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.

Updated to May 10th, 2020.[4] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player 2 DF Kazuki Higa 3 MF Yuya Samba 4 DF Yuki Yano 5 DF Naoya Okane 6 DF Kazuma Ishikawa 7 MF Masayoshi Takayanagi 8 MF Yasunori Seki 9 FW Tatsuro Yamauchi 10 FW Naohiro Takahara 11 FW Shunsuke Maeda 13 MF Yoshiya Nishizawa 14 DF Ryusei Hara 15 DF Masatoshi Aki 16 DF Sota Sugiyama 17 MF Kazuki Akimoto

No. Position Player 18 FW Naoto Akagi 19 FW Junya Miyasaka 20 MF Ryujiro Yamanaka 22 MF Issei Takayanagi 23 GK Yuta Terasawa 24 MF Tomoki Kitano 25 MF Yuto Yoshida 26 DF Shinzaburo Terasawa 27 FW Genta Uchiyama 29 FW Daiya Okamoto 30 MF Takahito Morizono 31 GK Taiki Yano 32 DF Shunya Nakazawa 33 DF Koki Toyosato

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

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