The 2016 Sanfrecce Hiroshima season was the club's eighth consecutive season in J1 League, and 46th overall in the Japanese top flight. Sanfrecce Hiroshima are also competing in the 2016 Japanese Super Cup and the 2016 AFC Champions League.
Squad
Squad No. Name Nationality Position(s) Date of birth (age) Goalkeepers 1 Takuto Hayashi GK 13 Takuya Masuda GK 21 Ryotaro Hironaga GK Defenders 2 Yuki Nogami DF 4 Hiroki Mizumoto CB 5 Kazuhiko Chiba DF / DM 19 Sho Sasaki DF 26 Yasumasa Kawasaki DF 33 Tsukasa Shiotani DF 34 Soya Takahashi DF 35 Naoki Otani DF Midfielders 6 Toshihiro Aoyama DM 7 Kōji Morisaki MF 8 Kazuyuki Morisaki MF 14 Mihael Mikić RW 16 Kohei Shimizu MF / ST 18 Yoshifumi Kashiwa MF 24 Yoichi Naganuma MF 25 Yusuke Chajima AM 28 Takuya Marutani DM 29 Tsukasa Morishima MF 30 Kosei Shibasaki MF 37 Kazuya Miyahara MF Strikers 9 Peter Utaka FW 11 Hisato Satō ST 22 Yusuke Minagawa FW 31 Takumi Miyayoshi ST 44 Anderson Lopes ST
Transfers
Winter
In Date from Position Nationality Name From Type 31 December 2015 MF Park Hyung-jin Tochigi SC Loan return 31 December 2015 DF Hironori Ishikawa Mito HollyHock Loan return 1 January 2016 MF Tsukasa Morishima Tsu Technical High School Transfer 1 January 2016 MF Yoichi Naganuma Sanfrecce Hiroshima Youth Promotion 4 January 2016 DF Naoki Otani Roasso Kumamoto Loan return 6 January 2016 FW Takumi Miyayoshi Kyoto Sanga Transfer 7 January 2016 MF Kim Byeom-yong Montedio Yamagata Transfer 26 January 2016 MF Kota Sameshima AC Nagano Parceiro Loan return 2 February 2016 FW Peter Utaka Shimizu S-Pulse Loan
Out Date from Position Nationality Name To Type 31 December 2015 FW Douglas Tokushima Vortis Loan return 6 January 2016 MF Park Hyung-jin V-Varen Nagasaki Transfer 8 January 2016 DF Hironori Ishikawa Thespakusatsu Gunma Transfer 15 January 2016 MF Satoru Yamagishi Ōita Trinita Transfer 27 January 2016 MF Kota Sameshima Fujieda MYFC Transfer 1 April 2016 MF Gakuto Notsuda Albirex Niigata Loan
Summer
In Date from Position Nationality Name From Type 9 July 2016 FW Anderson Lopes Tombense Loan 11 July 2016 DF Yuki Nogami Yokohama FC Transfer
Out
Date from Position Nationality Name To Type 13 July 2016 MF Kim Byeom-yong Shimizu S-Pulse Loan 18 July 2016 FW Takuma Asano Arsenal Transfer 25 July 2016 DF Kyohei Yoshino Kyoto Sanga Loan
Competitions
Overall
Overview
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center" |- !rowspan=2|Competition !colspan=8|Record |- ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! |- | J1 League
| Japanese Super Cup
| Champions League
! Total
Japanese Super Cup
J1 League
First stage
Results summary
Results by matchday
Matches
Second stage
Results summary
Results by matchday
Matches
Overall results
Results summary
AFC Champions League
Sanfrecce Hiroshima qualified for the group stage of the 2016 AFC Champions League by winning the 2015 J1 League. They were drawn in Group F along with China's Shandong Luneng Taishan, Korean outfit FC Seoul, and Buriram United from Thailand. Sanfrecce Hiroshima were automatically eliminated on 20 April after a 1–0 loss against Shandong Luneng Taishan, making a four-point gap with one game left.
Group stage
Statistics
Appearances and goals
Last updated on 28 August 2016.
|-ENG |colspan="14"|Players who left the club in Winter/Summer transfer window or on loan:
Cards
Accounts for all competitions. Last updated on 28 August 2016.
No.Pos.Name4DF Hiroki Mizumoto105DF Kazuhiko Chiba306MF Toshihiro Aoyama208MF Kazuyuki Morisaki109FW Peter Utaka1014MF Mihael Mikić2016MF Kohei Shimizu2018MF Yoshifumi Kashiwa1019DF Sho Sasaki2023DF Kyohei Yoshino1025MF Yusuke Chajima1028MF Takuya Marutani3030MF Kosei Shibasaki1034DF Soya Takahashi2037DF Kazuya Miyahara30
References
External links Sanfrecce Hiroshima official site J.League official site