J.League Division 1 2003

J.League Division 1 2003
master	Yokohama F. Marinos
Relegated	Vegalta Sendai Kyōto Purple Sanga
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	718  (ø 2.99 per game)
← J.League Division 1 2002 J.League Division 1 2004 →
J.League Division 2 2003 ↓

The J.League Division 1 2003 was the eleventh season of the highest division of the Japanese J.League and the fifth under the name Division 1 . Sixteen clubs took part in it. The regular season was played in two half-series and began on March 21, 2003. After the end of the second half-series on November 29, 2003, two games between the two half-series winners for the Japanese championship were originally planned. As in the previous year, these games were not played after Yokohama F. Marinos managed to win both series. For the clubs from the port city, it was the second J.League championship after 1995 , back then as Marinos .

Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2004 were Vegalta Sendai and Kyōto Purple Sanga .

mode

As in the previous season , the clubs faced each other twice, once at home and once away, but both half-series were counted as separate championships. For the first time since the founding of the J.League, all games definitely ended after 90 minutes, the extension with golden goal , which was previously common in the event of a tie , was removed from the regulations.

There were three points for a win; in the case of a draw, each team received one point. The table for each semi-series was created according to the following criteria:

1. Number of points scored
2. Goal difference
3. Goals scored
4. Results of the games among themselves
5. Decision game or coin toss

After the end of a half series, the club qualified with the most points for the finals of the Japanese championship. The winner of the finals qualified as Japanese champions for the 2004 AFC Champions League . To determine the two relegated teams, a table was formed over the entire season after the end of the season according to the same criteria as stated above, the two worst teams had to go into the second division.

Attendees

A total of sixteen teams took part in the season. No longer there were the bottom of the previous season, Consadole Sapporo and the penultimate Sanfrecce Hiroshima , both of whom had to relegate to the J.League Division 2 in 2003 . J.League founding member Sanfrecce ended a ten-year membership in Division 1 with relegation, while Consadole completed his second episode in the J.League House of Lords after two years.

The two relegated teams were replaced by Ōita Trinita , the 2002 division champion , and the runner-up Cerezo Osaka . Ōita played for the first time in its history in the top Japanese league and was after Avispa Fukuoka only the second J.League club ever from Japan's southern main island Kyūshū . Cerezo, on the other hand, managed to return immediately after being relegated from the House of Lords in 2001.

Sendai Iwata Shizuoka Nagoya Kyoto Osaka Suita Kobe Ōita Kashima Urawa Ichihara Kashiwa Tokyo Yokohama Clubs of the Kantō Tokyo region : FC Tokyo , Verdy

Clubs of the J.League Division 1 2003

society	City / region
Cerezo Osaka	Osaka , Osaka
Gamba Osaka	Suita , Osaka
JEF United Ichihara	Ichihara , Chiba
Júbilo Iwata	Iwata , Shizuoka
Kashima Antlers	Kashima , Ibaraki
Kashiwa Reysol	Kashiwa , Chiba
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Kyōto , Kyōto
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Nagoya , Aichi
Ōita Trinita	Ōita , Ōita
Shimizu S-Pulse	Shizuoka , Shizuoka
FC Tokyo	Tokyo
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Tokyo
Urawa Red Diamonds	Saitama , Saitama
Vegalta Sendai	Sendai , Miyagi
Vissel Kobe	Kobe , Hyogo
Yokohama F. Marinos	Yokohama , Kanagawa

