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| Full name | Iwaki Football Club | ||
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| Founded | 2012; 14 years ago (2012) | ||
| Ground | Hawaiians Stadium Iwaki Iwaki,Fukushima | ||
| Capacity | 5,600 | ||
| Chairman | Satoshi Okura | ||
| Manager | Yuzo Tamura | ||
| League | J2 League | ||
| 2025 | J2 League, 9th of 20 | ||
| Website | iwakifc | ||
Iwaki FC (いわきFC,Iwaki Efushi) is a professionalfootball club based inIwaki, a city inFukushima Prefecture, Japan. The club competes in theJ2 League, the second tier of theJapanese football league system.
Iwaki FC was founded in 2012, before getting official recognition in 2013 with the creation of their homonymous corporation.[1][2] The club name got more attention whenUnder Armour decided to support them in climbing the Japanese football pyramid from the bottom.[3] The vision behind the club’s formation, was an intention of "making Iwaki the central football-city in Tohoku".[4] In service of this, a new training field opened in November 2016 and the club-house was just launched in May 2017: two central structures necessary to rise to the top of Japanese football.[5][6]
Results during this period supported Iwaki FC’s rise, as they won several titles in the Fukushima Prefectural Football League, eventually joining the first division. Their next target was theTohoku Soccer League. Meanwhile, the club achieved their first win at the 23rd National Club Team Football Championship Tournament (winning by 9–0).[7] Iwaki FC also debuted at theEmperor's Cup in2017 edition. After defeatingNorbritz Hokkaido in the first round, they surprisingly overcameHokkaido Consadole Sapporo by 5–2 after extra-time.[8] They lost againstShimizu S-Pulse in the third round.
First advancing to the Tohoku Soccer League in 2018, Iwaki FC earned promotion to the following year'sJFL for the first time in 2019. The club won the All Japan Regional Promotion Series.
Joining the Japan Football League for the 2020 season, in the 2021 season, Iwaki FC finished in first position in the JFL competition, earning promotion to the following year'sJ3 League.
In the 2022 season, their first year in the J3 League, Iwaki FC received aJ2 League license on 28 October 2022, and become eligible for promotion.[9] On 6 November, they were crowned the J3 League champions, earning promotion to the following year's J2 League. They secured the league title in the 32nd round, following a 3–0 win againstKagoshima United. Iwaki FC ended their 2022 season with 78 points from 34 matches. On 26 September 2023, Iwaki FC was declared to have met the requirements to obtain a license up to theJ1 League.[10]
Iwaki FC played atJ-Village Stadium inHirono during the2022 J3 season. However, following their promotion to theJ2 League, they now useHawaiians Stadium Iwaki, located inIwaki.
On 25 September 2025, Iwaki FC announce new stadium nameIwaki Stadium Labo. Construction has been start from November 2027 and complete in 2031.[11]
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| League | J. League Cup | Emperor's Cup | Shakaijin Cup | |||||||||||||
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| Season | Division | Tier | Teams | Pos. | P | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Attendance/G | |||
| 2013 | Fukushima Prefectural Football League (Div. 3 West)[12][13] | 8 | 6 | 2nd | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 30 | 13 | 17 | 18 | Not eligible | |||
| 2014 | 9 | 5 | 3rd | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 17 | 15 | 2 | 10 | |||||
| 2015 | Fukushima Prefectural Football League (Div. 3 East)[14] | 6 | 1st | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 41 | 9 | 32 | 30 | |||||
| 2016 | Fukushima Prefectural Football League (Div. 2)[15] | 8 | 6 | 1st | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 1 | 92 | 30 | Did not qualify | Quarter final | ||
| 2017 | Fukushima Prefectural Football League (Div. 1)[16] | 7 | 6 | 1st | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 93 | 0 | 93 | 30 | 3rd round | 2nd round | ||
| 2018 | Tohoku Soccer League (Div. 2 South) | 6 | 10 | 1st | 18 | 18 | 0 | 0 | 139 | 12 | 127 | 54 | 1st round | 3rd | ||
| 2019 | Tohoku Soccer League (Div. 1) | 5 | 10 | 1st | 18 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 82 | 14 | 68 | 48 | 1st round | 3rd | ||
| 2020 | Japan Football League | 4 | 16 | 7th | 15 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 21 | 1,125 | 2nd round | Not eligible | |
| 2021 | 17 | 1st | 32 | 21 | 8 | 3 | 65 | 28 | 37 | 71 | 1,130 | 1st round | ||||
| 2022 | J3 League | 3 | 18 | 1st | 34 | 23 | 7 | 4 | 72 | 23 | 49 | 76 | 2,174 | Did not qualify | ||
| 2023 | J2 League | 2 | 22 | 18th | 42 | 12 | 11 | 19 | 45 | 69 | -24 | 47 | 3,490 | 2nd round | ||
| 2024 | 20 | 9th | 38 | 15 | 9 | 14 | 53 | 41 | 12 | 54 | 4,290 | 2nd round | 3rd round | |||
| 2025 | 20 | 9th | 38 | 15 | 11 | 12 | 55 | 44 | 11 | 56 | 4,371 | 1st round | 2nd round | |||
| 2026 | 10 | TBD | 18 | N/A | ||||||||||||
| 2026–27 | 20 | TBD | 38 | TBD | TBD | |||||||||||
| Honour | No. | Years |
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| Fukushima Prefectural Adult Soccer League Division 3 East Block | 1 | 2015 |
| National Club Team Football Championship Tournament | 2 | 2016, 2017 |
| Fukushima Prefecture Adult Soccer League Division 2 | 1 | 2016 |
| Fukushima Prefecture Adult Soccer League Division 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Fukushima Prefectural Football Championship Emperor's Cup Fukushima Prefectural Qualifiers | 4 | 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021 |
| Tohoku Adult Soccer League Division 2 South | 1 | 2018 |
| Tohoku Adult Soccer League Division 1 | 1 | 2019 |
| Japanese Regional Football Champions League | 1 | 2019 |
| Japan Football League JFL | 1 | 2021 |
| J3 League | 1 | 2022 |
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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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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| Position | Name |
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| Manager |  Yuzo Tamura |
| Assistant manager | Ryo Kobayashi |
| First-team coach | Takumi Watanabe |
| Goalkeeper coach | Jiro Takeda |
| Sprint coach | Shingo Akimoto |
| Strenght and conditioning coach | Tsubasa Hisanaga Kazuhiko Tomooka |
| Athletic trainer | Atsushi Hokari Tsubasa Hisanaga |
| Analyst | Yuta Murakami |
| Doctor | Yoshifumi Fukushima Yoshitomo Saita Nanako Yamamoto |
| Medical officer | Hidenori Izawa |
| Physiotherapist | Daiki Iwadate |
| Trainer | Kodai Harada Shunichiro Saito |
| Interpreter |  Lim Seung-geon |
| Manager | Nationality | Tenure | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Start | Finish | ||
| Pieter Huistra |  Netherlands | 13 January 2016 | 31 December 2016 |
| Yuzo Tamura | Japan | 1 February 2017 | 31 January 2021 |
| Hiromasa Suguri | Japan | 1 February 2022 | 14 June 2023 |
| Yuzo Tamura | Japan | 15 June 2023 | present |
| Home kit - 1st | ||||
          2017 |     2018 |      2019 |     2020 |     2021 |
    2022 |      2023 |  2024 |    2025 - | |
| Away kit - 2nd | ||||
     2017 |     2018 |     2019 |    2020 |      2021 |
    2022 |      2023 |    2024 |    2025 - | |
| Third / special kits | ||||
     2023 Limited |    2024 Limited | |||