2009 J.League Division 1

J. League Division 1
Season	2009
Champions	Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers 7th J. League title 7th Japanese title
Relegated	Kashiwa Reysol !Kashiwa Reysol JEF United Chiba !JEF United Chiba Oita Trinita !Oita Trinita
Champions League	Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale Gamba Osaka !Gamba Osaka Sanfrecce Hiroshima !Sanfrecce Hiroshima (all to the group stage)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	791 (2.58 per match)
Top goalscorer	Ryoichi Maeda (20 goals total)
Highest attendance	53,783 (Round 34, Red Diamonds vs. Antlers)
Lowest attendance	5,567 (Round 12, Sanga vs. JEF United)
Average attendance	18,985
← 2008 2010 →

The 2009 J. League Division 1 season is the 45th season of the top-flight club football in Japan and the 17th season since the establishment of J1 League. The season started on March 7, 2009 and ended on December 5, 2009.

A total of eighteen clubs participated in double round-robin format. At the end of the season, top three clubs received automatic qualification to the following years' AFC Champions League. Also starting this season, the bottom three clubs were relegated to J2 League by default.

Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers became the first Japanese club win J. League Championship in three straight seasons.

Participating Clubs

The following eighteen clubs will play in J. League Division 1 during the 2009 season. Of these clubs, Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Montedio Yamagata are the newly promoted clubs.

Club Name	Home Town(s)	Note(s)
Albirex Niigata !Albirex Niigata	Niigata & Seiro, Niigata
F.C. Tokyo !F.C. Tokyo	Tokyo
Gamba Osaka !Gamba Osaka	Suita, Osaka	2009 ACL Participant
JEF United Chiba !JEF United Chiba	Chiba & Ichihara, Chiba
Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata	Iwata, Shizuoka
Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers	Southwestern cities/towns of Ibaraki	2009 ACL Participant Two-time Defending Champions
Kashiwa Reysol !Kashiwa Reysol	Kashiwa, Chiba
Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	2009 ACL Participant
Kyoto Sanga !Kyoto Sanga	Southwestern cities/town in Kyoto
Montedio Yamagata !Montedio Yamagata	All cities/towns in Yamagata	Promoted from J2 League in 2008
Nagoya Grampus !Nagoya Grampus	Nagoya, Aichi	2009 ACL Participant
Oita Trinita !Oita Trinita	All cities/towns in Oita
Omiya Ardija !Omiya Ardija	Saitama, Saitama
Sanfrecce Hiroshima !Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hiroshima, Hiroshima	Promoted from J2 League in 2008
Shimizu S-Pulse !Shimizu S-Pulse	Shizuoka, Shizuoka
Urawa Red Diamonds !Urawa Red Diamonds	Saitama, Saitama
Vissel Kobe !Vissel Kobe	Kobe, Hyōgo
Yokohama F. Marinos !Yokohama F. Marinos	Yokohama & Yokosuka, Kanagawa

League Format

Eighteen clubs will play in double round-robin (home and away) format, a total of 34 games each. A club receives 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order:

Goal differential
Goals scored
Head-to-head results
Disciplinary points

A draw would be conducted, if necessary. However, if two clubs are tied at the first place, both clubs will be declared as the champions. The bottom three clubs will be relegated to J2. The top three clubs will qualify to AFC Champions League in the following year.

Changes from Previous Year

Bottom three clubs are relegated by default; during 2004-2008 season, the 16th-place club needed to win playoffs to avoid relegation.
The fourth foreign player slot (AFC player slot) is introduced

