Wyvern FC explained

Clubname:Wyvern FC
ワイヴァン FC
Fullname:Wyvern Football Club
Ground:Nagoya Minato Stadium
(Nagoya, Aichi)
Green Ground Kariya
(Kariya, Aichi)
Capacity:20,000
2,000
Manager:Shinnosuke Okada
League:Tōkai League Div. 1
Season:2023
Position:Div. 2, 1st of 9
(Promoted as champions)
Website:https://fcwyvern.com/

, known mononymously as wyvern, are a Japanese football club based in Kariya, Aichi. The club plays in the Tōkai Adult Soccer League 1st division.

History

The club was founded on 2015 by Nobuo Nasu, starting to play from the District Leagues, as Wyvern FC. The club's name originates from a legendary two-leg winged dragon, the Wyvern, which appears in many different schools or athletic teams around the world as logos, or mascots. The club is said to accurately portray the aggressiveness of the dragons in their playing style, but in high spirits, as the team tends to show energetic and many goal-scoring displays.[1]

The club played from 2015 to 2017 at the West Mikawa District League, before earning promotion for the Aichi Prefectural League. Back-to-back promotions from the 3rd to the 1st division of the prefecture saw them quickly win promotion to the Regional Leagues. In the meantime, the club won the Kariya Prefectural Cup on 2019, while being a 2nd division club at the prefecture league system.[2]

Starting from the 2nd regional division on 2021, their campaign was cut short by the season cancellation, after COVID-19 forced multiple match postponements during the season. As the Japanese football could resume for the first time in three year under the reduced COVID-19 threat, the club was able to make an nearly unbeaten run in the two major competitions the club played in. At the 2022, they won 46 out of 48 possible points, having won their first 14 consecutive matches during the league season, having only failed to win a match on the penultimate league round against Nagoya SC in a 1–1 draw. Nevertheless, with a 12-point gap off the runners-up, the club became 2nd division champions, and then were promoted to the 1st division.[3] Wyvern came close to win the 2022 edition of the Kariya Prefectural Cup, having lost the final on penalty shoot-outs against FC Kariya.[4]

Stadiums

They use four different facilities to train. UB Kariya Highway Soccer/Futsal Field (Toyota); UB Tokai Futsal Club (Toyota); Minato Aquilles UB Futsal Field (Nagoya); and UB Creative Base (Kariya).

During the 2022 season, however, the club used two different venues to host their home matches at the Tokai Soccer League 2nd Division: Nagoya Minato Stadium (Nagoya) and Green Ground Kariya (Kariya).

League and cup record

bgcolor=goldChampionsbgcolor=silverRunners-upThird placebgcolor=palegreenPromotedbgcolor=pinkRelegated
LeagueEmperor's
Cup
Shakaijin
Cup
Season Division Tier Pos. GP W D L F A GD Pts
2015West Mikawa Soccer League Div.211bgcolor=gold1st 12 10 1 1 64 9 55 31 Didn't qualify Didn't play
2016West Mikawa Soccer League Div.110
2017bgcolor=gold1st 13 10 3 0 67 21 46 33
2018Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Div. 39bgcolor=gold1st 12 12 0 0 81 8 73 36
2019Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Div. 28bgcolor=gold1st 16 16 0 0 54 16 38 48
2020Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Div. 17bgcolor=gold1st 8 6 1 1 23 7 16 19
2021Tōkai Adult Soccer League Div. 26bgcolor=silver2nd 7 6 0 1 16 6 10 18
2022bgcolor=gold1st 16 15 1 0 85 6 79 46
2023Tōkai Adult Soccer League Div. 151st 16 10 4 0 34 8 26 34 Round of 16
Key

Honours

Current squad

[5]

Club officials

PositionName
Manager Shinnosuke Okada
VID Noriyuki Yamashita
Strengthening manager Kiyoshi Masuda
Academy director Tetsuya Asano
Academy coach Masashi Sakai
Staff Seiichi Ogawa
U-15 manager and Junior Youth supervisor Atsuya Tanizawa
First-team coach Atsushi Miyazaki
Doctor Daisuke Takano
Trainer Kazue Hozumi

Managerial history

Manager Nationality Tenure <--!colspan="5"Managerial Record-->
Start Finish -->
Seiichi Ogawa1 September 2021 present-->

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: WYVERN. 30 November 2022. ja. Tōkai Adult Soccer League.
  2. Web site: 59th Kariya Prefectural Cup. 30 November 2022. ja. Kariya FA.
  3. Web site: 2022年東海社会人サッカーリーグ2部. 30 November 2022. ja. Soccer Gen.
  4. Web site: Wyvern vs Kariya 2022 MYC Final Match Report. 30 November 2022. ja. FC Wyvern.
  5. Web site: 選手・スタッフ. 30 November 2022.