Yokohama FC

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Yokohama
横浜

Full name	Yokohama Football Club
Nickname(s)	Fulie
Founded	25 December 1998; 25 years ago (25 December 1998)
Ground	Mitsuzawa Stadium Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama
Capacity	15,046
Chairman	Yuji Onodera
Manager	Shuhei Yomoda
League	J2 League
2023	J1 League, 18th of 18 (relegated)
Website	http://www.yokohamafc.com/
Home colours Away colours
Current season

Yokohama Football Club (横浜FC, Yokohama Efushī) is a Japanese professional football club based in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, part of the Greater Tokyo Area. The club was formed by fans of Yokohama Flügels as a protest against Flügels' merger with Yokohama Marinos in 1999, becoming the first supporter-owned professional sports team in Japan.^[1] They currently play in the J2 League, the second tier of football in the country, after relegation from J1 League in 2023.

Since gaining J.League membership in 2001, Yokohama spent considerable time in the second tier of the Japanese football league system. The club gained promotion to J.League Division 1 for the 2007 season after winning the Division 2 title. However, YFC were immediately relegated in the following season. After 12 years in the J2 League, they returned to Japan's top tier, now called J1 League, for the 2020 season. The team finished 15th in its first season back in the top flight. But history would repeat itself in 2021, as they were relegated to J2 after finishing the season as J1's last-place team. The club was promoted again to J1 in 2022, their third stint in the first division, only to be relegated again to the second tier in 2024.