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Roasso Kumamoto is a Japanese football club based in Kumamoto, the capital city of Kumamoto Prefecture. The club currently plays in the J2 League, Japan's 2nd tier of professional league football.
According to the NTT's privatization in 1985, the club was renamed as NTT Kyushu Soccer Club in 1988. During the NTT Kyushu era, the club won five Kyushu Soccer League titles and one All Japan Senior Football Championship. The club changed their name again to NTT Kumamoto Football Club in 2000.
The club changed their name to NTT West Kumamoto Football Club in 2001 as the NTT was divided into NTT East and NTT West. The club was promoted to the JFL in 2000 after finishing 3rd in 24th JFL Promotion Tournament. The NTT relinquished the ownership of the club in 2002 and community oriented Alouette Kumamoto Football Club was born. Alouette is a French word meaning skylark, the bird of Kumamoto Prefecture. The club finished at the 17th in this season and was relegated to the Kyushu Soccer League.
The club was recently featured in J.League program to introduce the club to followers of the professional league. Rosso's second-place finish in the 2007 JFL season was enough to earn promotion into the J.League (J2 League) for the 2008 season.
The club changed their name to current Roasso Kumamoto in 2008. The previous name Rosso was a registered trademark of another company, so the club could not use it due to a risk of copyright infringement.
After 11 years spent in the J2 League, Kumamoto was relegated to the J3 League on 2018.
After three years at J3 League, Kumamoto returned to J2, after being promoted as the J3 champions in 2021, just a point ahead of Iwate Grulla Morioka in the league table.
In 2022, Kumamoto finished in 4th place with 62 points and advanced to J1 promotion/relegation playoffs after an arguably surprising performance in the 2022 J2 League. Roasso played against the 4th and 5th-placed teams of the J2 season, Oita Trinita and Montedio Yamagata, in matches that ended 1–1 and 2–2, respectively. As the league gave the advantage for the higher-placed team in the league standings to qualify for the next round, Roasso were able to qualify for the play-off finals, despite not winning any match. This time, Kyoto Sanga, as the J1 League team in question, earned the seeding advantage, meaning that Roasso needed to win this match in order to earn promotion. The match ended in a 1–1 draw and Roasso were not promoted for the J1.
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| as Alouette Kumamoto | |||||||||||||||
| 2002 | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | |||||||||||||||
| as Rosso Kumamoto | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Kyushu Soccer League | ||||||||||||||
| 1st round | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 3rd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | 1st round | ||||||||||||||
| as Roasso Kumamoto | |||||||||||||||
| 2008 | 5,279 | 3rd round | |||||||||||||
| 2009 | 2nd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 3rd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | 2nd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | 4th round | ||||||||||||||
| 2013 | 3rd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2014 | 2nd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | 3rd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 2nd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2017 | 3rd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2018 | 2nd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | 2nd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 † | Did not qualify | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 † | 2nd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | 3rd round | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Semi-finals | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | |||||||||||||||
| 2025 | TBD | ||||||||||||||
| +Roasso Kumamoto honours !scope=col | Years |
| Manager | Takeshi Oki |
| Assistant manager | Chikara Fujimoto |
| First-team coach | Yasushi Takahashi Shinya Masushima |
| Goalkeeper coach | Ryuichi Ito |
| Chief trainer | Ryoichi Yamamoto |
| Athletic trainer | Shumpei Kawamura |
| Physiotherapist | Keigo Manabe |
| Physical advisor | Fumihiko Nagasaki |
| Competent | Satoshi Sekigami |
| Side affairs | Taichi Nakayama Kenta Shioikawa |
| 31 January 2009 |
| 31 January 2010 |
| 31 January 2013 |
| 10 July 2013 |
| 31 January 2014 |
| 25 November 2015 |
| 14 June 2017 |
| 31 January 2018 |
| 31 January 2020 |
| Current |
| サトウロジック |
| Out-Sourcing Technology |
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