Shonan Bellmare
| Full name | Shonan Bellmare | ||
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| Founded | 1968 as Towa Real Estate SC | ||
| Stadium | Lemon Gas Stadium Hiratsuka Hiratsuka, Kanagawa | ||
| Capacity | 15,380 | ||
| Chairman | Kiyoshi Makabe | ||
| Manager | Satoshi Yamaguchi | ||
| League | J2 League | ||
| 2025 | J1 League, 19th of 20 (relegated) | ||
| Website | www | ||
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Shonan Bellmare (湘南ベルマーレ, Shōnan Berumāre) is a Japanese professional football club based in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club will play in the J2 League, the second tier of football in the country as of the season 2026–27, after relegated from J1 League, with three matches remaining. Their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium. Shonan refers to a coastal area along Sagami Bay that includes Hiratsuka. Bellmare is a portmanteau of the Italian words bello and mare, meaning "beautiful sea".