The 1970 season of the Japan Soccer League was the sixth season of Japanese league football. Toyo Industries won their fifth title and set the record for title wins, but they would not regain the title during the rest of the JSL's existence and would not win the successor league, the J. League Division 1, until 2012.
Japan Soccer League
Promotion/relegation Series JSL 1st leg 2nd leg Senior Cup Nippon Kokan 4-0 3-0 Kofu SC (Cup runner-up) Nagoya Mutual Bank 1-0 1-1 Toyota Motors (Cup winner) No relegations.
Team of the Year
PositionFootballerClubNationalityGKKoji Funamoto (1)Toyo IndustriesDFHiroshi Katayama (5)Mitsubishi MotorsDFMinoru Kobata (1)HitachiDFYoshitada Yamaguchi (3)HitachiDFDaishiro Yoshimura (1)Yanmar DieselMFAritatsu Ogi (5)Toyo IndustriesMFRyuichi Sugiyama (5)Mitsubishi MotorsMFTeruki Miyamoto (5)Nippon SteelMFTakaji Mori (2)Mitsubishi MotorsFWKunishige Kamamoto (3)Yanmar DieselFWTadahiko Ueda (1)Nippon Steel
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