The Omiya Ardija Chronicle
Match26 Sep 2026
8 matches without a win for Omiya Ardija
The run now stands at 8, and the questions being asked around Omiya Ardija are no longer polite ones.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Omiya Ardija
Václav Drchal was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Yuta Toyokawa falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Match26 Sep 2026
3 matches without a goal for Omiya Ardija
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 3 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad28 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Caprini
“If you cannot run for the shirt, somebody else will wear it.” No name was used and none was needed; every player in that room knew who it was for.
Match26 Sep 2026
A bad afternoon for Omiya Ardija against Yokohama F. Marinos
0‑1 to Yokohama F. Marinos, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.
Squad28 Sep 2026
Dheimison dropped after a run of poor form
The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.
Player ratings28 Sep 2026
Václav Drchal leaves them behind him
Shots: 6. Goals: none. The chances were there and they were good ones, and they went into the stand, the goalkeeper's arms and the side netting in roughly that order.
Market28 Sep 2026
Experience through the door at Omiya Ardija
Marcelo Barreña arrives at 39 with nothing left to prove and plenty left to pass on. Legs are a young man's currency; knowing where to stand never ages.
In brief
- Market Juan Manuel Iurino brings the grey hairs Omiya Ardija lacked
- Player ratings Ota Yamamoto could have had three
- Player ratings An afternoon Gabriel will want back