Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road builds its entire structure around characters. Every system in the game — from Story Mode to Chronicle Mode — assumes you care as much about who is on the pitch as what the scoreline is. That starts with a brand-new school, pulls in fan‑favorite teams, and then reaches across the series’ history through Chronicle.
Main team structure in Victory Road
The character roster in Victory Road is organized by school and by role rather than as one flat list. The main groups are:
- South Cirrus Junior High (Main Characters)
- South Cirrus Junior High (Selectable Characters)
- Raimon Junior High
- Northbright Middle School
- West Manor Academy
- Eastwind Peregrine International Institute
- Royal Academy
- Chronicle (cross‑era heroes)
These teams sit under the Characters section of the official Victory Road site, alongside pages for modes like Story, Chronicle, and Competition. Victory Road is described as a “Character Collection and Football Simulation RPG” on Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam, and the cast design matches that pitch: you are expected to collect, build, and constantly reshuffle your eleven.
South Cirrus Junior High main characters
South Cirrus is the new narrative core. Its main squad gives Victory Road a fresh forward line, midfield engine, and goalkeeper while leaving space for off‑pitch characters to matter.
| Character | Role on team |
|---|---|
| Destin Billows | Central figure of the South Cirrus story, not locked to one on‑pitch role |
| Briar Bloomhurst | Forward |
| Cedric Freud | Midfielder |
| Raika Shinohara | Forward |
| Cade Shelby | Defender |
| Alix La Fontaine | Goalkeeper |
| Thierry Reyes | Story character, off‑pitch role |
| Elaine Sereno | Story character, off‑pitch role |
| Lilac Tausend | Story character, off‑pitch role |
| Juno Hundertmark | Story character, off‑pitch role |
| Edwin Grove | Story character, off‑pitch role |
The split between pitch roles and N/A in position is deliberate. Victory Road leans into coordinators, managers, and other support characters as part of how matches and story sequences are framed, instead of limiting the cast to eleven starters.
South Cirrus selectable characters and guest voices
South Cirrus also introduces a “Selectable Characters” system. Instead of a fixed squad of twelve or thirteen, you pick five out of fifteen story characters to form your South Cirrus Eleven. That selection doubles as a light roster‑building puzzle and as a way to showcase a run of guest voice performances.
| Character | Notable detail |
|---|---|
| Tai Richter | Selectable player, voiced by Sango Suo |
| Winsor Compete | Selectable player, voiced by HIKAKIN |
| Meridia Althoff | Selectable player, voiced by Lisa Hanabusa |
| Marisol Cavallo | Selectable player, voiced by Maika Sasaki |
| Maine Alsop | Selectable player, voiced by Takushi Izawa |
| Lycus Foxworth | Selectable player, voiced by Toshiya Miyata |
| Davin Bullock | Selectable player, voiced by Masai |
| Dario Highton | Selectable player, voiced by Rai Inami |
| Amelia Rainwalker | Selectable player, voiced by Ichijou Ririka |
| Charis Benzaie | Selectable player, voiced by Michaela Wako Sato |
| Florent Shorleigh | Selectable player |
| Antonia Felicier | Selectable player |
| Kelvin Steelborne | Selectable player |
| Lemmy Stretchen | Selectable player |
| Starla Thorn | Selectable player |
In practice that means South Cirrus is less a single, canonical lineup and more a framework for your version of the team. Victory Road treats those choices as part of your identity going into Story Mode and early competitions.
Raimon Junior High: new generation, old name
Raimon Junior High returns, but not as the exact same squad that defined the original DS trilogy. The school name carries the legacy; the roster is a new wave of players aligned with Victory Road’s timeframe.
| Character | Position / Role |
|---|---|
| Harper Evans | Forward |
| Talon Lewis | Forward |
| Darian Moonward | Midfielder |
| Eleanor Estrella | Midfielder |
| Maddock Jackson | Midfielder |
| Colton Sharps | Midfielder |
| Jazmine Carmine | Midfielder |
| Boone Wretman | Defender |
| Clemant Mariner | Defender |
| Viorain Maleby | Defender |
| Zander Warmington | Goalkeeper |
| Leia Caperton | Coordinator |
| Addison Norris | Manager |
Those titles matter mechanically: Victory Road distinguishes “Player”, “Coordinator”, “Manager”, and “Coach” as character roles. You build around that whole ecosystem rather than just picking your favorite striker.
