J.League 1997

J.League 1997
master	Kashima Antlers
Teams	17th
Games	272
Gates	898  (ø 3.3 per game)
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Japan Football League 1997 ↓

The 1997 J.League was the fifth season of the Japanese J.League . Seventeen clubs took part in it. The regular season was played in two half-series and began on April 12, 1997. After the end of the second half-series on October 4, 1997, the winners of the two half-series, Kashima Antlers and Júbilo Iwata , played in two games for the Japanese championship. These finals were not played until December 6th and 13th due to the final round of the League Cup taking place after the regular season in knockout mode . After a 3-2 home win in the first leg at home, Júbilo remained 1-0 victorious in the second leg in Kashima, which the team won the championship for the first time.

mode

Compared to the previous season , the mode has been changed again. The clubs continued to face each other twice, once each at home and once away, but both half-series were again rated as separate championships. There were no ties; in the event of a tie after 90 minutes, the playing time was extended by two fifteen minutes, whereby the golden goal rule was applied. If it was still a draw after that, the winner of the game was determined by a penalty shoot-out .

Once again, the points awarded were also adjusted, with counters only being awarded for games won. There were three points for a win after regular time and two points for a win in extra time. The winner on penalties received a counter. 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 champion for the Asian Club Championship 1998/99 .

Due to the renewed increase from 16 to 17 teams, the number of games to be completed per team changed again; instead of 30, 32 games were to be played.

Attendees

A total of seventeen teams took part in the season. In addition to the 16 clubs of the preseason, Vissel Kobe took part as a promoted player from the Japan Football League . Vissel was only runner-up, but benefited from the promotion of the champions Honda FC .

Iwata Shizuoka Nagoya Kyoto Osaka Suita Kobe Hiroshima Fukuoka Kashima Urawa Ichihara Kashiwa Kawasaki Hiratsuka Wing Marinos Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the J.League 1997

society	City / region
Avispa Fukuoka	Fukuoka , Fukuoka
Bellmare Hiratsuka	Hiratsuka , Kanagawa
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
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hiroshima , Hiroshima
Shimizu S-Pulse	Shizuoka , Shizuoka
Urawa Red Diamonds	Urawa , Saitama
Verdy Kawasaki	Kawasaki , Kanagawa
Vissel Kobe	Kobe , Hyogo
Yokohama wing	Yokohama , Kanagawa
Yokohama Marinos	Yokohama, Kanagawa

Trainer

society	Head coach
Kashima Antlers	João Carlos
Urawa Reds	Horst Köppel
JEF United Ichihara	Jan Versleijen
Kashiwa Reysol	Nicanor de Carvalho
Verdy Kawasaki	Hisashi Katō → Valdir Espinosa → Ryōichi Kawakatsu
Yokohama Marinos	Xabier Azkargorta
Yokohama wing	Otacílio Gonçalves
Bellmare Hiratsuka	Shigeharu Ueki
Shimizu S-Pulse	Osvaldo Ardiles
Júbilo Iwata	Luiz Felipe Scolari → Takashi Kuwahara
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Carlos Queiroz → Kōji Tanaka
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Pedro Rocha
Gamba Osaka	Josip Kuže
Cerezo Osaka	Levir Culpi
Vissel Kobe	Stuart Baxter → Hiroshi Katō
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Eddie Thomson
Avispa Fukuoka	Carlos Pachame

