2017 Albirex Niigata Singapore FC season

Albirex Niigata (S)
2017 season
Chairman	Daisuke Korenaga
Head coach	Kazuaki Yoshinaga
Stadium	Jurong East Stadium
S.League	1st (champions)
Singapore Cup	Winners
League Cup	Winners
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ChairmanDaisuke Korenaga

Head coachKazuaki Yoshinaga

StadiumJurong East Stadium

S.League1st (champions)

The 2017 season was Albirex Niigata Singapore FC's 14th consecutive season in the top flight of Singapore football and in the S.League, having joined the S.League in 2004. Along with the S.League, the club alsod competed in the Singapore Cup and the Singapore League Cup. They were the defending champions.

No.	Name	Date of birth (age)	Previous club
Goalkeepers
1	Shuhei Yamada	(1993-04-22) 22 April 1993 (age 32)	Fujieda MYFC
21	Yosuke Nozawa	(1979-11-09) 9 November 1979 (age 46)	Matsumoto Yamaga FC
22	Junpei Yamada	(1994-08-26) 26 August 1994 (age 31)	Yamanashi Gakuin University
Defenders
2	Tomoki Menda	(1993-07-06) 6 July 1993 (age 32)	Doshisha University
3	Takuya Akiyama	(1994-08-26) 26 August 1994 (age 31)	Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences
4	Yuki Yamanouchi	(1994-09-18) 18 September 1994 (age 31)	Oita Trinita
5	Naofumi Tanaka	(1993-02-11) 11 February 1993 (age 33)	Osaka Kyoiku University
13	Yasutaka Yanagi	(1994-06-22) 22 June 1994 (age 31)	Senshu University
15	Shoma Kondo	(1997-07-25) 25 July 1997 (age 28)	Japan Soccer College
16	Rui Kumada	(1992-09-05) 5 September 1992 (age 33)	Osaka Gakuin University
17	Satoru Matsuki	(1997-04-17) 17 April 1997 (age 28)	Japan Soccer College
	Seiya Kato	(1994-05-19) 19 May 1994 (age 31)	Tokyo University of Agriculture
Midfielders
6	Shuto Inaba	(1993-06-29) 29 June 1993 (age 32)	Fukuoka University
7	Ryota Nakai	(1995-01-16) 16 January 1995 (age 31)	Momoyama Gakuin University
10	Kento Nagasaki	(1990-06-05) 5 June 1990 (age 35)	Shizuoka Sangyo University
14	Ryuya Motoda	(1994-09-02) 2 September 1994 (age 31)	Mito HollyHock
19	Kenya Kodama	(1997-02-25) 25 February 1997 (age 29)	Japan Soccer College
20	Yuki Kataoka	(1998-03-10) 10 March 1998 (age 28)	Japan Soccer College
23	Kouki Sato	(1996-09-03) 3 September 1996 (age 29)	Japan Soccer College
Forwards
8	Hiroyoshi Kamata	(1997-04-04) 4 April 1997 (age 28)	Albirex Niigata U-18
9	Tsubasa Sano	(1994-10-18) 18 October 1994 (age 31)	Juntendo University
11	Shoichiro Sakamoto	(1995-08-18) 18 August 1995 (age 30)	Tegevajaro Miyazaki
18	Minoru Iwaki	(1997-10-11) 11 October 1997 (age 28)	Japan Soccer College
24	Yusuke Yamazaki	(1997-10-03) 3 October 1997 (age 28)	Japan Soccer College

Position	Name
Head Coach	Kazuaki Yoshinaga
Coach	Takafumi Mizuno
Coach	Shuhei Ogawa
Team Manager
Physiotherapist
Kitman

