2018 J1 League

Meiji Yasuda J1 League
Season2018
Dates23 February – 1 December
ChampionsKawasaki Frontale (2nd title)
RelegatedKashiwa Reysol
V-Varen Nagasaki
AFC Champions LeagueKawasaki Frontale
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Kashima Antlers
Urawa Red Diamonds
Matches played306
Goals scored813 (2.66 per match)
Top goalscorer (Nagoya Grampus)
(24 goals)
Biggest home winFrontale v Consadole 7–0
(15 September)
Biggest away winVegalta v Marinos 2–8
(16 July)
Highest scoringVegalta v Marinos 2–8
(16 July)
Longest winning run9 – Gamba Osaka
(Matchday 25–33)
Longest unbeaten run12 – Consadole Sapporo
(Matchday 25–34)
Longest winless run15 – Nagoya Grampus
(Matchday 3–17)
Longest losing run8 – Nagoya Grampus
(Matchday 4–11)
Highest attendance55,689 – Reds v Vissel
(23 September,
Matchday 27)
Lowest attendance6,189 – S-Pulse v V-Varen
(11 April,
Matchday 7)
Total attendance5,833,538
Average attendance19,064
2017
2019

The 2018 J1 League, also known as the 2018 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (2018 明治安田生命J1リーグ, 2018 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J1 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 26th season of J1 League, the top Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. This was fourth season of J1 League as renamed from J. League Division 1.

Kawasaki Frontale were the defending champions.

Clubs

A total of 18 clubs contested the league. The 2017 J2 League champion Shonan Bellmare and the winner of the promotion play-offs Nagoya Grampus returned to the top flight a year after being relegated from J1 in the 2016 season. V-Varen Nagasaki, J2 runner-up in 2017, played in the J1 League for the first time.

Club Location Stadium Last season
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Hokkaido Sapporo Dome J1 (11th)
Vegalta Sendai Miyagi Prefecture Yurtec Stadium Sendai J1 (12th)
Kashima Antlers Ibaraki Prefecture Kashima Soccer Stadium J1 (2nd)
Urawa Red Diamonds Saitama Prefecture Saitama Stadium 2002 J1 (7th)
Kashiwa Reysol Chiba Prefecture Sankyo Frontier Kashiwa Stadium J1 (4th)
FC Tokyo Tokyo Ajinomoto Stadium J1 (13th)
Kawasaki Frontale Kanagawa Prefecture Todoroki Athletics Stadium J1 (champions)
Yokohama F. Marinos Nissan Stadium
Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium
J1 (5th)
Shonan Bellmare Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka J2 (champions)
Shimizu S-Pulse Shizuoka Prefecture IAI Stadium Nihondaira J1 (14th)
Júbilo Iwata Yamaha Stadium J1 (6th)
Nagoya Grampus Aichi Prefecture Paloma Mizuho Stadium
Toyota Stadium
J2 (3rd)
Gamba Osaka Osaka Prefecture Panasonic Stadium Suita J1 (10th)
Cerezo Osaka Yanmar Stadium
Kincho Stadium
J1 (3rd)
Vissel Kobe Hyōgo Prefecture Noevir Stadium Kobe J1 (9th)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Hiroshima Prefecture Edition Stadium Hiroshima J1 (15th)
Sagan Tosu Saga Prefecture Best Amenity Stadium J1 (8th)
V-Varen Nagasaki Nagasaki Prefecture Transcosmos Stadium Nagasaki J2 (2nd)

