F.C. Tokyo
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| Full name | Football Club Tokyo |
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| Founded | 1999 as F.C. Tokyo 1935 as Tokyo Gas F.C. |
| Ground |
Ajinomoto Stadium Chōfu, Tokyo |
| Capacity | 49,970 |
| Chairman | Naoki Ogane |
| Manager | Yoshiyuki Shinoda |
| League | J1 League |
| 2016 | J1 League, 9th |
| Website | Club home page |
F.C. Tokyo (FC東京 Efushī Tōkyō?) is a Japanese association football club playing in J1 League. Its hometown is Tokyo prefecture. The team is one of only four in the J. League to be simply called Football Club without an extended name.
The team started as a company team, Tokyo Gas Football Club (東京ガスFC) Their first appearance in the national leagues was in 1991, the last season of the old Japan Soccer League. With addition of the Brazilian football player Amaral and the manager Kiyoshi Okuma at the helm, the team gradually became competitive and in 1997, the team finished second, winning the JFL championship the next year. However, at the time the team lacked the necessary qualifications for a promotion to the J1 league and so stayed in J2.
Following this, on October 1, 1998, companies like Tokyo Gas, TEPCO, ampm, TV Tokyo, and Culture Convenience Club, set up a joint company Tokyo Football Club Company with the aim of making the team eligible for joining the J. League. In 1999, the same year the team became eligible, they finished second in the J2 league and were automatically promoted to J1 beginning in the 2000 season. Despite a widespread belief that the team would barely win enough to stay in the J1, the team won four games in a row since its opening game and managed to finish at the 7th spot.
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