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FC Tokyo

FC Tokyo
FC東京

Full name	Football Club Tokyo
Founded	1935; 89 years ago (1935) as Tokyo Gas FC
Stadium	Ajinomoto Stadium Chōfu, Tokyo
Capacity	49,970
Chairman	Naoki Ogane
Head Coach	Peter Cklamovski
League	J1 League
2023	J1 League, 11th of 18
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
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Football Club Tokyo (フットボールクラブ東京, Futtobōru Kurabu Tōkyō), commonly known as FC Tokyo (FC東京, Efushī Tōkyō), is a Japanese professional football club based in Chōfu, Tokyo. The club plays in the J1 League, the top tier of football in the country.

As of 2023, FC Tokyo is one of five in the J.League to be simply called Football Club without an extended name, the other four being FC Gifu, FC Osaka, FC Imabari and FC Ryukyu, all playing in J3 League.^[1]

The club have won 1 J2 League titles, 1 Emperor's Cup and 3 J.League Cup. The club also won the 2010 J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship.

The team started as a company team, Tokyo Gas Football Club (東京ガスサッカー部) in 1935^[2][3] The club played in the Tokyo League got promoted to the Kanto League in 1986 and suddenly achieved a good 4th-place finish. Their first appearance in the national leagues was in 1991, the last season of the old Japan Soccer League.^[4] With addition of the Brazilian football player Amaral and the manager Kiyoshi Okuma at the helm, the team gradually became competitive and in 1997, the team finished second, winning the JFL championship the next year. However, at the time the team lacked the necessary qualifications for a promotion to the J1 league and so stayed in J2.

Following this, on 1 October 1998, companies like Tokyo Gas, TEPCO, ampm, TV Tokyo, and Culture Convenience Club, set up a joint company Tokyo Football Club Company with the aim of making the team eligible for joining the J.League. In 1999, the team changed its name to ''FC Tokyo'' and entered the second division of the J2 League, defeating three J1 League teams in a row in the J.League Cup, which they first participated in, and advancing to the top four. In the same year, FC Tokyo became eligible, they finished second in the J2 league and were automatically promoted to J1 beginning in the 2000 season. Despite a widespread belief that the team would barely win enough to stay in the J1, the team won four games in a row since its opening game and managed to finish at the 7th spot.

Helped by its winning record, the attendance shot up and it is still above that of well-known Tokyo Verdy 1969 that moved its home town from Kawasaki, Kanagawa in 2001. Since 2002, the team welcomed Hiromi Hara as its manager and aimed for a championship with a strong offense. The 2003 season had the team finish in 4th, its highest ever. In August of the same year, it held a friendly match against one of the greatest football clubs, Real Madrid losing 3–0 but gaining valuable experiences both on and off the field for what it takes to be a great football club.

Long-time leader Amaral, nicknamed The King of Tokyo by his fans, departed the team to join Shonan Bellmare in 2004. He was replaced by Athens Olympics national football team player Yasuyuki Konno from Consadole Sapporo. In November of the same year, it won the J.League Cup for its first major title since joining the J.League.

After 10 years of participation in the J.League without a mascot character, the team adopted Tokyo Dorompa, a tanuki-like figure, as its mascot in January, 2009.

On 4 December 2010, FC Tokyo had to win their final game of the season away to already relegated Kyoto Sanga. FC Tokyo lost 2–0 and went back down to the second tier for the first time in 11 years. Nevertheless, they bounced back at the first attempt, winning the J2 League title in November 2011.

Before their 2011 Emperor's Cup win, FC Tokyo reached the semifinals of the competition three times: in 1997 (as Tokyo Gas), 2008, and on 2010. Their 2011 win was remarkably special, as the club won the competition whilst being a J2 team. They became the first J2 team, and third among the second-tier champions overall (after NKK SC in 1981 and Júbilo Iwata in 1982), to accomplish the feat of winning the competition.

FC Tokyo uses Ajinomoto Stadium as its home ground (the official name of this stadium is Tokyo Stadium). It can hold up to 49,970 capacity of fans in the stadium. For a long time it did not have a home stadium of its own and played at various football fields such as the National Olympic Stadium, the National Nishigaoka Football Field, Edogawa Special Ward Stadium, and the Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, but in 2001 it finally found a permanent home. The club's training grounds are Sarue Ground in Kōtō, Tokyo, and Kodaira Ground in Kodaira, Tokyo.

