2021_J1_League

J1 League
Season	2021
Dates	26 February – 4 December
Champions	Kawasaki Frontale (4th title)
Relegated	Tokushima Vortis; Oita Trinita; Vegalta Sendai; Yokohama FC
Champions League	Kawasaki Frontale; Yokohama F. Marinos; Vissel Kobe; Urawa Red Diamonds
Matches played	380
Goals scored	920 (2.42 per match)
Top goalscorer	Leandro Damião; Daizen Maeda; (23 goals each)
Biggest home win	Yokohama F. Marinos 8–0 FC Tokyo; (6 November 2021)
Biggest away win	Urawa Red Diamonds 0–5 Kawasaki Frontale; (21 March 2021)
Highest scoring	Kashima 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 run	7 matches; Kawasaki Frontale; Yokohama F. Marinos
Longest unbeaten run	25 matches; Kawasaki Frontale
Longest winless run	13 matches; Yokohama FC
Longest losing run	7 matches; Avispa Fukuoka; Oita Trinita
Highest attendance	30,657; Yokohama F. Marinos 1–1 Kawasaki Frontale; (4 December 2021)
Lowest attendance	1,899; Yokohama FC 0–3 Sanfrecce Hiroshima; (7 April 2021); (excluding matches played behind closed doors)
Total attendance	2,531,007
Average attendance	6,661; (excluding matches played behind closed doors)
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2021 J1 League

29th season of J1 League

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.

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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.

Results table

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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
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^{[lower-alpha 1]}	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.

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]

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[13] Matsunami was initially appointed as caretaker manager, but he was made interim manager on 1 June 2021.^[12]

[table_hth_BEL0.027770029393849-28] 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]

[table_note_res_CW-CLGS0.027770029393849-29] Qualified as winners of the 2021 Emperor's Cup.

[34] 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]

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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	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	Osaka Prefecture	Yanmar Stadium	47,853	J1 (4th)
Vissel Kobe	Hyōgo Prefecture	Noevir Stadium	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 Stadium	24,130	J1 (13th)
Oita Trinita	Ōita Prefecture	Showa Denko Dome Oita	40,000	J1 (11th)

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

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]^{[lower-alpha 1]}	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]	Resigned	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

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

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2021 J1 League

Changes from the previous season

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Personnel and kits

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Foreign players

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Results table

Season statistics

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Top scorers

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Pos	Team v t e	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	Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage
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^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage^{[lower-alpha 2]}
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	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^{[lower-alpha 1]}
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

Rank	Player	Club	Goals^[31]
1	Leandro Damião	Kawasaki Frontale	23
1	Daizen Maeda	Yokohama F. Marinos	23
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	Consadole Sapporo	12
8	Ado Onaiwu	Yokohama F. Marinos	12
10	Ryotaro Araki	Kashima Antlers	10
	Léo Ceará	Yokohama F. Marinos
	Yu Kobayashi	Kawasaki Frontale

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