Tochigi SC
栃木SC

Full name	Tochigi Soccer Club
Founded	1953; 71 years ago (1953)
Stadium	Kanseki Stadium Tochigi
Capacity	25,244
Manager	Yu Tokisaki
League	J2 League
2023	J2 League, 19th of 22
Website	Club website
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Tochigi Soccer Club (栃木サッカークラブ, Tochigi Sakkākurabu),^[1] commonly referred to as Tochigi SC (栃木SC, Tochigi Esushi) is a Japanese football club based in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. They currently play in the J2 League, Japan's second tier of professional football.

History

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 November 16; on December 1 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.

League and cup record

Key

Players

Current squad

As of 29 January 2024.^[2] 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 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 14 MF  JPN Kodai Dohi (on loan from Sanfrecce Hiroshima) 15 MF  JPN Koya Okuda 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 31 GK  JPN Keitaro Nakajima (on loan from Júbilo Iwata) 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

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 — GK  JPN Yuya Aoshima (at JEF United Chiba)

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

Coaching staff

For the 2023 season.^[3]

Position	Name
Head coach	Yu Tokisaki
Assistant head coach	Masahiro Ohashi Minoru Takenaka
Head goalkeeper coach	Akihiro Watanabe
Analyst	Shogo Manabe
Chief trainer	Yuta Matsumoto
Trainer	Tetsuya Furuta Atsuya Kaneko
Interpreter	Bruno Hideo Watanabe
Side affairs	Tatsuya Sakakibara Yusuke Kenjo

Managerial history

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	Current

Kit evolution

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 -

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