player

society	player
Kashima Antlers	Masaaki Furukawa (5/0), Jorginho (31/5), Yutaka Akita (21/3), Ryōsuke Okuno (32/0), Naruyuki Naitō (20/0), Yasuto Honda (21/0), Naoki Sōma ( 21/0), Mazinho (31/22), Hisashi Kurosaki (26/10), Bismarck (32/11), Yoshiyuki Hasegawa (27/7), Rodrigo (2/0), Atsushi Yanagisawa (25/8), Tadatoshi Masuda (23/5), Ichiei Muroi (13/1), Taijirō Kurita (10/0), Tōru Oniki (5/0), Kōji Kumagai (5/0), Yasuo Manaka (12/4), Masatada Ishii (11/0), Yōhei Satō (28/0), Tomoyuki Hirase (1/0), Kensaku Ōmori (1/0), Akira Narahashi (17/1)
Urawa Reds	Hisashi Tsuchida (14/0), Masaki Tsuchihashi (31/0), Boli (9/0), Takafumi Hori (29/3), Buchwald (32/2), Masayuki Okano (23/4), Osamu Hirose (19 / 1), Masahiro Fukuda (29/21), Baur (2/0), Beguiristain (15/4), Tsutomu Nishino (25/3), Nobuhisa Yamada (22/1), Hiromitsu Isogai (10/3), Kōichi Sugiyama (8/0), Yūki Takita (18/0), Nobuyasu Ikeda (9/0), Nijhuis (16/4), Shinji Jōjō (18/0), Hideki Uchidate (11/0), Kenji Ōshiba ( 29/2), Naoto Sakurai (2/0), Taichi Satō (6/0), Akihiro Tabata (19/0), Yūichirō Nagai (30/3)
JEF United Ichihara	Ken'ichi Shimokawa (15/0), Eisuke Nakanishi (18/4), Shin'ichi Mutō (28/1), Kazuhiro Suzuki (27/0), Satoshi Yamaguchi (28/2), Bosz (27/3) , Nozomi Hiroyama (30/1), Rade (16/8), Yoshika Matsubara (25/8), Maslovar (17/9), Atsuhiko Ejiri (30/1), Tetsurō Uki (5/0), Yoshikazu Nonomura ( 31/1), Takayuki Chano (8/0), Takayoshi Shikida (14/0), Katsushi Kurihara (12/0), Naoki Matsushita (14/1), Atsushi Shirai (17/0), Kōhei Inoue (16 / 2), Tomoyuki Sakai (18/2), Takayuki Sugiyama (10/0), Scholten (15/0)
Kashiwa Reysol	Yōichi Doi (19/0), Kentarō Sawada (30/0), Takeshi Watanabe (30/3), Takahiro Shimotaira (24/0), Valdir (24/1), Naoki Sakai (14/0), Yūji Yokoyama ( 16/2), Jamelli (28/14), Edilson (25/23), Nozomu Katō (32/4), Michihisa Date (13/0), Shin Tanada (18/2), Kentarō Ishikawa (12/1) , Mitsuteru Watanabe (1/0), Tomokazu Myōjin (13/1), Tomohiro Katanosaka (25/2), Kenji Arima (5/0), Ryūji Katō (10/0), Harutaka Ōno (7/0), Hideaki Kitajima (6/0), Dai Satō (3/0), Shigenori Hagimura (32/1), Silva (12/8)
Verdy Kawasaki	Shinkichi Kikuchi (11/0), Kō Ishikawa (26/0), Argel (18/0), Kentarō Hayashi (9/0), Tetsuji Hashiratani (16/0), Tadashi Nakamura (15/0), Masakiyo Maezono ( 28/5), Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (29/1), Keisuke Kurihara (7/0), Keiji Ishizuka (7/1), Ruy Ramos (10/0), Kazuyoshi Miura (14/4), Hideki Nagai (19 / 2), Shintetsu Gen (8/2), Yūji Hironaga (18/0), Yasutoshi Miura (21/0), Toshimi Kikuchi (1/0), Kenji Honnami (11/0), Hiroyuki Shirai (17/0) , Tomo Sugawara (20/0), Kiyomitsu Kobari (2/0), Shigetoshi Hasebe (7/0), Nobuhiro Takeda (4/0), Alcindo (16/10), Magrao (9/6), Yoshinori Abe ( 11/1), Dias (10/3), Takuya Yamada (22/1), Takaya Ōishi (9/0), Jun'ichi Watanabe (12/1), Michiyasu Osada (5/0), Mitsunori Yabuta (2 / 0), Yukinori Shigeta (3/0), Yukio Tsuchiya (4/0)
Yokohama Marinos	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (22/0), Eiji Gaya (26/0), Takehito Suzuki (22/1), Masami Ihara (22/0), Norio Omura (9/0), Yoshiharu Ueno (30/2), Salinas ( 26/21), Satoru Noda (25/1), Shōji Jō (21/12), Baldivieso (22/9), Fumitake Miura (27/3), Kunio Nagayama (18/1), Naoki Matsuda (31/2 ), Petkovic (11/2), Sōtarō Yasunaga (9/1), Akihiro Endō (15/0), Yoshito Terakawa (10/0), Takahiro Yamada (25/6), Tomokazu Hirama (13/3), Shunsuke Nakamura (27/5), Yoshiaki Maruyama (8/0), Kazunari Okayama (8/3), Kazumasa Kawano (10/0)