    Personnel and kits

    Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Front shirt sponsor
    Cerezo Osaka Yoon Jong-hwan[1] Hotaru Yamaguchi Puma Yanmar
    FC Tokyo Kenta Hasegawa[2] Jang Hyun-soo Umbro Lifeval
    Gamba Osaka Tsuneyasu Miyamoto[3] Yasuhito Endō Umbro Panasonic
    Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Mihailo Petrović[4] Hiroki Miyazawa Kappa Shiroi Koibito
    Júbilo Iwata Hiroshi Nanami[5] Nagisa Sakurauchi Puma Yamaha
    Kashima Antlers Go Oiwa[6] Mitsuo Ogasawara Nike Lixil
    Kashiwa Reysol Nozomu Kato Hidekazu Otani Yonex Hitachi
    Kawasaki Frontale Toru Oniki[7] Yu Kobayashi Puma Fujitsu
    Nagoya Grampus Yahiro Kazama[8] Hisato Satō Mizuno Toyota
    Sagan Tosu Kim Myung-hwi Yutaka Yoshida New Balance DHC
    Sanfrecce Hiroshima Hiroshi Jofuku[9] Toshihiro Aoyama Nike EDION
    Shimizu S-Pulse Jan Jönsson[10] Ryo Takeuchi Puma Suzuyo
    Shonan Bellmare Cho Kwi-jae[11] Kaoru Takayama Penalty Meldia
    Urawa Red Diamonds Oswaldo de Oliveira Yōsuke Kashiwagi Nike Polus
    Vegalta Sendai Susumu Watanabe[12] Shingo Tomita Adidas Iris Ohyama
    Vissel Kobe Juan Manuel Lillo[13] Lukas Podolski Asics Rakuten
    V-Varen Nagasaki Takuya Takagi[14] Jordy Buijs Hummel Japanet
    Yokohama F. Marinos Ange Postecoglou[15] Yuji Nakazawa Adidas Nissan

    Managerial changes

    Team Outgoing manager Date of vacancy Incoming manager Date of appointment
    Yokohama F. Marinos Erick Mombaerts 1 January 2018[16] Ange Postecoglou 19 December 2017[17]
    Urawa Red Diamonds Takafumi Hori 2 April 2018[18] Oswaldo de Oliveira 19 April 2018[19]
    Kashiwa Reysol Takahiro Shimotaira 13 May 2018 Nozomu Kato 13 May 2018[20]
    Gamba Osaka Levir Culpi 23 July 2018[21] Tsuneyasu Miyamoto 23 July 2018
    Vissel Kobe Takayuki Yoshida 17 Sep 2018[22] Juan Manuel Lillo 4 Oct 2018[23]
    Sagan Tosu Massimo Ficcadenti 17 Oct 2018 Kim Myung-hwi 17 Oct 2018

    Foreign players

    The total number of foreign players is restricted to five per club. Clubs can register up to four foreign players for a single match-day squad, of which a maximum of three are allowed from nations outside the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, Iran and Qatar) are exempt from these restrictions.

    Players marked in bold indicate players that were registered during the mid-season transfer window. Players marked in ITALICS indicate players that were out of squad or left their respective clubs during the mid-season transfer window.

    Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Other Former players
    Cerezo Osaka Souza Matej Jonjić Kim Jin-hyeon Yang Dong-hyun Osmar Pierce Waring
    Chaowat Veerachat
    FC Tokyo Diego Oliveira Lins Lipe Veloso Jang Hyun-soo Jakkit Wachpirom
    Gamba Osaka Ademilson Fábio Hwang Ui-jo Oh Jae-suk Matheus Jesus
    Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Jay Bothroyd Gu Sung-yun Kim Min-tae Chanathip Songkrasin Jonathan Reis
    Julinho
    Júbilo Iwata Adaílton Krzysztof Kamiński Eren Albayrak Fozil Musaev Gabriel Morbeck
    Guilherme
    Kashima Antlers Leandro Léo Silva Serginho Jung Seung-hyun Kwoun Sun-tae Pedro Júnior
    Kashiwa Reysol Cristiano Nathan Michael Olunga Kim Bo-kyung Park Jeong-su Ramon Lopes
    Yun Suk-young
    Kawasaki Frontale Caio César Eduardo Elsinho Jung Sung-ryong Jefferson Tabinas Eduardo Neto
    Nagoya Grampus Mitchell Langerak Eduardo Neto Gabriel Xavier Willian Rocha Washington
    Sagan Tosu Joan Oumari Cho Dong-geon Kim Min-hyeok Fernando Torres Víctor Ibarbo
    An Yong-woo
    Jung Seung-hyun
    Sanfrecce Hiroshima Besart Berisha Felipe Patric Teerasil Dangda
    Shimizu S-Pulse Mitch Duke Crislan Douglas Freire Hwang Seok-ho Jong Tae-se Wu Shaocong
    Shonan Bellmare André Bahia Mihael Mikić Lee Jeong-hyeop Alen Stevanović
    Urawa Red Diamonds Andrew Nabbout Fabrício Maurício Antônio Quenten Martinus Zlatan Ljubijankič
    Vegalta Sendai Rafaelson Ramon Lopes Lee Yun-oh Ryang Yong-gi
    Kim Jung-ya
    Vissel Kobe Wellington Lukas Podolski Kim Seung-gyu Andrés Iniesta Ahmed Yasser
    Theerathon Bunmathan
    Leandro
    Jung Woo-young
    V-Varen Nagasaki Jordy Buijs Choi Kyu-baek Jairo Morillas Juanma Ben Halloran
    Yokohama F. Marinos Thiago Martins Olivier Boumal Hugo Vieira Dušan Cvetinović Yun Il-lok Ippey Shinozuka Milos Degenek
    David Babunski

