J.League Division 1 2000

J.League Division 1 2000
master	Kashima Antlers
Relegated	Kyōto Purple Sanga Kawasaki Frontale
Teams	16
Games	240
← J.League Division 1 1999 J.League Division 1 2001 →
J.League Division 2 2000 ↓

The J.League Division 1 2000 was the eighth season of the highest division of the Japanese J.League and the second under the name Division 1 . Sixteen clubs took part in it. The regular season was played in two half-series and began on March 11, 2000. After the end of the second half-series on November 26, 2000, the winners of the two half-series, Kashima Antlers and Yokohama F. Marinos , played in two games for the Japanese championship. These finals were played after the regular season on December 2nd and 9th. After a 0-0 win in Yokohama, Kashima won the second leg at the Tokyo Olympic Stadium , to which the game had been postponed due to the expected audience interest, 3-0 and thus secured the third league title.

Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2001 were Kyōto Purple Sanga and Kawasaki Frontale .

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. If there was 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 game was counted as such.

There were three points for a win after regular time and two points for a win in extra time; in the event of a tie there was a counter for each team. 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 2000/01 . 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 table of the previous season, Bellmare Hiratsuka and the Urawa Red Diamonds , who had to relegate in an exciting relegation final between a total of three teams only because of the smallest goal difference as penultimate in the J.League Division 2 2000 .

The two relegated teams were replaced by Kawasaki Frontale , the 1999 Division 2 champion , and the runner-up FC Tokyo . Both clubs knocked on the door of the House of Lords last year, but failed for the time being in a qualifying game (Kawasaki) or due to a lack of economic conditions (FC Tokyo). With the rise of Kawasaki, Division 1 received the second city derby in its history just one year after the two clubs from Yokohama merged.

Iwata Shizuoka Nagoya Kyoto Osaka Suita Kobe Hiroshima Fukuoka Kashima Ichihara Kashiwa Tokyo Kawasaki   Yokohama Associations of the Kantō Kawasaki region : Frontale , Verdy

Clubs of the J.League Division 1 2000

society	City / region
Avispa Fukuoka	Fukuoka , Fukuoka
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
Kawasaki Frontale	Kawasaki , Kanagawa
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Kyōto , Kyōto
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Nagoya , Aichi
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hiroshima , Hiroshima
Shimizu S-Pulse	Shizuoka , Shizuoka
FC Tokyo	Tokyo
Verdy Kawasaki	Kawasaki, Kanagawa
Vissel Kobe	Kobe , Hyogo
Yokohama F. Marinos	Yokohama , Kanagawa

Trainer

society	Head coach
Kashima Antlers	Toninho Cerezo
JEF United Ichihara	Nicolae Zamfir → Sugao Kambe → Zdenko Verdenik
Kashiwa Reysol	Akira Nishino
FC Tokyo	Kiyoshi Ōkuma
Verdy Kawasaki	Chang Woe-ryong
Kawasaki Frontale	Zeca → Toshiaki Imai → Hiroshi Kobayashi
Yokohama F. Marinos	Osvaldo Ardiles
Shimizu S-Pulse	Steve Perryman → Zdravko Zemunović
Júbilo Iwata	Gjoko Hadžievski → Masakazu Suzuki
Nagoya Grampus Eight	João Carlos
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Shū Kamo → Gert Engels
Gamba Osaka	Hiroshi Hayano
Cerezo Osaka	Hiroshi Soejima
Vissel Kobe	Ryōichi Kawakatsu
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Eddie Thomson
Avispa Fukuoka	Nestor Omar Piccoli

