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Mito HollyHock
水戸ホーリーホック
Full nameFootball Club Mito HollyHock Ibaraki
Nickname(s)HollyHock, FC Mito, Mitochan
Founded1994 (1994)
StadiumK's denki Stadium Mito
Mito, Ibaraki
Capacity12,000
ChairmanKunio Numata
ManagerNaoki Mori
LeagueJ2 League
2024J2 League, 15th of 20
Websitewww.mito-hollyhock.net
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. P 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 15th 38 11 11 16 39 51 -12 44 4,406 First round 3rd round
2025 20 TBA 38 TBD TBD
Key
  • Pos. = Position in league; P = 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

Honours

Mito HollyHock honours
Honour No. Years
Kantō Soccer League 1 1995
Shakaijin Cup 1 1995

Current squad

As of 30 March 2025.[2] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
2 DF Japan JPN Sho Omori
3 DF Japan JPN Koshi Osaki
4 DF Japan JPN Takeshi Ushizawa
5 DF Japan JPN Tetsuya Chinen (on loan from Vegalta Sendai)
6 DF Japan JPN Takahiro Iida
7 FW Japan JPN Arata Watanabe
8 MF Japan JPN Shunsuke Saito
9 FW Japan JPN Mizuki Ando
10 DF Japan JPN Ryosuke Maeda
11 FW Japan JPN Yuki Kusano
14 MF Japan JPN Fumiya Sugiura
15 MF Japan JPN Yuto Nagao
17 MF Japan JPN Kosei Ashibe (on loan from Machida Zelvia)
18 DF Japan JPN Yuhi Ono
19 DF Japan JPN Koichi Murata
20 FW Japan JPN Kaito Umeda
21 GK Japan JPN Shuhei Matsubara
22 FW Japan JPN Seiichiro Kubo
No. Pos. Nation Player
23 MF Japan JPN Takumi Tsukui
24 MF Japan JPN Kiichi Yamazaki
25 FW Japan JPN Keisuke Tada
27 DF Japan JPN Sora Okita
28 MF Japan JPN Kota Saga
31 GK Japan JPN Kenta Matsuyama
32 MF Japan JPN Asuma Ikari
34 GK Japan JPN Konosuke Nishikawa
35 DF Japan JPN Ryoya Iizumi
36 DF Japan JPN Kenta Itakura
39 MF Japan JPN Hayata Yamamoto
40 MF Japan JPN Shunta Morimura
41 MF Japan JPN Ryusei Nose
44 FW Japan JPN Koya Okuda
45 FW Japan JPN Shimon Teranuma
77 GK Japan JPN Uwabright Hayakawa
82 MF Japan JPN Kotatsu Kawakami
97 DF Japan JPN Travis Takahashi

Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
49 FW Japan JPN Yusei Uchida (at Kochi United)
— GK Japan JPN Ryusei Haruna (at Tegevajaro Miyazaki)
— DF Japan JPN Hayate Matsuda (at Germany Hannover 96)
No. Pos. Nation Player
— DF Japan JPN Kazuma Nagai (at Blaublitz Akita)
— MF Japan JPN Yota Tanabe (at Kochi United)
30 FW Japan JPN Soki Tokuno (at Kochi United)

Club officials

Position Name
Manager Japan Naoki Mori
Assistant manager Japan Yoshitaka Yasuda
Japan Daisuke Kimori
Analyst & First-team coach Japan Ryosuke Sato
Development coach Japan Naoki Mori
Goalkeeper coach Japan Takahiro Kono
Analyst Japan Tsukasa Takahashi
Physical coach Japan Yuki Nakamura
Chief trainer Japan Tatsuya Doi
Trainer Japan Takahiro Yamada
Physiotherapist Japan Toru Yaguchi
Equipment manager Japan Shunki Iwata
Japan Yoshifumi Yoshida
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[3]  Japan 1 February 2023 4 May 2024[4]
Naoki Mori  Japan 9 May 2024 current

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
2024
2025 -
Away Jersey
2000 - 2002
2003 - 2005
2006 - 2007
2008 - 2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025 -

Images from the former home stadium

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

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. ^ "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.
  4. ^ "濱崎芳己監督 解任のお知らせ". mito-hollyhock.net (in Japanese). Mito HollyHock. 4 May 2024. Retrieved 6 May 2024.