Japan 2000

J-League Division 1 2000
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Table:
                               W/OT  D  L/OT
 1.Yokohama F. Marinos     15  10/0  0  4/1  32-21 30  Winners First Stage 
 2.Cerezo Osaka            15   9/1  0  4/1  34-25 29
 3.Shimizu S-Pulse         15   8/2  0  4/1  21-17 28
 4.Kashiwa Reysol          15   6/4  0  4/1  25-22 26
 5.Jubilo Iwata            15   7/2  0  3/3  32-25 25
 6.FC Tokyo                15   7/1  0  6/1  24-22 23
 7.Vissel Kobe             15   7/0  1  6/1  21-17 22
 8.Kashima Antlers         15   6/2  0  7/0  20-17 22
 9.Verdy Kawasaki          15   5/2  1  4/3  26-23 20
10.Sanfrecce Hiroshima     15   4/3  1  6/1  17-15 19
11.JEF United Ichihara     15   6/0  1  6/2  22-22 19
12.Nagoya Grampus Eight    15   4/3  1  5/2  17-18 19
13.Gamba Osaka             15   5/0  2  6/2  20-23 17
14.Avispa Fukuoka          15   3/3  0  8/1  19-28 15
15.Kawasaki Frontale       15   2/1  2 10/0  14-29 10
16.Kyoto Purple Sanga      15   2/0  1  8/4  16-36  7
  
Round 1 [Mar 11]
Kashima Antlers       1-0 Nagoya Grampus Eight             30,794 
  [Koji Nakata 12] 
Jubilo Iwata          0-1 Kashiwa Reysol         [asdet]   14,056 
  [Hideaki Kitajima 92] 
JEF United Ichihara   6-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga                6,331 
  [Baron 7, 21, 68, Ichizo Nakata 62, Shinichi Muto 84, 
   Owusu Benson 85 – Kazuyoshi Miura 73] 
Vissel Kobe           1-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               4,354 
  [Mitsunori Yabuta 17] 
Avispa Fukuoka        2-1 Kawasaki Frontale                10,383 
  [Daisuke Nakaharai 63, Eduardo Montoya 64 – Toru Oniki 90] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       3-2 Cerezo Osaka                     11,660 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 38, Masaaki Sawanobori 59 pen, 90 pen – 
   Kazuaki Tasaka 55, Akinori Nishizawa 74] 
Verdy Kawasaki        2-1 Gamba Osaka                       7,287 
  [Kim Hyun-Seok 84, Takuya Yamada 90 – Masashi Oguro 46] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   0-1 FC Tokyo                         21,841 
  [Tuto 86 pen] 

Round 2 [Mar 18]
Shimizu S-Pulse       1-2 Yokohama F. Marinos              12,466 
  [Fabinho 90 – Norio Omura 51, Yoo Sang-Chul 67 pen] 
Kashiwa Reysol        1-0 Verdy Kawasaki                    8,662 
  [Takeshi Watanabe 18] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  0-1 Jubilo Iwata                     21,071 
  [Takashi Fukunishi 90] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   1-1 JEF United Ichihara    [asdet]   11,197 
  [Kenichi Uemura 28 – Takafumi Ogura 83] 
Gamba Osaka           1-1 Vissel Kobe            [asdet]    8,093 
  [Kota Yoshihara 86 – Mitsunori Yabuta 37] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    1-3 Cerezo Osaka                      5,167 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 20 – Akinori Nishizawa 18, 50, 
   Masaya Nishitani 54] 
Kawasaki Frontale     0-1 Kashima Antlers                  14,285 
  [Naoki Soma 29] 
FC Tokyo              2-0 Avispa Fukuoka                   10,932 
  [Yukihiko Sato 62, Amaral 71] 
 
Round 3 [Mar 25]
Kawasaki Frontale     0-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               5,024 
  [Tony Popovic 90 pen] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    1-0 Gamba Osaka                       6,129 
  [Makoto Atsuta 64] 
Cerezo Osaka          5-2 Verdy Kawasaki                    6,771 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 30 pen, Hiroaki Morishima 57, 81, 
   Yoon Jong-Hwan 63, Noh Jung-Yoon 73 – Kim Hyun-Seok 75, 78] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       2-1 Kashiwa Reysol         [asdet]   11,057 
  [Yoshikiyo Kuboyama 28, Tsuyoshi Tanikawa 97 – 
   Hideaki Kitajima 15] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   1-3 Jubilo Iwata                     23,288 
  [Akihiro Endo 53 – Takashi Fukunishi 24, Masashi Nakayama 29, 
   Norihiro Nishi 59] 
Avispa Fukuoka        0-1 Kashima Antlers        [asdet]   12,622 
  [Bismarck 105 pen] 
JEF United Ichihara   1-6 Vissel Kobe                       4,113 
  [Tomoyuki Sakai 32 – Hisashi Kurosaki 17, 23, 49, 
   Michiyasu Osada 45, 56, Shigeru Morioka 84] 
FC Tokyo              2-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight   [asdet]   14,368 
  [Yukihiko Sato 81, Amaral 105 – Masahiro Koga 7] 

Round 4 [Apr 1]
Verdy Kawasaki        0-1 JEF United Ichihara               4,131 
  [Owusu Benson 10] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   2-0 Kyoto Purple Sanga                7,047 
  [Tetsuya Ito 49, Kazuyuki Morisaki 60] 
Kashiwa Reysol        3-2 FC Tokyo               [asdet]   10,321 
  [Hideaki Kitajima 25, ? (T) 69 og, Hong Myung-Bo 119 – 
   Amaral 41, Yukihiko Sato 76] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  1-2 Avispa Fukuoka         [asdet]    8,997 
  [Wagner Lopes 26 – Yoshiteru Yamashita 70, 102 pen] 
Gamba Osaka           0-1 Shimizu S-Pulse                   8,400 
  [Alessandro Santos 41] 
Kashima Antlers       2-3 Yokohama F. Marinos              25,317 
  [Bebeto 30, Bismarck 69 pen – Yoo Sang-Chul 60, 90, 
   Shunsuke Nakamura 83] 
Jubilo Iwata          3-1 Cerezo Osaka                     10,463 
  [Naohiro Takahara 59, 86, Daisuke Oku 70 – Hiroaki Morishima 50] 
Vissel Kobe           0-1 Kawasaki Frontale                 4,543 
  [Akira Konno 82] 

Round 5 [Apr 5]
FC Tokyo              3-2 Jubilo Iwata                     12,602 
  [Tuto 56, 72, Amaral 84 pen – Masami Ihara 37, 
   Toshihiro Hattori 70] 
Kawasaki Frontale     2-2 Gamba Osaka            [asdet]    4,371 
  [Akira Ito 76, 87 – Masanobu Matsunami 8, 28] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   1-0 Vissel Kobe                       4,629 
  [Daisuke Tonoike 89] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       2-1 Kashima Antlers                   8,774 
  [? (K) 58 og, Kazuyuki Toda 82 - ? (S) 43 og] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    0-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight              5,825 
  [Kenji Fukuda 83] 
Cerezo Osaka          2-1 JEF United Ichihara    [asdet]    4,074 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 58, Hiroaki Morishima 95 – Baron 12] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   1-2 Kashiwa Reysol                    4,175 
  [Kenichi Uemura 90 – Harutaka Ono 9, Makoto Sunakawa 18] 
Avispa Fukuoka        0-2 Verdy Kawasaki                    7,498 
  [Kazunori Iio 38, Yuji Nakazawa 77] 
 
Round 6 [Apr 8]
Nagoya Grampus Eight  1-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                  17,830 
  [Masahiro Koga 51] 
JEF United Ichihara   1-0 Kawasaki Frontale                 4,485 
  [Katsutomo Oshiba 74] 
Kashima Antlers       2-1 FC Tokyo                         14,754 
  [Fabiano 45, Mitsuo Ogasawara 49 – Tuto 6] 
Gamba Osaka           1-2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima    [asdet]    4,911 
  [Junichi Inamoto 49 – Kota Hattori 90, Kenichi Uemura 99] 
Vissel Kobe           1-2 Cerezo Osaka                      8,005 
  [Mitsutoshi Watada 11 – Daisuke Saito 10, Hiroaki Morishima 58] 
Jubilo Iwata          2-1 Avispa Fukuoka                   10,058 
  [Naohiro Takahara 37, ? (A) 88 og – Takashi Hirajima 4] 
Kashiwa Reysol        2-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga     [asdet]    9,173 
  [Shigenori Hagimura 53, Park Kun-Ha 119 – Hiroshi Noguchi 19] 
Verdy Kawasaki        1-3 Yokohama F. Marinos              12,682 
  [Kim Hyun-Seok 31 – Yoshiharu Ueno 53, Yoo Sang-Chul 73, 90] 
     
Round 7 
[Apr 15]
JEF United Ichihara   2-3 Jubilo Iwata                      4,827 
  [Satoshi Yamaguchi 6, 73 – Hironori Nishi 21, 
   Masashi Nakayama 47 pen, Toshiya Fujita 56] 
FC Tokyo              1-3 Gamba Osaka                       6,665 
  [Amaral 62 – Junichi Inamoto 50, Hiromi Kojima 65, 84] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   2-0 Nagoya Grampus Eight             16,853 
  [Edmilson Matias 54, Yoo Sang-Chul 80] 
Cerezo Osaka          2-1 Kashima Antlers                   9,115 
  [Masaya Nishitani 63, Hiroaki Morishima 64 – Bismarck 69 pen] 
Kawasaki Frontale     2-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga                4,103 
  [Mazinho 12, Guido Alvarenga 40 – Daisuke Matsui 67] 
Vissel Kobe           1-2 Verdy Kawasaki         [asdet]    2,738 
  [Masakazu Senuma 67 – Yuji Nakazawa 36, Kim Hyun-Seok 119] 
Avispa Fukuoka        2-0 Kashiwa Reysol                    8,284 
  [Satoru Noda 5, Yoshiteru Yamashita 8] 
[May 24]
Shimizu S-Pulse       1-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               7,356 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 90] 

Round 8
[Apr 22]
Verdy Kawasaki        2-0 Kawasaki Frontale                 9,703 
  [Kentaro Hayashi 20, Kim Hyun-Seok 46] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  3-1 Cerezo Osaka                     10,378 
  [Kenji Fukuda 45, Tetsuya Okayama 62, Wagner Lopes 89 – 
   Satoru Suzuki 90] 
Kashima Antlers       0-1 JEF United Ichihara               9,275 
  [Takenori Hayashi 70] 
Kashiwa Reysol        3-2 Yokohama F. Marinos    [asdet]   10,669 
  [Mitsuteru Watanabe 22, Hideaki Kitajima 45, 92 – 
   Yoo Sang-Chul 5, Takayuki Yoshida 86] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    1-2 Shimizu S-Pulse        [asdet]    6,179 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 66 – Toshihide Saito 60, 98] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   0-1 FC Tokyo                          6,621 
  [Takuya Jinno 74] 
Gamba Osaka           4-0 Avispa Fukuoka                    4,182 
  [Hiromi Kojima 35, 58, 72, Hitoshi Morishita 80] 
[May 24]
Jubilo Iwata          1-0 Vissel Kobe                       7,531 
  [Dmitriy Radchenko 37] 

Round 9 [Apr 29]
JEF United Ichihara   0-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight   [asdet]   10,979 
  [Wagner Lopes 120] 
FC Tokyo              3-0 Kyoto Purple Sanga                4,049 
  [Tuto 79 pen, 89, 90] 
Verdy Kawasaki        2-3 Jubilo Iwata           [asdet]    7,767 
  [Keiji Ishizuka 21, Yuji Hironaga 47 – Daisuke Oku 74, 
   Toshiya Fujita 87, Norihisa Shimizu 106] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   4-1 Gamba Osaka                      18,531 
  [Yoo Sang-Chul 12, 33, Atsuhiro Miura 15, 
   Shunsuke Nakamura 72 – Andradinha 84] 
Vissel Kobe           0-3 Kashima Antlers                  10,230 
  [Tomoyuki Hirase 40, 80, 81] 
Avispa Fukuoka        1-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima    [asdet]   10,056 
  [Eduardo Montoya 105] 
Cerezo Osaka          4-1 Kashiwa Reysol                   18,118 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 9, Hiroaki Morishima 58, 77, 
   Yasuo Manaka 83 – Hideaki Kitajima 29] 
Kawasaki Frontale     0-2 Shimizu S-Pulse                  10,391 
  [Toshihide Saito 22, Carlos Alberto Santos 44] 

Round 10 [May 3]
Kashima Antlers       0-3 Verdy Kawasaki                   15,633 
  [Kim Hyun-Seok 68, 90, Kazunori Iio 80] 
Kawasaki Frontale     1-5 Jubilo Iwata                     16,843 
  [Shuhei Terada 7 – Toshiya Fujita 45 pen, 50 pen, 87 pen, 
   Dmitriy Radchenko 65, Nobuo Kawaguchi 82] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  1-2 Vissel Kobe                      15,723 
  [Ko Ishikawa 74 – Yukio Tsuchiya 45, Takanori Nunobe 90] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    3-4 Avispa Fukuoka         [asdet]    5,963 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 31, Regis 45, Jin Sato 77 – Tatsunori Hisanaga 16, 
   Yasutoshi Miura 66, Kazuyoshi Matsunaga 85, 104] 
Gamba Osaka           2-1 Cerezo Osaka                     13,380 
  [Kota Yoshihara 44, Toru Araiba 50 – Hiroaki Morishima 45] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       2-1 FC Tokyo                         19,539 
  [Kohei Hiramatsu 87, 90 – Takuya Jinno 50] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   2-0 Yokohama F. Marinos              15,352 
  [Kentaro Sawada 45, Tatsuhiko Kubo 52] 
Kashiwa Reysol        2-1 JEF United Ichihara              10,590 
  [Hideaki Kitajima 14, Makoto Sunakawa 37 – Baron 20] 

Round 11 [May 6]
FC Tokyo              2-1 Kawasaki Frontale                11,229 
  [Masamitsu Kobayashi 56, Tuto 74 – Nobuyasu Ikeda 80] 
Verdy Kawasaki        2-3 Nagoya Grampus Eight   [asdet]   13,204 
  [Kentaro Hayashi 12, 61 – Wagner Lopes 4, Toshiya Fujita 67, 
   Dragan Stojković 110] 
JEF United Ichihara   3-0 Gamba Osaka                       6,818 
  [Eisuke Nakanishi 69, Baron 72, 90] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   2-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga               16,223 
  [Atsuhiro Miura 9, Naoki Matsuda 19 – Makoto Atsuta 35] 
Jubilo Iwata          2-3 Kashima Antlers        [asdet]   17,373 
  [Masashi Nakayama 36, 70 – Atsushi Yanagisawa 5, 
   Akira Narahashi 69, Masashi Motoyama 113] 
Cerezo Osaka          1-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               9,158 
  [Hiroaki Morishima 16] 
Vissel Kobe           2-0 Kashiwa Reysol                    5,305 
  [Mitsutoshi Watada 54, Keiji Kaimoto 62] 
Avispa Fukuoka        3-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                  12,527 
  [Tatsunori Hisanaga 11, Tomoji Eguchi 53, Daisuke Nakaharai 61] 

Round 12 [May 13]
Kawasaki Frontale     1-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight              6,710 
  [Kazuki Ganaha 90 – Wagner Lopes 79] 
Kashiwa Reysol        1-2 Kashima Antlers                  14,872 
  [Tomonori Hirayama 45 – Atsushi Yanagisawa 9, Akira Narahashi 14] 
FC Tokyo              1-2 Cerezo Osaka                     12,219 
  [Takuya Jinno 23 – Masaya Nishitani 48, Akinori Nishizawa 59 pen] 
Gamba Osaka           2-1 Jubilo Iwata                     12,239 
  [Andradinha 14, 84 – Naohiro Takahara 10] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   2-1 Verdy Kawasaki         [asdet]    5,536 
  [Tatsuhiko Kubo 42, Steve Corica 96 – Kazunori Iio 84] 
Avispa Fukuoka        2-4 Yokohama F. Marinos              14,749 
  [Koji Maeda 14, Eduardo Montoya 36 – Kunio Nagayama 4, 
   Edmilson Matias 43, 79, Naoki Matsuda 65] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       1-0 JEF United Ichihara              12,771 
  [Masaaki Sawanobori 59 pen] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    3-2 Vissel Kobe                       5,085 
  [Jin Sato 45, Kazuyoshi Miura 58, 90 – Takanori Nunobe 11, 
   Mitsutoshi Watada 52] 

