commonly known as SRC Hiroshima (SRC広島, ''Esu Eru Shi Hiroshima'') is a football (soccer) club based in

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, which is located in

Hiroshima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama ...

in Japan. They play in the

Chūgoku Soccer League is the Japanese fifth tier of league football, which is part of the Japanese Regional Leagues. It covers the five prefectures of the Chūgoku region; Tottori, Shimane, Okayama, Hiroshima and Yamaguchi. It is one of the nine Japanese Regional ...

, which is part of

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History

The club was founded in 1953 as a teachers' association club (similar to

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and

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). SRC Hiroshima has been a key-member of Chugoku Soccer League, since they've been a part of this regional league from 1973. They have been relegated to Hiroshima Prefectural League three times, but they have also been promoted back as many times to play again in the actual 5th level of Japanese football. They featured four times in the

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: first in 1996, then again in 2014, 2016 and mostly

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, when SRC reached 2nd round. In 2016, SRC Hiroshima also won Chugoku Soccer League for the first time. In 2019, they won it for the second time. In 2020, they played an alternative championship (CSL Championship) following the cancelation of the

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, in which they were crowned with the title after beating Baleine Shimonoseki by the score of 2-0 in the final.

League record

;Key

Honours

;

* Champions (2):

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;CSL Championship * Champions (1): 2020

Current squad

References

External links

Official Site

Official Facebook PageOfficial Twitter Account
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