Tochigi City FC

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 currently play in Kanto Soccer League part of Japanese Regional Leagues, the fifth tier of football league.

Not to be confused with Tochigi SC.
Tochigi City FC
栃木シティFC
Full nameTochigi City Football Club
Founded1947 (1947) as Hitachi Tochigi Soccer Club
2002 (2002) as Tochigi Uva
2019 (2019) as Tochigi City FC
GroundCity Football Station
Tochigi, Tochigi
Capacity5,129
ChairmanJapan Takashi Ōkuri
ManagerJapan Naoki Imaya
LeagueKantō Soccer League
20221st of 10 (champions)
WebsiteClub website

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]

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.

Current squad

As of 23 August 2023.[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 Japan JPN Yoshinobu Harada
3 DF Japan JPN Shuto Masuda
4 DF Japan JPN Rempei Uchida
5 DF Japan JPN Takahiro Oshima
7 FW Japan JPN Ryuga Suzuki
8 MF Japan JPN Kohei Kudo
9 FW Japan JPN Yuki Yamamura
10 FW Japan JPN Yuki Okaniwa
11 MF Japan JPN Genta Omotehara
13 FW Japan JPN Keisuke Ito (on loan from SC Sagamihara)
14 MF Japan JPN Genya Sekino
15 DF Japan JPN Yoshiki Sato
16 DF Japan JPN Takahiro Noda
17 FW Japan JPN Takumi Fujiwara
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 FW Japan JPN Shingo Momoi
19 DF Japan JPN Akira Yoshida
20 MF Japan JPN Sho Toriumi
21 GK Japan JPN Kanta Tanaka
22 DF Japan JPN Hiroto Suzuki
23 MF Japan JPN Takashi Oshima
24 FW Japan JPN Akira Yoshiyama
25 FW Japan JPN Akira Toshima (on loan from Matsumoto Yamaga)
26 DF Japan JPN Shun Utsugi
28 MF Brazil BRA Henik
31 GK Japan JPN James Nobumasa Key
77 FW Japan JPN Paulo Junichi Tanaka
99 FW Japan JPN Masahide Hiraoka

References
  1. mainichi.jp
  2. sankei.com
  3. "Tochigi City FC". Tochigi City FC. Retrieved 14 February 2022.
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