Tōkyō Musashino City FC

Tokyo Musashino City FC
Basic data
Surname	Tokyo Musashino City Football Club
Seat	Musashino , Tokyo
founding	1939
Colours	blue-gold
Board	Naoto Igusa
Website	tokyo-musashinocity.com
First soccer team
Head coach	Hisayuki Ikegami
Venue	Musashino Municipal Athletic Stadium
Places	5000
league	Japan Football League
2019	4th Place
home Away

Tokyo Musashino City FC ( Japanese 東京 武 蔵 野 シ テ ィ FC Tōkyō Musashino Shiti Efu Shī ) is a Japanese football club from Musashino in Tokyo Prefecture . He is one of the founding members of the Japan Football League who have never been relegated from the league.

history

The association was founded in 1939 under the name Yokogawa Denki SC ( 横河 電機 サ ッ カ ー 部 Yokogawa Denki sakkā-bu ) as a corporate team of the electricity company Yokogawa Denki . After almost forty years, which were contested exclusively in the leagues of the Tokyo prefecture, the club rose in 1978 for the first time in the Kanto -Regionalliga. By the early 1990s, there were two descents and re-ascents. From 1993, the team's strength increased continuously, which was reflected in regional league titles in 1994, 1997 and 1998. The biggest success of the club so far is winning the national regional league finals in 1998, with which the promotion to the 1999 newly founded Japan Football League was achieved. Since then, the club has mostly been in the middle of the league and has never been relegated from the JFL.

Although there are still strong ties to the parent company Yokogawa Denki, the club split off in 2003 under the name Yokogawa Musashino FC ( 横河 武 蔵 野 FC Yokogawa Musashino Efu Shī ). After being granted the status of a J. League Centenary Club , it was renamed Tokyo Musashino City FC in January 2016 . As a result, the sporting balance improved steadily, at the end of the 2019 season there was finally a 4th place on the books, which was actually qualifying for promotion to the J3 League .

In addition to sporting criteria, other key figures also play a role for advancement from the JFL, including the average attendance during the season, which must be at least 2,000 visitors per game. Musashino City's special circumstances of the season were fatal here, because due to the rugby world championship held in Japan in the second half of the year , in which the Tokyo region was particularly strongly involved, most of the home games took place between the start of the season in March and mid-July instead of. At this point in time, however, it was not yet possible to foresee a permanent fixation in the ascent zone, so the average attendance at this point was significantly less than 2,000 people. It was only after a run in October, in which you could put up to six points behind 5th place, that it gradually dawned on the environment that it might be something with the promotion after all. In the meantime, however, there were only three more home games on the schedule, in which a total of around 15,000 spectators were needed to meet the promotion criteria. The local Musashino athletics stadium at that time only had a capacity of 5,284 spectators, and after the first of these three home games, which attracted 3,828 visitors, it was relatively quickly clear that the necessary difference could no longer be achieved. After the sold-out penultimate home game, the club did everything possible to obtain a special permit to exceed the number of spectators, but announced a few days before the last home game that it would forego promotion.

In 2020, Tokyo Musashino City relinquished the status of the Hundred Year Plan Association on July 31, 2020. The club is now to be gradually incorporated into the structure of the multi-disciplinary Yokogawa Musashino Sports Club founded in 2017 ; for the youth teams this step is planned for the 2021 season, for the JFL team for the 2022 season.

Stages

The main home ground of Yokogawa Musashino is the Musashino Municipal Athletic Stadium , which can seat 5000 spectators. In addition, the Ajinomoto Stadium , a side square of the same, the Edogawa Stadium and the Nishigaoka Football Stadium are used from time to time.

player

Status: August 2020

No. position Surname 1 TW Yuma Nishioka 2 MF Ko Kyung-te 3 FROM Yuta Komatsuzaki 4th MF Yuki Onodera 5 MF Yuya Suzuki 6th MF Masahito Tomaru 7th MF Keisuke Iwata ( team captain ) 8th MF Daichi Kobayashi 9 ST Koki Taguchi 10 FROM Takanori Kanamori 11 ST Toshihiko Uchiyama 13 MF Minoru Moriya 14th MF Keisuke Honda 15th MF Takumi Kaneda 16 ST Ryoma Nakagawa 17th FROM Daiki Koguchi

No. position Surname 18th MF Koji Ishihara 19th MF Sho Suzuki 20th MF Amon Sasaki 21st TW Jun Kodama 22nd MF Junki Kanai 23 MF Yūto Sashinami 24 MF Kosuke Sawano 25th FROM Shu Katayama 26th MF Junya Goto 27 MF Kosei Tamagawa 28 MF Naoki Ikeda 29 FROM Koki Okura 30th FROM Yuto Mochizuki 31 TW Masahiro Moronuki 32 MF Daisuke Eiro 41 TW Sho Honda 51 TW Senta Ito

Coach chronicle

Status: August 2020

Trainer	nation	from	to
Hideki Maeda	Japan	February 1, 1998	January 31, 2000
Hiroki Yoda	Japan	February 1, 2007	January 31, 2013
Yasuhiro Yoshida	Japan	1st February 2013	January 31, 2018
Hisayuki Ikegami	Japan	1st February 2018	today

Web links

• Official Website (Japanese)
• Tōkyō Musashino City FC at transfermarkt.de
• Tōkyō Musashino City FC at soccerway.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yokogawa Musashino is renamed "Tokyo Musashino City" (Japanese) . December 9, 2015. Accessed June 16, 2016. 
2. ↑ 東京 武 蔵 野 シ テ ィ フ ッ ト ボ ー ル ク ラ ブ 運 営 法人 の 変 更 に つ い て. August 3, 2020, accessed August 3, 2020 (Japanese). 
3. ↑ Kader 2020 In: transfermarkt.de (German), accessed on August 8, 2020
4. ↑ Trainer Chronicle In: transfermarkt.de (German), accessed on August 8, 2020