FC Tokyo

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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.

FC Tokyo
FC東京

Full name	Football Club Tokyo
Founded	1999; 26 years ago (1999)
Stadium	Ajinomoto Stadium Chōfu, Tokyo
Capacity	49,970
Chairman	Naoki Ogane
Head coach	Rikizo Matsuhashi[1]
League	J1 League
2024	J1 League, 7th of 20
Website	www.fctokyo.co.jp
Home colours Away colours
Current season

From 2025, FC Tokyo is one of the few J.League clubs to be simply called Football Club without an extended name or moniker, the others being FC Imabari of J2 League, as well as FC Gifu and FC Osaka in J3 League.^[2]

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.

History

Formation and early years (1935–1997)

The team started as a company team, Tokyo Gas Football Club (東京ガスサッカー部) in 1935^[3][4] 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.^[5] 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.

Establishment of a new identity (1998–present)

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.

FC Tokyo fans during the Tokyo derby against Tokyo Verdy

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.

Kit and colours

Kit evolution

Home Kit - 1st
1999 - 2000	2001 - 2002	2003 - 2004	2005 - 2006	2007
2008 - 2009	2010 - 2011	2012	2013 - 2014	2015
2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
2021	2022	2023	2024	2025 -

Away Kit - 2nd
1999 - 2000	2001	2002 - 2003	2004 - 2005	2006 - 2007
2008 - 2009	2010 - 2011	2012	2013 - 2014	2015
2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
2021	2022	2023	2024	2025 -

3rd kit - Other
1999 3rd	2004 Juan Acuña Cup	2012 ACL 1st	2012 ACL 2nd	2015 Frankfurt Finance Cup
2016 ACL 1st	2016 ACL 2nd	2017 Germany Expedition	2018 20th anniversary	2020 ACL 1st
2020 ACL 2nd	2021 3rd	2022 3rd	2023 25th Anniversary

Stadium

Ajinomoto Stadium

Main article: Ajinomoto Stadium

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

Players

Current squad

As of 14 February 2025.^[6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 3 DF  JPN Masato Morishige 4 DF  JPN Yasuki Kimoto 5 DF  JPN Yuto Nagatomo 6 DF  JPN Kashif Bangnagande 7 MF  JPN Soma Anzai 8 MF  JPN Takahiro Ko (vice-captain) 10 MF  JPN Keigo Higashi (vice-captain) 11 FW  JPN Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa 13 GK  JPN Go Hatano 14 FW  JPN Keita Yamashita 16 FW  JPN Kein Sato 17 MF  JPN Tsubasa Terayama 18 MF  JPN Kento Hashimoto 19 FW  BRA Marcelo Ryan (on loan from Sagan Tosu) 22 MF  JPN Keita Endo 25 FW  JPN Tsuna Kominato DSP 27 MF  JPN Kyota Tokiwa 28 FW  JPN Leon Nozawa 30 DF  JPN Teppei Oka

No. Pos. Nation Player 31 GK  JPN Masataka Kobayashi 32 DF  JPN Kanta Doi 33 MF  JPN Kota Tawaratsumida 35 MF  JPN Koki Tsukagawa 36 MF  JPN Hisatoshi Nishido 37 MF  JPN Kei Koizumi (captain) 39 FW  JPN Teruhito Nakagawa 41 GK  JPN Taishi Brandon Nozawa 44 DF  BRA Henrique Trevisan 47 DF  JPN Seiji Kimura 48 MF  JPN Yuta Arai 51 GK  JPN Matthew Watanabe Type 2 52 GK  JPN Keita Niibori Type 2 53 MF  JPN Maki Kitahara Type 2 58 GK  JPN Wataru Goto 66 DF  KOR Baek In-hwan 88 FW  JPN Taiyo Yamaguchi 98 MF  BRA Everton Galdino (on loan from Grêmio) 99 DF  JPN Kosuke Shirai

Out on loan

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  JPN Renta Higashi (at Giravanz Kitakyushu) — DF  JPN Shuto Nagano (at Gainare Tottori) — DF  JPN Shuto Okaniwa (at Renofa Yamaguchi) — DF  JPN Rio Omori (at FC Imabari)

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  JPN Kojiro Yasuda (at Tegevajaro Miyazaki) — MF  JPN Yuki Kajiura (at FC Imabari) — MF  JPN Ryunosuke Sato (at Fagiano Okayama) — FW  JPN Naoki Kumata (at Iwaki FC)

Club officials

Club officials for 2025 season.

