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| Full name | Shonan Bellmare | ||
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| Founded | 1968 as Towa Real Estate SC | ||
| Stadium | Lemon Gas Stadium Hiratsuka Hiratsuka, Kanagawa | ||
| Capacity | 15,380[1] | ||
| Chairman | Kiyoshi Makabe | ||
| Manager | Satoshi Yamaguchi | ||
| League | J1 League | ||
| 2023 | J1 League, 15th of 18 | ||
| Website | http://www.bellmare.co.jp/ | ||
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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 plays in the J1 League, which is the top tier of football in the country. 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".
- ^ "Stadium Capacity". bellmare.co.jp/stadium. bellmare.co.jp. Archived from the original on 8 October 2016. Retrieved 3 March 2021.