2021 J1 League

J1 League
Season2021
Dates26 February – 4 December
ChampionsKawasaki Frontale
4th J1 title
4th Japanese title
RelegatedTokushima Vortis
Oita Trinita
Vegalta Sendai
Yokohama FC
Champions LeagueKawasaki Frontale
Yokohama F. Marinos
Vissel Kobe
Urawa Red Diamonds
Matches played380
Goals scored920 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorerLeandro Damião
Daizen Maeda
(23 goals each)
Biggest home winYokohama F. Marinos 8–0 FC Tokyo
(6 November 2021)
Biggest away winUrawa Red Diamonds 0–5 Kawasaki Frontale
(21 March 2021)
Highest scoringKashima Antlers 5–3 Yokohama F. Marinos
(15 May 2021)
Yokohama FC 5–3 Tokushima Vortis
(16 October 2021)
Yokohama F. Marinos 8–0 FC Tokyo
(6 November 2021)
Longest winning run7 matches
Kawasaki Frontale
Yokohama F. Marinos
Longest unbeaten run25 matches
Kawasaki Frontale
Longest winless run13 matches
Yokohama FC
Longest losing run7 matches
Avispa Fukuoka
Oita Trinita
Highest attendance30,657[1]
Yokohama F. Marinos 1–1 Kawasaki Frontale
(4 December 2021)
Lowest attendance1,899[1]
Yokohama FC 0–3 Sanfrecce Hiroshima
(7 April 2021)
(excluding matches played behind closed doors)
Total attendance2,531,007[1]
Average attendance6,661[1]
(excluding matches played behind closed doors)
2020
2022

The 2021 J1 League, also known as the 2021 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (Japanese: 2021 明治安田生命J1リーグ, Hepburn: 2021 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J1 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 29th season of the J1 League, the top Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1992. This was seventh season of J1 League as renamed from J. League Division 1. The league began on 26 February and ended on 4 December 2021.

Kawasaki Frontale were the reigning champions, having won their third title in 2020 with four rounds to play.[2] They successfully retained the title, again with four rounds to play.[3]

On 20 November 2021, Oita Trinita, Vegalta Sendai, and Yokohama FC were relegated to J2 League with two games to play. On the final matchday, Tokushima Vortis was relegated back to J2 League after just one season.

Changes from the previous season

There were no teams relegated the previous season due to impacts related to the COVID-19 pandemic.[4] Instead, four relegation places were applied for the current season to reduce the total number of teams from 20 back to 18.[5]

Two teams were promoted from the 2020 J2 League: Tokushima Vortis won the title and clinched a second promotion to J1 (the first came in 2013), while Avispa Fukuoka came second, returning to J1 after five seasons.[6]

Clubs

Greater Tokyo Area
Keihanshin
Greater Tokyo teams
Locations of the 2021 J1 League teams
2021 J1 League teams in Keihanshin
Club Location Stadium Capacity Previous season rank
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Hokkaido Sapporo Dome
Sapporo Atsubetsu Stadium
41,484
20,861
J1 (12th)
Vegalta Sendai Miyagi Prefecture Yurtec Stadium Sendai 19,694 J1 (17th)
Kashima Antlers Ibaraki Prefecture Kashima Soccer Stadium 40,728 J1 (5th)
Urawa Red Diamonds Saitama Prefecture Saitama Stadium 2002 63,700 J1 (10th)
Kashiwa Reysol Chiba Prefecture Hitachi Kashiwa Stadium 15,900 J1 (7th)
FC Tokyo Tokyo Ajinomoto Stadium 49,970 J1 (6th)
Yokohama FC Kanagawa Prefecture Mitsuzawa Stadium 15,046 J1 (15th)
Yokohama F. Marinos Nissan Stadium 72,327 J1 (9th)
Kawasaki Frontale Todoroki Stadium 26,232 J1 (1st)
Shonan Bellmare Lemon Gas Stadium Hiratsuka 18,500 J1 (18th)
Shimizu S-Pulse Shizuoka Prefecture IAI Stadium Nihondaira 20,339 J1 (16th)
Nagoya Grampus Aichi Prefecture Toyota Stadium 45,000 J1 (3rd)
Gamba Osaka Osaka Prefecture Panasonic Stadium Suita 39,694 J1 (2nd)
Cerezo Osaka Yanmar Stadium 47,853 J1 (4th)
Vissel Kobe Hyōgo Prefecture Noevir Stadium Kobe 30,132 J1 (14th)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Hiroshima Prefecture Edion Stadium 36,894 J1 (8th)
Tokushima Vortis Tokushima Prefecture Pocarisweat Stadium 20,441 J2 (1st)
Avispa Fukuoka Fukuoka Prefecture Best Denki Stadium 21,562 J2 (2nd)
Sagan Tosu Saga Prefecture Ekimae Real Estate Stadium 24,130 J1 (13th)
Oita Trinita Ōita Prefecture Showa Denko Dome Oita 40,000 J1 (11th)

