, is a women's football team which plays in Division 1 of
Japan's Nadeshiko League
The , commonly known as the , is a women's association football league in Japan.
The Nadeshiko League consists of two divisions that correspond to the second and third levels of the Japanese women's football pyramid respectively. Teams are pro ...
. As the strongest women's club in the
Tōkai region
The is a subregion of the Chūbu region and Kansai region in Japan that runs along the Pacific Ocean. The name comes from the Tōkaidō, one of the Edo Five Routes. Because Tōkai is a sub-region and is not officially classified, there is ...
, it has made a niche for itself against the more resourceful powers of the
Kanto
Japanese
Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics.
In Japan
Kantō may refer to:
*Kantō Plain
*Kantō region
*Kantō-kai, organized crime group
*Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ''Pokémon ...
,
NTV Beleza
is a women's professional football team that plays in Japan's WE League. It is based in the Kita, Itabashi, Inagi, Hino, Tama, and Tachikawa wards of Tokyo.
They have won 52 major Asian and national titles, the most of any team in the W ...
, and
Kansai
The or the lies in the southern-central region of Japan's main island Honshū. The region includes the prefectures of Nara, Wakayama, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo and Shiga, often also Mie, sometimes Fukui, Tokushima and Tottori. The metropoli ...
,
INAC Kobe Leonessa
INAC Kobe(INAC神戸レオネッサ, Ainakku-Kōbe Reonessa) is a professional Japanese women's soccer, football club from Kobe, founded in 2001. INAC stands for International Athletic Club, while Leonessa means Lioness in Italian language, Ita ...
.
Squad
Current squad
Honors
Domestic competitions
*
Nadeshiko.League Division 1
**Champions (2) : 1995, 1999, 2021
**Runners-up (2) : 1996, 2000, 2022
*
Empress's Cup All-Japan Women's Football Tournament
**Champions (3) : 1995, 1998, 2001
**Runners-up (4) : 1993, 1994, 1997, 1999
*
Nadeshiko League Cup
The Nadeshiko League Cup (Japanese: なでしこリーグカップ) is a cup competition for women's football clubs in Japan. The competition began as the L.League Cup in 1996 and it was abolished after the 1999 edition. It reappeared on the occa ...
**Champions (2) : 1997, 1998
**Runners-up (2) : 1996, 1999
Results
Transition of team name
*Iga-Ueno Kunoichi SC : 1976 - 1988
*Prima Ham FC Kunoichi : 1989 - 1999
*Iga FC Kunoichi : 2000 – 2019
*Iga FC Kunoichi Mie : 2020 – Present
Home ground
References
External links
Iga Football Club Kunoichi official site*
Japanese Club Teams
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Women's football clubs in Japan
1976 establishments in Japan
Sports clubs and teams in Mie Prefecture
Nadeshiko League teams
Association football clubs established in 1976