Vs Cerezo Osaka (away) 13/4/24 J League match 8

Cerezo Osaka 1 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale Well, I dunno. What’s there to say? One again we lost. Once again we lost away at Cerezo. Once again we...

Vs Machida Zelvia (home) 7/4/24 J League match 7

Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 1 Machida Zelvia Aaaaaahhhhh. Another lovely day out at the football! What could think better than getting out the hou...

Vs Yokohama F Marinos (away) 3/4/24 J League match 6

Yokohama F Marinos 0 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale A 0-0 is never usually something to get excited about, but to be honest, after this 0-0 I actuall...

Vs FC Tokyo (home) 30/3/24 J League match 5

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 0 FC Tokyo Ah…. It’s lovely when we win, isn’t it? It’s even better when it’s against a local rival in a somewhat arti...

Vs Kashima Antlers (away) 17/3/24 J League match 4

Kashima Antlers 2 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Well, what is there to say? Another loss, this time away from home, just to inject a bit of variety....

Vs Kyoto Sanga (home) 9/3/24 J League match 3

Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 1 Kyoto Sanga  Congratulations Oniki! You’ve achieved a new record for earliest loss of hope for a season. I realise t...

Vs Jubilo Iwata (home) 1/3/24 J League match 2

Kawasaki Frontale 4 - 5 Jubilo Iwata HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. I think there’s no other appropriate reaction to another horrible performance but this ...

Vs Shonan Bellmare (away) 24/2/24 J League match 1

Shonan Bellmare 1 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale Now the season has kicked off properly we can just pretend that what happened in the ACL was just al...

Vs Shandong Taishan (home) 20/2/24 ACL round of sixteen

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 4 Shandong Taishan (5-6 on agg.) What an awful performance. And an awful performance merits an awful blog post, so her...

Vs Vissel Kobe 18/2 Super Cup

Vissel Kobe 0 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale It’s February 18th and already we’ve played our second game of the year. By the time 16 out of the 20 J1...

Vs Shandong Taishan (away) 13/2/24 ACL round of sixteen

Shandong Taishan 2 - 3 Kawasaki Frontale We’re back and banging! Erm… With a pretty average (and that’s being generous. Losses to Ryukyu and...

New player songs 2024

Here are the new players' songs and a few other new songs too, one of which includes quite complicated looking dance moves. To check the son...

2023/24 Players in and out

Today, my final 2023 season post and my first 2024 season post and it's about the players leaving us and joining us. For once, me being a bi...

2023 Season survey results

Finally, here are the results of the Frontale Rabbit 2023 season survey. Sorry they’re a bit late. This time we had a bit of input from fans...

2023 season round up

2023 is probably not a season that will live long in the memory, even though we ended up being more successful this year than we were in 202...

2023 season player round up part 3

Part three of three of the end of season round up. Next up we'll have the review of the season by competition. 25. Renji MATSUI (MF) 0 minut...

2023 season player round up part 2

Today, part two of three of my end of season player round up posts. Part one was yesterday and part three is coming tomorrow. 13. Miki YAMA...

2023 season player round up part 1

Here is part one of three of my end of season player round ups. These were written before our latest signing, (midfielder Yamamoto Yuki from...

2023 season player stats

Sorry that this is a bit less detailed than usual this year. In the past I’ve done half-season stats which meant that at the end of the year...

2023 season ref stats

Here we go with the end of season round up posts and as usual, I’m starting with the refs. Perhaps the most interesting thing about these st...

2023 Season survey questions

Here is the 7th annual Frontale Rabbit Blog survey. Once again almost totally cut and pasted from last year's one. Maybe the answers won't ...

Vs Ulsan Hyundai (away) 12/12/23 ACL Group stage match 6

Ulsan Hyundai 2 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale As I said I would in the last post, I missed this game as I was on a plane to the UK. With that in min...

Vs Kashiwa Reysol 9/11/23 Emperor's Cup Final

Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 0 Kashiwa Reysol (AET) (8-7 on penalties) Errrrmmmm. Well what happened there then? I don’t really understand how it...

Vs Sagan Tosu (away) 3/12/23 J League match 34

Sagan Tosu 0 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Another league campaign draws to a close and unlike last year, where we came miraculously close to kind o...

Vs Johor DT (home) 28/11/23 ACL Group stage match 5

Kawasaki Frontale 5 - 0 Johor DT This is perhaps the first week for a long time where I probably should spend some time writing a proper blo...

Vs Kashima Antlers (home) 24/11/23 J League match 33

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 0 Kashima Antlers  What’s happened to us recently? After struggling to play attacking football for pretty much the who...

Vs Kyoto Sanga (home) 12/11/23 J League match 32

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 3 Kyoto Sanga Sorry this is a bit late but I had an unpleasant start to the week as I think I caught the flu. Given th...