player

society	player
Kashima Antlers	Akira Narahashi (26/3), Yutaka Akita (28/1), Fabiano (28/2), Kōji Nakata (29/4), Yasuto Honda (29/0), Naoki Sōma (30/2), Bebeto (8 / 1), Tomoyuki Hirase (26/11), Bismarck (26/3), Yoshiyuki Hasegawa (8/1), Atsushi Yanagisawa (26/6), Tadatoshi Masuda (14/0), Seiji Kaneko (10/0) , Masashi Motoyama (18/6), Mitsuo Ogasawara (28/3), Kōji Kumagai (24/1), Yoshirō Nakamura (2/0), Daijirō Takakuwa (30/0), Jun Uchida (8/0), Kenji Haneda (3/0), Kōsei Nakamura (1/0), Hitoshi Sogahata (2/0), Takayuki Suzuki (5/2)
JEF United Ichihara	Ken'ichi Shimokawa (13/0), Eisuke Nakanishi (27/3), Ichizō Nakata (26/1), Takayuki Chano (28/2), Satoshi Yamaguchi (29/2), Tomoyuki Sakai (27/1), Shin'ichi Mutō (25/2), Yūki Abe (25/0), Katsutomo Ōshiba (22/2), Baron (30/13), Nozomi Hiroyama (9/1), Tomonori Tateishi (5/0), Takenori Hayashi (16/2), Kazuhiro Suzuki (8/0), Hiroyasu Ibata (15/3), Benson (23/2), Ryō Kushino (14/0), Shinji Murai (2/0), Ryōhei Nishiwaki (5 / 0), Burca (4/0), Yūki Inoue (3/0), Olaroiu (10/0), Hisato Satō (8/0), Yūto Satō (1/0), Takafumi Ogura (24/3), Yasushi Kita (7/0)
Kashiwa Reysol	Yūta Minami (20/0), Shigenori Hagimura (30/2), Norihiro Satsukawa (28/0), Takeshi Watanabe (30/2), Takahiro Shimotaira (20/0), Tomonori Hirayama (27/3), Tomokazu Myōjin (29/2), Sasa (2/0), Hideaki Kitajima (30/18), Harutaka Ōno (27/4), Nozomu Katō (29/2), Naoki Sakai (15/0), Mitsuteru Watanabe (28 / 5), Makoto Sunakawa (20/5), Tōru Irie (9/0), Hong Myung-bo (29/2), Motohiro Yoshida (10/0), Shin'ya Yabusaki (1/0), Tarō Hasegawa ( 3/0), Shin'ya Tanoue (2/0), Keiji Tamada (5/0), Park Kun-ha (5/1), Mauricio (3/0), Hwang Sun-hong (6/1)
FC Tokyo	Hiromitsu Horiike (1/0), Naruyuki Naitō (27/1), Sandro (29/0), Mitsunori Yamao (7/0), Yoshinori Furube (2/0), Tetsuya Asano (8/0), Satoru Asari ( 27/0), Ryūji Fujiyama (30/0), Tuto (29/17), Kensuke Kagami (3/1), Amaral (22/13), Osamu Umeyama (1/0), Tadatoshi Masuda (13/1) , Yukihiko Satō (28/5), Takuya Jinno (18/4), Toshiki Koike (27/2), Tōru Kaburagi (7/0), Hayato Okamoto (1/0), Yōichi Doi (30/0), Tetsuhiro Kina (22/0), Masamitsu Kobayashi (27/2), Shin'ya Sakoi (4/0), Takayuki Komine (30/0), Masatoshi Matsuda (1/0), Jun Enomoto (1/0), Mitsuhiro Toda (14/0)
Verdy Kawasaki	Takuya Yamada (30/4), Yūsuke Mori (5/0), Kentarō Hayashi (27/6), Atsushi Yoneyama (30/1), Kazuyoshi Mikami (26/1), Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (11/0), Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (4/0), Hayato Yano (1/0), Kim Hyun-seog (25/16), Teruo Iwamoto (9/0), Kiyomitsu Kobari (1/0), Keiji Ishizuka (29/6), Yūji Hironaga (24/2), Kōichi Sugiyama (25/0), Naoto Sakurai (17/0), Yoshihiro Nishida (12/0), Kazunori Iio (26/4), Kenji Honnami (29/0), Yūji Nakazawa (29 / 4), Kim Doh-keun (14/0), Yōsuke Ikehata (4/0), Kazuki Hiramoto (9/1), Toshimi Kikuchi (5/0), Osamu Umeyama (9/0), Hiromasa Suguri (3 / 0)
