Oita Trinita

Oita Trinita
大分トリニータ

Full name	Oita Trinita
Nickname(s)	Trinita (トリニータ, Torinīta?) Azzurro (Azūro?) Camenaccio (カメナチオ, Kamenachio?)
Founded	1994
Ground	Ōita Bank Dome ("Big Eye") Ōita (Capacity: 43,254)
Chairman	Hiroshi Mizohata
Manager	Tasaka Kazuaki
League	J. League Division 2
2010	15th Place
Home colours Away colours

Oita Trinita (大分トリニータ, Ōita Torinīta^?) is a J. League Division 2 team. The team name Trinita can be considered either a combination of the English word trinity and Ōita, or the Italian word trinità. The dual meaning expresses the will of the citizens, companies, and local governments to support the team.

The team's home town is Ōita city, but the club draws support from Beppu, Saiki and the entire Ōita Prefecture. Its home ground is Kyushu Oil Dome also called "Big Eye" and practices at the adjacent football and rugby field, River Park Inukai, and Ōita City Public Ground.

History

Old crest

The youngest team currently playing in J1, the team started as Oita Trinity in 1994 and advanced through the Ōita Prefectural League, Kyushu League and finished as the runner-up at the 1996 National League, resulting in promotion to the JFL. In 1999, they changed their name to Trinita due to a copyright infringement, joined the J2 league and placed third. The team also placed third in 2000, and despite being in competition for promotion till the last game, it finished in sixth the next season. The following year, it won the J2 league championship and finally earned promoted to the J1 league. In 2008, they won J. League Cup, the first major title won by a Kyūshū club since the former Yawata Steel club's wins of Emperor's Cup in the 1960s.

In 2009 season, they suffered worst-ever results in their seven-year J1 history, including 14-game straight loss for league matches, which is the current worst record of J. League since Golden goal system is eliminated, at the earlier stage. They even fired cup-winning manager Pericles Chamusca in mid July. On October 25, their relegation to J2 from 2010 season is determined after being held to a 1-1 draw by ten-man Kyoto Sanga F.C..

Record as J. League member

Season	Div.	Tms.	Pos.	Attendance/G	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
1999	J2	10	3	3,886	2nd Round	3rd Round
2000	J2	11	3	4,818	1st Round	3rd Round
2001	J2	12	6	6,638	2nd Round	3rd Round
2002	J2	12	1	12,349	-	4th Round
2003	J1	16	14	21,373	Group Stage	3rd Round
2004	J1	16	13	21,889	Group Stage	5th Round
2005	J1	18	11	22,080	Group Stage	5th Round
2006	J1	18	8	20,350	Group Stage	5th Round
2007	J1	18	14	19,759	Group Stage	5th Round
2008	J1	18	4	20,322	Winner	4th Round
2009	J1	18	17	18,428	Group Stage	3rd Round
2010	J2	19	15	10,463	-	3rd Round

Key

• Tms. = Number of teams
• Pos. = Position in league
• Attendance/G = Average league attendance

Honours

• J2 Champions: 2002
• J. League Cup Winners: 2008

Players

Ōita Stadium

Current squad

As of July 17, 2011

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

No. Position Player 1 GK Keisuke Shimizu 2 DF Yuji Fujikawa 3 DF Daiki Umei 4 DF Yuji Sakuda 6 MF Kohei Tokita 7 MF Koki Kotegawa 8 MF Hironori Nishi 9 FW Kazushi Mitsuhira 11 FW Choi Jung-Han 14 MF Yudai Inoue 16 GK Nobuhito Ando 18 FW Lee Dong-Myung 19 FW Shunsuke Maeda 20 FW Yasuhito Morishima

No. Position Player 21 DF Ryosuke Tone 22 MF Kosuke Uchida 23 GK Ryosuke Ishida 24 MF Kang Song-Ho 25 DF Akihiro Sakata 26 DF Tatsuya Ikeda 27 DF Ken Matsubara 28 MF Hirotaka Tameda 29 GK Kenta Tanno 32 MF Masashi Miyazawa 34 MF Hirokazu Hasegawa 36 DF Yu Yasukawa

Out on loan

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

No. Position Player FW Takahiko Sumida (to Gainare Tottori) FW Daiki Takamatsu (to F.C. Tokyo)

Notable players

Lorenzo Staelens Dodô Magno Alves Marcelo Mattos Rodrigo Mendes Ueslei Will Takuya Jinno Akira Kaji Kazuya Maekawa

Ryuji Michiki Tsukasa Umesaki Richard Witschge Patrick Zwaanswijk Andrzej Kubica Choi Dae-Shik Choi Moon-Sik Hwangbo Kwan Kim Dong Hyun

Managers

Manager	Nat.	Tenure
Nobuhiro Ishizaki	Japan	1999-01
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	2001-03
Han Berger	Netherlands	2004
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	2005
Arie Schans	Netherlands	2005
Pericles Chamusca	Brazil	2005-09
Ranko Popović	Serbia	2009
Hwangbo Kwan	South Korea	2010
Tasaka Kazuaki	Japan	2011-

External links

• Official Website