Yokohama wing	Seigō Narazaki (24/0), Yoshirō Moriyama (27/0), Norihiro Satsukawa (27/0), Naoto Ōtake (24/0), Motohiro Yamaguchi (19/6), Atsuhiro Miura (32/3), Sampaio ( 29/6), Valber (31/20), Zinho (15/3), Hiroki Hattori (29/11), Yasuhiro Hato (9/0), Kōji Maeda (21/0), Shōji Nonoshita (18/2) , Takayuki Yoshida (21/0), Seiichirō Okuno (6/0), Shin'ya Mitsuoka (6/0), Takeo Harada (20/2), Satoshi Yoneyama (4/0), Haruki Seto (7/0) , Kazuki Satō (3/0), Jin Satō (3/0), Takahiro Ōkubo (2/0), Hiroshi Satō (8/0), Fernando (14/5)
Bellmare Hiratsuka	Nobuyuki Kojima (21/0), Hironari Iwamoto (8/0), Kazuaki Tasaka (31/2), Claudio (26/6), Simao (12/3), Hiroaki Kumon (32/0), Hidetoshi Nakata (21 / 3), Yoshihiro Natsuka (32/3), Kōji Seki (16/1), Wagner Lopes (27/18), Kōji Noguchi (12/0), Tetsuya Takada (28/1), Teruo Iwamoto (24/4 ), Yasuharu Sorimachi (22/4), Teppei Nishiyama (16/1), Makoto Kakegawa (9/0), Tomoaki Matsukawa (23/1), Masato Harasaki (5/0), Daisuke Tonoike (9/3), Takayasu Kawai (1/0), Hiroshi Miyazawa (5/0), Akihiro Yoshida (2/0), Yoshiya Takemura (7/0), Hiroshi Sakai (12/4), Takashi Miki (3/0), Satoshi Tsunami (6/0), Hong Myung-bo (10/0)
Shimizu S-Pulse	Masanori Sanada (32/0), Toshihide Saitō (22/2), Masahiro Andō (32/2), Takumi Horiike (29/0), Santos (31/3), Katsumi Ōenoki (28/0), Teruyoshi Itō ( 31/7), Oliva (22/13), Kenta Hasegawa (30/5), Masaaki Sawanobori (31/11), Ryūzō Morioka (30/1), Kazuyuki Toda (20/0), Ryō Ōishi (2/0 ), Yuzuki Itō (6/0), Daizō Okitsu (17/1), Junji Nishizawa (21/0), Alex (27/3), Bowen (7/3)
Júbilo Iwata	Yūshi Ozaki (1/0), Hideto Suzuki (24/0), Masahiro Endō (5/0), Adilson (22/5), Makoto Tanaka (23/0), Toshihiro Hattori (18/2), Hiroshi Nanami ( 21/5), Dunga (26/5), Masashi Nakayama (27/18), Toshiya Fujita (24/9), Schillaci (3/1), Tomoaki Ōgami (32/0), Takahiro Yamanishi (26/1) , Norihisa Shimizu (19/1), Masanori Suzuki (7/0), Kiyokazu Kudō (12/1), Kensuke Tsukuda (1/0), Takashi Fukunishi (21/4), Yasushi Kita (1/0), Toshinobu Katsuya (15/0), Takuma Koga (26/0), Daisuke Oku (26/9), Mabilia (10/3), Alessandro (13/5), Takanori Nunobe (11/2)
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Yūji Itō (32/0), Seiichi Ogawa (27/1), Gō Ōiwa (32/1), Kazuhisa Iijima (30/0), Torres (29/2), Takayuki Nishigaya (22/0), Ricardinho (22 / 3), Tetsuya Asano (29/4), Shigeyoshi Mochizuki (17/3), Stojkovic (18/2), Tetsuhiro Kina (26/0), Masahiro Koga (8/0), Yasuyuki Moriyama (29/9) , Takashi Hirano (21/4), Kenji Fukuda (19/5), Suguru Itō (9/1), Tetsuya Okayama (28/3), Mitsuru Mukōjima (1/0), Kunihiko Takizawa (9/0), Kenji Itō (5/1), Masaharu Suzuki (1/0), Valdo (16/2)
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Shin'ichi Morishita (13/0), Yoshihiro Nishida (31/1), Capone (10/0), Carlos (23/1), Yasuhide Ihara (12/0), Yūji Ōkuma (31/1), Shinsuke Shiotani (5/0), Toshihiro Yamaguchi (7/1), Cleber (10/1), Mineiro (7/1), Ruy Ramos (10/0), Shinji Fujiyoshi (29/6), Minoru Kushibiki (13/0 ), Hiroshi Noguchi (29/4), Rikizō Matsuhashi (10/0), Takayuki Yamaguchi (29/6), Masaya Honda (19/0), Shōkichi Satō (16/0), Yasunari Hiraoka (26/0), Takashi Nagata (17/2), Daniel (24/7), Takashi Ōnishi (4/0), Tatsuma Yoshida (2/0), Yoshiyuki Matsuyama (19/0), Nobuhiro Takeda (16/9), Masaki Ogawa ( 13/0), Shigetatsu Matsunaga (6/0)
