is a Japanese

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club based in

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. It is the oldest Japanese football club, founded in 1917, and it was the first to win the

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, the top national cup in Japan. Very much like

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, its staunch amateur ideals forced it by the wayside as company clubs, and later fully professionalized clubs, took over the game. The club now participates in the Tokyo Shakaijin League Division 1, seventh level of the

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, since its founding in 1967. It earned second place in 1978 and 1983. Its farm team, Tōshū club also participates in the prefectural league.

Titles

: 1921. * Tokyo Shakaijin League: 2016.

References

創立100年。初代天皇杯王者！日本最古のサッカークラブチーム『東京蹴球団』に見るマインドとは

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