Kawasaki Frontale	Takeshi Urakami (24/0), Eiji Takada (1/0), Hideki Sahara (5/0), Ryōsuke Okuno (25/0), Pedrinho (14/1), Yoshinobu Minowa (1/0), Shūhei Terada ( 8/1), Tōru Oniki (21/1), Takayuki Suzuki (11/0), Yasuyuki Moriyama (14/0), Mazinho (8/1), Tatsuru Mukōjima (8/1), Naoki Urata (13/2 ), Tetsuo Nakanishi (5/0), Yoshinori Doi (2/0), Shinji Ōtsuka (17/0), Alvarenga (13/1), Akira Itō (13/2), Yasuhiro Nagahashi (19/1), Shinkichi Kikuchi (6/0), Yūsuke Nakatani (10/1), Tomoaki Kuno (28/1), Taketo Shiokawa (4/0), Tetsuya Ōishi (10/1), Kazuki Ganaha (18/2), Akira Konno ( 20/3), Takumi Morikawa (17/1), Junji Nishizawa (19/1), Nobuyasu Ikeda (9/1), Takeo Harada (15/1), Isidoro (9/2), Daniel (8/1) , Ricardinho (6/0), Luiz (2/0)
Yokohama F. Marinos	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (28/0), Naoki Matsuda (24/2), Yasuhiro Hato (26/0), Norio Omura (30/2), Yoshiharu Ueno (23/1), Hideki Nagai (21/0), Yoo Sang -chul (22/17), Atsuhiro Miura (26/5), Shunsuke Nakamura (30/5), Takayuki Yoshida (7/1), Maldonado (4/0), Masahiro Andō (7/0), Kunio Nagayama ( 24/2), Tatsuya Enomoto (3/0), Ryōsuke Kijima (5/0), Akihiro Endō (29/3), Daisuke Tonoike (25/8), Kazunari Okayama (13/0), Yōichi Mori (2 / 0), Shintarō Harada (16/1), Masahiro Ōhashi (1/0), Naohiro Ishikawa (2/0), Edmilson (23/7), Juric (9/0), Shōji Jō (4/2), Yūki Kaneko (3/0)
Shimizu S-Pulse	Masanori Sanada (29/0), Toshihide Saitō (28/3), Takuma Koga (9/0), Kazuyuki Toda (27/1), Santos (27/4), Katsumi Ōenoki (27/2), Teruyoshi Itō ( 24/1), Alex (30/4), Sōtarō Yasunaga (24/3), Masaaki Sawanobori (27/3), Ryūzō Morioka (27/0), Fabinho (17/2), Oliva (5/1), Kōhei Hiramatsu (20/2), Tsuyoshi Tanikawa (1/1), Yoshikiyo Kuboyama (29/3), Takayuki Yokoyama (5/0), Hitoshi Matsushima (4/0), Shōhei Ikeda (1/0), Takaya Kurokawa (1/0), Daisuke Ichikawa (26/2), Masahiro Endō (7/0), Yasuhiro Yoshida (13/0)
Júbilo Iwata	Yūshi Ozaki (13/0), Hideto Suzuki (29/0), Gō Ōiwa (1/0), Masami Ihara (20/1), Makoto Tanaka (26/1), Toshihiro Hattori (25/2), Fumitake Miura (21/0), Daisuke Oku (30/4), Masashi Nakayama (29/20), Toshiya Fujita (30/8), Tomoaki Ōgami (2/0), Nobuo Kawaguchi (20/3), Takahiro Yamanishi (18 / 0), Hiroshi Nanami (5/1), Norihisa Shimizu (7/1), Naohiro Takahara (24/10), Jō Kanazawa (10/0), Takashi Fukunishi (27/5), Ryōichi Maeda (1/0 ), Zivkovic (11/2), Norihiro Nishi (19/3), Van Zwam (15/0), Radchenko (17/4)
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Seigō Narazaki (30/0), Seiichi Ogawa (17/0), Romildo (10/0), Kazuhisa Iijima (5/0), Gō Ōiwa (17/0), Motohiro Yamaguchi (28/1), Oulida (16 / 1), Ueslei (9/7), Shigeyoshi Mochizuki (13/0), Stojkovic (26/5), Takashi Hirano (9/0), Kunihiko Takizawa (16/1), Masahiro Koga (25/2), Masayuki Ōmori (29/0), Yūji Miyahara (2/0), Kenji Fukuda (26/4), Ryūta Hara (12/2), Tetsuya Okayama (28/6), Hideaki Tominaga (1/0), Masahiro Iwata (7/0), Wagner Lopes (28/10), Kō Ishikawa (27/1), Taisei Fujita (10/1), Yasunari Hiraoka (12/1), Naoki Hiraoka (2/0)
