List of Hiroshima Toyo Carp seasons

The Hiroshima Toyo Carp are a professional baseball team based in Hiroshima, Japan. The team have played in the Central League of Nippon Professional Baseball since they were first formed in 1950 (after being founded in December 1949) as the Hiroshima Carp that has become in some circles a symbol of the "post-war reconstruction" of the city, which had been the target of the first atomic bombing.^[1][2] The team struggled in the first decade of play, with the first season over .500 not coming until 1960. In 1968, Toyo Kogyo became the chief sponsor of the team that saw their name inserted in the team name. The Matsuda family primarily owns the team, making the Carp the only NPB team to be privately owned.^[3]

In 76 seasons, they have won the Japan Series three times (1979, 1980, 1984) while winning the league pennant nine times. In the Climax Series era since 2007, they have reached the playoffs six times, recently doing so in 2023. They have the longest Japan Series championship drought as currently the only NPB team to not win the championship in the 21st century; the 41-year drought is the 4th longest in league history.