Reilac Shiga FC

Reilac Shiga FC
レイラック滋賀FC
Full name	Reilac Shiga Football Club
Founded	2005; 19 years ago as Sagawa Express Kyoto Soccer Club
Stadium	Nunobiki Green Stadium ; Higashiomi, Shiga
Capacity	9,000
Chairman	Yoshitaka Kawahara
Manager	Makoto Kakuda
League	Japan Football League
2023	3rd of 15
Website	https://reilac-shiga.co.jp/
Home colours	Away colours

Reilac Shiga FC (レイラック滋賀FC, Reirakku Shiga Efu Shī), formerly MIO Biwako Shiga (MIOびわこ滋賀, Mīo Biwako Shiga), with "Biwako" being a reference to Lake Biwa, is a Japanese football club based in Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, although they also play matches in Ōtsu and Konan. They currently play in Japan Football League, Japanese fourth tier of football league.

History

The club was formed in 2005 from the former Sagawa Express SC Kyoto. They were first called FC Mi-O Biwako Kusatsu. In 2007, upon promotion to the JFL, they renamed themselves simply MIO Biwako Kusatsu until 2011.

Regional League and Promotion to JFL (–2007)

In 2007, they won third place in the regional playoffs and were promoted to the JFL for the 2008 season. They were promoted to Japan Football League for the first time at the end of 2007.

JFL (2008–)

The club played their first season in 2008 where they finished 14th.

In 2012, they renamed themselves MIO Biwako Shiga, in order to extend their fanbase to the entire extent of Shiga Prefecture, particularly the area around southern Lake Biwa, in where they mostly have played matches.

In 2022, MIO Biwako Shiga finished in the last place out of the 16 participating teams in the season. The club, however, was not relegated back to the Kansai League, as JFL's top 2 teams were promoted to the J3. Under the league system, MIO Biwako would only be relegated as the last-placed team if no team or only one team had earned promotion to the J3 during the season, which was not the case.

On 27 January 2023, MIO Biwako Shiga announced a name change, becoming Reilac Shiga FC from 2023. On 1 February 2023, the new identity was fully introduced with the new crest release.

On 28 November 2023, At the J League Board of Directors meeting held on this day, Reilac Shiga was decided to issue J3 club licenses for the 2024 season.^[1]^[2]

They will play their 17th consecutive season of JFL football in 2024.

Changes in club name

Sagawa Express Kyoto Soccer Club : 2005
FC Mi-O Biwako Kusatsu : 2006–2007
MIO Biwako Kusatsu : 2008–2011
MIO Biwako Shiga : 2012–2022
Reilac Shiga FC : 2023–present

League and cup record

Champions	Runners-up	Third place	Promoted	Relegated

League														Emperor's Cup
Season	Division	Tier	Teams	Pos.	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Attendance/G	Emperor's Cup
FC Mi-O Biwako Kusatsu
2006	Kansai Soccer League (Div. 1)	4	8	2nd	14	8	2	4	28	17	11	26		Did not qualify
2007	Kansai Soccer League (Div. 1)	4	8	2nd	14	10	2	2	48	11	37	34		2nd round
MIO Biwako Kusatsu
2008	JFL	3	18	14th	34	10	8	16	40	62	-22	38	854	Did not qualify
2009			18	8th	34	13	9	12	51	43	8	48	996	Did not qualify
2010			18	11th	34	13	7	14	51	56	-5	46	793	2nd round
2011			18	13th	33	11	5	17	43	65	-22	38	671	Did not qualify
MIO Biwako Shiga
2012	JFL	3	17	8th	32	11	10	11	53	52	1	43	637	Did not qualify
2013		3	18	16th	34	8	6	20	40	56	-16	30	543	1st round
2014		4	14	12th	26	6	4	16	24	50	-26	22	644	Did not qualify
2015			16	11th	30	9	7	14	36	41	-5	34	894	2nd round
2016			16	9th	30	11	7	12	38	45	-7	40	680	1st round
2017			16	13th	30	6	9	15	33	51	-18	27	651	Did not qualify
2018			16	7th	30	13	7	10	38	35	3	46	512	2nd round
2019			16	9th	30	11	7	12	27	40	-13	40	553	1st round
2020 †			16	9th	15	6	2	7	23	27	-4	20	309	2nd round
2021 †			17	12th	32	10	7	15	35	48	-13	37	483	Did not qualify
2022			16	16th	30	5	6	19	21	57	-36	21	517	1st round
Reilac Shiga FC
2023	JFL	4	15	3rd	28	11	11	6	47	37	10	44	955	2nd round
2024			16	4th	30	14	6	10	49	45	4	50		Did not qualify
2025			16	TBD	30									TBD

