| Club: | Nagoya Grampus |
| Season: | 2016 |
| Manager: | Takafumi Ogura (until 23 August) Boško Gjurovski (caretaker) (from 23 August) |
| Mgrtitle: | Manager |
| Chairman: | Toyo Kato |
| Chrtitle: | Chairman |
| League: | J.League |
| League Result: | 16th (relegated) |
| Cup1: | Emperor's Cup |
| Cup1 Result: | Second Round vs Nagano Parceiro |
| Cup2: | J.League Cup |
| Cup2 Result: | Group Stage |
| League Topscorer: | Robin Simović (11 goals) |
| Season Topscorer: | Robin Simović (11 goals) |
| Pattern B1: | _grampus13h |
| Leftarm1: | d72b1f |
| Body1: | d72b1f |
| Rightarm1: | d72b1f |
| Shorts1: | 000000 |
| Socks1: | d72b1f |
| Pattern B2: | _grampus13a |
| Leftarm2: | ffffff |
| Body2: | ffffff |
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| Prevseason: | 2015 |
| Nextseason: | 2017 |
The 2016 Nagoya Grampus season was Nagoya Grampus' 24th season in the J.League Division 1 and 34th overall in the Japanese top flight. Takafumi Ogura managed the team until 23 August, when he was replaced with Boško Gjurovski. Nagoya Grampus finished the season in 16th place, being relegated to J2 League for the first time in their history, whilst being knocked out of the Emperor's Cup at the Second Round stage by Nagano Parceiro and the failing to progress from their J.League Cup group.
See main article: List of Japanese football transfers winter 2015–16. In:[2] Out:[3] [4] [5] [6] [6] [7] [6] [6] [6] [6]
In:[8] Out:
See main article: 2016 J1 League.
See main article: 2016 J.League Cup.
See main article: 2016 Emperor's Cup.
|-|colspan="14"|Players who left Nagoya Grampus during the season:|}
| width=60 | Place | width=60 | Position | width=60 | Nation | width=60 | Number | width=150 | Name | width=80 | J-League | width=80 | J-League Cup | width=80 | Emperor's Cup | width=80 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | FW | 9 | Robin Simović | 11 | 0 | 0 | 11 | ||||||||||
| 2 | FW | 11 | Kensuke Nagai | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | ||||||||||
| 3 | FW | 32 | Kengo Kawamata | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 | ||||||||||
| 4 | FW | 19 | Kisho Yano | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | ||||||||||
| DF | 2 | Akira Takeuchi | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | |||||||||||
| 6 | MF | 7 | Taishi Taguchi | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||||||||
| FW | 18 | Ryunosuke Noda | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |||||||||||
| 8 | MF | 38 | Riki Matsuda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | ||||||||||
| MF | 29 | Ryuji Izumi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| DF | 6 | Shota Kobayashi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| MF | 8 | Ha Dae-sung | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| MF | 10 | Yoshizumi Ogawa | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| MF | 36 | Ryusuke Sakai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| DF | 36 | Ryusuke Sakai | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| FW | 22 | Tomoya Koyamatsu | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |||||||||||
| TOTALS | 37 | 4 | 0 | 41 | |||||||||||||
| Number | Nation | Position | Name | J-League | J.League Cup | Emperor's Cup | Total | ||||||||
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GK | Seigo Narazaki | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 2 | DF | Akira Takeuchi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
| 3 | DF | Ludvig Öhman | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |||||
| 4 | DF | Tulio | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 5 | DF | Shun Obu | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 6 | DF | Shota Kobayashi | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
| 8 | MF | Ha Dae-sung | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 9 | FW | Robin Simović | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
| 10 | MF | Yoshizumi Ogawa | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |||||
| 11 | FW | Kensuke Nagai | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||||
| 13 | MF | Ryota Isomura | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |||||
| 15 | MF | Lee Seung-hee | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |||||
| 17 | MF | Tomokazu Myojin | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||||
| 18 | FW | Ryunosuke Noda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 19 | FW | Kisho Yano | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| 22 | FW | Tomoya Koyamatsu | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 24 | DF | Ryo Takahashi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 26 | MF | Yuto Mori | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 32 | FW | Kengo Kawamata | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| 33 | DF | Michihiro Yasuda | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| 38 | MF | Riki Matsuda | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| TOTALS | 52 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 65 | 3 | |||||||