In order to comply with height limitation close to the airport, the pitch is sunk below the level of the land around the stadium

As of 1 July 2024.^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Tsuyoshi Kodama 2 DF  JPN Hotaka Nakamura 3 DF  JPN Masato Morishige (captain) 4 DF  JPN Yasuki Kimoto 5 DF  JPN Yuto Nagatomo (vice-captain) 7 MF  JPN Kuryu Matsuki (vice-captain) 8 MF  JPN Takahiro Ko 9 FW  BRA Diego Oliveira 10 MF  JPN Keigo Higashi 11 FW  JPN Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa 13 GK  JPN Go Hatano 14 FW  JPN Keita Yamashita 17 MF  JPN Tsubasa Terayama 22 MF  JPN Keita Endo 23 MF  JPN Ryunosuke Sato 27 MF  JPN Kyota Tokiwa DSP 28 FW  JPN Leon Nozawa 30 DF  JPN Teppei Oka 31 GK  JPN Masataka Kobayashi

No. Pos. Nation Player 32 DF  JPN Kanta Doi 33 MF  JPN Kota Tawaratsumida 37 MF  JPN Kei Koizumi (vice-captain) 38 FW  JPN Soma Anzai 39 FW  JPN Teruhito Nakagawa 40 MF  JPN Riki Harakawa 41 GK  JPN Taishi Brandon Nozawa 43 DF  JPN Shuhei Tokumoto 44 DF  BRA Henrique Trevisan 49 DF  JPN Kashif Bangnagande 50 DF  JPN Renta Higashi 51 GK  JPN Wataru Goto Type 2 52 FW  JPN Rui Asada Type 2 53 MF  JPN Shuto Nagano Type 2 54 MF  JPN Yui Nakano Type 2 55 FW  JPN Divine Chinedu Otani Type 2 70 MF  BRA Jája Silva 71 MF  JPN Ryotaro Araki (on loan from Kashima Antlers) 99 MF  JPN Kosuke Shirai

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  JPN Manato Shinada (atJEF United Chiba) 45 DF  JPN Kojiro Yasuda (atTegevajaro Miyazaki) 48 MF  JPN Yuta Arai (atKataller Toyama) — DF  KOR Baek In-hwan (atZweigen Kanazawa) — DF  JPN Sodai Hasukawa (atShimizu S-Pulse)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  JPN Rio Omori (atIwaki FC) — DF  JPN Shuto Okaniwa (atJEF United Chiba) — MF  JPN Yuki Kajiura (atZweigen Kanazawa) — MF  JPN Koki Tsukagawa (atKyoto Sanga) — FW  JPN Naoki Kumata (at Genk)

As of 15 April 2024.

The main U-18 team of FC Tokyo currently plays in the Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League, the top-flight league for U-18 clubs in the country.^[6]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Wataru Goto 2 MF  JPN Koshi Nagaura 3 DF  JPN Yuki Iwata 4 DF  JPN Seiki Numata 5 DF  JPN Shuto Nagano 6 MF  JPN Keigo Tachibana 7 FW  JPN Hyugo Omachi 8 DF  JPN Shunsuke Kaneko 9 FW  JPN Taiyo Yamaguchi 10 MF  JPN Shuzo Osawa 11 MF  JPN Rui Asada 12 FW  JPN Yutaha Okoshi 13 DF  JPN Shoei Sasaki 14 MF  JPN Yui Nakano 15 MF  JPN Shun Koga 16 GK  JPN Rento Kitagawa 17 MF  JPN Riku Kawamura 18 MF  JPN Divine Chinedu Otani 19 FW  JPN Yuya Takahashi 20 MF  JPN Aren Nakaya 21 GK  JPN Keita Niibori 22 DF  JPN Toya Fujimori

No. Pos. Nation Player 23 DF  JPN Haruto Nitta 24 FW  JPN Kaito Eguchi 25 MF  JPN Taichi Matsuno 26 DF  JPN Haruto Tanaka 27 FW  JPN Yuito Ibe 28 MF  JPN Shugo Omachi 29 MF  JPN Haruta Tanabe 30 GK  JPN Matthew Watanabe 31 MF  JPN Kaede Suzuki 32 DF  JPN Keita Suwa 33 MF  JPN Yuta Sugawara 34 MF  JPN Rintaro Nikaido 35 FW  JPN Juda Akamatsu 36 MF  JPN Hiroki Nakano 37 MF  JPN Satsuki Kojima 38 MF  JPN Kio Tanaka 39 MF  JPN Taiga Nakajima 40 FW  JPN Haruto Yoshida 41 DF  JPN Riku Tanaka 42 DF  JPN Toma Nagata 43 DF  JPN Yuki Tomomatsu

