Season | 2024 |
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Dates | 23 February – 8 December |
Matches played | 230 |
Goals scored | 607 (2.64 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Léo Ceará (16 goals) |
Biggest home win | Vissel Kobe 6–1 Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo (30 March 2024) Machida Zelvia 5–0 Tokyo Verdy (19 May 2024) Shonan Bellmare 5–0 Jubilo Iwata (14 July 2024) |
Biggest away win | Kyoto Sanga 0–5 Sanfrecce Hiroshima (19 May 2024) |
Highest scoring | Kawasaki Frontale 4–5 Jubilo Iwata (1 March 2024) |
Longest winning run | 5 matches Gamba Osaka |
Longest unbeaten run | 11 matches Kashima Antlers Sanfrecce Hiroshima Tokyo Verdy |
Longest winless run | 9 matches Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Shonan Bellmare |
Longest losing run | 8 matches Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo |
Highest attendance | 57,885 FC Tokyo 2–0 Albirex Niigata (13 July 2024)[1] |
Lowest attendance | 5,886 Sagan Tosu 1–4 Kashiwa Reysol (30 June 2024)[1] |
Total attendance | 4,507,898[1] |
Average attendance | 19,600[1] |
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The 2024 J1 League, also known as the 2024 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (Japanese: 2024 明治安田J1リーグ, Hepburn: 2024 Meiji Yasuda J1 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is the 32nd season of J1 League, the top Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. This is the tenth season of the league since its rebrand from J.League Division 1.
Vissel Kobe are the defending champions, having won their first ever league title with one match to spare in the previous season.[2]
For the first time since 2021, the number of the clubs in the league increased from 18 to 20. At the end of season, three clubs will be relegated to the J2 League for the 2025 season, without relegation play-offs between J1 and J2 clubs.[3]
Only one club was relegated to the 2024 J2 League. Due to the re-introduction of 20 clubs league format, Yokohama FC became the sole team going down to the second division, after just one season in the J1 League, have been replaced by three teams promoted from the 2023 J2 League. The first club promoted was Tokyo-based Machida Zelvia, debuting in the J1 as the J2 champions following a seven-year run in the Japanese second tier.[4][5] Another automatic promotion spot was obtained by Júbilo Iwata, who made a swift comeback after just a single season absence by finishing second, thus marking the return of a team from Shizuoka in the Japanese first division since 2022.[6] The last promotion spot was earned by Tokyo Verdy, returning to the top flight for the first time since 2008 by finishing third in the J2 League and later won the promotion play-offs. This brings back the Tokyo derby between Verdy and FC Tokyo in the J1 for the first time since that season as well as the first season in which three clubs from the capital city are competing at the highest tier of Japanese football system.[7][8]
The league and match format was announced on 19 December 2023. The league began on 23 February and is scheduled to end on 8 December; it is played in a double round-robin format with 38 fixtures in total.[9]
† Greater Tokyo teams
Machida Zelvia
FC Tokyo
Tokyo Verdy
Kawasaki Frontale
Urawa Red Diamonds
Shonan Bellmare
Yokohama F. Marinos
Kashima Antlers
Kashiwa Reysol
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Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in the table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
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Kashima Antlers | ![]() |
End of contract | 4 December 2023 | Pre-season | ![]() |
21 December 2023 |
Yokohama F. Marinos | ![]() |
Resigned | 6 December 2023 | ![]() |
31 December 2023 | |
Urawa Red Diamonds | ![]() |
23 December 2023 | ![]() |
23 December 2023 |
From the 2021 season, there are no limitations on signing foreign players, but clubs can only register up to five of them for a single matchday squad.[16] Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Morocco, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Tunisia, Egypt, and Qatar) were exempted from these restrictions.
