WYVERN FC (ワイヴァン FC, Waivuan Efu Shi), known mononymously as wyvern, are a Japanese football club based in Kariya, Aichi. From 2023, the club will be playing 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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3] Wyvern came close to win the 2022 edition of the Kariya Prefectural Cup, having lost the final on penalty shoot-outs against FC Kariya.^[4]

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

• 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

Honours

• League
  • Tōkai Adult Soccer League Division 2
    • Champions: 2022
  • Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Division 1
    • Champions: 2020
  • Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Division 2
    • Champions: 2019
  • Aichi Prefectural Soccer League Division 3
    • Champions: 2018
  • West Mikawa Soccer League Division 1
    • Champions: 2017
  • West Mikawa Soccer League Division 2
    • Champions: 2015

• Cup
  • Kariya Prefectural Soccer Tournament
    • Champions: 2019
  • Aichi Prefectural Soccer Tournament Preliminaries
    • Champions: 2016

Current squad

As of 23 August 2023. ^[5]

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. 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	Seiichi Ogawa
Assistant Manager	Tetsuya Asano
First-Team Coach	Shuichi Mase
Goalkeeper Coach	Shinnosuke Okada
Sprint Coach	Masashi Sakai
Analyst	Atsuya Tanizawa
Strength Advisor	Noriyuki Yamashita
Doctor	Daisuke Takano
Physiotherapist	Shogo Egashira
Athletic trainer	Kiyoshi Masuda
Reinforcement Department Sports Director	TBA TBA
Academy advisor	TBA

Managerial history

As of 1 September 2021

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

References

External links

• Official Website (in Japanese)