Jubilo Iwata

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The Jubilo Iwata Chronicle

24 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match22 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata run riot against Sagan Tosu

4‑1, and the margin flattered nobody — it could have carried another goal or two without complaint. Afternoons like this are why people keep coming.

Match19 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata bow out of the cup

Gamba Osaka go through and Jubilo Iwata go home, 1‑2 the scoreline that did it. The dressing room will call the league the priority now, because that is what dressing rooms say.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Koki Ogawa scores twice — 8.96

Two goals and a mark of 8.96 to go with them. Strikers are judged on afternoons like this one and remembered for far fewer of them than people imagine.

Squad24 Aug 2026

Tsubasa Nishizawa breaks a bone — 27 days out

Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 27 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Takashi Inui yet — 8.72

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.72 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

Up for the corner, and Yuri Lara delivers — 7.82

Centre-halves are allowed forward twice a season and are judged on what they do when they get there. Yuri Lara scored, was marked 7.82, and got back before anybody noticed he had gone.

Player ratings24 Aug 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Jubilo Iwata — 7.65

1 for Rikiya Uehara, marked 7.65, 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.

Boardroom24 Aug 2026

Window shuts: 18 in, 1 out at Jubilo Iwata

The deadline has passed and the squad is the squad. 18 arrived, 1 left, and everything else printed about this club last month was a rumour that stayed one.

Market24 Aug 2026

Gamba Osaka come back empty-handed

The bid was some way short and Jubilo Iwata did not need long over it. Nobody in the game reads a first refusal as the end of anything.

In brief

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The Jubilo Iwata Chronicle

17 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad17 Aug 2026

35 days out for Tsubasa Nishizawa after a fracture

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

Player ratings17 Aug 2026

Age has not caught Takashi Inui yet — 8.23

At 38 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.23 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Match15 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata cannot stop winning

3 wins on the spin now, and the question has changed from whether the run ends to who ends it. Confidence like this cannot be bought; it has to be earned exactly this way.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A falling-out at Jubilo Iwata

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

Market17 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata sell Ryuki Miura for $74.0K

Ryuki Miura has left for Urawa Reds in a $74.0K deal. The accountants are pleased; the supporters are less certain.

Match15 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata find a way past Ventforet Kofu

Ventforet Kofu made Jubilo Iwata work for it, but the scoreboard read 1‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.

Market17 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata buy the years ahead of Wataru Goto

He is 20, and the scouting reports agree on the only line that matters: the ceiling. Signings like this are lottery tickets written by professionals.

Squad17 Aug 2026

A row about effort at Jubilo Iwata

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

The dugout17 Aug 2026

Genki Furuhashi has his say

“We earned that. I asked them for a reaction and I got one, and now I want the same again on Saturday.” Genki Furuhashi on a 1‑0 afternoon that pleased him more than he was prepared to show.

In brief

2 Edition

The Jubilo Iwata Chronicle

10 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Squad10 Aug 2026

Shoya Nakajima gets the move he always wanted

Footballers are asked about their boyhood club so often that nobody listens to the answer. Shoya Nakajima has just signed for Jubilo Iwata, and for once the answer mattered.

Market10 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata spend $520.0K to raise the standard

This is not cover and nobody is pretending it is. $520.0K has been paid because Ryo Hatsuse is straightforwardly better than what was already here, and the club has decided to stop waiting.

Transfer targets10 Aug 2026

An offer of $680.0K for Wataru Goto

Jubilo Iwata have gone to FC Tokyo with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Takuma Ominami stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Takuma Ominami and Jubilo Iwata agree another 3 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Tempers go at Jubilo Iwata

Takashi Inui 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.

Squad10 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata lose Jan Van Den Bergh

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

Market10 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata promote Daiki Haraguchi from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Daiki Haraguchi has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

Market10 Aug 2026

One of our own: Nagatomo Osako joins the Jubilo Iwata first team

Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Nagatomo Osako is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.

Market10 Aug 2026

Jubilo Iwata promote Shinji Endo from within

The academy exists for exactly this morning. Shinji Endo has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.

In brief

1 Edition

The Jubilo Iwata Chronicle

3 Aug 2026
From our football correspondent Triumph

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

Takashi Inui, 38, rolls back the years — 8.08

There is an age at which every good afternoon gets described as a throwback, which is unfair and also accurate. 8.08 at 38, and nobody on the pitch was better.

Player ratings3 Aug 2026

A defender's goal wins it for Jubilo Iwata — 7.79

1 for Daiki Kaneko, marked 7.79, 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.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Takashi Inui stays put

“The easiest signature of my career.” Takashi Inui and Jubilo Iwata agree another 2 years, and the manager can plan around him rather than about him.

Transfer targets3 Aug 2026

An offer of $520.0K for Ryo Hatsuse

Jubilo Iwata have gone to Gamba Osaka with a bid, and the supporters have gone to the internet with an opinion about it. Whether either changes anything is up to the selling club.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Takashi Inui 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 Jubilo Iwata this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Match1 Aug 2026

Takashi Inui the difference as Jubilo Iwata beat Kashima Antlers

Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Takashi Inui. 2‑0 against Kashima Antlers, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.

Match1 Aug 2026

Takashi Inui at the heart of a fast Jubilo Iwata start

2 goals inside twenty minutes with Takashi Inui in the middle of it, and Kashima Antlers unable to get near the ball long enough to change anything. Some matches are won before the first drink.

Squad3 Aug 2026

Words at Jubilo Iwata training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Jan Van Den Bergh 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.

Market3 Aug 2026

24 months and counting on Yuri Lara

Still no offer on the table, and Yuri Lara’s deal keeps shrinking. In boardroom language, silence this long stops being an oversight and starts being an answer.

In brief