Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C.
| Full name | Sagawa Express Tokyo Soccer Club |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | – |
| Founded | 1991 |
| Dissolved | 2007 |
| Ground | – |
| Capacity | – |
| Chairman | ? |
| Manager | Nobutaka Tanaka (田中 信孝) |
| League | Japan Football League |
| 2006 | 2nd |
Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. (soccer club) was an industrial-league association football team based in the Kōtō, Tokyo. The team was founded in 1991 and was a member of the Japan Football League from 2001–2007, when it merged with Sagawa Express Osaka S.C. to form Sagawa Shiga F.C. As the name implies the club was organized by Sagawa Express.
This team had its origin in two preceding football teams, one is Sagawa Express Tokyo branch office soccer association founded in 1991, and the other is Tokyo Fulie soccer club, founded in 1993, which consisted of players that were former members of All Nippon Airways (Yokohama) soccer club and former Yokohama Flügels.
In 1999, Sagawa Express soccer club had absorbed the Tokyo Fulie soccer club which was active in Tokyo league division 1 at the time and then came to be present form of the Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. (Since the Sagawa Express soccer club was belonging to Tokyo league division 4 when the absorption took place, the team's leading members were actually composed of members of Tokyo Furie mostly, although the team name was Sagawa Express soccer club.) For expressing this team circumstance, the team name was "Sagawa Express Tokyo Fulie soccer club" for a while.
In 2000, the Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. had won final match of local league championship and achieved its promotion to JFL. In this match, the Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. entried in the championship with a team name of "Sagawa Express soccer club" for meaning that it was the representative team of several Sagawa football teams co-existing in Sagawa Express corp. at that time. However, in 2002, Sagawa Express Osaka soccer club was also promoted to JFL, thus to distinguish each team, the team name of Sagawa Express soccer club was changed back to "Sagawa Express Toyo soccer club".
The Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. was one of the very strong teams in JFL aiming for upper-rank of the same. Since the team was formed by the absorption of former Tokyo Fulie members, there existed former J. League players and efficient amateur players in it. In the all Japan football championship for the Emperor's Cup in 2001, the Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. defeated Nagoya Grampus Eight of J1 league for 4 – 0. This victory became the talk of the people and called as "best upset ever recorded". In 2003, the Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. competed with Otsuka F.C. and Honda F.C. for championship of the season in JFL for a while.
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