Pos | Team
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Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
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1 | Machida Zelvia | 23 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 36 | 17 | +19 | 49 | Qualification for the AFC Champions League Elite league stage |
2 | Gamba Osaka | 23 | 13 | 5 | 5 | 28 | 17 | +11 | 44 | |
3 | Vissel Kobe | 23 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 34 | 18 | +16 | 41 | Qualification for the AFC Champions League Two group stage |
4 | Kashima Antlers | 23 | 12 | 5 | 6 | 37 | 29 | +8 | 41 | |
5 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 23 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 39 | 24 | +15 | 37 | |
6 | Cerezo Osaka | 23 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 30 | 23 | +7 | 37 | |
7 | FC Tokyo | 23 | 10 | 6 | 7 | 34 | 30 | +4 | 36 | |
8 | Avispa Fukuoka | 23 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 24 | 22 | +2 | 35 | |
9 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 23 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 33 | |
10 | Tokyo Verdy | 23 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 31 | 36 | −5 | 31 | |
11 | Nagoya Grampus | 23 | 9 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 26 | −2 | 30 | |
12 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 23 | 8 | 5 | 10 | 35 | 36 | −1 | 29 | |
13 | Kashiwa Reysol | 23 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 28 | 33 | −5 | 29 | |
14 | Kawasaki Frontale | 23 | 5 | 10 | 8 | 32 | 33 | −1 | 25 | |
15 | Albirex Niigata | 23 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 30 | 36 | −6 | 25 | |
16 | Júbilo Iwata | 23 | 6 | 6 | 11 | 29 | 38 | −9 | 24 | |
17 | Sagan Tosu | 23 | 7 | 2 | 14 | 30 | 40 | −10 | 23 | |
18 | Shonan Bellmare | 23 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 33 | 38 | −5 | 22 | Relegation to the J2 League |
19 | Kyoto Sanga | 23 | 5 | 7 | 11 | 20 | 37 | −17 | 22 | |
20 | Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo | 23 | 2 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 44 | −27 | 12 |
Home \ Away | ANI | AFU | COS | GOS | HCS | JIW | KSA | KSR | KWF | KYS | MCZ | NGR | STO | SHI | SHB | TOK | TOV | URD | VKO | YFM |
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Albirex Niigata | — | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–4 | 3–1 | ||||||||
Avispa Fukuoka | — | 0–3 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 2–1 | |||||||
Cerezo Osaka | — | a | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 2–2 | |||||||
Gamba Osaka | 1–0 | 1–0 | — | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 4–0 | ||||||||
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo | 0–1 | 1–0 | — | 1–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | |||||||
Júbilo Iwata | 2–0 | 1–1 | — | 0–1 | 2–2 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 1–1 | 0–2 | ||||||||
Kashima Antlers | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | — | 2–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 3–2 | ||||||||
Kashiwa Reysol | 0–2 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | — | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–2 | 1–0 | ||||||||
Kawasaki Frontale | 1–1 | 3–0 | 4–5 | 1–1 | — | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 3–1 | |||||||
Kyoto Sanga | 0–1 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 2–2 | — | 0–3 | 0–5 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–3 | ||||||||
Machida Zelvia | 1–3 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | — | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 1–2 | ||||||||
Nagoya Grampus | 0–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | — | 1–1 | 0–1 | 0–2 | 2–1 | ||||||||
Sagan Tosu | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 4–0 | 4–2 | 1–4 | 5–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | — | 0–1 | 0–2 | 0–0 | |||||||
Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 2–3 | 4–0 | — | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–0 | 1–3 | |||||||
Shonan Bellmare | 2–1 | 1–2 | 5–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 2–1 | — | 0–1 | 1–2 | 4–4 | 0–1 | ||||||||
FC Tokyo | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | — | a | 2–1 | 1–2 | 1–1 | |||||
Tokyo Verdy | 2–2 | 0–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 5–3 | 3–2 | 1–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–2 | — | 1–2 | |||||||
Urawa Red Diamonds | 2–1 | 0–1 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | — | 1–1 | 2–1 | |||||||
Vissel Kobe | 3–2 | 1–0 | 6–1 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 0–1 | — | 1–2 | ||||||||
Yokohama F. Marinos | 0–1 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 4–1 | 4–0 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 0–1 | 3–2 | 2–2 | 1–2 | — |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals[18][19][20] |
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1 | ![]() |
Cerezo Osaka | 16 |
2 | ![]() |
Júbilo Iwata | 12 |
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Yokohama F. Marinos | ||
4 | ![]() |
Shonan Bellmare | 11 |
5 | ![]() |
Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 10 |
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Sagan Tosu | ||
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Kashima Antlers | ||
8 | ![]() |
Tokyo Verdy | 9 |
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Urawa Red Diamonds | ||
10 | ![]() |
Machida Zelvia | 8 |
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Kashiwa Reysol | ||
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Gamba Osaka |
Player | For | Against | Result | Date | Ref. |
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Jubilo Iwata | Kawasaki Frontale | 5–4 (A) | 1 March 2024 | [21] |
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Kawasaki Frontale | Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo | 3–0 (H) | 11 May 2024 | [22] |
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Nagoya Grampus | FC Tokyo | 3–1 (H) | 15 May 2024 | [23] |
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Sanfrecce Hiroshima | Kyoto Sanga | 5–0 (A) | 19 May 2024 | [24] |
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Yokohama F. Marinos | Kashiwa Reysol | 4–0 (H) | 29 May 2024 | [25] |
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Shonan Bellmare | Jubilo Iwata | 5–0 (H) | 14 July 2024 | [26] |
Month | Manager of the Month | Monthly MVP | Goal of the Month | Young Player of the Month | References | ||||
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Manager | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | ||
February/March | ![]() |
Machida Zelvia | ![]() |
Machida Zelvia | ![]() |
Albirex Niigata | ![]() |
Shonan Bellmare | [27][28][29][30] |
April | ![]() |
Cerezo Osaka | ![]() |
Júbilo Iwata | ![]() |
Urawa Red Diamonds | ![]() |
Gamba Osaka | [31][32][33][34] |
May | ![]() |
Kashima Antlers | ![]() |
Kashima Antlers | ![]() |
Kashiwa Reysol | ![]() |
FC Tokyo | [35][36][37][38] |
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