Position	Name
Head coach	Peter Cklamovski
Assistant coach	Takayoshi Amma
First-team coach	Takahsi Okuhara Minoru Kobayashi Yu Tokisaki
Goalkeeping coach	Hisanori Fujiwara
Assistant goalkeeping coach	Shota Yamashita
Head of analysis	Hiroaki Fujii
Coach and analyst	Daisuke Kondo Seiya Imazaki
Analyst	Yuki Shirozu Keito Asahara
Conditioning director	Guillerme
Physical coach	Naoki Hayakawa
Physiotherapist	Yukihisa Miyama
Athletic trainer	Masato Saegusa Yusuke Ozawa Yohei Kojo
Athletic trainer	Naofumi Aoki
Chief manager	Kenta Hontani
Manager and interpreter	Kazunori Iino
Interpreter and equipment manager	Ricardo Oyafuso
Interpreter	Hiroshi Endo
Kit manager	Yukinori Yamakawa
Side manager and equipment	Fumiya Soma
Team performance advisor	Shinya Fukutomi

• J.League Best Eleven
  • Tuto (2000)
  • Yoichi Doi (2004)
  • Naohiro Ishikawa (2009)
  • Yuto Nagatomo (2009)
  • Masato Morishige (2013, 2014, 2015, 2019)
  • Kosuke Ota (2014, 2015)
  • Yoshinori Muto (2014)
  • Akihiro Hayashi (2019)
  • Sei Muroya (2019)
  • Kento Hashimoto (2019)
  • Kensuke Nagai (2019)
  • Diego Oliveira (2019)
• J.League Cup MVP
  • Yoichi Doi (2004)
  • Takuji Yonemoto (2009)
  • Leandro (2020)
• J.League Cup New Hero Award
  • Yukihiko Sato (1999)
  • Takuji Yonemoto (2009)

The following players have represented their country at the World Cup whilst playing for FC Tokyo:

• Teruyuki Moniwa (2006)
• Yoichi Doi (2006)
• Yasuyuki Konno (2010)
• Yuto Nagatomo (2010)
• Shuichi Gonda (2014)
• Masato Morishige (2014)

The following players have represented their country at the Summer Olympic Games whilst playing for FC Tokyo:

• Naohiro Ishikawa (2004)
• Teruyuki Moniwa (2004)
• Yasuyuki Konno (2004)
• Yuhei Tokunaga (2004, 2012)
• Yōhei Kajiyama (2008)
• Yuto Nagatomo (2008)
• Shuichi Gonda (2012)
• Sei Muroya (2016)
• Shoya Nakajima (2016)

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
		From	To
Kiyoshi Okuma	Japan	1 January 1995	31 December 2001
Tahseen Jabbary	Netherlands	20 February 1998	31 August 1998
Hiromi Hara	Japan	1 January 2002	19 December 2005
Alexandre Gallo	Brazil	20 December 2005	14 August 2006
Hisao Kuramata	Japan	15 August 2006	6 December 2006
Hiromi Hara	Japan	7 December 2006	31 December 2007
Hiroshi Jofuku	Japan	1 January 2008	19 September 2010
Kiyoshi Okuma	Japan	20 September 2010	2 January 2012
Ranko Popović	Serbia	2 January 2012	31 December 2013
Massimo Ficcadenti	Italy	2 January 2014	31 December 2015
Hiroshi Jofuku	Japan	1 January 2016	24 July 2016
Yoshiyuki Shinoda	Japan	26 July 2016	10 September 2017
Takayoshi Amma	Japan	11 September 2017	3 December 2017
Kenta Hasegawa	Japan	3 December 2017	7 November 2021
Shinichi Morishita	Japan	7 November 2021	31 January 2022
Albert Puig	Spain	1 February 2022	14 June 2023
Peter Cklamovski	Australia	20 June 2023	present

Season	Competition	Round	Club	Home	Away	Aggregate
2012	AFC Champions League	Group F	Brisbane Roar	4–2	0–2	2nd
			Ulsan Hyundai	2–2	1–0
			Beijing Guoan	3–0	1–1
		Round of 16	Guangzhou Evergrande	1–0
2016	AFC Champions League	Play-off round	Chonburi	9–0
		Group E	Jeonbuk Hyundai Motors	0–3	2–1	2nd
			Becamex Bình Dương	3–1	1–2
			Jiangsu Suning	0–0	1–2
		Round of 16	Shanghai SIPG	2–1	1–0	2–2 (a)
2020	AFC Champions League	Play-off round	Ceres-Negros	2–0
		Group F	Ulsan Hyundai	1–2	1–1	2nd
			Perth Glory	1–0	0–1
			Shanghai Shenhua	0–1	1–2
		Round of 16	Beijing F.C.	1–0