Vs Pathum United (home) 7/11/23 ACL Group stage match 4

Kawasaki Frontale 4 - 2 Pathum United So we’re back to the 4-2 wins again after the brief diversion of a dodgy 1-1 draw. It would be wrong t...

Vs Kashiwa Reysol (away) 29/10/23 J League match 31

Kashiwa Reysol 1 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Our run of three 4-2 wins in a row is over. But don’t worry pattern fans, we now have three consecuti...

Vs Pathum United (away) 24/10/23 ACL Group stage match 3

Pathum United 2 - 4 Kawasaki Frontale Our third group stage game and somewhat bizarrely considering recent seasons’ performances, our third ...

Vs Avispa Fukuoka (home) 20/10/23 J League match 30

Kawasaki Frontale 4 - 2 Avispa Fukuoka Another week, another 4-2 win against Avispa. Although this was far from as comfortable as the last o...

Vs Avispa Fukuoka (home) 8/10/23 Emperor's Cup Semi Final

Kawasaki Frontale 4 - 2 Avispa Fukuoka Well, that turned out to be a decent week didn’t it? I’m currently desperately trying to work out wha...

Vs Ulsan Hyundai (home) 3/10/23 ACL Group stage match 2

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 0 Ulsan Hyundai  It’s fair to say that 2023 hasn’t been the greatest year for Frontale. Considering how badly we’ve pl...

Vs Albirex Niigata (home) 29/9/23 J League match 29

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 3 Albirex Niigata  Ugh. I don’t know how many times this year I’ve said ‘this was our worst game in ages’, but this on...

Vs Shonan Bellmare (away) 24/9/23 J League match 28

Shonan Bellmare 0 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale When you’re lacking enthusiasm for doing something it sometimes helps to shake up the formula a litt...

Vs Johor DT (away) 19/9/23 ACL Group stage match 1

Johor DT 0 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale With just three days between games which included a flight to Malaysia, naturally Oniki went with the same ...

Vs FC Tokyo (home) 15/9/23 J League match 27

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 0 FC Tokyo  At the end of this year, when we potentially could be looking at another wholly unsuccessful season, some ...

Vs Cerezo Osaka (away) 2/9/23 J League match 26

Cerezo Osaka 3 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale Where to start with this game? This is probably going to be a post that surprises some people with its ...

Vs Albirex Niigata (away) 30/8/23 Emperor's Cup Quarter Final

Albirex Niigata 2 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale (AET) (3-4 on penalties) The result of this game gave us Frontale fans a much needed morale boost a...

Vs Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo (home) 26/8/23 J League match 25

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 2 Consadole Sapporo The best thing to do after another evening of Todoroki disappointment is to do something completel...

Vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima (away) 19/8/23 J League match 24

Sanfrecce Hiroshima 3 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale As this is another game I have been unable to watch in person, (honestly, this is nothing to do ...

Vs Vissel Kobe (home) 12/8/23 J League match 23

Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 1 Vissel Kobe Writing these blog posts and watching Frontale games; two activities which at some stage were quite fun ...

Vs Gamba Osaka (home) 6/8/23 J League match 22

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 4 Gamba Osaka Oh jeez. Where to start with another horrible result? Actually it doesn’t really matter where I start, j...

Vs Kochi Utd (away) 2/8/23 Emperor's Cup 4th round

Kochi United 0 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale I didn’t go to this game as it would have proved difficult for me to even just get to Kochi and back, l...

Vs Vissel Kobe (away) 22/7/23 J League match 16

Vissel Kobe 2 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale This was the first game this year that I haven’t attended. I guess all good things come to an end sooner...

Vs Yokohama F Marinos (away) 15/7/23 J League match 21

Yokohama F Marinos 0 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Well, well, well. If that wasn’t the best feeling we’ve had all year, I don’t know what was. Admi...

Vs Mito Hollyhock (away) 12/7/23 Emperor's Cup 3rd round

Mito Hollyhock 1 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale Another trip to Mito in the Emperor’s Cup, almost 5 years to the day and once again we’re through saf...

Vs Yokohama FC (home) 8/7/23 J League match 20

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 0 Yokohama FC Perhaps it was somewhat convenient that the 2023 version of my new calm persona, a persona which it seem...

Vs Nagoya Grampus (away) 1/7/23 J League match 19

Nagoya Grampus 2 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale Once again, what an awful performance. And an awful performance merits an awful blog post, so here we...

Vs Urawa Reds (away) 11/6/23 J League match 18

Urawa Reds 1 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Our second 2023 trip to the Saitama Stadium is done, and at least we had something to be at least a littl...

Vs Shonan Bellmare (away) 19/6/23 Levain Cup group stage game 6

Shonan Bellmare 2 - 3 Kawasaki Frontale What an amazing game! A great performance! A truly superlative tactical masterclass from our great l...

Vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima (home) 11/6/23 J League match 17

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Better late than never, (possibly), here is a long overdue blog post on what was basically a pre...

Vs Tochigi City (home) 7/6/23 Emperor's Cup 2nd round

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 1 Tochigi City After Saturday’s canceled game in Kobe, on Wednesday we were back at Todoroki for our first Emperor’s ...

Vs Kashiwa Reysol (home) 28/5/23 J League match 15

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 0 Kashiwa Reysol Back at home and back to winning ways! All is great, right? Well perhaps superficially this result m...

Vs Urawa Reds (away) 24/5/23 Levain Cup group stage game 5

Urawa Reds 2 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale I’m going to be a bit busy in the next few weeks as I’m playing a concert in Kobe and I’m woefully underp...

Vs Yokohama FC (away) 20/5/23 J League match 14

Yokohama FC 2 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Jeez, where do you possibly start with another calamitous showing from us? Saturday saw us make the rela...

Vs FC Chofu (away) 12/5/23 J League match 13

FC Chofu 2 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale So here we are, back to being shit again. The signs were there in recent games. Actually the signs have bee...

Vs Sagan Tosu (home) 7/5/23 J League match 12

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 0 Sagan Tosu Another game for us when it was absolutely pissing it down. Unlike in Fukuoka where I was fully expose to...

Vs Kyoto Sanga (away) 3/5/23 J League match 11

Kyoto Sanga 0 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Back home now after a nice trip that involved two games where we miraculously managed to find some form...

Vs Avispa Fukuoka (away) 29/4/23 J League match 10

  Avispa Fukuoka 1 - 3 Kawasaki Frontale   The main reason why this post is initially quite useless is the fact that as it’s golden week and...

Vs Urawa Reds (home) 23/4/23 J League match 9

  Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 1 Urawa Reds   After the confidence boost of Wednesday when we handsomely beat a J2 team’s reserves and youth player...

Vs Shimizu S Pulse (home) 19/4/23 Levain Cup group stage game 4

Kawasaki Frontale 6 - 0 Shimizu S Pulse  2023 has so far been something of a year of misery for Frontale fans, watching a squad of talented ...

Vs Nagoya Grampus (home) 15/4/23 J League match 8

  Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 2 Nagoya Grampus With another game coming up soon, I guess I can’t delay writing this any longer. Not saying I’ve be...

Vs Gamba Osaka (away) 9/4/23 J League match 7

  Gamba Osaka 2 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale Let’s start positive! This was not the worst match of the last ten years. That was Niigata away I reck...

Vs Urawa Reds (home) 5/4/23 Levain Cup group stage game 3

  Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 0 Urawa Reds Back home again after last weekend’s excitement and we’re back to the 0-0 games again. So was the Consa...

Vs Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo (away) 1/4/23 J League match 6

Consadole Sapporo 3 - 4 Kawasaki Frontale Trips to play Consadole are always exciting, but in the past the games didn’t quite live up to the...

Vs Shonan Bellmare (home) 26/3/23 Levain Cup group stage game 2

  Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 0 Shonan Bellmare In the way that most J League fans treat the Levain Cup like the class weirdo at a school reunion,...

Vs Cerezo Osaka (home) 18/3/23 J League match 5

  Kawasaki Frontale 0 - 0 Cerezo Osaka Hmmmm. Well this was quite a confusing game. I came away feeling surprisingly positive given that we’...

Vs Albirex Niigata (away) 11/3/23 J League match 4

Albirex Niigata 1 - 0 Kawasaki Frontale Once again let’s try (and probably fail) to keep this brief. I think this game was perhaps the wors...

Vs Shimizu S Pulse (away) 8/3/23 Levain Cup group stage game 1

Shimizu S Pulse 3 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale The fun continued midweek with another dodgy performance and another defeat, this time away to Shimi...

Vs Shonan Bellmare (home) 4/3/23 J League match 3

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 1 Shonan Bellmare After last weekend’s last minute elation, this round of games saw us back at home and up against our...

Vs Kashima Antlers (away) 25/2/23 J League match 2

Kashima Antlers 1 - 2 Kawasaki Frontale Some might have thought that such a joyous occasion as a last minute win against Kashima with 10 men...

Vs Yokohama F Marinos (home) 17/2/23 J League match 1

Kawasaki Frontale 1 - 2 Yokohama F Marinos The J League is back, and personally I wouldn’t have minded it getting lost on the way. A new sea...

New player songs 2023

Here are the new player songs for 2023, with maybe a few in there that have either slightly changed, massively changed or have been forgotte...

2022/23 Players in and out

After completing all of the end of season posts at a fairly leisurely pace, I guess it’s time to start with the new season posts. Or perhaps...