Northbright Middle School characters
Northbright slots into the same layer of the story as Raimon: a full middle‑school squad with a clear tactical identity and its own coordinator and manager.
| Character | Position / Role |
|---|---|
| Nikas Himmelstein | Forward |
| Ivan Mercer | Midfielder |
| Erdem Barath | Forward |
| Taliesin Greenhunt | Midfielder |
| Hawky Savard | Midfielder |
| Chase Winthrop | Midfielder |
| Bodhi Field | Midfielder |
| Autry Rogers | Defender |
| Sentry Scarborough | Defender |
| Peake Fletcher | Defender |
| Milo Rankin | Goalkeeper |
| Raz Pond | Coordinator |
| Neil Turner | Manager |
For Story Mode, these tightly defined lineups make it easy to read a match at a glance: you know who plays where, who is likely to carry the ball, and which adult or older student is pulling strings from the bench.
West Manor Academy characters
West Manor Academy leans further into stylized naming but follows the same structural pattern: four attacking players, a midfield spine, four defenders, a goalkeeper, and the usual two off‑pitch staff.
| Character | Position / Role |
|---|---|
| Laymark Starwyn | Midfielder |
| Edgard Loathe | Midfielder |
| Berdy Caster | Forward |
| Flanko Midspringle | Forward |
| Mody Tidbitt | Midfielder |
| Ernesta Beauregard | Midfielder |
| Edvan Trodden | Defender |
| Drever Olfaire | Defender |
| Looke Raundoff | Defender |
| Rutheo Wheyston | Defender |
| Dax Prescott | Goalkeeper |
| Yasmin Tausend | Coordinator |
| Waddell Homely | Manager |
The pattern that runs across Northbright and West Manor is that every opponent is treated as a complete football program, not just a set of opposing stats.
Eastwind Peregrine International Institute characters
Eastwind Peregrine International Institute brings in more overtly international naming and links directly to a number of long‑running Inazuma names through Chronicle and the broader codex.
| Character | Position / Role |
|---|---|
| Toyo Yamanouchi | Midfielder |
| Kai Yoshizaki | Forward |
| Joey Beat | Forward |
| Sikuvoit Shivan | Forward |
| Ming Chow | Midfielder |
| Maribelle Flammir | Midfielder |
| Robart Anderson | Midfielder |
| Jenny Okutba | Defender |
| Gigy Maharaja | Defender |
| Judie Cassios | Defender |
| Martino Leone | Goalkeeper |
| Anita Navarro | Coordinator |
| Derrin Wilson | Manager |
Those names echo throughout the wider Victory Road ecosystem — for example, the Player Codex lists many of these characters across multiple games, teams, and eras, reflecting how Chronicle Mode pulls from the entire franchise.
Royal Academy and Chronicle characters
Royal Academy occupies a special slot in Victory Road’s character grid. It exists both as a present‑day school and as a bridge into Chronicle, where series‑spanning heroes and rivals gather.
| Character | Role / Title |
|---|---|
| Alice Rendell | Royal Academy’s “Top General” |
| Fei Rune | Chronicle character with direct ties to earlier GO era |
| Victorio Cryptix | Chronicle‑linked character |
| Cross Word Cryptix | Chronicle‑linked character |
| Misty | Chronicle‑linked character |
| Clark von Wunderbar | Chronicle‑linked character |
Once Chronicle Mode opens up, Royal Academy’s roster stops being just one more opponent and becomes one of several hubs through which you meet returning legends.
Legacy characters through the Player Codex
Underneath the story teams, Victory Road exposes the entire cast through the Player Codex, also called Inazugle. This database covers more than five thousand entries across the series and lets you filter by:
- Game (from the first Inazuma Eleven through GO and Ares / Orion to Victory Road)
- Team name (Raimon, Royal Academy, Occult, and dozens more)
- Element (Wind, Forest, Fire, Mountain)
- Position (GK, DF, MF, FW)
- Character role (Player, Coordinator, Manager, Coach)
- School year and age group
Classic characters like Mark Evans, Axel Blaze, Jude Sharp, Joseph King, and Fei Rune are all present here with their elements, positions, and short descriptions. The same tool lists rival teams such as Royal Academy, Occult, and Neo National with full lineups, so you can see, for example, that Ray Dark appears as a Wind‑element manager for Royal Academy and Royal Academy Redux, while Stephen Black is listed as a Forest‑element coach.
For Victory Road specifically, the codex uses an icon to mark characters that appear in the new game, even when they originally debuted in much older entries. It effectively serves as a technical “full list” once Chronicle Mode is in play, while the main Characters section focuses on the core teams you meet in the new story.
The result is that Victory Road has two faces: a tightly drawn set of school teams that carry the new narrative, and a sprawling, codex‑backed roster for players who want to build dream elevens from every era. South Cirrus and its selectable characters sit at the center of that structure, but the surrounding schools and Chronicle connections are what turn the game into a long‑term character collection RPG rather than a single‑season sports story.
