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Yokohama FC (横浜FC, Yokohama Efushī) is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club currently plays in the J1 League, which is the second tier of football in the country. The club was formed by fans of Yokohama Flügels as a protest against Flügels' merger with Yokohama Marinos in 1999, becoming the first supporter-owned professional sports team in Japan.[1]

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Yokohama FC
横浜FC

Full name	Yokohama FC
Nickname(s)	Fulie
Founded	1999; 23 years ago (1999)
Ground	Mitsuzawa Stadium Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
Capacity	15,046
Chairman	Yuji Onodera
Manager	Shuhei Yomoda
League	J1 League
2022	J2 League, 2nd of 22 (promoted)
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Since gaining J.League membership in 2001, Yokohama FC spent a long time in the second tier of the Japanese football league system. The club gained promotion to J.League Division 1 for 2007 season, as champions of J.League Division 2 in 2006, but were immediately relegated the following season. After twelve years in the J2 League, they returned to the top flight in the 2020 season, earning promotion the previous year. Just 1 year into J1 however, they were relegated back to J2 after finishing 20th in 2021.

Crest

Yokohama FC's crest features a phoenix, symbolizing the rise of Yokohama FC from the ashes of the Yokohama Flugels. The blue ribbon on the top represents the Blue Ribbon Movement, a movement that began at the end of the 1998 J.League season to keep the Flugels alive.

History

Yokohama FC was formed in 1999 following the merger of Yokohama's two J.League clubs, the Flügels and the Marinos. Flügels supporters felt that their club had essentially been dissolved rather than merged with, so rejected the suggestion that they should start supporting Marinos – who had been their crosstown rivals. Instead, with money raised through donations from the general public and an affiliation with talent management company IMG, the former Flügels supporters founded the Yokohama Fulie Sports Club.[2] Following the socio model used by FC Barcelona, the Fulie Sports Club created Yokohama FC, the first professional sports team in Japan owned and operated by its supporters.[1]

For its first season in 1999, Yokohama FC hired former German national team and World Cup star Pierre Littbarski to be the manager and Yasuhiko Okudera, the first Japanese footballer to play professionally in Europe, to be the chairman.[3] The club attempted to gain entry directly into the professional J.League, but the Japan Football Association only permitted entry to the amateur Japan Football League (JFL), at the time the third level of the Japanese football league system, and ruled that the club would not be eligible for promotion into J.League Division 2 at the end of its first season. So, despite finishing as JFL champion in 1999, Yokohama FC finished as JFL champion again in 2000 before being promoted to J.League Division 2.[4]

The club spent the next 6 seasons in J.League Division 2 before finishing as champions in 2006 and gaining promotion to J.League Division 1. In 2007, just the ninth year of its existence, Yokohama FC played its first season in the top flight of Japanese football. After a poor season, the team were consigned to relegation with five games of the season still remaining. Despite their early relegation, Yokohama FC nevertheless decided the final outcome at the opposite end of the table; by defeating title contenders Urawa Red Diamonds on the last day of the season, Kashima Antlers secured the J.League Division 1 title.[5]

In 2018, Yokohama FC narrowly missed out on automatic promotion by goal difference. The team made it to the J2 promotion final, losing to Tokyo Verdy on an stoppage time winner. In 2019, Yokohama finished second in J2 and gained automatic promotion to J1.

After finishing in last place in 2021, Yokohama FC would be relegated back to J2 for the 2022 season.

Fight for promotion in 2005 and 2006

Although they had a dire season in 2005, ending 11th out of 12, they were in the top half of table throughout the 2006 season. On 26 November they finished in the top spot of the J2 League, and hence were finally promoted to the J. League 1.

This success story was so dramatic as to make people somewhat excited in Japan. Yokohama FC's financial situation was so poor that they didn't even own their own football ground or a club house. Players did everything themselves including carrying the goal posts and washing the jerseys.

