Japan Soccer League 1972
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The 1972 season in Japanese football introduced a Second Division to the Japan Soccer League
. 9 clubs were chosen from the Japanese Regional Leagues
from the previous season, but as Nagoya Mutual Bank resigned from the League, a tenth club was chosen from the Kansai League.
, was crowned the inaugural Second Division champion. Tanabe Pharmaceutical, a club from Osaka, followed them into the expanded 10-team First Division. No relegations took place, to keep the Second Division at 10 clubs.
Japan Soccer League
, or JSL, was the top flight soccer league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J. League. JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professional Japanese Baseball League that was founded in 1936...
. 9 clubs were chosen from the Japanese Regional Leagues
Japanese Regional Leagues
Japanese Regional Leagues are a group of parallel association football leagues in Japan that are organized on the regional basis...
from the previous season, but as Nagoya Mutual Bank resigned from the League, a tenth club was chosen from the Kansai League.
JSL First Division
No relegation took place as the First Division was being expanded to 10 clubs.| Pos | Club | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Hitachi Kashiwa Reysol is a J. League Division 1 team. Its home town is Kashiwa, Chiba, about an hour northeast of Tokyo.-History:Founded in 1940 as Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in Koganei, Tokyo, the team was a founding member of the Japan Soccer League... |
21 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 16 | ＋20 | Champions |
| 2. | Yanmar Diesel Cerezo Osaka is a J. League Division 1 association football team. The team name Cerezo means cherry tree in Spanish, which is also the flower of Ōsaka city.... |
20 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 30 | 11 | ＋19 | |
| 3. | Toyo Kogyo Sanfrecce Hiroshima is a Japanese association football club in the J. League Division 1.-Club name:The club name is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'... |
16 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 13 | ＋7 | |
| 4. | Mitsubishi Motors Urawa Red Diamonds are a professional association football club playing in Japan's football league, J. League Division 1. One of Japan and Asia's best supported teams, the club has been able to boast the highest average crowds for thirteen of the J-League's twenty season history... |
16 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 19 | ＋7 | |
| 5. | Nippon Kokan NKK F.C. Nippon Kokan Soccer Club, or NKK Soccer Club was a Japanese football club which operated from 1912 to 1994. It played in the old Japan Soccer League since 1967 until its closing... |
15 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 24 | ±0 | |
| 6. | Nippon Steel | 12 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 30 | －8 | |
| 7. | Furukawa Electric JEF United Ichihara Chiba is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-... |
8 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 41 | －24 | |
| 8. | Towa Real Estate Shonan Bellmare are a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 2. The team is located in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium in Hiratsuka. The name Bellmare is derived from the Latin "bellum" for "war" and "mare"... |
6 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 29 | －18 |
JSL Second Division
Toyota Motors, later one of the Japanese big names as Nagoya GrampusNagoya Grampus
are a Japanese association football club that play in the J. League. Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and originally founded as the company team of the Toyota Motor Corp...
, was crowned the inaugural Second Division champion. Tanabe Pharmaceutical, a club from Osaka, followed them into the expanded 10-team First Division. No relegations took place, to keep the Second Division at 10 clubs.
| Pos | Club | Pts | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Toyota Motors Nagoya Grampus are a Japanese association football club that play in the J. League. Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and originally founded as the company team of the Toyota Motor Corp... |
30 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 16 | ＋18 | Promoted to First Division |
| 2. | Tanabe Pharmaceutical | 26 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 37 | 22 | ＋15 | |
| 3. | Kofu Club Ventforet Kofu are a Japanese football club from Kofu. They compete in the J. League Division 1, and their home ground is the Kose Sports Stadium.The word "Ventforet" is coined combining two French words Vent and Forêt... |
21 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33 | 21 | ＋12 | |
| 4. | Kyoto Shiko Club | 17 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 23 | －4 | |
| 5. | Fujitsu Kawasaki Frontale is a J. League Division 1 association football club. The team is located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. Their home stadium is Todoroki Athletics Stadium, in Nakahara Ward, in the central area of Kawasaki.-History:... |
17 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 26 | 31 | －5 | |
| 6. | Nippon Light Metal | 16 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 31 | 33 | －2 | |
| 7. | Yomiuri S.C. Tokyo Verdy 1969 , is a Japanese professional football club, based in Tokyo, Japan, that plays in J. League Division 2.Founded as Yomiuri F.C. in 1969, Tokyo Verdy is one of the most decorated teams in the J. League, with honours including 7 league titles , 5 Emperor's Cups, 6 JSL Cup / J... |
15 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 27 | 31 | －4 | |
| 8. | Dainichi Cable Industries | 14 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 40 | －4 | |
| 9. | NTTPC Kinki | 14 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 25 | －4 | |
| 10. | Toyota Industries Toyota Industries S.C. Toyota Industries Soccer Club is a Japanese football club based in Kariya, Aichi.The club was formed in 1946 under its parent company's then-official English name Toyota Automated Loom Works, and co-founded the original Japan Soccer League in 1965... |
10 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 36 | －22 |