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Shonan Bellmare is a soccer team based in Japan. The club was formed in 1968 and competes in the Japanese J1 League. Its home ground is the Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka.
The team maintains an official website and has 162,133 social media followers. Shonan Bellmare is referenced by 1,714 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 15 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Thesportsdb, Firecrawl, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
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.