One of their players, Kazuyoshi Miura, is 54 and a former player, Atsuhiro Miura (one of their main players before his 2010 retirement) was 36 when he last played for the club. These players once played for the Japan national team.

They lost all pre-season matches, even against college students, then also the first official match of the year. After this, they suddenly changed the player-manager to a freshman with little experience named Takuya Takagi, who was 38. At the beginning of the season few expected them to become champions.

Record as J.League member

Champions

Runners-up

Third place

Promoted

Relegated

League													J.League Cup	Emperor's Cup
Season	Div.	Teams	Pos.	P	W (OTW)	D	L (OTL)	F	A	GD	Pts	Attendance/G
2001	J2	12	9th	44	12 (3)	1	25 (3)	58	81	-23	43	3,007	2nd round	4th round
2002		12	12th	44	8	11	25	43	81	-38	35	3,477	–	3rd round
2003		12	11th	44	10	12	22	49	88	-39	42	3,743		3rd round
2004		12	8th	44	10	22	12	42	50	-8	52	4,219		5th round
2005		12	11th	44	10	15	19	48	64	-16	45	5,938		4th round
2006		13	1st	48	26	15	7	61	32	-29	93	5,119		3rd round
2007	J1	18	18th	34	4	4	26	19	66	-47	16	14,039	Group stage	5th round
2008	J2	15	10th	42	11	17	14	51	56	-5	50	6,793	–	4th round
2009		18	16th	51	11	11	29	43	70	-27	44	3,535		3rd round
2010		19	6th	36	16	6	14	54	47	7	54	5,791		3rd round
2011		20	18th	38	11	8	19	40	54	-14	41	5,770		2nd round
2012		22	4th	42	22	7	13	62	45	17	73	6,039		3rd round
2013		22	11th	42	15	13	14	49	46	3	58	6,064		2nd round
2014		22	11th	42	14	13	15	49	47	2	55	5,146		2nd round
2015		22	15th	42	13	13	16	33	58	-25	52	5,113		2nd round
2016		22	8th	42	16	11	15	50	51	-1	59	4,892		Round of 16
2017		22	10th	42	17	12	13	60	49	11	63	5,967		2nd round
2018		22	3rd	42	21	13	8	63	44	19	76	6,141		3rd round
2019		22	2nd	42	23	10	9	66	40	26	79	7,061		3rd round
2020 †	J1	18	15th	34	9	6	19	38	60	-22	33	3,559	Group stage	Did not qualify
2021 †		20	20th	38	6	9	23	32	77	-45	27	4,511	Group stage	2nd round
2022	J2	22	2nd	42	23	11	8	66	49	17	80	5,088	–	3rd round

Key

Honours

• Japan Football League
  • Champions: 1999, 2000
• J.League Division 2
  • Champions: 2006
  • Runner-ups: 2019, 2022

Current players

As of 9 August 2022[6]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 2 MF  BRA Rhayner (on loan from Tombense) 3 DF  JPN Takumi Nakamura 4 DF  JPN Hideto Takahashi 5 DF  BRA Gabriel 6 MF  JPN Takuya Wada 7 MF  JPN Takuya Matsuura 8 MF  JPN Kosuke Saito 9 FW  BRA Kléber 13 FW  BRA Saulo Mineiro 14 MF  JPN Ryo Tabei 15 FW  JPN Sho Ito 16 MF  JPN Tatsuya Hasegawa (captain) 17 DF  JPN Eijiro Takeda 18 FW  JPN Koki Ogawa 19 DF  JPN Masashi Kamekawa 20 DF  JPN Zain Issaka (on loan from Kawasaki Frontale) 21 GK  JPN Akinori Ichikawa 22 DF  JPN Katsuya Iwatake 23 DF  JPN Hayato Sugita 25 MF  JPN Shunsuke Nakamura

