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| Full name | Sports Club Gainare Tottori | ||
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| Nickname | Gainare | ||
| Founded | 1983; 42 years ago (1983) | ||
| Stadium | Axis Bird Stadium Tottori,Tottori | ||
| Capacity | 16,033 | ||
| Chairman | Masaki Tsukano | ||
| Manager | Kentaro Hayashi | ||
| League | J3 League | ||
| 2024 | J3 League, 13th of 20 | ||
| Website | gainare | ||
Gainare Tottori (ガイナーレ鳥取,Gaināre Tottori) are aJapanesefootball club, based inTottori, capital ofTottori Prefecture. They play in theJ3 League, the Japanese third tier of professional football league. Their team colour is green.
Their team nameGainare derives from the Tottori dialect wordgaina meaning "great" and Italiansperare meaning "to hope".
Their team mascot was a Japanese horroranime characterGe Ge Ge no Kitaro created byShigeru Mizuki, a native ofSakaiminato, Tottori.
The club was founded in 1983 as Tottori Teachers' Soccer Club (鳥取教員団サッカー部 Tottori Kyōin Dan Sakkā Bu). They opened their gate to players with other professions in 1989, renaming themselvesS.C. Tottori. They adopted their current name in 2007.
They were promoted to theJapan Football League after finishing runners-up in the 2001 Regional League play-off.Nonprofit organisation Yamatsumi Sports Club operate the club.
After defeatingArte Takasaki 1–0 on October 3, 2010, in their home stadium, at last they could secure JFL top four after failed attempts on two previous seasons. The confirmation fromJ. League about their promotion to J2 came on November 29. They won the JFL title on October 24, 2010, with five games remaining.
On the 2013 J2–J3 promotion/relegation playoff, Gainare Tottori lost by 2–1 toKamatamare Sanuki on aggregate score, and ended up relegated to the newly launched J3 League (from now on the 3rd tier of professional league football) ahead of the 2014 season. The club spent three seasons at the J2 League, and has not returned since their relegation. They are also one of the four teams to have competed in J3 League every year since its inception.
They play their home games mainly atAxis Bird Stadium inTottori City. Tottori Soccer Stadium is the only stadium inSan'in region that meets the J. League requirements.
In recent years, they also play some games at Fuse Athletic Park Stadium inTottori City, Matsue Athletics Stadium inMatsue, Shimane Prefecture and Hamayama Athletic Park Stadium inIzumo, Shimane Prefecture.
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| League | J. League Cup | Emperor's Cup | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Div. | Tier | Teams | Pos. | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Attendance/G | ||
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| 2006 | JFL | 3 | 18 | 11th | 34 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 61 | 62 | -1 | 36 | 1,146 | Not eligible | 2nd round |
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| 2007 | JFL | 3 | 18 | 14th | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 42 | 51 | -9 | 39 | 1,755 | Not eligible | 2nd round |
| 2008 | 18 | 5th | 34 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 57 | 37 | 20 | 57 | 3,215 | 1st round | |||
| 2009 | 18 | 5th | 34 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 65 | 37 | 28 | 56 | 3,419 | 2nd round | |||
| 2010 | 18 | 1st | 34 | 24 | 5 | 5 | 64 | 31 | 33 | 77 | 3,489 | 2nd round | |||
