# Wyvern FC

WYVERN FC (ワイヴァン FC, Waivuan Efu Shi), known mononymously as wyvern, are a Japanese football club based in Kariya, Aichi. The club plays in the Tōkai Adult Soccer League 1st division.

## History

The club was founded on 2015 by Nobuo Nasu, starting to play from the District Leagues, as Wyvern FC. The club's name originates from a legendary two-leg winged dragon, the Wyvern, which appears in many different schools or athletic teams around the world as logos, or mascots. The club is said to accurately portray the aggressiveness of the dragons in their playing style, but in high spirits, as the team tends to show energetic and many goal-scoring displays.
The club played from 2015 to 2017 at the West Mikawa District League, before earning promotion for the Aichi Prefectural League. Back-to-back promotions from the 3rd to the 1st division of the prefecture saw them quickly win promotion to the Regional Leagues. In the meantime, the club won the Kariya Prefectural Cup on 2019, while being a 2nd division club at the prefecture league system.
Starting from the 2nd regional division on 2021, their campaign was cut short by the season cancellation, after COVID-19 forced multiple match postponements during the season. As the Japanese football could resume for the first time in three year under the reduced COVID-19 threat, the club was able to make an nearly unbeaten run in the two major competitions the club played in. At the 2022, they won 46 out of 48 possible points, having won their first 14 consecutive matches during the league season, having only failed to win a match on the penultimate league round against Nagoya SC in a 1–1 draw. Nevertheless, with a 12-point gap off the runners-up, the club became 2nd division champions, and then were promoted to the 1st division. Wyvern came close to win the 2022 edition of the Kariya Prefectural Cup, having lost the final on penalty shoot-outs against FC Kariya.

## Stadiums

They use four different facilities to train. UB Kariya Highway Soccer/Futsal Field (Toyota); UB Tokai Futsal Club (Toyota); Minato Aquilles UB Futsal Field (Nagoya); and UB Creative Base (Kariya).
During the 2022 season, however, the club used two different venues to host their home matches at the Tokai Soccer League 2nd Division: Nagoya Minato Stadium (Nagoya) and Green Ground Kariya (Kariya).

## League and cup record

| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | League | Emperor's Cup | Shakaijin Cup |
| Season | Division | Tier | Pos. | GP | W | D | L | F | A | GD | Pts | Emperor's Cup | Shakaijin Cup |
| 2015 | West Mikawa Soccer League Div.2 | 11 | 1st | 12 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 64 | 9 | 55 | 31 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2016 | West Mikawa Soccer League Div.1 | 10 | | | | | | | | | | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2017 | West Mikawa Soccer League Div.1 | 10 | 1st | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 67 | 21 | 46 | 33 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2018 | Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Div. 3 | 9 | 1st | 12 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 8 | 73 | 36 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2019 | Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Div. 2 | 8 | 1st | 16 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 16 | 38 | 48 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2020 | Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Div. 1 | 7 | 1st | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 7 | 16 | 19 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2021 | Tōkai Adult Soccer League Div. 2 | 6 | 2nd | 7 | 6 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | 10 | 18 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2022 | Tōkai Adult Soccer League Div. 2 | 6 | 1st | 16 | 15 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 6 | 79 | 46 | Did not qualify | Did not qualify |
| 2023 | Tōkai Adult Soccer League Div. 1 | 5 | 1st | 14 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 34 | 8 | 26 | 34 | Did not qualify | Round of 16 |
| 2024 | Tōkai Adult Soccer League Div. 1 | 5 | 3rd | 14 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 6 | 25 | Did not qualify | |
| 2025 | Tōkai Adult Soccer League Div. 1 | 5 | TBA | 14 | | | | | | | | Did not qualify | |
* Source: WYVERN Game Record

### Key

* Pos. = Position in league; GP = Games played; W = Games won; D = Games drawn; L = Games lost; F = Goals scored; A = Goals conceded; GD = Goals difference; Pts = Points gained
* ↑ Respecting COVID-19 safety guidelines, the Tokai FA decided the 2021 season to be cancelled, as many matches needed to be postponed

## Honours

Wyvern FC honours :
| Honour | No. | Years |
| West Mikawa Soccer League Division 2 | 1 | 2015 |
| Aichi Prefectural Soccer Tournament Preliminaries | 1 | 2016 |
| West Mikawa Soccer League Division 1 | 1 | 2017 |
| Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Division 3 | 1 | 2018 |
| Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Division 2 | 1 | 2019 |
| Kariya Prefectural Soccer Tournament | 1 | 2019 |
| Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Division 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Tōkai Adult Soccer League Division 2 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tōkai Adult Soccer League Division 1 | 1 | 2023 |

## Current squad

    As of 23 August 2023.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | JPN | Satoshi Tokizawa |
| 2 | DF | JPN | Riku Arai |
| 3 | DF | JPN | Sho Nakamura |
| 4 | MF | JPN | Shinnosuke Okada |
| 5 | DF | JPN | Shohei Hasegawa |
| 6 | MF | JPN | Sho Aoki |
| 7 | FW | JPN | Daiki Yamamoto |
| 8 | MF | JPN | Hiroki Sekido |
| 9 | MF | JPN | Masahi Sakai |
| 10 | FW | JPN | Yusei Fukushima |
| 11 | FW | BRA | Leozinho |
| 12 | GK | BRA | Vinícius Gobetti |
| 14 | DF | JPN | Eishiro Kanda |
| 15 | FW | JPN | Takafumi Shimizu |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 16 | GK | JPN | Ryo Ishii |
| 17 | MF | JPN | Yuta Tamura |
| 18 | FW | JPN | Tatsuki Hamada |
| 20 | MF | JPN | Shoma Nagata |
| 22 | MF | JPN | Kei Ito |
| 23 | FW | JPN | Itsuki Nishihara |
| 24 | DF | JPN | Daichi Matsubara |
| 25 | MF | JPN | Yusuke Taniguchi |
| 26 | DF | JPN | Ren Kano |
| 32 | GK | JPN | Hiroyuki Tsuchiya |
| 33 | MF | JPN | Kota Kato |
| 34 | DF | JPN | Hiroto Matsubara |
| 35 | FW | JPN | Tomohiro Tsuda |

## Club officials

| Position | Name |
| Manager | Shinnosuke Okada |
| VID | Noriyuki Yamashita |
| Strengthening manager | Kiyoshi Masuda |
| Academy director | Tetsuya Asano |
| Academy coach | Masashi Sakai |
| Staff | Seiichi Ogawa |
| U-15 manager and Junior Youth supervisor | Atsuya Tanizawa |
| First-team coach | Atsushi Miyazaki |
| Doctor | Daisuke Takano |
| Trainer | Kazue Hozumi |

## Managerial history

    As of 1 September 2021
| Manager | Nationality | Tenure | Tenure |
| Manager | Nationality | Start | Finish |
| Seiichi Ogawa | Japan | 1 September 2021 | present |