Asahi Beer Silver Star
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| Oriental Bio Silver Star | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Founded | 1970 |
| Headquartered | Kawasaki City, Kanagawa |
| Colors | Navy Blue and Silver [1] |
| Website | http://www.asahibeer.co.jp/silver/ |
| Personnel | |
| Head coach | Hayato Arima |
| League / conference affiliations | |
| X-League East | |
| Championships | |
| Japan X Bowl titles: 4 (1989, 1992, 1993, 1999) | |
| Division championships: 3 (1997, 2006, 2009) | |
The Oriental Bio Silver Star are an American football team located in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa, Japan. They are a member of the X-League.
- 1970 Team founded as Asahi Beer Silver Star
- 1989 Won first Tokyo Super Bowl championship.
- 1993 Won first Rice Bowl National Championship.
- 1999 Won fourth Tokyo Super Bowl championship.
- 2009 Won Eastern divisional title. Advanced to the Final stage where they lost to eventual X-League runner up, the Fujitsu Frontiers 31–21.
- 2024 Asahi Breweries ends team sponsorship. Oriental Bio Co, LTD. takes over sponsorship. Team renamed Oriental Bio Silver Star [2]
Seasons
| X-League Champions (1987–present) | Division Champions | Final Stage/Semi-finals Berth | Wild Card /2nd Stage Berth |
| Season | Division | Regular Season | Postseason results | Awards | Head coaches | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finish | Wins | Losses | Ties | |||||
| 1997 | East | 1st | 5 | 1 | 0 | Won Wild card match ( Nissan Prince Tokyo) 31–13 Lost semi-finals match (at Matsushita Electric Works) 6–26 |
Abe | |
| 1998 | East | 2nd | 4 | 1 | 0 | Won Wild card match (at Matsushita Electric Works) 26–10 Won Semi-finals match (Kashima) 38–13 Lost Tokyo Super Bowl XII (at Recruit) 24–45 |
Abe | |
| 1999 | Central | 2nd | 4 | 1 | 0 | Won Wild card match (Onward) 23–13 Won Semi-finals match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 20–15 Won Tokyo Super Bowl XIII (Kashima) 18–16 Won 53rd Rice Bowl National Championship game (Kwansei Gakuin 33–17 |
Abe | |
| 2000 | East | 2nd | 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost Wild card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) | Abe | |
| 2001 | Central | 2nd | 4 | 2 | 0 | Lost Wild card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 6–24 | Abe | |
| 2002 | Central | 3rd | 3 | 3 | 0 | Fukabori | ||
| 2003 | East | 2nd | 6 | 2 | 2 | Won Wild Card match (at Kashima) 7–3 Won Semi-finals match (at Matsushita Electric Works) 21–14 Lost Japan X Bowl XVII (at Onward) 10–13 |
Fukabori | |
| 2004 | East | 2nd | 5 | 4 | 0 | Won Wild Card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 10–7 Won Semi-finals match (at Onward) 13–10 Lost Japan X Bowl XVIII (at Matsushita Denko) 6–15 |
Fukabori | |
| 2005 | Central | 2nd | 9 | 2 | 0 | Won Wild Card match (at Asahi Soft Drinks) 22–19 Lost semi-finals match (at Obic) 7–13 |
Fukabori | |
| 2006 | Central | 1st | 7 | 2 | 0 | Lost Wild Card match (Kashima) 6–14 | ||
| 2007 | East | 3rd | 6 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 2008 | East | 3rd | 9 | 3 | 0 | |||
| 2009 | East | 1st | 8 | 2 | 0 | Won 2nd stage match (Suita) 22–20 Lost 2nd Stage match (Kashima) 14–24 Lost final stage match (Fujitsu) 21–31 |
Kiyoshi Oka | |
| 2010 | East | 3rd | 6 | 4 | 0 | Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 19–24 Lost 2nd stage match (Fujitsu) 3–34 |
Kiyoshi Oka | |
| 2011 | Central | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 1 | Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 10–28 Lost 2nd stage match (Fujitsu) 14–58 |
Kiyoshi Oka | |
| 2012 | East | 3rd | 6 | 3 | 0 | Lost 2nd stage match (at Obic) 7–69 Won 2nd stage match (Asahi Soft Drinks) 26–20 OT[3] |
Kiyoshi Oka | |
| 2013 | East | 3rd | 4 | 3 | 0 | Lost 2nd stage match (at Obic) 7–21 Won 2nd stage match (Asahi Soft Drinks) 34–10[4] |
Kiyoshi Oka | |
| 2014 | Central | 3rd | 5 | 3 | 0 | Lost 2nd stage match (at Fujitsu) 0–65 Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 3–65 |
Kiyoshi Oka | |
| 2015 | Central | 3rd | 6 | 1 | 0 | Lost 2nd stage match (Panasonic) 14–38 Lost 2nd Stage match (at Nojima Sagamihara) 7–14 OT |
Mason Mills (ROY) | Kiyoshi Oka |
| 2016 | East | 3rd | 4 | 5 | 0 | Lost quarterfinals match (at Panasonic) 14–21 Won Super9/Battle9 classification match (All Mitsubishi) 17–0 |
Kiyoshi Oka | |
| 2017 | East | 3rd | 3 | 6 | 0 | Lost Wildcard match (All Mitsubishi) 17–20[5] | Hayato Arima | |
| 2018 | East | 3rd | 3 | 6 | 0 | Lost Wildcard match (All Mitsubishi) 6–17[6] | Hayato Arima | |
| 2019 | X1 Area East | 1st | 5 | 4 | 0 | Won X1 Area Final (Asahi Soft Drinks) 34–31 Lost X1 Area-Super promotional match (at Nojima Sagamihara) 20–32 |
Hayato Arima | |
| 2020 | X1 Area East | 2 | 1 | 0 | Hayato Arima | |||
| 2021 | X1 Area East | 1st | 6 | 0 | 0 | Hiroshi Kawamura (X1 Area MVP) | Hayato Arima | |
| 2022 | X1 Super Div. A | 4th | 2 | 3 | 0 | Lost quarterfinals match (at Fujitsu) 3–53 | Hayato Arima | |
| 2023 | X1 Super Div. B | 4th | 3 | 4 | 0 | Lost quarterfinals match (at Panasonic) 0–27 | Hayato Arima | |
| 2024 | X1 Super | 9th | 3 | 5 | 0 | Hayato Arima | ||
| 2025 | X1 Super Central | 3rd | 2 | 6 | 0 | Kiyoshi Oka | ||
| Total | 127 | 77 | 3 | (1997–2025, includes only regular season) | ||||
| 16 | 24 | 0 | (1997–2025, includes only playoffs) | |||||
| 143 | 101 | 3 | (1997–2025, includes both regular season and playoffs) | |||||
