Zweigen Kanazawa (ツエーゲン金沢, Tsuēgen Kanazawa) is a Japanese football club based in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. They currently play in the J3 League, Japan's third tier of professional league football after being relegated at the end of 2023 of J2 League.
On December 15, 2010, a new management company called Zweigen, Inc. was established in order to apply to the J-League associate membership.
On January 7, 2011, the team applied for J-League associate membership.
On 16 November 2014, Zweigen became the inaugural J3 League champions, and gained a licence to compete in J2 League from 2015.
On 22 October 2023, Zweigen officially relegated to J3 League for the 2024 season after a narrow by Montedio Yamagata 0–1, thus ending their 9 years stay in J2.
Since 18 February 2024, Zweigen Kanazawa have played at the 10,444 capacity Kanazawa Stadium.
Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
2010 | 1,548 | 2nd round |
2011 | 2nd round | |
2012 | ||
2013 | 3rd round | |
2014 | 2nd round | |
2015 | 2nd round | |
2016 | ||
2017 | ||
2018 | 3rd round | |
2019 | 3rd round | |
2020 † | ||
2021 † | ||
2022 | ||
2023 | ||
2024 | ||
2025 | 2nd round |
+Zweigen Kanazawa Honours !scope=col | Years | ||
!scope=row | Hokushinetsu Division 1 | 1 | 2004 |
Head coach | Maki Tsujita |
Assistant head coach | Kiyokazu Kudo Hiroki Shibuya |
Goalkeeper coach | Noriyuki Yamagishi |
Physical coach | Tetsuya Sakamoto |
Analytical coach | Wataru Kuriwaki |
Chief trainer | Chikashi Masui |
Trainer | Seiya Motooka Takahiro Yagi |
Interpreter | Rafael Rayden Igarashi |
Equipment manager | Tomoya Araki |
Team manager | Tatsuya Hirano |
31 January 2012 |
31 January 2017 |
5 November 2023 |
1 June 2025 |
present |
Home Kit - 1st | ||||
Away Kit - 2nd | ||||
Special Kits - 3rd | ||||
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