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Alvark Tokyo

Professional basketball team in Tokyo, Japan

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ7830743
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Alvark Tokyo is a Japanese professional basketball team based in Tokyo. The team, which is sponsored by Toyota, competes in the B.League Premier, the highest division of the B.League, as a member of the Eastern Conference. As of 2025, the team plays its home games at Toyota Arena Tokyo in Aomi, Kōtō Ward, which they share with the Tokyo Sun Rockers.

Founded as the 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.

As of 2020, the team has been the reigning back-to-back champion of the B.League, Japan's top basketball league.

Honors

Domestic

B.League

Champions (2): 2018, 2019

National Basketball League

Runner-up (1): 2015

Japan Basketball League

Champions (1): 2011

JBL Super League

Champions (3): 2001, 2005, 2006

Runner-up (1): 2002

3rd place (1): 2004

Japan League Division I

Runner-up (1): 1996

3rd place (1): 1991

Continental

FIBA Asia Champions Cup

Champions (1): 2019

Runner-up (1): 2018

Players

Current roster

Depth chart

Notable players

Head coaches

Practice facilities

They have their own gymnasium, Toyota Motors Fuchu Sports Center in Kitayamacho, Fuchu, Tokyo.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2025, 1948, 2006, 2007—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2016-06-01. The account is most persuasive where Alvark, Tokyo and Professional can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from Alvark Tokyo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.