Round 13 [May 17]
Kashima Antlers       0-1 Gamba Osaka                      11,003 
  [Hiromi Kojima 2] 
JEF United Ichihara   1-3 FC Tokyo                          4,056 
  [Katsutomo Oshiba 30 – Kensuke Kagami 25, 
   Masamitsu Kobayashi 69, Tuto 90] 
Verdy Kawasaki        1-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga     [asdet]    6,843 
  [Kazunori Iio 90 – Kentaro Yoshida 21] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   4-1 Kawasaki Frontale                 8,951 
  [Edmilson Matias 9, 24, Daisuke Tonoike 75, Kunio Nagayama 83 – 
   Pedrinho 8] 
Jubilo Iwata          3-4 Sanfrecce Hiroshima    [asdet]   10,167 
  [Daisuke Oku 26, Takashi Fikunishi 45, Dmitriy Radchenko 87 – 
   Shinya Kawashima 60, Hiroyoshi Kuwabara 69, Tatsuhiko Kubo 89, 98] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  0-2 Kashiwa Reysol                    8,427 
  [Tomonori Hirayama 6, Harutaka Ono 62] 
Cerezo Osaka          4-2 Avispa Fukuoka                    5,443 
  [Hiroaki Morishima 12, 70, Akinori Nishizawa 31, 
   Noh Jung-Yoon 39 – Eduardo Montoya 8, Takashi Hirajima 18] 
Vissel Kobe           2-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                   3,590 
  [Mitsutoshi Watada 8, Takanori Nunobe 84] 

Round 14 [May 20]
FC Tokyo              1-2 Vissel Kobe                       7,277 
  [Tuto 90 – Koji Yoshimura 19, Mitsutoshi Watada 57] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       2-3 Verdy Kawasaki         [asdet]   10,941 
  [Katsumi Oenoki 63, Daisuke Ichikawa 83 – 
   Kim Hyun-Seok 33, 102, Keiji Ishizuka 71] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   1-0 Kashima Antlers                   8,452 
  [Steve Corica 79] 
Kawasaki Frontale     2-4 Kashiwa Reysol                    3,965 
  [Junji Nishizawa 61, Naoki Urata 83 – Hong Myung-Bo 3, 
   Hideaki Kitajima 44, Makoto Sunakawa 54, Shigenori Hagimura 81] 
Avispa Fukuoka        0-3 JEF United Ichihara               8,451 
  [Baron 42, Takayuki Chano 49, 60] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   2-3 Cerezo Osaka                     14,561 
  [Norio Omura 27, Daisuke Tonoike 81 – Masaya Nishitani 13, 
   Akinori Nishizawa 50, Daisuke Saito 89] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    2-3 Jubilo Iwata           [asdet]   14,353 
  [Yasuhito Endo 41, 69 – Dmitriy Radchenko 62, Norihiro Nishi 64, 
   Toshiya Fujita 107] 
Gamba Osaka           1-2 Nagoya Grampus Eight   [asdet]    7,696 
  [Toru Araiba 90 – Wagner Lopes 4, 99] 
  
Round 15 [May 27]
Kashima Antlers       3-0 Kyoto Purple Sanga               13,861 
  [Masashi Motoyama 20, Tomoyuki Hirase 55, 77] 
JEF United Ichihara   0-2 Yokohama F. Marinos              17,953 
  [Edmilson Matias 39, Akihiro Endo 70] 
Kashiwa Reysol        2-1 Gamba Osaka                       9,327 
  [Hideaki Kitajima 7, Mitsuteru Watanabe 20 – 
   Hitoshi Morishita 45] 
Verdy Kawasaki        3-0 FC Tokyo                          6,743 
  [Kentaro Hayashi 10, Kim Hyun-Seok 74, 79] 
Jubilo Iwata          0-2 Shimizu S-Pulse                  17,373 
  [Teruyoshi Ito 30, Alessandro Santos 81] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  2-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               7,261 
  [Wagner Lopes 88, Tarik Oulida 90 – Kazuyuki Morisaki 45] 
Cerezo Osaka          1-2 Kawasaki Frontale        [asdet] 43,193 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 61 – Kazuki Ganaha 50, Naoki Urata 107] 
Vissel Kobe           1-0 Avispa Fukuoka                    3,596 
  [Ha Seok-Ju 35] 

Table:
                               W/OT  D  L/OT
 1.Yokohama F. Marinos     15  10/0  0  4/1  32-21 30  Winners First Stage 
 2.Cerezo Osaka            15   9/1  0  4/1  34-25 29
 3.Shimizu S-Pulse         15   8/2  0  4/1  21-17 28
 4.Kashiwa Reysol          15   6/4  0  4/1  25-22 26
 5.Jubilo Iwata            15   7/2  0  3/3  32-25 25
 6.FC Tokyo                15   7/1  0  6/1  24-22 23
 7.Vissel Kobe             15   7/0  1  6/1  21-17 22
 8.Kashima Antlers         15   6/2  0  7/0  20-17 22
 9.Verdy Kawasaki          15   5/2  1  4/3  26-23 20
10.Sanfrecce Hiroshima     15   4/3  1  6/1  17-15 19
11.JEF United Ichihara     15   6/0  1  6/2  22-22 19
12.Nagoya Grampus Eight    15   4/3  1  5/2  17-18 19
13.Gamba Osaka             15   5/0  2  6/2  20-23 17
14.Avispa Fukuoka          15   3/3  0  8/1  19-28 15
15.Kawasaki Frontale       15   2/1  2 10/0  14-29 10
16.Kyoto Purple Sanga      15   2/0  1  8/4  16-36  7
  
Yokohama F. Marinos first stage winners, qualified for championship final.


Second Stage

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Kashima Antlers         15   9/1  4  0/1  28-10 33  Winners Second Stage 
 2.Kashiwa Reysol          15   9/2  1  3/0  23-10 32 
 3.Jubilo Iwata            15  10/0  0  4/1  35-17 30 
 4.Gamba Osaka             15   8/2  0  4/1  27-20 28 
 5.Yokohama F. Marinos     15   7/1  1  5/1  24-24 24 
 6.Avispa Fukuoka          15   6/1  2  2/4  22-20 22 
 7.Nagoya Grampus Eight    15   7/0  1  5/2  25-27 22 
 8.FC Tokyo                15   5/2  1  6/1  23-19 20 
 9.Cerezo Osaka            15   5/2  0  7/1  20-24 19 
10.Verdy Kawasaki          15   5/0  3  6/1  20-21 18 
11.Sanfrecce Hiroshima     15   5/1  1  5/3  23-25 18 
12.Kyoto Purple Sanga      15   5/1  1  7/1  23-30 18 
13.Shimizu S-Pulse         15   2/3  2  8/0  13-19 14 
14.Vissel Kobe             15   3/1  0 10/1  19-32 11 
15.Kawasaki Frontale       15   1/3  2  9/0  12-27 11 
16.JEF United Ichihara     15   2/1  1  8/3  15-27  9 

Round 1 [Jun 24] 
Kawasaki Frontale     0-1 Avispa Fukuoka                    4,394 
  [Pavel Badea 56] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  0-3 Kashima Antlers                  16,560 
  [Atsushi Yanagisawa 29, Koji Kumagai 56, Tomoyuki Hirase 61] 
Gamba Osaka           2-1 Verdy Kawasaki                    7,153 
  [Takayuki Yamaguchi 52, Masanobu Matsunami 90 – Takuya Yamada 67] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   1-0 Vissel Kobe                       6,438 
  [Keisuke Kurihara 43] 
FC Tokyo              3-0 Yokohama F. Marinos              14,432 
  [Tuto 14, Toshiki Koike 51, Amaral 90] 
Kashiwa Reysol        2-1 Jubilo Iwata                     11,773 
  [Hideaki Kitajima 28, 57 pen – Nobuo Kawaguchi 54] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    3-2 JEF United Ichihara               4,521 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 16, Makoto Atsuta 56, 90 – Baron 53, 
   Takenori Hayashi 81] 
Cerezo Osaka          3-1 Shimizu S-Pulse                  11,696 
  [Hiroaki Morishima 30, 86, Noh Jung-Yoon 69 – Sotaro Yasunaga 51] 

Round 2 [Jul 1] 
Verdy Kawasaki        1-0 Kashiwa Reysol                    4,727 
  [Kentaro Hayashi 30 pen] 
Jubilo Iwata          5-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight             14,291 
  [Masashi Nakayama 35, 73, Makoto Tanaka 37, 
   Naohiro Takahara 41, 81 – Wagner Lopes 88] 
Kashima Antlers       4-0 Kawasaki Frontale                13,307 
  [Fabiano 47, Tomoyuki Hirase 60, 75, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 89] 
JEF United Ichihara   2-2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               4,351 
  [Baron 19, Eisuke Nakanishi 55 – Tatsuhiko Kubo 30, 
   Kenichi Uemura 41] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   0-1 Shimizu S-Pulse                  20,354 
  [Fabinho 86] 
Cerezo Osaka          2-0 Kyoto Purple Sanga                9,270 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 57, Hiroaki Morishima 72] 
Vissel Kobe           1-3 Gamba Osaka                       6,820 
  [Yukio Tsuchiya 73 – Vital 22, Masanobu Matsunami 67, 
   Toru Araiba 70] 
Avispa Fukuoka        1-2 FC Tokyo               [asdet]   14,495 
  [Tomoji Eguchi 90 – Amaral 38, Tuto 94 pen] 

Round 3 [Jul 8] 
Kashima Antlers       2-1 Jubilo Iwata                     13,750 
  [Tomoyuki Hirase 25, Atsushi Yanagisawa 30 – 
   Masashi Nakayama 69] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       0-1 Avispa Fukuoka                   10,471 
  [Hiroki Hattori 16] 
Kawasaki Frontale     0-3 FC Tokyo                          8,036 
  [Amaral 26, 56, 65] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    1-3 Yokohama F. Marinos               9,285 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 52 – Daisuke Tonoike 36, 45, 
   Atsuhiro Miura 66] 
Kashiwa Reysol        3-2 Vissel Kobe            [asdet]    6,430 
  [Tomokazu Myojin 28, 90, Hideaki Kitajima 118 – 
   Mitsutoshi Watada 2, 21] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  2-2 Verdy Kawasaki                   10,122 
  [Wagner Lopes 53, Dragan Stojković 90 – Yuji Hironaga 23, 
   Keiji Ishizuka 72] 
Gamba Osaka           1-0 JEF United Ichihara               4,411 
  [Vital 71] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   3-1 Cerezo Osaka                      7,781 
  [Keisuke Kurihara 12, Kentaro Sawada 60, ? (C) 85 og – 
   Daisuke Saito 75] 

Round 4 [Jul 15] 
FC Tokyo              2-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                   6,858 
  [Toshiki Koike 22, Amaral 71] 
Jubilo Iwata          3-1 Kawasaki Frontale                 8,604 
  [Naohiro Takahara 11, Takashi Fukunishi 51, 
   Aleksandar Živković 82 – Takeo Harada 89] 
JEF United Ichihara   1-0 Kashiwa Reysol                    5,785 
  [Baron 82] 
Verdy Kawasaki        0-2 Kashima Antlers                  16,164 
  [Masashi Motoyama 77, 90] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   4-2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima              10,498 
  [Atsuhiro Miura 47, Yoo Sang-Chul 56, 90, Daisuke Tonoike 57 – 
   Kenichi Uemura 71, Yusaku Ueno 87] 
Cerezo Osaka          0-1 Gamba Osaka                      19,258 
  [Vital 86] 
Vissel Kobe           1-3 Nagoya Grampus Eight              8,261 
  [Mitsutoshi Watada 56 – Tetsuya Okayama 1, 9, Kenji Fukuda 90] 
Avispa Fukuoka        2-3 Kyoto Purple Sanga     [asdet]   18,816 
  [Daisuke Nakaharai 2, Satoru Noda 84 – Makoto Atsuta 1, 
   Yasuhito Endo 71, Kazuyoshi Miura 113] 

Round 5 [Jul 22] 
Kashima Antlers       3-0 Vissel Kobe                      13,757 
  [Mitsuo Ogasawara 48, Koji Nakata 68, Yutaka Akita 90] 
Kashiwa Reysol        4-0 Cerezo Osaka                      9,272 
  [Mitsuteru Watanabe 6, Nozomu Kato 10, Tomonori Hirayama 39, 
   Hideaki Kitajima 89] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       2-2 Kawasaki Frontale                11,631 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 42, Yoshikiyo Kuboyama 44 – 
   Tetsuya Oishi 26, Paulo Isidoro 52] 
Jubilo Iwata          2-0 Verdy Kawasaki                   10,384 
  [Masashi Nakayama 23, Toshiya Fujita 90] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  2-0 JEF United Ichihara              11,226 
  [Dragan Stojković 34, Kenji Fukuda 90] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    0-3 FC Tokyo                          6,166 
  [Tuto 62, 84, Amaral 90] 
Gamba Osaka           2-1 Yokohama F. Marinos              15,114 
  [Hiromi Kojima 90, Nino Bule 90+ - Yoo Sang-Chul 72] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   1-2 Avispa Fukuoka                    6,039 
  [Kazuyuki Morisaki 64 – Pavel Badea 20, Eduardo Montoya 45] 

Round 6 [Jul 26] 
JEF United Ichihara   1-2 Kashima Antlers                   5,266 
  [Takafumi Ogura 80 – Mitsuo Ogasawara 31, Atsushi Yanagisawa 33] 
FC Tokyo              1-2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               8,546 
  [Takuya Jinno 85 – Tatsuhiko Kubo 22, Chikara Fujimoto 45] 
Kawasaki Frontale     0-0 Verdy Kawasaki                    8,598 
Yokohama F. Marinos   1-0 Kashiwa Reysol                   10,863 
  [Yoo Sang-Chul 14] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       1-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga                8,941 
  [Sotaro Yasunaga 68 – Kazuyoshi Miura 63] 
Cerezo Osaka          0-3 Nagoya Grampus Eight              9,733 
  [Tetsuya Okayama 4, Kunihiko Takizawa 58, Uéslei 65] 
Vissel Kobe           2-3 Jubilo Iwata                     11,924 
  [Koji Yoshimura 57, 82 – Masashi Nakayama 54, 61, 
   Naohiro Takahara 90] 
Avispa Fukuoka        2-1 Gamba Osaka                      14,429 
  [David Bisconti 42, Eduardo Montoya 83 – Nino Bule 13] 

Round 7 [Jul 29] 
Kashima Antlers       0-1 Cerezo Osaka           [asdet]   15,389 
  [? (K) 96 og] 
Kashiwa Reysol        1-0 Avispa Fukuoka                    7,563 
  [Nozomu Kato 56] 
Verdy Kawasaki        1-2 Vissel Kobe                       4,631 
  [Kim Hyun-Seok 8 – Koji Yoshimura 13, Ha Seok-Ju 39] 
Jubilo Iwata          3-1 JEF United Ichihara              12,152 
  [Masashi Nakayama 40, 54, Takashi Fukunishi 76 – Baron 7] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  3-2 Yokohama F. Marinos              21,935 
  [Uéslei 9, Tetsuya Okayama 60, Dragan Stojković 88 – 
   Yoo Sang-Chul 3, Shunsuke Nakamura 22] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    3-1 Kawasaki Frontale                 6,157 
  [Regis 60, 83, ? (KF) 76 og – Tatsuru Mukojima 20] 
Gamba Osaka           2-1 FC Tokyo               [asdet]    7,078 
  [Kota Yoshihara 3, Vital 93 - ? (G) 21 og] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   1-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                   9,055 
  [Kenichi Uemura 81] 

Round 8 [Aug 5] 
FC Tokyo              0-2 Kashiwa Reysol                    7,676 
  [Hideaki Kitajima 19, Harutaka Ono 77] 
JEF United Ichihara   1-4 Verdy Kawasaki                    3,296 
  [Hiroyasu Ibata 43 – Takuya Yamada 12, 30, ? (J) 56 og, 
   Kim Hyun-Seok 59] 
Kawasaki Frontale     2-1 Vissel Kobe                       3,854 
  [Paulo Isidoro 35, Daniel Rossi 70 – Takanori Nunobe 4] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   1-1 Kashima Antlers                  31,056 
  [Edmilson Matias 44 – Tomoyuki Hirase 64] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       2-1 Gamba Osaka            [asdet]   12,158 
  [Yoshikiyo Kuboyama 84, Daisuke Ichikawa 98 – Hiromi Kojima 87] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    3-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima               5,664 
  [Takashi Hirano 36, Yasuhito Endo 86, Kazuyoshi Miura 90 – 
   Steve Corica 90] 
Cerezo Osaka          3-0 Jubilo Iwata                     19,247 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 28, Yoon Jong-Hwan 46, Noh Jung-Yoon 70] 
Avispa Fukuoka        3-2 Nagoya Grampus Eight   [asdet]   17,231 
  [David Bisconti 26, Eduardo Montoya 40, Daisuke Nakaharai 100 – 
   Yasunari Hiraoka 5, Dragan Stojković 37] 