No. Pos. Nation Player 29 FW  JPN Kaisei Ishii (on loan from Sagan Tosu) 30 FW  JPN Towa Yamane 31 FW  BRA Marcelo Ryan 33 MF  JPN Tomoki Kondo DSP 34 DF  JPN Taiga Nishiyama 35 DF  BRA Mateus Moraes 37 DF  JPN Ginjiro Ikegaya Type 2 38 FW  JPN Yushi Yamaya (on loan from Yokohama F. Marinos) 39 FW  JPN Kazuma Watanabe 40 GK  JPN Yutaro Nishikata Type 2 41 DF  JPN Shawn Van Eerden Type 2 42 MF  JPN Yuto Shimizu Type 2 43 DF  JPN Hayato Moriya Type 2 44 GK  JPN Yuji Rokutan 45 DF  JPN Ryusei Nakamura Type 2 46 MF  JPN Haru Kiyokawa Type 2 48 FW  JPN Ryoya Yamashita 49 GK  GER Svend Brodersen 50 MF  JPN Kotaro Nagata Type 2 — MF  JPN Hayase Takashio Type 2

Out on loan

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  JPN Issei Ouchi (at Nagano Parceiro) 10 MF  JPN Reo Yasunaga (at Mito HollyHock) 11 FW  JPN Kazuyoshi Miura (at Suzuka Point Getters) 24 DF  JPN Yuya Takagi (at Thespakusatsu Gunma) 27 DF  JPN Daiki Nakashio (at Giravanz Kitakyushu)

No. Pos. Nation Player 30 MF  JPN Kohei Tezuka (at Sagan Tosu) — DF  JPN Kyowaan Hoshi (at Iwaki FC) — MF  JPN Riku Furuyado (at YSCC Yokohama) — FW  JPN Yuki Kusano (at FC Ryukyu) — FW  JPN Keijiro Ogawa (at FC Seoul)

Reserve squad (U-18s)

As of 6 September 2022 [7]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  JPN Yutaro Nishikata — GK  JPN Kotaro Okamoto — GK  JPN Kona Tsutsumi — DF  JPN Tomoki Asami — DF  JPN Riku Fukazawa — DF  JPN Kengo Hayashi — DF  JPN Daichi Iduka — DF  JPN Ginjiro Ikegaya — DF  JPN Kota Kosuki — DF  JPN Sora Kunieda — DF  JPN Kosei Mizuki — DF  JPN Hayato Moriya — DF  JPN Kotaro Nagata — DF  JPN Ryusei Nakamura — DF  JPN Sota Noguchi — DF  JPN Daiki Saito — DF  JPN Ayumu Sasa — DF  JPN Yuki Tada — DF  JPN Taiki Uchibori

No. Pos. Nation Player — DF  JPN Shawn Van Eerden — MF  JPN Hikaru Inoue — MF  JPN Sota Kaneko — MF  JPN Takatora Kato — MF  JPN Kein Kimura — MF  JPN Haru Kiyokawa — MF  JPN Arata Miyamoto — MF  JPN Shota Nakadai — MF  JPN Yonosuke Nakashima — MF  JPN Yuto Shimizu — MF  JPN Tomoya Takahashi — MF  JPN Hayase Takashio — MF  JPN Daiki Yakushiji — FW  JPN Arata Motoda — FW  JPN Masato Nakabayashi — FW  JPN Keitaro Shoji — FW  JPN Ryushin Suda — FW  JPN Rento Tanida

Colours

As they could not adopt directly Flügels' white and blue strip given its similarity to that of Marinos, Yokohama FC decided to adopt an all-cyan kit, after NKK SC, a former company club which had closed in 1994. NKK SC was based in Kawasaki and played most matches at Todoroki Athletics Stadium, but used Mitsuzawa Stadium on days when the other Kawasaki clubs at the time (Verdy Kawasaki, Toshiba and Fujitsu) used it.

