is a Japanese professional football club based in Nagasaki, Capital of Nagasaki Prefecture. They will be competing in the J1 League, JapanâÂÂs top-tier professional football league, starting in the 2026âÂÂ27 season after securing promotion from J2 in 2025.
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 Kyà «shà « 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 1âÂÂ1 with Kà Âichi Satà  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 3âÂÂ1 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 3âÂÂ1 home win over Kamatamare Sanuki.
On 29 November 2025, the club secure promotion to J1 League after draw 1âÂÂ1 against Tokushima Vortis in final matchweek at away game and return to top tier after six years absence.
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, which opened in 2024.
The "V" in the club's name comes from the Portuguese word vitória (meaning 'victory') as well as the Dutch word vrede (meaning 'peace'), while varen is the Dutch verb meaning 'to sail', relating to Nagasaki's heritage as port of call of Portuguese and Dutch traders during the Sakoku period in the Tokugawa shogunate (see Dejima).
V-Varen Nagasaki unveiled a new club logo ahead of the 2025 season.
Their stadium, the Peace Stadium Connected by SoftBank, started construction in downtown Nagasaki in June 2022, and was completed in September 2024. The club played the first competitive match in the new stadium on October 6, 2024, beating Oita Trinita 4-1. SoftBank signed a partnership with V-Varen for 4 years.
V-Varen Nagasaki previously used the Transcosmos Stadium Nagasaki as its home stadium until the end of September 2024.
2025 Official club staff.
Notice of Coach Yusuke Murakami's retirement.