Koki Oshima

Central Midfielder - Ventforet Kofu
18 Sep 2026
Friday
Process

Marked for Koki Oshima

7 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

14 Sep 2026
From our football correspondent Steady

Squad

34 days out for Hotaru Doan after a fracture

A bone, which is the one injury with a calendar attached. Ventforet Kofu will name a return date and, unusually for this business, will probably be right about it.

Player ratings

Lazar Romanic runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 27. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad

A falling-out at Ventforet Kofu

Takumi Tsuchiya and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Match

Ventforet Kofu see off Omiya Ardija

Three points for Ventforet Kofu, 1‑0 the final word against Omiya Ardija in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Squad

Appearance number 200 for Koki Oshima

200 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

Squad

A row about effort at Ventforet Kofu

Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Yuta Koide was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.

Player ratings

Tsuyoshi Ogashiwa takes the honours

Marked 7.95 on an afternoon he ran from the first whistle to the last. Whatever else went wrong, Ventforet Kofu had the best player on the pitch.

The dugout

A satisfied Nagatomo Sakai

“The players deserve the credit. My job was easy today.” It was not, and everybody in the room knew it; after 1‑0, Nagatomo Sakai could afford to be generous.

The dugout

When it matters, Iwana Kobayashi plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief

Back issues
5 Edition

The Ventforet Kofu Chronicle

31 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Crisis

Match

4 matches without a win for Ventforet Kofu

The run now stands at 4, and the questions being asked around Ventforet Kofu are no longer polite ones.

Squad

Words exchanged at Ventforet Kofu

Kotatsu Kumakura 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.

Squad

Yudai Tanaka arrives at the club he grew up with

Every footballer has an answer to the question about his boyhood club, and most of them never get to act on it. Yudai Tanaka has, at Ventforet Kofu, and the first month will show what that does to a man.

Transfer targets

Door shut on Tiago Caballero

Ventforet Kofu asked and Olimpia said no without discussing a figure. It is the least ambiguous answer in football and the one clubs most often come back to test.

Match

Ventforet Kofu are shipping goals every week

Two or more conceded in each of the last 4 matches. It is not one mistake repeating itself, which would be the easier thing to fix; it is a different one every week.

Match

A bad afternoon for Ventforet Kofu against FC Tokyo

1‑2 to FC Tokyo, and no complaints worth printing. The performance asked for nothing more than it got.

The dugout

Nagatomo Sakai answers for it

“The supporters are entitled to be angry. So am I. We will put it right.” 1‑2, a manager saying the necessary things, and a dressing room that heard a different version of them.

The dugout

Koki Oshima dropped after a run of poor form

The one version of being left out a player cannot argue with, and the one he takes worst. Somebody else has been better and the team sheet says so, in public, every week until it changes.

The dugout

When it matters, Lazar Romanic plays

It is never announced and it is entirely visible: the biggest afternoons of the season keep containing him. A press box works this out long before anybody at the club confirms a word of it.

In brief