1998 J.League

J.League
Season1998
ChampionsKashima Antlers
2nd J.League title
RelegatedConsadole Sapporo
Asian Club ChampionshipKashima Antlers
Júbilo Iwata
Matches played306
Goals scored1,074 (3.51 per match)
Top goalscorerMasashi Nakayama (36 goals)
Highest attendance53,598 - Flügels vs. Marinos (September 15)
Lowest attendance2,091 - Vissel vs. JEF Utd. (October 14)
Average attendance11,982
← 1997
1999 →

The 1998 J.League season was the sixth season of the J.League. The league began in March 21 and ended in November 14. For this year, the division was contested by 18 teams. Júbilo Iwata won the 1st stage and Kashima Antlers won the 2nd stage. Kashima Antlers won the J.League title after winning both matches in the Suntory Championship.

Clubs

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The following eighteen clubs participated in J.League during the 1998 season. Of these clubs, Consadole Sapporo was the only newly promoted team from Japan Football League.

Personnel

Club Head coach
Avispa Fukuoka Takaji Mori
Bellmare Hiratsuka Shigeharu Ueki
Cerezo Osaka Yasutaro Matsuki
Consadole Sapporo Hugo Fernández
Gamba Osaka Frédéric Antonetti
JEF United Ichihara Jan Versleijen
Júbilo Iwata Valmir Louruz
Kashima Antlers Zé Mário
Kashiwa Reysol Akira Nishino
Kyoto Purple Sanga Hidehiko Shimizu
Nagoya Grampus Eight Koji Tanaka
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Eddie Thomson
Shimizu S-Pulse Osvaldo Ardiles
Urawa Red Diamonds Hiromi Hara
Verdy Kawasaki Ryoichi Kawakatsu
Vissel Kobe Harumi Kori
Yokohama Flügels Gert Engels
Yokohama Marinos Xabier Azkargorta

Foreign players

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Non-visa foreign Former players
Avispa Fukuoka Fernando Dragan Đukanović Miodrag Božović Juan Carlos Villamayor Marcos Aurélio
Michael Obiku
Pablo Maqueda
Bellmare Hiratsuka Cláudio Ricardinho Pavel Badea Hong Myung-bo Park Kyung-hwan
Cerezo Osaka Pericles Pintado Radivoje Manić Hwang Sun-hong Ha Seok-ju
Ko Jeong-woon
Consadole Sapporo Hugo Maradona Pereira Walter Jorge Dely Valdés Dido Havenaar
Gamba Osaka Anto Drobnjak Nebojša Krupniković Claude Dambury Amir Karić Patrick Mboma
Boban Babunski
JEF United Ichihara Matthew Bingley Nenad Maslovar Arnold Scholten Kim Dae-eui Kim Hwang-jung
Júbilo Iwata Adilson Batista Dedimar Dunga Alessandro Cambalhota
Kashima Antlers Bismarck Jorginho Mazinho Ricardo
Kashiwa Reysol Basílio Bentinho Buiú Hristo Stoichkov Duda
Elpídio Silva
Marcão
Kyoto Purple Sanga Edmílson Matias Junior Paulo Silas Park Kang-jo
Nagoya Grampus Eight Alexandre Torres Dragan Stojković Bernard Allou Tarik Oulida Ko Ishikawa Valdo
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Aurelio Vidmar Hayden Foxe Tony Popovic Don Goodman Graham Arnold
Ian Crook
Shimizu S-Pulse Fernando Oliva Fabinho Santos Alex
Urawa Red Diamonds Željko Petrović Giuseppe Zappella Txiki Begiristain Alfred Nijhuis
Verdy Kawasaki Daniel da Silva Fumagalli Henrique Moacir Euller
Edwin Ifeanyi
Vissel Kobe Ha Seok-ju Kim Do-hoon Albert Tomàs Michael Yano Matthew Bingley
Budimir Vujačić
Yokohama Flügels César Sampaio Marco Ferreira Paulo Futre Igor Lediakhov Anderson Gils
Yokohama Marinos Julio César Baldivieso Dušan Petković Jon Andoni Goikoetxea Julio Salinas

Standings

First stage

Pos Team Pld W OTW PKW OTL PKL L GF GA GD Pts
1 Júbilo Iwata 17 13 0 0 0 0 4 52 18 +34 39
2 Shimizu S-Pulse 17 13 0 0 0 0 4 32 14 +18 39
3 Nagoya Grampus Eight 17 9 3 0 0 1 4 37 21 +16 33
4 Yokohama Marinos 17 10 1 0 1 0 5 39 21 +18 32
5 Kashima Antlers 17 10 1 0 0 0 6 41 28 +13 32
6 Verdy Kawasaki 17 10 0 0 1 1 5 34 25 +9 30
7 Urawa Red Diamonds 17 8 1 2 1 0 5 30 23 +7 28
8 Yokohama Flügels 17 7 2 1 0 0 7 33 32 +1 26
9 Cerezo Osaka 17 7 1 0 1 0 8 36 47 −11 23
10 Kashiwa Reysol 17 6 1 2 1 0 7 32 35 −3 22
11 JEF United Ichihara 17 7 0 0 2 0 8 31 31 0 21
12 Bellmare Hiratsuka 17 5 2 1 1 0 8 27 34 −7 20
13 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 17 5 2 0 2 1 7 22 33 −11 19
14 Gamba Osaka 17 4 2 1 1 0 9 27 29 −2 17
15 Kyoto Purple Sanga 17 4 2 0 3 0 8 20 33 −13 16
16 Consadole Sapporo 17 3 1 0 2 3 8 28 44 −16 11
17 Vissel Kobe 17 3 0 0 1 0 13 20 48 −28 9
18 Avispa Fukuoka 17 2 0 1 2 2 10 22 47 −25 7
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Second stage

