F.C. Tokyo is a Japanese football (soccer) club playing in the J. League Division 1. Its hometown is Tokyo prefecture. Unlike most J. League teams, its team name is simply Football Club Tokyo and there is no mascot character.
The team started as a company team, Tokyo Gas Football Club in 1935. With addition of the Brazilian football player Amaral and the manager Kiyoshi Okuma at the helm, the team gradually became competitive and in 1997, the team placed second, winning the JFL championship the next year. However, at the time the team lacked the necessary qualifications for a promotion to the J1 league and so stayed in J2.
Following this, on October 1, 1998, companies like Tokyo Gas, TEPCO, ampm, TV Tokyo, and Culture Convenience Club, set up a joint company Tokyo Football Club Company with the aim of making the team eligible for joining the J. League. In 1999, the same year the team became eligible, it won the J2 championship and joined the J1 league beginning in the 2000 season.
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