Public Service Announcement for Yokohama City

1st March 2023

This week’s edition is on ‘Yokohama Sports Partners’.

Did you know there are many sports teams here in Yokohama that are active across the country?

There’s the professional baseball team Yokohama DeNA Baystars, then the Men’s Football teams are Yokohama F Marinos, Yokohama FC, and YSCC, and in Women’s football, there’s Nittaidai SMG Yokohama and the Nippatsu Yokohama FC Seagulls. Then there’s the YSCC futsal team, and so many more!

In basketball, there’s the Yokohama B-Corsairs and Yokohama Excellence. In men’s rugby there’s the Yokohama Canon Eagles, while in women’s rugby there’s Yokohama TKM. Then there’s the Hitachi Sundiva team for softball and playing ice hockey, the Yokohama GRITS. In total, that’s 13 teams across 7 sports.

These 13 teams work with Yokohama City as ‘Yokohama Sports Partners’, beyond the boundaries of their chosen fields, to promote sports and revitalize communities by holding sports classes at local events and visiting schools to give lectures by athletes and team staff about the wonders of sports-related occupations.

The efforts of the ‘Yokohama Sports Partners’ such as projects in collaboration with each team and information provided by the teams are posted on the Yokohama City website and official Twitter, so please be sure to follow them!

In Yokohama, you can watch top sports teams play throughout the year.

Ice hockey and rugby are currently entering the final stages of their seasons, and the excitement reaches its climax toward the final games.

The soccer and baseball seasons are just about to begin.

Please come to the venues and watch the fierce rivalry of the teams.