Fukuyama City FC

The club won back-to-back promotions with high-scoring matches, alongside an unbeaten streak that started on their foundation, on 2017, only being broken on 2022.

They played in the 2020 Emperor's Cup, where they won four matches to arrive at the quarter-finals.

If they had won or finished runners up in the tournament they would have been directly promoted to the 2023 Japan Football League.

Promotion to the JFL would have helped to potentially fulfill their goal of joining the J3 League by 2024.

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