Final League Table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers (C)	34	20	6	8	51	30	+21	66	Qualification to 2010 AFC Champions League Group stage ¹
2	Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale	34	19	7	8	64	40	+24	64
3	Gamba Osaka !Gamba Osaka	34	18	6	10	62	44	+18	60
4	Sanfrecce Hiroshima !Sanfrecce Hiroshima	34	15	11	8	53	44	+9	56
5	F.C. Tokyo !F.C. Tokyo	34	16	5	13	47	39	+8	53
6	Urawa Red Diamonds !Urawa Red Diamonds	34	16	4	14	43	43	0	52
7	Shimizu S-Pulse !Shimizu S-Pulse	34	13	12	9	44	41	+3	51
8	Albirex Niigata !Albirex Niigata	34	13	11	10	42	31	+11	50
9	Nagoya Grampus !Nagoya Grampus	34	14	8	12	46	42	+4	50
10	Yokohama F. Marinos !Yokohama F. Marinos	34	11	13	10	43	37	+6	46
11	Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata	34	11	8	15	50	60	−10	41
12	Kyoto Sanga !Kyoto Sanga	34	11	8	15	35	47	−12	41
13	Omiya Ardija !Omiya Ardija	34	9	12	13	40	47	−7	39
14	Vissel Kobe !Vissel Kobe	34	10	9	15	40	48	−8	39
15	Montedio Yamagata !Montedio Yamagata	34	10	9	15	32	40	−8	39
16	Kashiwa Reysol !Kashiwa Reysol (R)	34	7	13	14	41	57	−16	34	Relegation to 2010 J. League Division 2
17	Oita Trinita !Oita Trinita (R)	34	8	6	20	26	45	−19	30
18	JEF United Chiba !JEF United Chiba (R)	34	5	12	17	32	56	−24	27

Updated to games played on December 5, 2009.
Source: J.League Division 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
¹ Sanfrecce Hiroshima received fourth Japanese berth in the group stage of the 2010 AFC Champions League because Gamba Osaka, the winners of the 2009 Emperor's Cup, has been already qualified for ACL through J. League championship.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away	Albirex Niigata !ALB	Kashima Antlers !ANT	Omiya Ardija !ARD	Kawasaki Frontale !FRO	Gamba Osaka !GAM	Nagoya Grampus !GRA	JEF United Chiba !JEF	Júbilo Iwata !JÚB	Montedio Yamagata !MON	Kashiwa Reysol !REY	Sanfrecce Hiroshima !SFR	Kyoto Sanga !SAN	Shimizu S-Pulse !SSP	F.C. Tokyo !TOK	Oita Trinita !TRI	Urawa Red Diamonds !RED	Vissel Kobe !VIS	Yokohama F. Marinos !FMA
Albirex Niigata !Albirex Niigata		2–1	0–0	2–2	1–2	2–1	2–2	3–3	1–1	0–1	3–3	1–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	2–0	2–1
Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers	0–1		2–0	2–3²	5–1	1–4	3–0	1–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	2–1	2–1	3–1	1–0	2–0	1–0	0–0
Omiya Ardija !Omiya Ardija	0–1	3–1		2–3	3–2	0–2	1–1	1–1	0–3	1–1	0–1	2–1	0–0	0–3	3–0	1–1	1–1	0–0
Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale	1–0	1–1	3–1		1–0	3–1	3–2	2–0	2–0	1–1	7–0	4–1	1–1	2–1	2–0	0–2	2–2	2–0
Gamba Osaka !Gamba Osaka	0–2	0–1	4–1	2–1		2–3	2–0	4–1	2–1	4–0	2–2	4–1	1–4	4–2	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–0
Nagoya Grampus !Nagoya Grampus	1–0	0–3	1–1	0–2	2–1		0–1	3–3	2–0	2–3	0–0	1–1	3–1	1–2	3–2	0–1	1–0	2–1
JEF United Chiba !JEF United Chiba	0–1	0–2	0–2	1–1	0–3	0–2		1–1	1–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	1–2	2–1	0–2	0–1	1–1	1–1
Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata	0–2	0–0	3–1	2–1	1–3	2–1	3–2		2–6	2–3	0–1	3–0	3–0	0–1	3–1	1–1	1–0	1–1
Montedio Yamagata !Montedio Yamagata	0–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–0	3–1		0–0	1–2	0–0	0–1	1–0	0–0	2–3	1–0	0–0
Kashiwa Reysol !Kashiwa Reysol	0–4	1–2	2–2	2–3	0–2	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–1		1–2	0–0	5–0	0–3	2–1	2–3	0–1	1–1
Sanfrecce Hiroshima !Sanfrecce Hiroshima	1–2	1–0	2–3	1–1	2–2	0–0	4–1	0–1	3–1	4–1		4–1	0–0	2–0	1–0	2–1	4–3	3–2
Kyoto Sanga !Kyoto Sanga	1–0	0–1	1–3	3–1	2–1	0–1	2–1	2–3	1–0	1–2	2–0		0–1	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–0	2–0
Shimizu S-Pulse !Shimizu S-Pulse	1–1	2–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	0–0	2–2	5–1	4–1	1–1	1–1	3–3		1–2	3–1	2–2	1–0	0–0
F.C. Tokyo !F.C. Tokyo	1–4	1–2	3–2	2–3	0–0	3–0	1–2	3–2	1–0	4–0	0–0	0–0	2–1		2–0	0–1	1–0	0–0
Oita Trinita !Oita Trinita	0–0	1–2	1–1	1–0	1–3	2–1	1–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	0–1	1–0	2–1	0–1		1–0	0–2	1–2
Urawa Red Diamonds !Urawa Red Diamonds	1–0	0–1	0–3	2–3	0–0	0–3	3–1	3–2	4–1	1–4	2–1	1–0	0–1	3–1	1–0		2–0	1–2
Vissel Kobe !Vissel Kobe	1–0	1–0	1–2	3–1	3–1	2–2	2–2	1–1	3–1	3–1	0–0	1–1	0–1	0–2	3–2	3–2		2–2
Yokohama F. Marinos !Yokohama F. Marinos	1–1	2–1	1–0	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–0	1–2	3–3	2–4	3–0	2–0	0–1	1–2	2–0	5–0

