Tochigi City FC

For the current club of J2, see Tochigi SC.

Tochigi City Football Club (栃木シティフットボールクラブ, Tochigi Shiti Futtobōrukurabu), commonly known as Tochigi City FC (栃木シティFC, Tochigi Shiti Efushi) is a Japanese football club based in Tochigi Prefecture. The club set play in Japan Football League from 2024, Japanese fourth tier of football league. After promotion from Kantō Soccer League Div.1 in 2023.

Tochigi City FC
栃木シティFC

Full name	Tochigi City Football Club
Founded	1947; 77 years ago (1947) as Hitachi Tochigi Soccer Club
Ground	City Football Station Tochigi, Tochigi
Capacity	5,129
Chairman	Takashi Ōkuri
Manager	Naoki Imaya
League	Japan Football League
2023	Kantō Soccer League Div.1, 2nd of 10 Promoted via JRCL, 1st of 4 (champions)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours

History

The club was formed in 1947 as Hitachi Tochigi Soccer Club, the works team of the local Hitachi, Ltd. affiliate.

After finishing as a runners-up in the local Kanto Soccer League in 2009 season, they were promoted to the 2010 Japan Football League through the All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series. Prior to their first season in JFL, the club has dropped Hitachi prefix in its name and changed the reference to sport from "soccer" to "football" following general Japanese trend. From the 2019 season, the club has adopted the new name as Tochigi City FC.^[1][2]

In 2023, Tochigi City secure promotion to JFL after defeat Tsukuba FC 4–0 in final day of 2023 Japanese Regional Football Champions League, Champions of Japanese Regional Football Champions League for the first time in history due to finish 2nd place in Kanto Soccer League and return to fourth tier after six years absence since change name from Tochigi Uva.

Origin name

In 2002 it adopted the moniker Uva (meaning "grape" in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), after the vineyards of its home area, southern Tochigi Prefecture.^{[citation needed]}

League and cup record

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted

Relegated

League												Emperor's Cup	Shakaijin Cup
Season	Div.	Teams	Pos.	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts
Tochigi Uva
2010	JFL	18	15th	34	7	10	17	41	75	-34	31	1st round	Ineligible
2011		17	10th	33	12	9	12	40	43	-3	45	2nd round
2012		17	17th	32	4	10	18	36	70	-34	22	Prefectural qualify round
2013		18	17th	34	9	3	22	34	64	-32	30	2nd round
2014		14	13th	26	4	7	15	16	37	-21	19	1st round
2015		16	16th	30	5	4	21	29	61	-32	19	1st round
2016		16	15th	30	5	1	24	34	77	-43	16	1st round
2017		16	16th	30	5	9	16	22	56	-34	24	2nd round
2018	KSL	10	1st	18	17	1	0	55	14	36	52	Prefectural qualify round	Did not play
Tochigi City FC
2019	KSL	10	3rd	18	9	5	4	30	15	15	32	1st round	2nd round
2020		10	1st	9	7	2	0	25	6	19	23	1st round	Cancelled
2021		12	4th	22	14	2	6	45	26	19	46	2nd round
2022		10	1st	18	11	4	3	33	14	19	37	Prefectural qualify round	Quarter final
2023		10	2nd	18	11	3	4	54	24	30	36	2nd round	1st round
2024	JFL	16	TBD	30									Ineligible

Key

• Pos. = Position in league; P = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals difference; Pts = Points gained

Honours

Tochigi City FC Honours

Honour	No.	Years
Tochigi Prefecture Division 1	10	1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002
Tochigi Prefecture 2nd Division A	2	1989, 1990
Tochigi Prefecture Division 2	1	1991
Kantō Soccer League	3	2018, 2020, 2022
Japanese Regional Football Champions League	1	2023

Current squad

As of 3 April 2024.^[3]

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 Yoshinobu Harada 2 DF   BRA Carlos Eduardo 3 DF   JPN Shuto Masuda 4 DF   JPN Rempei Uchida 5 DF   JPN Ryo Okuda 6 DF   JPN Taiga Nishiyama 7 DF   JPN Ryuga Suzuki 8 MF   JPN Takahiro Noda 9 FW   JPN Yuki Yamamura 10 MF   JPN Yuki Okaniwa 11 MF   JPN Genta Omotehara 13 MF   JPN Takashi Oshima 14 MF   JPN Genya Sekino 15 DF   JPN Yoshiki Sato 16 MF   JPN Sho Toriumi

No. Pos. Nation Player 17 FW   JPN Takumi Fujiwara 18 FW   JPN Toshiaki Shishido 21 GK   JPN Kanta Tanaka 22 MF   JPN Hiroto Suzuki 23 FW   JPN Atsushi Yoshida 26 MF   JPN Shun Utsugi 27 FW   JPN Kazuya Niwa 28 MF   BRA Pedro Henrique (on loan from Fujieda MYFC) 29 GK   JPN Azusa Takayama 31 GK   JPN Peter Kwame Aizawa 32 MF   JPN Riku Tosa 40 FW   JPN Kunitomo Suzuki 41 FW   JPN Ryohei Yamazaki 77 FW   JPN Paulo Junichi Tanaka 99 FW   JPN Masahide Hiraoka

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 19 FW   JPN Akira Yoshida (at Tochigi City U-25)

Club staff

Position	Staff^[4]
Manager	Naoki Imaya
Defense coach	Takuma Tsuda
Offense coach	Atsushi Izawa
Goalkeeper coach	Yuki Takita
Strenghtening coach	Nobuaki Sekimura
Analyst	Daito Kai   Kazuki Yokoyama
Chief trainer	Arihiro Koizumi
Trainer	Kosuke Inoue
Competent/Kitman	Masateru Hata
Side affair and interpreter	Naoki Iwahashi
Reinforcement affairs	Takumi Abe

References

1. mainichi.jp
2. sankei.com
3. "Tochigi City FC". Tochigi City FC. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
4. "Club staff 2024". jfl.or.jp. Retrieved 7 April 2024.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• Tochigi City FC on Twitter  
• Tochigi City FC on Facebook