F.C. Tokyo
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| F.C. Tokyo FC東京 |
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| Full name | Tokyo Football Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | Gas, "The Gas Men" | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Founded | 1935 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ground | Ajinomoto Stadium Chofu, Tokyo |
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| Capacity | 50,000 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Chairman | Masahiro Tsubahara | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Manager | Marcelo Gallo(2006-) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| League | J. League Div.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| J. League 2005 | 10th Place | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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F.C. Tokyo (FC東京 Efushī Tōkyō?) is a J. League team. Unlike most J. League teams, its team name is simply Football Club Tokyo and there is no mascot character.
Its hometown is Tokyo perfecture and 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.
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 Nabisco Cup for its first big title since joining the J. League.
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[edit] Former Players
[edit] 2006 Roster
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[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
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[edit] External links
- (English) F.C. Tokyo Official Site
- (Japanese) F.C. Tokyo Official Site
- (English) UK F.C Tokyo Site
| Japan Professional Football League Members in 2006 season |
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| Division 1 (J1) | |
| Niigata | Kashima | Chiba | Omiya | Urawa | FC Tokyo | Kawasaki | Yokohama FM | |
| Kofu | Shimizu | Iwata | Nagoya | Kyoto | G.Osaka | C.Osaka | Hiroshima | Fukuoka | Oita | |
| Division 2 (J2) | |
| Sapporo | Sendai | Yamagata | Mito | Kusatsu | Kashiwa Tokyo V. | Yokohama FC | Shonan | Kobe | Tokushima | Ehime | Tosu |
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