    Results

    League table

    Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
    1 Kawasaki Frontale (C) 34 21 6 7 57 27 +30 69 Qualification for the Champions League group stage
    2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 34 17 6 11 47 35 +12 57 Qualification for the Champions League play-off round
    3 Kashima Antlers 34 16 8 10 50 39 +11 56
    4 Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo 34 15 10 9 48 48 0 55
    5 Urawa Red Diamonds 34 14 9 11 51 39 +12 51 Qualification for the Champions League group stage[a]
    6 FC Tokyo 34 14 8 12 39 34 +5 50
    7 Cerezo Osaka 34 13 11 10 39 38 +1 50
    8 Shimizu S-Pulse 34 14 7 13 56 48 +8 49
    9 Gamba Osaka 34 14 6 14 41 46 −5 48
    10 Vissel Kobe 34 12 9 13 45 52 −7 45
    11 Vegalta Sendai 34 13 6 15 44 54 −10 45
    12 Yokohama F. Marinos 34 12 5 17 56 56 0 41
    13 Shonan Bellmare 34 10 11 13 38 43 −5 41
    14 Sagan Tosu 34 10 11 13 29 34 −5 41
    15 Nagoya Grampus 34 12 5 17 52 59 −7 41
    16 Júbilo Iwata (O) 34 10 11 13 35 48 −13 41 Qualification for the Relegation play-off
    17 Kashiwa Reysol (R) 34 12 3 19 47 54 −7 39 Relegation to J2 League
    18 V-Varen Nagasaki (R) 34 8 6 20 39 59 −20 30
    Source: Meiji Yasuda J1 League
    Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored
    (C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (R) Relegated
    Notes:

    Positions by round

    Team ╲ Round12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334
    Kawasaki Frontale1421325633345433333332222221111111
    Sanfrecce Hiroshima4212111111111111111111111112222222
    Kashima Antlers127968121381214151381011131079677778743355333
    Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo161115111576444433355564456644574533444
    Urawa Red Diamonds6131317171611109121411121314111297899999986666665
    FC Tokyo6141713943522222222222223333335444556
    Cerezo Osaka6910151264355554544456765565657878897
    Shimizu S-Pulse12533458121311710119109810810111111121210109987778
    Gamba Osaka1417181818181818171716151616161616161617171817171717171312109989
    Vissel Kobe6151481310997688107666455444578910111211121110
    Vegalta Sendai4354232267697878781012888864687910101011
    Yokohama F. Marinos6161612101314161515131615151310131313151314151514141211101113111212
    Shonan Bellmare36710141112151413101213141214111211111212121413131414131414141413
    Sagan Tosu61069699141616171717171717171717161515161616151516171615151514
    Nagoya Grampus214571516171818181818181818181818181816141311121315161516161615
    Júbilo Iwata18181113101415118109666879111291010101010111112151312131316
    Kashiwa Reysol168875877108117911912141515131413131115161617141717171717
    V-Varen Nagasaki1511121616171713119121414121515151414141617181818181818181818181818
    Leader and qualification to AFC Champions League Group stage
    Qualification to AFC Champions League qualifying play-off
    Qualification to Relegation play-off
    Relegation to J2 League

