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Alvark Tokyo

{{Short description|Professional basketball team in Tokyo, Japan}}

{{Infobox Basketball club

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| name = Alvark Tokyo

| logo = Alvark Tokyo logo.png

| leagues = B.League

| founded = {{Start date and age|1948}}

| history = Toyota Pacers
1948–2000
Toyota Alvark
2000–2016
Alvark Tokyo
2016–present

| arena = Arena Tachikawa Tachihi
Komazawa Gymnasium

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| president =

| coach = Dainius Adomaitis

| championships = 3 JBL Super League
1 Japan Basketball League
2 B.League
1 FIBA Asia Champions Cup

| website

= https://www.alvark-tokyo.jp/

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Alvark Tokyo is a Japanese professional basketball team located in Tokyo. The team, which is sponsored by Toyota, currently plays in the Japanese B.League. Until 2000, the team was known as the Toyota Pacers. Founded as Toyota Pacers in 1948, the club won two consecutive JBL Super League league titles in 2006 and 2007.

In July 2015, it was announced that the team would compete in the first division of the new Japan Professional Basketball League, which commenced from October 2016.{{cite web|url=http://www.storks.jp/2015.07.30/press/18364/ |title=JPBLの「1部～3部階層分け発表記者会見」について |trans-title=Regarding the JPBL's "Division 1-3 Assignment Press Conference" |language=ja |publisher=Nishinomiya Storks |date=30 July 2015 |access-date=11 August 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304091026/http://www.storks.jp/2015.07.30/press/18364/ |archive-date=4 March 2016 }}

As of 2020, the team has been the reigning back-to-back champion of the B.League, Japan's top basketball league.Kaz Nagatsuka (12 May 2020). [https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2020/05/12/basketball/b-league/daiki-tanaka-named-b-league-mvp/ "Daiki Tanaka named B. League MVP"]. The Japan Times. Accessed 25 May 2020.

Honours

=Domestic=

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=Continental=

Players

=Current roster=

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{{player3 | num =0 | nat = JPN | name = Ryoma Hashimoto | pos = G | m=1.78 | year=1988 | month=5 | date=11 }}

{{player3 | num =1 | nat = JPN | name = Hiryu Okamoto | pos = G | m=1.70 | year=1993 | month=4 | date=20 |link=:ja:岡本飛竜}}

{{player3 | num =3 | nat = JPN | name = Kai Toews | pos = PG | m=1.88 | year=1998 | month=9 | date=17}}

{{player3 | num =8 | nat = JPN | name = Hirotaka Yoshii | pos = F | m=1.96 | year=1998 | month=6 | date=4 |link=:ja:吉井裕鷹}}

{{player3 | num =9 | nat = JPN | name = Shuto Ando | pos = G | m=1.90 | year=1994 | month=6 | date=13 }}

{{player3 | num =10 | nat = USA | name = Zack Baranski | pos = F | m=1.93 | year=1992 | month=12 | date=18 }}

{{player3 | num =11 | nat = ESP | name = Sebas Saiz | pos = FC | m=2.05 | year=1994 | month=7 | date=5 }}

{{player3 | num =21 | nat = JPN | name = Gen Hiraiwa | pos = C | m=2.00 | year=1997 | month=12 | date=5 |link=:ja:平岩玄}}

{{player3 | num =22 | nat = JPN | name = Ryan Rossiter | pos = FC | m=2.06 | year=1989 | month=9 | date=14 }}

{{player3 | num =23 | nat = BRA | name = Léonardo Meindl | pos = SF | m=2.01 | year=1993 | month=5 | date=20 }}

{{player3 | num =25 | nat = JPN | name = Kohei Fukuzawa | pos = G | m=1.77 | year=1993 | month=4 | date=2 |link=:ja:福澤晃平}}

{{player3 | num =75 | nat = JPN | name = Taiki Osakabe | pos = G | m=1.87 | year=1998 | month=7 | date=15 |link=:ja:小酒部泰暉}}

{{player3 | num =77 | nat = LIT | name = Artūras Gudaitis | pos = C | m=2.08 | year=1993 | month=6 | date=19 }}

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| head_coach = *{{flagicon|LTU}} Dainius Adomaitis

| asst_coach = *{{flagicon|LAT}} Uvis Helmanis

| roster_url = https://www.alvark-tokyo.jp/roster/

| accessdate = August 2, 2023}}

Notable players

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Head coaches

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Practice facilities

File:Toyota Motors Fuchu Sports Center.png

They have their own gymnasium, [https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A8%E3%82%BF%E8%87%AA%E5%8B%95%E8%BB%8A%E5%BA%9C%E4%B8%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9D%E3%83%BC%E3%83%84%E3%82%BB%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC/@35.6887494,139.4587242,148m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x1e22508dc93b2d2f!8m2!3d35.688957!4d139.45902 Toyota Motors Fuchu Sports Center] in Kitayamacho, Fuchu, Tokyo.

References

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External links

{{Commons category|Toyota Alvark}}

  • {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20070930154739/http://basketpedya.com/Acc002InfEq.php?ideq=3154&idioma=1 Historical Finishes]}}
  • [http://www.asia-basket.com/team.asp?Cntry=JPN&Team=1707 Team Profile]

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{{Japanese B.League}}

{{East Asia Super League}}

Category:Basketball teams in Tokyo

Category:Basketball teams established in 1948

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Category:1948 establishments in Japan

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