Round 9 [Aug 12] 
Kashima Antlers       1-1 Avispa Fukuoka                   14,701 
  [Tomoyuki Hirase 27 – Tatsunori Hisanaga 46] 
Kashiwa Reysol        1-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                  11,715 
  [Hideaki Kitajima 89] 
Verdy Kawasaki        1-0 Cerezo Osaka                      5,526 
  [Kim Hyun-Seok 29] 
Jubilo Iwata          4-0 Yokohama F. Marinos              17,373 
  [Masashi Nakayama 34, 45, Naohiro Takahara 44, 56] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  4-1 FC Tokyo                         17,114 
  [Tetsuya Okayama 50, Uéslei 54, 74, Motohiro Yamaguchi 61 – 
   Tuto 42] 
Gamba Osaka           3-0 Kyoto Purple Sanga               12,308 
  [Nino Bule 40, 56, Junichi Inamoto 78] 
Vissel Kobe           2-1 JEF United Ichihara               7,125 
  [Koji Yoshimura 72, 77 – Hiroyasu Ibata 10] 	
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   0-1 Kawasaki Frontale      [asdet]    6,339 
  [Yusuke Nakatani 95] 

Round 10 [Aug 19] 
FC Tokyo              1-1 Kashima Antlers                  33,892 
  [Naruyuki Naito 28 – Naoki Soma 13] 
Kawasaki Frontale     0-1 JEF United Ichihara               5,739 
  [Hiroyasu Ibata 66] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   3-2 Verdy Kawasaki                   13,109 
  [Daisuke Tonoike 37, 68, Shunsuke Nakamura 89 – 
   Yuji Nakazawa 71, 90] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       1-2 Nagoya Grampus Eight             18,876 
  [Fernando Oliva 76 pen – Uéslei 36, 56] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    1-2 Kashiwa Reysol                    9,095 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 54 – Takeshi Watanabe 22, Harutaka Ono 29] 
Cerezo Osaka          3-2 Vissel Kobe                       9,211 
  [Yoon Jong-Hwan 14, Akinori Nishizawa 29, 57 – 
   Takanori Nunobe 40, 67] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   2-3 Gamba Osaka                      10,092 
  [Tony Popovic 63, Tatsuhiko Kubo 85 – Nino Bule 10, Vital 70, 
   Junichi Inamoto 75] 
Avispa Fukuoka        2-1 Jubilo Iwata                     21,084 
  [David Bisconti 18, Eduardo Montoya 71 - ? (A) 65 og] 

Round 11 [Nov 8] 
Kashima Antlers       2-1 Shimizu S-Pulse                  13,639 
  [Akira Narahashi 42, Koji Nakata 86 - ? (K) 71 og] 
JEF United Ichihara   0-1 Cerezo Osaka           [asdet]    4,355 
  [Michiharu Sugimoto 105] 
Kashiwa Reysol        2-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima    [asdet]    6,575 
  [Makoto Sunakawa 74, Hideaki Kitajima 101 – Tatsuhiko Kubo 81] 
Verdy Kawasaki        0-0 Avispa Fukuoka                    3,671 
Jubilo Iwata          2-0 FC Tokyo                          9,516 
  [Toshihiro Hattori 86, Masashi Nakayama 90] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  0-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga               14,482 
  [Yasuhito Endo 11] 
Gamba Osaka           4-0 Kawasaki Frontale                 7,238 
  [Vital 16, 83, Toru Araiba 47, 90] 
Vissel Kobe           2-4 Yokohama F. Marinos              12,285 
  [Shigeru Morioka 55, Takehito Shigehara 67 – Shoji Jo 25, 39, 
   Akihiro Endo 52, Shintaro Harada 88] 

Round 12 [Nov 11] 
FC Tokyo              2-3 Verdy Kawasaki                   11,298 
  [Tuto 66, 73 – Kentaro Hayashi 10, Kazuyoshi Mikami 15, 
   Kazuki Hiramoto 90] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   1-0 JEF United Ichihara              20,622 
  [Shunsuke Nakamura 31] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       1-0 Jubilo Iwata           [asdet]   18,977 
  [Alessandro Santos 115] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    1-3 Kashima Antlers                  10,750 
  [Park Ji-Sung 50 – Koji Nakata 40, Takayuki Suzuki 45, 
   Masashi Motoyama 76] 
Gamba Osaka           1-3 Kashiwa Reysol                   13,171 
  [Toru Araiba 67 – Makoto Sunakawa 54, Mitsuteru Watanabe 80, 
   Hideaki Kitajima 84] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   4-0 Nagoya Grampus Eight              7,978 
  [Tony Popovic 10, Tatsuhiko Kubo 13, Chikara Fujimoto 59, 
   Kentaro Sawada 90] 
Kawasaki Frontale     4-3 Cerezo Osaka           [asdet]    5,024 
  [Takumi Morikawa 42, Tomoaki Kuno 75, Akira Konno 80, 
   Yasuhiro Nagahashi 114 – Michiharu Sugimoto 47, 
   Shigeki Kurata 59, Akinori Nishizawa 82] 
Avispa Fukuoka        3-1 Vissel Kobe                      12,641 
  [Hiroki Hattori 34, Koji Maeda 63, Eduardo Montoya 82 – 
   Michiyasu Osada 83] 

Round 13 [Nov 18] 
Kashima Antlers       2-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima    [asdet]    7,024 
  [? (S) 27 og, Masashi Motoyama 117 – Keisuke Kurihara 66] 
Verdy Kawasaki        2-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                   4,114 
  [Kim Hyun-Seok 19, Keiji Ishizuka 90] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  1-2 Gamba Osaka            [asdet]   16,278 
  [Ryuta Hara 22 – Hiromi Kojima 75, Nino Bule 93] 
Cerezo Osaka          1-2 Yokohama F. Marinos              20,794 
  [Yasuo Manaka 20 – Atsuhiro Miura 22, Yoo Sang-Chul 57] 
JEF United Ichihara   4-3 Avispa Fukuoka         [asdet]    4,831 
  [Takafumi Ogura 4, Eisuke Nakanishi 25, Baron 87, 
   Nozomi Hiroyama 103 – David Bisconti 13, 45, 83] 
Jubilo Iwata          3-2 Kyoto Purple Sanga               11,471 
  [Aleksandar Živković 76, Daisuke Oku 87, Toshiya Fujita 90 – 
   Regis 2, Kazuyoshi Miura 30] 
Vissel Kobe           1-0 FC Tokyo                          8,091 
  [Hisashi Kurosaki 86] 
Kashiwa Reysol        1-0 Kawasaki Frontale                10,382 
  [Hwang Sun-Hong 45] 

Round 14 [Nov 23] 
Kashiwa Reysol        2-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight             13,235 
  [Mitsuteru Watanabe 71, Hideaki Kitajima 79 – Ryuta Hara 34] 
FC Tokyo              1-0 JEF United Ichihara    [asdet]   15,064 
  [Yukihiko Sato 113] 
Kawasaki Frontale     1-0 Yokohama F. Marinos    [asdet]   10,245 
  [Akira Konno 99] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       1-0 Vissel Kobe                      10,718 
  [Sotaro Yasunaga 90] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    3-2 Verdy Kawasaki                    8,458 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 38, 53, 90 – Keiji Ishizuka 24, 57] 
Gamba Osaka           1-2 Kashima Antlers                  21,543 
  [Toru Araiba 45 – Takayuki Suzuki 31, Atsushi Yanagisawa 37] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   0-3 Jubilo Iwata                     20,876 
  [Masashi Nakayama 5, 39, 51] 
Avispa Fukuoka        0-1 Cerezo Osaka                     20,908 
  [Nobuki Hara 49] 

Round 15 [Nov 26] 
Kashima Antlers       0-0 Kashiwa Reysol                   50,399 
JEF United Ichihara   1-2 Shimizu S-Pulse        [asdet]    7,629 
  [Shinizhi Muto 70 – Alessandro Santos 72, Katsumi Oenoki 120] 
Verdy Kawasaki        1-2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima    [asdet]    6,948 
  [Atsushi Yoneyama 73 – Tatsuhiko Kubo 50, 97] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   2-1 Avispa Fukuoka         [asdet]   18,285 
  [Yoo Sang-Chul 29, 103 – Tatsunori Hisanaga 42] 
Jubilo Iwata          4-0 Gamba Osaka                      17,195 
  [Nobuo Kawaguchi 11, Masashi Nakayama 57, 86, Hiroshi Nanami 90] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  1-0 Kawasaki Frontale                14,312 
  [Uéslei 55] 
Cerezo Osaka          1-3 FC Tokyo                          8,140 
  [Masaya Nishitani 69 – Tadatoshi Masuda 32, Yukihiko Sato 71, 
   Amaral 78] 
Vissel Kobe           2-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga     [asdet]   15,809 
  [Hisashi Kurosaki 17, Akihiro Nagashima 92 – Kazuyoshi Miura 44] 

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Kashima Antlers         15   9/1  4  0/1  28-10 33  Winners Second Stage 
 2.Kashiwa Reysol          15   9/2  1  3/0  23-10 32 
 3.Jubilo Iwata            15  10/0  0  4/1  35-17 30 
 4.Gamba Osaka             15   8/2  0  4/1  27-20 28 
 5.Yokohama F. Marinos     15   7/1  1  5/1  24-24 24 
 6.Avispa Fukuoka          15   6/1  2  2/4  22-20 22 
 7.Nagoya Grampus Eight    15   7/0  1  5/2  25-27 22 
 8.FC Tokyo                15   5/2  1  6/1  23-19 20 
 9.Cerezo Osaka            15   5/2  0  7/1  20-24 19 
10.Verdy Kawasaki          15   5/0  3  6/1  20-21 18 
11.Sanfrecce Hiroshima     15   5/1  1  5/3  23-25 18 
12.Kyoto Purple Sanga      15   5/1  1  7/1  23-30 18 
13.Shimizu S-Pulse         15   2/3  2  8/0  13-19 14 
14.Vissel Kobe             15   3/1  0 10/1  19-32 11 
15.Kawasaki Frontale       15   1/3  2  9/0  12-27 11 
16.JEF United Ichihara     15   2/1  1  8/3  15-27  9 

Kashima Antlers second stage winners, qualified for championship final.


Aggregate Table:

 1.Kashiwa Reysol          30  15/6  1  7/1  48-32 58
 2.Jubilo Iwata            30  17/2  0  7/4  67-42 55
 3.Kashima Antlers         30  15/3  4  7/1  48-27 55  Winners Second Stage
 4.Yokohama F. Marinos     30  17/1  1  9/2  56-45 54  Winners First Stage
 5.Cerezo Osaka            30  14/3  0 11/2  54-49 48
 6.Gamba Osaka             30  13/2  2 10/3  47-43 45
 7.FC Tokyo                30  12/3  1 12/2  47-41 43
 8.Shimizu S-Pulse         30  10/5  2 12/1  34-36 42
 9.Nagoya Grampus Eight    30  11/3  2 10/4  42-45 41
10.Verdy Kawasaki          30  10/2  4 10/4  46-44 38
11.Sanfrecce Hiroshima     30   9/4  2 11/4  40-40 37
12.Avispa Fukuoka          30   9/4  2 10/5  41-48 37
13.Vissel Kobe             30  10/1  1 16/2  40-49 33
14.JEF United Ichihara     30   8/1  2 14/5  37-49 28
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15.Kyoto Purple Sanga      30   7/1  2 15/5  39-66 25  Relegated
16.Kawasaki Frontale       30   3/4  4 19/0  26-56 21  Relegated


Championship Playoff 

First Leg [Dec 2, International Stadium Yokohama] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   0-0 Kashima Antlers                  41,595 

Second Leg [Dec 9, Tokyo National Stadium]
Kashima Antlers       3-0 Yokohama F. Marinos              44,665 
  [Takayuki SUZUKI 24, Akira NARAHASHI 39, Koji NAKATA 44]

Kashima Antlers champions 2000


Top scorers: 

 1.NAKAYAMA Masashi (Jubilo Iwata)                      20 
 2.KITAJIMA Hideaki (Kashiwa Reysol)                    18 
 3.MIURA Kazuyoshi (Kyoto Purple Sanga)                 17 
   Livonir Ruschel ‘TUTO’ (FC Tokyo)                    17  [Brazil] 
   YOO Sang-Chul (Yokohama F. Marinos)                  17  [South Korea] 
 6.KIM Hyun-Seok (Verdy Kawasaki)                       16  [South Korea] 
 7.MORISHIMA Hiroaki (Cerezo Osaka)                     15 
   NISHIZAWA Akinori (Cerezo Osaka)                     15 
 9.Wagner Pereira Cardozo ‘AMARAL’ (FC Tokyo)           13  [Brazil] 
   Marcelo BARON Polanczyk (JEF United Ichihara)        13  [Brazil] 
11.HIRASE Tomoyuki (Kashima Antlers)                    11 
   KUBO Tatsuhiko (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)                 11 
13.LOPES Wagner (Nagoya Grampus Eight)                  10 
   TAKAHARA Naohiro (Jubilo Iwata)                      10 



Emperor's Cup 2000
==================

1st Round [Nov 25] 
Nirasaki Astros             0-4 Hosei University                               241 
  [Yuki Sato 34 pen, Jiro Sakon 57, Tomokazu Fujiwara 81, 82] 
Fukuoka University          4-1 Shimizu Commercial H.S.                        343 
  [Toru Ueki 33, 44, Shugo Kawahara 58, Keisuke Ota 85 – Naoya Kikuchi 14] 
Gunma FC Fortuna            0-2 Consadole Sapporo                            3,250 
  [Norihisa Shimizu 65, Yoshikazu Nonomura 90] 
Kusatsu Higashi H.S.        3-1 Yamagata Chuo H.S.                             350 
  [Yusuke Oka 2, Yuki Mori 20, Hirotaka Uchibayashi 81 – Yosuke Shibuya 41] 
Teihens FC                  1-5 Albirex Niigata                              1,718 
  [Ryoji Okunaga 11 pen – Shingo Suzuki 41, Nascimento 55, 60, 76, 
   Takayoshi Shikida 56] 
Ritsumeikan University      2-4 Kunimi H.S.                                    936 
  [Hiroya Hasegawa 61, Takeshi Murazeki 89 – Tatsuya Kamohara 32, 56, 
   Shota Matsuhashi 40, Yoshito Okubo 51] 
Gifu Technical H.S.         1-7 Sagan Tosu                                     502 
  [Shinya Yamamoto 60 – Hiroki Mihara 26, 35, Luciano 33, 
   Goichi Ishitani 51, 61, 64, Kosei Kitauchi 69] 
Kanagawa Kyoin SC           1-0 YKK                                            555 
  [Satoshi Kusayanagi 27] 
Ehime FC                    1-3 Yokohama FC                                  2,313 
  [Mao Okuda 5 – Kenji Arima 16, 37, Masami Sato 88] 
Aichi Gakuin University     1-0 Fukui KSC                                      327 
  [Shingo Hoshino 16] 
Iwami FC                    0-4 Shonan Bellmare                              1,662 
  [Yasunori Takada 24, ? (I) 71 og, Manabu Komatsubara 78, Daniel Sanabria 90] 
Kochi University            1-1 Kibi International Univ.    [aet, 4-5 pen]     500 
  [Tomoaki Uchino 53 – Kentaro Onishi 13] 
Hatsushiba Hashimoto H.S.   0-5 Oita Trinita                                   442 
  [Kensuke Kagami 12, 22, Andradinha 32, 40, 52 pen] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Youth   0-1 FC Ueda Gentian                              1,270 
  [Shigemichi Nishimura 9] 
Tenri University            0-6 Honda Motor                                    251 
  [Tomohiro Mori 33, Shigeru Suzuki 64, Jun Uruno 67, 76, Masataka Maeda 81, 
   Tatsuya Furuhashi 90] 
Nippon Steel Oita           4-2 Nippon Steel Kamaishi Works                  1,562 
  [Junichiro Furuzono 22, Michinori Nagaki 43, Yasushi Hara 49, Hiroshi Mieno 82 – 
   Shinya Matsuoka 19, 90] 
FC Primeiro                 1-6 Denso                                          537 
  [Yosuke Ito 90 – Takaaki Tokushige 22 pen, 27, 74, Taku Terao 38, 
   Yoshinari Hyakutake 41, Tomohiro Ito 89] 
Juntendo University         3-2 TDK                         [asdet]            523 
  [Shingo Morita 38, Hideyuki Takeya 83, Kenichi Ego 109 – 
   Takehiko Sasaki 52, Hideyuki Sato 82] 
SC Tottori                  0-3 Omiya Ardija                                   828 
  [Masato Harasaki 22, Koji Noguchi 51, Mark Burke 77] 
Tokuyama University         1-0 Apple Sports College FC     [asdet]            304 
  [Koki Doi 93] 
Kwansei Gakuin University   2-1 Vegalta Sendai                               1,505 
  [Akiyuki Nakano 68, 73 – Takahiro Yamada 50] 
Tochigi SC                  3-0 Hachinohe University                         1,045 
  [Masamichi Inagawa 9, Takayuki Kikuchi 42, Makoto Yokohama 63] 
Matsushita Denko IFC        0-4 Ventforet Kofu                               1,247 
  [Shinichi Fujita 49, Satoru Yoshida 71, Fumiyuki Kanda 85, Tatsuya Ai 89] 
Sony Sendai                 2-3 Dohto University            [asdet]            805 
  [Hidenori Tabata 13, Daiji Tatebe 16 - ? (S) 47 og, Yuki Tazawa 56, 93] 
Saga Kita H.S.              0-12 Montedio Yamagata                             566 
  [Edwin Ifeanyi 3, 8, 42, Teppei Nishiyama 16, 59, 65, Ryosuke Nemoto 44, 76, 90+, 
   Gakuya Horii 56, 78 pen, 90] 
NIFS Kanoya                 1-4 Jatco Transtechnology                          659 
  [Yuki Ezawa 26 – Jun Iwashita 27, 53, Takayasu Kawai 45, Yasuhiko Niimura 87] 
Kaiho Bank                  0-3 Mito Holly Hock                              1,790 
  [Yoshio Kitagawa 63, 66, Taku Watanabe 84] 
Yokogawa                    1-1 Hannan University           [aet, 4-5 pen]     582 
  [Naohiro Kinoshita 66 – Ryang Yong-Gi 90] 
Saitama SC                  0-2 Urawa Red Diamonds                           5,050 
  [Kohei Morita 12, 21] 
NTT Kumamoto                0-2 Honda Lock                                   1,150 
  [Yoshihide Ogushi 21, Shinichi Kotani 90] 
University of Tsukuba       4-1 Tokai University                               363 
  [Takayoshi Ono 4, 61, Yushi Soda 59 pen, Takamasa Watanabe 76 – 
   Masumi Otsuka 49 pen] 
Sun Life                    0-5 Otsuka                                         655 
  [Shinya Ueda 2, Koji Yoshinari 12, Takao Sekiguchi 14, Junichi Okamoto 40, 
   Yuma Otani 76] 

