| 2013 season | |||
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| Chairman | Kazuo Imanishi | ||
| Manager | Koji Gyotoku | ||
The 2013 FC Gifu season sees FC Gifu compete in J. League Division 2 for the sixth consecutive season as well as competing in the 2013 Emperor's Cup.
| 2013 season | |||
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| Chairman | Kazuo Imanishi | ||
| Manager | Koji Gyotoku | ||
The 2013 FC Gifu season sees FC Gifu compete in J. League Division 2 for the sixth consecutive season as well as competing in the 2013 Emperor's Cup.
As of August 8, 2013Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 18 | Kataller Toyama | 42 | 11 | 11 | 20 | 45 | 59 | −14 | 44 | |
| 19 | Roasso Kumamoto | 42 | 10 | 13 | 19 | 40 | 70 | −30 | 43 | |
| 20 | Thespakusatsu Gunma | 42 | 9 | 13 | 20 | 43 | 61 | −18 | 40 | |
| 21 | FC Gifu | 42 | 9 | 10 | 23 | 37 | 80 | −43 | 37 | Ineligible for promotion |
| 22 | Gainare Tottori (R) | 42 | 5 | 16 | 21 | 38 | 74 | −36 | 31 | Qualification for Relegation Playoffs [lower-alpha 1] |
| 3 March 20131 | FC Gifu | 0 - 2 | Yokohama FC | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 15:05 | Report | Okubo  18'Nosaki  80'Uchida 86' | Attendance: 5,006 Referee: Koya |
| 10 March 20132 | Vissel Kobe | 4 - 0 | FC Gifu | NOEVIR Stadium |
| Sunday 16:05 | Tashiro 18'63' Kwang-Seon 22'Popó 73' | Report | Sugiyama 21' | Attendance: 10,127 Referee: Ogiya |
| 17 March 20133 | FC Gifu | 0 - 0 | Gunma | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 19:00 | Report | Koyangi 14' Yokoyama 55'Endo 89' | Attendance: 2,510 Referee: Matsuo |
| 20 March 20134 | Ehime F.C. | 0 - 0 | FC Gifu | Ningineer Stadium |
| Wednesday 16:00 | Shigematsu  Ishii 68'Tomi | Report | Tanaka 24' Ri 36'  90+4'Sekita 77' | Attendance: 2,159 Referee: Hidaka |
| 24 March 20135 | FC Gifu | 0 - 1 | Tokushima | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Fábio 8' 49' | Report | Kim 27' Fukumoto 52'Aoyama 55' | Attendance: 3,294 Referee: Tsukada |
| 31 March 20136 | Tokyo Verdy | 3 - 0 | FC Gifu | Ajinomoto Stadium |
| Sunday 16:00 | Takahara 3' Tokiwa 17'Nishi 35'Fukai 87' | Report | Someya 50' Ri 56'Desmond 84' 90+2' | Attendance: 3,068 Referee: Nakamura |
| 7 April 20137 | FC Gifu | 0 - 3 | Kyoto | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Report | Tamori 11' Mitsuhira 61'Someya 63'Bajalica 66'Hara 81'90' | Attendance: 3,264 Referee: Ueda |
| 14 April 20138 | Matsumoto | 1 - 2 | FC Gifu | Matsumotodaira Football Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Tetsuto 41' Iwabuchi 90+5' | Report | Desmond 32' Arai 79'84' | Attendance: 9,517 Referee: Maeda |
| 17 April 20139 | FC Gifu | 2 - 3 | Kataller Toyama | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Wednesday 19:00 | Nakashima 84' Desmond 88' | Report | Nishikawa 41' Seo 58'Asuke 88'Funatsu 90+2' | Attendance: 2,341 Referee: Yamamoto |
| 21 April 201310 | Tochigi | 2 - 0 | FC Gifu | Tochigi Green Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Kikuoka 45+3' Cristiano 49'Paulinho 89'Santos 90+3' | Report | Moriyasu 43' Mio 62' | Attendance: 2,103 Referee: Tsukada |
| 28 April 201311 | FC Gifu | 1 - 1 | Montedio Yamagata | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Someya 21' Sugimoto 44' | Report | Akiba 42' Kobayashi 77' | Attendance: 4,120 Referee: Kobota |
| 3 May 201312 | Gamba Osaka | 2 - 0 | FC Gifu | Osaka Expo '70 Stadium |
| Friday 19:00 | Uchida 15' Abe 23'Hirai 89' | Report | Hattori 36' | Attendance: 12,729 Referee: Nishimura |
| 6 May 201313 | FC Gifu | 0 - 1 | JEF Chiba | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Monday 19:00 | Moriyasu 22' Shibahara 43'Desmond 86' | Report | Jair 86' | Attendance: 3,215 Referee: Mikami |
| 12 May 201314 | FC Gifu | 0 - 0 | Roasso Kumamoto | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 19:00 | Report | Hashimoto 90+4' | Attendance: 2,860 Referee: Noda |
| 19 May 201315 | Mito HollyHock | 4 - 1 | FC Gifu | K's denki Stadium Mito |
| Sunday 16:00 | Suzuki 16' 78' Yamamura 24'Hashimoto 45+1'Mishima 53'Omoto 87' | Report | Sugiyama 45+1' Someya 62' | Attendance: 2,851 Referee: Okabe |
| 26 May 201316 | Avispa Fukuoka | 2 - 1 | FC Gifu | Level-5 Stadium |
