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Football club

Yokogawa Musashino FC 横河武蔵野FC

Full name Yokogawa Musashino Football Club
Founded 1939; 85 years ago (1939) as Yokogawa Electric Corporation
Ground Musashino Municipal Athletic StadiumMusashino City, Tokyo
Capacity 5,000
Chairman Hikaru Yoshikawa
Manager Hisayuki Ikegami
League Japan Football League
2024 15th of 16
Website https://fc.yokogawa-musashino.jp/
Home colours Away colours

Former logo of Yokogawa Musashino

Former logo of Tokyo Musashino City

Yokogawa Musashino FC (横河武蔵野FC, Yokogawa Musashino Efu Shī), formerly Tokyo Musashino United FC (東京武蔵野ユナイテッドFC, Tōkyō Musashino Yunaiteddo Efu Shī) is a football club based in Musashino, Tokyo, Japan. They currently play in the Japan Football League, Japan's fourth tier of league football. The team colours are blue and yellow.

The club was founded as a football club of Yokogawa Electric Corporation in 1939. In 1978, the club achieved their first promotion to the Kanto Regional League. Despite experiencing the relegation to the Tokyo Prefecture League twice, they were determined to bounce back and gained the promotion to the Japan Football League in 1999. Although the club still have strong association with Yokogawa Electric, they left the nest in 2003 and started the new life as a non-corporation club under the name Yokogawa Musashino until 2015. The club was renamed Tokyo Musashino City in January 2016.[1]

In February 2021, the club renamed its official name to Tokyo Musashino United Football Club. [2]

On 4 December 2023, Tokyo Musashino United announced that they would be renaming its official name back to Yokogawa Musashino Football Club. The club's former crest (when playing as Yokogawa Musashino FC) was restored, as well, starting from the 2024 season.[3][4]Yokogawa Musashino are one of the three teams have competed in Japan Football League every year since its inception in 1999 (The others being Honda FC and Sony Sendai).

Their home ground is Musashino Municipal Athletic Stadium, but they also play some of their home games at Ajinomoto Stadium, Ajinomoto Stadium sub ground, Edogawa Stadium, and Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium.

League & cup record

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Champions Runners-up Third place Promoted Relegated
League Emperor's Cup
Season Division Tier Teams Pos. P W (OTW) D L F A GD Pts
Yokogawa Electric
1999 JFL 3 9 8th 24 6 (1) - 17 26 42 -16 20
2000 12 12th 22 2 3 17 21 41 -20 9 1st round
2001 16 7th 30 12 5 13 37 54 -17 41 Did not qualify
2002 18 7th 17 8 4 5 21 -5 28
Yokogawa Musashino
2003 JFL 3 16 13th 30 9 2 19 32 65 -33 29 Did not qualify
2004 16 13th 30 8 8 14 41 51 -10 32
2005 16 9th 30 14 6 10 37 29 8 48
2006 18 6th 34 17 9 8 58 38 20 60
2007 18 7th 34 16 6 12 50 44 6 54
2008 18 7th 34 15 9 10 43 34 9 54
2009 18 2nd 34 17 9 8 48 34 14 60 2nd round
2010 18 12th 34 12 8 14 34 38 -4 44 Did not qualify
2011 18 15th 33 9 9 15 33 37 -4 36
2012 17 10th 32 11 8 13 35 50 -15 41 4th round
2013 18 10th 34 13 10 11 36 36 0 49 2nd round
2014 4 14 6th 26 9 8 9 31 31 0 35 Did not qualify
2015 16 12th 30 8 6 16 31 40 -9 30
Tokyo Musashino City
2016 JFL 4 16 12th 30 9 8 13 29 38 -9 35 Did not qualify
2017 16 11th 30 8 9 13 44 47 -3 33
2018 16 6th 30 14 7 9 49 36 13 49
2019 16 4th 30 13 9 8 44 39 5 48
2020 16 11th 15 5 4 6 15 17 -2 19 3rd round
Tokyo Musashino United
2021 JFL 4 17 15th 32 9 5 18 38 53 -15 32 Did not qualify
2022 16 6th 30 14 6 10 49 33 16 48
2023 15 13th 28 9 5 14 30 36 -6 32
Yokogawa Musashino
2024 JFL 4 16 15th 30 5 8 18 25 48 -23 23 1st round
2025 16 TBD 30 TBD

Key

As of 16 August 2024.[5] Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

Position Staff
Manager Japan Hisayuki Ikegami[6]
Assistant manager Japan Takanori Kanamori
First-team coach Japan Masahiro Tomaru Japan Yoshisato Uchino Japan Masaaki Yabe
Goalkeeper coach Japan Takuya Suzuki Japan Keita Yasumoto
Analyst Japan Kentaro Nagai
Athletic trainer Japan Kenji Kano Japan Takehiro Ishii
Manager Nationality Tenure
Start Finish
Hideki Maeda Japan 1 February 1998 31 January 2000
Hiroki Yoda Japan 1 February 2007 31 January 2013
Yasuhiro Yoshida Japan 1 February 2013 31 January 2018
Hisayuki Ikegami Japan 1 February 2018 31 January 2022
Hiroki Yoda Japan 1 February 2022 31 January 2023
Toshihiro Ishimura Japan 1 February 2023 12 September 2024
Hisayuki Ikegami Japan 12 September 2024 present
  1. ^ "Yokogawa Musashino renamed "Tokyo Musashino City"" (in Japanese). 9 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Name Change". tokyo-musashino-united-fc.com. Tokyo Musashino United. Retrieved 20 November 2022.
  3. ^ チーム名・エンブレム変更のお知らせ
  4. ^ チーム名・エンブレム変更のお知らせ
  5. ^ "チーム". 東京武蔵野シティフットボールクラブ. Retrieved 2 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Toshiyuki Ikegami Appointed as Head Coach". fc.yokogawa-musashino.jp. Retrieved 2 October 2024.