Official Match Day Program (MDP) will be available for sale at the 2018 YBC Levain Cup 6th round Vegalta Sendai match on May 16 (Wed). Please be sure to purchase it before the match!

[Specifications]
Price: 300 yen (tax included)
Format/Number of pages: B5 variant/24 pages
Release date: May 16 (Wed)
Sales location: Ajinomoto Stadium Bookstore
 

※Click to enlarge
 

□Cover
Kiichi YAJIMA, who scored his first goal in a J1 official match in the 2018 J.League YBC Levain Cup Group Stage Sec. 5 against Albirex Niigata, will be featured on the cover!

□Interview
This interview features player number 4, Kazunori YOSHIMOTO, and player number 29, Makoto OKAZAKI, both graduates of the FC Tokyo Academy.
Kazunori YOSHIMOTO, who changed his jersey number to "4" from the 2018 season, now wears the number "29" that Makoto OKAZAKI used to wear. They are talking about their impressions of each other and their feelings towards FC Tokyo. Please take a look!

≪Introducing a little bit of the interview...≫
"(What are you careful about in conditioning?) (Okazaki player) When I don't get enough sleep, my body feels heavy, so I make sure to go to bed at 9 o'clock every night. (Yoshimoto player) Speaking of which, when we stayed overnight before J3...". ...Please enjoy the rest on MDP!

□THE POINT OF THIS MATCH
Introducing the highlights of the Vegalta Sendai match on May 16 (Wed) and the key players to watch. Check the past match results and game content, and please try to predict the course of the match on the day!

□Focus on
This time's "Focus on" is on Kiichi YAJIMA, who scored his first goal in the 2018 J-League YBC Levain Cup Group Stage Sec. 5 J1 official match!
Akihiko Arai, the official photographer who has been taking photos of Kiichi Yajima since his academy days, captured this special moment of Yajima player with all his might.

<20th Anniversary Club Project>

Sec. 8 intense battle record of □ blue and red
The 8th installment following the 10th anniversary project conducted in the MDP magazine in 2008. We will look back on the footsteps of the battles since the 2008 season.
This season, which marks the second season for coach Massimo FICCADENTI, we will look back on the 2015 season, in which Ryoichi MAEDA, who has won the J-League top scorer award twice, and Tatsuya ENOMOTO, who boasts abundant experience, joined the team. In addition, Ryoya OGAWA, who showed great performance in the National High School Soccer Championship, joined the team, and we faced the 2-stage system for the first time in 11 years.

Player Number Chronicles
Introducing the story of jersey numbers that has been woven together with 20 years of history. This time, it is the story of jersey number "20".