Tokyo Shukyu-Dan

Japanese football club

Football club

Tokyo Shukyu-Dan
東京蹴球団

Full name

Tokyo Shukyu-Dan

Nickname(s)

Tōshū

Founded

1917

League

Tokyo Shakaijin League Div. 1

2022

10th

Home colours

Away colours

Tokyo Shukyu-Dan (東京蹴球団, Tōkyō Shūkyū Dan, lit. "Tokyo Soccer Club") is a Japanese football club based in Tokyo.

It is the oldest Japanese football club, founded in 1917, and it was the first to win the Emperor's Cup, the top national cup in Japan. Very much like Sheffield F.C. in England or Queen's Park F.C. in Scotland, its staunch amateur ideals forced it by the wayside as company clubs, and later fully professionalized clubs, took over the game.

The club now participates in the Tokyo Shakaijin League Division 1, seventh level of the Japanese football league system, since its founding in 1967. It earned second place in 1978 and 1983. Its farm team, Tōshū club also participates in the prefectural league.