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Shōnan Berumāre is a Japanese professional football club based in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club will play in the J2 League, the second tier of football in the country as of the season 2026–27, after relegated from J1 League, with three matches remaining. Their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium. Shonan refers to a coastal area along Sagami Bay that includes Hiratsuka. Bellmare is a portmanteau of the Italian words bello and mare, meaning "beautiful sea".
They won the JSL three times (including two doubles with the Emperor's Cup) between 1977 and 1981. They were nevertheless relegated to the JSL's Division 2 in 1990. Although they won the last JSL Division 2 season in 1991–92, the professionalization and formation of the J.League meant they did not meet the new top flight league's criteria and the runners-up, Kashima Antlers (formerly Sumitomo), were promoted instead.
A J1 comeback in 2010, if they are able to achieve promotion, will be the first without Fujita as their sponsor. Although for a time they refused to consider their history as the championship-winning Fujita corporate team in their current history, this year they celebrated the club's 40-year anniversary in 2009 as deduced from the badge in their Web site.
On 5 December 2009, Shonan returned to J1 as third-place finishers in 2009 seasons.
In recent years, the team has been steadily improving. In 2014, the team made good progress in the J2, winning 14 consecutive games from the opening. The team was defeated by Ehime FC in the 15th round, but after that they lost 21 battles. J1 automatic promotion is confirmed. As a result, he won the J2 with 31 wins, 8 draws, 3 losses and 101 points in the 2014 season. In 2016, in the J1, Shonan Bellmare was the final result in 8th place, and it was the first time for J1 to remain in history. In addition, at the EAFF E-1 Football Championship 2015 held in August, Wataru Endo, who was on the team at the time, participated as a representative of Japan. In 2018, won the J.League Cup. It was the first time for Shonan Bellmare to win three major titles since winning the 74th Emperor's Cup in the Bellmare Hiratsuka.
On the operational side, there was some report that the club fell into excess debt of more than 100 million yen in February 2012, and in the worst case the club itself could be dissolved (the actual amount of excess debt was 82.68 million yen). However, the debt insolvency was resolved by two capital increases. In April 2018, SANEI ARCHITECTURE PLANNING, which was the largest shareholder of Shonan Bellmare, established "Merudia RIZAP Shonan Sports Partners" in collaboration with RIZAP GROUP. The new company acquired a 50% stake in Shonan Bellmare. RIZAP GROUP intends to invest 1 billion yen in Bellmare over the next three years.
| Manager | Satoshi Yamaguchi |
| Assistant manager | Yoshihiro Natsuka Masahiro Koga Yoshihiro Yatsukawa |
| Coach assistant | Taiga Soeda |
| Goalkeeper coach | Takeaki Yuhara |
| Analyst | Masayuki Hirakawa |
| Physical coach | Kazutaka Takahashi |
| Conditioning coach | Yuta Iguchi |
| Chief team doctor | Eiichi Suzuki |
| Team doctor | Hirofumi Katsutani Makoto Takahashi |
| Medical group chief trainer | Hisayoshi Kojima |
| Athletic trainer | Nobuhide Kurihara Takahiro Yoshikawa |
| Physiotherapist | Shusuke Shimada Shigeyuki Shimizu |
| Interpreter | Kim Fan-ju Tiago Higa |
| Competent | Keita Mikami |
| Side affairs | Hiroto Araki Takahito Hiraga Hiroto Tanaka |
| 31 January 1979 |
| 31 December 1980 |
| 31 January 1985 |
| 30 June 1988 |
| 31 December 1990 |
| 27 November 1995 |
| 31 January 1996 |
| 19 September 1996 |
| 31 January 1999 |
| 30 June 1999 |
| 31 January 2000 |
| 31 January 2001 |
| 30 November 2002 |
| 15 May 2003 |
| 14 July 2004 |
| 13 September 2004 |
| 5 June 2006 |
| 31 January 2009 |
| 31 January 2012 |
| 8 October 2019 |
| 9 October 2019 |
| 31 August 2021 |
| Current |
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| Bellmare Hiratsuka | ||||||||||||||||
| 1994 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | Winners | |||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Quarter-finals | |||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Did not qualify | |||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Round of 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| Shonan Bellmare | ||||||||||||||||
| 2000 | Did not qualify | |||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Second round | |||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Round of 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Round of 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Round of 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2006 | 4th round | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | 4th round | |||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Second round | |||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Quarter-finals | |||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Quarter-finals | |||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Round of 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Second round | |||||||||||||||
| 2020 † | Did not qualify | |||||||||||||||
| 2021 † | Round of 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 2022 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Quarter-finals | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Round of 16 | |||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Third round | |||||||||||||||
| 2026 | N/A | |||||||||||||||
| 2026–27 | TBD | |||||||||||||||
| +Shonan Bellmare honours !scope=col | Years | ||
!scope=row | Kanto Soccer League | 1 | 1971 |
Total (after 2025): 36 seasons in the top tier, 18 seasons in the second tier and 2 seasons in the Regional Leagues.
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