2nd Round [Dec 3] 
Hosei University            2-3 Fukuoka University          [asdet]            318 
  [Tomokazu Fujiwara 49, Kazuya Nagayama 90 – Keisuke Ota 32, Shugo Kawahara 45, 
   Jin Nakamura 120] 
Consadole Sapporo           6-0 Kusatsu Higashi H.S.                         1,966 
  [Yuzuki Ito 16, Koji Nakao 23, Biju 48, Tomohiko Ikeuchi 72, Almir 84, 
   Takuya Takagi 89] 
Albirex Niigata             2-0 Kunimi H.S.                                  3,126 
  [Nascimento 23, Shingo Suzuki 25] 
Sagan Tosu                  6-0 Kanagawa Kyoin SC                            1,606 
  [Shin Nakamura 2, Kosei Kitauchi 6, Masato Koga 40, Luciano 48, 59, 
   Pak Yong-Ho 81] 
Yokohama FC                 1-2 Aichi Gakuin University                      1,913 
  [Kenji Arima 76 – Keiji Yoshimura 41, Ryotaro Waki 69] 
Shonan Bellmare             3-0 Kibi International Univ.                     1,504 
  [Manabu Komatsubara 17, Masakiyo Maezono 27, Junichi Watanabe 67] 
Oita Trinita                7-0 FC Ueda Gentian                              2,507 
  [Haruki Seto 6, Takayuki Yoshida 28, 56, Andradinha 30 pen, Kensuke Kagami 35, 
   Motoki Kawasaki 89, Sidiclei 90 pen] 
Honda Motor                 2-0 Nippon Steel Oita                              852 
  [Tatsuya Furuhashi 73, Shigeru Suzuki 90] 
Denso                       2-1 Juntendo University                          1,143 
  [Taku Terao 11, Yoshinari Hyakutake 70 – Naoto Tajima 29] 
Omiya Ardija                4-1 Tokuyama University                            878 
  [Mark Burke 9, Kazushi Isoyama 24, 50, Jorginho 33 – Takahito Araki 35] 
Kwansei Gakuin University   0-1 Tochigi SC                                     584 
  [Mitsuo Urashima 57] 
Ventforet Kofu              2-1 Dohto University            [asdet]          1,071 
  [Makoto Kaneko 37, Takuma Sugano 116 – Ryuhei Naya 90] 
Montedio Yamagata           1-2 Jatco Transtechnology                          614 
  [Teppei Nishiyama 75 – Rikizo Matsuhashi 41, Jun Iwashita 59] 
Mito Holly Hock             2-0 Hannan University                              707 
  [Yoshio Kitagawa 23, 57] 
Urawa Red Diamonds          9-0 Honda Lock                                   6,287 
  [Kohei Morita 10, 57, 77, 85, Ichiei Muroi 18, Keita Suzuki 44, 
   Masaki Tsuchihashi 47, Adiel 61, Tomoyuki Yoshino 81] 
University of Tsukuba       1-1 Otsuka                      [aet, 2-4 pen]     408 
  [Yushi Soda 87 – Shusuke Shimada 43] 

3rd Round 
[Dec 6] 
Shimizu S-Pulse             3-0 Denso                                        1,266 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 61, Sotaro Yasunaga 73, Alessandro Santos 81] 
[Dec 10] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga          0-1 Consadole Sapporo                            3,205 
  [Hideaki Mori 3] 
Verdy Kawasaki              2-1 Albirex Niigata                                957 
  [Keiji Ishizuka 26, Naoto Sakurai 72 – Shingo Suzuki 2] 
Jubilo Iwata                5-0 Aichi Gakuin University                      7,553 
  [Masashi Nakayama 14, Nobuo Kawaguchi 36, 45, Toshiya Fujita 55, 
   Takahiro Yamanishi 74] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight        3-2 Shonan Bellmare                              3,524 
  [Uéslei 10 pen, Yasunari Hiraoka 25, Wagner Lopes 81 – 
   Masakiyo Maezono 1 pen, Ryo Sakai 30] 
Gamba Osaka                 4-1 Oita Trinita                                 2,720 
  [Kota Yoshihara 16, Nino Bule 51, Hideo Hashimoto 52, Vital 55 – 
   Takayuki Yoshida 73] 
Kashiwa Reysol              2-1 Honda Motor                                  3,044 
  [Nozomu Kato 5, Naoki Sakai 55 – Tsuyoshi Ikawa 90] 
Avispa Fukuoka              4-2 Omiya Ardija                                 2,087 
  [Hiroki Hattori 8, Tatsunori Hisanaga 55, Yasutoshi Miura 58, 
   Tomoaki Komorida 59 – Kazushi Isoyama 41, Jorginho 88] 
JEF United Ichihara         1-0 Tochigi SC                                   2,083 
  [Yuki Abe 54] 
FC Tokyo                    0-1 Ventforet Kofu                               3,412 
  [Kenji Nakada 73] 
Vissel Kobe                 2-1 Jatco Transtechnology                        1,443 
  [Michiyasu Osada 25, Hisashi Kurosaki 76 – Takamitsu Ota 77] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima         7-0 Mito Holly Hock                              1,751 
  [Steve Corica 27, 47, Tatsuhiko Kubo 29, Keisuke Kurihara 68, 78, 
   Chikara Fujimoto 70, Yutaka Takahashi 80] 
Kawasaki Frontale           0-2 Urawa Red Diamonds                           8,305 
  [Masayuki Okano 17, Shinji Ono 68] 
Cerezo Osaka                2-1 Otsuka                                       1,580 
  [Takashi Uemura 33, Yoon Jong-Hwan 72 - ? (C) 85 og] 
[Dec 13] 
Yokohama F. Marinos         2-0 Fukuoka University                           1,977 
  [Norio Omura 63, 81] 
Kashima Antlers             2-1 Sagan Tosu                                   2,231 
  [Mitsuo Ogasawara 57, Koji Nakata 87 – Jiro Yabe 14] 

4th Round [Dec 17] 
Yokohama F. Marinos         2-1 Consadole Sapporo           [asdet]          6,134 
  [Naoki Matsuda 74, Ryosuke Kijima 97 – Ryuji Bando 55] 
Verdy Kawasaki              0-2 Kashima Antlers                              4,051 
  [Mitsuo Ogasawara 50, Atsushi Yanagisawa 68] 
Jubilo Iwata                2-0 Nagoya Grampus Eight                         6,864 
  [Toshihiro Hattori 53 pen, Masashi Nakayama 70] 
Gamba Osaka                 1-1 Kashiwa Reysol              [aet, 10-9 pen]  6,416 
  [Vital 81 – Nozomu Kato 21] 
Shimizu S-Pulse             1-0 Avispa Fukuoka                               6,141 
  [Takayuki Yokoyama 90] 
JEF United Ichihara         3-1 Ventforet Kofu                               3,330 
  [Takenori Hayashi 45, Takafumi Ogura 80, Yuki Abe 90 – Shinichi Fujita 9] 
Vissel Kobe                 1-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima                          2,044 
  [Michiyasu Osada 30] 
Urawa Red Diamonds          1-4 Cerezo Osaka                                12,443 
  [Toshiyuki Abe 27 – Takashi Uemura 16, Michiharu Sugimoto 45, Yoon Jong-Hwan 67, 
   ? (U) 76 og] 

Quarter-Finals [Dec 23] 
Yokohama F. Marinos         1-1 Kashima Antlers             [aet, 1-4 pen]   8,056 
  [Kunio Nagayama 77 – Yutaka Akita 40] 
Jubilo Iwata                0-1 Gamba Osaka                 [asdet]         15,340 
  [Takahiro Futagawa 110] 
Shimizu S-Pulse             3-1 JEF United Ichihara                          6,275 
  [Alessandro Santos 2, 72, 89 – Shinichi Muto 90] 
Vissel Kobe                 2-2 Cerezo Osaka                [aet, 4-3 pen]   2,535 
  [Takehito Shigehara 14, Naoto Matsuo 32 – Yoon Jong-Hwan 45, Takashi Uemura 72] 

Semi-Finals [Dec 29] 
Kashima Antlers             3-2 Gamba Osaka                 [asdet]         12,788 
  [Koji Nakata 24, Takayuki Suzuki 88, Koji Kumagai 93 – Hiromi Kojima 12, 90] 
Shimizu S-Pulse             1-0 Vissel Kobe                                  6,079 
  [Takayuki Yokoyama 81] 

Final [Jan 1, Tokyo National Stadium] 
Kashima Antlers             3-2 Shimizu S-Pulse             [asdet]         53,501 
  [Mitsuo OGASAWARA 41, 92, Takayuki SUZUKI 49; Fernando OLIVA 44, Teruyoshi ITO 82]



Super (Xerox) Cup [Mar 3, 2001]
===============================

Shimizu S-Pulse             3-0 Kashima Antlers
  [Alex, Marcelo Baron, Masaaki Sawanobori]



League Cup 2000
===============

1st Round 
[Apr 12; Apr 19]
Montedio Yamagata     0-3 1-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima
  [1. Tony Popovic 41 pen, 90, Miguel Simão 68. Att: 2,398] 
  [2. Teppei Nishiyama 44. Att: 2,158] 
Omiya Ardija          0-4 0-2 Vissel Kobe
  [1. Masakazu Senuma 4, 80, Mitsutoshi Watada 51, Takanori Nunobe 60. Att: 2,140] 
  [2. Michiyasu Osada 67, Mitsunori Yabuta 75. Att: 1,309] 
Kawasaki Frontale     3-0 1-2 Urawa Red Diamonds 
  [1. Tomoaki Kuno 36, Mazinho 50 pen, Akira Ito 83. Att: 7,026] 
  [2. Guido Alvarenga 68 pen – Kenji Oshiba 17, Yuichiro Nagai 49. Att: 10,763] 
Shonan Bellmare       2-3 0-0 Avispa Fukuoka
  [1. Kazuhiko Tanabe 16, Yoshika Matsubara 88 – Kazuyoshi Matsunaga 5, 
   Takeshi Ushibana 18, Tomoji Eguchi 38. Att: 2,261] 
  [2. Att: 3,487] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-2 1-5 Yokohama F. Marinos 
  [1. Yoshiharu Ueno 35, Yoo Sang-Chul 74. Att: 3,552] 
  [2. Terumasa Kim 22 – Yoo Sang-Chul 23, Shunsuke Nakamura 36, 
   Hideki Nagai 64, Daisuke Tonoike 69, Norio Omura 87. Att: 4,741] 
Albirex Niigata       0-1 1-3 Kyoto Purple Sanga 
  [1. Yasuhito Endo 34. Att: 3,727] 
  [2. Takayoshi Shikida 83 – Teruaki Kurobe 37, ? (A) 40 og, 
   Kazuyoshi Miura 73. Att: 1,922] 
Cerezo Osaka          2-0 1-0 Vegalta Sendai
  [1. Akinori Nishizawa 5, 31. Att: 2,313] 
  [2. Takashi Uemura 57. Att: 3,893] 
Sagan Tosu            0-1 1-2 Verdy Kawasaki
  [1. Yuji Hironaga 43. Att: 2,627] 
  [2. Pak Yong-Ho 63 – Kim Hyun-Seok 5, Yosuke Ikehata 53. Att: 1,589] 
Oita Trinita          2-2 1-3 JEF United Ichihara
  [1. Motoki Kawasaki 49, Sidiclei 61 – Hisato Sato 18, 
   Ovidiu Burcă 42. Att: 2,851] 
  [2. Valdney 64 – Takenori Hayashi 24, 29, Hisato Sato 80. Att: 2,447] 
[Apr 19; May 24] 
Gamba Osaka           2-1 1-0 Consadole Sapporo
  [1. Masanobu Matsunami 6, Takayuki Yamaguchi 51 – Kenji Kikawada 63. Att: 2,591] 
  [2. Masanobu Matsunami 87. Att: 10,808] 
[Jun 7; Jun 14] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       4-1 3-1 Mito Holly Hock 
  [1. ? (M) 13 og, Carlos Alberto Santos 19, Sotaro Yasunaga 39, 
   Kohei Hiramatsu 55 – Michael Yano 79. Att: 11,007] 
  [2. Carlos Alberto Santos 43, Sotaro Yasunaga 51, Daisuke Ichikawa 52 – 
   Daisuke Sudo 82. Att: 1,681] 

2nd Round 
[Jun 28; Jul 5] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   4-1 0-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 
  [1. Norio Omura 34, Daisuke Tonoike 63, 73, Edmilson Matias 66 – 
   Chikara Fujimoto 76. Att: 3,126] 
  [2. Steve Corica 50. Att: 4,479] 
[Jul 5; Jul 12] 
Kawasaki Frontale     1-0 1-1 Kashiwa Reysol           [2nd leg, asdet] 
  [1. Kazuki Ganaha 68. Att: 2,294] 
  [2. Paulo Isidoro 94 – Harutaka Ono 7. Att: 4,483] 
Cerezo Osaka          0-1 0-1 Verdy Kawasaki         
  [1. Kim Do-Keun 40. Att: 3,782] 
  [2. ? (C) 51 og. Att: 1,808] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    1-1 0-1 FC Tokyo 
  [1. Regis 51 – Tuto 35. Att: 1,903] 
  [2. Regis 50. Att: 4,912] 
Gamba Osaka           0-1 2-1 Jubilo Iwata             [2nd leg, aet, 2-3] 
  [1. Toshiya Fujita 89. Att: 3,008] 
  [2. Junichi Inamoto 45, Toru Araiba 86 – Toshihiro Hattori 63. Att: 7,889] 
Avispa Fukuoka        1-1 2-3 Kashima Antlers          [2nd leg, asdet] 
  [1. Pavel Badea 3 – Akira Narahashi 61. Att: 9,320] 
  [2. Pavel Badea 53, Hiroki Hattori 87 – Tomoyuki Hirase 13, 
   Koji Nakata 75, Masashi Motoyama 93. Att: 7,468] 
JEF United Ichihara   1-1 2-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight 
  [1. Takafumi Ogura 73 – Romildo 17. Att: 3,026] 
  [2. Baron 19 - Dragan Stojković 14, Tetsuya Okayama 49. Att: 6,708] 
Vissel Kobe           2-0 0-4 Shimizu S-Pulse 
  [1. Michiyasu Osada 23, Takanori Nunobe 87. Att: 2,413] 
  [2. Carlos Alberto Santos 3, 68, Alessandro Santos 16, Fabinho 40. Att: 9,967] 

Quarter-Finals [Aug 30; Sep 6] 
Verdy Kawasaki        0-0 0-2 Kawasaki Frontale 
  [1. Att: 2,911] 
  [2. Kazuki Ganaha 13, Tetsuya Oishi 86. Att: 4,195] 
Jubilo Iwata          1-1 1-2 Kyoto Purple Sanga       [2nd leg, asdet] 
  [1. Dmitriy Radchenko 23 – Kazuki Sato 74. Att: 8,306] 
  [2. Masashi Nakayama 26 – Regis 48, Kazuyoshi Miura 115. Att: 5,376] 
Yokohama F. Marinos   1-2 1-1 Kashima Antlers 
  [1. Yoo Sang-Chul 17 – Takayuki Suzuki 55, Mitsuo Ogasawara 90. Att: 6,221] 
  [2. Yoo Sang-Chul 64 – Takayuki Suzuki 90. Att: 8,899] 
Shimizu S-Pulse       4-6 0-0 Nagoya Grampus Eight 
  [1. Fernando Oliva 12, Yoshikiyo Kuboyama 24, 45, Masaaki Sawanobori 79 – 
   Kunihiko Takizawa 10, 36, Uéslei 34, Tarik Oulida 62, Tetsuya Okayama 73, 
   Motohiro Yamaguchi 90. Att: 12,447] 
  [2. Att: 6,401] 

