FC Gifu

 ( Gifu ) 

Football Club Gifu (フットボールクラブ岐阜, Futtobōrukurabu Gifu), abbreviated as Efu Shī Gifu is a Japanese People football club based in Gifu, capital of Gifu Prefecture, Japan. They play in the J3 League, the third tier of Japanese professional football.

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History During the Japan Soccer League and former Japan Football League years, the city and prefecture of Gifu were represented by the Seino Transportation Co. (西濃運輸 Seinō Un'yu) works team, which was relegated from the old JFL for the last time in 1997 and folded shortly thereafter in January 1998.

The modern-day Gifu club was founded in 2001 (Seino's last manager Masayuki Katsuno was among the founders, and a former Seino player, Takashi Umeda, recently returned to town and joined the club following a decade-long stint with Oita Trinita). The club was promoted to the new Japan Football League in 2007 after beating Honda Lock S.C. in the promotion/relegation play-offs.

The team earned third place at the end of the 2007 season, meaning it qualified for promotion to J.League Division 2. On 3 December 2007, J. League approved a promotion for the team for the 2008 season.

The club finished the 2012 season in 21st place, narrowly missing out on relegation to the Japan Football League.

Between 2013 and 2018, the team has constantly been placed in the lower realms of J.League Division 2 (now renamed to J2 League) and narrowly avoiding relegation until 2019 when they finished last in the league and were relegated to J3 League. Since then the club has played in the J3 League.

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Crest The team's crest was designed to represent Gifu Prefecture. The top of the crest represents the mountain ranges of the northern part of the prefecture. The flowers are milk vetch, which are the prefectural flower. Each of the three lines represents one of the Kiso Three Rivers flowing through the prefecture. The banner at the base of the crest is the same as the symbol on the helmet of the victorious Tokugawa clan at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

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League & cup record

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted

Relegated

2001	GPD1	Did not qualify
2002		Did not qualify
2003		Did not qualify
2004	Tokai Division 2	Did not qualify
2005		Did not qualify
2006	Tokai Division 1||8 ||bgcolor="gold"| 1st||16 ||14 ||2 ||0 ||46 ||3 ||43 ||44 || |3rd round
2007	3rd round
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020 †	Did not qualify
2021 †	1st round
2022
2023	3rd round
2024	2nd round
2025	2nd round

Key

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Honours

+FC Gifu Honours !scope=col	Years
!scope=row	Gifu Prefecture Division 1	2	2002, 2003

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Current squad As of 24 July 2025.

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Out on loan

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Coaching staff

Manager	Kiyotaka Ishimaru
First-team coach	Yusuke Noda Takuya Honda Yuki Yoshimura
Goalkeeper coach	Teppei Uesugi
Conditioning coach	Shuichi Yoshimura
Conditioning advisor	Nobuyuki Nozaki
Doctor	Atsushi Yamaga
Trainer	Hitoshi Suzuki Yudai Kato Yuki Hirano
Competent	Kotaro Sakaguchi
Side affairs	Hideaki Nobuta

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Managerial history

31 January 2006
21 June 2007
31 January 2010
31 January 2011
31 January 2012
18 August 2013
31 January 2014
22 July 2016
31 January 2017
17 June 2019
31 January 2020
20 September 2020
31 January 2021
31 January 2022
5 May 2022
30 November 2022
27 June 2024
2 December 2024
Yasuaki Oshima	2 July 2025
Koji Ohashi (Interim)	7 July 2025
Kiyotaka Ishimaru	Current

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Kit evolution

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Other teams They also run as a reserve team FC Gifu Second, which currently plays in the Tōkai Adult League Division 2. They have played in the Emperor's Cup and Shakaijin Cup in the past.

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External links

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