| Clubname: | Tochigi City FC 栃木シティFC |
| Fullname: | Tochigi City Football Club |
| Founded: | as Hitachi Tochigi Soccer Club |
| Ground: | City Football Station Tochigi, Tochigi |
| Capacity: | 5,129 |
| Chairman: |  Takashi Ōkuri |
| Manager: | Naoki Imaya |
| League: | Japan Football League |
| Season: | 2023 |
| Position: | Kantō Soccer League Div.1, 2nd of 10 Promoted via JRCL, 1st of 4 (champions) |
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Tochigi City Football Club (栃木シティフットボールクラブ, Tochigi Shiti Futtobōrukurabu), commonly known as Tochigi City FC (栃木シティFC, Tochigi Shiti Efushi) is a Japanese football club based in Tochigi Prefecture. The club set play in Japan Football League from 2024, Japanese fourth tier of football league. After promotion from Kantō Soccer League Div.1 in 2023.
The club was formed in 1947 as Hitachi Tochigi Soccer Club, the works team of the local Hitachi, Ltd. affiliate.
After finishing as a runners-up in the local Kanto Soccer League in 2009 season, they were promoted to the 2010 Japan Football League through the All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series. Prior to their first season in JFL, the club has dropped Hitachi prefix in its name and changed the reference to sport from "soccer" to "football" following general Japanese trend. From the 2019 season, the club has adopted the new name as Tochigi City FC.[1] [2]
In 2023, Tochigi City secure promotion to JFL after defeat Tsukuba FC 4–0 in final day of 2023 Japanese Regional Football Champions League, Champions of Japanese Regional Football Champions League for the first time in history due to finish 2nd place in Kanto Soccer League and return to fourth tier after six years absence since change name from Tochigi Uva.
In 2002 it adopted the moniker Uva (meaning "grape" in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish), after the vineyards of its home area, southern Tochigi Prefecture.
| bgcolor=gold | Champions | bgcolor=silver | Runners-up | Third place | bgcolor=palegreen | Promoted | bgcolor=pink | Relegated |
| League | Shakaijin Cup | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Div. | Teams | Pos. | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | |||
| Tochigi Uva | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 18 | 15th | 34 | 7 | 10 | 17 | 41 | 75 | -34 | 31 | Ineligible | |||
| 17 | 10th | 33 | 12 | 9 | 12 | 40 | 43 | -3 | 45 | 2nd round | ||||
| 2012 | 17 | 17th | 32 | 4 | 10 | 18 | 36 | 70 | -34 | 22 | Prefectural qualify round | |||
| 2013 | 18 | 17th | 34 | 9 | 3 | 22 | 34 | 64 | -32 | 30 | 2nd round | |||
| 2014 | 14 | 13th | 26 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 16 | 37 | -21 | 19 | 1st round | |||
| 2015 | 16 | 16th | 30 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 29 | 61 | -32 | 19 | 1st round | |||
| 2016 | 16 | 15th | 30 | 5 | 1 | 24 | 34 | 77 | -43 | 16 | 1st round | |||
| 2017 | 16 | bgcolor=pink | 16th | 30 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 22 | 56 | -34 | 24 | 2nd round | ||
| 2018 | 10 | 1st | 18 | 17 | 1 | 0 | 55 | 14 | 36 | 52 | Did not play | |||
| Tochigi City FC | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | KSL | 10 | 3rd | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 30 | 15 | 15 | 32 | 2nd round | ||
| 2020 | 10 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 6 | 19 | 23 | Cancelled | ||
| 2021 | 12 | 4th | 22 | 14 | 2 | 6 | 45 | 26 | 19 | 46 | 2nd round | |||
| 2022 | 10 | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 33 | 14 | 19 | 37 | Prefectural qualify round | Quarter final | |
| 2023 | 10 | 2nd | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 54 | 24 | 30 | 36 | 1st round | |||
| 2024 | JFL | 16 | TBD | 30 | Ineligible | |||||||||
| No. | scope=col | Years | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| scope=row | Tochigi Prefecture Division 1 | 10 | 1967, 1968, 1971, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1980, 1983, 1999, 2002 | |
| scope=row | Tochigi Prefecture 2nd Division A | 2 | 1989, 1990 | |
| scope=row | Tochigi Prefecture Division 2 | 1 | 1991 | |
| scope=row | Kantō Soccer League | 3 | 2018, 2020, 2022 | |
| scope=row | Japanese Regional Football Champions League | 1 | 2023 |
As of 3 April 2024.[3]
| Position | Staff[4] |
|---|---|
| Manager | Naoki Imaya |
| Defense coach | Takuma Tsuda |
| Offense coach | Atsushi Izawa |
| Goalkeeper coach | Yuki Takita |
| Strengthening coach | Nobuaki Sekimura |
| Analyst | Daito Kai Kazuki Yokoyama |
| Chief trainer | Arihiro Koizumi |
| Trainer | Kosuke Inoue |
| Competent/Kitman | Masateru Hata |
| Side affair and interpreter | Naoki Iwahashi |
| Reinforcement affairs | Takumi Abe |