Updated to games played on December 5, 2009.
Source: J. League Division 1
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
²The Kashima-hosted game against Kawasaki Frontale on the 25th week was halted at 74th minute due to the pitch condition caused by heavy rain, the score at the moment was 1–3 (Marquinhos 30' — Chong Tese 19', 32', Juninho 66'). The game resumed on October 7 from the 74th minute. (Iwamasa 74')^[1]
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals^[2]
1	Ryoichi Maeda	Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata	20
2	Juninho	Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale	17
2	Edmilson	Urawa Red Diamonds !Urawa Red Diamonds	17
4	Naohiro Ishikawa	F.C. Tokyo !F.C. Tokyo	15
4	Hisato Satō	Sanfrecce Hiroshima !Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15
6	Chong Tese	Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale	14
6	Shinji Okazaki	Shimizu S-Pulse !Shimizu S-Pulse	14
8	Marquinhos	Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers	13
	Pedro Júnior	Gamba Osaka !Gamba Osaka^{[note 1]}	13
	Kazuma Watanabe	Yokohama F. Marinos !Yokohama F. Marinos	13

Notes:

↑ Transferred from Albirex Niigata !Albirex Niigata after 24th week

Attendance Figures

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Urawa Red Diamonds !Urawa Red Diamonds	751,565	53,783	18,777	44,210	-0.92860593585246−7.1%^†
2	Albirex Niigata !Albirex Niigata	568,582	40,268	24,392	33,446	-0.96973035662511−3.0%^†
3	F.C. Tokyo !F.C. Tokyo	440,032	40,701	18,221	25,884	0.0065328978068129+0.6%^†
4	Yokohama F. Marinos !Yokohama F. Marinos	374,975	40,228	11,025	22,057	-0.93138248458745−6.8%^†
5	Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers	367,486	37,878	14,473	21,617	0.096530384498326+9.6%^†
6	Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale	320,394	22,390	14,696	18,847	0.072986051807572+7.2%^†
7	Oita Trinita !Oita Trinita	313,281	24,833	14,163	18,428	-0.90680051176065−9.3%^†
8	Shimizu S-Pulse !Shimizu S-Pulse	304,900	30,851	9,756	17,935	0.080486776311826+8.0%^†
9	Gamba Osaka !Gamba Osaka	301,105	20,394	10,159	17,712	0.098214285714286+9.8%^†
10	Nagoya Grampus !Nagoya Grampus	270,773	32,435	9,355	15,928	-0.96212624584718−3.7%^†
11	Sanfrecce Hiroshima !Sanfrecce Hiroshima	267,299	27,113	9,479	15,723	0.45046125461255+45.0%^†
12	JEF United Chiba !JEF United Chiba	250,413	17,916	12,349	14,730	0.045867651235445+4.5%^†
13	Omiya Ardija !Omiya Ardija	233,013	37,842	7,796	13,707	0.46598930481283+46.5%^†
14	Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata	229,891	22,152	8,716	13,523	-0.87442612350469−12.5%^†
15	Vissel Kobe !Vissel Kobe	222,153	20,721	6,002	13,068	0.0067021030737231+0.6%^†
16	Montedio Yamagata !Montedio Yamagata	204,953	20,102	6,554	12,056	0.92188745416866+92.1%^†
17	Kashiwa Reysol !Kashiwa Reysol	199,552	32,854	8,124	11,738	-0.95368865778356−4.6%^†
18	Kyoto Sanga !Kyoto Sanga	189,149	18,121	5,567	11,126	-0.81288814203259−18.7%^†
	League total	5,809,516	53,783	5,567	18,985	−1.1%^†

