FC Tokyo

FC Tokyo
Basic data
Surname	Tokyo Football Club ( Japanese FC 東京 , Efu shī Tōkyō )
Seat	Tokyo prefecture
founding	October 1, 1998 ( Tokyo Gas FC: 1935 )
Colours	blue red
president	Yutaka Murabayashi
Website	fctokyo.co.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Kenta Hasegawa (2017–)
Venue	Ajinomoto Stadium
Places	50,000
league	J1 League
2019	2nd place
home Away

The FC Tokyo ( Japanese FC 東京 , Efu shī Tōkyō ) is a Japanese football club with the Tokyo prefecture as its hometown, which has played in the country's highest professional league, the J1 League , since 2000 . The club is both a very old and a young club: although it was only founded in 1998 from what was then Tokyo Gas FC , making it the youngest J. League club, the predecessor club dates back to 1935 and is therefore older than most of the competitors.

The "association" is a stock corporation spun off from the parent company in 1998 with a turnover of around 3.4 billion yen (2008), the Tōkyō Football Club KK ( 東京 フ ッ ト ボ ー ル ク ラ ブ 株式会社 , Tōkyō futtobōru kurabu kabushiki-gaisha , English Tokyo Football Club Co., Ltd. ) based in Kōtō . The shares are not listed, the most important of the more than 300 owners are Tōkyō Gas and Tepco .

Club history

The home stadium of FC Tokyo, the Ajinomoto Stadium

The club, which was originally founded as a works team for the Tokyo gas supplier Tokyo Gas , played most of the time only in the urban Metropolitan League and only rose to the regional Kantō League in 1986 . From then on, the team made an ascent, which in turn is only surpassed by that of Ōita Trinita :

• Just five years later, in 1991, they were able to win the final of the regional leagues and advance to the second division of the Japan Soccer League (JSL).
• Already in the next year the promotion took place in the newly founded Japan Football League (JFL), which was established below the newly created J. League.
• In 1997 Tokyo Gas caused a sensation nationwide for the first time when they knocked out three first division clubs in the Kaiser Cup and reached the quarter-finals.
• The following year they won the JFL and rose to the newly created J. League Division 2 . In that year it was also renamed FC Tokyo .
• Another year later, in 1999, he was immediately promoted to the top division, the J. League Division 1 . In addition, they beat in the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup , the Japanese league cup , again three top division and reached the semi-finals.
• There one surprised the competition with three wins at the beginning and a seventh place in the final table.
• In 2003, when FC Tokyo had just established itself in the league, they achieved the best result in the club's history with fourth place in the annual table.
• In 2004 FC won their first major national title with the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup (the Urawa Red Diamonds were defeated on penalties in the final).

The club, which shares the Ajinomoto Stadium in the city of Chōfu with local rivals Tokyo Verdy 1969 , differs significantly from its competitors in terms of its appearance: FC Tokyo is the only team that has neither a mascot (the other clubs mostly use Sony- designed ones Figures), another Europeanized word in their name. This enabled them to position themselves as an honest, unaffected club and to build a large fan base in the highly competitive football market in the greater Tokyo area.

successes

National

• JFL

Champion: 1998 (as Tokyo Gas FC)

• J2 League

Vice champion: 1999 ▲ , 2011 ▲  

• J. League Cup

Winner: 2004, 2009

• Emperor's Cup

Winner: 2011

International

• Copa Suruga Bank

Winner: 2010

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Ajinomoto Stadium in Chofu, Tokyo . The stadium has a capacity of 49,970 spectators. The sports facility, which opened in 2011, is owned by Tokyo Prefecture. The stadium is operated by KK Tōkyō Stadium.

Ajinomoto Stadium

Coordinates: 35 ° 39 ′ 51 ″  N , 139 ° 31 ′ 37 ″  E

Current squad

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Tsuyoshi Kodama 2 FROM Be Muroya 3 FROM Masato Morishige 4th FROM Tsuyoshi Watanabe 5 FROM Daiki Niwa 6th FROM Ryōya Ogawa 7th MF Hirotaka Mita 8th MF Yōjirō Takahagi 9 ST Diego Oliveira 10 MF Keigo Higashi ( team captain ) 11 ST Kensuke Nagai 13 TW Go Hatano 15th MF Adaílton 17th ST Well Sang-ho 18th MF Kento Hashimoto 19th MF Kiwara Miyazaki 20th MF Leandro 22nd FROM Takumi Nakamura

No. position Surname 23 ST Kiichi Yajima 24 ST Taichi Hara 27 ST Kyōsuke Tagawa 28 MF Takuya Uchida 31 MF Shūto Abe 32 FROM Joan Oumari 33 TW Akihiro Hayashi 34 MF Chayathorn Tapsuvanavon 35 MF Yoshitake Suzuki 37 FROM Hotaka Nakamura 38 MF Kazuya Konno 40 MF Rei Hirakawa 41 TW Taishi Brandon Nozawa 44 MF Manato Shinada 45 MF Arthur Silva 47 FROM Seiji Kimura 49 FROM Kashif Bangunagande