| Sunday 16:00 | Tsutsumi 59' Sakata 70'Ishizu 73'Nishida 86' 87' | Report | Hattori 54' Moriyasu 46' 57'Higuchi 69'Tanaka 73'Mio 88' | Attendance: 3,471 Referee: Araki |
| 2 June 201317 | FC Gifu | 0 - 0 | Fagiano Okayama | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 19:00 | Someya 80' | Report | Attendance: 2,665 Referee: Koya |
| 8 June 201318 | FC Gifu | 2 - 1 | V-Varen Nagasaki | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Saturday 19:00 | Masuyama 3' Desmond 31' Someya 64'90+4'Hattori 69' | Report | Satō 5' | Attendance: 5,211 Referee: Kamimura |
| 15 June 201319 | Gainare Tottori | 3 - 4 | FC Gifu | Tottori Bank Bird Stadium |
| Saturday 18:30 | Takeda 28' Nagasato 42'44'Nagira 45+4' | Report | Tanaka 34' Someya 45+5'Sugiyama 79'Higuchi 83' | Attendance: 3,941 Referee: Shinoto |
| 22 June 201320 | Consadole Sapporo | 4 - 0 | FC Gifu | Sapporo Dome |
| Saturday 14:00 | Uchimura 19'72' Uesato 55'Cho 71'Yokono 69'89' | Attendance: 5,464 Referee: Nakamura |
| 29 June 201321 | FC Gifu | 3 - 1 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Saturday 19:00 | Mizuno 4' Desmond 36'Someya 79'88' | Report | Ikemoto 13' 87' Kotegawa 38'Fuji 73'Arai 78' | Attendance: 4,801 Referee: Kubota |
| 3 July 201322 | FC Gifu | 2 - 8 | Gamba Osaka | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Wednesday 19:00 | Arai 35' Higuchi 45+2'77' | Report | Paulinho 2'58' Futagawa 8'27'Abe 45+2'Konno 51'63'Kawanishi 69' | Attendance: 11,719 Referee: Yoshida |
| 7 July 201323 | Kyoto Sanga | 2 - 0 | FC Gifu | Nishikyogoku Athletic Stadium |
| Sunday 19:00 | Yamase 22' Sakai 68'Mitsuhira 78'Kudo 81' | Report | Hattori 10' | Attendance: 7,923 Referee: Kamimura |
| 14 July 201324 | Roasso Kumamoto | 1 - 1 | FC Gifu | Kumamoto Athletics Stadium |
| Sunday 19:00 | Horigome 7' 23' Nakama 25'Goryo 69'Yano 90+5' | Report | Moriyasu 69'87' Masuyama 89' | Attendance: 5,603 Referee: Oka |
| 20 July 201325 | FC Gifu | 0 - 2 | Avispa Fukuoka | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Saturday 19:00 | Hattori 48' Vincent 60'Someya 79'Sugiyama 88' | Report | Sakata 13' Ishizu 22'Park Kun 31'Kanakubo 63' | Attendance: 5,857 Referee: Noda |
| 27 July 201326 | Fagiano Okayama | 1 - 2 | FC Gifu | Kanko Stadium |
| Saturday 19:00 | Kuwada 63' | Report | Nakamura 3' Masuyama 38'Higuchi 42'67'Nogaito 74' | Attendance: 7,807 Referee: Ikeuchi |
| 4 August 201327 | Tokushima Vortis | 3 - 1 | FC Gifu | Pocarisweat Stadium |
| Sunday 18:30 | Kim 11' Aoyama 27'Tsuda 45+1'Osaki 63'Shibasaki 72' | Report | Hattori 4' Tanaka 24'Nakamura 34'Sugiyama 64'Desmond 90' | Attendance: 3,904 Referee: Hidaka |
| 11 August 201328 | FC Gifu | 1 - 0 | Vissel Kobe | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 18:30 | Kitani 42' Blazhe 45' | Report | Lee 76' | Attendance: 5,118 Referee: Takayama |
| 18 August 201329 | FC Gifu | 1 - 4 | Mito HollyHock | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 19:00 | Arai 9' Masuyama 46'Sugiyama 54' 75'Someya 90+2'Nogaito 90+3' | Report | Hosokawa 24' Suzuki 54'Omoto 74'Yamamura  76'Mishima 90+4' | Attendance: 3,765 Referee: Ueda |
| 21 August 201330 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | 2 - 0 | FC Gifu | Honjō Athletic Stadium |
| Wednesday 19:00 | Watari 21' Ikemoto 90+4'Kotegawa 90+4' | Report | Mizuno 32' Blazhe 57'Arai 59'Kitani 81' | Attendance: 3,258 Referee: Koya |
| 25 August 201331 | JEF Chiba | 1 - 1 | FC Gifu | Fukuda Denshi Arena |
| Sunday 19:00 | Yamaguchi 2' 78' Yazawa 75' | Report | Someya 34' Tanaka 57'Masuyama 65' | Attendance: 10,065 Referee: Enomoto |
| 1 September 201332 | FC Gifu | 1 - 2 | Tokyo Verdy | Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 18:00 | Tanaka 22' Stipe 82'Nogaito 90+1' | Maki 13' Mori 16' Ishigami 85'Tokiwa 87' | Attendance: 4,180 |
| 15 September 201333 | Thespakusatsu Gunma | 0 - 1 | FC Gifu | Shikishima Stadium |
| Sunday 16:00 | Hwang Song-Su 31' | Report | Blazhe 66' Someya 76'Higuchi 90+4' | Attendance: 2,310 Referee: Okabe |
| 22 September 201334 | FC Gifu | 2 - 1 | Gainare Tottori | Ogaki Asanaka Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Stipe Plazibat 21'48' Arai 23'Someya 10' 63' | Report | Dudu 49' | Attendance: 3,369 Referee: Noda |
