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football
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club based in the
eastern part of
Hiroshima
is the capital of Hiroshima Prefecture in Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 1,199,391. The gross domestic product (GDP) in Greater Hiroshima, Hiroshima Urban Employment Area, was US$61.3 billion as of 2010. Kazumi Matsui has b ...
, centered on the city of
Fukuyama. They play in the
Chūgoku Soccer League, which part of
Japanese Regional Leagues
are a group of parallel association football leagues in Japan that are organized on the regional basis. They form the fifth and sixth tier of the Japanese association football league system below the nationwide Japan Football League.
Overview
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History
Founded on 2017 as Fukuyama SCC ''(Fukuyama Sports Community Club)'', the club started their journey on the lower levels of Hiroshima Prefectural Leagues system. Despite playing in the 5th tier of prefectural league football, on 2018, after winning the Hiroshima Prefectural Adult Final Tournament, they got instantly promoted to the 2nd division of the prefecture for the 2019 season.
On 2019, the team changed its name into Fukuyama City FC. The club won back-to-back promotions with high-scoring matches, alongside an unbeaten streak that started on their foundation, on 2017, only being broken on 2022. The club quickly established themselves as one of the quickest-developed clubs in Japanese football, jumping from the Prefectural League 5th Division to the
Chugoku Soccer League in a five-season span. They played in the
2020 Emperor's Cup, where they won four matches to arrive at the quarter-finals. Uncommon feat for a young club (4-years old at the time), they successfully managed to win against teams of the
4th
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and
5th tiers of Japanese football while being a Prefectural League club. They were only stopped by
Blaublitz Akita
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, to whom they lost by 3–1 in a tough match.
In 2022, Fukuyama City won the
Chugoku Soccer League in their debut at Regional League level, qualifying them for the
2022 Regional Champions League. They finished second in their group but were eliminated from the tournament. If they had won or finished runners up in the tournament they would have been directly promoted to the 2023
Japan Football League
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. Promotion to the
JFL would have helped to potentially fulfill their goal of joining the
J3 League
or simply J3 is the third division of . It was established in 2013 as the third-tier professional association football league in Japan under the organization of J.League. The league is known as the for sponsorship reasons.
The third-tier nation ...
by 2024.
League and Cup record
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Honours
Current squad
Coaching staff
References
External links
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{{Japanese Club Football, group=clubs
Football clubs in Japan
Association football clubs established in 2017
Sports clubs and teams in Hiroshima Prefecture
2017 establishments in Japan