Personnel and kits

Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Front shirt sponsor
Avispa Fukuoka Shigetoshi Hasebe Hiroyuki Mae Yonex Shin Nihon Seiyaku
Cerezo Osaka Akio Kogiku Hiroshi Kiyotake Puma Yanmar
FC Tokyo Shinichi Morishita (interim) Keigo Higashi New Balance XFLAG
Gamba Osaka Masanobu Matsunami (interim) Genta Miura Umbro Panasonic
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Mihailo Petrović Hiroki Miyazawa Mizuno Ishiya
Kashima Antlers Naoki Soma Kento Misao Nike Lixil
Kashiwa Reysol Nelsinho Baptista Hidekazu Otani Yonex Hitachi
Kawasaki Frontale Toru Oniki Shogo Taniguchi Puma Fujitsu
Nagoya Grampus Massimo Ficcadenti Yuichi Maruyama Mizuno Toyota
Oita Trinita Tomohiro Katanosaka Shun Takagi Puma Daihatsu Kyushu
Sagan Tosu Kim Myung-hwi Eduardo New Balance Kimura Information Technology
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Kentaro Sawada (interim) Sho Sasaki Nike EDION
Shimizu S-Pulse Hiroaki Hiraoka Ryo Takeuchi Puma Suzuyo
Shonan Bellmare Satoshi Yamaguchi Takuya Okamoto Penalty Meldia
Tokushima Vortis Dani Poyatos Ken Iwao Mizuno Pocari Sweat
Urawa Red Diamonds Ricardo Rodriguez Shusaku Nishikawa Nike Polus
Vegalta Sendai Makoto Teguramori Simão Mate Junior Adidas Iris Ohyama
Vissel Kobe Atsuhiro Miura Andrés Iniesta Asics Rakuten
Yokohama FC Tomonobu Hayakawa Yuta Minami Soccer Junky Onodera Group
Yokohama F. Marinos Kevin Muscat Takuya Kida Adidas Nissan

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Incoming manager Date of appointment
Yokohama FC Takahiro Shimotaira[7] Sacked 7 April 2021 Tomonobu Hayakawa[8] 8 April 2021
Kashima Antlers Antônio Carlos Zago[9] 14 April 2021 Naoki Soma[10] 14 April 2021
Gamba Osaka Tsuneyasu Miyamoto[11] 13 May 2021 Masanobu Matsunami (interim)[11][a] 14 May 2021
Yokohama F. Marinos Ange Postecoglou[13] Signed by Celtic 10 June 2021 Hideki Matsunaga (caretaker)[14] 10 June 2021
Yokohama F. Marinos Hideki Matsunaga[15] End of caretaker spell 18 July 2021 Kevin Muscat[15] 18 July 2021
Cerezo Osaka Levir Culpi[16] Sacked 26 August 2021 Akio Kogiku[17] 26 August 2021
Shonan Bellmare Bin Ukishima[18] Resigned 31 August 2021 Satoshi Yamaguchi[19] 1 September 2021
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Hiroshi Jofuku[20] 26 October 2021 Kentaro Sawada (interim)[20] 26 October 2021
Shimizu S-Pulse Miguel Ángel Lotina[21] Sacked 4 November 2021 Hiroaki Hiraoka[22] 4 November 2021
FC Tokyo Kenta Hasegawa[23] Resigned 7 November 2021 Shinichi Morishita (interim)[24] 10 November 2021
  1. ^ Matsunami was initially appointed as caretaker manager, but he was made interim manager on 1 June 2021.[12]

Foreign players

As of 2019 season, there are no more restrictions on a number of signed foreign players, but clubs could only register up to five foreign players for a single match-day squad.[25] Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia and Qatar) were exempted from these restrictions.

  • Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the mid-season transfer window.
  • Player's name in italics indicates the player has Japanese nationality in addition to their FIFA nationality, or is exempt from being treated as a foreign player due to having been born in Japan and being enrolled in, or having graduated from an approved type of school in the country.[26]
Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7 Player 8 Former players
Avispa Fukuoka Jordy Croux Bruno Mendes Cauê Douglas Grolli John Mary Carlos Gutiérrez Juanma Emil Salomonsson
Cerezo Osaka Adam Taggart Tiago Pagnussat Kim Jin-hyeon Đặng Văn Lâm Dankler
FC Tokyo Adaílton Bruno Uvini Diego Oliveira Leandro Joan Oumari
Gamba Osaka Leandro Pereira Patric Tiago Alves Wellington Silva Ju Se-jong Kim Young-gwon Shin Won-ho
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Douglas Oliveira Lucas Fernandes Jay Bothroyd Milan Tučić Chanathip Songkrasin Anderson Lopes
Gabriel Okechukwu
Kim Min-tae
Kashima Antlers Arthur Caíke Bueno Diego Pituca Everaldo Juan Alano Léo Silva Kwoun Sun-tae
Kashiwa Reysol Cristiano Dodi Emerson Santos Matheus Sávio Richardson Rodrigo Angelotti Ippey Shinozuka Kim Seung-gyu Pedro Raúl
Kawasaki Frontale Jesiel João Schmidt Leandro Damião Marcinho Jung Sung-ryong Lee Kyung-tae
Nagoya Grampus Mitchell Langerak Gabriel Xavier Mateus Jakub Świerczok Kim Min-tae
Oita Trinita Henrique Trevisan Matheus Pereira
Sagan Tosu Eduardo Ismael Dunga Chikeluba Ofoedu Ryang Yong-gi Hwang Seok-ho Park Il-gyu Ueom Ye-hoon
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Douglas Vieira Ezequiel Júnior Santos Rhayner
Shimizu S-Pulse Carlinhos Júnior Elsinho Renato Augusto Ronaldo Thiago Santana Valdo Benjamin Kololli Erick Noriega William Matheus
Shonan Bellmare Welinton Júnior Wellington Tarik Elyounoussi Riuler
Tokushima Vortis Cacá Diego Mushaga Bakenga Dušan Cvetinović Cristian Battocchio
Urawa Red Diamonds Thomas Deng Alexander Scholz Kasper Junker
Vegalta Sendai Felippe Cardoso Foguinho Emmanuel Oti Jakub Słowik Nedeljko Stojišić Quenten Martinus
Simão Mate Junior
Isaac Cuenca
Vissel Kobe Thomas Vermaelen Douglas Lincoln Andrés Iniesta Bojan Krkić Sergi Samper Ayub Masika
Yokohama FC Arthur Silva Felipe Vizeu Gabriel Kléber Maguinho Saulo Mineiro Svend Brodersen Han Ho-gang Calvin Jong-a-Pin
Yokohama F. Marinos Élber Léo Ceará Marcos Júnior Thiago Martins Theerathon Bunmathan

