Yu Kobayashi

Right Midfielder - Kawasaki Frontale
3 Jan 2027
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Marked for Yu Kobayashi

17 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

23 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad23 Nov 2026

A knee injury of the worst kind for Matías Maidana

60 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Kawasaki Frontale lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Tempers go at Kawasaki Frontale

Svend Brodersen 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.

Squad23 Nov 2026

Kawasaki Frontale lose Yu Kobayashi

37 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.

In brief

Back issues
6 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

7 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

Nobody could get near Tatsuya Ito

Successful dribbles: 43. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Yasuto Wakizaka damages knee ligaments — 18 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 18 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Player ratings7 Sep 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Kawasaki Frontale — 7.43

1 for Yuki Yamamoto, marked 7.43, and a centre-half's name in the part of the report he normally only reaches by mistake. He will not be allowed to forget it in the dressing room for a month.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Tempers go at Kawasaki Frontale

Tatsuya Ito 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.

Match5 Sep 2026

6 unbeaten for Kawasaki Frontale

Hard to beat is not the same as winning, but 6 matches without defeat is a foundation Kawasaki Frontale did not have in the autumn.

Squad7 Sep 2026

Jesiel 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.

In brief

5 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

Kento Tachibanada runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 53. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Yasuto Wakizaka damages knee ligaments — 25 days out

The words a physio says slowly. 25 days is what the club will announce and everybody who has heard this diagnosis before knows the number is the least of it: the knee comes back before the player does.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Svend Brodersen is the hero from the spot

A shoot-out is remembered by its ending, and this one ends with Svend Brodersen: 2 kept out, and a set of supporters who will describe every one of them for the next twenty years.

Match26 Aug 2026

Kawasaki Frontale through in the cup

A 0‑0 win over Sanfrecce Hiroshima, and the draw for the next round can be watched with some interest for once.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Tatsuya Ito in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Kawasaki Frontale this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Market31 Aug 2026

Bhayangkara Presisi watching Yuto Ozeki

The interest is real enough to have reached print. Kawasaki Frontale have said nothing, which in a transfer window is its own kind of answer.

Match29 Aug 2026

Kazuya Konno sends Kawasaki Frontale past Shonan Bellmare

It finished 1‑0, and it was Kazuya Konno’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Kawasaki Frontale.

Squad31 Aug 2026

Shintaro Kurumaya 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.

Player ratings31 Aug 2026

The kick that got away from Yu Kobayashi

Twelve yards, a goalkeeper guessing, and it still did not go in. He will take the next one, and every soul in the ground will hold their breath.

In brief

1 Edition

The Kawasaki Frontale Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Uneasy

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Nobody could get near Tatsuya Ito

Successful dribbles: 44. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.

Squad3 Aug 2026

15 seasons of Yu Kobayashi

398 appearances across 15 seasons in these colours. Careers like that are not built any more, and Kawasaki Frontale know what they have.

Market3 Aug 2026

Yasuto Wakizaka wants to know where this is going

“I want to win things, and I would like to do it here.” Nothing has been demanded and nothing has been threatened — but a boardroom at Kawasaki Frontale hears a sentence like that exactly as it was built.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Yasuto Wakizaka signs a new deal

“I never wanted to be anywhere else. There is unfinished business here.” Yasuto Wakizaka commits to Kawasaki Frontale for another 4 years.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Kawasaki Frontale

Tatsuya Ito 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

Erison wants European nights

The general version of this complaint is that a player wants more. The specific version names the thing: he wants to walk out under floodlights against clubs from other countries, and he has stopped pretending otherwise.

In brief