Semi-Finals [Oct 11; Oct 18] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga    0-2 2-1 Kawasaki Frontale        [2nd leg, asdet] 
  [1. Luiz 52, Ricardinho 90. Att: 4,693] 
  [2. Edinho Baiano 8, Daisuke Matsui 64 – Ricardinho 120. Att: 11,232] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight  1-3 2-3 Kashima Antlers 
  [1. Dragan Stojković 87 pen – Tomoyuki Hirase 11, Takayuki Suzuki 35, 
   Bismarck 42. Att: 6,210] 
  [2. Tetsuya Okayama 5, Yasunari Hiraoka 86 – Tomoyuki Hirase 41, 45, 
   Mitsuo Ogasawara 90. Att: 8,088] 

Final [Nov 4, Tokyo National Stadium]                      26,992 
Kashima Antlers       2-0 Kawasaki Frontale 
  [Koji NAKATA 31', BISMARCK 63' (pen)] 



J-League Division 2 2000
========================

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Consadole Sapporo       40  27/4  5  4/0  71-22 94  Promoted 
 2.Urawa Red Diamonds      40  23/5  3  7/2  82-40 82  Promoted 
----------------------------------------------------- 
 3.Oita Trinita            40  26/0  3  8/3  80-38 81 
 4.Omiya Ardija            40  21/2  1 14/2  55-49 68 
 5.Vegalta Sendai          40  15/4  2 15/4  60-69 55 
 6.Sagan Tosu              40  13/2  5 15/5  41-52 48 
 7.Albirex Niigata         40  11/4  5 18/2  54-63 46 
 8.Shonan Bellmare         40  12/3  1 17/7  59-71 43 
 9.Mito Holly Hock         40   9/6  4 19/2  37-61 43 
10.Montedio Yamagata       40   9/2  2 24/3  40-61 33 
11.Ventforet Kofu          40   5/0  3 30/2  31-84 18 

Round 1
[Mar 11]
Urawa Red Diamonds    2-0 Mito Holly Hock                  18,422 
  [Toshiyuki Abe 31, Fernando Picún 69] 
[Mar 12]
Sagan Tosu            0-4 Consadole Sapporo                 3,800 
  [Ryuji Bando 14, Emerson 42, 59 pen, 75] 
Omiya Ardija          2-1 Albirex Niigata                   4,213 
  [Jorginho 39, Yuji Kamimura 62 – Naoki Naruo 60] 
Shonan Bellmare       4-1 Vegalta Sendai                    6,047 
  [Kazuhiko Tanabe 21, Yasunori Takada 30, Daniel Sanabria 33, 
   Yoshika Matsubara 77 – Suguru Ito 39] 
Oita Trinita          3-1 Montedio Yamagata                 5,843 
  [Valdney 48, 78, Akira Kaji 60 – Kenji Takahashi 86] 

Round 2
[Mar 19]
Sagan Tosu            2-1 Albirex Niigata                   1,940 
  [Koichiro Katafuchi 12, 65 – Shingo Suzuki 66] 
Mito Holly Hock       2-1 Oita Trinita                      2,115 
  [Toshimasa Toba 71, Norio Murata 72 – Will 67] 
Shonan Bellmare       1-2 Urawa Red Diamonds               14,868 
  [Daniel Sanabria 8 – Hideki Uchidate 64, Kenji Oshiba 75] 
Omiya Ardija          2-1 Vegalta Sendai                    3,636 
  [Koji Noguchi 56, Yuji Kamimura 69 – Tomokazu Hirama 39] 
[Mar 20]
Ventforet Kofu        0-3 Consadole Sapporo                 3,231 
  [Biju 22, Emerson 39, 43] 

Round 3
[Mar 25]
Urawa Red Diamonds    1-0 Omiya Ardija                     20,189 
  [Shinji Ono 65 pen] 
[Mar 26]
Albirex Niigata       3-2 Ventforet Kofu                    3,453 
  [Katsuo Kanda 42, Naoki Naruo 47, 53 – Makoto Kaneko 35, 
   Luiz 69] 
Vegalta Sendai        0-1 Sagan Tosu             [asdet]    6,544 
  [Kosei Kitauchi 111] 
Oita Trinita          1-2 Shonan Bellmare        [asdet]    6,955 
  [Takashi Shoji 63 – Yoshika Matsubara 3, Daniel Sanabria 99] 
Montedio Yamagata     1-2 Mito Holly Hock                   1,829 
  [Kenji Takahashi 45 – Daisuke Tomita 35, Yoshio Kitajima 69] 

Round 4 [Mar 30]
Consadole Sapporo     3-0 Albirex Niigata                   3,162 
  [Emerson 25, Kenji Kikawada 47, Tomotaka Fukagawa 90] 
Ventforet Kofu        1-0 Vegalta Sendai                      951 
  [Masahiro Shimmyo 72] 
Sagan Tosu            0-7 Urawa Red Diamonds                7,954 
  [Yuichiro Nagai 1, 42, Andrzej Kubica 32, Masayuki Okano 37, 
   Masahiro Fukuda 76, Yasushi Fukunaga 87, Kenji Oshiba 90] 
Shonan Bellmare       5-2 Montedio Yamagata                 3,559 
  [Yoshika Matsubara 2, 4, Masakiyo Maezono 12, 55, 
   Junichi Watanabe 87 – Masayuki Ota 40, Gakuya Horii 68] 
Omiya Ardija          2-5 Oita Trinita                      1,702 
  [Jorginho 25, Mark Burke 27 – Will 16, 55, Valdney 62, 66, 
   Motoki Kawasaki 90] 

Round 5 [Apr 2]
Mito Holly Hock       0-1 Shonan Bellmare                   3,020 
  [Masakiyo Maezono 62] 
Oita Trinita          2-0 Sagan Tosu                        1,943 
  [Will 79, Takashi Shoji 82] 
Vegalta Sendai        1-2 Consadole Sapporo                 6,308 
  [Yasutaka Kobayashi 56 – Kenji Kikawada 37, Emerson 61] 
Montedio Yamagata     0-1 Omiya Ardija                      2,278 
  [Masato Harasaki 6] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    3-1 Ventforet Kofu                   16,996 
  [Yasushi Fukunaga 50, 80, Yuichiro Nagai 83 – Terumasa Kim 9] 

Round 6
[Apr 8]
Ventforet Kofu        1-3 Oita Trinita                      1,174 
  [Luiz 85 – Yuzo Wada 3, Will 50, 82] 
[Apr 9]
Albirex Niigata       1-3 Vegalta Sendai                    3,092 
  [Tadahiro Akiba 78 – Yasutaka Kobayashi 30, Tomokazu Hirama 34, 
   Tomohiro Hasumi 90] 
Sagan Tosu            2-0 Montedio Yamagata                 2,382 
  [Omi Sato 60, Tatsuomi Koishi 84] 
Omiya Ardija          1-0 Mito Holly Hock                   3,343 
  [Mark Burke 55] 
[Jul 16] 
Consadole Sapporo     1-1 Urawa Red Diamonds               10,146 
  [Emerson 12 – Andrzej Kubica 55] 

Round 7
[Apr 15]
Oita Trinita          0-0 Consadole Sapporo                 3,741 
[Apr 16]
Mito Holly Hock       1-0 Sagan Tosu             [asdet]    1,131 
  [Sota Kasahara 99] 
Montedio Yamagata     4-2 Ventforet Kofu                    2,323 
  [Edwin Ifeanyi 37, Tatsuma Yoshida 56, ? (V) 61 og, 
   Ryosuke Nemoto 69 – Luiz 16, Terumasa Kim 90] 
Shonan Bellmare       0-4 Omiya Ardija                      4,474 
  [Koji Noguchi 16, Jorginho 61, 71, 90] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    5-1 Albirex Niigata                  16,610 
  [Yasushi Fukunaga 5, 90, Ichiei Muroi 73, 
   Masayuki Okano 80 pen, 86 - ? (U) 90 og] 

Round 8
[Apr 22]
Ventforet Kofu        0-3 Mito Holly Hock                     781 
  [Norio Murata 34, Sota Kasahara 54, Daisuke Sudo 55] 
[Apr 23]
Consadole Sapporo     0-2 Montedio Yamagata                11,272 
  [Kenji Takahashi 38, Gakuya Horii 45] 
Vegalta Sendai        2-3 Urawa Red Diamonds     [asdet]   18,706 
  [Shinji Fujiyoshi 21, Yasutaka Kobayashi 22 – 
   Tomoyuki Yoshino 48, Kenji Oshiba 71, Andrzej Kubica 96] 
Albirex Niigata       0-3 Oita Trinita                      2,789 
  [Iwao Yamane 43, Yuzo Wada 65, Will 87] 
Sagan Tosu            2-1 Shonan Bellmare                   4,178 
  [Satoru Kobayashi 16, Yasuhide Ihara 75 – Manabu Komatsubara 32] 

Round 9
[Apr 28]
Omiya Ardija          0-0 Sagan Tosu                        2,024 
[Apr 29]
Oita Trinita          4-1 Vegalta Sendai                    1,985 
  [Yoshiya Takemura 19, Yuzo Wada 23, Motoki Kawasaki 79, 
   Will 80 – Shinji Fujiyoshi 90] 
Montedio Yamagata     1-2 Albirex Niigata        [asdet]    2,975 
  [Jeferson 24 – Nascimento 10, Naoki Naruo 118] 
[Apr 30]
Mito Holly Hock       0-2 Consadole Sapporo                 3,715 
  [Emerson 68, 90] 
Shonan Bellmare       3-0 Ventforet Kofu                    3,909 
  [Ryo Sakai 31, Yoshika Matsubara 36, Kazuhiko Tanabe 64] 

Round 10
[May 3]
Urawa Red Diamonds    2-1 Oita Trinita                     19,132 
  [Kenji Oshiba 38, Yasushi Fukunaga 44 – Motoki Kawasaki 48] 
[May 4]
Ventforet Kofu        1-2 Omiya Ardija                      2,116 
  [Terumasa Kim 27 – Jorginho 23, Koji Noguchi 43] 
Albirex Niigata       0-1 Mito Holly Hock                   2,406 
  [Sota Kasahara 20] 
Consadole Sapporo     2-1 Shonan Bellmare        [asdet]   19,450 
  [Emerson 24, Koji Yamase 98 – Ryo Sakai 88] 
Vegalta Sendai        2-1 Montedio Yamagata                 7,365 
  [Shinji Fujiyoshi 2, Tomohiro Hasumi 90 – Junji Sato 73] 

Round 11
[May 7]
Sagan Tosu            1-1 Ventforet Kofu                    3,153 
  [Satoru Kobayashi 59 – Masahiro Shimmyo 90] 
Montedio Yamagata     1-0 Urawa Red Diamonds               11,671 
  [Satoshi Mashimo 90] 
Mito Holly Hock       0-0 Vegalta Sendai                    2,212 
Shonan Bellmare       1-2 Albirex Niigata        [asdet]    5,781 
  [Masakiyo Maezono 85 – Isao Homma 39, Nascimento 96] 
[May 8]
Omiya Ardija          0-2 Consadole Sapporo                 3,706 
  [Emerson 35, 90] 

Round 12
[May 13]
Montedio Yamagata     0-2 Oita Trinita                      2,223 
  [Yuzo Wada 28, Motoki Kawasaki 75] 
Albirex Niigata       0-2 Omiya Ardija                      3,974 
  [Jorginho 51, Masato Saito 90] 
[May 14]
Consadole Sapporo     2-0 Sagan Tosu                       10,513 
  [? (S) 30 og, Emerson 90] 
Vegalta Sendai        3-2 Shonan Bellmare                   8,226 
  [Tomokazu Hirama 55, Hiroyuki Tazawa 69, Satoshi Otomo 90 – 
   Yoshika Matsubara 21, Tomohiro Wanami 62] 
Mito Holly Hock       1-2 Urawa Red Diamonds                6,155 
  [Jun Mizuno 90 – Toshiyuki Abe 42, Yasushi Fukunaga 89] 

Round 13 [May 18]
Consadole Sapporo     2-1 Ventforet Kofu                    8,539 
  [Emerson 49, 90 – Takuma Sugano 63] 
Vegalta Sendai        1-2 Omiya Ardija           [asdet]    5,033 
  [Suguru Ito 37 – Masato Harasaki 17, Jorginho 105] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    2-0 Shonan Bellmare                  15,671 
  [Toshiyuki Abe 55, Yuichiro Nagai 85] 
Albirex Niigata       0-0 Sagan Tosu                        1,853 
Oita Trinita          3-0 Mito Holly Hock                   2,873 
  [Will 58, 68, Sidiclei 84] 

Round 14
[May 21]
Ventforet Kofu        1-2 Albirex Niigata                   1,225 
  [Terumasa Kim 79 – Hiroki Hattori 52, Shingo Suzuki 85] 
Sagan Tosu            1-2 Vegalta Sendai                    2,639 
  [Ryo Fukudome 64 – Suguru Ito 30, Shinji Fujiyoshi 67] 
Mito Holly Hock       3-1 Montedio Yamagata                 1,131 
  [Daisuke Sudo 54, Norio Murata 56, Toshimasa Toba 58 – 
   Edwin Ifeanyi 19] 
Shonan Bellmare       2-1 Oita Trinita                      4,072 
  [Yoshika Matsubara 54, Ryo Sakai 76 – Daiki Takamatsu 80] 
[May 22]
Omiya Ardija          0-6 Urawa Red Diamonds                7,147 
  [Yuichiro Nagai 33, Kenji Oshiba 39, Andrzej Kubica 63, 
   ? (O) 67 og, Katsuyuki Miyazawa 82, ? (O) 85 og] 

Round 15 
[May 25] 
Oita Trinita          2-1 Omiya Ardija                      3,478 
  [Daiki Wakamatsu 66, Yoshiya Takemura 83 – Kazushi Isoyama 5] 
[May 27] 
Albirex Niigata       0-1 Consadole Sapporo                 5,076 
  [Ryuji Bando 22] 
Montedio Yamagata     0-1 Shonan Bellmare                   2,902 
  [Masakiyo Maezono 11 pen] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    3-1 Sagan Tosu                       16,735 
  [Toshiyuki Abe 29, 75, 90 pen – Koji Arimura 65] 
[May 28] 
Vegalta Sendai        3-1 Ventforet Kofu                    5,976 
  [Shinji Fujiyoshi 69, Satoshi Otomo 73, Tomohiro Hasumi 82 – 
   Antonio 31] 

Round 16 [Jun 1] 
Omiya Ardija          3-0 Montedio Yamagata                 1,548 
  [? (M) 66 og, Kazushi Isoyama 72, Masato Harasaki 84] 
Shonan Bellmare       2-1 Mito Holly Hock                   3,025 
  [Yasunori Takada 38, 49 – Norio Murata 15] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-3 Urawa Red Diamonds                6,005 
  [Hideki Uchidate 23, Yuichiro Nagai 79, Yasushi Fukunaga 90] 
Sagan Tosu            0-1 Oita Trinita                      2,176 
  [Sidiclei 23] 
Consadole Sapporo     3-1 Vegalta Sendai                    8,622 
  [Emerson 55, Yoshikazu Nonomura 64, Biju 66 – 
   Tomokazu Hirama 51] 

Round 17 [Jun 4] 
Oita Trinita          2-0 Ventforet Kofu                    1,863 
  [Yasunari Hiraoka 13, Daiki Wakamatsu 90] 
Vegalta Sendai        4-2 Albirex Niigata                   7,112 
  [Ricardo 10, Tomohiro Hasumi 50, Eiji Gaya 81, 
   Tomokazu Hirama 90 – Sérgio 25, Shingo Suzuki 56] 
Montedio Yamagata     1-0 Sagan Tosu                        2,186 
  [Masakazu Washida 90] 
Mito Holly Hock       0-2 Omiya Ardija                      1,319 
  [Mark Burke 20, Masato Saito 65] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    0-1 Consadole Sapporo                19,222 
  [Biju 58] 

Round 18 
[Jun 10] 
Albirex Niigata       6-1 Urawa Red Diamonds               11,662 
  [Naoki Naruo 18, 37, 90, Hiroki Hattori 25, Yoshito Terakawa 43, 
   Shingo Suzuki 55 – Tsutomu Nishino 75] 
Consadole Sapporo     2-1 Oita Trinita           [asdet]   12,389 
  [Ryuji Bando 20, 100 – Luciano 90] 
Sagan Tosu            1-1 Mito Holly Hock                   2,583 
  [Yasuhide Ihara 24 – Nozomu Kanaguchi 22] 
Omiya Ardija          4-1 Shonan Bellmare                   4,175 
  [Kazushi Isoyama 36, Masato Harasaki 49, Yuji Kamimura 80, 
   Mark Burke 85 – Vitaliy Parakhnevych 50] 
[Jun 11] 
Ventforet Kofu        1-4 Montedio Yamagata                   724 
  [Susumu Watanabe 79 – Satoshi Mashimo 3, Kenji Takahashi 23, 62, 
   Teppei Nishiyama 48] 

