Arte Takasaki

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Arte Takasaki アルテ高崎
Full name	Arte Takasaki
Founded	1996
Ground	Takasaki Hamakawa Athletic Stadium Takasaki, Gunma (Capacity 2,320)
Manager	Yoshiyuki Watanabe (2007– )
League	Japan Football League
2007	18th
Home colours 　 Away colours

Arte Takasaki (アルテ高崎, Arute Takasaki^?) are a football (soccer) club based in Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. They play in the Japan Football League. Their team colours are black and red.

Arte means art in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Contents 1 History 2 Stadiums 3 Results in JFL 4 Current squad 5 Retired number 6 External links

[edit] History

The club was founded as Makkī F.C. Kantō in 1996. Educational Corporation Horikoshi Gakuen took over the club in 2000. The reorganised club was briefly called Gunma F.C. Fortona but rebranded as Gunma F.C. Horikoshi due to a trademark issue.

The club won all the games in the 2000 Gunma Prefecture League Division 2. They won the 2001 Division 1 championship again without dropping any point. They won the Kanto Regional League Division 1 in 2003 and gained a JFL status in 2004 after winning the play-off.

In 2005, they dropped "Gunma" from their name. It is widely believed that this was a move to appeal more to people in Takasaki area rather than whole Gunma after Thespa Kusatsu became the first J. League side in the prefecture.

In January 2006, they adopted new name Arte Takasaki.

The 2007 season has taken a new tumble for them, already guaranteed a last place finish, and will need to rely on at least one team's promotion to J2 to avoid relegation. Losing to F.C. Gifu on the last day of the season 2-0, they were theoretically guaranteed a reprieve that was made official once Gifu and Rosso Kumamoto were approved for promotion to J2.

[edit] Stadiums

They play their home games mainly in Takasaki Hamakawa Athletic Stadium but also use Shikishima Athletic Stadium and Shikishima Soccer and Rugby Stadium in Maebashi. The club is trying to persuade the local governments to build a ball game (i.e. soccer and rugby) stadium on the former Takasaki Horserace Track site. However, it is not clear how the site will be utilised in the future because many different parties such as the prefecture, the city and private entities have their titles to the site and it seems to take time to solve the issue.

[edit] Results in JFL

• 2004: 8th
• 2005: 8th
• 2006: 10th
• 2007: 18th

[edit] Current squad

As of February 13, 2008

No. Position Player 1 GK Kaoru Shiba 2 DF Syōta Koshiba 4 DF Haruki Nishimura 5 MF Fabricio Tavares 6 MF Masataka Imai 7 DF Hiroya Yamada 8 FW Ha Chon Sung 9 FW Yasuhiro Tanaka 10 MF Hitoyoshi Satomi 11 DF Takuya Sugiyama 13 MF Taira Ishizawa 14 MF Takashi Watari 16 MF Yūdai Iwama

No. Position Player 19 FW Tiago 20 MF Kaniaki Kawawa 21 FW Ryuta Takahashi 22 DF Hiroshi Hamaoka 23 DF Hiroshi Ogawa 25 MF Takatoshi Shirayama 26 MF Kyōhei Kamiya 28 DF Shintaro Tokoi 31 GK Takahiro Tsumoto 32 MF Mitsuyoshi Kudo 33 FW Keiichi Kubota 34 MF Yūshi Akiba 35 GK Dai Okada

[edit] Retired number

To commemorate Kosuke Kato who died of a heart attack during a practice session in February 2005, his number 30 is retired.

[edit] External links

• (Japanese) Official Website

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