Iwate Prefecture
Prefecture of Japan
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| 2025 | The club began competing in the Japan Football League, continuing their participation in semi-professional football. |
| 2025 | Relegated to JFL (Japan Football League), currently with an undetermined league position. |
| 2025 | Iwate Grulla Morioka began competing in the Japan Football League, the fourth tier of Japanese football. |
| 2024 | Finished at the bottom of the league (20th) with only 22 points. |
| 2024 | Iwate Grulla Morioka was relegated from J3 League to the Japan Football League, dropping to the fourth tier of Japanese semi-professional football. |
| November 17 2024 | Relegation to JFL confirmed after Tochigi City FC secured promotion to J3 League. |
| November 3 2024 | Finished in last position after a 1-1 draw against Zweigen Kanazawa, facing potential relegation to JFL. |
| August 18 2024 | Kei Hoshikawa becomes the current manager of Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| August 17 2024 | Takuya Jinno's managerial period ends |
| May 8 2024 | Takuya Jinno starts managing Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| May 7 2024 | Tetsuji Nakamikawa's managerial period ends |
| 2023 | Returned to J3 League, finishing 10th with 54 points. |
| September 20 2023 | Tetsuji Nakamikawa begins managing Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| September 19 2023 | Yoshika Matsubara's managerial period ends |
| February 1 2023 | Yoshika Matsubara takes over as manager of Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| 2022 | Promoted to J2 League, but finished 22nd with 34 points. |
| October 28 2022 | Acquired the J1 License, becoming eligible for potential promotion to J1 League if finishing in J2's Top 2. |
| 2021 | Earned promotion to the J2 League as J3 runners-up. |
| 2021 | Finished 2nd in their league with 53 points and reached the 3rd round of a cup competition. |
| February 1 2020 | Yutaka Akita starts his management of Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| 2019 | Adopted the new name 'Iwate Grulla Morioka'. |
| 2018 | Rikuzentakata established a sister city relationship with Crescent City in the United States |
| October 1 2018 | Beginning of a demographic reporting period showing a significant decline in births, with only 7,220 births recorded between October 2018 and September 2019, highlighting the prefecture's ongoing population decline. |
| February 1 2017 | Toshimi Kikuchi becomes the manager of Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| 2016 | Chineko Sugawara passed away after a career in acting and voice acting. |
| December 31 2016 | Akihiko Kamikawa's managerial period ends |
| February 1 2016 | Akihiko Kamikawa takes over as manager of Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| 2014 | Played in the inaugural season of the J3 League. |
| 2014 | City center reconstruction project began using a massive conveyor belt system called the 'Bridge of Hope' to elevate the city center with rock fill. |
| 2013 | Won the Regional Promotion Series and promoted directly to the newly formed J3 League, bypassing the Japan Football League. |
| 2013 | Achieved their best league performance, winning the league with 49 points and an exceptional goal difference of 85, and finished as runners-up in a competition. |
| 2013 | An artificial 'commemorative tree' was installed to replace the original surviving pine, symbolizing resilience and memory after the tsunami's destruction. |
| September 2012 | The surviving pine tree was felled for preservation due to salt water poisoning and increasing threats from coastal erosion and salinity. |
| February 1 2012 | Naoki Naruo begins his managerial tenure at Iwate Grulla Morioka |
| 2011 | After the devastating tsunami, only a single ten-metre, two-hundred-year-old pine tree remained from the original forest of approximately seventy thousand pines. |
| May 2011 | Final death toll was confirmed at 1,656 killed and 223 missing and presumed dead, including 68 city officials and 49 firefighters. |
| March 14 2011 | BBC reported the town as 'almost completely flattened' with severe tsunami damage. |
| March 11 2011 | Rikuzentakata was devastated by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, which caused extensive damage to the city, dramatically altering its landscape and population. |
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