Okinawa SV

After leaving SC Sagamihara and professional football, former Japan NT member Naohiro Takahara opted to found a new club in Okinawa.[1] The name took inspiration from Hamburger SV, a former German club in Takahara's career: this inspired Okinawa Sport-Verein (a German term for "sports club")[2] and the kit's colours and design are inspired by other club from his career, the Argentinian Boca Juniors.[3]

Takahara set himself as president, manager-player and captain, helping the side from Kyushu to start from the bottom of Japanese football. In their first year, Okinawa SV featured in the third division of Okinawa Prefectural League, marking an incredible debut: all matches were won and they scored 123 goals. Okinawa Football Association opted to give OSV a free pass to join the first division of the prefectural championship. In their second season, Okinawa SV got promoted again, this time to Kyushu Soccer League.

Squad for the 2022 season. [4] Updated to March 8th, 2022.

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Chikara Hanada 2 DF  JPN Kazuki Higa 3 DF  JPN Kaito Ioki (on loan from Renofa Yamaguchi) 4 DF  JPN Kazuki Nakabayashi 5 DF  JPN Naoya Okane 6 DF  JPN Hikaru Koinuma 7 MF  JPN Yuto Oshiro 8 MF  JPN Yasunori Seki 9 FW  JPN Yukihide Gibo 10 FW  JPN Naohiro Takahara 11 FW  JPN Yuta Yamada 13 GK  JPN Kaito Inishi 14 MF  JPN Kohei Takahashi

No. Pos. Nation Player 15 DF  JPN Masatoshi Aki 16 DF  JPN Takefumi Yoshita 17 MF  JPN Kazuki Akimoto 20 MF  JPN Tsubasa Fujiike 21 GK  JPN Kenta Isaka 22 MF  JPN Issei Takayanagi 24 DF  JPN Kazuki Anzai 25 DF  JPN Haruya Mizukoshi 26 FW  JPN Ryuichi Ichiki (on loan from Thespakusatsu Gunma) 30 DF  JPN Takahito Morizono 31 GK  JPN Lenon Murata 32 MF  JPN Shuga Arai 33 MF  JPN Hiroki Todaka

• (x,y) in column D denotes number of win and lost in shootout.

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