Round 19 [Jun 17] 
Mito Holly Hock       2-0 Ventforet Kofu                      934 
  [Yoshio Kitagawa 31, Norio Murata 59] 
Montedio Yamagata     0-1 Consadole Sapporo                 4,251 
  [Ryuji Bando 22] 
Oita Trinita          2-3 Albirex Niigata                   2,735 
  [Will 45, 88 – Katsutoshi Domori 15, Naoki Naruo 39, 
   Nascimento 87] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    4-2 Vegalta Sendai                   15,561 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 13, Hideki Uchidate 19, Andrzej Kubica 45, 
   Tsutomu Nishino 57 – Tomohiro Hasumi 76, 90] 
Shonan Bellmare       3-1 Sagan Tosu                        3,255 
  [Ryo Sakai 43, Tomohiro Wanami 64, Yoshinori Abe 81 – 
   Tatsuomi Koishi 64] 

Round 20 [Jun 21] 
Consadole Sapporo     3-0 Mito Holly Hock                  11,356 
  [Hideaki Mori 5, Biju 62, Yoshikazu Nonomura 84] 
Vegalta Sendai        1-0 Oita Trinita                      6,636 
  [Naoki Chiba 40] 
Ventforet Kofu        1-2 Shonan Bellmare                   2,826 
  [Takuma Sugano 10 - ? (V) 7 og, Manabu Komatsubara 88] 
Albirex Niigata       4-0 Montedio Yamagata                 2,832 
  [Shingo Suzuki 21, 57, Naoki Naruo 87, Yoshito Terakawa 88] 
Sagan Tosu            3-0 Omiya Ardija                      1,869 
  [Koichiro Katafuchi 37, Tatsuomi Koishi 73, Jiro Yabe 90] 

Round 21 
[Jun 24] 
Oita Trinita          1-1 Urawa Red Diamonds                9,841 
  [Will 36 – Nobuhisa Yamada 71] 
[Jun 25] 
Montedio Yamagata     0-1 Vegalta Sendai                    5,263 
  [Slobodan Dubajić 78] 
Mito Holly Hock       1-0 Albirex Niigata        [asdet]    1,339 
  [Toshimasa Toba 109] 
Omiya Ardija          1-0 Ventforet Kofu                    1,831 
  [Akinori Kosaka 37] 
Shonan Bellmare       1-2 Consadole Sapporo                 6,006 
  [Yoshika Matsubara 27 – Emerson 3, 59] 

Round 22 
[Jul 1] 
Albirex Niigata       1-0 Shonan Bellmare                   4,597 
  [Nascimento 90] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    2-0 Montedio Yamagata                17,176 
  [Tsutomu Nishino 3, Shinji Ono 71] 
Vegalta Sendai        1-0 Mito Holly Hock                  12,301 
  [Suguru Ito 36] 
[Jul 2] 
Consadole Sapporo     2-1 Omiya Ardija                     13,808 
  [Ryuji Bando 58, Emerson 76 – Taichi Sato 90] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-1 Sagan Tosu                        1,352 
  [Hiroki Mihara 26] 

Round 23 
[Jul 8] 
Shonan Bellmare       1-0 Montedio Yamagata      [asdet]    3,199 
  [Masakiyo Maezono 114] 
Ventforet Kofu        1-2 Vegalta Sendai                    1,382 
  [Kazuki Kuranuki 67 – Suguru Ito 11, Satoshi Otomo 57] 
[Jul 9] 
Sagan Tosu            2-0 Urawa Red Diamonds               10,177 
  [Hiroki Mihara 13, Jiro Yabe 90] 
Consadole Sapporo     2-1 Albirex Niigata        [asdet]   12,366 
  [Emerson 89, Hideaki Mori 107 – Yoshito Terakawa 61] 
Omiya Ardija          0-1 Oita Trinita                      3,692 
  [Will 83] 

Round 24 [Jul 22] 
Mito Holly Hock       2-1 Shonan Bellmare                   1,444 
  [Yoshio Kitagawa 9, 43 – Takuya Kawaguchi 65] 
Montedio Yamagata     2-1 Omiya Ardija                      2,391 
  [Kenji Takahashi 24, Teppei Nishiyama 53 – Akinori Kosaka 64] 
Oita Trinita          1-0 Sagan Tosu                        3,943 
  [Iwao Yamane 9] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    3-0 Ventforet Kofu                   16,307 
  [Yuichiro Nagai 11, Shinji Ono 21, Toshiyuki Abe 90] 
Vegalta Sendai        0-2 Consadole Sapporo                13,189 
  [Emerson 39, Biju 81] 

Round 25 
[Jul 28] 
Omiya Ardija          3-1 Mito Holly Hock                   1,642 
  [Yuji Kamimura 12, Koji Noguchi 22, Masato Harasaki 76 – 
   Norio Murata 33] 
Ventforet Kofu        2-3 Oita Trinita                      1,033 
  [Takuma Sugano 27, Kenji Nakada 77 – Andradinha 45, Will 51, 
   Haruki Seto 85] 
[Jul 29] 
Consadole Sapporo     2-1 Urawa Red Diamonds               19,825 
  [Ryuji Tabuchi 64, Kensaku Omori 87 – Andrzej Kubica 40] 
Albirex Niigata       0-2 Vegalta Sendai                    4,291 
  [Tomohiro Hasumi 76, Satoshi Otomo 84] 
Sagan Tosu            1-0 Montedio Yamagata                 2,491 
  [Hiroki Mihara 72] 

Round 26 [Aug 2] 
Montedio Yamagata     4-1 Ventforet Kofu                    1,534 
  [Washington 12, Kenji Takahashi 45, 52, Gakuya Horii 70 – 
   Susumu Watanabe 90] 
Mito Holly Hock       1-4 Sagan Tosu                          721 
  [Yoshio Kitagawa 31 – Kenta Shimaoka 42, Rikiya Kawamae 62, 
   Hiroki Mihara 79, Koichiro Katafuchi 82] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    3-1 Albirex Niigata                  13,408 
  [Tsutomu Nishino 15, Yuichiro Nagai 74, Andrzej Kubica 77 – 
   Nascimento 65] 
Shonan Bellmare       1-2 Omiya Ardija                      3,166 
  [Yoshika Matsubara 82 – Kazushi Isoyama 26, 33] 
Oita Trinita          1-0 Consadole Sapporo                 5,871 
  [? (C) 80 og) 

Round 27 
[Aug 5] 
Consadole Sapporo     1-0 Montedio Yamagata                11,471 
  [Kenji Kikawada 51] 
Vegalta Sendai        1-1 Urawa Red Diamonds               17,933 
  [Tomohiro Hasumi 40 – Yuichiro Nagai 25] 
Albirex Niigata       2-1 Oita Trinita           [asdet]    3,587 
  [Nascimento 37, Naoki Naruo 99 – Takayuki Yoshida 17] 
Sagan Tosu            0-1 Shonan Bellmare        [asdet]    2,811 
  [Manabu Komatsubara 108] 
[Aug 6] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-1 Mito Holly Hock                   1,142 
  [Leandro Perez 24] 

Round 28 [Aug 12] 
Montedio Yamagata     0-1 Albirex Niigata                   2,903 
  [Shingo Suzuki 15] 
Mito Holly Hock       0-2 Consadole Sapporo                 2,610 
  [Yoshihiro Natsuka 87, Emerson 90] 
Omiya Ardija          1-0 Sagan Tosu                        2,344 
  [Masato Harasaki 45] 
Shonan Bellmare       4-2 Ventforet Kofu                    3,297 
  [Yoshika Matsubara 11, Tomohiro Wanami 31, Takafumi Hori 34, 
   Junichi Watanabe 74 – Terumasa Kim 33, Kazuki Kuranuki 56] 
Oita Trinita          5-0 Vegalta Sendai                    4,359 
  [Sidiclei 8, Yoshiya Takemura 45, Andradinha 50, 
   Takayuki Yoshida 61, Takashi Shoji 88] 

Round 29 
[Aug 18] 
Albirex Niigata       1-1 Mito Holly Hock                   3,825 
  [Nascimento 34 – Toshimasa Toba 68] 
[Aug 19] 
Consadole Sapporo     1-1 Shonan Bellmare                  16,215 
  [Emerson 87 – Kei Sugimoto 40] 
Vegalta Sendai        2-1 Montedio Yamagata      [asdet]   10,128 
  [Satoshi Otomo 45, Yasutaka Kobayashi 103 – Gakuya Horii 63] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    4-1 Oita Trinita                     18,157 
  [Shinji Ono 2, Masayuki Okano 26, Yuichiro Nagai 63, 85 – 
   Andradinha 30] 
Ventforet Kofu        1-2 Omiya Ardija           [asdet]    2,148 
  [Shinichi Fujita 28 – Tetsuro Uki 17, Masato Harasaki 95] 

Round 30 
[Aug 26] 
Omiya Ardija          0-2 Consadole Sapporo                 7,469 
  [Ryuji Bando 64, Kenji Kikawada 78] 
[Aug 27] 
Montedio Yamagata     1-2 Urawa Red Diamonds                8,176 
  [Kenji Takahashi 48 – Masayuki Okano 75, Tomoyuki Yoshino 90] 
Mito Holly Hock       1-5 Vegalta Sendai                    2,106 
  [Norio Murata 24 – Satoshi Otomo 6, Slobodan Dubajić 11, 45, 
   Eiji Gaya 53, Yasutaka Kobayashi 86] 
Shonan Bellmare       1-2 Albirex Niigata                   4,182 
  [Takafumi Hori 45 – Shingo Suzuki 8, Naoki Naruo 28] 
Sagan Tosu            3-0 Ventforet Kofu                    3,232 
  [Rikiya Kawamae 30, Luciano 46, 73] 

Round 31 
[Sep 2] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    3-2 Mito Holly Hock        [asdet]   14,114 
  [Andrzej Kubica 17, Masayuki Okano 55, Tomoyuki Yoshino 107 – 
   Cleber 53, 82] 
Albirex Niigata       1-2 Omiya Ardija                      2,918 
  [Isao Homma 2 – Jorginho 6, 70] 
Oita Trinita          2-1 Montedio Yamagata                 4,083 
  [Andradinha 2, 51 – Gakuya Horii 90] 
[Sep 3] 
Consadole Sapporo     1-2 Sagan Tosu                       13,155 
  [Kenji Kikawada 77 – Koichiro Katafuchi 31, Luciano 49] 
Vegalta Sendai        2-6 Shonan Bellmare                   9,834 
  [Naoki Chiba 26, Satoshi Otomo 57 – Masakiyo Maezono 17, 55, 63, 
   Ryo Sakai 45, 62, Takafumi Hori 53] 

Round 32 
[Sep 9] 
Omiya Ardija          2-3 Vegalta Sendai         [asdet]    3,063 
  [Seiichiro Okuno 7, Koji Noguchi 68 – Nobuyuki Zaizen 35, 
   Shinji Fujiyoshi 40, Tomokazu Hirama 104] 
Shonan Bellmare       0-2 Urawa Red Diamonds               10,107 
  [Shinji Ono 18, Andrzej Kubica 86] 
[Sep 10] 
Mito Holly Hock       0-2 Oita Trinita                      1,015 
  [Sidiclei 21, Takashi Umeda 62] 
Sagan Tosu            2-2 Albirex Niigata                   5,043 
  [Kosei Kitauchi 30, Luciano 40 – Shingo Suzuki 46, 
   Naoki Naruo 68] 
[Sep 11] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-2 Consadole Sapporo                 1,042 
  [Emerson 28, 41] 

Round 33 
[Sep 15] 
Vegalta Sendai        0-1 Sagan Tosu                        6,847 
  [Koichiro Katafuchi 52] 
Albirex Niigata       0-1 Ventforet Kofu                    2,925 
  [Tatsuya Ai 27] 
Oita Trinita          5-0 Shonan Bellmare                   3,752 
  [Will 30, 37, 71, Yoshiya Takemura 39, Akira Kaji 68] 
[Sep 16] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    0-1 Omiya Ardija                     16,405 
  [Jorginho 88] 
[Sep 17] 
Montedio Yamagata     0-1 Mito Holly Hock                   1,813 
  [Cleber 39] 

Round 34 
[Sep 23] 
Omiya Ardija          2-1 Montedio Yamagata                   844 
  [Masato Harasaki 26, Kazushi Isoyama 55 – Teppei Nishiyama 90] 
Shonan Bellmare       1-2 Mito Holly Hock        [asdet]    2,186 
  [Masakiyo Maezono 66 - João Paulo 13, Norio Murata 91] 
[Sep 24] 
Consadole Sapporo     1-0 Vegalta Sendai                   10,901 
  [Koji Yamase 40] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-1 Urawa Red Diamonds                4,891 
  [Shinji Jojo 38] 
Sagan Tosu            0-2 Oita Trinita                      3,372 
  [Andradinha 74, Will 84] 

Round 35 [Sep 28] 
Vegalta Sendai        2-1 Albirex Niigata                   5,161 
  [Shinji Fujiyoshi 9, 90 – Katsuo Kanda 29] 
Montedio Yamagata     2-0 Sagan Tosu                        1,252 
  [Edwin Ifeanyi 16, Teppei Nishiyama 24] 
Mito Holly Hock       2-1 Omiya Ardija           [asdet]      753 
  [João Paulo 15, Cleber 94 - ? (M) 18 og] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    1-2 Consadole Sapporo      [asdet]   16,068 
  [Andrzej Kubica 72 – Emerson 6, Biju 99] 
Oita Trinita          4-1 Ventforet Kofu                    3,471 
  [Will 16, 87, Iwao Yamane 45, Motoki Kawasaki 85 – 
   Yusaku Tanioku 20] 

Round 36 [Oct 1] 
Consadole Sapporo     2-1 Oita Trinita                     14,815 
  [Almir 62, Ryuji Bando 70 – Takayuki Yoshida 81] 
Omiya Ardija          1-2 Shonan Bellmare                   2,201 
  [Masahiro Miyashita 60 – Yu Tokisaki 1, Ryo Sakai 64] 
Ventforet Kofu        3-2 Montedio Yamagata                   921 
  [Susumu Watanabe 21, Shinichi Fujita 45, Kazuki Kuranuki 83 – 
   Tatsuma Yoshida 74, Kenji Takahashi 90] 
Albirex Niigata       4-2 Urawa Red Diamonds                8,411 
  [Naoki Naruo 47, 76, 85, Shingo Suzuki 53 – Shinji Ono 55, 
   Andrzej Kubica 56] 
Sagan Tosu            1-2 Mito Holly Hock        [asdet]    2,140 
  [Tatsuomi Koishi 64 - João Paulo 71, Cleber 109] 

Round 37 
[Oct 5] 
Oita Trinita          2-1 Albirex Niigata                   4,091 
  [Sidiclei 59, Yoshiya Takemura 75 – Shingo Suzuki 53] 
[Oct 7] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    1-0 Vegalta Sendai         [asdet]   15,410 
  [Nobuhisa Yamada 105] 
[Oct 8] 
Montedio Yamagata     0-0 Consadole Sapporo                 3,397 
Mito Holly Hock       2-1 Ventforet Kofu         [asdet]    1,015 
  [Cleber 75, Norio Murata 97 - Ovidiu Burcă 8] 
Shonan Bellmare       1-2 Sagan Tosu             [asdet]    3,016 
  [Yoshika Matsubara 45 - ? (SB) 38 og, Luciano 92] 

Round 38 
[Oct 14] 
Ventforet Kofu        2-1 Shonan Bellmare                   1,865 
  [Hiroyuki Dobashi 2, 27 – Yasunori Takada 19] 
Albirex Niigata       1-0 Montedio Yamagata                 2,747 
  [Masahiro Fukazawa 85] 
Sagan Tosu            1-2 Omiya Ardija                      2,958 
  [Luciano 16 – Jorginho 30, 64] 
[Oct 15] 
Consadole Sapporo     5-0 Mito Holly Hock                  17,823 
  [Ryuji Bando 15, 70, Emerson 27, 68, Yoshihiro Natsuka 72] 
Vegalta Sendai        0-3 Oita Trinita                      7,558 
  [Andradinha 26, 40, 45] 

Round 39 
[Oct 21] 
Shonan Bellmare       0-3 Consadole Sapporo                 7,428 
  [Yoshihiro Natsuka 17, Ryuji Bando 69, Emerson 90] 
[Oct 22] 
Montedio Yamagata     1-2 Vegalta Sendai                    4,802 
  [Ryosuke Nemoto 22 – Ricardo 25, Nobuyuki Zaizen 60] 
Mito Holly Hock       1-1 Albirex Niigata                   1,289 
  [João Paulo 42 – Isao Homma 76] 
Omiya Ardija          1-0 Ventforet Kofu                    2,129 
  [Kazushi Isoyama 88] 
Oita Trinita          0-2 Urawa Red Diamonds               14,639 
  [Yuichiro Nagai 41, Adiel 83] 

