The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle
Match17 Oct 2026
11 matches without a win for Ventforet Kofu
The run now stands at 11, and the questions being asked around Ventforet Kofu are no longer polite ones.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Words exchanged at Ventforet Kofu
Takumi Tsuchiya and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad19 Oct 2026
The step up is real for Michele Staccioli
At 23 he is doing things this season that he could not do last season, and doing them every week. Form comes and goes; this has stayed long enough to be called something else.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
A promise honoured for Filip Uremovic
It is not much of a headline and it is the reason players believe the next promise. Ventforet Kofu told Filip Uremovic something would happen and then it happened, which in this industry passes for remarkable.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Ventforet Kofu are still strangers to each other
16 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.
Squad19 Oct 2026
Tsubasa Endoh signs a new deal
“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Tsubasa Endoh commits to Ventforet Kofu for another 2 years.
Match17 Oct 2026
Ventforet Kofu and Nagoya Grampus take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Koki Oshima gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout19 Oct 2026
Hajime Mitoma: “We have to be better”
“It is not the end of the world and it is not good enough. Both of those are true.” The manager, after a 1‑1 draw, said the honest thing and then went to say it again inside.
In brief
- The dugout Keisuke Sato knocks on the manager's door
- Player ratings The afternoon ran through George Onaiwu
- Player ratings Kotatsu Kumakura runs at them all day