    Results table

    Home \ Away ANT BEL CER CON FMA FRO GAM GRA JUB RED REY SSP SAG SFR TOK VVN VEG VIS
    Kashima Antlers 2–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–0 1–1 1–0 6–2 1–0 0–0 0–1 1–2 2–1 1–2 1–1
    Shonan Bellmare 2–1 1–1 2–2 0–1 0–0 1–0 0–0 1–0 2–1 1–2 0–0 1–1 0–2 0–0 2–1 1–3 0–2
    Cerezo Osaka 0–2 2–1 3–3 1–1 2–1 0–1 0–1 1–1 1–1 0–3 3–1 2–1 0–1 1–0 3–1 2–1 1–1
    Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo 0–2 1–0 1–1 2–1 1–2 2–0 3–0 0–0 1–2 1–2 1–3 2–1 2–2 3–2 2–1 1–0 3–1
    Yokohama F. Marinos 3–0 4–4 1–2 2–1 1–1 1–1 1–2 1–3 1–2 3–1 1–2 1–2 1–4 0–1 5–2 5–2 1–2
    Kawasaki Frontale 4–1 1–1 1–2 7–0 2–0 2–0 3–1 2–1 0–2 3–0 3–0 0–0 0–1 0–2 1–0 1–0 5–3
    Gamba Osaka 1–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 2–1 2–0 2–3 2–0 0–0 2–2 1–2 3–0 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 0–1
    Nagoya Grampus 4–2 2–2 0–0 1–2 1–1 0–1 3–2 1–0 4–1 2–3 1–3 3–0 0–0 1–2 3–4 2–3 1–2
    Júbilo Iwata 3–3 1–0 1–1 0–2 1–2 0–3 1–1 1–6 2–1 2–0 0–0 1–0 3–2 2–0 1–2 3–2 0–2
    Urawa Red Diamonds 3–1 0–1 1–2 0–0 0–1 2–0 1–3 3–1 4–0 3–2 2–1 0–0 1–2 3–2 0–0 1–0 4–0
    Kashiwa Reysol 2–3 0–2 1–1 1–2 2–0 1–2 4–2 0–1 1–2 1–0 2–3 1–1 0–1 0–1 5–1 0–2 2–1
    Shimizu S-Pulse 0–0 4–2 3–0 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–0 5–1 3–3 2–1 1–0 2–0 0–1 0–1 1–1 3–3
    Sagan Tosu 0–1 0–1 1–0 1–2 2–1 0–2 3–0 3–2 0–0 1–0 1–2 3–1 1–0 0–0 1–0 0–1 1–1
    Sanfrecce Hiroshima 3–1 2–2 0–2 1–0 3–1 1–2 4–0 1–2 0–0 1–4 0–3 2–0 1–0 1–1 2–0 0–1 2–0
    FC Tokyo 2–1 1–0 0–1 0–0 5–2 0–2 3–2 3–2 0–0 1–1 0–1 0–2 0–0 3–1 0–1 0–1 1–0
    V-Varen Nagasaki 1–2 1–3 0–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 3–0 3–0 0–0 1–1 1–0 1–2 2–2 0–2 2–5 1–0 0–1
    Vegalta Sendai 0–3 4–1 2–2 2–2 2–8 0–0 2–1 1–2 0–3 1–1 1–0 2–1 2–3 1–3 1–0 1–0 1–1
    Vissel Kobe 0–5 0–3 2–0 4–0 0–2 1–2 1–2 3–0 2–1 2–3 1–0 2–4 0–0 1–1 0–0 1–1 3–2
    Source: 2018 J1 League
    Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

    Promotion–Relegation Playoff

    2018 J.League J1/J2 Play-Offs (2018 J1参入プレーオフ)

    Júbilo Iwata2–0Tokyo Verdy
    Ogawa 41' (pen.)
    Taguchi 80'
    Report
    Attendance: 14,588

    Júbilo Iwata stays in J1 League and Tokyo Verdy remains in J2 League.

