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Burauburittsu Akita is a Japanese professional association football team based in Akita, capital of Akita Prefecture. The club currently play in the J2 League, Japanese second tier of professional football league. Due to the club's former ownership by TDK and thus formerly known as the TDK S.C. (JaWiki), most of the players were employees of TDK's Akita factory.
In 2006, they won the Tohoku Regional League championship for the fifth straight year. They were automatically promoted to the Japan Football League after they won the National Regional League Playoffs.
The team has announced that it would separate from its parent company and join the J. League if the club's final yearly standing should ever allow promotion.
In May, 2009, TDK announced that the football club will become independent for the 2010 season and be based around Akita. Later in 2010 the club's name was changed to "Blaublitz Akita". Blau and Blitz mean blue and lightning in German language respectively.
In 2014 they entered the J3 League after previously playing in the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese association football league system until promotion to J2 in 2020.
The club moved to Akita City and entered the J3 League for the 2014 season. The club finished 8th in each of its first two years in the professional competition. In the 2017 season, their fourth, they won the title, however due to their lacking a license to play upper-tier football, they were not promoted, becoming the first professional third-tier champion not to be promoted. However, Akita acquired the J2 license on September 27, 2018, after which they won the title again in the 2020 season, returning to the second tier for the first time in 34 years.
| Champions | Runners-up | Third place | Promoted | Relegated |
| TDK | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1983 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1984 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 1985 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1986 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1987 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 1988 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 1989 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 1990 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1991 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1992 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1993 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1994 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1995 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1996 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 1997 | - | |||||||||||||
| 1998 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 1999 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2001 | - | |||||||||||||
| 2002 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2006 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2007 | 4th round | |||||||||||||
| 2008 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2009 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| Blaublitz Akita | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2011 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2013 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2014 | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2017 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2018 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2019 | 1st round | |||||||||||||
| 2020 † | Semi Final | |||||||||||||
| 2021 | ||||||||||||||
| 2022 | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2nd round | |||||||||||||
| 2025 | TBD | |||||||||||||
| +Blaublitz Akita Honours !scope=col | Years | ||
!scope=row | Tohoku Soccer League | 11 | 1982, 1983, 1984, 1988, 1989, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 (shared with Grulla Morioka), 2006 |
| Manager | Ken Yoshida |
| Assistant manager | Hirotaka Usui |
| First-team coach | Shota Sakagawa Masanori Tamo |
| Goalkeeper coach | Hirohito Ito |
| Analytical coach | Haruki Sasaki |
| Chief trainer | Yuta Kobayashi |
| Trainer | Kaichi Hiraoka Ryota Kanagaya |
| Competent | Taichi Matsuda |
| Side affairs | Hiromasa Nishizawa |
| ? Archived copy |
| 31 January 1998 |
| 31 January 2007 |
| 31 January 2009 |
| 31 January 2011 |
| 31 January 2013 |
| 31 January 2014 |
| 31 January 2016 |
| 11 July 2018 |
| 31 January 2019 |
| Current |
| Akira Sasaki | JSL Era | |||
| 7 | Satoshi Sato | |||
| 17 | Moriyasu Saito | |||
| 4 | Masatoshi Ozawa | 2007–2009 | ||
| 18 | Satoshi Yokoyama | 2010 | ||
| 2 | Hiroyuki Kobayashi | 2011 | ||
| 10 | Masatoshi Matsuda | 2012-2013 | ||
| 10 | Shingo Kumabayashi | 2014 | ||
| 4 | Toshio Shimakawa | 2015 | ||
| 24 | Naoyuki Yamada | 2016-2018 | ||
| 39 24 | Hiroki Kotani Naoyuki Yamada | 2019 | ||
| 24 | Naoyuki Yamada | 2020 | ||
| 9 | Ryota Nakamura | 2021 | ||
| 23 | Shuto Inaba | 2022 | ||
| 33 | Ryutaro Iio | 2023 | ||
| 6 | Hiroto Morooka | 2024- | ||
Kit evolution | class="wikitable collapsible collapsed" style="width:65%; border: double #005BAB" font-size:smaller; 4px 4px 4px #005BAB;" !colspan="5" | Home kits - 1st | ||
| Hirochika Miyoshi | 12 |
| Kyohei Maeyama | 10 |
| Tomohiro Tanaka | 8 |
| 2017 | 15 |
| Tomohiro Tanaka Ken Hisatomi | 6 |
| Ryota Nakamura | 11 |
| 2020 | 10 |
| Hayate Take | 7 |
| Ibuki Yoshida Shota Aoki | 5 |
| Keita Saito | 5 |
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