| 6 October 201335 | FC Gifu | 1 - 2 | Matsumoto Yamaga | Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 16:00 | Blazhe 90+5' | Report | Shiozawa 58' Murayama 74'Iwakami 86' | Attendance: 8,036 Referee: Araki |
| 20 October 201336 | V-Varen Nagasaki | 3 - 0 | FC Gifu | Nagasaki Athletic Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Kanakubo 11' Satō 61'Kono 77'Okuno 24' 85' | Report | Moriyasu 49' Higuichi 66' | Attendance: 7,524 Referee: Imamura |
| 23 October 201337 | Yokohama FC | 2 - 2 | FC Gifu | Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium |
| Wednesday 19:00 | Kurotsu 37'54' Sato 69'Nakajima 88' | Report | Mio 23' Higuchi 42'Someya 49'Stipe 64'Nakamura 27' 71' | Attendance: 2,139 Referee: Nagaya |
| 27 October 201338 | FC Gifu | 0 - 1 | Tochigi S.C. | Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 13:00 | Arai 35' | Report | Kikuoka 37' Cristiano 69'Takagi 90+6' | Attendance: 3,830 Referee: Kawai |
| 3 November 201339 | Montedio Yamagata | 2 - 2 | FC Gifu | ND Soft Stadium Yamagata |
| Sunday 13:00 | Yamazaki 40'50' (og) Ito 57' | Report | Tanaka 14' Someya 35'Stipe 65' | Attendance: 5,869 Referee: Nakamura |
| 10 November 201340 | FC Gifu | 1 - 1 | Ehime | Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 16:00 | Sugiyama 18' Nogaito 29'Nakamura 30'Someya 54'Blazhe 55' 62' | Report | Kato 40' | Attendance: 2,856 Referee: Inoue |
| 17 November 201341 | FC Gifu | 0 - 3 | Consadole Sapporo | Nagaragawa Stadium |
| Sunday 17:00 | Arai 45' Nakamura 85' | Report | Uehara 3' Sunakawa 13'Uchimura 17'58'Kawai 56' | Attendance: 7,015 Referee: Enomoto |
| 24 November 201342 | Kataller Toyama | 1 - 2 | FC Gifu | Toyama Athletic Stadium |
| Sunday 12:30 | Seo Yong-Duk 6' Funatsu 90+4' | Report | Blazhe 22'30' (og) Tanaka 71'Someya 85' | Attendance: 7,805 Referee: Ogiya |
| No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | J. League 2 | Emperor's Cup | |||||||
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| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||||||
| 1 | GK |  JPN | Takahiro Takagi | 13 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2 | DF | JPN | Arata Sugiyama | 34 | 1 | 31+2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 3 | DF |  ITA | Desmond | 25 | 2 | 23+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 4 | DF | JPN | Shuto Tanaka | 31 | 2 | 29+2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 5 | DF | JPN | Hiroshi Sekita | 11 | 0 | 9+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 6 | MF | JPN | Toshihiro Hattori | 36 | 0 | 34+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 7 | MF | JPN | Hidemi Jinushizono | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 8 | MF |  PRK | Ri Han-Jae | 12 | 0 | 9+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 10 | MF | JPN | Atsushi Mio | 41 | 0 | 39+1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 11 | MF | JPN | Kazuki Someya | 38 | 11 | 36+1 | 10 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 14 | FW | JPN | Taira Inoue | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 15 | MF | JPN | Masato Yamazaki | 7 | 0 | 5+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 16 | MF | JPN | Matazo Hirano | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 17 | DF | JPN | Shun Nogaito | 34 | 0 | 28+5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 18 | FW | JPN | Hiroyuki Sugimoto | 5 | 0 | 2+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 19 | MF | JPN | Tsukasa Masuyama | 41 | 2 | 38+3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 20 | DF | JPN | Tatsuya Arai | 29 | 3 | 19+9 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| 21 | GK | JPN | Gakuji Ota | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 23 | DF | JPN | Hirofumi Moriyasu | 30 | 1 | 24+5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 24 | DF | JPN | Daiki Oizumi | 6 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 25 | MF | JPN | Takumi Kiyomoto | 9 | 0 | 0+9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 26 | FW | JPN | Kohei Nakashima | 10 | 1 | 1+9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 27 | FW | JPN | Hiroki Higuchi | 34 | 3 | 29+4 | 3 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| 28 | MF | JPN | Taisuke Mizuno | 10 | 1 | 7+3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 29 | MF | JPN | Makoto Shibahara | 16 | 0 | 9+6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 30 | FW | JPN | Yuki Nakamura | 9 | 1 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 31 | GK | JPN | Shogo Tokihisa | 30 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 32 | MF |  KOR | Do Dong-Hyun | 2 | 0 | 0+2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 33 | MF |  NZL | Kayne Vincent | 6 | 0 | 1+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 34 | FW |  MKD | Blazhe | 17 | 2 | 8+8 | 2 | 0+1 | 0 | ||||
