FC Tokyo issued a warning to fans and supporters on its official website after confirming multiple incidents of misconduct, including social media abuse directed at specific players and insulting chant parodies referencing the names of companies and organizations. On 5ch, reactions were split — some mocked the statement’s weak phrasing (“please refrain from this, absolutely”), while others compared the situation to chant culture in other sports and at other clubs.
August 25, 2026, 13:18 | Soccer
Sports Nippon (Sponichi Annex) Reporting Team
FC Tokyo updated its official website on the 25th, calling on fans and supporters to exercise caution after confirming multiple problematic incidents, including social media slander targeting specific players and insulting chant parodies that include the names of specific companies and organizations.
Is calling them "Gasu" (a dig referencing former sponsor Tokyo Gas) actually an insult? (´・ω・`)
3AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:40
Insulting the other team is part of soccer culture too, no?
4AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:41
So that puts them on the same level as Hanshin Tigers fans. That's pretty embarrassing.
9AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:42
Expecting soccer fans to have any decorum… good luck with that.
11AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:43
The only thing they've got over Machida is the stadium and how easy it is to reach.
14AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:45
"Please stop"? Come on, that's not gonna cut it (lol)
15AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:46
I went to the Tokyo Derby for the grand opening of Ajinomoto Stadium, and FC Tokyo's ultras behind the goal spent the whole game chanting "Verdy Kawasaki" at Tokyo Verdy. Never went back since.
16AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:46
The Premier League is nothing but trash talk, and the J.League's still playing house like this?
17AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:47
The pitcher's shaking in his boots lol. Hey hey hey lol
18AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:47
Guess we'll start seeing some FC Tokyo supporters flip into anti-fans over this, like that "buchikurase" ("smash 'em") chant controversy with Giravanz Kitakyushu.
19AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:48
To the tune of the Triumphal March from Aida: "Oh-oh, we're just country bumpkins from Tokyo, ohhh, ohhhhhh~"
28AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:52
Guess this kind of culture exists in both baseball and soccer.
32AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:53
30 years ago they were singing at Kazu (Miura Kazuyoshi), "That King who doesn't move anymore~" (a parody of the 'Grandfather's Clock' lyrics)
37AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:55
He's still moving though
44AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:59
He's still moving lol
59AnonymousAug 25, 2026 19:03
That wasn't about Kazu, it was about Takeda.
33AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:53
The Trash-uri Giants are eternally filthy!" (a pun mocking "Yomiuri" as sounding like "garbage-seller," parodying Nagashima's famous "eternally undying" line)
38AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:56
The fact that Ueda Asahi was in on this from the start tells you exactly what kind of crowd thinks trashing other teams counts as supporting your own.
83AnonymousAug 25, 2026 19:20
Bandwagon supporters, plain and simple.
41AnonymousAug 25, 2026 18:57
Didn't realize soccer crowds boo during the away team's player introductions. Went to a match for the first time in a while recently and it caught me off guard.
60AnonymousAug 25, 2026 19:04
Probably a player who transferred out, right? Happens in baseball too — booing a guy who left via free agency.
69AnonymousAug 25, 2026 19:10
Yeah, stuff like that happens — like when Marinos supporters set off a flare during the Yokohama derby and it hit a food truck.
71AnonymousAug 25, 2026 19:11
The "death yakisoba" incident at the Kashiwa match was awful too (a notorious food-related scandal).
107AnonymousAug 25, 2026 19:30
Everyone's forgotten Verdy used to be the Yomiuri club, and yet these soccer fans still can't update their mental database. The boomer mentality is off the charts.
108AnonymousAug 25, 2026 19:31
The fact that this kind of thing runs rampant shows the fanbase skews pretty narrow. And tolerating this vibe just makes it feel like an insular little village culture.
Background and Key Points
FC Tokyo is one of J.League’s Tokyo-based clubs, playing out of Ajinomoto Stadium in Chofu; the warning notice cited both online abuse of individual players and chant parodies mocking the names of sponsor/rival-linked companies and organizations. The “Gasu” jab referenced in the thread traces to Tokyo Gas, a former major sponsor, and reflects a long-running strain of parody chants aimed at rivals like Tokyo Verdy and Machida Zelvia — the “Verdy Kawasaki” taunt one poster describes dates back to Verdy’s own franchise history, when the club was known as Yomiuri/Verdy Kawasaki before relocating to Tokyo, a piece of trivia several posters flagged as widely forgotten by younger fans. J.League clubs, like most Japanese pro sports organizations, tend to issue soft, formally-worded appeals rather than concrete sanctions when addressing fan misconduct, which is what triggered the mockery in the thread.
The split wasn’t over whether the incidents happened, but over whether insulting chants are a legitimate part of soccer support culture or a genuine problem — several posters argued that rivalry-based trash talk is standard practice worldwide (invoking the Premier League) and even in Japanese baseball fandom, while others said normalizing it just breeds insular, “village-like” fan culture and open animosity, comparing it unfavorably to Hanshin Tigers baseball fans, long stereotyped as Japan’s rowdiest.
What’s easy to miss is that this notice names companies and organizations, not just individuals — meaning FC Tokyo is likely responding to potential defamation or corporate-sponsor liability exposure, not simply hurt feelings, which is a harder-edged legal concern than the thread’s joking tone suggests.
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