Trainer

society	Head coach
Vegalta Sendai	Hidehiko Shimizu → Hajime Ishii → Zdenko Verdenik
Kashima Antlers	Toninho Cerezo
Urawa Reds	Hans Ooft
JEF United Ichihara	Ivica Osim
Kashiwa Reysol	Marco Aurélio
FC Tokyo	Hiromi Hara
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Lori Sandri → Leandro Machado → Osvaldo Ardiles
Yokohama F. Marinos	Takeshi Okada
Shimizu S-Pulse	Takeshi Ōki → Kōji Gyōtoku
Júbilo Iwata	Masaaki Yanagishita
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Zdenko Verdenik → Nelsinho Baptista
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Gert Engels → Bunji Kimura → Pim Verbeek → Bunji Kimura
Gamba Osaka	Akira Nishino
Cerezo Osaka	Akihiro Nishimura → Yūji Tsukada
Vissel Kobe	Hiroshi Soejima
Oita Trinita	Shinji Kobayashi

player

society	player
Vegalta Sendai	Kiyomitsu Kobari (20/0), Susumu Watanabe (13/0), Ichizō Nakata (6/0), Norio Omura (20/0), Fabiano (23/1), Toshiyuki Abe (15/1), Naoki Chiba ( 8/0), Silvinho (26/1), Marcos (3/3), Kim Eun-jung (10/2), Nobuyuki Zaizen (8/0), Hisato Satō (30/9), Yoshiteru Yamashita (29 / 4), Teruo Iwamoto (26/5), Toshiya Ishii (26/0), Yūichi Nemoto (28/2), Takumi Morikawa (13/0), Yasushi Fukunaga (7/0), Daijirō Takakuwa (11/0) , Masahiro Kazuma (6/0), Kazuhiro Murakami (13/0), Hajime Moriyasu (18/0), Toshihiro Yahata (2/0), Takayuki Nakahara (4/0), Eder (5/1), Takayuki Komine (8/0), Shigeyoshi Mochizuki (14/1), Kenji Fukuda (10/0)
Kashima Antlers	Akira Narahashi (27/1), Yutaka Akita (28/1), Gō Ōiwa (29/1), Kōji Nakata (18/3), Yasuto Honda (19/0), Naoki Sōma (20/2), Mitsuo Ogasawara (27/7), Euller (22/4), Masashi Motoyama (20/4), Yoshiyuki Hasegawa (3/0), Atsushi Yanagisawa (8/2), Seiji Kaneko (2/0), Fernando (27/5 ), Jun Uchida (6/0), Kōji Kumagai (1/0), Tomoyuki Hirase (28/7), Tomohiko Ikeuchi (10/0), Hitoshi Sogahata (30/0), Tatsuya Ishikawa (14/0), Takeshi Aoki (27/1), Takuya Nozawa (5/0), Masaki Fukai (22/2), Yūki Nakashima (11/0), Takayuki Suzuki (4/0), Claudecir (8/2), Da Silva ( 1/0)
Urawa Reds	Norihiro Yamagishi (10/0), Keisuke Tsuboi (30/1), Zelic (22/2), Ichiei Muroi (18/1), Nobuhisa Yamada (27/3), Kōji Yamase (24/6), Yūichirō Nagai ( 23/8), Emerson (25/18), Tatsuya Tanaka (26/11), Takuya Mikami (4/0), Keita Suzuki (29/1), Tadaaki Hirakawa (30/1), Tōru Chishima (8/0 ), Makoto Hasebe (28/2), Hideki Uchidate (30/0), Satoshi Horinouchi (6/0), Ryōta Tsuzuki (20/0), Hiroyuki Kobayashi (3/0), Nikiforov (12/0)
JEF United Ichihara	Eisuke Nakanishi (22/0), Takayuki Chano (25/0), Milinovic (26/2), Yūki Abe (27/3), Shin'ichi Mutō (3/0), Katsutomo Ōshiba (13/0), Choi Yong-soo (24/17), Shigeyoshi Mochizuki (7/0), Sandro (23/8), Yūto Satō (28/4), Kōji Nakajima (3/0), Takenori Hayashi (23/7), Ryō Kushino (30/0), Seiichirō Maki (17/2), Shinji Murai (29/2), Kōhei Kudō (2/0), Naotake Hanyū (25/6), Masataka Sakamoto (30/1), Satoru Yamagishi (20 / 2), Takashi Rakuyama (1/0), Kōzō Yūki (4/0), Daisuke Saitō (28/1)
Kashiwa Reysol	Yūta Minami (26/0), Kensuke Nebiki (3/0), Norihiro Satsukawa (24/0), Takeshi Watanabe (14/2), Ricardinho (21/4), Tomokazu Myōjin (29/1), Jussie (17 / 5), Marcio (13/0), Harutaka Ōno (3/0), Nozomu Katō (10/0), Tadatoshi Masuda (13/0), Mitsuteru Watanabe (20/2), Masayuki Ochiai (9/0) , Tatsuya Yazawa (14/2), Dai Satō (1/0), Shunta Nagai (10/0), Kishō Yano (18/2), Yūji Unozawa (15/0), Mitsuru Nagata (23/0), Kenta Shimizu (3/0), Shigenori Hagimura (11/2), Hidekazu Ōtani (4/0), Tomonori Hirayama (27/1), Takahiro Shimotaira (20/0), Naoya Kondō (15/1), Shin'ya Tanoue (9/1), Keiji Tamada (28/11), Minoru Suganuma (4/1), Robert (1/0)
