FC Kariya

The club was founded in 1949 as Nippon Denso Soccer Club. They mainly played in the Tōkai Regional League; Kariya was already represented in the Japan Soccer League by the club belonging to Toyota Industries (not to be confused with nearby Toyota Motors, which is the club that became Nagoya Grampus).

Nippon Denso were finally promoted to the Japan Football League in 1996. They played their first JFL season under new name DENSO Soccer Club because of the change of their owner's name.

DENSO relinquished the ownership at the end of the 2005 season and non-profit organisation Kaeru Sports Club took over. Their name F.C. Kariya was chosen from entries from the public. Despite this change of ownership, F.C. Kariya did not show much ambition for J. League status in subsequent campaigns and finished in 17th place on the 2009 season of the Japan Football League, being relegated back to the Tokai Regional League after losing a promotion/relegation series to the more ambitious Zweigen Kanazawa.[1]

In 2015 Kariya became champions of the Tōkai Adult Soccer League and participated in the 2015 Regional League promotion play-offs, reaching the Top 4, but not the promotion back to JFL. They also featured three times in the Emperor's Cup, reaching 2nd round both in 2007 and in 2012.

In 2020 season, FC Kariya qualified for the regional championship and achieved runner-up and returned to the Japan Football League for the 2021 season.

F.C. Kariya's shirt features the red sash (or Aka Dasuki in Japanese). This design was originally adopted by Kariya High School's soccer club who introduced the sport to the area in the Taishō period. Because of this, the red sash is regarded as the symbolic design of Kariya's football.

They play their home games mainly at Kariya Municipal Athletic Park, but Toyohashi City Iwata General Ballgame Stadium and Nagoya City Port Soccer Stadium are also used a couple of times a year. They practice at Denso Ikeda Factory ground which is not open to the public because it is in Denso's factory site.

Updated to 21 April 2018.[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 Junya Fujisawa 2 DF  JPN Yuta Nagano 3 DF  JPN Ryuya Sakai 4 DF  JPN Yohei Fujimoto 5 MF  JPN Keigo Kawano 6 MF  JPN Mizuki Masato 7 FW  JPN Yuta Nakano 8 MF  JPN Shota Nakano 10 FW  JPN Tatsuyoshi Sakamoto 13 FW  JPN Yuta Imabe 14 MF  JPN Kyosuke Hamada 15 MF  JPN Satoru Uchida 16 DF  JPN Masanobu Okiyama 17 DF  JPN Hiroki Sasaki

No. Pos. Nation Player 18 MF  JPN Yasuhisa Hamada 19 DF  JPN Ryu Zenmoto 20 MF  JPN Shun Hase 21 GK  JPN Okino Taito 22 DF  JPN Tomoaki Hagino 23 FW  JPN Itsuki Nishihara 24 DF  JPN Sei Isogai 25 MF  JPN Koki Hisamatu 26 DF  JPN Wataru Sugawara 27 MF  JPN Shunsuke Tomita 29 DF  JPN Tomotaka Adachi 30 DF  KOR Min Kyung Joon 41 GK  JPN Kei Nakamura

Here are listed only the seasons disputed as "FC Kariya"'.

Key

• Pos. = Position in league; GP = Games Played; W = Games won; D = Games Drawn; L = Games Lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals Difference; Pts = Points gained

• Tokai Soccer League Champions (6)
• Japanese Regional Champions (2)

• Official Website (in Japanese)
• Official Facebook page (in Japanese)