The Avispa Fukuoka Herald
Market7 Sep 2026
Yota Maejima hands in a written request
“I have nothing bad to say about this place. I just need to be somewhere else.” It is in writing now, which changes what Avispa Fukuoka can pretend not to have heard.
Match5 Sep 2026
7 matches without a win for Avispa Fukuoka
The run now stands at 7, and the questions being asked around Avispa Fukuoka are no longer polite ones.
Match5 Sep 2026
5 matches without a goal for Avispa Fukuoka
The chances are being made and something is happening between the making and the finishing. 5 matches now, and the anxiety in the ground arrives a little earlier every week.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Words at Avispa Fukuoka training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Tomoya Miki is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Player ratings7 Sep 2026
Nobody could get near Tomoya Miki
Successful dribbles: 18. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Avispa Fukuoka are still strangers to each other
12 new signings in one window. Every one may be an upgrade and the side can still be worse for a while, which is the part of a rebuild the verdicts never mention.
Squad7 Sep 2026
Shu Morooka is no longer first choice
The manager has re-ordered his thinking and Shu Morooka has come out of it lower. He will be told it is temporary, and the players who have heard that before will avoid his eye.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
The manager makes an example of Yu Hashimoto
“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.
The dugout7 Sep 2026
Kai Shibato knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Kai Shibato trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
In brief
- The dugout Keisuke Maeda on the point
- Match Point won or two lost for Avispa Fukuoka?
- Market The Kohei Okuno talk will not go away