Tanabe Mitsubishi Pharmaceutical Soccer Club was a Japanese

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club based in

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that belonged to

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. The club played in

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(Japanese former top division) for one season in

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. It last played in the Osaka Prefectural Leagues. Tanabe Pharmaceutical co-founded both the second tier ( 1972 Japan Soccer League Second Division) and third tier ( 1992 Japan Football League Division Two) of Japanese football with neighbors

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and

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. However, unlike them, they never became a

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club nor won the

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, though they came close in

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- the first finalist from the second tier.

Club name

*1927–1943: Tanabe Gohee Shoten S.C. *1943–2006: Tanabe Pharmaceutical S.C. *2007–2018: Tanabe Mitsubishi Pharma S.C.

Honours

League titles

* JSL Division 2 **Champions (1):

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**Runners-up (1):

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Kansai Soccer League is the Japanese fifth tier of league football, which is part of the Japanese Regional Leagues. It covers most of the Kansai region, as well as the prefectures of Hyōgo, Kyōto, Nara, Osaka, Shiga and Wakayama. Mie, usually considered part of ...

**Champions (2): 1970, 1993 **Runners-up (2): 1971, 1996

Cups

**Runners-up (1):

*All Japan Works Football Championship **Winners (7): 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1957 **Runners-up (2): 1948, 1956

External links

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