Round 40 
[Oct 28] 
Albirex Niigata       3-2 Shonan Bellmare        [asdet]    3,547 
  [Naoki Naruo 45, Katsuo Kanda 57, Nascimento 100 – 
   Yoshika Matsubara 55, Manabu Komatsubara 72] 
[Oct 29] 
Consadole Sapporo     2-0 Omiya Ardija                     19,863 
  [Emerson 23, Ryuji Bando 61] 
Vegalta Sendai        2-0 Mito Holly Hock                   6,223 
  [Satoshi Otomo 66, Tomokazu Hirama 82] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    1-2 Montedio Yamagata      [asdet]   14,596 
  [Yasushi Fukunaga 73 – Ryosuke Nemoto 15, Gakuya Horii 105] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-1 Sagan Tosu                          749 
  [Kenta Shimaoka 90] 

Round 41 [Nov 5] 
Montedio Yamagata     2-2 Oita Trinita                      2,142 
  [Gakuya Horii 65, Teppei Nishiyama 90 – Will 6, 
   Kensuke Kagami 22] 
Mito Holly Hock       0-1 Urawa Red Diamonds                5,373 
  [Shinji Ono 12] 
Omiya Ardija          2-1 Albirex Niigata                   3,323 
  [Jorginho 15, Masato Harasaki 56 – Naoki Naruo 67] 
Shonan Bellmare       3-4 Vegalta Sendai         [asdet]    4,287 
  [Branko Hucika 37, Yu Tokisaki 54, Masakiyo Maezono 84 – 
   Satoshi Otomo 32, 43, Yasutaka Kobayashi 76, Suguru Ito 96] 
Sagan Tosu            2-0 Consadole Sapporo                 6,107 
  [Koichiro Katafuchi 33, Luciano 65] 

Round 42 
[Nov 10] 
Oita Trinita          3-0 Mito Holly Hock                   3,271 
  [Takayuki Yoshida 40, 80, Yoshiya Takemura 83] 
[Nov 11] 
Albirex Niigata       1-0 Sagan Tosu                        1,786 
  [Nascimento 40] 
[Nov 12] 
Consadole Sapporo     1-1 Ventforet Kofu                   12,515 
  [Ryuji Bando 74 – Makoto Kaneko 33] 
Vegalta Sendai        0-2 Omiya Ardija                      7,014 
  [Jorginho 30, Kazushi Isoyama 40] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    1-0 Shonan Bellmare        [asdet]   18,071 
  [Toshiyuki Abe 114] 

Round 43 [Nov 16] 
Ventforet Kofu        0-0 Albirex Niigata                   1,446 
Mito Holly Hock       0-1 Montedio Yamagata      [asdet]    1,018 
  [Atsushi Nagai 110] 
Omiya Ardija          0-1 Urawa Red Diamonds                9,499 
  [Kenji Oshiba 20] 
Shonan Bellmare       0-2 Oita Trinita                      3,498 
  [Takayuki Yoshida 45, Akira Kaji 59] 
Sagan Tosu            2-3 Vegalta Sendai         [asdet]    3,284 
  [Luciano 5, Hiroki Mihara 63 – Shinji Fujiyoshi 58, 94, 
   Tomohiro Hasumi 90] 

Round 44 [Nov 19] 
Vegalta Sendai        0-1 Ventforet Kofu                    9,603 
  [Hiroyuki Dobashi 11] 
Montedio Yamagata     1-0 Shonan Bellmare                   3,041 
  [Teppei Nishiyama 62] 
Urawa Red Diamonds    2-1 Sagan Tosu             [asdet]   20,207 
  [Adiel 46, Masaki Tsuchihashi 96 – Luciano 53] 
Albirex Niigata       1-2 Consadole Sapporo                 4,368 
  [Nascimento 27 – Ryuji Bando 87, 88] 
Oita Trinita          1-0 Omiya Ardija                      7,631 
  [Kensuke Kagami 63] 

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Consadole Sapporo       40  27/4  5  4/0  71-22 94  Promoted 
 2.Urawa Red Diamonds      40  23/5  3  7/2  82-40 82  Promoted 
----------------------------------------------------- 
 3.Oita Trinita            40  26/0  3  8/3  80-38 81 
 4.Omiya Ardija            40  21/2  1 14/2  55-49 68 
 5.Vegalta Sendai          40  15/4  2 15/4  60-69 55 
 6.Sagan Tosu              40  13/2  5 15/5  41-52 48 
 7.Albirex Niigata         40  11/4  5 18/2  54-63 46 
 8.Shonan Bellmare         40  12/3  1 17/7  59-71 43 
 9.Mito Holly Hock         40   9/6  4 19/2  37-61 43 
10.Montedio Yamagata       40   9/2  2 24/3  40-61 33 
11.Ventforet Kofu          40   5/0  3 30/2  31-84 18 

Top scorers: 

 1.Marcio Passos de Albuquerque ‘EMERSON’ (Consadole Sapporo)  31  [Brazil] 
 2.WILL Robson Emilio Andrade (Oita Trinita)                   22  [Brazil] 
 3.NARUO Naoki (Albirex Niigata)                               17 
 4.BANDO Ryuji (Consadole Sapporo)                             15 
   Jorge Luiz de Amorim Silva ‘JORGINHO’ (Omiya Ardija)        15  [Brazil] 
 6.MATSUBARA Yoshika (Shonan Bellmare)                         12 
   NAGAI Yuichiro (Urawa Red Diamonds)                         12 
 8.Andrzej KUBICA (Urawa Red Diamonds)                         11  [Poland] 
   MAEZONO Masakiyo (Shonan Bellmare)                          11 
   SUZUKI Shingo (Albirex Niigata)                             11 
11.FUJIYOSHI Shinji (Vegalta Sendai)                           10 
   LUCIANO Asley Rocha Carlos (Oita Trinita / Sagan Tosu)      10  [Brazil] 
   Marcos Antonio García NASCIMENTO (Albirex Niigata)          10  [Brazil] 
   OTOMO Satoshi (Vegalta Sendai)                              10 
   TAKAHASHI Kenji (Montedio Yamagata)                         10 



JFL (Third Level) 2000
======================

First Stage

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Yokohama FC             11  10/1  0  0/0  32- 9 32 
 2.Honda                   11   8/1  0  2/0  22-12 26 
 3.Denso                   11   6/2  0  1/2  24-14 22 
 4.Otsuka                  11   6/1  0  3/1  26-21 20 
 5.Sony Sendai             11   5/1  0  3/2  23-13 17 
 6.Jatco TT                11   5/0  1  5/0  25-21 16 
 7.Kokushikan University   11   4/1  1  4/1  20-22 15 
 8.Alo's Hokuriku          11   3/1  0  7/0  11-22 11 
 9.Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.   11   2/1  2  6/0  13-19 10 
10.FC Kyoken               11   1/1  1  7/1   7-19  6 
11.Yokogawa                11   1/0  2  6/2  11-22  5 
12.Tochigi SC              11   0/1  1  7/2   9-29  3  

Round 1 [Apr 16] 
Yokohama FC           3-1 Tochigi SC                        5,324 
  [Kenji Arima 12, 28, 47 – Tomozo Hasegawa 32] 
Honda                 3-1 Alo's Hokuriku                    1,345 
  [Shigeru Suzuki 27, 90, Tatsuya Furuhashi 51 – 
   Takayuki Asajima 90] 
Sony Sendai           1-2 Kokushikan University  [asdet]      659 
  [Daiji Tatebe 5 – Kazuhiko Komatsu 35, Hiroaki Tanaka 98] 
Otsuka                3-2 FC Kyoken                           384 
  [Takehiro Hayashi 86, Shusuke Shimada 90 pen, Akira Oba 90+ - 
   Hiroki Saijo 38, Akira Koyano 61] 
Yokogawa              2-1 Jatco TT                            551 
  [Yuki Shimizu 22, Masashi Tonouchi 40 – Yasuhiko Niimura 42] 
Denso                 2-1 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               294 
  [Hideki Takayama 61, Yoshinari Hyakutake 66 – 
   Atsushi Sakamoto 72] 

Round 2 [Apr 23] 
Jatco TT              1-0 Sony Sendai                         518 
  [Rikizo Matsuhashi 16] 
Kokushikan University 2-3 Denso                               291 
  [Yohei Ueda 56, Hiroaki Tanaka 90 – Takaaki Tokushige 4, 45, 
   Hideki Takayama 27] 
Alo's Hokuriku        0-1 Yokohama FC                       1,602 
  [Shingi Ono 30] 
Tochigi SC            2-4 Otsuka                            1,421 
  [Akira Kawaguchi 72, Akihiro Tadaki 79 pen – Koji Yoshinari 1, 
   Akira Oba 56, Takehiro Hayashi 58, Shusuke Shimada 59] 
FC Kyoken             0-0 Yokogawa                            478 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 1-2 Honda                             1,568 
  [Kaishi Goto 27 – Shigeru Suzuki 14, Tatsuya Furuhashi 66] 

Round 3 [Apr 30] 
Yokohama FC           4-0 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.             4,222 
  [Shingi Ono 20, 66, Yoshikazu Goto 24, Kenji Arima 27] 
Honda                 2-0 Kokushikan University               861 
  [Tatsuya Furuhashi 26, Takashi Yasuike 63] 
Denso                 5-1 Jatco TT                            346 
  [Hideki Takayama 26, Tomohide Nakazawa 35, Tatsuya Kobayashi 57, 
   ? (J) 71 og, Takaaki Tokushige 73 – Yasuhiko Niimura 51] 
Sony Sendai           2-0 FC Kyoken                           643 
  [? (K) 55 og, Hidenori Tabata 67] 
Yokogawa              0-4 Otsuka                              533 
  [Takehiro Hayashi 15, Goshi Kajii 45, Koji Kataoka 69, 
   Akira Oba 74] 
Tochigi SC            0-1 Alo's Hokuriku         [asdet]    1,103 
  [Takayuki Asajima 104] 

Round 4 
[May 6] 
Yokogawa              2-3 Tochigi SC             [asdet]      551 
  [Masashi Tonouchi 51, Edson 72 – Mitsuo Urashima 27, 
   Akira Kawaguchi 88, Akihiro Tadaki 109 pen] 
[May 7] 
Otsuka                2-1 Sony Sendai            [asdet]      203 
  [Shusuke Shimada 81, Junichi Okamoto 96 – Hidenori Tabata 90] 
Jatco TT              0-3 Honda                               768 
  [Yusuke Kita 50, Tatsuya Furuhashi 51, Jun Uruno 65] 
Kokushikan University 1-4 Yokohama FC                       1,786 
  [Seiya Tomita 28 – Kenji Arima 8, 21, Shingi Ono 39 pen, 
   Yoshikazu Goto 53] 
FC Kyoken             0-4 Denso                               331 
  [Tomohiro Ito 21, Taku Terao 23, 59, ? (K) 57 og] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 5-1 Alo's Hokuriku                      632 
  [Ryosuke Aoshima 4, 21, Atsushi Sakamoto 54, 85, 
   Shunsuke Ozawa 90 – Makoto Koshiba 61] 

Round 5 
[May 13] 
Sony Sendai           1-0 Yokogawa                            624 
  [Tomotsuna Kobayashi 85] 
[May 14] 
Yokohama FC           3-2 Jatco TT                          3,266 
  [Shingi Ono 43 pen, Kenji Arima 52, Narita Takaki 81 – 
   Hideki Matsuki 40, Masahiro Kuzuno 57] 
Honda                 2-1 FC Kyoken              [asdet]      634 
  [Tatsuya Furuhashi 57 pen, 114 – Masaru Agishi 44] 
Denso                 2-1 Otsuka                              283 
  [Tatsuya Kobayashi 12, ? (O) 23 og – Takehiro Hayashi 77] 
Alo's Hokuriku        2-1 Kokushikan University               450 
  [Makoto Koshiba 25, Hidekazu Kanemaru 59 – Kosuke Kitani 84] 
Tochigi SC            0-0 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               859 

Round 6 
[May 20] 
Yokogawa              2-3 Denso                  [asdet]      265 
  [Yutaka Matsushita 6, Shin Che-Bon 73 – Jin Hase 55, 79, 
   Tatsuya Kobayashi 92] 
[May 21] 
Sony Sendai           7-0 Tochigi SC                          621 
  [Masayuki Mita 7, Hidenori Tabata 29, 86, Kenji Abe 39, 
   Daiji Tatebe 43, 45, Katsunobu Saga 71] 
Otsuka                3-1 Honda                               408 
  [Ryuji Tsuge 11, Junichi Okamoto 29, Shusuke Shimada 32 – 
   Takayoshi Amma 81] 
Jatco TT              5-1 Alo's Hokuriku                      347 
  [Yasuhiko Niimura 2, 36, 56, Rikizo Matsuhashi 75 pen, 
   Jun Iwashita 83 – Tsukasa Kubota 25] 
Kokushikan University 2-1 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               132 
  [Daisuke Uchino 75, Kazuhiko Komatsu 90 pen - ? (K) 65 og] 
FC Kyoken             0-1 Yokohama FC                       1,080 
  [Shingi Ono 81 pen] 

Round 7 
[May 27] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 1-4 Jatco TT                            507 
  [Masayuki Mukojima 60 – Michiharu Otagiri 45, 
   Hideki Matsuki 46, 70, Jun Mizukoshi 63] 
[May 28] 
Yokohama FC           6-2 Otsuka                            3,395 
  [Kenji Arima 12, 37, 83, 89, Hirotoshi Yokoyama 58, 
   Kosaku Masuda 72 – Shusuke Shimada 8, Junichi Okamoto 27] 
Honda                 2-1 Yokogawa                            579 
  [Tomohiro Mori 15, Jun Uruno 77 – Shin Che-Bon 44] 
Denso                 1-2 Sony Sendai            [asdet]      394 
  [Keisuke Koike 70 – Kenji Abe 55, Hidenori Tabata 98] 
Alo's Hokuriku        1-0 FC Kyoken                           442 
  [Yukihiro Homma 40] 
Tochigi SC            2-3 Kokushikan University               867 
  [Akihiro Tadaki 15, Masamichi Inagawa 56 – Yohei Ueda 35, 55, 
   Toshiki Kushima 42] 

Round 8 
[Jun 3] 
Sony Sendai           2-3 Honda                               772 
  [Kazutaka Takano 24, Daiji Tatebe 59 – Jun Uruno 20, 
   Katsufumi Masuda 74, 90] 
FC Kyoken             0-1 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               232 
  [Ryosuke Aoshima 85] 
Yokogawa              1-3 Yokohama FC                       2,744 
  [Yuji Yaso 52 – Kenji Arima 50, 72, Hirotoshi Yokoyama 87] 
[Jun 4] 
Denso                 2-1 Tochigi SC             [asdet]      241 
  [Takaaki Tokushige 1, Tatsuya Kobayashi 103 – Ryuji Suguno 39] 
Otsuka                1-0 Alo's Hokuriku                      316 
  [Daigo Noguchi 69] 
Jatco TT              2-2 Kokushikan University               468 
  [Kenji Ito 43, Michiharu Otagiri 66 – Hiroshi Miyaji 16, 
   Takashi Takahashi 80] 

Round 9 
[Jun 10] 
Sony Sendai           1-2 Yokohama FC                       1,880 
  [Tomotsuna Kobayashi 90 – Kenji Arima 30, Kosaku Masuda 59] 
[Jun 11] 
Honda                 2-0 Denso                               438 
  [Tatsuya Furuhashi 38, Takahiro Okubo 71] 
Alo's Hokuriku        3-2 Yokogawa                            318 
  [Katsuyuki Hata 27, 53, Kenji Ikeda 56 – Masashi Tonouchi 71, 
   Hidehiro Watanabe 85] 
Tochigi SC            0-4 Jatco TT                            473 
  [Masahiro Kuzuno 32, Nobuyuki Oishi 55, Hideki Matsuki 59, 
   Jun Iwashita 63] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 2-1 Otsuka                 [asdet]      314 
  [Atsushi Sakamoto 64, Takeshi Ishida 109 pen – 
   Shusuke Shimada 90] 
Kokushikan University 1-2 FC Kyoken              [asdet]       93 
  [Hideo Yoshida 56 – Akira Koyano 49, Hiroki Saijo 102] 

Round 10 
[Jun 17] 
Sony Sendai           3-1 Alo's Hokuriku                      317 
  [Daiji Tatebe 12, Kazutaka Takano 26, Hidenori Tabata 68 – 
   Yukihiro Homma 15] 
FC Kyoken             1-4 Jatco TT                            243 
  [Kazuya Tanabe 73 – Hideki Matsuki 10, Jun Mizukoshi 47, 
   Shoji Inoue 79, Kazuaki Inoue 82] 
[Jun 18] 
Honda                 2-0 Tochigi SC                          590 
  [Jun Uruno 65, Takahiro Okubo 80] 
Denso                 1-2 Yokohama FC            [asdet]    1,168 
  [Taku Terao 75 – Ippei Watanabe 90, Hiroaki Tajima 93] 
Otsuka                2-4 Kokushikan University               327 
  [? (K) 2 og, Takehiro Hayashi 50 – Masayuki Ishii 42 pen, 
   Hideo Yoshida 62, Hidehito Shirao 76, 82] 
Yokogawa              0-0 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               327 

