd 14 9 4 1 34 12 22 31
2016 2nd 13 9 3 1 29 14 15 30
2017 7th 13 6 1 6 24 22 2 19
2018 2nd 15 11 2 2 35 8 27 35
2019 Kantō 2nd Division 6 1st 18 14 1 3 42 20 22 43
2020 Kantō 1st
Division		 5 5th 9 5 0 4 11 7 4 15 Not held
2021 1st 22 16 2 4 50 23 27 50 Cancelled[a]
2022 JFL 4 15th 30 6 6 18 30 52 -22 24 Ineligible
2023 11th 28 10 4 14 25 33 –8 34 1st round
2024 TBD 30 TBC
Key
  • Pos. = Position in league; P = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals for; A = Goal against; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points gained
  • JFL Data [7]
  1. ^ Criacao was scheduled to play the tournament, from the 1st round, where they would be playing Tadotsu FC. The 2020 competition was deemed cancelled before its start, in response to COVID-19-related issues, that only allowed the competition to be played again the year after.

Honours[edit]

Criacao Shinjuku honours
Honours No. Years
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Division 2 1 2011
Tokyo Metropolitan Government Division 1 1 2013
Tokyo Division 1 1 2014
Kantō Division 2 1 2019
Kantō Division 1 1 2021
Japanese Regional Football Champions League 1 2021

Current squad[edit]

As of 4 April 2024.[8]

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 Yuta Abe
2 MF Japan JPN Kazuki Segawa
3 FW Japan JPN Junki Koike
4 DF Japan JPN Yuya Aizawa (on loan from Roasso Kumamoto)
5 MF Japan JPN Keita Ishii
7 MF Japan JPN Eisuke Atsumi
8 MF Japan JPN Takeaki Sudo (captain)
9 FW Japan JPN Ryo Harada
11 FW Japan JPN Hiroki Scharod Akai
13 MF Japan JPN Koya Takahashi
14 MF Japan JPN Naoto Sawai
15 DF Japan JPN Yu Yonehara
16 DF Japan JPN Ryotaro Takeuchi (on loan from Sagan Tosu)
17 MF Japan JPN Yuki Ikeya
18 FW Japan JPN Kazuki Saito
No. Pos. Nation Player
19 MF Japan JPN Masaki Ueno
21 MF Japan JPN Yuto Nakayama
23 GK Japan JPN Sotaro Tsuruta
24 MF Japan JPN Daiki Nishiyama
25 DF Japan JPN Jotaro Chiba
27 GK Japan JPN Suguru Asanuma
29 DF Japan JPN Naoki Koyahara
30 MF Japan JPN Shinto Kojima
31 FW Japan JPN Junya Osaki
33 FW Japan JPN Tsubasa Sano
37 MF North Korea PRK Hwang Song-su
39 DF Japan JPN Shoto Suzuki
41 GK Japan JPN Nao Iwadate
44 MF Japan JPN Seiji Imai
50 FW Japan JPN Tatsuya Okamoto

Club staff[edit]

Position Staff
Manager Japan Hideaki Kitajima
Assistant manager Japan Ichiro Nariyama
First-team coach Japan Musashi Saida
Goalkeeper Coach Japan Kazushige Kirihata
Doctor Japan Takahisa Haraguchi
Trainer JPN}} Keigo Nakahara
Japan Atsushi Takai
Japan Satoko Maeda
Competent Japan Taichi Ise
Side affairs Japan Sho Nakamura
Japan Miu Hirotani

Managerial history[edit]

Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
Ichiro Naruyama  Japan 1 February 2018 31 January 2024
Hideaki Kitajima 16 November 2023 present

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "チーム | Criacao Shinjuku Official Site" [Team | Criacao Shinjuku Official Site]. criacao.co.jp (in Japanese). Criacao Shinjuku. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
  2. ^ "アセットリードはCRIACAO SHINJUKU（クリアソン新宿）を応援しています". assetlead.co.jp (in Japanese). AssetLead. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  3. ^ "Club Name". criacao.co.jp. Retrieved 24 March 2022.
  4. ^ "第２４回ＪＦＬ 第２４節「国立競技場でＪＦＬ最多16,218人の来場者の中、鈴鹿が新宿との接戦を制す！". jfl.or.jp (in Japanese). Japan Football League. 9 October 2022. Retrieved 1 November 2022.
  5. ^ "JFL史上最多動員を記録。当事者が明かすクリアソン新宿、国立開催の舞台裏". footballista.jp (in Japanese). Footballista. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
  6. ^ "Criacao Shinjuku J3クラブライセンス交付のお知らせと、代表 丸山から皆さまへのメッセージ". Criacao Shinjuku (in Japanese). 26 September 2023. Retrieved 27 September 2023.
  7. ^ "Japan Football League". www.jfl.or.jp. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  8. ^ "チーム". Criacao Shinjuku.

External links[edit]

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