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.

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. Position Player 1 GK Junya Fujisawa 2 DF Yuta Nagano 3 DF Ryuya Sakai 4 DF Yohei Fujimoto 5 MF Keigo Kawano 6 MF Mizuki Masato 7 FW Yuta Nakano 8 MF Shota Nakano 10 FW Tatsuyoshi Sakamoto 13 FW Yuta Imabe 14 MF Kyosuke Hamada 15 MF Satoru Uchida 16 DF Masanobu Okiyama 17 DF Hiroki Sasaki

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

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

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