Suntory Sunbirds Osaka
Director: Olivier Catt (France)
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Ryo Shimokawa (S)
Dmitry Musersky (OP, Russia)
Kotaro Kai (OP)
Rui Takahashi (OH)
De Armas Alain (OH)
Ai Takahashi (OH)
Futoshi Onodera (MB)
Kenji Sato (MB)
Itsuki Kashiwada (MB)
Hirohito Kashimura (MB)
Ren Oniki (MB)
Yoshimitsu Kiiri (L)
Takeshi Fujinaka (L)
Joining
Seita Sekita (S) ← JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Noriyuki Kuwata (OH) ←Voreas Hokkaido (loan transfer completed)
Igor Kryuka (OH, Russia) ←St. Petersburg (Russia)
Tomohiro Ogawa (L) ← JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Retirement
Maki Oya (S) → Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers
Kenya Fujinaka (OH) → JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Teru Someno (OH) →Voreas Hokkaido (loan transfer)
Aleksander Silivka (OH, Poland) → Halkbank Ankara (Türkiye)
Retirement
Torikai Atomu (OP)
Hiroki Nishida (S)
Projected starting lineup
OH Takahashi Ai - OH Cruca
MB Onodera - MB Sato
OP Muserski - S Sekita
L Ogawa
JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Manager: Tsunaichiro Maho ← Promoted from assistant coach
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Yudai Kawahigashi (S)
Ricardo Lucarelli (OH, Brazil)
Kosuke Hata (OH)
Tory Defalco (OH, USA)
Naoya Fujiwara (OH)
Kentaro Takahashi (MB)
Daigo Iwamoto (MB)
Souto Sakai (MB)
Kazuyuki Takahashi (L)
Takuma Araki (L)
Joining
Stephane Boyer (OP, France) ← Rzeszow (Poland)
Issei Maeda (S) ← Hiroshima Thunders
Shuuto Kawaguchi (MB) ← Hiroshima Thunders
Kenya Fujinaka (OH) ←Suntory Sunbirds Osaka
Lu Jiang Yao Kai (MB, Taiwan) ← Lian Shu Winstreak (Taiwan)
Retirement
Seita Sekita (S) → Suntory Sunbirds Osaka
Go Murayama (MB) →Tokyo Great Bears
Kento Miyaura (OP) → Wolf Dogs Nagoya
Tomohiro Ogawa (L) → Suntory Sunbirds Osaka
Tezuka Dai (OH) → Chiba Dot (V)
Jin Tsuzuki (OP) → Hokkaido Yellow Stars (V)
Bai Shuhan (MB, China) →Fujian (China)
Michal Gogol becomes technical advisor
Retirement
Junpei Michii (S) → Appointed as coach of PFU Blue Cats Ishikawa Kahoku (women's)
Projected starting lineup
OH Defalco - OH Fujinaka
MB Takahashi Ken - MB Iwamoto
OP Boyer - S Kawadong
L Kazu Takahashi
Osaka Bulleteon
Director: Tomas Samuelvo (Finland) ← Rzeszow (Poland)
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Shunsuke Nakamura (S)
Kunihiro Shimizu (OP/Coach)
Nishida Yuji (OP)
Hiroto Nishiyama (OP)
Miguel Lopez (OH, Cuba)
Masama Tomita (OH)
Masaaki Nakamoto (OH)
Yuto Kai (OH)
Akihiro Yamauchi (MB)
Keitaro Nishikawa (MB)
Everdedan Rally (MB)
Kotaro Kaneda (MB)
Tomohiro Yamamoto (L)
Kotaro Ikeshiro (L)
Joining
Antoine Brizard (S, France) ← Piacenza (Italy)
Peng Shikun (MB, China) ←Paris (France)
Brian Bagnas (OH, Philippines) ← Cignal HD Spikers (Philippines)
Retirement
Motoki Nagatsuyu (S) → Hiroshima Thunders
Thomas Jeske (OH, USA) → Galatasaray Istanbul (Türkiye)
Laurent Tilley (Coach, France) → Japan National Team
Retirement
Yuichiro Komiya (MB)
Takahiko Imamura (OH) *Last season, he was loaned to Kladno (Czech Republic) and switched to beach volleyball
Keita Takeuchi (OH) *Appointed manager
Projected starting lineup
OH Lopez - OH Kai
MB Yamauchi - MB Rally
OP Nishida - S Blizzard
L. Yamamoto
Wolf Dogs Nagoya
Director: Valerio Baldwin (Italy)
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Hideomi Fukatsu (S)
Naosumi Uebayashi (S)
Yuzuru Toyoda (OP)
Shuzo Yamada (OH)
Akito Yamazaki (OH)
Mizumachi Taimori (OH)
Ryota Denda (MB)
Akira Sawada (MB)
Masahiro Yamazaki (MB)
Shunsuke Watanabe (L)
Kenta Ichikawa (L)
Joining
Kento Miyaura (OP) ← JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Shunichiro Sato (MB) ← Loimaa (Finland)
Shinnosuke Hayasaka (S) ←VC Nagano Tridents
Norbert Huber (MB, Poland) ←Jastrzebski Wengier (Poland)
Timothy Karl (OH, France) ←Jastrzebski Wengier (Poland)
Aymen Bugera (OH, Tunisia) ← Katowice (Poland)
Retirement
Kenta Takanashi (OH) → Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers
Tine Urnart (OH, Slovenia) → Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Nimir Abdelaziz (OP, Netherlands) → Ziratbank Ankara (Türkiye)
Wang Dongchen (MB, China) →?
