Renofa Yamaguchi FC
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| Full name | Renofa Yamaguchi Football Club |
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| Nickname(s) | Renofa |
| Founded | 1949 (as Yamaguchi Teachers) 2006 (as Renofa Yamaguchi FC) |
| Ground | Yamaguchi Restoration Park Stadium |
| Capacity | 20,000 |
| Managing Organisation |
Yamaguchi Athletics Club (NPO) |
| Chairman | Mikio Yamane |
| Manager | Nobuhiro Ueno |
| League | J2 League |
| 2016 | 12th |
| Website | Club home page |
Renofa Yamaguchi FC (レノファ山口FC Renofa Yamaguchi FC?) is a Japanese professional football team based in Yamaguchi city, Yamaguchi Prefecture. They will play in the J2 League, the second tier of the Japanese football league system.
The original football team consisted of a group of teaching staff who were based within Yamaguchi prefecture, a team called Yamaguchi Prefecture Teachers Football Club (山口県サッカー教員団 Yamaguchi-ken sakkā kyōin dan?), often abbreviated to Yamaguchi Teachers or Yamaguchi KFC (compare and Gainare Tottori, who started as teachers' clubs and are now members of the J.League).
In February 2006, the Yamaguchi Football Association eyed the placement of a team from Yamaguchi in the J.League. Setting its heart of operations at Yamaguchi Teachers, a new football club was established. At the same time, a public appeal was made to name the new club, with Renofa Yamaguchi F.C. being decided in March of the same year. The word renofa is a combination of three English words: renovation, fight and fine.
Without a specified home ground, the team played Chūgoku league matches across a number of different venues within the prefecture, including Yamaguchi Ishin Park Stadium, Yamaguchi Kirara Expo Memorial Park, Onoda Football Park, Shunan City Athletic Stadium and Yamaguchi Football Park. Now however, home games are played at Yamaguchi Ishin Park Stadium.
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