Nippon Steel Yawata SC

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Nippon Steel Yahata

Full name	Nippon Steel Yahata Soccer Club
Nickname(s)	Nippon Yahata
Founded	1950 (as Yahata Steel)
Dissolved	1999
Ground	Kitakyushu, Fukuoka , Japan
League	Kyushu Football League
Home colours Away colours

Nippon Steel Yahata Soccer Club (新日本製鐵八幡サッカー部 Shin-Nihon Seitetsu Yahata Sakkā-Bu) was a Japanese

Yahata Steel was one of the original eight clubs that founded the Japan Soccer League (JSL) in 1965 ("Original Eight"^[a]), and building on its Emperor's Cup win in 1964, it was runner-up of the JSL to Toyo Industries (current Sanfrecce Hiroshima) in 1965 and 1966. In 1981, however, after an uneventful decade in which the club did not win any honours nor was in danger of relegation, Nippon Steel was relegated to Division 2 and never played top flight football again. In 1990 they were relegated yet again, this time leaving the JSL for good after 26 seasons. They thus joined the Kyushu Soccer League. The 1999 season was the last with Nippon Steel Yahata in the Kyushu league.

In 2007, New Wave Kitakyushu (current Giravanz Kitakyushu), formerly part of Mitsubishi Chemical, assumed the mantle of representative of Kitakyushu in the national football leagues by earning promotion to the Japan Football League.

• 1950–1970: Yahata Steel SC
• 1970–1991: Nippon Steel SC
• 1991–1999: Nippon Steel Yahata SC

Honours

• Furukawa Electric
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• All Japan Works Football Championship: 1963, 1964
• All Japan Inter-City Football Championship: 1957, 1962
• Kyushu Soccer League: 1992