Fukuyama City FC

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.

Fukuyama City FC
福山シティFC
Full nameFukuyama City FC
Founded2017 (2017) as Fukuyama City SCC
2019 (2019) as Fukuyama City FC
ChairmanYoshihiro Okamoto
ManagerNobuhiro Ueno
LeagueChūgoku Soccer League
20221st of 10 (champions)
WebsiteClub website

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. [5][6] The club quickly established themselves as one of the quickest-developed clubs in Japanese football, jumping from the Prefectural League 5th Division to the 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
LeagueEmperor's
Cup
SeasonDivisionPos.PWDLFAGDPts
As Fukuyama City SCC
2017 Eastern Hiroshima Prefectural League 1st9900423+3927–
2018 1st111100671+6633Lost in the preliminaries
As Fukuyama City FC
2019 Hiroshima Prefectural League 2nd Div. 1st1111001075+10233Lost in the preliminaries
2020 Hiroshima Prefectural League 1st Div. 1st5500410+4115Quarter-finals
2021 1st6600540+54182nd round
2022 Chugoku Soccer League 1st1815216010+50472nd round
2023 TBD1800000001st round
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
  • 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 17 October 2022 [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 Jun Kodama
2 DF Japan JPN Ryota Ichihara (on loan from FC Imabari)
3 DF Japan JPN Ryota Tokunaga
4 DF Japan JPN Sho Tanaka
5 DF Japan JPN Kodai Himeda
6 DF Japan JPN Kengo Taketa
7 MF Japan JPN Daichi Soga
8 DF Japan JPN Atsushi Fujii
10 MF Japan JPN Wataru Sumida
11 MF Japan JPN Hiroki Takahashi
13 MF Japan JPN Kazuki Sota
14 MF Japan JPN Taisei Isoe
15 DF Japan JPN Kye Maeda
16 MF Japan JPN Ryuto Fukada
17 DF South Korea KOR Han Seung-gang
No. Pos. Nation Player
18 MF Japan JPN Shuri Arita
19 MF Japan JPN Yusuke Tsukada
20 MF Japan JPN Shun Taguchi
21 GK Japan JPN Kaito Hasegawa
22 DF Japan JPN Shintaro Hashimoto
24 MF Japan JPN Koki Komatsu
25 MF Japan JPN Ryu Natori
27 DF Japan JPN Chikashi Ishikawa
29 FW Paraguay PAR Jhonatthan Matsuoka
30 MF Japan JPN Kenta Sawada (on loan from Kamatamare Sanuki)
32 DF Japan JPN Junki Mawatari
35 DF Japan JPN Daichi Ishizu
39 MF Japan JPN Sota Hamaguchi
41 GK Japan JPN Daichi Kikuchi

Coaching staff

For the 2023 season.[10]

Position Name
Manager Japan Nobuhiro Ueno
Assistant manager Japan Kazuki Shibamura
Goalkeeper coach Japan Kazuyoshi Nishitani
Physiotherapist Japan Daiki Tonoshiro
Acupunturist Japan Akira Toyoike
Strength & Conditioning coach Japan Yuki Kodama
General manager 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 2022". fukuyama-city.com. Fukuyama City FC. Retrieved 17 October 2022.
  10. "【リリース】２０２３シーズン トップチームスタッフ決定のお知らせ". fukuyama-city.com (in Japanese). Fukuyama City FC. 7 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
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