2017 squad numbers

After this afternoon's new season announcement ceremony (not really sure what to call it exactly), we now know the squad numbers for the new season. Also revealed for the first time were the new kits (not exactly sure what I think about them yet to be honest). As I keep promising, I will write something about all of the new additions to the squad soon, but before that, here's the squad numbers. We have a few more players than we did last season. Understandable I guess, as we have to deal with some extra games this year (the ACL ones. New kit for those games revealed too). Notable number changes are Kurumaya taking the number 7 shirt and Miyoshi taking over Okubo's number 13. Ienaga, one of the new boys has pushed the limits of our usual numbering system taking his usual number 41.

One other thing that I haven't mentioned yet is that we have a new captain. Kobayashi is now taking the armband with the back up captains (or whatever they are called...) being Taniguchi, Oshima and Sung-Ryong.

1. Sung-Ryong JUNG (GK)
2. Kyohei NOBORIZATO (DF)
3. Tatsuki NARA (DF)
4. Yusuke IGAWA (DF)
5. Shogo TANIGUCHI (MF)
6. Yusuke TASAKA (MF)
7. Shintaro KURUMAYA (DF)
8. Hiroyuki ABE (MF)
9. Takayuki MORIMOTO (FW)
10. Ryota OSHIMA (MF)
11. Yu KOBAYASHI (FW)
13. Koji MIYOSHI (MF)
14. Kengo NAKAMURA (MF)
16. Tastuya HASEGAWA (MF)
17. Yuto TAKEOKA (DF)
18. ELSINHO (DF)
19. Kentaro MORIYA (MF)
20. Kei CHINEN (FW)
21. EDUARDO NETO (MF)
22. RHAYNER (FW)
23. EDUARDO (DF)
24. Shunsuke ANDO (GK)
25. Kenta KANO (MF)
26. Jefferson TABINAS (DF)
27. Shohei OTSUKA (FW)
28. Ko ITAKURA (DF)
29. Michael James FITZGERALD (DF)
30. Shota ARAI (GK)
31. William POPP (GK)
32. Ao TANAKA (MF)
41. Akihiro IENAGA (MF)

Oh, and here just for the record are the numbers for 2016. I don't think I ever actually posted the whole squad anywhere.

1. Sung-Ryong JUNG (GK)
2. Kyohei NOBORIZATO (DF)
3. Tatsuki NARA (DF)
4. Yusuke IGAWA (DF)
5. Shogo TANIGUCHI (MF)
6. Yusuke TASAKA (MF)
7. Koji HASHIMOTO (MF)
8. Takanobu KOMIYAMA (DF)
9. Takayuki MORIMOTO (FW)
10. Ryota OSHIMA (MF)
11. Yu KOBAYASHI (FW)
13. Yoshito OKUBO (FW)
14. Kengo NAKAMURA (MF)
15. Riki HARAKAWA (MF)
16. Tastuya HASEGAWA (MF)
17. Yuto TAKEOKA (DF)
18. ELSINHO (DF)
19. Kentaro MORIYA (MF)
20. Shintaro KURUMAYA
21. EDUARDO NETO (MF)
22. Yoshihiro NAKANO (MF)
23. EDUARDO (DF)
24. Shunsuke ANDO (GK)
25. Kenta KANO (MF)
26. Koji MIYOSHI (MF)
27. Shohei OTSUKA (FW)
28. Ko ITAKURA (DF)
29. Shun TAKAGI (GK)
30. Shota ARAI (GK)
32. Carlos DUKE (MF)