Position	Player	Transferred From	Ref
GK	Shuhei Yamada	Fujieda MYFC	^[3]
GK	Junpei Yamada	Yamanashi Gakuin University	^[4]
DF	Seiya Kato	Tokyo University of Agriculture	^[5]
DF	Takuya Akiyama	Osaka University of Health and Sport Sciences	^[6]
DF	Shoma Kondo	Japan Soccer College
DF	Satoru Matsuki	Japan Soccer College
DF	Yasutaka Yanagi	Senshu University	^[7]
MF	Yuki Yamanouchi	Oita Trinita	^[8]
MF	Ryuya Motoda	Mito Hollyhock	^[9] Loan
MF	Yuki Kataoka	Japan Soccer College
MF	Kouki Sato	Japan Soccer College
FW	Shoichiro Sakamoto	Tegevajaro Miyazaki	^[10]
FW	Ryota Nakai	Momoyama Gakuin University	^[11]
FW	Tsubasa Sano	Juntendo University	^[12]
FW	Minoru Iwaki	Japan Soccer College
FW	Yusuke Yamazaki	Japan Soccer College

Position	Player	Transferred To	Ref
DF	Kento Fujihara	Nagaworld FC	^[13]
DF	Atsushi Shirota	Hougang United	^[14]
MF	Masaya Jitozono	Sabah FA	^[15]
MF	Tatsuro Inui	Thai Honda	^[16]
FW	Kazuki Mine	Kyoto Sanga	^[17]
FW	Atsushi Kawata	Albirex Niigata	^[18]
DF	Tadaaki Yazawa	Released	^[19]
GK	Eita Kasagawa	Retired
GK	Shunkun Tani	Estudiantes de Murcia
DF	Mikiya Yamada	Surfers Paradise Apollo SC	^[20]
DF	Ryo Kurihara	Released	^[19]
DF	Teppei Harashima	Released	^[19]
MF	Daichi Ishiyama	Released	^[19]
MF	Ryuki Matsuya	Released	^[19]
MF	Kouki Mukai	Released	^[19]
FW	Shuma Miyata	Released	^[19]

Position	Player	Trial At	Ref
DF	Yasutaka Yanagi	Albirex Niigata	^[21]
MF	Shuto Inaba	Albirex Niigata	^[21]

2017 Albirex Niigata Singapore FC season

Coaching staff

Transfers

Pre-season transfers

In

Out

Mid-season transfers

Trial

Friendlies

Pre-season friendlies

In Season Friendlies

Team statistics

Appearances and goals

Competitions

Overview

S.League

Singapore Cup

Quarter-final

Semi-final

Final

Singapore TNP League Cup

Group matches

Knock out Stage

References

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1 February 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	14–0	St Andrew JC
	Ryota Nakai 10,22,23' Ryuya Motoda 10,21,73,84' Shoichiro Sakamoto 12,15,51' Yosuke Yamazaki 49,54' Hiroyoshi Kamata 69,72'	Report

4 February 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–0	SAFSA
	Ryota Nakai 26' Rui Kumada 86'	Report

9 February 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–0	Ceres–Negros	Jurong East Stadium
9am	Ryota Nakai 5' Hiroyoshi Kamata 17'

11 February 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	1–0	Warriors FC	Choa Chu Kang Stadium
	Takuya Akiyama 85'

15 February 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	1–0	Balestier Khalsa	Toa Payoh Stadium
	Ryota Nakai 28'	Report	Sheikh Abdul Hadi 0' Marko Kraljević 0'

18 February 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–0	Hougang United	Hougang Stadium
	Hiroyoshi Kamata 43' Shuto Inaba 58'	Report

19 February 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	5–2	NFA U18 (Prime League)	Jurong East Stadium
	Shoichiro Sakamoto 2' Yosuke Yamazaki 47' Yuki Kataoka 60' Tsubasa Sano 79,81'	Report

11 March 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	3–0	Albirex Niigata U18	Jurong East Stadium
	Shoichiro Sakamoto 19,26' Ryota Nakai 34'	Report

17 March 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	3–1	JDT II	Pasir Gudang Stadium
	Tsubasa Sano 43,45' Kento Nagasaki 56' (pen.)	Report	Alex Smith 23'