Gamba Osaka	Hayato Okanaka (32/0), Kōji Yoshinari (1/0), Daisuke Saitō (31/0), Noritada Saneyoshi (30/0), Babunski (23/5), Hitoshi Morishita (29/2), Naoki Hiraoka ( 28/1), Mboma (28/25), Krupni (27/9), Masanobu Matsunami (32/13), Hiromi Kojima (20/1), Shigeru Morioka (28/5), Masao Kiba (9/0) , Daiju Matsumoto (6/0), Takashi Kiyama (10/0), Yūzō Funakoshi (2/0), Kōjirō Kaimoto (11/1), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (26/1), Kōhei Hayashi (1/0), Takahiro Shimada (15/0), Hideki Nomiyama (2/0), Jun'ichi Inamoto (27/3), Toshimi Kikuchi (13/0), Tōru Araiba (2/0), Karic (5/0)
Cerezo Osaka	Jirō Takeda (2/0), Masanori Kizawa (28/0), Jean (18/3), Kazunari Koga (11/0), Katsuo Kanda (28/1), Makoto Yonekura (16/0), Hiroaki Morishima ( 21/10), Akinori Nishizawa (19/7), Manoel (11/1), Ko Jeong-woon (17/3), Takayuki Yokoyama (30/11), Kazuhiro Murata (2/0), Katsuhiro Minamoto (30 / 0), Toshihiro Uchida (23/1), Shigeki Kurata (10/0), Satoshi Kajino (26/0), Tomotaka Fukagawa (18/3), Yoshinari Hyakutake (14/0), Gilmar (13/0) , Seigo Shimokawa (17/0), Ken'ichi Serada (2/0), Claudinho (16/8), Alex (16/5), Takahiro Sasaki (7/0), Kazuo Shimizu (6/0), Katsutoshi Dōmori (11/0), Tarō Urabe (15/0), Masaya Nishitani (3/0)
Vissel Kobe	Ryūji Ishizue (28/0), Ippei Watanabe (18/0), Cho Kwi-jea (5/0), Laudrup (3/0), Shigemitsu Egawa (14/1), Ziad (16/4), Bickel ( 20/3), Takuya Jinno (29/1), Kōtarō Nakao (9/0), Akihiro Nagashima (32/22), Masakazu Kōda (30/1), Masamitsu Kanemoto (5/0), Yōichi Kajiyama (2 / 0), Keiji Kaimoto (20/0), Naoki Mori (6/0), Jun Iwashita (1/0), Masaki Tsukano (4/1), Jun Naitō (27/0), Kōji Okamoto (6/0) , Toshihiro Yoshimura (27/0), Tomoji Eguchi (13/4), Kōji Yoshimura (32/2), Yoshihiko Matsuoka (2/1), Takuya Suzumura (6/0), Michael Yano (10/1), Naoki Naitō (18/0), Bingley (14/1), Vujacic (14/0)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Kazuya Maekawa (24/0), Popovic (11/0), Hiroshige Yanagimoto (13/0), Hiroyoshi Kuwabara (32/0), Tetsuya Itō (26/0), Mitsuaki Kojima (30/0), Hajime Moriyasu ( 25/1), Yasuhiro Yoshida (29/2), Arnold (18/6), Tatsuhiko Kubo (22/7), Masato Fue (22/1), Susumu Ōki (11/1), Santos (8/3) , Noh Jung-yoon (12/2), Yūta Abe (6/0), Takashi Shimoda (9/0), Ryūji Michiki (26/1), Takuya Takagi (26/12), Ken'ichi Uemura (3 / 0), Kenji Wakai (1/0), Iwao Yamane (20/2), Takashi Kageyama (1/0), Kōta Hattori (18/0), Keita Kanemoto (8/0), Kazuyoshi Matsunaga (3/1) , Tōru Yasutake (2/0), Crook (15/3)
Avispa Fukuoka	Hideki Tsukamoto (11/0), Hideaki Mori (27/1), Vazquez (20/0), Atsuhiro Iwai (8/0), Masayuki Nakagomi (14/0), Osamu Umeyama (25/0), Kiyotaka Ishimaru ( 29/4), Yoshiteru Yamashita (13/3), Riep (11/0), Atsushi Nagai (16/0), Keiju Karashima (1/0), Ichizō Nakata (10/0), Yoshinori Furube (32/0 ), Tomoaki Sano (16/0), Chikara Fujimoto (1/0), Masashi Miyamura (1/0), Yūsaku Ueno (31/8), Rossi (11/0), Yoshiyuki Shinoda (29/0), Tatsunori Hisanaga (19/1), Masaharu Nishi (15/0), Daisuke Nakaharai (27/2), Shōji Ikitsu (8/0), Yoshiyuki Takemoto (7/0), Obiku (15/7), Carracedo (5 / 0), Pablo (12/3), Tomoyasu Andō (7/0)

