Criacao Shinjuku
{{Short description|Japanese football club}}
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| clubname = Criacao Shinjuku
クリアソン新宿
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| fullname = Criacao Shinjuku
| nickname = Criacao
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| founded = {{start date and age|2005}}
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| ground = AGF Field
| capacity = 2,800
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| owner = Criacao Corporation
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| chairman = Kazutomo Maruyama{{cite web |url=https://criacao.co.jp/soccerclub/member/ |title=チーム {{!}} Criacao Shinjuku Official Site
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| manager = Hideaki Kitajima
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| position = {{Japanese football updater|CriacaoSh3}}
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{{Nihongo|Criacao Shinjuku|クリアソン新宿|Kuriason Shinjuku}} is a Japanese semi-professional football club based in Shinjuku, Tokyo.{{cite web|url=https://assetlead.co.jp/csr/criacao_shinjuku/|title=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|access-date=23 December 2022|language=ja|website=assetlead.co.jp|publisher=AssetLead}} They currently play in the Japan Football League, Japanese fourth tier football league, since 2022.
==History==
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=
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".{{cite web |title=Club Name |url=https://criacao.co.jp/soccerclub/philosophy/ |website=criacao.co.jp |access-date=24 March 2022}}
= Road to the JFL =
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–) =
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.jfl.or.jp/jfl-pc/view/s.php?a=2046|title=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！|access-date=1 November 2022|date=9 October 2022|website=jfl.or.jp|publisher=Japan Football League|language=ja}}{{cite web|url=https://www.footballista.jp/special/147303|title=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|access-date=23 December 2022|language=ja|website=footballista.jp|publisher=Footballista}}
On 26 September 2023, Criacao Shinjuku officially obtained a J3 League license.{{cite web |title=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 |url=https://criacao.co.jp/soccerclub/information/post-14983/ |website=Criacao Shinjuku |access-date=27 September 2023|language=ja |date=26 September 2023}}
The 2025 season is Criacao's fourth consecutive season in JFL.
League & cup record
| class="wikitable"
|bgcolor=gold|Champions |bgcolor=silver|Runners-up |bgcolor=ff6600|Third place |bgcolor=palegreen|Promoted |bgcolor=pink|Relegated |
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
!colspan="12"|League !!rowspan="2"|Emperor's | ||||||||||||
| Season | Division | Tier | Pos. | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010
|rowspan="4"|Tokyo Metropolitan | 9 | bgcolor=silver|2nd | 10 | 9 | 0 | 1 | 31 | 1 | 30 | 27 | rowspan="13"|Did not qualify | rowspan="10"|Ineligible |
| 2011
|8 | bgcolor=gold|1st | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 51 | 4 | 47 | 30 | |||
| 2012
|rowspan="7"|7 | bgcolor=silver|2nd | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 32 | 5 | 27 | 31 | |||
| 2013
|bgcolor=gold| 1st | 13 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 59 | 7 | 52 | 36 | ||||
| 2014
|rowspan="5"|Tokyo 1st Division | bgcolor=gold| 1st | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 30 | 12 | 18 | 31 | |||
| 2015
|bgcolor=ff6600|3rd | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 12 | 22 | 31 | ||||
| 2016
|bgcolor=silver|2nd | 13 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 29 | 14 | 15 | 30 | ||||
| 2017
|7th | 13 | 6 | 1 | 6 | 24 | 22 | 2 | 19 | ||||
| 2018
|bgcolor=silver|2nd | 15 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 35 | 8 | 27 | 35 | ||||
| 2019 | 6 | bgcolor=gold| 1st | 18 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 42 | 20 | 22 | 43 | ||
| 2020
|rowspan="2"|Kantō 1st | rowspan="2"|5 | 5th | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 15 | Not held | |
| 2021
|bgcolor=gold|1st | 22 | 16 | 2 | 4 | 50 | 23 | 27 | 50 | Cancelled{{efn|note=CC|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.}} | |||
| 2022
|rowspan="4"|JFL | rowspan="4"|4 | 15th | 30 | 6 | 6 | 18 | 30 | 52 | | ||||
| 22 | 24 | rowspan="4"|Ineligible | ||||||||||
| 2023 | 11th | 28 | 10 | 4 | 14 | 25 | 33 | | |||||
| 8 | 34 | 1st round | ||||||||||
