Tochigi SC

Teachers in Tochigi Prefecture founded the club in 1953. They were initially called self-explanatory 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.

On 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 since 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.

Key

• Pos. = Position in league
• Attendance/G = Average league attendance
• † 2020 & 2021 seasons attendances reduced by COVID-19 worldwide pandemic
• Source: J. League Data Site

As of 15 July 2021.[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 Masaya Yoshida (On loan from Matsumoto Yamaga) 4 DF  JPN Ryota Takasugi 5 DF  JPN Yasutaka Yanagi 10 MF  JPN Toshiki Mori 11 MF  BRA Juninho 13 FW  JPN Rimu Matsuoka 14 MF  JPN Yuki Nishiya 15 GK  JPN Hiroki Oka 16 MF  JPN Daisuke Kikuchi (On loan from Kashiwa Reysol) 17 MF  JPN Ren Yamamoto 19 FW  JPN Koki Oshima 20 DF  JPN KennedyEgbus Mikuni (On loan from Avispa Fukuoka) 22 DF  JPN Kenya Onodera (On loan from Montedio Yamagata) 23 MF  JPN Keita Ueda (On loan from Yokohama F. Marinos) 24 MF  JPN Tatsuya Wada

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  JPN Sho Sato 26 DF  JPN Yukuto Omoya 27 FW  JPN Masato Igarashi 29 FW  JPN Kisho Yano 32 FW  JPN Junki Hata (On loan from V-Varen Nagasaki) 33 DF  JPN Hayato Kurosaki (On loan from Oita Trinita) 34 FW  JPN Kotaro Arima (On loan from Kashima Antlers) 36 DF  JPN Daichi Inui (On loan from Matsumoto Yamaga) 37 MF  JPN Kota Ueda 38 FW  JPN Sora Kobori 39 GK  JPN John Higashi (On loan from Nagoya Grampus) 40 DF  JPN Keita Ide 41 MF  JPN Nagi Matsumoto (On loan from Cerezo Osaka) 50 GK  JPN Powell Obinna Obi (On loan from Yokohama F. Marinos) — FW  JPN Yohei Toyoda

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 — DF  JPN Ryoya Ikeniwa (at J.FC Miyazaki) — DF  JPN Kotaro Fujiwara (at Kagoshima United)

• Official Website (in Japanese)