Naniwa FC

Manga

For other uses, see Naniwa (disambiguation).

Naniwa FC (難波FC) is an elementary school football team that appeared in the Captain Tsubasa manga series.

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Naniwa FC is an elementary school team from Namba, Osaka.

Naniwa FC was a team playing in the 6th All-Japan Boys' Football Tournament. They made it to the knockout stage, but then lost to Nankatsu SC 1-5.

Home: Blue shirt with round neck and the "N.F.C." logo, pale blue shorts and pale blue socks.
Keeper: Pale blue shirt with white collar, blue top half and shoulders, and the "N.F.C." logo, blue shorts and pale blue socks.

Naniwa FC qualified to the knockout stage by being 1st of their group with 5 victories and no goals taken.

No.	Pos.	Player
1	GK	Taichi Nakanishi
2	DF	Yohei Maeda^[1]
3	DF	Yamashiro^[2]
4	DF	Tonoike^[3]
5	DF	Yamashita^[4]
6	MF	Tanaka^[5]
7	MF	Ryo Shirai^[6]
8^[7]	MF	Yuta Ogami^[8]
9^[9]	MF	Kohei Takayanagi^[10]
10	FW	Uchida^[11]
11	FW	Tetsuya Marui^[12]

The team is known as "Norfolk" in Spain and Italy, "North Ford" in France and "Colegio Irlandés" ("Irish School") in Latin America.