2006_J.League_Division_1

J.League Division 1
Season	2006
Champions	Urawa Red Diamonds; 1st J. League title; 5th Japanese title
Relegated	Avispa Fukuoka; Cerezo Osaka; Kyoto Purple Sanga
Champions League	Urawa Red Diamonds; Kawasaki Frontale; (all to the group stage)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	976 (3.19 per match)
Top goalscorer	Washington (26),; Magno Alves (26)
Highest attendance	62,241 (Round 34,; Red Diamonds vs. Gamba)
Lowest attendance	3,671 (Round 6,; Purple Sanga vs. Avispa)
Average attendance	18,292
	← 2005 2007 →

2006 J.League Division 1

14th season of J1 League

The 2006 J.League Division 1 season was the 14th season since the establishment of the J.League. It began on March 4 and ended on December 2.

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[table_note_res_CLGS0.95491324083643-1] Urawa Red Diamonds won the 2005 Emperor's Cup and already qualified for 2007 ACL; therefore Kawasaki Frontale takes the second ACL spot.

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"2006 J1 Top Scorers". j-league.or.jp. J-League. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2010.

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Competition	Champion	Runner-Up	3rd place
J.League Division 1	Urawa Red Diamonds	Kawasaki Frontale	Gamba Osaka
J.League Division 2	Yokohama FC	Kashiwa Reysol	Vissel Kobe
Emperor's Cup	Urawa Red Diamonds	Gamba Osaka	Kashima Antlers Consadole Sapporo
Nabisco Cup	JEF United Chiba	Kashima Antlers	Kawasaki Frontale Yokohama F. Marinos
XEROX Super Cup	Urawa Red Diamonds	Gamba Osaka

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Asian Player	Tye-C Contract	Non-Visa Foreign	Former Players
Albirex Niigata	Edmílson	Fabinho Santos	Silvinho
Avispa Fukuoka	Alex	Baron	Roberto		Alexandre		Gláucio
Cerezo Osaka	Bruno Quadros	Pingo	Zé Carlos		Japa		André Neitzke
FC Tokyo	Jean	Lucas Severino	Washington		Rychely		Santiago Salcedo
Gamba Osaka	Fernandinho	Magno Alves	Sidiclei		Lucas Chiaretti
JEF United Chiba	Mario Haas	Ilian Stoyanov	Nebojša Krupniković			Kim Dong-soo
Júbilo Iwata	Fabrício			Kim Jin-kyu
Kashima Antlers	Alex Mineiro	Fábio Santos	Fernando		Chumbinho
Kawasaki Frontale	Juninho	Magnum	Marcão			Jong Tae-se	Marcus Vinícius
Kyoto Purple Sanga	André Pinto	Pinheiro	Paulinho		Diego		Alemão Ricardo
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Frode Johnsen	Marek Špilár		Kim Jung-woo
Oita Trinita	Edmilson Alves	Rafael	Túlio		Platini		Osmar
Omiya Ardija	Alison	Toninho					Rodrigo Gral Saúl Martínez
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Beto	Ueslei	Dario Dabac	Jo Woo-jin		Ri Han-jae	Dininho
Shimizu S-Pulse	Alexandre Goulart	Marquinhos		Cho Jae-jin
Urawa Red Diamonds	Nenê	Robson Ponte	Washington		Sergio Escudero
Ventforet Kofu	Alair	Baré	Biju		Josimar		Neto
Yokohama F. Marinos	Dutra	Marques					Magrão