2022 Season survey results

Finally, here are the results of the Frontale Rabbit 2022 Season survey. I don't think I'll be getting any more responses, but if I do, I'll...

2022 season player round up part 3

This is the third and final part of the Frontale Rabbit 2022 season player round up posts. Today we're going from Miyagi to Oniki, who I rea...

2022 season player round up part 2

This is the second of three parts of my 2022 player round up post. Today we're going from Yamane to Marcinho. 13. Miki YAMANE (DF) I feel li...

2022 season player round up part 1

This is the first of three parts of my 2022 player round up post. Today we're going from Sung-Ryong to Kobayashi. I'm sorry that there is qu...

2022 season round up

Normally this is a lengthy in-depth blog post but honestly, I can’t really be bothered to go onto much detail when talking about 2022. Since...

2022 season player stats

Here are this year’s player stats. They’re a bit flakier than usual as I have put them together in a bit of a rush. Next year, I’ll note the...

2022 season ref stats

Here we go with the first of my 2022 season round up posts and as always I'll start with the easiest one to do, the ref stats. I think I alw...

2022 Season survey questions

Here is the 6th annual Frontale Rabbit Blog survey. Totally cut and pasted from last year's one. Maybe the answers will be a bit depressing ...

Vs FC Tokyo (away) 5/11/22 J League match 34

FC Tokyo 2 - 3 Kawasaki Frontale After months of saying the title is gone I can now confirm that the title has officially gone. It’s someth...

Vs Vissel Kobe (home) 29/10/22 J League match 33

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 1 Vissel Kobe I know that recently I’ve started every blog post with a disclaimer that I don’t have much time to write...

Vs Kyoto Sanga (home) 12/10/22 J League match 25

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 1 Kyoto Sanga  Whoever wins the league this year, one thing is for sure. The winner won’t have won due to them having ...

Vs Shimizu S Pulse (home) 8/10/22 J League match 32

Kawasaki Frontale 3 - 2 Shimizu S Pulse So we live to fight another day! Possibly YFM want to make me look as stupid as possible as I’ve bee...

Vs Consadole Sapporo (away) 1/10/22 J League match 31

Consadole Sapporo 4 - 3 Kawasaki Frontale I’m sorry this post is a bit late, but… what did you expect? I guess we can be pleased that our 20...

Vs Kashiwa Reysol (away) 19/9/22 J League match 30

Kashiwa Reysol 1 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale With a decent break between this match and our next game away at Sapporo we’ve got a lot of time and ...

Vs Nagoya Grampus (away) 14/9/22 J League match 22

Aichi Grampus 1 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Drinking from my Frontale mug on the morning of the game no longer works. Changing my player towel whe...

Vs Sanfrecce Hiroshima (home) 10/9/22 J League match 29

Kawasaki Frontale 4 - 0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Once again we bounced back from a terrible performance with a decent one. The problem however i...

Vs Shonan Bellmare (away) 3/9/22 J League match 28

Shonan Bellmare 2 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Well, our stay at the top of the table was pretty brief, wasn’t it? And the feel good factor hasn’t ...

Vs Sagan Tosu (home) 31/8/22 J League match 20

Kawasaki Frontale 4 - 0 Sagan Tosu I wonder if when we look back on this season we will congratulate Oniki for his determination to get us f...

Vs Kashima Antlers (home) 27/8/22 J League match 27

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 1 Kashima Antlers  Before this game I met up with FC Ryukyu fan Okinawa Ozzy for some beers at Haneda airport. I went ...

Vs Avispa Fukuoka (away) 20/8/22 J League match 26

Avispa Fukuoka 1 - 4 Kawasaki Frontale We won in Kyushu! But, as usual when it’s an away trip with a fun game and a good result, I didn’t ta...

Vs Cerezo Osaka (home) 10/8/22 Levain Cup quarter finals second leg

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 2 Cerezo Osaka Oh well. After the excitement and optimism of last weekend we've been brought back to earth with a bum...

Vs Yokohama F Marinos (home) 7/8/22 J League match 24

Kawasaki Frontale 2 - 1 Yokohama F Marinos Football is delightful isn’t it? From that opening burst of positivity you might think that you h...

Vs Cerezo Osaka (away) 3/8/22 Levain Cup quarter finals first leg

Cerezo Osaka 1 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Sorry everyone, I missed this match in every possible way. I wasn’t able to go and wasn’t able to even ...

Vs Urawa Reds (away) 30/7/22 J League match 23

Urawa Reds 3 - 1 Kawasaki Frontale Urawa away is always a bit of a mess of contradictions. The journey’s not that far but that walk from the...

New player songs 2022

It's been a while since we could sing, and in fact we still can't, apart from at Cerezo Osaka away in the Levain Cup. But I guess with one e...