Livan Nurmulkik (OP, Indonesia) →?
Retirement
Hirotaka Chika (MB)
Takaki Koyama (MB)
Ryo Takahashi (OH)
Projected starting lineup
OH Curl - OH Mizumachi
MB Huber - MB Sato
OP Miyaura - S Fukatsu
L Watanabe/Ichikawa
Tokyo Great Bears
Director: Kasper Vuorinen (Finland)
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Akihiro Fukatsu (S)
Yuki Imahashi (S)
Ryusei Kurokawa (S)
Takuma Kawano (OP/OH)
Alex Ferreira (OH, Portugal)
Masahiro Yanagida (OH)
Takahiro Tozaki (OH)
Rikusho Goto (OH)
Ichisei Otake (MB)
Daigo Yamada (MB)
Riku Ito (MB)
Taichiro Koga (L)
Takaki Ohmae (L)
Joining
Go Murayama (MB) ← JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Jan Kozamelnik (MB, Slovenia) ← Trentino (Italy)
Luciano Visentin (OH, Argentina) ← Jastrzebski Wengier (Poland)
Wataru Taniguchi (L) ← AO Miron (Greece) (loan transfer completed)
Bartosz Kurek (OP, Poland) ← Kedzierzyn Kozile (Poland)
Retirement
Takumi Kameyama (OH) → Loimaa (Finland) *loan transfer
Goto Hirotaka (L) → Aka (Finland) *on loan
Takahiro Tozaki (OH) → Diamond Food VC (Thailand) *Loan transfer
Maciej Muzaj (OP, Poland) →?
Retirement
Daiki Odashima (MB)
Kentaro Tamatate (S)
Shin Tehara (S)
Shohei Nose (L) *Last season he was loaned to Düren (Germany)
Hidetomo Hoshino (OH)
Tetsuya Muto (MB)
Projected starting lineup
OH Ferreira - OH Goto
MB Otake - MB Murayama
OP Crec - S Imabashi
L Koga
Hiroshima Thunders
Director: Javier Weber (Argentina)
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Seiki Kaneko (S)
Daiki Abe (S)
Felipe Moreira Roque (OP, Brazil)
Shohei Yamamoto (OH)
Shinichiro Inoue (OH)
Takechi Koji (OH)
Junya Sakashita (OH)
Yudai Arai (OH)
Yūri Yanagikita (OH)
Nishi Tomoyasu (MB)
General Miwa (MB)
Kaiki Takanashi (MB)
Shin Nishimura (L)
Keijiro Takagi (L)
Joining
Nagatsuyu Motoki (S) ← Osaka Bulleteon
Keigo Nishimoto (MB) ←Toray Arrows Shizuoka
Yuki Higuchi (MB) ←VC Nagano Tridents ※Position change
Cooper Robinson (OH, USA) ← University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Martinez Campos (OP, Cuba) ← Cruzeiro (Brazil)
Retirement
Kawaguchi Shuuto (MB) → JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Masaru Kumakura (OH) →?
Kaisei Hirai (MB) →?
Maeda Issei (S) → JTEKT STINGS Aichi
Oreol Camejo (OH, Cuba) →?