FC Tokyo	Yōichi Doi (30/0), Teruyuki Moniwa (27/0), Jean (29/2), Satoru Asari (22/0), Ryūji Fujiyama (12/0), Fumitake Miura (26/1), Amaral (25 / 4), Mitsuhiro Toda (30/8), Yoshirō Abe (27/6), Masashi Miyazawa (29/4), Jō Kanazawa (30/3), Naohiro Ishikawa (29/5), Kelly (27/9) , Akira Kaji (22/0), Yūsuke Kondō (6/1), Norio Suzuki (8/0), Yūta Baba (15/1), Oh Jang-eun (4/0), Yōhei Kajiyama (3/0) , Yūhei Tokunaga (8/0)
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Takuya Yamada (30/10), Lopes (22/1), Kentarō Hayashi (29/1), Kentarō Suzuki (6/0), Atsuhiro Miura (26/2), Hayuma Tanaka (10/0), Mboma (23 / 13), Ramon (25/6), Kazuki Hiramoto (28/5), Masayuki Yanagisawa (27/1), Seitarō Tomisawa (6/0), Takahito Sōma (1/0), Naoto Sakurai (19/6) , Daigo Kobayashi (19/0), Takumi Hayama (2/0), Yūya Sano (2/0), Kazunori Iio (13/2), Yoshinari Takagi (30/0), Takashi Hirano (25/4), Atsushi Yoneyama (23/0), Shingo Nejime (15/1), Yūgo Ichiyanagi (6/1), Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (18/1), Jun Tamano (3/1), Akira Takabe (2/0)
Yokohama F. Marinos	Tatsuya Enomoto (15/0), Yoo Sang-chul (17/6), Naoki Matsuda (20/0), Yasuhiro Hato (10/0), Dutra (28/1), Yoshiharu Ueno (4/0), Yukihiko Satō (27/1), Akihiro Endō (26/3), Tatsuhiko Kubo (25/16), Norihisa Shimizu (21/2), Kunio Nagayama (8/0), Daisuke Oku (26/5), Kazuyoshi Mikami ( 6/0), Kazuki Satō (7/0), Daisuke Sakata (25/6), Sōtarō Yasunaga (8/1), Yūki Kaneko (1/0), Tetsuya Enomoto (15/0), Yūji Nakazawa (29 / 4), Masahiro Ōhashi (4/1), Takumi Motohashi (1/0), Shōgo Kobara (1/0), Daisuke Nasu (29/2), Yūtarō Abe (6/0), Yūzō Kurihara (7/0) , Ken'ichi Shimokawa (1/0), Shō Kitano (2/0), Ryūji Kawai (11/0), Marquinhos (24/8)
Shimizu S-Pulse	Masanori Sanada (4/0), Toshihide Saitō (2/0), Shōhei Ikeda (28/2), Naoki Hiraoka (8/0), Yasuhiro Yoshida (22/0), Emerson (15/1), Teruyoshi Itō ( 30/2), Alessandro Santos (26/7), Tuto (20/6), Masaaki Sawanobori (14/2), Ryūzō Morioka (25/3), Kōhei Hiramatsu (14/1), Jumpei Takaki (9/0 ), Yoshikiyo Kuboyama (23/1), Keisuke Hada (2/0), Tomoyoshi Tsurumi (25/1), Hideaki Kitajima (18/2), Ahn Jung-hwan (28/11), Takaya Kurokawa (24/0 ), Kazumichi Takagi (16/0), Keisuke Ōta (8/0), Daisuke Ichikawa (23/0), Jun Muramatsu (6/0), Hayato Suzuki (4/0), Kōta Sugiyama (5/0)
Júbilo Iwata	Van Zwam (17/0), Hideto Suzuki (29/0), Taikai Uemoto (5/0), Takahiro Kawamura (22/3), Makoto Tanaka (30/1), Toshihiro Hattori (26/1), Hiroshi Nanami (27/3), Gral (29/21), Masashi Nakayama (12/3), Toshiya Fujita (13/6), Norihiro Nishi (24/1), Hiromasa Yamamoto (12/0), Nobuo Kawaguchi (19 / 1), Takahiro Yamanishi (25/0), Zivkovic (22/3), Ryōichi Maeda (28/7), Shō Naruoka (12/0), Toshiyasu Takahara (2/0), Takashi Fukunishi (26/5), Yasumasa Nishino (16/0), Naoya Kikuchi (7/0)
