# 2024 Ventforet Kofu season

The 2024 season was Ventforet Kofu's 59th season in existence and their 7th consecutive season in J2 League. In addition to the domestic league, they also took part in the Emperor's Cup, the J.League Cup and AFC Champions League.

## Squad

    As of 19 April 2024.
Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 1 | GK | JPN | Kohei Kawata |
| 3 | DF | KOR | Taiga Son |
| 4 | DF | JPN | Hideomi Yamamoto |
| 5 | DF | JPN | Yuta Imazu (vice-captain) |
| 6 | MF | JPN | Iwana Kobayashi (vice-captain) |
| 7 | MF | JPN | Sho Araki (vice-captain) |
| 8 | MF | JPN | Kosuke Taketomi |
| 9 | FW | JPN | Kazushi Mitsuhira |
| 10 | MF | JPN | Yoshiki Torikai |
| 11 | FW | COL | Fabián González |
| 13 | FW | JPN | Yukito Murakami |
| 14 | MF | JPN | Riku Nakayama |
| 15 | FW | JPN | Riku Iijima |
| 16 | MF | JPN | Koya Hayashida |
| 18 | MF | JPN | Naoto Misawa |
| 19 | FW | JPN | Jumma Miyazaki |
| 21 | MF | BRA | Renato Augusto |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 23 | DF | JPN | Masahiro Sekiguchi (captain) |
| 24 | DF | JPN | Takahiro Iida (on loan from Kyoto Sanga) |
| 26 | MF | JPN | Kazuhiro Sato |
| 28 | FW | JPN | Hayata Mizuno |
| 29 | DF | JPN | Kaito Kamiya |
| 30 | FW | JPN | Kotatsu Kumakura |
| 31 | GK | JPN | Kakeru Miyashita $^{Type2}$ |
| 32 | GK | KOR | Koh Bong-jo (on loan from Sagan Tosu) |
| 33 | GK | JPN | Kodai Yamauchi |
| 34 | MF | JPN | Takuto Kimura (on loan from Yokohama F. Marinos) |
| 35 | DF | JPN | Taiju Ichinose |
| 40 | DF | BRA | Eduardo Mancha |
| 41 | MF | JPN | Miki Inoue |
| 44 | FW | JPN | Yamato Naito |
| 51 | MF | BRA | Adaílton |
| 88 | GK | JPN | Tsubasa Shibuya |
| 99 | FW | NGA | Peter Utaka |

### Out on loan

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules; some limited exceptions apply. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 20 | MF | JPN | Hikaru Endo (at Tegevajaro Miyazaki) |
| No. | Pos. | Nation | Player |
| 22 | DF | JPN | Riku Nozawa (at FC Gifu) |

## Competitions
### Overall record

| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record | Record |
| Competition | First match | Last match | Starting round | Final position | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % |
| J2 League | 25 February 2024 | 10 November 2024 | Matchday 1 | | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 025.00 |
| Emperor's Cup | 12 June 2024 | | | | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | +3 | 100.00 |
| J.League Cup | 4 September 2024 | | | | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | !— |
| AFC Champions League | 15 February 2024 | 21 February 2024 | Round of 16 | Round of 16 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | −4 | 000.00 |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | Total | 28 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 39 | 42 | −3 | 028.57 |
Last updated: 14 July 2024 Source: Competitions

### J2 League
#### League table

| Pos | Teamvte | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts |
| 12 | Roasso Kumamoto | 38 | 13 | 7 | 18 | 53 | 62 | −9 | 46 |
| 13 | Fujieda MYFC | 38 | 14 | 4 | 20 | 38 | 57 | −19 | 46 |
| 14 | Ventforet Kofu | 38 | 12 | 9 | 17 | 54 | 57 | −3 | 45 |
| 15 | Mito HollyHock | 38 | 11 | 11 | 16 | 39 | 51 | −12 | 44 |
| 16 | Oita Trinita | 38 | 10 | 13 | 15 | 33 | 47 | −14 | 43 |

#### Results summary

| Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Overall | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Home | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away | Away |
Last updated: July 2024. Source:

#### Results by round

| Round | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| Ground | A | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | A | H | H |
| Result | W | W | L | W | D | D | L | W | L | D | W | L | L | W | D | L | L | L | D | D | L | D | L | D |
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#### Matches

The fixtures were released on 23 January 2024.