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Shigetatsu Matsunaga (15/0), Hiroshi Noguchi (30/1), Tadashi Nakamura (25/0), Naoto Ōtake (23/0), Edinho Baiano (24/0), Jin Satō (17/2), Kazuki Satō (13/0), Fabricio (1/0), Shigeyoshi Mochizuki (9/0), Tomoaki Matsukawa (7/0), Regis (21/4), Kazuyoshi Miura (30/17), Park Ji-sung (13 / 1), Makoto Atsuta (18/5), Yasuhito Endō (29/5), Kenji Miyazaki (18/0), Teruaki Kurobe (12/0), Kazuki Teshima (21/0), Hiroshi Ōtsuki (2/0 ), Shigeki Tsujimoto (4/0), Naohito Hirai (15/0), Masato Kawaguchi (1/0), Shin'ya Tomita (4/0), Daisuke Saitō (7/0), Daisuke Matsui (22/1 ), Kentarō Yoshida (5/1), Takashi Hirano (7/1)
Gamba Osaka	Hayato Okanaka (8/0), Shin Asahina (4/0), Takehito Suzuki (12/0), Noritada Saneyoshi (3/0), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (29/0), Jun'ichi Inamoto (28/4), Naoki Hiraoka (4/0), Hitoshi Morishita (26/2), Andradina (12/3), Nino Bule (13/6), Vital (27/7), Hiromi Kojima (30/9), Takayuki Yamaguchi (23 / 1), Masao Kiba (23/0), Takahiro Futagawa (21/0), Tōru Araiba (24/7), Kōta Yoshihara (19/3), Dambury (27/0), Naoki Matsuyo (3/0) , Ryōta Tsuzuki (19/0), Masanobu Matsunami (29/4), Hideo Hashimoto (5/0), Masashi Ōguro (7/1), Hiroshige Yanagimoto (14/0)
Cerezo Osaka	Seigo Shimokawa (30/0), Masaki Ogawa (5/0), Pericles (10/0), Kazuaki Tasaka (30/1), Shigeki Kurata (27/1), Yoon Jong-hwan (29/3), Takeo Harada (11/0), Hiroaki Morishima (25/15), Akinori Nishizawa (29/15), Noh Jung-yoon (25/4), Masaya Nishitani (27/5), Yasuo Manaka (17/2), Toshihiro Uchida (13/0), Satoru Suzuki (30/1), Daisuke Saitō (27/3), Daizō Okitsu (12/0), Kazuo Shimizu (13/0), Takashi Uemura (16/0), Naoki Mori ( 2/0), Nobuki Hara (5/1), Michiharu Sugimoto (7/2), Kiyokazu Kudō (11/0), Toshiaki Haji (1/0)
Vissel Kobe	Makoto Kakegawa (2/0), Keiji Kaimoto (22/1), Megumu Yoshida (26/0), Yukio Tsuchiya (28/2), Choi Sung-yong (25/0), Yūta Abe (11/0), Michiyasu Osada (21/3), Takanori Nunobe (30/6), Hisashi Kurosaki (17/5), Shigetoshi Hasebe (25/0), Mitsutoshi Watada (26/8), Akihiro Nagashima (9/1), Shigeru Morioka (13/2), Kōji Yoshimura (24/6), Jirō Takeda (28/0), Ha Seok-ju (28/2), Takashi Kojima (7/0), Masakazu Senuma (6/1), Mitsunori Yabuta (11/2), Tomo Sugawara (22/0), Takehito Shigehara (6/1), Naoto Matsuo (4/0), Kazuhiro Mori (8/0), Fabinho (3/0)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Takashi Shimoda (30/0), Kentarō Sawada (30/3), Hiroyoshi Kuwabara (30/0), Tetsuya Itō (28/1), Hajime Moriyasu (22/0), Makoto Ōkubo (8/0), Toshihiro Yamaguchi (2/0), Tatsuhiko Kubo (24/11), Chikara Fujimoto (27/2), Satoshi Koga (16/0), Yutaka Takahashi (12/0), Yūsaku Ueno (5/1), Shin'ya Kawashima (23/1), Kōta Hattori (29/1), Popovic (21/3), Ken'ichi Uemura (28/6), Kazuyuki Morisaki (24/3), Kōji Morisaki (4/0), Yūki Matsushita ( 2/0), Miguel (3/0), Keisuke Kurihara (18/4), Corica (21/3)
Avispa Fukuoka	Shin'ichi Kawaguchi (15/0), Mitsuaki Kojima (27/0), Yasutoshi Miura (25/1), Yoshiyuki Shinoda (13/0), Satoru Noda (29/2), Kiyotaka Ishimaru (24/0), Montoya (28/9), Daisuke Nakaharai (22/4), Badea (24/2), Yoshitaka Fujisaki (22/0), Takeshi Ushibana (2/0), Yoshiteru Yamashita (8/3), Tomoji Eguchi (23 / 2), Katsuhiro Suzuki (2/0), Tatsunori Hisanaga (27/4), Kōji Maeda (21/2), Kazuyoshi Matsunaga (3/2), Takuji Miyoshi (6/0), Nobuyuki Kojima (30/0 ), Takashi Hirajima (23/2), Hiroki Hattori (12/2), Bisconti (12/6)