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Seigō Narazaki (28/0), Hideaki Tominaga (3/0), Panadic (26/3), Masayuki Ōmori (29/0), Masahiro Koga (28/2), Yūsuke Nakatani (14/1), Naoshi Nakamura ( 22/3), Tomoyuki Sakai (17/1), Vastic (9/3), Marques (19/5), Ueslei (27/22), Chikara Fujimoto (23/2), Kunihiko Takizawa (28/1), Chung Yong-dae (6/0), Seiji Honda (3/0), Kōjirō Kaimoto (18/2), Keiji Kaimoto (7/0), Taku Harada (1/0), Ryūta Hara (19/1), Tetsuya Okayama (23/2), Ryōji Ujihara (4/0), Keiji Yoshimura (24/1), Keiji Watanabe (1/0), Kōta Fukatsu (1/0), Kei Yamaguchi (15/0), Ryūji Akiba (1/0), Keiji Ishizuka (3/0)
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Naohito Hirai (28/0), Shigeki Tsujimoto (8/0), Tadashi Nakamura (17/0), Kazuhiro Suzuki (16/1), Kazuki Teshima (23/0), Kiyotaka Ishimaru (27/0), Shingo Suzuki (30/1), Makoto Atsuta (4/0), Masahiro Andō (3/0), Teruaki Kurobe (23/10), Daisuke Matsui (27/2), Yutaka Tahara (10/1), Atsushi Mio (2 / 0), Daisuke Nakaharai (27/3), Tadamichi Machida (14/4), Daisuke Saitō (27/1), Shin'ya Tomita (22/1), Takatoshi Matsumoto (1/0), Hideaki Ueno (2 / 0), Makoto Kakuda (25/0), Yūsuke Mori (11/0), Ko Jong-su (13/1), Reggie (7/2), Harutaka Ōno (12/0), Lim You-hwan ( 13/0), Biju (13/1)
Gamba Osaka	Naoki Matsuyo (30/0), Chiquiarce (16/1), Masao Kiba (28/0), Noritada Saneyoshi (15/0), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (26/1), Satoshi Yamaguchi (29/2), Yasuhito Endō ( 30/4), Galeano (5/0), Harison (11/0), Magrao (24/15), Takahiro Futagawa (29/5), Masanobu Matsunami (17/0), Shigeru Morioka (10/0), Tōru Irie (13/0), Masashi Ōguro (26/10), Tōru Araiba (25/2), Kōta Yoshihara (20/6), Toshihiro Matsushita (5/0), Satoshi Nakayama (22/3), Hideo Hashimoto (23/1), Arata Kodama (9/0)
Cerezo Osaka	Seigo Shimokawa (11/0), Yasushi Kita (18/1), Takuma Koga (16/0), Takanori Nunobe (26/3), Joao (15/0), Takeshi Hamada (13/0), Satoru Suzuki ( 25/0), Hiroaki Morishima (28/4), Pelak (3/1), Yoshito Ōkubo (24/16), Yasuo Manaka (10/1), Yūsuke Satō (18/1), Yūji Hironaga (19/0 ), Nobuki Hara (14/0), Kiyokazu Kudō (26/1), Baron (26/9), Shō Gokyū (4/1), Akinori Nishizawa (24/7), Daisuke Tada (19/0), Shinobu Itō (2/0), Takaaki Tokushige (22/7), Ryū Saitō (10/1), Noriyuki Sakemoto (5/0), Yoshiki Nakai (2/0), Axel (15/0), Hiroshige Yanagimoto (17 / 0)
Vissel Kobe	Makoto Kakegawa (29/0), Naoto Matsuo (12/0), Shūsuke Tsubouchi (10/0), Kunie Kitamoto (24/1), Sidiclei (30/6), Tomo Sugawara (29/0), Naoya Saeki ( 2/0), Masayuki Okano (23/0), Oseas (29/13), Harison (15/0), Bismarck (9/0), Kazuyoshi Miura (24/4), Ryūji Bando (27/7), Park Kang-jo (13/0), Kōji Yoshimura (22/0), Fumiya Iwamaru (1/0), Yukio Tsuchiya (22/1), Mitsunori Yabuta (24/2), Masaya Nishitani (8/0), Yasutoshi Miura (17/0), Ryūji Tabuchi (13/0), Kazuhiro Mori (6/0), Takayuki Yamaguchi (15/0), Tarō Sugahara (2/0), Hiromi Kojima (6/0)
Oita Trinita	Hayato Okanaka (28/0), Takashi Miki (30/0), Sandro (27/2), Tomohiro Katanosaka (9/0), Tetsurō Uki (7/0), Daiki Wakamatsu (14/0), Teppei Nishiyama ( 17/0), Yoshito Terakawa (30/4), Takayuki Yoshida (29/7), Rodrigo (13/3), Robson (7/0), Edmilson (5/0), Andradina (10/0), Will (16/2), Daiki Takamatsu (26/4), Haruki Seto (14/0), Takashi Umeda (30/2), Keita Kanemoto (8/0), Shin'ichi Mutō (9/0), Michiaki Kakimoto (1/0), Kim Dong-hyun (1/0), Shōta Matsuhashi (3/0), Kōji Arimura (27/0), Ryōsuke Kijima (4/0), Yoshihiro Uchimura (6/0), Tomoaki Komorida (15/0), Kōji Ezumi (2/0), Tetsuya Yamazaki (26/1), Yūzō Tashiro (1/0)