Updated to games played on December 5, 2009
Source: J. League Division 1
Notes:
^† Team played previous season in J2.

Awards

Individual Awards

Award	Recipient	Club	Notes
Most Valuable Player	Mitsuo Ogasawara	Kashima Antlers
Rookie of the Year	Kazuma Watanabe	Yokohama F. Marinos
Manager of the Year	Oswaldo de Oliveira	Kashima Antlers
Top Scorer	Ryoichi Maeda	Júbilo Iwata	20 goals.

Best Eleven

Pos	Footballer	Club	Nationality
GK	Eiji Kawashima	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
DF	Daiki Iwamasa	Kashima Antlers	Japan
DF	Atsuto Uchida	Kashima Antlers	Japan
DF	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	Nagoya Grampus	Japan
DF	Yuto Nagatomo	F.C. Tokyo	Japan
MF	Naohiro Ishikawa	F.C. Tokyo	Japan
MF	Kengo Nakamura	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
MF	Mitsuo Ogasawara	Kashima Antlers	Japan
MF	Yasuhito Endō	Gamba Osaka	Japan
FW	Ryoichi Maeda	Jubilo Iwata	Japan
FW	Shinji Okazaki	Shimizu S-Pulse	Japan

References

↑ J. League official website -News Release - Notice of the rematch for a suspended game - Kashima Antlers vs Kawasaki Frontale on the 25th week of J. League Division 1 on 2009 (Japanese) (2009Jリーグ J1リーグ戦　第25節「鹿島アントラーズ vs 川崎フロンターレ」　試合の取り扱いについて) dated September 15, 2009
↑ "2009 J1 Top Scorers". j-league.or.jp. J-League. Retrieved 17 April 2010.

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Football clubs in Japan, 2016

J1 League	Albirex Niigata !Albirex Niigata Kashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers Omiya Ardija !Omiya Ardija Avispa Fukuoka !Avispa Fukuoka Shonan Bellmare !Shonan Bellmare Yokohama F. Marinos !Yokohama F. Marinos Kawasaki Frontale !Kawasaki Frontale Gamba Osaka !Gamba Osaka Nagoya Grampus !Nagoya Grampus Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata Urawa Red Diamonds !Urawa Red Diamonds Kashiwa Reysol !Kashiwa Reysol Sagan Tosu !Sagan Tosu Sanfrecce Hiroshima !Sanfrecce Hiroshima F.C. Tokyo !F.C. Tokyo Vegalta Sendai !Vegalta Sendai Ventforet Kofu !Ventforet Kofu Vissel Kobe !Vissel Kobe

J2 League	Cerezo Osaka !Cerezo Osaka Consadole Sapporo !Consadole Sapporo Ehime FC !Ehime FC Fagiano Okayama !Fagiano Okayama FC Gifu !FC Gifu Giravanz Kitakyushu !Giravanz Kitakyushu Mito HollyHock !Mito HollyHock JEF United Chiba !JEF United Chiba Kamatamare Sanuki !Kamatamare Sanuki Montedio Yamagata !Montedio Yamagata Renofa Yamaguchi !Renofa Yamaguchi Roasso Kumamoto !Roasso Kumamoto Shimizu S-Pulse !Shimizu S-Pulse Kyoto Sanga !Kyoto Sanga Thespakusatsu Gunma !Thespakusatsu Gunma V-Varen Nagasaki !V-Varen Nagasaki Tokyo Verdy !Tokyo Verdy Tokushima Vortis !Tokushima Vortis Matsumoto Yamaga !Matsumoto Yamaga Yokohama FC !Yokohama FC Machida Zelvia !Machida Zelvia Zweigen Kanazawa !Zweigen Kanazawa

