Kokushikan University / Soccer
| Kokushikan University SC | |||
| Basic data | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Seat | Machida , Tokyo Prefecture | ||
| founding | 1956 | ||
| Colours | white-light blue | ||
| Website | kokushi-soccer.com | ||
| First soccer team | |||
| Venue | Multifunctional stadium on the Kokushikan University campus | ||
| Places | unknown | ||
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The football department of Kokushikan University ( Japanese 国 士 舘 大学 サ ッ カ ー 部 Kokushikan Daigaku Sakkā-bu ) is located on its campus in Machida in the Japanese prefecture of Tokyo . In addition to a team playing in the university leagues, it also maintained an independent club team from 1998 to 2004, which participated in the men's game of the Japanese Football Association in 1998 in the first Japan Football League and after the dissolution of this division was one of the nine founding members of the second Japan Football League . In addition, the team has played a total of 14 times in the Kaiser Cup to date , most recently in 2008 .
history
The department was founded in 1956 by Hideo Osawa, a future president of the university. Game operations began in the third division of the Kantō University League; In 1963 he was promoted to the second division, and in 1970 to the first division.
Towards the end of the 1970s, the first successes slowly emerged. In 1978 Kokushikan University SC first represented the Kanto region in the Imperial Cup , but retired in the first round after a 2-1 defeat by the Honda Motors factory team . The high phase of the team lasted from 1982 to 2001, in which a total of nine times the Kanto University League and four times the national university championship could be won.
The continuous successes in the university championship, especially in the mid-1990s, meant that the team was proposed by the Japanese University Football Association for inclusion in the Japan Football League before the start of the 1998 season , as there was a free space in this through some retreats . The proposal was approved by the Japan Football Association on the condition that two separate teams were reported for university and men's gaming operations. In the first season in the men's game, the club reached only the fifteenth and penultimate place, but benefited from the division reform carried out for the following season and was one of the nine founding members of the Japan Football League , also known as the Japan Football League , for the 1999 season .
The best result in the Japan Football League was achieved in 2002 with a fifth place. Just two years later, however, they withdrew from the league after some players were arrested shortly before the end of the season for being involved in an immorality scandal. After that it became relatively quiet around Kokushikan University SC, only in 2013 it made it to the final of the university championships, which was lost 3-1 to Osaka University of Health and Sports Sciences .
successes
- Japanese University Football Championship: 4th
- 1982, 1996, 1998, 1999
- Kantō University Championship: 9
- 1982, 1984, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001
Individual evidence
- ↑ Japan 1998. RSSSF , accessed September 29, 2016 .
- ↑ 第 1 回 日本 フ ッ ト ボ ー ル リ ー グ (1999). In: www.jfl.or.jp. Japan Football League , accessed September 29, 2016 (Japanese).
- ↑ Japan 2004. RSSSF , accessed September 29, 2016 .
Web links
- Official website (Japanese, currently under maintenance)
- Official Twitter Account (Japanese)