statistics

First half series

The first half-series started on March 21, 2003 and ended on August 2, 2003. Due to the 2003 FIFA Confederations Cup , no matches were played between May 25 and July 5. The half series was won by Yokohama F. Marinos.

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Yokohama F Marinos	15th	10	2	3	029:160	+13	32
2.	Júbilo Iwata	15th	9	4th	2	034:170	+17	31
3.	JEF United Ichihara	15th	8th	3	4th	033:200	+13	27
4th	FC Tokyo	15th	7th	4th	4th	014:110	+3	25th
5.	Cerezo Osaka	15th	8th	1	6th	029:290	± 0	25th
6th	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	7th	3	5	025:230	+2	24
7th	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	5	8th	2	019:160	+3	23
8th.	Kashima Antlers	15th	7th	2	6th	023:210	+2	23
9.	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	6th	3	6th	019:190	± 0	21st
10.	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	6th	1	8th	028:320	−4	19th
11.	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	5	3	7th	020:180	+2	18th
12.	Gamba Osaka	15th	4th	4th	7th	026:290	−3	16
13.	Vissel Kobe	15th	5	1	9	018:340	−16	16
14th	Ōita Trinita	15th	4th	3	8th	020:210	−1	15th
15th	Vegalta Sendai	15th	3	3	9	017:280	−11	12
16.	Kyoto Purple Sanga	15th	3	1	11	014:340	−20	10
Status: End of the half series

After the end of the semi-series:
	Qualifier for the Suntory Championship : Yokohama F. Marinos

Crosstab

Second half series

The second half series began on August 16, 2003 and ended on November 29, 2003. Yokohama F. Marinos also won this half series, so the final games for the J.League championship were canceled according to the competition regulations.

