Japán Kupa | 10/23 10:00 | 3 | V-Varen Nagasaki v Ventforet Kofu | W | 2-1 | |
Japán J2-League | 10/20 07:00 | 37 | [9] Fagiano Okayama v V-Varen Nagasaki [10] | L | 2-1 | |
Japán J2-League | 10/12 09:00 | 36 | [10] V-Varen Nagasaki v JEF Utd Chiba [17] | L | 0-2 | |
Japán J2-League | 10/05 09:00 | 35 | [11] V-Varen Nagasaki v Machida Zelvia [19] | W | 3-2 | |
Japán J2-League | 09/28 10:00 | 34 | [5] Omiya Ardija v V-Varen Nagasaki [11] | L | 3-0 | |
Japán J2-League | 09/21 09:00 | 33 | [11] V-Varen Nagasaki v Kyoto Sanga FC [4] | W | 1-0 | |
Japán Kupa | 09/18 10:00 | 10 | V-Varen Nagasaki v Vegalta Sendai | W | 2-1 | |
Japán J2-League | 09/14 10:00 | 32 | [8] Tokushima Vortis v V-Varen Nagasaki [11] | D | 1-1 | |
Japán J2-League | 09/07 09:00 | 31 | [11] V-Varen Nagasaki v Avispa Fukuoka [17] | W | 1-0 | |
Japán J2-League | 08/31 09:00 | 30 | [12] V-Varen Nagasaki v Tokyo Verdy [11] | W | 2-1 | |
Japán J2-League | 08/24 10:00 | 29 | [14] Renofa Yamaguchi v V-Varen Nagasaki [13] | W | 0-4 | |
Japán J2-League | 08/17 09:00 | 28 | [11] V-Varen Nagasaki v Kashiwa Reysol [1] | L | 1-2 | |
Japán Kupa | 08/14 10:00 | 9 | V-Varen Nagasaki v Veertien Mie | W | 7-6 | |
Japán J2-League | 08/10 10:00 | 27 | [17] FC Ryukyu v V-Varen Nagasaki [12] | L | 3-2 | |
Japán J2-League | 08/04 09:00 | 26 | [10] V-Varen Nagasaki v FC Gifu [22] | L | 1-3 | |
Japán J2-League | 07/31 10:00 | 25 | [8] V-Varen Nagasaki v Ehime FC [18] | L | 1-4 | |
Japán J2-League | 07/27 10:00 | 24 | [19] Kagoshima United v V-Varen Nagasaki [9] | W | 1-2 | |
Japán J2-League | 07/20 09:00 | 23 | [10] V-Varen Nagasaki v Ventforet Kofu [6] | W | 1-0 | |
Japán J2-League | 07/13 09:00 | 22 | [4] Mito Hollyhock v V-Varen Nagasaki [8] | L | 2-1 | |
Japán J2-League | 07/07 09:00 | 21 | [4] Kyoto Sanga FC v V-Varen Nagasaki [7] | L | 1-0 | |
Japán Kupa | 07/03 10:00 | 8 | V-Varen Nagasaki v Kochi University FC | W | 2-1 | |
Japán J2-League | 06/29 09:00 | 20 | [8] V-Varen Nagasaki v FC Ryukyu [11] | W | 3-2 | |
Japán J-League Kupa | 06/26 10:00 | 14 | [1] Gamba Osaka v V-Varen Nagasaki [2] | W | 0-2 | |
Japán J2-League | 06/22 09:00 | 19 | [6] V-Varen Nagasaki v Montedio Yamagata [1] | L | 1-2 | |
Japán J-League Kupa | 06/19 10:00 | 14 | [2] V-Varen Nagasaki v Gamba Osaka [1] | L | 1-4 | |
Japán J2-League | 06/16 08:00 | 18 | [16] Machida Zelvia v V-Varen Nagasaki [6] | D | 2-2 | |
Japán J2-League | 06/08 05:00 | 17 | [6] V-Varen Nagasaki v Fagiano Okayama [10] | L | 2-3 | |
Japán J2-League | 06/02 07:00 | 16 | [14] JEF Utd Chiba v V-Varen Nagasaki [7] | W | 1-4 | |
Japán J2-League | 05/25 05:00 | 15 | [8] V-Varen Nagasaki v Tokushima Vortis [14] | W | 1-0 | |
Japán J-League Kupa | 05/22 10:00 | 6 | [4] V-Varen Nagasaki v Yokohama F-Marinos [1] | W | 3-1 |
V-Varen Nagasaki (V・ファーレン長崎, Vi Fāren Nagasaki) is a Japanese football club based in Nagasaki, Capital of Nagasaki Prefecture. They currently play in J2 League, the Japanese second tier professional in football league.
The club was established in 1985 as Ariake SC until the club decided to merge with Kunimi FC in 2004. The merger led the club to adopt the new name V-Varen Nagasaki in 2005, which has been used ever since.
V-Varen Nagasaki, since 2006, had been contending for the Kyūshū Soccer League championship and thus a place in the Japan Football League, but they only won it in November 2008, as second place in the Regional League promotion series.
In January 2009, they applied for J. League Associate Membership and their application was accepted at the J. League board meeting in February. In 2012, they won the Japan Football League title and thus promotion to the J. League Division 2. Five years later they won promotion to the J1 League for the first time after finishing runners-up in the 2017 season.
In preparation for the club's first season in the J. League Division 2 the club hired local-born Takuya Takagi as their coach for the season. On 3 March 2013 V-Varen Nagasaki played in their first ever J. League Division 2 match against Fagiano Okayama at the Kanko Stadium in Okayama in which the club drew the match 1–1 with Kōichi Satō scoring the first J. League Division 2 goal for V-Varen Nagasaki in the 25th minute. The club then played their first home match in the J. League Division 2 on 10 March 2013 at the Nagasaki Athletic Stadium against former J. League champions Gamba Osaka in which V-Varen Nagasaki lost 3–1 in front of a huge crowd of 18,153.
The club gained promotion into the J. League Division 2 in 2012 for the first time in their history after finishing as the champions in the 2012 Japan Football League and hired Nagasaki native Takuya Takagi to coach the club for the 2013 season.
On 11 November 2017, the club clinched promotion to the J1 League for the first time in their history after a 3–1 home win over Kamatamare Sanuki.
After facing dire financial difficulties, on 8 March 2017 the club was purchased by Japanet Holdings, the parent company of Japanese television shopping giant Japanet Takata Co., Ltd., becoming a fully owned subsidiary. Japanet have invested significant sums into the club, securing promotion to the top tier of Japanese football and publishing plans to build a new football-specific stadium on the former site of Mitsubishi's Nagasaki shipbuilding operations, opening in 2023.