Kit evolution

FP 1st
2001	2002	2003 - 2004	2005 - 2006	2007 - 2008
2009 - 2010	2011 - 2012	2013	2014	2015
2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
2021	2022 -

FP 2nd
2001	2002	2003 - 2004	2005 - 2006	2007 - 2008
2009 - 2010	2011 - 2012	2013	2014	2015
2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
2021	2022 -

Coaching staff

Role	Nat.	Name
Manager		Shuhei Yomoda
Assistant Manager		Tomoyoshi Ono
Assistant Manager		Tatsuro Takenaka
First Team coach		Tomonobu Hayakawa
First Team coach		Keiji Kuraishi
First Team coach		Seiya Takeuchi
Goalkeeper coach		Adauto
Athletic Coach		Masahiro Watanabe
Athletic Coach		Fumihiro Funahashi
Athletic Coach		Yuki Katase
Athletic Coach		Shingo Ebata
Interpreter		Gabriel Minamoto Ryohei Ikeda
Academy Staff		Yusuke Ogura
Kit Manager		Takaya Amimori Yuto Nakahata
Technical Director		Kenji Fukuda

Managerial history

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
		Start	Finish
Pierre Littbarski	Germany	1 February 1999	31 December 2000
Yoshikazu Nagai	Japan	1 January 2001	10 September 2001
Yūji Sakakura	Japan	11 September 2001	15 September 2001
Katsuyoshi Shintō	Japan	16 September 2001	31 December 2002
Pierre Littbarski	Germany	1 February 2003	31 January 2005
Yūsuke Adachi	Japan	1 January 2005	6 March 2006
Takuya Takagi	Japan	7 March 2006	27 August 2007
Júlio César Leal	Brazil	28 August 2007	31 December 2007
Satoshi Tsunami	Japan	1 February 2008	31 January 2009
Yasuhiro Higuchi	Japan	1 February 2009	31 January 2010
Yasuyuki Kishino	Japan	1 February 2010	18 March 2012
Takahiro Taguchi	Japan	18 March 2012	21 March 2012
Motohiro Yamaguchi	Japan	21 March 2012	31 January 2015
Miloš Rus	Slovenia	1 January 2015	14 September 2015
Hitoshi Nakata	Japan	14 September 2015	1 December 2015
Miloš Rus	Slovenia	1 December 2015	15 June 2016
Hitoshi Nakata	Japan	16 June 2016	15 October 2017
Tomonobu Hayakawa	Japan	15 October 2017	17 October 2017
Yasuhiko Okudera	Japan	19 October 2017	23 October 2017
Edson Tavares	Brazil	24 October 2017	13 May 2019
Takahiro Shimotaira	Japan	14 May 2019	8 April 2021
Tomonobu Hayakawa	Japan	8 April 2021	31 January 2022
Shūhei Yomoda	Japan	1 February 2022	Current

Mascot

The Yokohama FC's mascot is named Fulie-maru, an alien-bird like figure. Supposedly, in a way, he is supposed to be a tribute to the Yokohama Flugels' mascot, Tobimaru, a flying squirrel.[8]

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)

На других языках

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[de] Yokohama FC

Der Yokohama FC (jap. 横浜FC, Yokohama Efushī) ist ein japanischer Fußballverein aus Yokohama, einer Stadt in der Präfektur Kanagawa. Aktuell spielt der Verein in der zweiten japanischen Liga, der J2 League.

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- [en] Yokohama FC

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[es] Yokohama FC

Yokohama FC (横浜FC, Yokohama Efushī?) es un club de fútbol de Japón, situado en la ciudad de Yokohama que actualmente juega en la J2 League. Fue fundado en 1998 a partir de la desaparición de Yokohama Flügels, y es el primer equipo japonés que está basado en una modalidad de "club de socios".

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[ru] Иокогама (футбольный клуб)

«Иокогама» (яп. 横浜FC Ёкохама Эфу Си:, от английского Yokohama Football Club) — японский футбольный клуб из одноименного города. Основан в 1999 году. Домашние матчи проводит на стадионе Ниппацу Мицудзава.

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