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Toshiaki Imai	Japan	February 1, 1993	January 31, 1995
Kiyoshi Ōkuma	Japan	February 1, 1995	January 31, 2002
Hiromi Hara	Japan	February 1, 2002	December 19, 2005
Alexandre Gallo	Brazil	February 1, 2006	August 14, 2006
Hisao Kuramata	Japan	August 15, 2006	December 6, 2006
Hiromi Hara	Japan	December 7, 2006	January 31, 2008
Hiroshi Jofuku	Japan	February 1, 2008	September 19, 2010
Kiyoshi Ōkuma	Japan	20th September 2010	December 31, 2011
Ranko Popovic	Serbia Austria	February 1, 2012	January 31, 2014
Massimo Ficcadenti	Italy	1st of February 2014	January 31, 2016
Hiroshi Jofuku	Japan	February 1, 2016	July 24, 2016
Yoshiyuki Shinoda	Japan	July 26, 2016	10th September 2017
Takayoshi Amma	Japan	11th September 2017	January 31, 2018
Kenta Hasegawa	Japan	1st February 2018	today

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup	AFC CL
1999	J2	10	2. ▲	Semifinals	4th round
2000	J1	16	7th	2nd round	3rd round
2001		16	8th.	2nd round	3rd round
2002		16	9.	Quarter finals	3rd round
2003		16	4th	Quarter finals	4th round
2004		16	8th.	winner	Quarter finals
2005		18th	10.	Group stage	5th round
2006		18th	13.	Group stage	5th round
2007		18th	12.	Group stage	Quarter finals
2008		18th	6th	Quarter finals	Semifinals
2009		18th	5.	winner	4th round
2010		18th	16. ▼	Quarter finals	Semifinals
2011	J2	20th	1. ▲	-	winner
2012	J1	18th	10.	Semifinals	2nd round	Round of 16
2013		18th	8th.	Group stage	Semifinals
2014		18th	9.	Group stage	Round of 16
2015		18th	4th	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
2016		18th	9.	Semifinals	Quarter finals	Round of 16
2017		18th	13.	Quarter finals	2nd round
2018		18th	6th	Group stage	4th round
2019		18th	2.	Quarter finals	3rd round
2020		18th

Awards

Eleven of the year

• Tuto (2000)
• Yoichi Doi (2004)
• Yuto Nagatomo (2009)
• Naohiro Ishikawa (2009)
• Masato Morishige (2013, 2015, 2016, 2019)
• Kōsuke Ōta (2014, 2015)
• Masato Morishige (2014)
• Yoshinori Muto (2014)
• Akihiro Hayashi (2019)
• Be Muroya (2019)
• Kento Hashimoto (2019)
• Diego Oliveira (2019)
• Kensuke Nagai (2019)

FC Tokyo U23

FC Tokyo U23
Surname	FC Tokyo U23
Venue	Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka
Places	7137
Head coach	Tetsu Nagasawa
league	J3 League
2019	16th place
home Away

FC Tokyo U23 is the reserve team of FC Tokyo and has been playing in the J3 League since 2016 . The team cannot be promoted to the J2 League and only three players over the age of 23 can be used in a game.

In the 2020 season, the team will not participate in J3 matches.

Stadion

The club plays its home games at Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka in the Kita district of the Japanese capital Tokyo . The Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka has a capacity of 7137 people. The sports facility is owned by the Japan Sport Council .

Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka

Coordinates Panasonic Stadium Suita: 35 ° 46 ′ 9 ″  N , 139 ° 42 ′ 28 ″  E

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	spectator
2016	J3	16	10.	2797
2017	J3	17th	11.	1933
2018	J3	17th	14th	1723
2019	J3	18th	16.	1276

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nationality	from	to
Takayoshi Amma	Japan	February 1, 2016	July 25, 2016
Tadashi Nakamura	Japan	July 26, 2016	January 31, 2018
Takayoshi Amma	Japan	1st February 2018	January 31, 2019
Tetsu Nagasawa	Japan	1st February 2019	today

Best goal scorers

season	Surname	Gates
2016	Yu In-soo	11
2017
2018	Kiichi Yajima	9
2019	Taichi Hara	19th

Web links

Commons : FC Tokyo  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website (Japanese, English)
• Ajinomoto Stadium on stadiumguide.com (Engl.)
• FC Tokyo in the database of weltfussball.de
• FC Tokyo in the database of transfermarkt.de
• FC Tokyo in the soccerway.com database
• FC Tokyo U-23 in the database of transfermarkt.de
• FC Tokyo U-23 in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} ＦＣ 東京 . (No longer available online.) FC Tokyo, archived from the original on April 26, 2012 ; Retrieved April 17, 2012 (Japanese). 
2. ↑ 会 社 概要
3. ↑ 株 主 名簿
4. ↑ J. League Data Site
5. ↑ Withdrawal from the J3 Leauge 2020 jleague.jp (English), accessed on June 12, 2020