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Yokohama F Marinos	15th	7th	5	3	027:170	+10	26th
2.	JEF United Ichihara	15th	7th	5	3	024:180	+6	26th
3.	Júbilo Iwata	15th	7th	5	3	022:170	+5	26th
4th	Kashima Antlers	15th	6th	7th	2	021:190	+2	25th
5.	FC Tokyo	15th	6th	6th	3	032:200	+12	24
6th	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	6th	5	4th	029:190	+10	23
7th	Gamba Osaka	15th	6th	5	4th	024:170	+7	23
8th.	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	6th	4th	5	030:260	+4	22nd
9.	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	5	6th	4th	028:250	+3	21st
10.	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	6th	3	6th	019:260	−7	21st
11.	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	3	7th	5	016:200	−4	16
12.	Cerezo Osaka	15th	4th	3	8th	026:270	−1	15th
13.	Vissel Kobe	15th	3	5	7th	017:290	−12	14th
14th	Kyoto Purple Sanga	15th	3	4th	8th	014:260	−12	13
15th	Vegalta Sendai	15th	2	6th	7th	014:280	−14	12
16.	Ōita Trinita	15th	1	8th	6th	007:160	−9	11
Status: End of the half series

After the end of the semi-series:
	Qualifier for the Suntory Championship : Yokohama F. Marinos

Crosstab

Overall table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Yokohama F. Marinos	30th	17th	7th	6th	056:330	+23	58
2.	Júbilo Iwata	30th	16	9	5	056:340	+22	57
3.	JEF United Ichihara	30th	15th	8th	7th	057:380	+19	53
4th	FC Tokyo	30th	13	10	7th	046:310	+15	49
5.	Kashima Antlers	30th	13	9	8th	044:400	+4	48
6th	Urawa Red Diamonds	30th	13	8th	9	054:420	+12	47
7th	Nagoya Grampus Eight	30th	11	12	7th	049:420	+7	45
8th.	Tokyo Verdy 1969	30th	11	7th	12	056:570	−1	40
9.	Cerezo Osaka	30th	12	4th	14th	055:560	−1	40
10.	Gamba Osaka	30th	10	9	11	050:460	+4	39
11.	Shimizu S-Pulse	30th	11	6th	13	039:440	−5	39
12.	Kashiwa Reysol	30th	9	10	11	035:390	−4	37
13.	Vissel Kobe	30th	8th	6th	16	035:630	−28	30th
14th	Ōita Trinita	30th	5	11	14th	027:370	−10	26th
15th	Vegalta Sendai	30th	5	9	16	031:560	−25	24
16.	Kyoto Purple Sanga	30th	6th	5	19th	028:600	−32	23
Status: end of the season

After the end of the season:
	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 2004 : Vegalta Sendai, Kyōto Purple Sanga

Suntory Championship

As in the previous year, the finals were canceled. The reason for this was the fact that both half series were won by Yokohama F. Marinos, which automatically led to the championship title according to the competition regulations. For F. Marinos it was the second J.League title after 1995, at that time still under the name Marinos .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFMS01/search?competition_years=2003&competition_frame_ids=1&competition_frame_ids=12
2. ↑ J.League (Japanese)
3. ↑ Tables - J League - Japan. In: de.soccerway.com. Global Sports Media , accessed July 27, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Tables - J League - Japan. In: de.soccerway.com. Global Sports Media , accessed July 27, 2016 . 
5. ↑ J. League Division 1 2003: Overall table for the season. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .