Fukuyama City FC

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Fukuyama City FC
福山シティFC
Full nameFukuyama City FC
Founded2017; 7 years ago (2017) as Fukuyama City SCC
2019; 5 years ago (2019) as Fukuyama City FC
ChairmanYoshihiro Okamoto
ManagerNobuhiro Ueno
LeagueChūgoku Soccer League
20231st of 10 (champions)
WebsiteClub website
Current season

Fukuyama City FC (福山シティFC, Fukuyama Shiti Efu Shi) are a Japanese football club based in the eastern part of Hiroshima, centered on the city of Fukuyama.[1] They play in the Chūgoku Soccer League, which part of Japanese Regional Leagues.

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. [2] 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. [3][4]

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.

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 and 5th tier of Japanese football while being a Prefectural League club. They were only stopped by Blaublitz Akita, to whom they lost by 3-1 in a tough match. [7]

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. Promotion to the JFL would have helped to potentially fulfill their goal of joining the J3 League by 2024. [8]

League and Cup record

Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League Emperor's
Cup
Season Division Pos. P W D L F A GD Pts
As Fukuyama City SCC
2017 Eastern Hiroshima Prefectural League 1st 9 9 0 0 42 3 +39 27 –
2018 1st 11 11 0 0 67 1 +66 33 Lost in the preliminaries
As Fukuyama City FC
2019 Hiroshima Prefectural League 2nd Div. 1st 11 11 0 0 107 5 +102 33 Lost in the preliminaries
2020 Hiroshima Prefectural League 1st Div. 1st 5 5 0 0 41 0 +41 15 Quarter-finals
2021 1st 6 6 0 0 54 0 +54 18 2nd round
2022
Chugoku Soccer League
 1st 18 15 2 1 60 10 +50 47 2nd round
2023 1st 18 18 0 0 69 6 +63 0 Did not qualify
2024 TBD 18 Qualified
Key
  • Pos. = Position in league; P = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goal difference; Pts = Points won

Honours

  • Chugoku Soccer League
    (1)    : 2022, 2023
  • Hiroshima Prefectural League 1st Division (2): 2020, 2021
  • Hiroshima Prefectural League 2nd Division (1): 2019
  • Eastern Hiroshima Prefectural League (1): 2017, 2018
  • All Hiroshima Soccer Championship (3): 2020, 2021, 2022

Current squad

As of 30 April 2024. [9]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Pos. Nation Player
1 GK Japan JPN Daiki Kikuchi
2 DF Japan JPN Kazuki Ninomiya
3 DF Japan JPN Ryota Tokunaga
4 MF Japan JPN Yosuke Toji
5 DF Japan JPN Kota Nishihara
6 DF Japan JPN Kengo Takata
7 MF Japan JPN Atsushi Fujii
8 MF Japan JPN Yusuke Tsukada
9 FW Japan JPN Kei Takahashi
10 MF Japan JPN Wataru Sumida
11 MF Japan JPN Hiroki Takahashi
14 FW Japan JPN Naoto Toji
15 DF Japan JPN Ryotaro Hiramatsu
16 DF Japan JPN Wataru Kuromiya
17 MF Japan JPN Kumpei Kakuta
18 MF Japan JPN Ryoga Masuda (on loan from FC Imabari)
No. Pos. Nation Player
20 MF Japan JPN Shun Taguchi
21 GK Japan JPN Kotaro Miyazaki
22 MF Japan JPN Soto Yokoo
23 FW Japan JPN Yusuke Yoshii
25 MF Japan JPN Ryu Natori
26 MF Japan JPN Tomoya Nohama
27 DF Japan JPN Hibiki Nishio (on loan from Gainare Tottori)
28 MF Japan JPN Kento Wakamiya
29 FW Japan JPN Ryuichi Okubo
30 MF Japan JPN Kenta Sawada
31 GK Japan JPN Kaname Murata
33 MF Japan JPN Rikito Sugiura
36 MF Japan JPN Makoto Mimura
41 GK Japan JPN Kaito Inishi
47 MF Japan JPN Taiki Takaki

Coaching staff

Position Name
Manager Japan Ryota Mori
Assistant manager Japan Hwang Choi
Japan Hakuto Miyashita
Goalkeeper coach Japan Hiroki Tsuda
Trainer Japan Daiki Tonoshiro
Strength & Conditioning coach Japan Yuki Kodama
Equipment manager and Kit man Japan Tomoya Takeishi
Sports nutritionist Japan Hiroe Uehara

References

  1. ^ "CLUB". fukuyama-city.com. Fukuyama City FC. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  2. ^ "福山シティクラブとは？". fukuyama-scc.jp (in Japanese). Fukuyama SCC. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  3. ^ "2017 results". fukuyama-scc.jp (in Japanese). Fukuyama SCC. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  4. ^ "2018 results". fukuyama-scc.jp (in Japanese). Fukuyama SCC. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  5. ^ "SOCCER". fukuyama-scc.jp (in Japanese). FukuyamaSCC. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  6. ^ "福山シティ、Ｊ昇格へ着々　11日ホーム最終戦　中国リーグで首位堅持". chugoku-np.co.jp (in Japanese). Chugoku NP. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  7. ^ "ブラウブリッツ秋田 3-1 福山シティＦＣ". jfa.jp. Japan Football Association. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  8. ^ "福山シティＦＣ（３年連続３回目）". jfa.jp (in Japanese). Japan Football Association. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  9. ^ "SEASON 2024". fukuyama-city.com. Fukuyama City FC. Retrieved 30 April 2024.

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