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| December 1969 | Establishment of Central Sports Club; the sports club’s operations started. |
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| May 1970 |
Central Sports Club, Inc. was established in Hyakunin-cho. Shinjuku-ku. Tokyo. A swimming school opened in Suginami-ku, Tokyo. The School Department and the Outsourcing Department were established.
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| March 1977 | Head office located at Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo and sales offices in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture and Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo merged as the Headquarters and moved to Takara-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. |
| October 1977 | Governor of Tokyo Domestic Travel Industry Registration was acquired (Number 2152), and travel operations started. |
| August 1978 | Central Trade, Inc. (later Suncrea, Inc., which was merged with Central Sports in October 2004) was established in Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, and started its operation as the company’s Purchasing Department. |
| May 1979 | The trade name changed to Central Sports, Inc. |
| October 1979 | Central Facilities, Inc. (In January 2000 it was merged with the consolidated subsidiary Suncrea, Ind.) was established in Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, and started its facility management business. Suncrea, Inc.) was established in Kyobashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, and started its facility management business. |
| May 1980 | Kansai Headquarters (currently Ashiya office) was established in Higashiyodogawa-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture. |
| July 1981 | North Japan Sales Department (currently Sendai Office) was established in Futabagaoka, Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture. |
| April 1982 |
Central Sports Research Institute was established in Ainokawa, Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture.
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| October 1983 |
The Headquarters were transferred to Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo. |
| April 1984 | Top Athletes, Inc. was established as an outsourcing company in Higashi-shimbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo (for management operations outsourcing). |
| January 1986 | Responding to increasing corporate demands, the Fitness Operations Department (currently Health Support Department) started its operations as a corporate business department. The Fitness Operations Department’s activities continued as Academy Headquarters (currently Academy Division). |
| October 1986 | West Japan Sales Department (currently Ashiya office) was transferred to Funato-cho, Ashiya City, Hyogo Prefecture. |
| December 1986 |
Central Sports Diving Association (DACS = Diving Association of Central Sports) was established.  |
| April 1988 | Marine Sports Department (currently Leisure Operations Division) was newly established. |
| September 1988 |
Daichi Suzuki won Men’s 100m Backstroke gold medal at Seoul Olympics.  |
| March 1989 | North Japan Sales Division Headquarters was transferred to Chuo, Aoba-ku, Sendai City (currently Sendai office). |
| May 1991 | KG Central Sports (currently a consolidated subsidiary) was established in Chuo-ku, Sapporo City, Hokkaido. In November of the same year, KG Central Fitness Club Yamahana was established (currently for instruction operations outsourcing). |
| September 1991 | Central Sports U.S.A., Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) was established in Denver City, Colorado, the United States, with the aim of providing golf course management guidance. In November of the same year, Meridian Central, Inc. (currently a consolidated subsidiary) was established and, with the acquisition of Meridian Golf Club, started golf course management. |
| April 1993 | The Headquarters were transferred to Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. |
| May 1993 | Approved by the Ministry of Transport, Japan for registration of Travel Industry Type 1, (no. 1184). |
| June 1996 |
Tennozu Sports, Inc. was established in Higashi-shinagawa, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo. In October of the same year. Tennozu Sports Fitness Club (currently Central Fitness Club Tennozu) was established, for instruction operations outsourcing.  |
| April 1999 |
Central Wellness Club, the new-style club of the 21st century concerned with mental and physical health, was established. |
| June 1999 | For the first time in the fitness club industry, ISO009 was acquired. |
| January 2000 | The consolidated subsidiary Suncrea, Inc. and Central Facilities, Inc. merged. The trade name changed to Suncrea, Inc. |
| July 2000 | Acquisition of the whole business of the consolidated subsidiary Top Athletes, Inc. The clubs ran by the same company became tenant clubs. |
| November 2000 | Over-the-counter shares registration at Japan Security Dealers Association. |
| March 2002 | Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Market, Second Section. |
| November 2002 | North Japan Sales Department (currently Sendai office) was transferred to Showa-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai City. |
| October 2003 | Acquisition of all shares of Nankai Sports, Inc., the trade name changed to West Japan Central Sports, Inc. |
| March 2004 | Listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange Market, First Section. |
| August 2004 |
Four participants at the Athens Olympics; Hiroyuki Tomita, Takehiro Kashima, Tomomi Morita and Noriko Inada. A total of six gold, silver and bronze medals won.
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| October 2004 | Friendly merger with the consolidated subsidiary Suncrea, Inc. |
| December 2004 | Acquisition of the whole business of the consolidated subsidiary West Japan Central Sports, Inc. Obtained “Tokyo Governor Registration No. 50471” and registered the “First-class Architect’s Office”. |
| January 2005 | Obtained “First-class Architect Business Permit” (Tokyo Governor Approval (General-16) No. 123200). |
| March 2005 | Liquidation of one of the consolidated companies, West Japan Central Sports Co., Ltd. |
| November 2006 | Headquarters were transferred to 1-21-2, Shinkawa, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. |
| December 2006 | Invested in the United States sports club management company Wellbridge. |
| April 2007 | Acquisition of the whole business of the unconsolidated subsidiary Tennozu Sports, Inc. |
| August 2008 | Five participants at the Peking Olympics; Hiroyuki Tomita, Tekehiro Kashima, Tomomi Morita, Hanae Ito and Yasunori Mononobe. Won two men’s gymnastics team silver medals. |
| December 2012 | Security Business (No.30003793) was certified by the Tokyo Metropolitan Public Safety Commission. |
| January 2013 | Obtained License for General Worker Dispatching Undertakings (General 13-305242) from Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare. |
| August 2013 | Obtained all shares of Meiji Sports Plaza, Inc. and merged into Central Sports as a consolidated subsidiary. Overseas expedition to Hawaii for qualified children from the swimming school. |
| April 2014 | Seiji Goto named President and Representative Director. Tadaharu Goto appointed Chairman and Representative Director. |
| July 2015 | Concluded comprehensive agreement on cooperation with Juntendo University. |
| August 2016 | Miho Teramura, a swimmer, participated in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. |
