Shonai FC
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| Full name | Shonai Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Founded | 2003, as Shonai Giants |
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| Ground | Shonai Ryokuchi Koen Shonai Nagoya |
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| League | Tokai league | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Shonai FC is an amateur football team formed in Shonai Ryokuchi Koen, Nagoya Japan in October 2003, The founding father was Sam Knight who left in 2004, Their first tournament took place in Nagano with following tournaments in Awaji Shima and Nagano. In 2004 as the club became bigger, the mantle was passed to Ben Backwell, Gary Taggart and Niall Walsh who started to piece together a more professional team, which involved having the same colour shirts and a badge, culminating in 2005 at the Shizuoka Stadium shizouka (51,00 capacity) beating Japan FC 7-2. They are at present Tokai league champions having been undefeated. in 2006 Shonai FC qualified from the Japan Western Division and came 3rd place in The All-Japan Tournament in Japan Saitama Stadium (60,000 Capacity)
The first club colours were white, based on the Brazillian team Corinthians, The colours were changed by a club vote to blue in 2004, the light blue of Manchester City was chosen. The club crest is based on "kin no Shachihoko" 金の鯱 . This is a mythical golden orca like fish. Two of which sit atop Nagoya Castle and are a symbol of Nagoya city , the circular design is inspired by the old Manchester city logo and was designed by Osamu an employee of Toyota Motor Co
Shonai FC boast an alumni from all over the world.
Captains 
Sam Knight 2003-2004 Ben Backwell 2004-2005 Leroy Kobayashi 2005-2006 
Gary Taggart 2006-present