Retirement
Taishi Karakawa (L)
Takuya Yasunaga (MB)
Projected starting lineup
OH Arai - OH Robinson
MB Miwa - MB Nishimoto
OP location - S Nagaru
L Takagi
Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers
Director: Takeshi Kitajima
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Takumi Eto (S)
Takehiro Nakanishi (S)
Ryunosuke Uemura (OP)
Naoya Takano (OH)
Kosuke Yasui (OH)
Akira Kakizaki (OH)
Yutaro Takemoto (MB)
Kou Watanabe (MB)
Naoto Akima (MB)
Tsai Pei-chang (MB, Taiwan)
Hiroyuki Yamane (MB)
Tomohiro Horie (L)
Aiki Mori (L)
Joining
Maki Oya (S) ←Suntory Sunbirds Osaka
Kenta Takanashi (OH) ←Wolf Dogs Nagoya
Matthew Anderson (OP, USA) ← Ziratbank Ankara (Türkiye)
Tommaso Rinaldi (OH, Italy) ← Modena (Italy)
Ulrik Dahl (OP, Denmark) ←VC Nagano Tridents
Retirement
Yoshihiko Matsumoto (MB) → VC Nagano Tridents
Hinata Shigetome (OH) → Hokkaido Yellow Stars (V)
Sharon Vernon Evans (OP, Canada) → Suwon (Korea)
Luciano Palonsky (OH, Argentina) → Istanbul GSK (Türkiye)
Retirement
Yukiya Uno (OH)
Shohei Yamaguchi (S) → Queens Kariya (women's) coach
Projected starting lineup
OH Rinaldi - OH Takanashi
MB Cai - MB Takemoto
OP Anderson - S Oya
L forest
Toray Arrows Shizuoka
Director: Yuta Abe
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Takahiro Arata (S)
Keisuke Sakai (S)
Eiki Onodera (S)
Yuto Fujinaka (OH)
Chuuki Ozawa (OH)
Tobias Shigeto (OH)
Daiki Yamada (OH)
Takeshi Kusumoto (OH)
Lee Bo (MB)
Ryusuke Nakamura (MB)
Takahiro Nanba (MB)
Raymond Kamijo (MB)
Takumi Yamaguchi (L)
Daishu Takeda (L)
Joining
Kirill Kreuz (OP, Russia) ← Kazan (Russia)
Taylor Avril (MB, USA) ←Monza (Italy)
Julio Cardenas (OH, Cuba) ← Bursa (Türkiye)
Retirement
Keigo Nishimoto (MB) → Hiroshima Thunders
Francesco Recini (OH, Italy) → Milan (Italy)
Alan Sousa (OP, Brazil) → Belchatov (Poland)
Retirement
Yuta Yoneyama (OH)
Projected starting lineup
OH Yamada - OH Kusumoto
MB Namba - MB Avril
OP Creats - S New
L Yamaguchi
VC Nagano Tridents
Director: Shinji Kawamura
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Kento Nakajima (S)
Takamasa Iida (OP)
Shusuke Sakai (OP)
Renki Kishikawa (OP)
Shota Fujiwara (OH)
Takaya Sato (OH)
Yuji Kudo (OH)
Ichijo Taikamaru (OH)
Yamada Koki (MB)
Shota Abe (MB)
Yasuhara University (MB)
Koji Nanba (L)
Hiroki Furuto (L)
Joining
Yoshihiko Matsumoto (MB) ←Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers
Shinji Akaboshi (S) ← Hokkaido Yellow Stars (V)
Matthew Nieves (OP, Canada) ← Düren (Germany)
Oscar Madsen (OH, Denmark) ← Prague (Czech Republic)
Farhan Halim (OH, Indonesia) ←Jakarta (Indonesia)
Retirement
Shohei Ono (OH) → Lavis Tochigi (V)
Sakoda Kakushi (OH) → Fragorad Kagoshima (V)
Bi Kazuma (L) → CHKS Chełm (Poland)
Hasama Taihei (MB) →?
Shinnosuke Hayasaka (S) → Wolf Dogs Nagoya
Yuki Higuchi (OH) → Hiroshima Thunders
Ulrik Bo Dahl (OP, Denmark) → Nippon Steel Sakai Blazers
Trent O'Day (MB, Australia) →?
Retirement
Itoyama Ohga (S)
Hiroto Nakamura (OP)
Projected starting lineup
OH Kudo - OH Madsen
MB Abe - MB Yamada
OP Nieves - S Nakajima
L Koto
Volares Hokkaido
Director: Ed Klein (Croatia)
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Hayato Yamagishi (S)
Kenta Koga (OP)
Nikita Zolotukhin (OP, Ukraine)
Zhang Yulin (OP, Taiwan)
Kota Ikeda (OH)
Kyosuke Hisha (OH)
Yuto Nakamichi (OH)
Timo Tammemaa (MB, Estonia)
Hitoshi Inoue (MB)
Keisuke Miyoshi (MB)
Kohei Tonosaki (L)
Rei Arao (L)
Joining
Mart Tammer (OH, Estonia) ← Lviv (Poland)
Shota Hamada (S) ← Busan OK Savings Bank OKman (Korea)
Teru Someno (OH) ← Suntory Sunbirds Osaka (loan transfer)
Retirement
Noriyuki Kuwata (OH) → Suntory Sunbirds Osaka *Loan ended
Takuya Toda (OH) → Chiba Dot (V)
Ryoto Motosawa (S) → Hokkaido Yellow Stars (V)
Chen Jianchen (OH, Taiwan) →TSG SkyHawks (Taiwan)
Retirement
Takayuki Tashiro (MB)
Katsumasa Tanijiri (L)
Projected starting lineup
OH Ikeda - OH Tanmeal
MB Tanmemer - MB Miyoshi
OP-S Yamagishi
L Tonosaki
Photo: CEV
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