statistics

First half series

The first half series began on March 11, 2000 and ended on June 24, 2000. The half series was won by Yokohama F. Marinos.

table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	10	0	0	4th	1	30th	32	21st	+11	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 2000
2	Cerezo Osaka	15th	9	1	0	4th	1	29	34	25th	+9
3	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	8th	2	0	4th	1	28	21st	17th	+4
4th	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	6th	4th	0	4th	1	26th	25th	22nd	+3
5	Júbilo Iwata	15th	7th	2	0	3	3	25th	32	25th	+7
6th	FC Tokyo	15th	7th	1	0	6th	1	23	24	22nd	+2
7th	Vissel Kobe	15th	7th	0	1	6th	1	22nd	21st	17th	+4
8th	Kashima Antlers	15th	6th	2	0	7th	0	22nd	20th	17th	+3
9	Verdy Kawasaki	15th	5	2	1	4th	3	20th	26th	23	+3
10	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	4th	3	1	6th	1	19th	17th	15th	+2
11	JEF United Ichihara	15th	6th	0	1	6th	2	19th	22nd	22nd	± 0
12	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	4th	3	1	5	2	19th	17th	18th	-1
13	Gamba Osaka	15th	5	0	2	6th	2	17th	20th	23	-3
14th	Avispa Fukuoka	15th	3	3	0	8th	1	15th	19th	28	–9
15th	Kawasaki Frontale	15th	2	1	2	10	0	10	14th	29	-15
16	Kyoto Purple Sanga	15th	2	0	1	8th	4th	7th	16	36	-20

Crosstab

Second half series

The second half series began on July 1, 2000 and ended on November 26, 2000. Due to the Asian championship taking place in October , no games were played between August 19 and November 8. Kashima Antlers qualified for the Suntory Championship by winning the series.

table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1	Kashima Antlers	15th	9	1	4th	0	1	33	28	10	+18	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 2000
2	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	9	2	1	3	0	32	23	10	+13
3	Júbilo Iwata	15th	10	0	0	4th	1	30th	35	17th	+18
4th	Gamba Osaka	15th	8th	2	0	4th	1	28	27	20th	+7
5	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	7th	1	1	5	1	24	24	24	± 0
6th	Avispa Fukuoka	15th	6th	1	2	2	4th	22nd	22nd	20th	+2
7th	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	7th	0	1	5	2	22nd	25th	27	-2
8th	FC Tokyo	15th	5	2	1	6th	1	20th	23	19th	+4
9	Cerezo Osaka	15th	5	2	0	7th	1	19th	20th	24	-4
10	Verdy Kawasaki	15th	5	0	3	6th	1	18th	20th	21st	-1
11	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	5	1	1	5	3	18th	23	25th	-2
12	Kyoto Purple Sanga	15th	5	1	1	7th	1	18th	23	30th	–7
13	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	2	3	2	8th	0	14th	13	19th	–6
14th	Vissel Kobe	15th	3	1	0	10	1	11	19th	32	-13
15th	Kawasaki Frontale	15th	1	3	2	9	0	11	12	27	-15
16	JEF United Ichihara	15th	2	1	1	8th	1	9	15th	27	-12