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Kawasaki Frontale (C) 38 28 8 2 81 28 +53 92 Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage
2 Yokohama F. Marinos 38 24 7 7 82 35 +47 79
3 Vissel Kobe 38 21 10 7 62 36 +26 73 Qualification for the AFC Champions League play-off round
4 Kashima Antlers 38 21 6 11 62 36 +26 69
5 Nagoya Grampus 38 19 9 10 44 30 +14 66
6 Urawa Red Diamonds 38 18 9 11 45 38 +7 63[a] Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage[b]
7 Sagan Tosu 38 16 11 11 43 35 +8 59
8 Avispa Fukuoka 38 14 12 12 42 37 +5 54
9 FC Tokyo 38 15 8 15 49 53 −4 53
10 Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo 38 14 9 15 48 50 −2 51
11 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 38 12 13 13 44 42 +2 49
12 Cerezo Osaka 38 13 9 16 47 51 −4 48
13 Gamba Osaka 38 12 8 18 33 49 −16 44
14 Shimizu S-Pulse 38 10 12 16 37 54 −17 42
15 Kashiwa Reysol 38 12 5 21 37 56 −19 41
16 Shonan Bellmare 38 7 16 15 36 41 −5 37[a]
17 Tokushima Vortis (R) 38 10 6 22 34 55 −21 36 Relegation to the J2 League
18 Oita Trinita (R) 38 9 8 21 31 55 −24 35
19 Vegalta Sendai (R) 38 5 13 20 31 62 −31 28
20 Yokohama FC (R) 38 6 9 23 32 77 −45 27
Source: Meiji Yasuda J1 League, J.League Data Site
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goal scored; 7) Fair-play points.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegation to the J2 League
Notes:
  1. ^ a b The JPFL awarded a 3–0 win to Shonan Bellmare after Urawa Red Diamonds fielded Zion Suzuki who was an ineligible player. The original score was 3–2 for Shonan Bellmare.[27][28]
  2. ^ Qualified as the 2021 Emperor's Cup winners.

Results table

Home \ Away ANT AVI BEL CER CON FMA FRO GAM GRA REY RED SAG SFR SSP TOK TRI VEG VIS VOR YFC
Kashima Antlers 0–3 3–1 1–0 4–0 5–3 1–2 3–1 0–1 2–1 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–3 3–0 0–0 1–1 1–1 3–0 1–2
Avispa Fukuoka 1–0 2–1 2–1 1–2 1–3 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–0 2–0 3–0 1–1 1–2 1–0 1–0 2–2 1–2 3–0 1–1
Shonan Bellmare 1–2 1–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–1 0–0 0–0 2–4 0–0 0–1 0–0 1–1 0–1 2–0 3–1 0–0 0–1 2–1
Cerezo Osaka 1–2 2–2 1–5 0–2 2–1 1–4 1–1 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 2–1 3–3 1–0 0–0 1–1 1–2 2–1
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo 2–2 0–0 1–1 0–3 1–3 0–2 0–2 0–2 3–1 2–1 0–0 0–2 2–0 3–2 2–0 2–1 3–4 1–0 5–1
Yokohama F. Marinos 0–2 2–0 1–1 1–0 2–1 1–1 0–1 2–0 1–1 3–0 2–0 3–3 2–1 8–0 5–1 5–0 2–0 1–0 5–0
Kawasaki Frontale 2–1 3–1 2–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 4–1 3–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–1 1–0 1–0 2–0 2–2 3–1 2–0 3–1
Gamba Osaka 0–1 0–0 0–0 0–1 1–5 2–3 0–2 1–3 2–1 0–3 1–0 1–2 0–0 0–0 2–1 2–3 1–2 2–1 2–0
Nagoya Grampus 0–2 1–0 1–0 1–0 1–0 2–1 0–4 2–0 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–0 0–1 2–2 3–0 3–0
Kashiwa Reysol 2–1 0–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 1–2 0–0 1–0 0–1 0–2 1–3 0–3 1–2 0–4 2–3 1–1 1–2 5–1 2–1
Urawa Red Diamonds 2–1 2–0 0–3[a] 2–0 0–0 2–1 0–5 1–1 0–0 5–1 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–1 3–2 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–0
Sagan Tosu 2–1 0–0 1–1 3–3 1–0 0–4 3–1 0–1 3–1 2–0 2–0 0–0 2–1 1–0 0–0 5–0 0–2 2–0 3–0
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 1–4 1–2 0–1 0–1 2–1 1–3 1–1 0–0 1–0 1–0 2–2 1–1 1–0 1–2 4–1 1–1 1–1 0–1 0–1
Shimizu S-Pulse 0–4 2–2 1–1 2–1 2–2 2–2 0–2 0–1 0–3 0–1 0–2 0–0 1–0 3–0 1–0 2–1 0–2 0–3 1–1
FC Tokyo 1–2 0–0 3–2 3–2 2–1 0–3 2–4 1–0 1–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–0 4–0 3–0 2–1 2–3 0–2 4–0
Oita Trinita 0–0 2–1 2–0 1–0 1–1 0–1 0–2 2–3 0–3 0–1 1–0 1–1 1–3 1–0 1–1 2–0 1–3 1–1 2–0
Vegalta Sendai 0–1 0–1 0–2 1–1 1–1 0–0 1–5 0–1 1–1 1–0 0–0 0–1 2–0 2–3 1–2 2–1 0–2 0–1 0–0
Vissel Kobe 1–0 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 0–2 1–1 1–0 0–1 1–2 5–1 1–1 3–0 1–1 0–1 1–0 4–2 1–0 5–0
Tokushima Vortis 0–1 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–3 2–1 0–0 0–1 1–2 3–0 2–4 2–2 0–1 1–1 1–0 1–1 2–1
Yokohama FC 0–3 1–1 2–0 1–4 0–1 2–2 0–2 3–1 2–0 1–1 0–2 0–0 0–3 1–1 0–1 1–2 2–2 0–2 5–3
Source: Meiji Yasuda J1 League
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
  1. ^ The JPFL awarded 3–0 win to Shonan Bellmare after Urawa Red Diamonds fielded Zion Suzuki which was an ineligible player. The original score was 3–2 for Shonan Bellmare.[29][30]

