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Key facts
- 2025
- J1 League , 19th of 20 (relegated)
- Full name
- Shonan Bellmare
- Founded
- 1968 ; 58 years ago ( 1968 ) as Towa Real Estate SC
- Stadium
- Lemon Gas Stadium Hiratsuka , Hiratsuka , Kanagawa
- Capacity
- 15,380
- Chairman
- Kiyoshi Makabe
- Manager
- Satoshi Yamaguchi
- League
- J2 League
- Website
- www .bellmare .co .jp
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports team
- Sport
- Soccer
- League
- Japanese J1 League
- Stadium
- Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka
- Country
- Japan
via TheSportsDB
Official website
湘南ベルマーレ公式サイト
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Encyclopedic overview
Current season
Shonan Bellmare (湘南ベルマーレ, 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".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Shonan Bellmare” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.