Missing HGC status for some players

Hey there, thanks for the info. just to double check, did any of those players join those teams from high schools or other institutions before joining once they turned 18+. If so then the game would recognize those prior clubs as the HGC clubs, although like you said it should cover J League players, it would have to be something manually added. I am not the expert in competition rule sets so I will let the staff check this one. 

No, they all have FC Tokyo or FC Tokyo U23 as the first club in their club history and spent at least three seasons there before moving to any other team.

have they spent 3 years at least with FC Tokyo, in game the U23 team was set as a separate team with affiliation so that would be why that specific instance would not be HGC

No, each player has spent less than 3 seasons at FC Tokyo while U21, but three or more if you include FC Tokyo U23. Players who have spent three or more seasons at FC Tokyo proper correctly register as HGC. But it seemed like an oversight that these players don't have manually set HGC status or something like that because it was just a reserve team from what I can see from quick googling, unless that's genuinely how it works IRL

yep, that would explain whats gone on since its the game that automatically applies HGC based on playing history. I will wait to see if one of the staff can have a look as it is not my area of expertise here