F.C. Tokyo

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F.C. Tokyo
FC東京
F.C. Tokyo's Crest
Full name Tokyo Football Club
Nickname(s) Gas, "The Gas Men"
Founded 1935
Ground Ajinomoto Stadium
Chofu, Tokyo
Capacity 50,000
Chairman Masahiro Tsubahara
Manager Hisao Kuramata(2006-)
League J. League Div.1
2006 13th Place
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F.C. Tokyo (FC東京 Efushī Tōkyō?) is a Japanese football (soccer) club playing in J. League Division 1. Its hometown is Tokyo prefecture. Unlike most J. League teams, its team name is simply Football Club Tokyo and there is no mascot character.

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[edit] History

The team started as a company team, Tokyo Gas Football Club in 1935. 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 placed 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 October 1, 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 same year the team became eligible, it won the J2 championship and joined the J1 league 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 three–nil 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 Yamazaki Nabisco Cup for its first big title since joining the J. League.

[edit] Stadium

It uses Ajinomoto Stadium as its home ground. For a long time it did not have a home stadium of its own and played at various football fields such as the National Yoyogi Stadium, the National Nishigaoka Football Field, the Edogawa Special Ward Stadium, and the Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium, but in 2001 it finally found a permanent home. Its practice grounds are Sarue Ground in Koto, Tokyo and Kodaira Ground in Kodaira, Tokyo.

[edit] Former players

[edit] Current players

As of November 25, 2006

No. Position Player
1 Japan GK Yoichi Doi
2 Japan DF Teruyuki Moniwa
3 Brazil DF Jean
5 Japan DF Tetsuya Masushima
6 Japan MF Yasuyuki Konno
7 Japan MF Satoru Asari
8 Japan DF Ryuji Fujiyama
9 Brazil FW Lucas
10 Japan MF Fumitake Miura
11 Japan FW Yoshiro Abe
13 Japan FW Mitsuhiro Toda
14 Japan MF Yuta Baba
15 Japan MF Norio Suzuki
16 Japan MF Masashi Miyazawa
17 Japan DF Jo Kanazawa
18 Japan MF Naohiro Ishikawa
19 Japan MF Masahiko Inoha
No. Position Player
20 Japan FW Nobuo Kawaguchi
22 Japan GK Hitoshi Shiota
23 Japan MF Yohei Kajiyama
24 Japan FW Shingo Akamine
25 Japan DF Yuhei Tokunaga
26 Japan MF Reiichi Ikegami
27 Japan MF Ryoichi Kurisawa
29 Brazil FW Washington
30 Japan DF Naoto Matsuo
31 Japan GK Taishi Endo
33 Japan FW Ryuki Kozawa
34 Japan GK Takahiro Shibasaki
35 Japan FW Rychely
36 Japan DF Kazunori Yoshimoto
37 Japan GK Shuichi Gonda
38 Japan DF Sota Nakazawa
39 Japan FW Sota Hirayama

[edit] J-League Division 1 Record

  • 1993 - Didn't enter
  • 1994 - Didn't enter
  • 1995 - Didn't enter
  • 1996 - Didn't enter
  • 1997 - Didn't enter
  • 1998 - Didn't enter
  • 1999 - Division 2
  • 2000 - 7th
  • 2001 - 8th
  • 2002 - 9th
  • 2003 - 4th
  • 2004 - 8th
  • 2005 - 10th
  • 2006 - 13th

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J.LEAGUE clubs, seasons, and tournaments
J.LEAGUE Division 1 (J1)
Kashima | Omiya | Urawa | Chiba | Kashiwa | F.C. Tokyo | Kawasaki | Yokohama F. Marinos
Yokohama F.C. | Kofu | Niigata | Shimizu | Iwata | Nagoya | Gamba Osaka | Kobe | Hiroshima | Oita
J.LEAGUE Division 2 (J2)
Sapporo | Sendai | Yamagata | Mito | Kusatsu | Tokyo Verdy 1969
Shonan | Kyoto | Cerezo Osaka | Tokushima | Ehime | Fukuoka | Tosu
Abolished Club
Yokohama Flügels
J.LEAGUE Seasons
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2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
Other J.LEAGUE Tournaments/Cups
Yamazaki Nabisco Cup | Xerox Super Cup | Promotion/Relegation Series | JOMO All-Stars Soccer
Emperor's Cup | A3 Champions Cup | Suntory Championship | Sanwa Bank Cup