J3 League	Blaublitz Akita !Blaublitz Akita Fukushima United !Fukushima United Gainare Tottori !Gainare Tottori Grulla Morioka !Grulla Morioka Kagoshima United !Kagoshima United Kataller Toyama !Kataller Toyama Fujieda MYFC !Fujieda MYFC Nagano Parceiro !Nagano Parceiro FC Ryukyu !FC Ryukyu SC Sagamihara !SC Sagamihara Tochigi SC !Tochigi SC Oita Trinita !Oita Trinita YSCC Yokohama !YSCC Yokohama

100 Year Plan clubs	Azul Claro Numazu !Azul Claro Numazu Kagoshima United !Kagoshima United Nara Club !Nara Club Tonan Maebashi !Tonan Maebashi Vanraure Hachinohe !Vanraure Hachinohe Tochigi Uva !Tochigi Uva

Japan Football League	Azul Claro Numazu !Azul Claro Numazu Briobecca Urayasu Fagiano Okayama Next !Fagiano Okayama Next Honda FC !Honda FC Honda Lock !Honda Lock Maruyasu Okazaki !Maruyasu Okazaki MIO Biwako Shiga !MIO Biwako Shiga Nara Club !Nara Club FC Osaka !FC Osaka ReinMeer Aomori Ryutsu Keizai Dragons !Ryutsu Keizai Dragons Sony Sendai !Sony Sendai Tochigi Uva !Tochigi Uva Vanraure Hachinohe !Vanraure Hachinohe Verspah Oita !Verspah Oita Tokyo Musashino City !Tokyo Musashino City

Defunct clubs (clubs belong to nationwide leagues only)	Sagawa Printing !Sagawa Printing Fukushima FC !Fukushima FC Arte Takasaki !Arte Takasaki JEF Reserves !JEF Reserves Sagawa Express Tokyo !Sagawa Express Tokyo NKK SC !NKK SC Yokohama Flügels !Yokohama Flügels ALO's Hokuriku !ALO's Hokuriku Jatco FC !Jatco FC Hagoromo Club Toyota Higashi-Fuji !Toyota Higashi-Fuji Seino Transportation !Seino Transportation Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi !Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi Sagawa Shiga !Sagawa Shiga Sagawa Express Osaka !Sagawa Express Osaka Eidai SC !Eidai SC Teijin SC !Teijin SC Nippon Steel Yawata !Nippon Steel Yawata Tosu Futures !Tosu Futures Profesor Miyazaki !Profesor Miyazaki

2009 in Japanese football

Domestic leagues	J. League Division 1 J. League Division 2 Japan Football League Regional Leagues (Promotion Series)

Domestic cups	Emperor's Cup J. League Cup

Asian competitions	AFC Champions League

National teams	FIFA World Cup qualification AFC Asian Cup qualification East Asian Games AFC U-19 Championship qualification AFC U-16 Championship qualification

Club seasons

J. League Division 1	Albirex Niigata F.C. Tokyo Gamba Osaka JEF United Ichihara Chiba Júbilo Iwata Kashima Antlers Kashiwa Reysol Kawasaki Frontale Kyoto Sanga F.C. Montedio Yamagata Nagoya Grampus Oita Trinita Omiya Ardija Sanfrecce Hiroshima Shimizu S-Pulse Urawa Red Diamonds Vissel Kobe Yokohama F. Marinos

J. League Division 2	Avispa Fukuoka Cerezo Osaka Consadole Sapporo Ehime F.C. Fagiano Okayama F.C. Gifu Kataller Toyama Mito HollyHock Roasso Kumamoto Sagan Tosu Shonan Bellmare Thespa Kusatsu Tochigi S.C. Tokushima Vortis Tokyo Verdy Vegalta Sendai Ventforet Kofu Yokohama F.C.

J1 League champions

7 titles

Kashima Antlers (1996

2009)

3 titles

Yokohama F. Marinos (1995 2003 2004)

Júbilo Iwata (1997 1999 2002)

Sanfrecce Hiroshima (2012 2013 2015)

2 titles

Tokyo Verdy (1993 1994)

Gamba Osaka (2005 2014)

1 title

Urawa Red Diamonds (2006)

Nagoya Grampus (2010)

Kashiwa Reysol (2011)

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