Tochigi SC

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Tochigi SC
栃木SC

Full name	Tochigi Soccer Club
Founded	1953; 71 years ago (1953)
Stadium	Kanseki Stadium Tochigi
Capacity	25,244
President	Daisuke Hashimoto [1]
Manager	Shinji Kobayashi
League	J3 League
2024	J2 League, 18th of 20 (relegated)
Website	tochigisc.jp
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Tochigi Soccer Club (栃木サッカークラブ, Tochigi Sakkākurabu),^[2] commonly referred to as Tochigi SC (栃木SC, Tochigi Esushi) is a Japanese football club based in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. They set to play in the J3 League after relegation from J2 in 2024, Japan's third tier of professional football.

Teachers in Tochigi Prefecture founded the club in 1953. They were initially called Tochigi Teachers' Soccer Club (栃木教員サッカー部 Tochigi Kyōin Sakkā Bu). They started to welcome players with other professions in 1994 and renamed themselves as Tochigi Soccer Club. In 1999, Tochigi won the Kanto Regional League and were promoted to the Japan Football League after finishing runners-up in the Regional League play-off. In March 2005, they announced that they would set up a task force to give a serious consideration to turn professional and try to gain J.League status.

In January 2007, they achieved J.League Associate Membership status and in the 2008 season they secured qualification for promotion to professional status on 16 November 2007. On 1 December 2007, promotion was made official by J.League and Tochigi had competed in J2 from 2009.

In 2015 Tochigi finished bottom and were relegated for the first time to J3, the third and lowest professional level in the league system. After two seasons, they returned to J2 as runners-up in 2017.

On 27 October 2024, Tochigi officially relegated to J3 League for second time after defeat from Shimizu S-Pulse 0-1 at home and ending seven years stint in second tier with two games left.

Key

As of 9 August 2024^[3]

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

No. Pos. Nation Player 1 GK  JPN Shuhei Kawata 2 DF  JPN Wataru Hiramatsu 3 DF  JPN Hayato Kurosaki 4 MF  JPN Sho Sato 5 DF  JPN Naoki Otani 6 MF  JPN Sho Omori 7 MF  JPN Ryotaro Ishida 9 FW  NGA Origbaajo Ismaila 10 MF  JPN Toshiki Mori 13 DF  JPN Keisuke Saka 14 MF  JPN Kodai Dohi (on loan from Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 15 MF  JPN Koya Okuda 16 MF  JPN Rio Hyon (on loan from Tokushima Vortis) 17 MF  JPN Takumi Fujitani 18 MF  JPN Rensuke Kawana 19 FW  JPN Koki Oshima 20 DF  JPN Shintaro Ide

No. Pos. Nation Player 21 GK  KOR Kim Min-jun 22 MF  JPN Taichi Aoshima 23 MF  JPN Hayato Fukushima (on loan from Shonan Bellmare) 24 MF  JPN Kosuke Kambe 27 GK  JPN Kenta Tanno 29 FW  JPN Kisho Yano 30 DF  JPN Kenta Fukumori 32 FW  JPN Ko Miyazaki 33 DF  BRA Rafael Costa 38 FW  JPN Sora Kobori 40 DF  JPN Shuya Takashima 41 MF  JPN Park Yong-ji 42 FW  JPN Harumi Minamino 44 MF  JPN Rui Ageishi 45 FW  JPN Ota Yamamoto (on loan from Kashiwa Reysol) 47 MF  JPN Haruto Yoshino DSP

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

No. Pos. Nation Player — GK  JPN Yuya Aoshima (at JEF United Chiba)

No. Pos. Nation Player — FW  JPN Yuji Senuma (at SC Sagamihara)

Position	Name
Manager	Shinji Kobayashi
Assistant Manager	Hiroaki Nagashima
First-team coach	Takumi Motohashi
Goalkeeper coach	Tomoaki Ogami
Analyst	Shogo Manabe
Physical coach	Hirofumi Sakamoto
Chief trainer	Yuta Matsumoto
Trainer	Takahiro Watanabe Atsuya Kaneko
Interpreter	Bruno Hideo Owada
Chief manager	Tatsuya Sakakibara Yusuke Kenjo
Chief doctor	Mitsugi Shimoda
Doctor	Hitoshi Akutsu Kei Ajisaka Taro Kuramochi Makoto Kuroda Atsuto Hoshikawa Yuichiro Yano Yusuke Eda Makoto Oe

Manager	Nationality	Tenure
		Start	Finish
Kōichi Hashiratani	Japan	January 1, 2007	December 31, 2008
Hiroshi Matsuda	Japan	February 1, 2009	September 13, 2013
Ikuo Matsumoto	Japan	September 13, 2013	November 25, 2013
Yūji Sakakura	Japan	February 1, 2014	July 20, 2015
Yasuharu Kurata	Japan	July 22, 2015	December 31, 2015
Yūji Yokoyama	Japan	January 1, 2016	December 31, 2018
Kazuaki Tasaka	Japan	February 1, 2019	January 31, 2022
Yū Tokisaki	Japan	February 1, 2022	January 31, 2024
Makoto Tanaka	Japan	February 1, 2024	May 14, 2024
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	May 15, 2024	current

The team's colour is yellow.

Home kits – 1st
2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
2023	2024 -

Away kits – 2nd
2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
2023	2024 -

• Official website (in Japanese)