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| Full name | Football Club Korea | ||
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| Founded | 1961; 64 years ago (1961) | ||
| Ground | Akabane Park Stadium Akabane,Kita-ku, Tokyo | ||
| Chairman | Lee Cheong-Gyeong | ||
| Manager | Yoon Se-ji | ||
| League | Tokyo League Division 2 | ||
| Website | fc-korea | ||
FC Korea (Japanese:Efu Shi Koria) is a Japanesefootball club playing in the Tokyo League Division 2, the eighth tier of Japanese football.
The club was founded in 1961 asZainichi Chosen Football Club. Initially it maintained links withChongryon, the pro-North Korea organisation ofKoreans in Japan, and recruited talent through theKorea University sports program.
Following the admission of theabductions of Japanese people by North Korean LeaderKim Jong-il in 2002, however, the club severed links with Chongryon and adopted the nameFootball Club Korea, using theEnglish pronunciation of the name of the peninsula (seeNames of Korea). The club adopted a pan-Korean identity in order to attract players affiliated with the South.
In 2008 FC Korea was promoted to the Kanto League Second Division and in 2010 they were promoted to the First Division, where they stayed until 2016 when they were relegated. By 2019 they were back in the Tokyo Metropolis League Second Division, where they remain.
In 2015, theUnited Korean Football Association in Japan (UKFAJ), an organisation intended to promote the participation of theKorean diaspora in football on a wider basis, was founded, with a view to the formation of a dedicated Zainichi football team. This was achieved in November 2015, when the UKFAJ joinedConIFA, an organisation designed to facilitate teams that represent unrecognised nations, sub-national entities and stateless peoples in playing international football.[1] The team representing the Zainichi people is based primarily around the FC Korea team. This team was subsequently selected as one of the twelve qualifiers for the2016 ConIFA World Football Cup where it came in eighth place.[2]
Squad for the 2022 season. Updated as of 23 March 2022.[3]
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined underFIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
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| Honour | No. | Years |
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| Tokyo Metropolitan Government Section 1 | 1 | 2007 |
| All Japan Adult Football Championship | 1 | 2012 |
| Kanto Soccer League Division 1 | 1 | 2013 |
| Tokyo Metropolitan Government 2nd Section | 1 | 2024 |
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