2016 Season Review : Best performance in the club's history

Finally 2016 season ended. Fagiano Okayama finished at 6th position with 65 points out of 22 clubs. The club were successfully able to advance to the playoffs and defeated 3rd position, Matsumoto Yamaga FC at the semifinal. The club showed a best performance in their history.


Before this season, Okayama acquired some talented attackers such as a veteran Akamine and a young striker, Toyokawa. Therefore, the club's attacking strength were dramatically enhanced. Especially, they are much better with set plays.



A young playmaker, Yajima established a presence in the midfield. He usually trigered the club's attacking and assisted his teammates to score goals. He was selected as international at 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. 



While new comers struggled to perform well. A young attacker, Sakai did not have lots of chances to appear. A Chinese forward, who came on a loan from Wang Jingbin Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao FC in Chinese Super League division 1, had no chance to be on the picth since he joined the club this summer.



This season, the club struggled to defeat some powerful clubs like former the division 1 clubs. In order to secure the ticket to the upper league in 2017, the team must be reinforced more. It is
expected that most of key players would remain in the club next term.