24 March 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	8–0	Young Lions	Jurong East Stadium
	Yasutaka Yanagi 7' Tsubasa Sano 8,44' Kento Nagasaki 15,37' Ryota Nakai 17,29' Shoichiro Sakamoto 61'	Report

Competition	Record
Competition	P	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
S.League	24	20	2	2	70	16	+54	083.33
Singapore Cup	5	4	1	0	14	5	+9	080.00
League Cup	5	4	1	0	8	0	+8	080.00
Total	34	28	4	2	92	21	+71	082.35

26 February 2017 (2017-02-26) Round 1	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–1	Tampines Rovers	Kallang
	Shoichiro Sakamoto 74,82'	Report	Ryutaro Megumi 36' 84' Ivan Jakov Džoni Madhu Mohana 24' 88' Daniel Bennett 57' Yasir Hanapi 49, 64' Son Yong Chan 90' Ismadi Mukhtar 90'	Stadium: National Stadium, Singapore Attendance: 15,480 Referee: Sukhbir Singh

4 March 2017 (2017-03-04) Round 2	Young Lions	0–5	Albirex Niigata (S)	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Tsubasa Sano 16,75' Takuya Akiyama 18' Kento Nagasaki 38' Ryota Nakai 57'	Report	Hami Syahin 30' Muhelmy Suhaimi 52'	Attendance: 1,728 Referee: Jansen Foo

2 April 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	4–1	Tiong Bahru FC	Jurong East Stadium
	Shoichiro Sakamoto 7,43' Tomoki Menda 18' Kenaya Kodama 42'

7 April 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	6–0	Singapore Cricket Club	Jurong East Stadium
	Ryota Nakai 11,87' Kento Nagasaki 14,39' Tomoki Menda 50' Hiroyoshi Kamata 90'

8 April 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	3–0	Home United Prime League	Jurong East Stadium
	Kouki Sato 16' Kenya Kodama 63' Ryuya Motoda 67'

22 April 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	3–2	SAFSA	Jurong East Stadium
	Koki Sato 26' 77' Shoichiro Sakamoto 80'	Report

3 June 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	10–0	Singapore Cricket Club	Jurong East Stadium
	15' (o.g.) Naofumi Tanaka 19,21' Tsubasa Sano 29' Kento Nagasaki 31,34' Ryota Nakai 38' Shoichiro Sakamoto 41' Minoru Iwaki 51' Tomoki Menda 80'

9 June 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	1–0	Myanmar	Jurong East Stadium
	Kento Nagasaki 71'

17 June 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	12–0	Simei United	Jurong East Stadium
	Shoichiro Sakamoto 27,29,47,86' Kenya Kodama 39' Yosuke Yamazaki 52,57,89' Hiroyoshi Kamata 58' Yuto Inabe 72' Hiroyoshi Sakamoto 83, 90+2'

2 September 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	11–0	Yishun Sentek Mariners FC	Jurong East Stadium
	Ryota Nakai 17,48' Naofumi Tanaka 19' Shoichiro Sakamoto 45,55,60' Ryuya Motoda 54,80' Kento Nagasaki 57' Yosuke Yamazaki 63,66'

7 October 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–1	Geylang International	Jurong East Stadium
	Shoichiro Sakamoto 1' Tsubasa Sano 23'

13 October 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	8–0	Singapore U21 Team	Jurong East Stadium
	Ryota Nakai 3,10' 8' (o.g) Tsubasa Sano 19,39' Kento Nagasaki 65' Yanagi Yasutaka 86,90'

15 October 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	6–1	Singapore U17 Team	Jurong East Stadium
	Ryuya Motoda 33,42,60,83' Hiroyoshi Kamata 65' Kenya Kodama 73'

27 October 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–2	NFA U18	Jurong East Stadium
		Report	Ryuya Motoda 47' (pen.) Yosuke Yamazaki 59'