Position	Name
Head coach	Rikizo Matsuhashi
Team coaches	Takayoshi Amma 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
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

Personnel awards

• 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)

Players who played in the FIFA World Cup

FIFA World Cup players

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)

Olympic players

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)

Former players

See also: Category:FC Tokyo players and Category:J.League players

Manager history

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	31 December 2024
Rikizo Matsuhashi	Japan	1 February 2025	present

Record as J.League member

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted

Relegated

League													J.League Cup	Emperor's Cup	AFC CL
Season	Div.	Teams	Pos.	P	W(OTW)	D	L(OTL)	F	A	GD	Pts	Attendance/G
1999	J2	10	2nd	36	19 (2)	3	10 (2)	51	35	16	64	3,498	Semi-final	4th round	Did not qualify
2000	J1	16	7th	30	12 (3)	1	12 (2)	47	41	6	43	11,807	2nd round	3rd round
2001		16	8th	30	10 (3)	5	11 (1)	47	47	0	41	22,313	2nd round	3rd round
2002		16	9th	30	11 (2)	2	15	43	46	-3	39	22,173	Quarter final	3rd round
2003		16	4th	30	13	10	7	46	31	15	49	24,932	Quarter final	4th round
2004		16	8th	30	10	11	9	40	41	-1	41	25,438	Winner	Quarter final
2005		18	10th	34	11	14	9	43	40	3	47	27,101	Group stage	5th round
2006		18	13th	34	13	4	17	56	65	-9	43	24,096	Group stage	5th round
2007		18	12th	34	14	3	17	49	58	-9	45	25,290	Group stage	Quarter final
2008		18	6th	34	16	7	11	50	46	4	55	25,716	Quarter final	Semi-final
2009		18	5th	34	16	5	13	47	39	8	53	25,884	Winner	4th round
2010		18	16th	34	8	12	14	36	41	-5	36	25,112	Quarter final	Semi-final
2011	J2	20	1st	38	23	8	7	67	22	45	77	17,562	-	Winner
2012	J1	18	10th	34	14	6	14	47	44	3	48	23,955	Semi final	2nd round	Round of 16
2013		18	8th	34	16	6	12	61	47	14	54	25,073	Group stage	Semi-final	Did not qualify
2014		18	9th	34	12	12	10	47	33	14	48	25,187	Group stage	Round of 16
2015		18	4th	34	19	6	9	45	33	12	63	28,784	Quarter final	Quarter final
2016		18	9th	34	15	7	12	39	39	0	52	24,037	Semi final	Quarter final	Round of 16
2017		18	13th	34	10	10	14	37	42	-5	40	26,490	Quarter final	2nd round	Did not qualify
2018		18	6th	34	14	8	12	39	34	5	50	25,745	Group stage	4th round
2019		18	2nd	34	19	7	8	46	29	17	64	31,540	Quarter final	3rd round
2020 †		18	6th	34	17	6	11	47	42	5	57	5,912	Winner	Did not qualify	Round of 16
2021 †		20	9th	38	15	8	15	49	53	-4	53	7,138	Semi-final	2nd round	Did not qualify
2022		18	6th	34	14	7	13	46	43	3	49	22,309	Group stage	3rd round
2023		18	11th	34	12	7	15	42	46	-4	43	29,410	Quarter-final	Round of 16
2024		20	7th	38	15	9	14	53	51	2	54	33,225	Playoff round	Third round
2025		20	TBA	38									TBD	TBD

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
• Attendance/G = Average home league attendance
• † 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
• Source: J.League Data Site

Honours

FC Tokyo (1999–Present) / Tokyo Gas SC (1935–1999)

FC Tokyo honours

Honour	No.	Years
Regional League Promotion Series	1	1990
Japan Football League	1	1998
J.League Cup	3	2004, 2009, 2020
J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship	1	2010
J2 League	1	2011
Emperor's Cup	1	2011

Continental record

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

See also

• FC Tokyo (volleyball)
• FC Tokyo U-23