However, many Flügels fans refused to support the new combined effort and created their own club, Yokohama FC.

For a time they were billed as Yokohama TriStar SC, but the aftermath of the Lockheed-ANA bribery scandal ensured that ANA stuck to their own name as they were pushing for promotion to the Japan Soccer League from the regional Kanto Football League in the early 1980s.

However, instead of simply dissolving the club or finding another investor, ANA, the team's other chief sponsor, met with Nissan Motors, the primary sponsor of crosstown rivals Yokohama Marinos, and announced that the two Yokohama clubs would merge, with Flügels players joining the Marinos.

Flügels were the second club to withdraw from the Japanese top flight and fold and the first since 1976, when Eidai Industries from Yamaguchi Prefecture was closed down by its parent company due to rising costs of maintaining a top-flight team.

The Flugels' anthem was a remix and relyricing of the song Victory by Japanese rock band The Alfee.