Tochigi SC

Tochigi SC
Basic data
Surname	Tochigi Soccer Club (栃 木 SC)
Seat	Utsunomiya , Japan
founding	1953
president	Masashi Nakatsu
Website	tochigisc.jp
First soccer team
Head coach	Yūji Yokoyama (2016–)
Venue	Tochigi Green Stadium , Utsunomiya , Tochigi
Places	18,025
league	J2 League
2019	20th place (J2)
home Away

The Tochigi SC ( Japanese 栃 木 SC; Tochigi Esu Shī ) is a football club from Utsunomiya , Tochigi Prefecture , Japan.

It is the only professional club that has the American term "soccer" in its name. This is mainly due to the efforts of the league management to spread the British term "football".

The club's coat of arms served as a template for the Hong Kong first division club Tai Chung FC .

history

The association was founded in 1953 in Tochigi Prefecture by teachers. Accordingly, the club was called Tochigi Teacher's Football Club (Japanese 栃 木 教員 サ ッ カ ー 部, Tochigi Kyōin Sakka Bu ). After other professional groups were also admitted to the club, the misleading name was got rid of in 1994 and from then on ran as the Tochigi Soccer Club .

In 2005 a task force was founded with the aim of advancing to the professionalized J. League Division 1 . In January 2007 the club received the license and was able to rise due to the sporting success in the 2009 season.

successes

• Japan Football League

Winner: 2000

2nd place: 2008

• J3 League

2nd place: 2016, 2017

Stadion

The club plays its home games at the Tochigi Green Stadium (栃 木 県 グ リ ー ン ス タ ジ ア ム, Tochigi-ken Gurīn Stajiamu) in Utsunomiya in Tochigi Prefecture . The stadium, owned by Tochigi Prefecture, has a capacity of 18,025. The sports facility is operated by the Kanto Sohgo Security Service.

Coordinates: 36 ° 33 ′ 24 ″  N , 139 ° 59 ′ 12 ″  E

player

Status: June 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Shuhei Kawata 2 FROM Ryuji Ito 4th FROM Ryota Takasugi 5 MF Yudai Iwama 6th MF Kazuki Segawa 7th FROM Kazunori Kan 8th MF Takahiro Akimoto 9 ST Sergio Escudero 11 MF Tasuku Hiraoka 13 MF Woo Sang-ho 14th MF Yuki Nishiya 15th FROM Yushi Mizobuchi 16 ST Shota Sakaki 17th MF Ren Yamamoto 18th MF Toshiki Mori

No. position Surname 19th ST Koki Oshima 20th ST Han Yong-thae 21st MF Junya Osaki 22nd TW Hitoshi Shiota 23 FROM Yasutaka Yanagi 24 MF Tatsuya Wada 25th MF Sho Sato 28 FROM Hayato Nukui 29 ST Kishō Yano 30th FROM Masaya Tashiro 31 TW Ono Cholhwan 32 MF Shuga Arai 33 FROM Hayato Kurosaki 34 ST Kōtaro Arima 35 FROM Ryoya Ikeniwa 37 MF Tatsumi Sotome

Borrowed Players

No. position Surname FROM Kotaro Fujiwara (at Kagoshima United FC )

Season placement

season	league	Teams	Item	J. League Cup	Emperor's Cup
2000	JFL	12	1.	-	-
2001		16	13.	-	-
2002		18th	12.	-	-
2003		16	8th.	-	-
2004		16	9.	-	-
2005		16	4th	-	-
2006		18th	7th	-	-
2007		18th	8th.	-	-
2008		18th	2.	-	-
2009	J2	18th	17th	-	2nd round
2010		18th	10.	-	3rd round
2011		20th	10.	-	3rd round
2012		22nd	11.	-	2nd round
2013		22nd	9.	-	3rd round
2014		22nd	14th	-	2nd round
2015		22nd	22nd	-	2nd round
2016	J3	16	2.	-	-
2017		17th	2.	-	-
2018	J2	22nd	17th	-	2nd round
2019		22nd	20th	-	3rd round
2020		22nd		-	-

Coach chronicle

Trainer	nation	from	to
Kōichi Hashiratani	Japan	January 1, 2007	December 31, 2008
Hiroshi Matsuda	Japan	February 1, 2009	September 13, 2013
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	September 13, 2013	November 25, 2013
Yūji Sakakura	Japan	1st of February 2014	20th July 2015
Yasuharu Kurata	Japan	July 22, 2015	December 31, 2015
Yuji Yokoyama	Japan	January 1, 2016	December 31, 2018
Kazuaki Tasaka	Japan	1st February 2019

Web links

• Official website
• Tochigi SC in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Tochigi SC in the soccerway.com database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ J. League Data Site