| 2024 | 14th | 30 | 5 | 11 | 14 | 19 | 44 | | |||||
| 25 | 26 | Did not qualify | ||||||||||
| 2025 | TBD | 30 | TBC |
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- 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 {{cite web |title=Japan Football League |url=http://www.jfl.or.jp/jfl-pc/view/s.php?a=1926 |website=www.jfl.or.jp |access-date=7 July 2022}}
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Honours
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|+Criacao Shinjuku honours !scope=col|Honours !scope=col|No. !scope=col|Years |
| scope=row|Tokyo Metropolitan Government Division 2
|align="center"|1 |2011 |
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| scope=row|Tokyo Metropolitan Government Division 1
|align="center"|1 |2013 |
| scope=row|Tokyo Division 1
|align="center"|1 |2014 |
| scope=row|Kantō Division 2
|align="center"|1 |2019 |
| scope=row|Kantō Division 1
|align="center"|1 |2021 |
| scope=row|Japanese Regional Football Champions League
|align="center"|1 |2021 |
Current squad
{{Updated|4 April 2024.}}{{Cite web|url=https://criacao.co.jp/soccerclub/member/|title = チーム|publisher=Criacao Shinjuku}}
{{fs start}}
{{fs player|no= 1|pos=GK|nat=JPN|name=Yuta Abe}}
{{fs player|no= 2|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Kazuki Segawa}}
{{fs player|no= 3|pos=FW|nat=JPN|name=Junki Koike}}
{{fs player|no= 4|pos=DF|nat=JPN|name=Yuya Aizawa|other=on loan from Roasso Kumamoto}}
{{fs player|no= 5|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Keita Ishii}}
{{fs player|no= 7|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Eisuke Atsumi}}
{{fs player|no= 8|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Takeaki Sudo|other=captain}}
{{fs player|no= 9|pos=FW|nat=JPN|name=Ryo Harada}}
{{fs player|no=11|pos=FW|nat=JPN|name=Hiroki Scharod Akai}}
{{fs player|no=13|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Koya Takahashi}}
{{fs player|no=14|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Naoto Sawai}}
{{fs player|no=15|pos=DF|nat=JPN|name=Yu Yonehara}}
{{fs player|no=16|pos=DF|nat=JPN|name=Ryotaro Takeuchi|other=on loan from Sagan Tosu}}
{{fs player|no=17|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Yuki Ikeya}}
{{fs player|no=18|pos=FW|nat=JPN|name=Kazuki Saito}}
{{fs mid}}
{{fs player|no=19|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Masaki Ueno}}
{{fs player|no=21|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Yuto Nakayama}}
{{fs player|no=23|pos=GK|nat=JPN|name=Sotaro Tsuruta}}
{{fs player|no=24|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Daiki Nishiyama}}
{{fs player|no=25|pos=DF|nat=JPN|name=Jotaro Chiba}}
{{fs player|no=27|pos=GK|nat=JPN|name=Suguru Asanuma}}
{{fs player|no=29|pos=DF|nat=JPN|name=Naoki Koyahara}}
{{fs player|no=30|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Shinto Kojima}}
{{fs player|no=31|pos=FW|nat=JPN|name=Junya Osaki}}
{{fs player|no=33|pos=FW|nat=JPN|name=Tsubasa Sano}}
{{fs player|no=37|pos=MF|nat=PRK|name=Hwang Song-su}}
{{fs player|no=39|pos=DF|nat=JPN|name=Shoto Suzuki}}
{{fs player|no=41|pos=GK|nat=JPN|name=Nao Iwadate}}
{{fs player|no=44|pos=MF|nat=JPN|name=Seiji Imai}}
{{fs player|no=50|pos=FW|nat=JPN|name=Tatsuya Okamoto}}
{{fs end}}
Club staff
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| Position | Staff |
|---|---|
| Manager | {{flagicon|JPN}} Hideaki Kitajima |
| Assistant manager | {{flagicon|JPN}} Ichiro Nariyama |
| First-team coach | {{flagicon|JPN}} Musashi Saida |
| Goalkeeper Coach | {{flagicon|JPN}} Kazushige Kirihata |
| Doctor | {{flagicon|JPN}} Takahisa Haraguchi |
| Trainer | {{flagicon|JPN}} Keigo Nakahara {{flagicon|JPN}} Atsushi Takai {{flagicon|JPN}} Satoko Maeda |
| Competent | {{flagicon|JPN}} Taichi Ise |
| Side affairs | {{flagicon|JPN}} Sho Nakamura {{flagicon|JPN}} Miu Hirotani |
Managerial history
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!rowspan="2"|Manager !!rowspan="2"|Nationality !!colspan="2"|Tenure | |||
| Start | Finish | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Ichiro Naruyama | rowspan="2"|{{JPN}} | 1 February 2018 | 31 January 2024 |
| Hideaki Kitajima | 16 November 2023 | present |
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
- [https://criacao.co.jp/soccerclub/ Official website]
- [https://criacao.co.jp/ Criacao Corporation]
{{Japan Football League}}
{{Japanese Club Football|group=clubs}}
Category:2005 establishments in Japan
Category:Association football clubs established in 2005
Category:Football clubs in Japan
Category:Football clubs in Tokyo