Tochigi SC

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Tochigi SC
栃木SC

Full name	Tochigi Soccer Club
Founded	1953; 72 years ago (1953)
Stadium	Kanseki Stadium Tochigi
Capacity	25,244
President	Daisuke Hashimoto[1]
Manager	Shinji Kobayashi
League	J3 League
2025	J3 League, 7th of 20
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 currently play in the J3 League, Japan's third tier of professional football after being relegated from J2 after the 2024 season.

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 16 November 2008. On 1 December 2008, promotion was made official by J.League and Tochigi had competed in J.League Division 2 from 2009.

In 2015, Tochigi finished bottom and were relegated to J3 League for the first time in their history, the third and lowest professional level in the league system. After two seasons, they returned to J2 League from 2018 season who finished as runner-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.

League and cup record

Key

Honours

Players

Current squad

As of 5 September 2025.^[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 Hiroshi Omori (on loan from Fukushima United) 4 MF  JPN Sho Sato 5 DF  JPN Riita Mori (on loan from Albirex Niigata) 6 MF  JPN Kosuke Kambe 7 FW  JPN Akito Tanahashi (on loan from Tokushima Vortis) 8 DF  JPN Kenta Fukumori 9 FW  JPN Ryunosuke Sugawara (on loan from Vegalta Sendai) 10 MF  JPN Taiyo Igarashi (on loan from Kawasaki Frontale) 11 MF  JPN Taichi Aoshima 13 DF  JPN Keisuke Saka 14 FW  SEN Cheikh Diamanka (on loan from Fujieda MYFC) 18 FW  JPN Rensuke Kawana 19 FW  JPN Hogara Shoji 20 DF  JPN Shintaro Ide 21 GK  KOR Kim Min-jun 22 DF  JPN Hidenori Takahashi (on loan from Renofa Yamaguchi) 23 FW  JPN Soki Hoshino

No. Pos. Nation Player 25 MF  JPN Hiroshi Iwasaki 27 GK  JPN Kenta Tanno 29 FW  JPN Kisho Yano 31 GK  JPN Shuhei Shikano (on loan from Iwaki FC) 32 FW  JPN Ryunosuke Ota (on loan from Fagiano Okayama) 37 DF  JPN Yuto Kimura 39 MF  JPN Kazuma Yagi 40 DF  JPN Shuya Takashima 45 MF  JPN Haruki Tsutsumi DSP 47 MF  JPN Haruto Yoshino 61 FW  JPN Sosuke Hatano Type 2 62 MF  JPN Tasuku Yokohama Type 2 77 MF  JPN Kensuke Fujiwara (on loan from Júbilo Iwata) 78 MF  JPN Yota Horiuchi (on loan from Urawa Red Diamonds) 80 MF  NGA Kenneth Otabor 81 MF  JPN Katsuya Nakano 88 DF  JPN Kohei Uchida — GK  JPN Ryoga Makino Type 2

Out on loan

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 38 FW  JPN Sora Kobori (at ReinMeer Aomori) 44 MF  JPN Rui Ageishi (at Maruyasu Okazaki)

No. Pos. Nation Player — MF  JPN Park Yong-ji (at ReinMeer Aomori)

Coaching staff

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

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	January 31, 2024
Makoto Tanaka	Japan	February 1, 2024	May 14, 2024
Shinji Kobayashi	Japan	May 15, 2024	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	2024	2025 -

Away kits – 2nd
2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
2023	2024	2025 -

References

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)