The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle
Market22 Feb 2027
Hayao Kawabe comes home
The shirt still fits. Hayao Kawabe is back at Kawasaki Frontale, and half the ground remembers him in these colours already. Some signings need selling to the town; this one sold itself.
Match20 Feb 2027
Kawasaki Frontale make it 3 in a row
Momentum is a hard thing to buy and an easy thing to lose, and right now Kawasaki Frontale have 3 straight wins of it.
Squad22 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Kawasaki Frontale
Yasuto Wakizaka 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.
Transfer targets22 Feb 2027
Avispa Fukuoka tell Kawasaki Frontale: Masaya Tashiro is not for sale
The approach was made and the answer came back in a sentence. There is no number on the table because there was no number that would have been enough.
Boardroom22 Feb 2027
5 academy graduates step up at Kawasaki Frontale
Senior shirt numbers handed to boys the coaches have known since they were twelve. Most will not make it and all of them have already done the hard part.
The terraces22 Feb 2027
$3.1M for Hayao Kawabe, and Kawasaki Frontale supporters approve
Boards get told what they have done wrong for years and hear nothing on the days they get it right. This is one of those days: Hayao Kawabe from Sanfrecce Hiroshima for $3.1M, and a ticket office having a very good morning.
Player ratings22 Feb 2027
Nobody could get near Tatsuya Ito
Successful dribbles: 20. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Match20 Feb 2027
Kazuya Konno the difference as Kawasaki Frontale beat Kashima Antlers
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Kazuya Konno. 2‑0 against Kashima Antlers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Market22 Feb 2027
One of our own: Miki Honda joins the Kawasaki Frontale first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Miki Honda is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Keisuke Inoue joins the Kawasaki Frontale first team
- Market Hotaru Nakamura steps up from the Kawasaki Frontale academy
- Player ratings Ninety minutes of Yasuto Wakizaka at his very best