Clubname: | Panasonic Panthers |
Founded: | 1951 |
Ground: | Panasonic Arena |
Capacity: | 2,500 |
Mgrtitle: | Head Coach |
Manager: | Laurent Tillie |
Captain: | Akihiro Yamauchi |
League: | V.League Division 1 |
Season: | 2021–22 |
Position: | 3rd place |
Website: | https://panasonic.co.jp/sports/volleyball/en/ |
Current: | ---> |
is a men's volleyball team based in Hirakata city, Osaka, Japan. It plays in V.League Division 1. The club was founded in 1951.[1]
The owner of the club is Panasonic Corporation.
Team roster – season 2023/2024 | ||||||
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Player name | Date of birth | Position | ||||
1 | Kunihiro Shimizu | 11 August 1986 | Opposite | |||
2 | Hideomi Fukatsu | 1 June 1990 | Setter | |||
3 | Shunsuke Nakamura | 7 March 1999 | Setter | |||
6 | Thomas Jaeschke | 4 September 1993 | Outside Hitter | |||
7 | Yuga Tarumi | 2 November 2000 | Outside Hitter | |||
8 | Kenyu Nakamoto | 21 November 1997 | Outside Hitter | |||
10 | Akihiro Yamauchi(c) | 30 November 1993 | Middle Blocker | |||
11 | Yuji Nishida | 30 January 2000 | Opposite | |||
12 | Tomotake Ito | 11 November 1999 | Libero | |||
13 | Tomohiro Yamamoto | 5 November 1994 | Libero | |||
15 | Tatsunori Otsuka | 5 November 2000 | Outside Hitter | |||
17 | Takeshi Nagano | 11 July 1985 | Libero | |||
18 | Hiroto Nishiyama | 4 March 2003 | Outside Hitter | |||
19 | Keitaro Nishikawa | 14 April 2000 | Middle Blocker | |||
20 | 10 August 1991 | Setter | ||||
21 | Yasunari Kodama | 24 July 1994 | Middle Blocker | |||
22 | Yuichiro Komiya | 16 November 1992 | Middle Blocker | |||
23 | Larry Evbade-Dan | 18 August 2000 | Middle Blocker | |||
Head coach: Laurent Tillie |
Champion Runner-up
width=200 colspan=2 | League | width=100 | Position | width=60 | Teams | width=60 | Matches | width=60 | Win | width=60 | Lose |
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V.League | 1st (1994–95) | 7th | 8 | 21 | 10 | 11 | |||||
2nd (1995–96) | 6th | 8 | 21 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
3rd (1996–97) | 5th | 8 | 21 | 10 | 11 | ||||||
4th (1997–98) | 3rd | 8 | 21 | 14 | 7 | ||||||
5th (1998–99) | 4th | 10 | 18 | 17 | 1 | ||||||
6th (1999-00) | 6th | 10 | 18 | 9 | 9 | ||||||
7th (2000–01) | 6th | 10 | 18 | 9 | 9 | ||||||
8th (2001–02) | 6th | 10 | 18 | 9 | 9 | ||||||
9th (2002–03) | 3rd | 8 | 21 | 13 | 8 | ||||||
10th (2003–04) | 3rd | 8 | 21 | 12 | 9 | ||||||
11th (2004–05) | 4th | 8 | 28 | 15 | 13 | ||||||
12th (2005–06) | 5th | 8 | 28 | 16 | 12 | ||||||
V・Premier | 2006–07 | 3rd | 8 | 28 | 17 | 11 | |||||
2007–08 | Champion | 8 | 28 | 19 | 9 | ||||||
2008–09 | 3rd | 8 | 28 | 15 | 13 | ||||||
2009–10 | Champion | 8 | 28 | 20 | 4 | ||||||
2010–11 | 4th | 8 | 24 | 14 | 10 | ||||||
2011–12 | Champion | 8 | 21 | 17 | 4 | ||||||
2012–13 | Runner-Up | 8 | 28 | 20 | 8 | ||||||
2013–14 | Champion | 8 | 28 | 21 | 7 | ||||||
2014–15 | 6th | 8 | 21 | 13 | 8 | ||||||
2015–16 | Runner-up | 8 | 30 | 16 | 14 | ||||||
2016–17 | 5th | 8 | 26 | 15 | 11 | ||||||
2017–18 | Champion | 8 | 28 | 23 | 5 | ||||||
V.League Division 1 | |||||||||||
2018–19 | Champion | 10 | 34 | 28 | 6 | ||||||
2019–20 | Runner-up | 10 | 28 | 24 | 4 | ||||||
2020–21 | Runner-up | 10 | 41 | 33 | 8 | ||||||
2021–22 | 3rd | 10 | 36 | 25 | 11 | ||||||
2022–23 | 3rd | 10 | 39 | 25 | 14 |