The Omiya Ardija Chronicle
Squad7 Sep 2026
Tempers go at Omiya Ardija
Ten Miyagi 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.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Ninety minutes of Yuta Toyokawa at his very best
Marked 8.18. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at Omiya Ardija.
Market7 Sep 2026
Omiya Ardija and Ten Miyagi are talking past each other
“There is a gap, and pretending there is not helps nobody.” Neither side has moved, and the calendar is working for exactly one of them.
Match5 Sep 2026
Kenyu Sugimoto rescues a point for Omiya Ardija
It needed Kenyu Sugimoto to find the net to bring anything home at all: 2‑2 against Sagan Tosu, and half the dressing room will call it a point won.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Too much change too quickly at Omiya Ardija
5 signings in three months. Every one of them may be an upgrade and the team can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild that never appears in the transfer-window verdicts.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Mark Isozaki named in the team of the month
A month is long enough that nobody gets in by accident. Mark Isozaki is in the division's best eleven for it, which is a quieter compliment than an award and a more reliable one.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
No hiding place for Shosaku Yasumitsu
“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Shosaku Yasumitsu, and the manager let it.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager’s verdict
“I am frustrated, honestly. We did enough to win and we did not win.” Gaku Kawashima was not hiding it after 2‑2, and nobody in the Omiya Ardija dressing room was either.
Squad7 Sep 2026
A promotion for Caprini
Not a new contract, not a new number: a new place in the manager’s thinking, which is the only promotion in football that actually matters. Caprini has moved up it.
In brief
- The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Osamu Henry Iyoha
- Looking ahead Ten Miyagi faces his old club
- The dugout Gabriel gets picked when it counts