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The story
In Matchday 6 of the J1 League, JEF United Chiba beat Gamba Osaka 2-0 at home, picking up their first J1 win in 6,132 days (about 17 years) — since defeating FC Tokyo on November 22, 2009. After opening this season with five straight losses, the club finally got on the board thanks to goals from Yamura and Tsukui. On 5ch, threads lit up with reactions like “biggest news of the day,” while heavy rain across Chiba Prefecture triggered planned train suspensions that day, sparking side discussion about attendance at Fukuda Denshi Arena and the transit situation. Plenty of commenters also fondly recalled former manager Ivica Osim.
◇2026 Meiji Yasuda J1 League Matchday 6: Chiba 2-0 Gamba Osaka (September 6, 2026, Fukuda Denshi Arena)
Nine Meiji Yasuda J1 League matches were played on the 6th, with Chiba cruising to a 2-0 home win over Gamba Osaka, snapping their season-opening five-match losing streak.
It’s Chiba’s first J1 win since beating FC Tokyo on November 22, 2009 — 6,132 days ago.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
That alone was worth it just to (barely) stop a whole generation from growing up never knowing Chiba as a J1 team.
And with the season-format transition lining up nicely, we got an extra half-year in J1 out of it anyway — no regrets left.
Or so said one old-guard Chiba supporter.
Had no idea.
looks like we'll get to watch them there again next season.
Yeah exactly.
Even when there's a match on a Wednesday, TV only pushes baseball and ignores it completely.
Pathetic TV coverage that just endlessly rehashes garbage non-news like "Ohtani isn't in the starting lineup."
Guess that means it'll rain tomorrow, huh
…nah, that joke's way too real to make right now
It's already pouring, so say it all you want
Though it's kind of funny how Gamba cycles back to a terrible manager the second things start looking up.
Also wait, did they lose every single match in the no-relegation transition league?
That six-month transition-format league doesn't count as an official J1 season
Anyway, congrats
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It became "JEF United Ichihara Chiba," remember?
Ichihara is VONDS now
Chiba is JR East Furukawa United
They ended up splitting into separate territories
meanwhile the Chiba Lotte Marines posted losses for 50 straight years
Yeah, that was the irregular league split into East and West divisions
9/6 (Sun) 18:00
J1 Matchday 6
Fukuda Denshi Arena
Attendance: 11,316
Soga's getting hit by disaster-level heavy rain again, so yeah, that's rough lol (Soga = the district where the stadium sits)
But you've never even been to a baseball stadium, have you?
Classic reaction from a "yakibuta" (5ch slang mocking obsessive baseball fans) getting worked up over surface-level numbers — kinda charming, honestly
Wonder what they'll do.
Aren't the trains suspended until tomorrow morning?
No way it's some foreign breed.
Being serious for a sec, it's probably a Shiba Inu or an Akita Inu
It's an Akita Inu — a fierce dog, that one
On the flanks, only Eli Adams was actually pulling his weight.
They should've held onto Juan Alano
Background and Key Points of This Story
JEF United Chiba is remembered as a club that fought near the top of the table in the early 2000s under manager Ivica Osim, but was relegated from J1 at the end of the 2009 season and has spent most of the years since stuck in J2. The “6,132 days” making headlines now refers to the number of days since that very win late in the 2009 season — meaning, ironically, their last J1 victory came in the same season they were relegated. The thread also buzzed about Chiba’s rough start this season, five straight losses right after promotion, and opinions split on whether it was even necessary to phrase the gap in days (“did they really need to say it in days?”). Also worth noting: heavy rain caused planned train suspensions across Chiba Prefecture on the day of the match, which likely contributed to the low attendance — a detail that doesn’t fully come through from the comments alone.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Soccer] JEF Chiba wins in J1 for the first time in 6,132 days (17 years)! Snaps season-opening losing streak at 5 — Yamura opens the scoring, Tsukui adds another“.
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