Crosstab

Overall table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1/2	Kashima Antlers	30th	15th	3	4th	7th	1	55	48	27	+21
1/2	Yokohama F. Marinos	30th	17th	1	1	9	2	54	56	45	+11
3	Kashiwa Reysol	30th	15th	6th	1	7th	1	58	48	32	+16
4th	Júbilo Iwata	30th	17th	2	0	7th	4th	55	67	42	+25
5	Cerezo Osaka	30th	14th	3	0	11	2	48	54	49	+5
6th	Gamba Osaka	30th	13	2	2	10	3	45	47	43	+4
7th	FC Tokyo	30th	12	3	1	12	2	43	47	41	+6
8th	Shimizu S-Pulse	30th	10	5	2	12	1	42	34	36	-2
9	Nagoya Grampus Eight	30th	11	3	2	10	4th	41	42	45	-3
10	Verdy Kawasaki	30th	10	2	4th	11	4th	38	46	44	+2
11	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	30th	9	4th	2	10	4th	37	40	40	± 0
12	Vissel Kobe	30th	9	4th	2	10	5	37	41	48	–7
13	JEF United Ichihara	30th	10	1	1	16	2	33	40	49	–9
14th	Avispa Fukuoka	30th	8th	1	2	14th	5	28	37	49	-12
15th	Kyoto Purple Sanga	30th	7th	1	2	15th	5	25th	39	66	-27	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2001
16	Kawasaki Frontale	30th	3	4th	4th	19th	0	21st	26th	56	-30	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2001
Status: end of the season

Suntory Championship

After a goalless first leg, Kashima Antlers won the second leg 3-0. For the team from the Pacific coast it was the third championship title after 1996 and 1998.

First leg

pairing	Yokohama F. Marinos - Kashima Antlers
Result	0-0
date	December 2, 2000
Stadion	International Stadium , Yokohama 41,595 spectators
referee	Leslie Mottram
Gates	no

Return leg

pairing	Kashima Antlers - Yokohama F. Marinos
Result	3-0
date	December 9, 2000
Stadion	Olympic Stadium , Tokyo 44,665 spectators
referee	Masayoshi Okada
Gates	1-0 Takayuki Suzuki (24th), 2-0 Akira Narahashi (39th), 3-0 Kōji Nakata (44th)

Prices

soccer player of the year

• Shunsuke Nakamura ( Yokohama F. Marinos )

Best goal scorers

rank	player	society	Gates	Games
1	Masashi Nakayama	Júbilo Iwata	20th	29
2	Hideaki Kitajima	Kashiwa Reysol	18th	30th
3	Yoo Sang-chul	Yokohama F. Marinos	17th	22nd
3	Tuto	FC Tokyo	17th	29
3	Kazuyoshi Miura	Vissel Kobe	17th	30th
6th	Kim Hyun-seok	Verdy Kawasaki	16	25th
7th	Hiroaki Morishima	Cerezo Osaka	15th	25th
7th	Akinori Nishizawa	Cerezo Osaka	15th	29
9	Amaral	FC Tokyo	13	22nd
9	baron	JEF United Ichihara	13	30th

Rookie of the year

• Kazuyuki Morisaki ( Sanfrecce Hiroshima )

Best XI

• Daijirō Takakuwa ( Kashima Antlers )
• Naoki Matsuda ( Yokohama F. Marinos )
• Yutaka Akita ( Kashima Antlers )
• Hong Myung-bo ( Kashiwa Reysol )
• Tomokazu Myōjin ( Kashiwa Reysol )
• Shunsuke Nakamura ( Yokohama F. Marinos )
• Junichi Inamoto ( Gamba Osaka )
• Hiroaki Morishima ( Cerezo Osaka )
• Tuto ( FC Tokyo )
• Masashi Nakayama ( Júbilo Iwata )
• Akinori Nishizawa ( Cerezo Osaka )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ data.j-league.or.jp
2. ↑ J.League (Japanese)
3. ↑ J. League Division 1 2000: Overall table for the season. Retrieved July 25, 2016 .