Then, the club invited Koichi HASHIRATANI as manager and whose hometown was Kyoto like the club, but partly because KUROBE got injured too often to do a very good job satisfactorily, the team finished fifth in the end.
その後、地元京都出身の柱谷幸一を監督に迎えるも、黒部が怪我がちで満足に活躍できなかったこともあり5位に終わった。