Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima F.C.

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima F.C.
三菱自動車水島F.C.

Full name	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima Football Club
Nickname(s)	Red Adamant
Founded	1946
Ground	Okayama Kasaoka Athletic Stadium Kasaoka, Okayama (Capacity: 5,000)
Manager	Masashi Kumashiro
League	Chugoku League
Home colours Away colours

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima F.C. (三菱自動車水島FC, Mitsubishi Jidōsha Mizushima Efu Shī^?) are a football (soccer) club based in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. They play in the Okayama Prefectural League Division 1.

History

The club was founded in 1946 to provide recreational activities in the war-torn Mizushima area of Kurashiki city. They joined the Okayama Prefecture League in 1965 and were promoted to the Chūgoku Regional League in 1979 for the first time.

They were relegated to the Prefecture League in 1982 and stayed there for 8 years. After re-entering the Chūgoku League, they won 5 championships before being promoted to the JFL in 2005.

In recent years they have adopted the moniker "Red Adamant" (after their parent company Mitsubishi Motors and its former flagship football club, now known as Urawa Red Diamonds), with an aim to eventually join J. League and be a star club in their own right. A potential obstacle to this will be the newly promoted Fagiano Okayama, with whom they have had to share Momotaro Athletic Stadium in Okayama City for recent JFL fixtures.

In 2008 they finished dead last of 18, but were spared the drop due to the promotion of Okayama, Kataller Toyama and Tochigi S.C.

In November 2009, the club announced they would withdraw from the JFL after the end of the 2009 season because of the lack of the financial resources to operate in the league. After their membership application was refused by the Chugoku Regional League, they decided to compete in the Okayama Prefectural League Division 1 in 2010.

Results in JFL

2005: 16th
2006: 17th
2007: 15th
2008: 18th
2009: 18th, withdrawn from JFL

External links

• (Japanese) Official Website