11 October 2017 Friendly	Albirex Niigata (S)	1–0	Young Lions	Jurong East Stadium
	Yasutaka Yanagi 61'

No.	Pos.	Player	Sleague		Singapore Cup		League Cup		Total
No.	Pos.	Player	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals	Apps.	Goals
1	GK	Shuhei Yamada	1	0	0(1)	0	0	0	1(1)	0
2	DF	Tomoki Menda	12(3)	0	3	0	0	0	15(3)	0
3	DF	Takuya Akiyama	24	1	4	0	5	1	33	1
4	DF	Yuki Yamanouchi	4(5)	0	1(1)	0	0(1)	0	5(7)	0
5	DF	Naofumi Tanaka	24	5	5	1	5	0	34	6
6	MF	Shuto Inaba	24	2	5	0	5	0	34	2
7	MF	Ryota Nakai	20(2)	11	5	1	5	1	30(2)	13
8	FW	Hiroyoshi Kamata	24	4	5	1	5	0	34	5
9	MF	Tsubasa Sano	21	26	3	1	5	4	29	31
10	MF	Kento Nagasaki	24	11	5	5	5	1	34	16
11	FW	Shoichiro Sakamoto	15(8)	5	3(1)	1	5	1	23(9)	7
13	FW	Yasutaka Yanagi	22	1	5	1	5	0	32	2
14	MF	Ryuya Motoda	10(9)	3	2(1)	1	0(4)	0	12(14)	4
15	DF	Shoma Kondo	1(4)	0	0(3)	1	0(1)	0	1(8)	1
16	DF	Rui Kumada	13(11)	1	3(2)	1	1(4)	0	17(17)	2
17	DF	Satoru Matsuki	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
18	FW	Minoru Iwaki	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
19	MF	Kenya Kodama	0	0	0	0	0(1)	0	0(1)	0
20	MF	Yuki Kataoka	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
21	GK	Yosuke Nozawa (captain)	22	0	5	0	5	0	32	0
22	GK	Junpei Yamada	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
23	MF	Kouki Sato	3(9)	0	0(3)	0	4(1)	0	7(13)	0
24	FW	Yusuke Yamazaki	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

9 March 2017 (2017-03-09) Round 3	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–0	DPMM FC	Jurong East Stadium
	Ryuya Motoda 75' Ryota Nakai 87'		Yura Indera Putera 30'	Attendance: 1,413 Referee: W Ravisanthiran

1 April 2017 (2017-04-01) Round 4 (Rescheduled)	Home United	2–2	Albirex Niigata (S)	Bishan Stadium
	Stipe Plazibat 33' Faris Ramli 36' Izzdin Shafiq 74' Sirina Camara 87'	Report	Tsubasa Sano 45' Kento Nagasaki 87' (pen.) Ryota Nakai 90'	Attendance: 2,143 Referee: W Ravisanthiran

14 April 2017 (2017-04-14) Round 5	Albirex Niigata (S)	2–0	Hougang United	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Tsubasa Sano 56,89' Naofumi Tanaka 31'		Nazrul Nazari 63' Fabian Kwok 73'	Attendance: 2,011 Referee: Sukhbir Singh

21 April 2017 (2017-04-21) Round 6	Balestier Khalsa	0–3	Albirex Niigata (S)	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Raihan Rahman 42' Shah Hirul 45'		Hiroyoshi Kamata 23' Tsubasa Sano 64' Ryota Nakai 70'	Attendance: 802 Referee: Muhd Taqi

29 April 2017 (2017-04-29) Round 7	Albirex Niigata (S)	4–2	Warriors FC	Jurong East Stadium
	Shoichiro Sakamoto 6' 28' Tsubasa Sano 14,60' Kento Nagasaki 52' Tomoki Menda 44'		Jordan Webb 67' (pen.) Shahril Ishak 77' Baihakki Khaizan 19' Poh Yi Feng 51'	Attendance: 2,255 Referee: Farhad Mohd

11 May 2017 (2017-05-11) Round 8 (Rescheduled)	Geylang International	0–1	Albirex Niigata (S)	Jalan Besar Stadium
	Nor Azli Yusoff 90'		Ryota Nakai 53'	Attendance: 1,145 Referee: W Ravisanthiran