| 35 | DF | JPN | Kosuke Kitani | 18 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 36 | MF |  CRO | Stipe Plazibat | 14 | 5 | 7+6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Players who no longer play, or are out on loan, for FC Gifu but have made appearances this season: | |||||||||||||
| 9 | FW |  BRA | Fábio | 5 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 22 | MF | BRA | Daniel Lemos | 3 | 0 | 0+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Position | Nation | Number | Name | J. League Division 2 | Emperor's Cup | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DF | | 20 | Tatsuya Arai | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| DF | | 3 | Desmond | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| FW | | 26 | Kohei Nakashima | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| FW | | 18 | Hiroyuki Sugimoto | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MF | | 11 | Kazuki Someya | 10 | 1 | 11 |
| DF | | 4 | Shuto Tanaka | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| DF | | 2 | Arata Sugiyama | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| FW | | 27 | Hiroki Higuchi | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| MF | | 28 | Taisuke Mizuno | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MF | | 23 | Hirofumi Moriyasu | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| FW | | 30 | Yuki Nakamura | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| DF | | 35 | Kosuke Kitani | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| MF | | 19 | Tsukasa Masuyama | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| MF | | 36 | Stipe Plazibat | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Fw | | 34 | Blazhe | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| TOTALS | 37 | 1 | 38 | |||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | J-League | Emperor's Cup | Total | ||||||
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| 2 | | DF | Arata Sugiyama | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 |
| 3 | | DF | Desmond | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 4 | | DF | Shuto Tanaka | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 5 | | DF | Hiroshi Sekita | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 8 | | MF | Ri Han-Jae | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 9 | | FW | Fábio | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| 11 | | MF | Kazuki Someya | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | 0 |
| 23 | | DF | Hirofumi Moriyasu | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | | MF | Atsushi Mio | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 29 | | MF | Makoto Shibahara | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | | MF | Toshihiro Hattori | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 27 | | FW | Hiroki Higuchi | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 19 | | DF | Tsukasa Masuyama | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
| 33 | | FW | Kayne Vincent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 17 | | DF | Shun Nogaito | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 30 | | FW | Yuki Nakamura | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 34 | | FW | Blazhe | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| 20 | | DF | Tatsuya Arai | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 0 | 0 |
| 28 | | MF | Taisuke Mizuno | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 35 | | DF | Kosuke Kitani | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| TOTALS | 62 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 63 | 8 | 1 | |||
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