    Season statistics

    Top scorers

    As of matches played on 1 December 2018.[24]
    Rank Player Club Goals
    1 Nagoya Grampus
    24
    2 Patric Sanfrecce Hiroshima
    20
    3 Hwang Ui-jo Gamba Osaka
    16
    4 Shinzo Koroki Urawa Red Diamonds 15
    Yu Kobayashi Kawasaki Frontale
    6 Diego Oliveira FC Tokyo 13
    Koya Kitagawa Shimizu S-Pulse
    Hugo Vieira Yokohama F. Marinos
    9 Ken Tokura Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
    12
    10 Douglas Shimizu S-Pulse 11
    Kengo Kawamata Júbilo Iwata
    Musashi Suzuki V-Varen Nagasaki
    Takuma Nishimura Vegalta Sendai
    Yuma Suzuki Kashima Antlers

    Top assists

    Rank Player Club Assists
    1 Yōsuke Kashiwagi Urawa Red Diamonds
    12
    2 Junya Ito Kashiwa Reysol
    11
    3 Kosei Shibasaki Sanfrecce Hiroshima 9
    Yuma Suzuki Kashima Antlers
    4 Gabriel Xavier Nagoya Grampus 8
    Hideki Ishige Shimizu S-Pulse
    Koya Kitagawa Shimizu S-Pulse
    Yuki Muto Urawa Red Diamonds

    Hat-tricks

    Player For Against Result Date
    Diego Oliveira FC Tokyo V-Varen Nagasaki 2–5 (A) 8 April 2018
    Hugo Vieira Yokohama F. Marinos Shonan Bellmare 4–4 (H) 21 April 2018
    Sho Ito Yokohama F. Marinos Vegalta Sendai 2–8 (A) 18 July 2018
    Nagoya Grampus Gamba Osaka 4–1 (H) 5 August 2018
    Fabrício Urawa Red Diamonds Júbilo Iwata 4–0 (H) 15 August 2018
    Nagoya Grampus Urawa Red Diamonds 4–1 (H) 26 August 2018
    Musashi Suzuki V-Varen Nagasaki Nagoya Grampus 4–3 (A) 15 September 2018
    Note

    (H) – Home; (A) – Away

    Attendances

    Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
    1 Urawa Red Diamonds 603,534 55,689 21,250 35,502 +5.8%
    2 FC Tokyo 449,388 44,801 13,425 26,432 −0.2%
    3 Nagoya Grampus 419,218 43,579 9,297 24,660 +60.5%
    4 Gamba Osaka 399,242 35,242 11,824 23,485 −3.3%
    5 Kawasaki Frontale 394,709 24,677 17,113 23,218 +5.0%
    6 Yokohama F. Marinos 370,401 41,686 8,688 21,788 −9.9%
    7 Vissel Kobe 367,716 26,603 9,015 21,630 +18.4%
    8 Kashima Antlers 330,376 33,647 7,672 19,434 −5.0%
    9 Cerezo Osaka 319,782 34,303 8,165 18,811 −10.3%
    10 Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo 309,798 34,250 6,729 18,223 −1.1%
    11 Júbilo Iwata 263,060 31,375 8,047 15,474 −5.2%
    12 Vegalta Sendai 261,943 19,152 13,158 15,408 +4.5%
    13 Sagan Tosu 255,004 22,669 7,138 15,000 +5.7%
    14 Shimizu S-Pulse 254,844 20,109 6,193 14,991 −0.8%
    15 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 243,874 21,997 7,344 14,346 +2.2%
    16 Shonan Bellmare 206,039 15,351 8,002 12,120 +43.4%
    17 Kashiwa Reysol 193,833 14,208 9,255 11,402 +6.3%
    18 V-Varen Nagasaki 190,827 15,975 6,579 11,225 +88.9%
    League total 5,833,538 55,689 6,193 19,064 +1.0%

    Updated to games played on 1 December 2018
    Source: J. League Data
    Notes:
    Promoted from J2.

    Awards

    Award Winner Club
    Manager of the Year Mihailo Petrović Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
    Most Valuable Player Akihiro Ienaga Kawasaki Frontale
    Rookie of the Year Hiroki Abe Kashima Antlers
    J.League Best XI
    Attack Hwang Ui-jo (Gamba Osaka) (Nagoya Grampus)
    Midfield Chanathip Songkrasin (Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo) Ryota Oshima (Kawasaki Frontale) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale) Akihiro Ienaga (Kawasaki Frontale)
    Defence Daigo Nishi (Kashima Antlers) Shintaro Kurumaya (Kawasaki Frontale) Shogo Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale) Elsinho (Kawasaki Frontale)
    Goalkeeper Jung Sung-ryong (Kawasaki Frontale)

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