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History

The club was formed in 1946 under its parent company's then-official English name ''Toyoda Automatic Loom Works'', and co-founded the original

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(JSL) in

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(''"Original Eight"''). In the first three seasons of the league the club struggled and was relegated in

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when it lost a promotion/relegation series to neighbors and also JSL co-founders Nagoya Mutual Bank, who had been relegated themselves the year before and were looking to get back into the top division again. Thus, Toyota ALW took their place in the

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Regional League. In

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the club was given a second chance at national league stardom by co-founding the JSL's new Second Division, but finished in bottom place and was saved from relegation by the fact that the JSL was expanding to increase the First Division's size to 10. The following season they stumbled again despite finishing in 9th place and lost another promotion/relegation series, this time to Hitachi Ibaraki, a sister and de facto reserve club to the main Hitachi club at the time based in Tokyo. The 1972 season was also shared with neighbor and sister club

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, which was promoted as champion and eventually became known as

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. Since then the Toyoda ALW club has been going back and forth between the Tōkai Regional League and the

Prefectural League, with their most recent Tōkai stint coming from promotion into the former's Division 2 in 2003 and ending with relegation to the prefectural division in 2005.

Club Name

*1946–2000: Toyoda Automatic Loom Works SC *2001–present: Toyota Industries SC

League history

Honours

Titles

*Aichi Prefectural League: 4 :1986, 1991, 2003, 2013.

Notes

External links

Official Blog
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