Tokyo 23 Football Club (東京23フットボールクラブ, ''Tōkyō Ni-Jū San Futtobōrukurabu'') commonly known as Tokyo 23 FC (東京23FC, ''Tōkyō Ni-Jū San Efushi'') is a Japanese
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
club based in the
23 special wards of Tokyo. Their motto is "Tokyo Pride" (Be Pride of the Tokyoites). The club now participates in the first division of
Kantō Soccer League
, abbreviated as KSL, is the Japanese fifth tier of league football, which is part of the Japanese Regional Leagues. It covers most of the Kantō region, as well as the prefectures of Chiba, Gunma, Ibaraki, Kanagawa, Saitama, Tochigi, To ...
, 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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, the fifth tier of the
Japanese football league system
The Japanese football league system is a series of interconnected leagues for men's association football clubs in Japan. It is organized in a pyramidal shape similar to football league systems in many other countries around the world. The league ...
and they're aiming towards pro football.
History
Establishment
Tokyo 23 Football Club was established as ''Sagawa Tokyo 23 Soccer Club'' in 2003.
Tokyo League
Tokyo 23 FC was promoted to Division 1 in 2006, but they hovered around 7th to 11th position until 2010 for 4 years.
On 3 February 2010, Tokyo 23 Corporation. was established for management. In April 2010, Tokyo 23 Soccer Club was renamed to Tokyo 23 FC.
On 15 January 2012, Tokyo 23 FC fought against ''Tonan Maebashi Satellite'' to be raised to Kanto Soccer League 2nd Division, and Tokyo 23 FC won by 1–0.
Kanto Soccer League
On 7 October 2012, Tokyo 23 won the Kanto Soccer League's 2nd Division, three points clear off runners-up Hitachi Building System SC.
In 2016, Tokyo 23 were crowned champions of the Kantō division one, beating Vonds Ichihara by eight points and qualified for The National Regional Football Champions League for the first and only time. They finished second in their group behind
Suzuka Unlimited and failed to qualify for the final phase of the competition.
League record
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Honours
Current squad
References
External links
Official siteOfficial Facebook pageOfficial Twitter profileOfficial YouTube channelOfficial blog
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Football clubs in Japan
Football clubs in Tokyo
Association football clubs established in 2003
2003 establishments in Japan