[Veltex Shizuoka] #41 Seiya Kanou Announces Retirement at the End of the 2025-26 Season

Thank you very much for your continued special support and coverage of Veltex Shizuoka.

We would like to announce that Veltex Shizuoka player #41, Seiya Kanou, has decided to retire from active competition at the end of the Resona Group B.LEAGUE 2025-26 season.

In this season, which marks his 6th season with Shizuoka and his 15th as a professional player, there are only 5 away games and 4 home games remaining. We kindly ask for your passionate cheers for Kanou until the final buzzer sounds.

[#41 Seiya Kanou (SEIYA KANOU)]
- Jersey Number: 41
- Position: PF
- Date of Birth: April 9, 1989
- Height: 196cm
- Weight: 95kg
- Hometown: Owariasahi City, Aichi Prefecture
- Alma Mater: University of Tsukuba
- Career
2011-13 Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Dolphins (JBL)
2013-14 Mitsubishi Electric Diamond Dolphins Nagoya (NBL)
2014 Tsukuba Robots (NBL)
2014-15 Chiba Jets (NBL)
2015-16 Passlab Yamagata Wyverns (NBDL)
2016-20 Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka
2020-26 Veltex Shizuoka

[Message from Seiya Kanou]
To everyone involved with Veltex Shizuoka, the boosters who always support us without change, all the coaches who have been involved in my career, and everyone who supported me at other teams.

I, Seiya Kanou, have made the decision to retire from active play at the end of this season.

I apologize for making this announcement in the middle of the season and causing you all to feel various emotions.

And I am very sorry to those I could not greet or tell directly.

Although I have made my decision, there are still games remaining.

With determination and resolve, I want to fight and run through to the very end as a player for Veltex Shizuoka.

I would be happy if you could watch me stand on the court until the end.

Thank you for your support.

#41 Seiya Kanou

[Comment from President & CEO Kota Matsunaga]
Player Kanou, who has walked together with Veltex Shizuoka since the club's second year, has decided to retire from active play at the end of this season.

I want to express my sincere respect and gratitude to him for choosing this club in his career and for continuing to fight hard in this region.

I have shared countless joys and sorrows with Kanou from the club's launch up to now.

He continues to fight for the team in any situation, and he continues to challenge himself no matter what wall he faces.

That attitude is the very symbol of Veltex Shizuoka, and it is the style of the club that will continue into the future.

The time spent with Kanou is something special for this club.

That accumulation of history will surely remain.

I am truly grateful to him for continuing to fight for Shizuoka.

Seiya, thank you for all your hard work.

Let's fight together until the end.