The 2017 Meiji Yasuda J2 League (2017 明治安田生命J2リーグ) season was the 46th season of the second-tier club football in Japan and the 19th season since the establishment of J2 League.
Clubs
The participating clubs are listed in the following table: Club nameHome town(s)Note(s) Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Relegated from J1 League in 2016Ehime FCAll cities/towns in EhimeFagiano OkayamaAll cities/towns in OkayamaAll cities/towns in GifuJEF United ChibaChiba & Ichihara, ChibaKamatamare Sanuki Takamatsu, KagawaSouthwestern cities/towns in KyotoMachida ZelviaMachida, Tokyo Matsumoto Yamaga Central cities/towns in Nagano Mito, Ibaraki All cities/towns in Yamagata All Aichi Prefecture Relegated from J1 League in 2016Oita TrinitaŌita Promoted from J3 League in 2016 Renofa Yamaguchi All cities/towns in Yamaguchi Roasso KumamotoKumamoto Shonan part of Kanagawa Relegated from J1 League in 2016Thespakusatsu GunmaAll cities/towns in Gunma All cities/towns in Tokushima All cities/towns in TokyoV-Varen NagasakiAll cities/towns in NagasakiYokohama FCYokohama, KanagawaZweigen KanazawaKanazawa Won J2-J3 Relegation Playoff
Personnel and kits Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Avispa Fukuoka Masami Ihara Yuta Mikado ATHLETA Ehime FC Shuichi Mase Shuto Kojima Mizuno Fagiano Okayama Tetsu Nagasawa Kohei Kiyama Penalty FC Gifu Takeshi Oki Yoshihiro Shoji New Balance JEF United Chiba Juan Esnáider Naoya Kondo Kappa Kamatamare Sanuki Makoto Kitano Kenta Shimizu ATHLETA Kyoto Sanga Takanori Nunobe Takanori Sugeno Wacoal Machida Zelvia Naoki Soma Ri Han-jae SVOLME Matsumoto Yamaga Yasuharu Sorimachi Masaki Iida Adidas Mito HollyHock Takayuki Nishigaya Keisuke Funatani GAViC Montedio Yamagata Takashi Kiyama Takuya Honda New Balance Nagoya Grampus Yahiro Kazama Hisato Sato Mizuno Oita Trinita Tomohiro Katanosaka Satoru Yamagishi Puma Renofa Yamaguchi Carlos Mayor Yuya Torikai Finta Roasso Kumamoto Hiroyuki Kiyokawa Takuya Sonoda Puma Shonan Bellmare Cho Kwi-jea Kaoru Takayama Penalty Thespakusatsu Gunma Hitoshi Morishita Yuya Yamagishi Finta Tokushima Vortis Ricardo Rodríguez Ken Iwao Mizuno Tokyo Verdy Miguel Ángel Lotina Akira Ibayashi ATHLETA V-Varen Nagasaki Takuya Takagi Yusuke Murakami hummel Yokohama FC Hitoshi Nakata Kensuke Sato SOCCER JUNKY Zweigen Kanazawa Masaaki Yanagishita Tomonobu Hiroi Adidas
Managerial changes TeamOutgoing managerDate of separationManner of departureIncoming managerDate of announcement Nagoya Grampus Boško Gjurovski 6 November 2016 End of caretaker spell Yahiro Kazama 4 January 2017 Renofa Yamaguchi Nobuhiro Ueno 23 May 2017 Sacked Carlos Mayor 5 June 2017 Roasso Kumamoto Hiroyuki Kiyokawa 14 June 2017 Sacked Tomoyoshi Ikeya 14 June 2017 Yokohama FC Hitoshi Nakata 15 October 2017 Sacked Edson Tavares 24 October 2017
Foreign players
Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the summer transfer window.
ClubsPlayer 1Player 2Player 3Player 4Player 5OtherFormerNagoya Grampus Felipe Garcia Gabriel Xavier Washington Lim Seung-gyeom Robin Simović CharlesShonan Bellmare Tando Velaphi André Bahia Dinei Dragan Mrđa ChiquinhoAvispa Fukuoka Euller Gilsinho Wellington Willian Popp Won Du-jae Danilson Córdoba Ehime FC Ju Feng Park Seung-su Fagiano Okayama Nicolás Orsini Jang Suk-won Kim Jong-min Lee Kyung-tae Park Hyung-jin Cristian Henik Sisinio Víctor Ibáñez Oita Trinita Chiquinho Paulão Kwon Young-jin JEF United Chiba Joaquín Larrivey Luis Ojeda Eduardo Aranda Jorge Salinas Kim Byeom-yong Lee Joo-young Kamatamare Sanuki Alex Allan Evson Lee Joo-young Yoon Seon-ho Ri Yong-jik Montedio Yamagata Lee Je-seung Koo Bon-hyeok Renofa Yamaguchi Abel Luciatti Leonardo Ramos Marcelo Vidal Park Chan-yong Roasso Kumamoto Gustavo Júnior Fell Morbeck Lim Jin-woo Yang Sang-jun An Byong-jun Kevin Oris Ha Sung-min Lee Yong-jae Thespakusatsu Gunma Matheus Choi Joon-gi Kang Su-il Yeo Sung-hye Park Gon Park Seung-ri Han Ho-dong Alan Pinheiro Douglas Carlos Martínez V-Varen Nagasaki Juanma Miguel Pallardó Song Young-Min Tokushima Vortis Carlinhos Nikola Vasiljević Kim Jong-pil Nikola Ašćerić Matsumoto Yamaga Davi Diego Paulinho Serginho Goh Dong Min Yeo Sung-hye Yokohama FC Leandro Domingues Calvin Jong-a-Pin Ibba Laajab Jeong Chung-geun Machida Zelvia Boris Tatar Kim Song-gi Ri Han-jae Zweigen Kanazawa Byeon Jun-byum Kim Tea-sung Mendes
League table
Results
Play-offs J1 League Promotion Playoffs 2017 J.League Road To J1 Play-Offs (2017 J1昇格プレーオフ)
Semifinals
Final
Nagoya Grampus was promoted to J1 League.
Season statistics Top scorers . RankPlayerClubGoals Ibba LaajabYokohama FC Daiki WatariTokushima Vortis 3 WellingtonAvispa Fukuoka 19 Hiroyuki TakasakiMatsumoto Yamaga Joaquin LarriveyJEF United Chiba 6 Alan PinheiroTokyo Verdy 14 Yusuke GotoOita Trinita 8 TulioKyoto Sanga 13 Robin SimovicNagoya Grampus Douglas VieiraTokyo Verdy Daizen MaedaMito HollyHock
Attendances
References