| 2011 | J2 | 2 | 20 | 19th | 38 | 8 | 7 | 23 | 36 | 60 | -24 | 31 | 3,692 | 3rd round | |
| 2012 | 22 | 20th | 42 | 11 | 5 | 26 | 33 | 78 | -45 | 38 | 3,133 | 3rd round | |||
| 2013 | 22 | 22nd | 42 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 38 | 74 | -36 | 31 | 4,097 | 2nd round | |||
| 2014 | J3 | 3 | 12 | 4th | 33 | 14 | 11 | 8 | 34 | 25 | 9 | 53 | 3,069 | 2nd round | |
| 2015 | 13 | 6th | 36 | 14 | 8 | 14 | 47 | 41 | 6 | 50 | 1,932 | 2nd round | |||
| 2016 | 16 | 15th | 30 | 8 | 6 | 16 | 30 | 47 | -17 | 30 | 1,898 | 2nd round | |||
| 2017 | 17 | 17th | 32 | 4 | 9 | 19 | 31 | 63 | -32 | 21 | 1,559 | 1st round | |||
| 2018 | 17 | 3rd | 32 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 61 | 47 | 14 | 53 | 2,657 | 2nd round | |||
| 2019 | 18 | 7th | 34 | 14 | 8 | 12 | 49 | 59 | -10 | 50 | 2,228 | 2nd round | |||
| 2020† | 18 | 5th | 34 | 17 | 6 | 11 | 47 | 37 | 10 | 57 | 703 | Did not qualify | |||
| 2021† | 15 | 12th | 28 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 36 | 53 | -17 | 29 | 1,186 | 2nd round | |||
| 2022 | 18 | 12th | 34 | 12 | 5 | 17 | 55 | 56 | -1 | 41 | 1,745 | 1st round | |||
| 2023 | 20 | 6th | 38 | 14 | 14 | 10 | 57 | 52 | 5 | 56 | 2,131 | 1st round | |||
| 2024 | 20 | 14th | 38 | 13 | 8 | 15 | 48 | 64 | -16 | 47 | 2,434 | 2nd round | 1st round | ||
| 2025 | 20 | TBD | 38 | 1st round | 1st round | ||||||||||
| Honour | No. | Years |
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| Japan Football League | 1 | 2010 |
| Chugoku Soccer League | 1 | 2000 |
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Position | Name |
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| Manager |  Kentaro Hayashi |
| First-team coach | Daichi Niwa Yuki Shimizu |
| Goalkeeper coach | Tetsuya Higashi |
| Technical coach | Shoma Kurata |
| Trainer | Kiyoshi Otani Takato Hiromori |
| Competent | Atsumu Ugata |
| Side affairs | Takuma Kawada |
| Manager | Nationality | Tenure | |
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| Start | Finish | ||
| Yoji Mizuguchi | Japan | February 1, 2007 | August 15, 2007 |
| Witthaya Laohakul |  Thailand | August 23, 2007 | February 1, 2010 |
| Takeo Matsuda | Japan | February 1, 2010 | January 31, 2012 |
| Hideo Yoshizawa | Japan | February 1, 2012 | January 31, 2013 |
| Norio Omura | Japan | December 7, 2013 | August 12, 2013 |
| Koji Maeda | Japan | August 12, 2013 | January 31, 2014 |
| Masanobu Matsunami | Japan | February 1, 2014 | January 31, 2016 |
| Tetsuji Hashiratani | Japan | February 1, 2016 | January 31, 2017 |
| Ryuzo Morioka | Japan | February 1, 2017 | June 4, 2018 |
| Daisuke Sudo | Japan | June 4, 2018 | January 31, 2019 |
| Riki Takagi | Japan | February 1, 2019 | May 4, 2021 |
| Kim Jong-song |  North Korea | May 10, 2021 | June 19, 2023 |
| Kohei Masumoto (caretaker) | Japan | June 20, 2023 | November 24, 2023[2] |
| Kentaro Hayashi | Japan | December 8, 2023[3] | current |
| Home kit - 1st | ||||
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          2007 - 2008 |      2009 - 2010 |     2011 - 2012 |     2013 |     2014 |
    2015 |      2016 |      2017 |      2018 |      2019 |
     2020 |      2021 |      2022 |      2023 |  2024 |
 2025 - | ||||
| Away kit - 2nd | ||||
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     2007 - 2008 |     2009 - 2010 |     2011 - 2012 |     2013 |     2014 - 2015 |
    2016 |      2017 |      2018 |      2019 |      2020 |
     2021 |      2022 |      2023 |    2024 |  2025 - |
