Football Season Guide

Yokohama FC

In


Phelipe Megiolaro (gk) Vissel Kobe; Akito Fukumori (def) Consadole Sapporo – on loan; Léo Bahia (def) Zweigen Kanazawa; Hinata Ogura (mid) Waseda University; Jo Hashimoto (mid) Kanto University; Yoshihiro Nakano (mid) Shonan Bellmare – on loan; Toma Murata (mid) Gifu; Kaito Mori (att) Kashiwa Reysol; Keisuke Muroi (att) Omiya Ardija; Izumi Miyata (att) RKU; Solomon Sakuragawa (att) JEF United;

Out


Kyohei Yoshino (r) (def) Daegu; Kazuma Takai (r) (mid) Matsumoto Yamagata; Tatsuya Hasegawa (r) (mid) Consadole Sapporo; Ryoya Yamashita (r) (mid) Gamba Osaka; Marcelo Ryan (r) (att) Sagan Tosu; Svend Brodersen (sp) (gk) Fagiano Okayama; Mateus Moraes (sp) (def) Vegalta Sendai; Kotaro Hayashi (sp) (def) Machida Zelvia; Koki Sakamoto (sp) (mid) Montedio Yamagata; Tomoki Kondo (sp) (mid) Consadole Sapporo; Issei Ouchi (gk) Matsumoto Yamagata; Yuji Rokutan (gk) Ryukyu; Taiga Nishiyama (def) Tochigi; Kaisei Ishii (att) Ryukyu; Shawn van Eerden (def) Yokohama SCC – on loan;

It was a tough season in 2023 for Yokohama FC. Despite only one team being relegated from the top flight last year FC failed to save themselves. They finished only 4 points behind Kashiwa Reysol and even won one more game than the Yellows. Unfortunately, having the weakest attack in J1 proved costly. Yokohama scored only 31 goals in 34 matches. This proved to be their undoing. In the end, despite some good wins Yokohama fell short and dropped a division. Naturally, a large number of regular starters left this winter but Yokohama FC still have a squad that should look solid and dominant in this division. There is a nice mixture of experience and youth in the squad and the scoring returns for the likes of Yuri Lara and Caprini should be much better in the lower division. To add even more depth and competition in attack proven in J2 strikers Mori, Muroi and Sakuragawa were also signed so now the Blues have much better depth in attack.

Target


Immediate return to the top flight is the main target. Have the team to achieve that and look likely to finish in the top 6.