توکیو وردی

Tokyo Verdy was founded in 1969 as the works team of the Yomiuri newspaper group and was the strongest side in Japan at the birth of the professional game, winning the Asian Club Championship in 1987 and the first two J.League titles in 1993 and 1994 as Verdy Kawasaki. It moved to Tokyo in 2001, has won five Emperor's Cups and three League Cups, and spent sixteen seasons in J2 before returning to the top flight in 2024. Ruy Ramos and Kazuyoshi Miura were the faces of the club in its dominant years.