FC Tokushima explained

Clubname:FC Tokushima
FC徳島
Fullname:FC Tokushima
Founded: as Celeste FC
as FC Tokushima Celeste
as FC Tokushima
Ground:Yokota Kamizakura Sports Ground
Tokushima Football Field
Pocarisweat Stadium
Tokushima Sports Village
(Tokushima)
Capacity:200 (Yokota KSG)
13,000 (Tokushima FF)
5,600 (Pocarisweat ST)
2,200 (Tokushima SV)
Owner:Fortua Co., Ltd.[1]
Manager:Toshiaki Haji
League:Shikoku Soccer League
Season:2023
Current:2024 Japanese Regional Leagues#Shikoku
Position:1st of 8 (champions)
Website:fctokushima2016.com

are a Japanese football club based in Yoshinogawa, Tokushima.[2] They currently play in the Shikoku Soccer League, which part of Japanese Regional Leagues.

History

The club was founded on 2003 as Celeste FC. It didn't take long for the club to gain promotion to the Tokushima Prefectural League 1st division, this occurred in 2006. Since then, the club never went back to the 2nd division. On 2012, after winning the Tokushima Prefectural League, FC Tokushima qualified to the Shikoku Prefectural League Final Tournament, facing the other 3 prefectural championships winners of Ehime, Kochi, and Kagawa, as the four prefectures comprises the Shikoku region. The club won the tournament, therefore, getting promoted to the Shikoku Soccer League.

In 2013, their unsuccessful debut at the regional league level, led the club to get relegated back to the Tokushima Prefectural League. As quick it took to get relegated, they got promoted back to the Shikoku League for the 2016 season. From 2016 onwards, the club never again got relegated, and won qualification to the Emperor's Cup as Tokushima representatives every year since then.[3]

The club had two previous opportunities to play in the Regional Champions League, a tournament that can potentially give an opportunity for Regional League clubs to get promoted to the Japan Football League. Debuting at the competition in 2019, the club finished as the second-bottom club in an overall ranking, as they lost all the three matches in which they played on the first stage.[4]

FC Tokushima won the 2020 Shikoku Soccer League, giving them the right to participate for their second time in the competition. However, the 2020 season of the Regional Champions League was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, then, delaying their second appearance at the competition, which would happen on the 2021.

In this 2021 edition, they qualified from the first stage, going through unbeaten after three matches, winning two matches and drawing the other game. However, in the second and final stage of the competition, they finished as the bottom-placed team of the group, losing all three matches, ending up as the competition's 4th-placed team.[5] It is, to date, their highest placement in the competition so far, as they failed to reach such heights in their next attempts.[6]

Current squad

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Coaching staff

PositionStaff
Manager Toshiaki Haji
General manager Kihiro Nitta
Goalkeeper coach Fumiya Nagai
Trainer Takahiro Nomura
Staff manager Ryuwa Nakagawa
Side staff Kosuke Inai

League and Cup record

bgcolor=goldChampionsbgcolor=silverRunners-upThird placebgcolor=palegreenPromotedbgcolor=pinkRelegated
League
Season Division Pos. P W D L F A GD Pts
Celeste
2007Tokushima Pref. League7th 11 4 3 4 27 25 2 15
20089th 10 3 0 7 18 36 -18 9
2009bgcolor=silver2nd 11 6 3 2 23 15 8 21
20105th 10 4 3 3 18 36 -18 15
20114th 11 8 2 1 18 36 -18 20
2012bgcolor=gold1st 11 10 1 0 41 12 2931
Shikoku Soccer Leaguebgcolor=pink8th 14 2 0 12 18 70 -52 6
2014Tokushima Pref. League8th 11 3 2 6 15 22 -7 11
2015bgcolor=gold1st 11 10 0 1 43 9 34 30
FC Tokushima Celeste
Shikoku Soccer League5th 14 4 1 9 12 45 -33 13 1st round
2017bgcolor=silver2nd 14 9 4 1 41 13 28 31 1st round
FC Tokushima
2018Shikoku Soccer League2nd 14 10 3 1 55 11 44 33 1st round
2019bgcolor=silver2nd 14 12 0 2 49 11 38 36 1st round
2020bgcolor=gold1st 7 7 0 0 29 3 26 21 3rd round
2021Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic 1st round
2022bgcolor=gold1st 14 13 1 0 66 8 56 37 1st round
2023bgcolor=gold1st 14 11 3 0 7011 59 36 2nd round
2024TBA 14 1st round
Key

Honours

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FC徳島がJリーグ参入見据え株式会社設立 体制整え経営安定化図る. 25 August 2022. 17 October 2022. ja.
  2. Web site: クラブ. fctokushima2016.com. FC Tokushima. 17 October 2022.
  3. Web site: FC徳島試合結果. 17 October 2022. n-tokushima.jp. ja.
  4. Web site: 全国地域サッカーチャンピオンズリーグ2019. jfa.jp. Japan Football Association. 17 October 2022. ja.
  5. Web site: 全国地域サッカーチャンピオンズリーグ2021. jfa.jp. Japan Football Association. 17 October 2022. ja.
  6. Web site: FC徳島 2年ぶり制覇 サッカー 四国リーグ. 17 October 2022. topics.or.jp. ja.
  7. Web site: 選手/スタッフ. 17 October 2022. ja. FC Tokushima. fctokushima2016.com.