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Urawa Red Diamonds (C)	34	22	6	6	67	28	+39	72	Qualification for 2007 AFC Champions League Group stage^{[lower-alpha 1]}
2	Kawasaki Frontale	34	20	7	7	84	55	+29	67
3	Gamba Osaka	34	20	6	8	80	48	+32	66
4	Shimizu S-Pulse	34	18	6	10	60	41	+19	60
5	Júbilo Iwata	34	17	7	10	68	51	+17	58
6	Kashima Antlers	34	18	4	12	62	53	+9	58
7	Nagoya Grampus Eight	34	13	9	12	51	49	+2	48
8	Oita Trinita	34	13	8	13	47	45	+2	47
9	Yokohama F. Marinos	34	13	6	15	49	43	+6	45
10	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	34	13	6	15	50	56	−6	45
11	JEF United Chiba	34	13	5	16	57	58	−1	44
12	Omiya Ardija	34	13	5	16	43	55	−12	44
13	FC Tokyo	34	13	4	17	56	65	−9	43
14	Albirex Niigata	34	12	6	16	46	65	−19	42
15	Ventforet Kofu	34	12	6	16	42	64	−22	42
16	Avispa Fukuoka (R)	34	5	12	17	32	56	−24	27	2006 promotion/relegation Series
17	Cerezo Osaka (R)	34	6	9	19	44	70	−26	27	Relegation to 2007 J.League Division 2
18	Kyoto Purple Sanga (R)	34	4	10	20	38	74	−36	22	Relegation to 2007 J.League Division 2

Home \ Away	ALB	ANT	ARD	AVI	CER	FRO	GAM	GRA	JEF	JÚB	SAN	SFR	SSP	TOK	TRI	RED	VEN	FMA
Albirex Niigata		0–1	1–2	0–1	2–2	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	4–2	2–0	3–3	2–1	3–0	1–0
Kashima Antlers	5–1		2–1	4–1	2–0	2–4	3–1	2–1	0–4	3–0	1–0	0–2	3–1	3–2	0–1	2–2	3–1	0–3
Omiya Ardija	1–2	0–3		2–2	2–0	1–5	0–2	1–4	4–2	2–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	2–2	0–2	3–1	2–1
Avispa Fukuoka	2–0	2–1	1–1		1–0	1–2	1–1	0–1	1–3	2–1	4–5	0–2	1–2	0–0	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–3
Cerezo Osaka	3–1	2–2	0–1	0–0		1–3	1–6	1–1	3–2	2–3	2–2	4–2	1–1	1–5	0–2	1–2	2–3	2–0
Kawasaki Frontale	6–0	3–2	3–1	2–1	1–0		3–2	4–2	2–2	3–4	2–0	3–3	2–2	2–2	2–1	0–2	2–0	1–1
Gamba Osaka	3–0	1–0	3–1	2–2	3–1	4–0		5–1	1–0	2–2	3–2	3–2	3–0	1–0	1–3	1–1	2–0	1–1
Nagoya Grampus Eight	3–1	0–0	2–0	2–0	3–2	0–2	3–3		2–1	3–1	1–1	2–3	1–1	1–2	0–3	1–0	5–1	1–1
JEF United Chiba	1–3	0–1	1–3	2–2	2–1	1–2	1–2	2–3		0–0	2–0	0–1	1–3	3–4	2–1	2–0	2–2	0–2
Júbilo Iwata	7–0	3–3	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–2	3–2	2–2	3–1		1–1	3–0	1–0	4–1	2–3	3–2	2–0	3–1
Kyoto Purple Sanga	1–1	1–2	1–1	2–1	4–4	2–7	1–4	0–1	1–2	1–3		2–2	2–1	1–0	1–1	1–5	1–1	0–4
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2–1	3–4	1–0	1–0	1–1	1–3	1–3	0–0	2–4	2–1	1–0		1–2	5–2	0–1	1–4	1–3	3–0
Shimizu S-Pulse	1–1	1–2	1–1	4–0	1–0	4–3	2–3	2–0	1–2	2–0	1–0	3–0		2–0	4–1	2–1	4–0	1–0
FC Tokyo	1–4	2–4	1–2	5–1	2–3	5–4	3–2	2–1	2–3	3–1	2–1	0–2	0–1		2–0	0–0	1–3	1–2
Oita Trinita	4–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–1	1–1	0–2	0–1	0–3	1–2	2–1	1–1	3–3	0–1		2–1	3–2	1–2
Urawa Red Diamonds	3–1	4–0	2–0	2–1	3–0	2–2	3–2	0–0	2–0	3–1	3–0	2–1	1–0	4–0	1–0		3–0	1–0
Ventforet Kofu	0–4	2–1	3–2	1–1	0–1	1–0	3–2	2–1	2–3	1–1	3–1	1–0	0–2	1–3	2–0	1–1		1–0
Yokohama F. Marinos	2–0	2–1	1–2	0–0	3–1	1–2	3–4	2–1	1–1	0–1	4–1	2–1	2–3	1–1	0–1	1–3	3–0

Pos	Scorer	Club	Goals^[1]
1	Washington	Urawa Red Diamonds	26
1	Magno Alves	Gamba Osaka	26
3	Juninho	Kawasaki Frontale	20
4	Kazuki Ganaha	Kawasaki Frontale	18
	Lucas	FC Tokyo	18
	Hisato Satō	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	18
7	Ryūji Bando	Gamba Osaka	16
	Cho Jae-jin	Shimizu S-Pulse	16
	Ueslei	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	16
10	Ryoichi Maeda	Júbilo Iwata	15

2006_J.League_Division_1

2006 J.League Division 1

General

Promotion/relegation

Changes in competition format

Changes in clubs

Honours

Clubs

Foreign Players

Format

Table

Results

Top scorers

Attendance

Awards

Individual

Best Eleven

References

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Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Urawa Red Diamonds	774,749	62,241	16,040	45,573	+15.8%^†
2	Albirex Niigata	658,050	42,056	33,993	38,709	−3.5%^†
3	FC Tokyo	409,634	41,528	17,033	24,096	−11.1%^†
4	Yokohama F. Marinos	402,270	50,572	11,623	23,663	−8.0%^†
5	Oita Trinita	345,955	28,690	12,843	20,350	−7.8%^†
6	Júbilo Iwata	306,033	37,711	10,560	18,002	+4.1%^†
7	Gamba Osaka	276,395	20,916	8,388	16,259	+1.8%^†
8	Kashima Antlers	262,365	34,236	7,427	15,433	−17.2%^†
9	Nagoya Grampus Eight	253,702	32,109	6,618	14,924	+12.3%^†
10	Kawasaki Frontale	243,780	23,005	9,430	14,340	+5.0%^†
11	Shimizu S-Pulse	243,137	24,920	9,079	14,302	+12.2%^†
12	Avispa Fukuoka	234,259	21,545	8,585	13,780	+27.8%^†
13	JEF United Chiba	227,680	17,438	8,567	13,393	+40.5%^†
14	Cerezo Osaka	221,438	30,561	6,282	13,026	−26.2%^†
15	Ventforet Kofu	207,629	17,000	8,025	12,213	+76.2%^†
16	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	190,066	17,564	5,545	11,180	−10.8%^†
17	Omiya Ardija	173,986	35,059	4,873	10,234	+2.5%^†
18	Kyoto Purple Sanga	166,280	16,492	3,670	9,781	+24.5%^†
	League total	5,597,408	62,241	3,670	18,292	−2.5%^†

Award	Recipient	Club	Notes
Player of the Year	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	Urawa Red Diamonds
Young Player of the Year	Jungo Fujimoto	Shimizu S-Pulse
Manager of the Year	Guido Buchwald	Urawa Red Diamonds
Top Scorer	Washington	Urawa Red Diamonds	26 goals.
Top Scorer	Magno Alves	Gamba Osaka	26 goals.
Fair Play Player Award	Satoru Yamagishi	JEF United Ichihara Chiba
Fair Play Player Award	Yuichi Nemoto	Oita Trinita
Referee of the Year	Toru Kamikawa
Assistant Referee of the Year	Yoshikazu Hiroshima
Meritoriousness Player Award	Nobuyuki Kojima
	Naoki Soma
	Masaaki Sawanobori

Position	Footballer	Club	Nationality
GK	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (1)	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
DF	Marcus Tulio Tanaka (3)	Urawa Red Diamonds	Japan
DF	Satoshi Yamaguchi (1)	Gamba Osaka	Japan
DF	Akira Kaji (1)	Gamba Osaka	Japan
MF	Keita Suzuki (1)	Urawa Red Diamonds	Japan
MF	Yuki Abe (2)	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	Japan
MF	Kengo Nakamura (1)	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
MF	Hiroyuki Taniguchi (1)	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
MF	Yasuhito Endō (4)	Gamba Osaka	Japan
FW	Washington (1)	Urawa Red Diamonds	Brazil
FW	Magno Alves (1)	Gamba Osaka	Brazil