Round 11 
[Jun 24] 
Jatco TT              1-3 Otsuka                              394 
  [Kenji Ito 66 – Akira Oba 20, 74, Takehiro Hayashi 58] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 1-3 Sony Sendai                         331 
  [Daiki Koyama 51 – Kazutaka Takano 38, 69, Daiji Tatebe 60] 
[Jun 25] 
Yokohama FC           3-0 Honda                             3,491 
  [Hiroaki Tajima 7, Kenji Arima 23, Hirotoshi Yokoyama 67] 
Kokushikan University 2-1 Yokogawa                            138 
  [Hidehito Shirao 3, Hideo Yoshida 42 – Masashi Tonouchi 23] 
Alo's Hokuriku        0-1 Denso                               359 
  [Taku Terao 57] 
Tochigi SC            0-1 FC Kyoken                           712 
  [Tetsuya Shiraishi 69] 

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Yokohama FC             11  10/1  0  0/0  32- 9 32 
 2.Honda                   11   8/1  0  2/0  22-12 26 
 3.Denso                   11   6/2  0  1/2  24-14 22 
 4.Otsuka                  11   6/1  0  3/1  26-21 20 
 5.Sony Sendai             11   5/1  0  3/2  23-13 17 
 6.Jatco TT                11   5/0  1  5/0  25-21 16 
 7.Kokushikan University   11   4/1  1  4/1  20-22 15 
 8.Alo's Hokuriku          11   3/1  0  7/0  11-22 11 
 9.Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.   11   2/1  2  6/0  13-19 10 
10.FC Kyoken               11   1/1  1  7/1   7-19  6 
11.Yokogawa                11   1/0  2  6/2  11-22  5 
12.Tochigi SC              11   0/1  1  7/2   9-29  3 


Second Stage

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Yokohama FC             11   9/0  2  0/0  34-15 29 
 2.Honda                   11   7/1  0  2/1  29-17 23 
 3.Denso                   11   5/3  1  1/1  19- 9 22 
 4.Otsuka                  11   6/1  0  3/1  31-16 20 
 5.Sony Sendai             11   6/1  0  4/0  28-24 20 
 6.Kokushikan University   11   3/2  0  5/1  25-26 13 
 7.FC Kyoken               11   3/2  0  4/2  13-19 13 
 8.Jatco TT                11   4/0  0  6/1  17-23 12 
 9.Tochigi SC              11   3/1  0  6/1  12-19 11 
10.Alo's Hokuriku          11   3/1  0  5/2  15-27 11 
11.Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.   11   2/0  0  7/2  12-31  6 
12.Yokogawa                11   1/0  1  8/1  10-19  4 

Round 1 
[Jul 15] 
FC Kyoken             1-2 Otsuka                 [asdet]      220 
  [Koji Nakai 50 – Shusuke Shimada 61, Takao Sekiguchi 91] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 1-3 Denso                               172 
  [Kazuki Murokawa 80 – Tomohiro Ito 4, Tatsuya Kobayashi 49, 
   Takaaki Tokushige 84] 
[Jul 16] 
Jatco TT              3-2 Yokogawa                            441 
  [Hideki Matsuki 30, Masanori Matsuo 60, Rikizo Matsuhashi 82 – 
   Yutaka Matsushita 18, Makoto Ishimoto 54 pen] 
Kokushikan University 4-5 Sony Sendai                         177 
  [Kazuhiko Komatsu 23, Masahiko Kaburagi 50, Masato Yamazaki 67, 
   Kiyoto Fujinuma 78 – Hidenori Tabata 25, 34, 68, 
   Kazutaka Takano 48, 74] 
Tochigi SC            0-1 Yokohama FC                       2,279 
  [Kenji Arima 76] 
Alo's Hokuriku        1-2 Honda                  [asdet]      330 
  [Takayuki Asajima 29 – Takashi Yasuike 24, Yuji Gomi 95] 

Round 2 
[Jul 22] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 1-2 Kokushikan University  [asdet]      239 
  [Atsushi Sakamoto 53 pen – Tomohiro Sano 30, 
   Kosuke Kitani 111 pen] 
Denso                 1-0 Yokogawa                            283 
  [Takaaki Tokushige 14] 
[Jul 23] 
Tochigi SC            0-3 Sony Sendai                         696 
  [Masayoshi Akema 43, Hidenori Tabata 60, 77] 
Yokohama FC           1-0 FC Kyoken                         3,185 
  [Yoshikazu Goto 49] 
Alo's Hokuriku        4-2 Jatco TT                            336 
  [Yukihiro Homma 10, Takayuki Asajima 32, 55, 
   Takahiro Sasaki 89 pen – Takamitsu Ota 57, Yasuhiko Niimura 77] 
Honda                 2-1 Otsuka                              528 
  [Junya Nitta 69, Tatsuya Furuhashi 87 – Takao Sekiguchi 68] 

Round 3 
[Jul 29] 
FC Kyoken             1-2 Alo's Hokuriku         [asdet]      206 
  [Koji Nakai 48 – Makoto Koshiba 37, Kenji Ikeda 120] 
Yokogawa              1-3 Honda                               739 
  [Masashi Tonouchi 34 – Mitsuru Mukojima 36, 
   Tatsuya Furuhashi 51 pen, Jun Uruno 90] 
Sony Sendai           2-1 Denso                  [asdet]      816 
  [Kenji Abe 75, Kazutaka Takano 107 – Tatsuya Kobayashi 18] 
Otsuka                1-5 Yokohama FC                       2,219 
  [Shusuke Shimada 7 – Kosaku Masuda 26, 45, 
   Hirotoshi Yokoyama 59, Kenji Arima 69, Narita Takaki 80] 
[Jul 30] 
Jatco TT              1-2 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               361 
  [Takamitsu Ota 30 – Atsushi Sakamoto 60 pen, 70] 
Kokushikan University 2-0 Tochigi SC                          190 
  [Hiroaki Tanaka 63, Yuya Itabashi 80] 

Round 4 
[Aug 5] 
Yokohama FC           1-1 Yokogawa                          2,867 
  [Mikio Manaka 89 – Shin Che-Bon 18] 
Honda                 5-1 Sony Sendai                         506 
  [Yusuke Kita 16, Tatsuya Furuhashi 48 pen, 
   Takahiro Okubo 73, 79, Shigeru Suzuki 90 – Hidenori Tabata 59] 
[Aug 6] 
Kokushikan University 3-1 Jatco TT                            169 
  [Tomohiro Sano 9, Shoichi Fujii 71, Hiroshi Miyaji 72 – 
   Rikizo Matsuhashi 60 pen] 
Tochigi SC            0-2 Denso                               548 
  [Hideki Takayama 74, Takaaki Tokushige 85 pen] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 2-3 FC Kyoken              [asdet]      282 
  [Ryo Nojima 72, Shogo Murakoshi 80 – Koji Nakai 4, 
   Hiroki Saijo 82, Gen Uchimura 112] 
Alo's Hokuriku        1-6 Otsuka                              362 
  [Hidetaka Aburatani 74 – Takehiro Hayashi 13, 20, 57, 
   Akira Oba 15, Takeshi Kajii 36, 38] 

Round 5 
[Aug 12] 
Yokogawa              1-2 Alo's Hokuriku                      420 
  [Masashi Tonouchi 86 – Yukihiro Homma 3, Takayuki Asajima 54 pen] 
Yokohama FC           6-5 Sony Sendai                       2,808 
  [Hirotoshi Yokoyama 8, 16, Yuichi Yoda 20, 23, Narita Takaki 29, 
   Naoki Ishibashi 76 – Yuji Arakawa 13, Hidenori Tabata 24, 79, 
   Tatsuhisa Takaku 70, Daiji Tatebe 87] 
[Aug 13] 
Jatco TT              4-3 Tochigi SC                          329 
  [Takayasu Kawai 8, Yasuhiko Niimura 29, Rikizo Matsuhashi 72 pen, 
   Jun Iwashita 88 – Takayuki Meguro 17, 46, Masamichi Inagawa 60] 
FC Kyoken             2-1 Kokushikan University               238 
  [Koji Nakai 11, Hideaki Kuboi 45 – Kosuke Kitani 61 pen] 
Otsuka                8-0 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               343 
  [Akira Oba 11, 42, 61, Takehiro Hayashi 41, 55, 75, 
   Shusuke Shimada 53, 60] 
Denso                 1-0 Honda                  [asdet]      387 
  [Kazuaki Kodama 94] 

Round 6 
[Sep 30] 
Yokogawa              1-2 Sony Sendai                         284 
  [Yuji Yaso 45 – Yuji Fukuda 41, Hidenori Tabata 87] 
[Oct 1] 
Otsuka                1-2 Denso                  [asdet]      302 
  [Takeshi Kajii 45 – Hideki Takayama 83, Takaaki Tokushige 113] 
Jatco TT              0-1 Yokohama FC                       2,803 
  [Kosaku Masuda 13] 
Kokushikan University 3-2 Alo's Hokuriku         [asdet]       84 
  [Tomohiro Sano 58, Hideo Yoshida 88, Hiroaki Tanaka 104 – 
   Yukihiro Homma 10, Makoto Koshiba 55] 
FC Kyoken             0-3 Honda                               283 
  [Junya Nitta 17, 58, 66] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 1-2 Tochigi SC                          471 
  [Hayato Nakamura 46 – Mitsuo Urashima 49, Hiroshi Tanekura 74] 

Round 7 
[Oct 8] 
Yokohama FC           5-3 Kokushikan University             3,539 
  [Kosaku Masuda 39, 55, Kenji Arima 76, Narita Takaki 78, 
   Hiroaki Tajima 85 – Hiroaki Tanaka 27, Tomohiro Sano 69, 87] 
Honda                 1-2 Jatco TT                            780 
  [Junya Nitta 36 – Hideki Matsuki 75, Jun Mizukoshi 76] 
Denso                 1-2 FC Kyoken                           469 
  [Taku Terao 17 – Hiroki Saijo 7, Tetsuya Shiraishi 19] 
Sony Sendai           3-4 Otsuka                              521 
  [Kenji Abe 16, Yuji Fukuda 43, 90 – Takehiro Hayashi 15, 23, 
   Shusuke Shimada 50, Ryoji Yukutomo 84] 
Alo's Hokuriku        1-4 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               260 
  [Takayuki Asajima 58 pen – Ryosuke Aoshima 9, 
   Shogo Murakoshi 63, Hayato Nakamura 69, Shinya Imai 86] 
Tochigi SC            3-2 Yokogawa               [asdet]      744 
  [Go Takai 78, Takayuki Kikuchi 83, Makoto Yokohama 112 – 
   Edson 19, Hiroki Yoda 89] 

Round 8 
[Oct 21] 
Jatco TT              0-2 Denso                               210 
  [Takaaki Tokushige 9, Taku Terao 48] 
FC Kyoken             1-2 Sony Sendai                         298 
  [Takatoshi Hirotaki 87 – Yuji Fukuda 75, Tomotsuna Kobayashi 86] 
[Oct 22] 
Otsuka                1-0 Yokogawa                            244 
  [Shusuke Shimada 75] 
Kokushikan University 3-4 Honda                               123 
  [Hideo Yoshida 34, 45, Makoto Takeya 61 – 
   Tatsuya Furuhashi 26, 33, Takahiro Okubo 41, Shigeru Suzuki 74] 
Alo's Hokuriku        0-2 Tochigi SC                          308 
  [Masamichi Inagawa 33, Tsukasa Kurosu 67] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 1-2 Yokohama FC                         922 
  [Takahiro Suzuki 38 – Kenji Arima 6, Narita Takaki 81] 

Round 9 
[Oct 28] 
Sony Sendai           3-0 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.               753 
  [Hidenori Tabata 8, 43, 61] 
Yokogawa              1-2 Kokushikan University               663 
  [Edson 72 – Kazuhiko Komatsu 25, Tomohiro Sano 39] 
FC Kyoken             2-1 Tochigi SC             [asdet]      637 
  [Koji Nakai 18, Takatoshi Hirotaki 93 – Tsukasa Kurosu 77] 
[Oct 29] 
Honda                 2-7 Yokohama FC                       1,582 
  [Jun Uruno 83, 88 – Kenji Arima 9, 16, 57, Yuichi Yoda 42, 
   Hirotoshi Yokoyama 66, Kosaku Masuda 69, Naoki Ishibashi 90] 
Denso                 2-0 Alo's Hokuriku                      374 
  [Tatsuya Kobayashi 58, Hitoshi Yui 83] 
Otsuka                4-0 Jatco TT                            242 
  [Takeshi Kajii 19, Shusuke Shimada 49, 70, Takehiro Hayashi 72] 

Round 10 
[Nov 4] 
Kokushikan University 1-3 Otsuka                              192 
  [Hiroshi Miyaji 26 – Takehiro Hayashi 11, Shusuke Shimada 38, 
   Takeshi Kajii 45] 
[Nov 5] 
Yokohama FC           2-2 Denso                             2,969 
  [Hiroaki Tajima 4, Masaaki Takada 89 – Takaaki Tokushige 31, 
   Taku Terao 43] 
Alo's Hokuriku        2-1 Sony Sendai                         553 
  [Takayuki Asajima 52, Katsuyuki Hata 72 – Satoshi Nakamura 67] 
Tochigi SC            0-2 Honda                             1,841 
  [Mitsuru Mukojima 31, Junya Nitta 76] 
Shizuoka Sangyo Univ. 0-1 Yokogawa                            325 
  [Daisuke Fujikake 81 pen] 
Jatco TT              4-0 FC Kyoken                           696 
  [Kazuaki Inoue 22, Rikizo Matsuhashi 33 pen, Makoto Ishikawa 73, 
   Masanori Matsuo 90] 

Round 11 [Nov 12] 
Yokohama FC           3-0 Alo's Hokuriku                    5,267 
  [Kenji Arima 19, 68, Kosaku Masuda 26] 
Honda                 5-0 Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.             3,139 
  [Shigeru Suzuki 13, Tatsuya Furuhashi 47, 83, 
   Keigo Kawashima 81, Jun Uruno 87] 
Denso                 2-1 Kokushikan University  [asdet]      521 
  [Taku Terao 15, Takaaki Tokushige 103 pen – Hirokatsu Ueda 69] 
Sony Sendai           1-0 Jatco TT                          4,421 
  [Hidenori Tabata 18] 
Otsuka                0-1 Tochigi SC                          562 
  [Makoto Yokohama 70] 
Yokogawa              0-1 FC Kyoken                           659 
  [Hideaki Kuboi 53] 

Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Yokohama FC             11   9/0  2  0/0  34-15 29 
 2.Honda                   11   7/1  0  2/1  29-17 23 
 3.Denso                   11   5/3  1  1/1  19- 9 22 
 4.Otsuka                  11   6/1  0  3/1  31-16 20 
 5.Sony Sendai             11   6/1  0  4/0  28-24 20 
 6.Kokushikan University   11   3/2  0  5/1  25-26 13 
 7.FC Kyoken               11   3/2  0  4/2  13-19 13 
 8.Jatco TT                11   4/0  0  6/1  17-23 12 
 9.Tochigi SC              11   3/1  0  6/1  12-19 11 
10.Alo's Hokuriku          11   3/1  0  5/2  15-27 11 
11.Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.   11   2/0  0  7/2  12-31  6 
12.Yokogawa                11   1/0  1  8/1  10-19  4 


Overall Table: 
                               W/OT  D  L/OT 
 1.Yokohama FC             22  19/1  2  0/0  66-24 61 
 2.Honda                   22  15/2  0  4/1  51-29 49 
 3.Denso                   22  11/5  1  2/3  43-23 44 
 4.Otsuka                  22  12/2  0  6/2  57-37 40 
 5.Sony Sendai             22  11/2  0  7/2  51-37 37 
 6.Jatco TT                22   9/0  1 11/1  42-44 28 
 7.Kokushikan University   22   7/3  1  9/2  45-48 28 
 8.Alo's Hokuriku          22   6/2  0 12/2  26-49 22 
 9.FC Kyoken               22   4/3  1 11/3  20-38 19 
10.Shizuoka Sangyo Univ.   22   4/1  2 13/2  25-50 16 
11.Tochigi SC              22   3/2  1 13/3  21-48 14 
12.Yokogawa                22   2/0  3 14/3  21-41  9 


Top scorers: 

1.ARIMA Kenji (Yokohama FC)            24 
2.TABATA Hidenori (Sony Sendai)        19 
3.HAYASHI Takehiro (Otsuka)            16 
4.SHIMADA Shusuke (Otsuka)             15 
5.FURUHASHI Tatsuya (Honda)            14 
6.TOKUSHIGE Takaaki (Denso)            11 


1999.

2000 (4th and lower levels).

2001.

list of champions.

list of final tables.

list of cup finals.

list of super cup finals.


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