FC Tokyo

The FC Tokyo ( FC东京jap, EFU shī Tōkyō ) is a Japanese football club with the Tokyo Prefecture as the home, the since 2000 in the highest professional league in the country, the J. League Division 1 plays. The club is also a very old and young team: Although he was only founded in 1998 from the former Tokyo Gas FC and is the youngest J. League club, but the predecessor club dated back again to 1935, making it older than most competitors.

The " club " is a 1998 spun off from the parent company, joint-stock company with a turnover of around 3.4 billion yen (2008), the Tōkyō KK Football Club (東京 フットボール クラブ 株式会社, Tōkyō futtobōru kurabu kabushiki - gaisha, Eng. Tokyo Football Club Co., Ltd.). Based in Kōtō. The shares are not publicly traded, the most important of the 300 owners are Tōkyō gas and Tepco.

Club history

The association, which was originally founded as the works team of the Tokyo gas supplier, Tokyo Gas, played most of the time only in the urban Metropolitan League and went on until 1986 in the Kanto regional league. From then on, the team got off to a rise, which in turn is surpassed only by the Oita Trinita:

  • Five years later, in 1991, they were able to win the final of the regional leagues and ascend to the second division of the Japan Soccer League ( JSL ).
  • The next year, The ascent took place in the newly established Japan Football League ( JFL ), which was established under the newly created J. League.
  • 1997 saw Tokyo Gas for the first time nationwide stir when equating ausschaltete three first division in the Emperor's Cup and reached the quarter-finals.
  • The following year they won the JFL and was promoted to the newly created J. League Division 2. This year also saw the renaming in FC Tokyo.
  • A year later, in 1999, succeeded Earned promotion to the top division, the J. League Division 1 Furthermore, they suggested in the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup, the Japanese league cup again three first division and reached the semi-finals.
  • There you surprised the competition with three wins at the start and a seventh place in the final table - this record for a climber is still unbroken.
  • 2003 FC Tokyo had established just in the league, was achieved with a fourth place in the table, the previous best year in club history.
  • 2004 brought the FC with the Yamazaki Nabisco Cup ( in the final were the Urawa Red Diamonds defeated on penalties ) the first major national title.

The association, the Ajinomoto stadium with local rivals Tokyo Verdy 1969, divided into the City of Chōfu, differs in appearance apart from its competitors: the only team of the FC Tokyo has neither a mascot (the other teams mostly use Sony designed figures), yet a Europeanized art word in their name. This enabled them to position themselves as an honest, uncontrived club and build a large fan base in the highly competitive football market of Greater Tokyo.

Achievements

National

  • JFL champion 1998 ( as Tokyo Gas FC )
  • J. League Cup: Winners (2004, 2009)

Internationally

  • Suruga Bank Championship 2010

Season Ranking

Coach Chronicle

  • Japan Kiyoshi Okuma (1999-2001)
  • Japan Hiromi Hara (2002-2005)
  • Brazil Alexandre Gallo ( 2006)
  • Japan Hisao Kuramata (2006)
  • Japan Hiromi Hara (2007)
  • Japan Hiroshi Jofuku (2008 -)

Former player and well-known

  • Japan Yoichi Doi - 2000-2007
  • Japan Akira Kaji - 2002-2005
  • Japan Takashi Fukunishi - 2007
  • Costa Rica Paulo Wanchope - 2007
  • Brazil Amaral ( Amarao ) aka "King of Tokyo"
  • Brazil Marcelo
  • Yuto Nagatomo Japan - 2007-2011
  • Serbia Nemanja Vučićević - 2012-2014
  • Brazil Edú - 2014 -
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