Wikipedia - Tochigi City FC

Tochigi City Football Club (栃木シティフットボールクラブ, Tochigi Shiti Futtobōrukurabu), commonly known as Tochigi City FC (栃木シティFC, Tochigi Shiti Efushi) is a Japanese football club based in Tochigi Prefecture. The club set play in Japan Football League from 2024, Japanese fourth tier of football league. After promotion from Kantō Soccer League Div.1 in 2023.

History

The club was formed in 1947 as Hitachi Tochigi Soccer Club, the works team of the local Hitachi, Ltd. affiliate.

After finishing as a runners-up in the local Kanto Soccer League in 2009 season, they were promoted to the 2010 Japan Football League through the All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series. Prior to their first season in JFL, the club has dropped Hitachi prefix in its name and changed the reference to sport from "soccer" to "football" following general Japanese trend. From the 2019 season, the club has adopted the new name as Tochigi City FC.

In 2023, Tochigi City secure promotion to JFL after defeat Tsukuba FC 4–0 in final day of 2023 Japanese Regional Football Champions League, Champions of Japanese Regional Football Champions League for the first time in history due to finish 2nd place in Kanto Soccer League and return to fourth tier after six years absence since change name from Tochigi Uva.

Det japanske fotballaget Tochigi City ble grunnlagt i 1951 og spiller i JFL, den tredje divisjonen i det japanske ligasystemet. Laget har base i byen Tochigi i Tochigi-prefekturet.

Tochigi City har aldri spilt i den japanske toppdivisjonen, men har vunnet JFL-ligaen to ganger, i 2008 og 2011. Laget har også vunnet Kanto-regionmesterskapet ni ganger, sist i 2014.

Noen av de mest kjente spillerne som har spilt for Tochigi City inkluderer Masashi Ebinuma, Kohei Kudo og Daisuke Takagi. Nåværende trener er Takafumi Ogura.

Tochigi Citys hjemmebane er Tochigi Green Stadium, som har en kapasitet på 18 308. Lagets draktfarger er blå, grønn og hvit.