The 2013 J.League Division 1 season was the 48th season of Japanese top-flight football and the 21st since the establishment of the J.League in 1992. The season began on 2 March and finished on 7 December.
Sanfrecce Hiroshima were the defending champions.
Clubs Vissel Kobe, Gamba Osaka and Consadole Sapporo were relegated at the end of the 2012 season after finishing in the bottom three places of the table. Consadole Sapporo returned to J2 after only one season in the top flight, while Vissel Kobe was relegated after six seasons in the top flight. Gamba Osaka, instead, was relegated for the first time since the creation of J.League in 1993 and the first time since their forerunners, Matsushita Electric Soccer Club, were relegated to the second Division of the Japan Soccer League after the 1986–87 season.
The three relegated teams were replaced by 2012 J.League Division 2 champions Ventforet Kofu, runners-up Shonan Bellmare and sixth-placed and play-off winner team Oita Trinita. Kofu made an immediate return to the top division, while Shonan returned after a two-year absence. In the end, Oita beat JEF United Chiba in the playoff final and returned in J1 after three seasons in the second division. Due to Oita's promotion, it will be the first time to have 2 clubs in the top-flight league competitions from Kyushu since 2006, and Kansai region will have only one club competing in the top flight first time since 1994 season due to Kobe and Gamba's relegations.
Club nameHometown(s)StadiumCapacityNote(s) Albirex Niigata Niigata & Seirō, Niigata Denka Big Swan Stadium 42,300 Cerezo Osaka Osaka Nagai Stadium 47,816 FC Tokyo Tokyo Ajinomoto Stadium 49,970 Júbilo Iwata Iwata, Shizuoka Yamaha Stadium 15,165 Kashima Antlers Kashima, Ibaraki Kashima Soccer Stadium 40,728 Kashiwa Reysol Kashiwa Kashiwa Soccer Stadium 15,900 2013 ACL Participant (2012 Emperor's Cup Winners) Kawasaki Frontale Kawasaki, Kanagawa Todoroki Athletics Stadium 26,232 Nagoya Grampus Nagoya Paloma Mizuho Stadium 27,000 Oita Trinita Ōita Ōita Stadium 40,000 Promoted from J2 League (6th place/play-off winner in J2 2012) Omiya Ardija Ōmiya, Saitama NACK5 Stadium 15,500 Sagan Tosu Tosu, Saga Tosu Stadium 24,490 Sanfrecce Hiroshima Hiroshima Hiroshima Big Arch 50,000 2013 ACL participant(Champions in J1 2012) Shimizu S-Pulse Shizuoka IAI Stadium Nihondaira 20,339 Shonan Bellmare Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Shonan BMW Stadium 18,500 Promoted from J2 League(Runners-up in J2 2012) Urawa Red Diamonds Urawa, Saitama Saitama Stadium 63,700 2013 ACL participant(3rd place in J1 2012) Vegalta Sendai Sendai, Miyagi Yurtec Stadium 19,694 2013 ACL participant(Runners-up in J1 2012) Ventforet Kofu Kōfu, Yamanashi Yamanashi Chuo Bank Stadium 17,000 Promoted from J2 League (Champions in J2 2012) Yokohama F. Marinos Yokohama & Yokosuka Nissan Stadium 72,327