Pos Team Pld W OTW PKW OTL PKL L GF GA GD Pts
1 Kashima Antlers 17 12 3 0 0 0 2 38 15 +23 42
2 Júbilo Iwata 17 13 0 0 1 0 3 55 21 +34 39
3 Urawa Red Diamonds 17 11 0 0 2 0 4 32 17 +15 33
4 Yokohama Marinos 17 10 1 0 3 0 3 40 27 +13 32
5 Shimizu S-Pulse 17 8 3 1 0 1 4 39 21 +18 31
6 Nagoya Grampus Eight 17 9 1 1 1 0 5 34 26 +8 30
7 Yokohama Flügels 17 8 0 1 0 0 8 37 32 +5 25
8 Kashiwa Reysol 17 8 0 1 1 1 6 24 26 −2 25
9 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 17 7 1 1 1 1 6 23 19 +4 24
10 Consadole Sapporo 17 8 0 0 1 1 7 29 30 −1 24
11 Kyoto Purple Sanga 17 6 2 1 0 0 8 27 30 −3 23
12 Bellmare Hiratsuka 17 7 0 1 0 0 9 26 32 −6 22
13 Cerezo Osaka 17 7 0 0 0 1 9 20 32 −12 21
14 Vissel Kobe 17 5 0 1 1 0 10 25 41 −16 16
15 Avispa Fukuoka 17 4 1 0 0 0 12 11 38 −27 14
16 Gamba Osaka 17 3 2 0 0 1 11 20 32 −12 13
17 Verdy Kawasaki 17 3 0 0 1 1 12 13 28 −15 9
18 JEF United Ichihara 17 1 0 1 2 1 12 18 44 −26 4
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Playoffs

Suntory Championship

Júbilo Iwata1 – 2Kashima Antlers
Nakayama 7' Hasegawa 72'
Muroi 110'
Attendance: 40,263
Kashima Antlers2 – 1Júbilo Iwata
Akita 39'
Bismarck 41'		 Fujita 84'
Attendance: 16,991

Relegation playoffs

On the aggregate table, JEF United Ichihara, Avispa Fukuoka, and Vissel Kobe had earned within the 15th-18th places in the tables for both 1997 and 1998, while Consadole Sapporo had achieved within the same span on its sole season on the J.League. (Gamba Osaka, who had finished between Sapporo and Kobe, was reprieved because of the collapse and resignation of Yokohama Flügels.) These clubs thus were entered in an elimination promotion/relegation tournament along with Japan Football League runners-up Kawasaki Frontale, who unlike champions Tokyo Gas had a base more qualifiable for the J.League.

First round

November 19, 1998 Avispa Fukuoka 3–2 (a.e.t.) Kawasaki Frontale Hakata no Mori Football Stadium, Fukuoka
Kudo 24'
Yamashita 89'
Fernando 104'		 Ito 17'
Tuto 61'		 Attendance: 12,535
Referee: Alfredo Rodas

Kawasaki forms J.League Division 2 the next season. Fukuoka advances to the next round.

Second round

The winners of this round stay in J.League Division 1 and the losers play a final elimination series to determine the club relegated to Division 2.

November 22, 1998 Vissel Kobe 2–1 Consadole Sapporo Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium, Kobe
Nagashima 34' (pen.)
Kaimoto 41'		 Tanada 50' Attendance: 14,613
November 26, 1998
Time 		Consadole Sapporo 0–2 Vissel Kobe Muroran Irie Stadium, Muroran
Tomàs 48'
Watada 89'		 Attendance: 4,525
Referee: Alfredo Rodas
November 22, 1998 Avispa Fukuoka 0–2 JEF United Ichihara Hakata no Mori Football Stadium, Fukuoka
Takeda 65'
Scholten 76'		 Attendance: 12,300
Referee: Leslie Mottram
November 26, 1998 JEF United Ichihara 2–1 Avispa Fukuoka Ichihara Stadium, Ichihara
Suzuki 49'
Sakai 60'		 Mori 63' Attendance: 10,703

Final round

December 2, 1998 Avispa Fukuoka 1–0 Consadole Sapporo Hakata no Mori Football Stadium, Fukuoka
Ueno 61' Attendance: 12,526
Referee: Alfredo Rodas
December 5, 1998 Consadole Sapporo 0–3 Avispa Fukuoka Muroran Irie Stadium, Muroran
Ueno 52'
Fernando 84'
Ishimaru 89'		 Attendance: 8,372
Referee: Leslie Mottram

Fukuoka stays in J.League Division 1. Consadole is relegated to new J.League Division 2.

Awards

Individual awards

Award Recipient Club
Most Valuable Player Masashi Nakayama Júbilo Iwata
Rookie of the Year Shinji Ono Urawa Red Diamonds
Manager of the Year Osvaldo Ardiles Shimizu S-Pulse
Top Scorer Masashi Nakayama Júbilo Iwata

Best Eleven

Pos Footballer Club Nationality
GK Seigo Narazaki Yokohama Flügels  Japan
DF Makoto Tanaka Júbilo Iwata  Japan
DF Naoki Soma Kashima Antlers  Japan
DF Yutaka Akita Kashima Antlers  Japan
MF Dunga Júbilo Iwata  Brazil
MF Daisuke Oku Júbilo Iwata  Japan
MF Hiroshi Nanami Júbilo Iwata  Japan
MF Shinji Ono Urawa Red Diamonds  Japan
MF Toshiya Fujita Júbilo Iwata  Japan
FW Atsushi Yanagisawa Kashima Antlers  Japan
FW Masashi Nakayama Júbilo Iwata  Japan

References

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