statistics

First half series

table

	society	Sp	Victories			Defeats			Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG	n. E.	90 ′	GG	n. E.
1.	Kashima Antlers	16	12	0	1	3	0	0	37	32	15th	+17	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 1997
2.	Yokohama wing	16	11	1	0	4th	0	0	35	35	16	+19
3.	Kashiwa Reysol	16	10	1	0	3	1	1	32	34	18th	+16
4th	Bellmare Hiratsuka	16	8th	2	0	6th	0	0	28	25th	20th	+5
5.	Yokohama Marinos	16	7th	3	1	5	0	0	28	31	31	± 0
6th	Júbilo Iwata	16	8th	1	0	4th	3	0	26th	32	21st	+11
7th	Shimizu S-Pulse	16	7th	2	0	5	2	0	25th	25th	24	+1
8th.	Gamba Osaka	16	8th	0	0	8th	0	0	24	28	23	+5
9.	Urawa Red Diamonds	16	6th	1	1	8th	0	0	21st	25th	24	+1
10.	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	16	6th	1	1	6th	2	0	21st	22nd	23	-1
11.	Cerezo Osaka	16	6th	0	1	6th	2	1	19th	21st	26th	-5
12.	Nagoya Grampus Eight	16	6th	0	0	9	1	0	18th	18th	24	–6
13.	Kyoto Purple Sanga	16	6th	0	0	8th	1	1	18th	19th	32	-13
14th	Vissel Kobe	16	5	1	0	8th	2	0	17th	24	34	-10
15th	JEF United Ichihara	16	3	2	0	11	0	0	13	21st	34	-13
16.	Verdy Kawasaki	16	2	2	0	9	1	2	10	16	27	–11
17th	Avispa Fukuoka	16	3	0	0	11	2	0	9	11	27	-16

Crosstab

Games marked "GG" ended with Golden Goal . Games marked with a superscript result ended on penalties ; "2: 2 ^{4: 3} " means that the home team won the game, which was 2: 2 at the end of the playing time, 4: 3 on penalties.