Personnel and kits Club Head coach Kit manufacturer Front shirt sponsorAlbirex Niigata Masaaki Yanagishita Adidas Kameda SeikaCerezo Osaka Levir Culpi Mizuno YanmarFC Tokyo Ranko Popović Adidas Lifeval Júbilo Iwata Takashi Sekizuka Puma YamahaKashima Antlers Toninho Cerezo Nike LixilKashiwa Reysol Nelsinho Baptista Yonex HitachiKawasaki Frontale Yahiro Kazama Puma FujitsuNagoya Grampus Dragan Stojković Le Coq Sportif ToyotaOita Trinita Kazuaki Tasaka Puma Daihatsu KyushuOmiya Ardija Tsutomu Ogura Under Armour NTT DocomoSagan Tosu Yoon Jong-hwan Warrior DHCSanfrecce Hiroshima Hajime Moriyasu Nike EDIONShimizu S-Pulse Afshin Ghotbi Puma SuzuyoShonan Bellmare Cho Kwi-jae Penalty Tri TerasuUrawa Red Diamonds Mihailo Petrović Nike PolusVegalta Sendai Makoto Teguramori Asics Iris OhyamaVentforet Kofu Hiroshi Jofuku Mizuno HakubakuYokohama F. Marinos Yasuhiro Higuchi Adidas Nissan
Foreign players Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 AFC player Non-visa foreign Type-C contract Former player(s) Albirex Niigata Léo Silva Roger Gaúcho Kim Jin-su Kim Kun-hoan Bruno Lopes Cerezo Osaka Branquinho Edno Fábio Simplício Kim Jin-hyeon Gu Sung-yun FC Tokyo Lucas Severino Nemanja Vučićević Jang Hyun-soo Júbilo Iwata Carlinhos Paraíba Baek Sung-dong Cho Byung-kuk Jung Woo-young Kashima Antlers Davi Juninho Kashiwa Reysol Cléo Jorge Wagner Leandro Domingues Kim Chang-soo Kawasaki Frontale Jeci Renatinho An Byong-jun Alan Pinheiro Róbson Patric Nagoya Grampus Daniel Tijolo Danilson Córdoba Nikola Jakimovski Joshua Kennedy Tiago Oita Trinita Rodrigo Mancha Choi Jung-han Kim Jung-hyon Kim Yeong-gi Omiya Ardija Lucas Neill Milivoje Novaković Zlatan Ljubijankić Cho Young-cheol Carlinhos Paraíba Sagan Tosu Nilson Kim Min-woo Yeo Sung-hae Kim Jung-ya Jonathan Restrepo Roni Diego Ambuila Sanfrecce Hiroshima Mihael Mikić Hwang Seok-ho Lee Dae-heon Park Hyung-jin Kim Jeong-seok Shimizu S-Pulse Dženan Radončić Calvin Jong-a-Pin Lee Ki-je Lee Min-soo Baré Shonan Bellmare Alex Muralha Wellington Stevica Ristić Han Kook-young Edivaldo Hermoza Thiago Quirino Urawa Red Diamonds Márcio Richardes Ranko Despotović Vegalta Sendai Diogo Oliveira Heberty Wilson Ryang Yong-gi Ventforet Kofu Gilsinho Marquinhos Paraná Patric Choi Sung-keun Douglas Hugo Almeida Lenny William Pottker José Ortigoza Yokohama F. Marinos Dutra Fábio Aguiar Marquinhos Jeong Dong-ho
League table
Results
Top scorers RankScorerClubGoals 1 Yoshito Ōkubo Kawasaki Frontale 2 Kengo Kawamata Albirex Niigata 3 Yoichiro Kakitani Cerezo Osaka 4 Yohei Toyoda Sagan Tosu 5 Masato Kudo Kashiwa Reysol 19 Yuya Osako Kashima Antlers 7 Hisato Satō Sanfrecce Hiroshima 17 Kazuma Watanabe FC Tokyo 9 Marquinhos Yokohama F. Marinos 10 Wilson Vegalta Sendai 13 Shinzo Koroki Urawa Red Diamonds Updated to games played on 7 December 2013 Source: J. League
Awards
Player of the Month Month Player Club March Shunsuke Nakamura「コカ・コーラ Jリーグ 月間MVP」3月・4月の受賞選手決定！ . J-League. 16 May 2013. Yokohama F. Marinos April Zlatan Ljubijankič Omiya Ardija May Yoichiro Kakitani Cerezo Osaka June N/ANo Division 1 league match scheduled due to 2013 FIFA Confederations Cup July Shusaku Nishikawa Sanfrecce Hiroshima August Yuya Osako Kashima Antlers September Ariajasuru Hasegawa FC Tokyo October Tetsuya Enomoto Yokohama F. Marinos November Yoshito Ōkubo Kawasaki Frontale
Best XI Position Player ClubGK Shusaku Nishikawa Sanfrecce HiroshimaDF Daisuke Nasu Urawa Red DiamondsDF Masato Morishige FC TokyoDF Yuji Nakazawa Yokohama F. MarinosMF Hotaru Yamaguchi Cerezo OsakaMF Shunsuke Nakamura Yokohama F. MarinosMF Toshihiro Aoyama Sanfrecce HiroshimaMF Yoichiro Kakitani Cerezo OsakaFW Kengo Kawamata Albirex NiigataFW Yoshito Ōkubo Kawasaki FrontaleFW Yuya Osako Kashima Antlers
Attendances
References