Season statistics

Scoring

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals[31]
1 Leandro Damião Kawasaki Frontale 23
Daizen Maeda Yokohama F. Marinos
3 Kyogo Furuhashi Vissel Kobe 15
4 Ayase Ueda Kashima Antlers 14
5 Diego Oliveira FC Tokyo 13
Patric Gamba Osaka
Thiago Santana Shimizu S-Pulse
8 Anderson Lopes Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo 12
Ado Onaiwu Yokohama F. Marinos
10 Léo Ceará Yokohama F. Marinos 10
Ryotaro Araki Kashima Antlers
Yu Kobayashi Kawasaki Frontale

Hat-tricks

Player For Against Result Date
Anderson Lopes Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Vissel Kobe 3–4 (H)[32][33] 20 March 2021
Ado Onaiwu Yokohama F. Marinos FC Tokyo 3–0 (A)[34] 1 May 2021
Shoma Doi Kashima Antlers Yokohama F. Marinos 5–3 (H)[35] 15 May 2021
Kyogo Furuhashi Vissel Kobe Yokohama FC 5–0 (H)[36] 23 June 2021
Daizen Maeda Yokohama F. Marinos Oita Trinita 5–1 (H)[37] 15 August 2021
Léo Ceará Yokohama F. Marinos Vegalta Sendai 5–0 (H)[38] 21 August 2021
Douglas Vieira Sanfrecce Hiroshima Kashiwa Reysol 3–0 (A)[39] 18 September 2021
Daizen Maeda Yokohama F. Marinos FC Tokyo 8–0 (H)[40] 6 November 2021
Patric Gamba Osaka Oita Trinita 3–2 (A)[41] 7 November 2021

Top assists

Rank Player Club Assists[42]
1 Miki Yamane Kawasaki Frontale 12
2 Kota Mizunuma Yokohama F. Marinos 9
3 Leandro Damião Kawasaki Frontale 8
Yuki Soma Nagoya Grampus
5 Ryotaro Araki Kashima Antlers 7
Tatsuki Seko Yokohama FC
Yoshinori Muto Vissel Kobe
8 Élber Yokohama F. Marinos 6
Hokuto Shimoda Yokohama F. Marinos
Ryo Hatsuse Vissel Kobe
Teruhito Nakagawa Yokohama F. Marinos
Yusuke Maruhashi Cerezo Osaka
Yuta Higuchi Sagan Tosu
Emil Salomonsson Avispa Fukuoka
Chanathip Songkrasin Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo

Discipline

Player

Club

  • Most yellow cards: 49[45]
    • Avispa Fukuoka
    • Kashima Antlers
  • Most red cards: 3[46]
    • FC Tokyo
    • Kashima Antlers
    • Sagan Tosu
    • Yokohama F. Marinos

See also

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