	AVI	BEL	CERIUM	GAM	JEF	JÚB	KSM	KSW	KYO	NGE	SFR	SPU	URA	VER	VIS	YOF	YOM
Avispa Fukuoka					2: 1	0: 1 GG				3: 2	0: 1		0: 3	1: 2 GG	0: 1		1: 3
Bellmare Hiratsuka	2: 1				1-0	2: 1 GG				1-0		1: 2	3: 2	0: 2	3-0
Cerezo Osaka	2-0	0: 2		0: 2			0: 1	2: 2 5: 4	1: 2			1: 2 GG				0: 2
Gamba Osaka	0: 1	4: 1				3: 1			0: 3	0: 1		4: 1	1: 2		2: 3
JEF United Ichihara			3-0	1: 3			0: 2	1-0	2: 4		3: 2 GG					0: 4	1: 2
Júbilo Iwata			1: 2		4: 1		1: 2				2: 1		2-0	0: 1 GG		3: 1	3: 4 GG
Kashima Antlers	2-0	2: 1		1: 2				0: 4	4-0			0: 1			5: 2	1-0
Kashiwa Reysol	2: 1	2-0		4: 1		2: 1			3: 2 GG	1-0		0: 1			3: 1
Kyoto Purple Sanga	1-0	0: 2				0: 6						1: 3	1: 1 3: 4	2: 1	0: 2
Nagoya Grampus Eight			2: 3		3: 2	0: 2	0: 2				1-0		3: 1	1-0			0: 1
Sanfrecce Hiroshima		0: 1 GG	2: 2 3: 2	2-0			2: 3	2: 3	1-0			1-0				2: 3
Shimizu S-Pulse	1-0				2: 1	1: 2				3: 1			0: 1	2: 1 GG	2: 4		1: 2 GG
Urawa Red Diamonds			1: 2		3-0		1: 3	3: 2 GG			0: 1			2-0		1: 3	2: 3
Verdy Kawasaki			0: 2	0: 1	0: 2		1: 1 2: 3	1: 3			1: 2					0: 4	2: 2 3: 4
Vissel Kobe			1: 2		2: 3 GG	1: 2				2: 1 GG	0: 1 GG		0: 2	2: 4			2: 1
Yokohama wing	3: 1	2: 1		2: 1				2-0	0: 1	2-0		4: 3 GG			3: 1
Yokohama Marinos		2: 4	3: 2 GG	0: 4			0: 3	0: 3	3: 1		4: 2					1-0
	Status: end of the season

Second half series

table

	society	Sp	Victories			Defeats			Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG	n. E.	90 ′	GG	n. E.
1.	Júbilo Iwata	16	12	2	0	2	0	0	40	40	14th	+26	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 1997
2.	Gamba Osaka	16	10	2	0	3	1	0	34	38	23	+15
3.	Yokohama Marinos	16	8th	4th	0	4th	0	0	32	42	28	+14
4th	Kashima Antlers	16	9	2	0	4th	1	0	31	46	23	+23
5.	Nagoya Grampus Eight	16	10	0	0	6th	0	0	30th	23	24	-1
6th	Shimizu S-Pulse	16	9	1	0	3	3	0	29	27	16	+11
7th	Urawa Red Diamonds	16	8th	1	0	5	2	0	26th	26th	21st	+5
8th.	Cerezo Osaka	16	7th	1	1	4th	3	0	24	32	30th	+2
9.	Bellmare Hiratsuka	16	6th	1	1	6th	2	1	21st	30th	32	-2
10.	Kashiwa Reysol	16	6th	1	0	8th	0	1	20th	29	31	-2
11.	Yokohama wing	16	5	1	1	7th	2	0	18th	23	27	-4
12.	Verdy Kawasaki	16	4th	2	0	10	0	0	16	22nd	38	-16
13.	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	16	5	0	0	9	2	0	15th	21st	27	–6
14th	JEF United Ichihara	16	3	3	0	6th	3	1	15th	22nd	32	-10
15th	Avispa Fukuoka	16	3	0	1	9	3	0	10	18th	31	-13
16.	Kyoto Purple Sanga	16	3	0	0	10	2	1	9	21st	38	-17
17th	Vissel Kobe	16	1	2	0	13	0	0	7th	19th	44	-25

Crosstab

Games marked "GG" ended with Golden Goal . Games marked with a superscript result ended on penalties ; "2: 2 ^{4: 3} " means that the home team won the game, which was 2: 2 at the end of the playing time, 4: 3 on penalties.

