Vanraure Hachinohe vs Imabari

Vanraure Hachinohe (ヴァンラーレ八戸, Vanraure Hachinohe) is a football club based in Hachinohe, a city in the southeastern part of Aomori Prefecture in Japan. They currently play in the J3 League. The name Vanraure comes from the combination of two Italian words: derivante, meaning "origin"; and australe, meaning "southern". It thus refers to the origin of the club in the southern area of Hachinohe, in the former village of Nangō. The club was founded in 2006 as a merger of two football clubs; Hachinohe Industry SC (八戸工業サッカークラブ) and Nango FC (南郷FC) and joined Tōhoku League Div...

FC Imabari (FC今治) is a Japanese football club based in Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. They play in the J3 League. The club was founded in 1976 and was promoted to the Shikoku Football League in 2001. From 2009 to 2011 they were owned by Ehime F.C. as their reserve team, Ehime F.C. Shimanami. After spinning off yet again, the majority of FC Imabari was bought by the former coach of Japan Takeshi Okada in 2014. In February 2016, the club made another step forward toward the J. League as JFA recognised J. League Hundred Year Vision clubs. In November they won the Regional Promotion Series...