The club had gotten leading members of rival teams such as Daisuke HOSHI, Kenichiro META and Daishi KATO, and both of the foreign players, Paulo Antonio De OLIVEIRA "Paulinho" and Carlos Adriano De JESUS SOARES "Alemao," scored a lot of goals, so that the team ran far ahead of the other teams with overwhelming strength from the early stages of the season.
星大輔、米田兼一郎、加藤大志といったライバルチームの主力を獲得し、パウロ・アントニオ・デ・オリベイラ、カルロス・アドリアーノ・デ・ジョス・ソアレスの両外国人助っ人が得点を量産し、圧倒的な強さで序盤から首位を独走。