	AVI	BEL	CERIUM	GAM	JEF	JÚB	KSM	KSW	KYO	NGE	SFR	SPU	URA	VER	VIS	YOF	YOM
Avispa Fukuoka		1: 2	0: 2	0: 1			1: 3	1: 1 5: 3	4: 2			0: 1 GG				0: 1 GG
Bellmare Hiratsuka			5: 4 GG	3: 4			2: 5	7: 4	2: 1		2-0					0-0 4: 5	1: 3
Cerezo Osaka					1-0	1: 4				2: 3	3: 1		1: 2	5: 3	3: 1		2: 3 GG
Gamba Osaka			3: 2 GG		4: 3		2: 1 GG	1: 2			3-0			2: 1		2: 1	3: 4
JEF United Ichihara	2: 1	0: 0 5: 6				0: 5				1: 2		0: 3	1: 0 GG	3: 1	3: 4 GG
Júbilo Iwata	2: 1	3: 1		1: 0 GG				2: 1	2: 1	1: 3		2-0			2: 1
Kashima Antlers			1: 2		2: 1 GG	2-0				7-0	2: 1 GG		1-0	5-0			2: 1
Kashiwa Reysol			0: 1		1: 2		3: 5				2: 1		3-0	2: 1		0: 2	2: 3
Kyoto Purple Sanga			1: 1 6: 7	3: 2	2: 3 GG		3: 2	0: 1			0: 3					1: 2	1: 4
Nagoya Grampus Eight	2-0	2: 1		0: 1				1-0	1: 2			2: 1			3-0	2: 1
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	1: 3				3-0	1: 3				1-0			1: 2	3: 1	2-0		2: 3 GG
Shimizu S-Pulse		3: 1	2-0	1: 2			2-0	2: 3 GG	1-0		1-0					3: 1
Urawa Red Diamonds	1: 2	1: 0 GG		1: 4		0: 1 GG			4: 1	3-0		3: 4			2-0
Verdy Kawasaki	2-0	1: 2				1: 6			2: 1 GG	2-0		1: 0 GG	1: 2		2-0
Vissel Kobe	4: 3 GG	0: 1		0: 4			0: 5	2: 4	4: 2			0: 3				2: 3
Yokohama wing			1: 2 GG		1: 2 GG	0: 2	5: 3				2: 1		1: 3	0: 1			2: 3
Yokohama Marinos	4: 1				2: 1 GG	1: 4				1: 2		1: 0 GG	0: 2	7: 2	2: 1
	Status: end of the season

Suntory Championship

First leg

pairing	Júbilo Iwata - Kashima Antlers
Result	3: 2 n.V. (2: 2, 1: 0)
date	December 6, 1997
Stadion	Yamaha Stadium , Iwata 17,269 spectators
Gates	1-0 Masashi Nakayama (1st), 2-0 Masashi Nakayama (46th), 2: 1 Bismarck (62nd), 2: 2 Mazinho (88th), 3: 2 Norihisa Shimizu (119th)

Return leg

pairing	Kashima Antlers - Júbilo Iwata
Result	0: 1 (0: 0)
date	December 13, 1997
Stadion	Kashima Soccer Stadium , Kashima 15,276 spectators
Gates	0-1 Masashi Nakayama (81st)

Prices

soccer player of the year

• Dunga ( Júbilo Iwata )

Best goal scorers

rank	player	society	Gates	Games
1	Patrick M'Boma	Gamba Osaka	25th	28
2	Edílson	Kashiwa Reysol	23	25th
3	Mazinho	Kashima Antlers	22nd	31
3	Akihiro Nagashima	Vissel Kobe	22nd	32
5	Julio Salinas	Yokohama Marinos	21st	26th
5	Masahiro Fukuda	Urawa Reds	21st	29
7th	Válber	Yokohama wing	20th	31
8th	Wagner Lopes	Bellmare Hiratsuka	18th	27
8th	Masashi Nakayama	Júbilo Iwata	18th	27
10	Paulo Jamelli	Kashiwa Reysol	14th	28

Rookie of the year

• Atsushi Yanagisawa ( Kashima Antlers )

Best XI

• Tomoaki Ōgami ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Naoki Sōma ( Kashima Antlers )
• Masami Ihara ( Yokohama Marinos )
• Yutaka Akita ( Kashima Antlers )
• Bismarck ( Kashima Antlers )
• Hidetoshi Nakata ( Bellmare Hiratsuka )
• Motohiro Yamaguchi ( Yokohama Wing )
• Hiroshi Nanami ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Dunga ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Masashi Nakayama ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Patrick M'Boma ( Gamba Osaka )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFMS01/search?competition_years=1997&competition_frame_ids=1&competition_frame_ids=11&competition_frame_ids=12
2. ↑ J.League Clubs and Japan National Team 1997 Complete Match Fixtures and Results. 1994 J. LEAGUE Results and Table. November 22, 2011, archived from the original on May 6, 2014 ; accessed on January 18, 2014 . 
3. ↑ Games J.League DataSite (Japanese)
4. ↑ Tore J.League Data Site (Japanese)
5. ↑ ^{a b} J. League Data Site - Results and Schedule. Retrieved July 22, 2016 (English).