Key

Pos. = Position in league; P = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals difference; Pts = Points gained
Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
† 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic

Current squad

As of 1 July 2024.^[3]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
1	GK	JPN	Koki Ito
2	DF	JPN	Shunsuke Hirai (on loan from Yokohama F. Marinos)
3	DF	JPN	Masafumi Miyagi
4	DF	JPN	Keita Ide
6	DF	JPN	Aiki Matano
7	FW	JPN	Koki Ogaki
8	FW	JPN	Masato Igarashi
9	FW	JPN	Hiryu Okuda
10	FW	JPN	Daiki Enomoto
13	MF	JPN	Shota Saito
14	MF	JPN	Tomoyuki Shiraishi
15	MF	JPN	Kazune Kubota
16	DF	JPN	Yukuto Omoya
17	DF	JPN	Shinji Yamaguchi
18	FW	JPN	Shun Akiyama
19	GK	JPN	Yuta Terasawa
20	DF	JPN	Shunsaku Kishimoto
21	GK	JPN	Tomofumi Ikematsu
22	MF	JPN	Kazuki Shoji


No.	Pos.	Nation	Player
23	MF	JPN	Shuto Tatsuta
24	FW	JPN	Taiga Matsubara
25	MF	JPN	Yudai Yamashita (on loan from Tokushima Vortis)
26	DF	JPN	Shun Tsunoda
28	MF	JPN	Yu Tabei
31	GK	JPN	Sunao Kasahara
32	MF	JPN	Genta Umiguchi
33	MF	JPN	Kodai Sakamoto
35	FW	JPN	Taku Kikushima
37	MF	JPN	Frank Romero
38	DF	JPN	Tomoyuki Maekawa
41	MF	JPN	Takuto Minami
44	MF	JPN	Hayata Komatsu
48	MF	JPN	Takaya Yakushinji
50	DF	JPN	So Hirao
55	DF	JPN	Kenya Onodera
62	DF	JPN	Koma Osato (on loan from Sagan Tosu)
77	FW	JPN	Shinta Hojo
—	FW	JPN	Himan Morimoto (on loan from Tiamo Hirakata)

Coaching staff

Club coaching staff ^[4]

Role	Name
General Director	Koji Kurusu
Manager	Makoto Kakuda^[5]
Head coach	Hiroki Higashi
Assistant coach	Daichi Okamoto
Goalkeeper coach	Teru Teramine
Assistance Goalkeeper coach	Naoto Hirai
Competent	Yuto Teramoto
Deputy Officer	Shiorihiro Inoda

Managerial history

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
Manager	Nationality	Start	Finish
Tetsuya Totsuka	Japan	13 September 2007	31 January 2008
Naoki Hiraoka	Japan	1 February 2008	23 July 2008
Hiroki Azuma	Japan	1 October 2008	31 January 2009
Haruo Wada	Japan	1 February 2009	1 October 2011
Hiroki Azuma	Japan	1 October 2011	1 July 2014
Koji Kawashima	Japan	1 July 2014	31 January 2015
Kōtarō Nakao	Japan	1 January 2015	31 December 2015
Masafumi Nakaguchi	Japan	1 February 2016	31 January 2020
Hiroshi Ōtsuki	Japan	1 February 2020	27 September 2022
Hiroki Azuma	Japan	5 October 2022	31 January 2023
Akira Teramine	Japan	1 February 2023	3 September 2023
Toshimi Kikuchi	Japan	4 September 2023	15 July 2024
Hiroki Higashi	Japan	21 July 2024	31 July 2024
Makoto Kakuda	Japan	31 July 2024	Current