J.League Division 1 2002

J.League Division 1 2002
master	Júbilo Iwata
Relegated	Sanfrecce Hiroshima Consadole Sapporo
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	683  (ø 2.85 per game)
← J.League Division 1 2001 J.League Division 1 2003 →
J.League Division 2 2002 ↓

The J.League Division 1 2002 was the tenth season of the highest division of the Japanese J.League and the fourth under the name Division 1 . Sixteen clubs took part in it. The regular season was played in two half-series and began on March 2, 2002. After the end of the second half-series on November 30, 2002, two games between the two half-series winners for the Japanese championship were originally planned. However, those games did not take place after Júbilo Iwata managed to win both series. For Júbilo it was the third J.League championship after 1997 and 1999 .

Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2003 were Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Consadole Sapporo .

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 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, Cerezo Osaka and the penultimate Avispa Fukuoka , both of whom had to relegate to the J.League Division 2 2002 . Cerezo ended a seven-year membership in Division 1 with the descent, Avispa returned to the second division after six years at the highest level.

The two relegated teams were replaced by Kyōto Purple Sanga , the champions of Division 2 in 2001 , and the runner-up Vegalta Sendai . Vegalta played for the first time in its history in the top Japanese league, while Kyōto succeeded in returning immediately after relegation from the House of Lords in 2000.

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

Clubs of the J.League Division 1 2002

society	City / region
Consadole Sapporo	Sapporo , Hokkaidō
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
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
Consadole Sapporo	Tetsuji Hashiratani → Radmilo Ivančević → Chang Woe-ryong
Vegalta Sendai	Hidehiko Shimizu
Kashima Antlers	Toninho Cerezo
Urawa Reds	Hans Ooft
JEF United Ichihara	Jozef Vengloš
Kashiwa Reysol	Steve Perryman → Tomoyoshi Ikeya → Marco Aurélio
FC Tokyo	Hiromi Hara
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Yukitaka Omi → Lori Sandri
Yokohama F. Marinos	Sebastião Lazaroni → Yoshiaki Shimojō
Shimizu S-Pulse	Zdravko Zemunović
Júbilo Iwata	Masakazu Suzuki
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Zdenko Verdenik
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Gert Engels
Gamba Osaka	Akira Nishino
Vissel Kobe	Ryōichi Kawakatsu → Hiroshi Matsuda
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Gadzhi Gadzhiyev → Takahiro Kimura → Takeshi Ono

player

society	player
Consadole Sapporo	Yōhei Satō (27/0), Ryūji Tabuchi (10/0), Hideaki Mori (1/0), Yasuyuki Konno (22/0), Maxsandro (3/0), Jadilson (17/0), Kensaku Ōmori (29 / 0), Naoki Sakai (17/1), Biju (26/1), Robson (5/0), Yasuyuki Moriyama (4/0), Kōji Yamase (14/4), Hiromi Kojima (5/0), Kazushi Isoyama (5/0), Tomokazu Hirama (15/0), Tsuyoshi Furukawa (16/0), Hitoshi Morishita (29/2), Gakuya Horii (14/1), Takafumi Ogura (27/7), Yūshi Soda (23/4), Tomohiro Wanami (25/0), Yōsuke Fujigaya (4/0), Kyōsuke Yoshikawa (9/0), Shin'ya Aikawa (4/2), Yasuyoshi Nara (1/0), Tatsunori Arai (5/2), Hiroshi Kichise (1/0), Yūki Tazawa (1/0), Baljak (13/3), Yoshihiro Nishida (16/1), Jin Satō (19/1), Tomoaki Matsukawa (4 / 0)
Vegalta Sendai	Norio Takahashi (18/0), Susumu Watanabe (2/0), Norio Omura (28/4), Tomohiro Katanosaka (15/0), Ricardo (28/1), Naoki Chiba (17/0), Silvinho (27 / 2), Marcos (24/18), Nobuyuki Zaizen (18/0), Shinji Fujiyoshi (9/1), Yoshiteru Yamashita (30/10), Teruo Iwamoto (22/4), Kiyomitsu Kobari (12/0) , Yūsuke Mori (11/0), Shin'ya Mitsuoka (7/0), Yasushi Fukunaga (6/0), Shin Nakamura (3/0), Kazuhiro Murakami (18/0), Hajime Moriyasu (27/0) , Satoshi Ōtomo (4/0), Tatsuya Murata (25/0), Takahiro Yamada (18/0), Takehito Suzuki (15/0), Toshiyuki Abe (10/0), Masahiro Andō (12/0), Masahiro Kazuma (2/0)
Kashima Antlers	Akira Narahashi (25/1), Yutaka Akita (29/4), Fabiano (19/0), Kōji Nakata (29/6), Yasuto Honda (22/0), Mitsuo Ogasawara (27/4), Tomoyuki Hirase ( 7/2), Masashi Motoyama (24/3), Yoshiyuki Hasegawa (25/3), Atsushi Yanagisawa (27/7), Seiji Kaneko (3/0), Augusto (29/4), Jun Uchida (20/1 ), Kōji Kumagai (19/2), Tomohiko Ikeuchi (14/1), Hitoshi Sogahata (30/0), Tatsuya Ishikawa (6/1), Takeshi Aoki (13/0), Takuya Nozawa (13/0), Kōsei Nakamura (1/0), Takayuki Suzuki (8/0), Euller (14/7), Junji Nishizawa (7/0)
Urawa Reds	Yōhei Nishibe (5/0), Nobuhisa Yamada (28/1), Masami Ihara (28/0), Masaki Tsuchihashi (3/0), Ichiei Muroi (14/0), Toshiya Ishii (10/1), Yūichirō Nagai (19/4), Toshiyuki Abe (4/0), Masahiro Fukuda (27/3), Emerson (24/15), Tuto (23/9), Keita Suzuki (26/1), Harison (13/1) , Tatsuya Tanaka (23/5), Hideki Uchidate (30/1), Keisuke Tsuboi (30/0), Norihiro Yamagishi (26/0), Shinji Jōjō (3/0), Tōru Chishima (2/0), Tadaaki Hirakawa (22/0), Ryūji Michiki (10/0), Zelic (1/0)
JEF United Ichihara	Eisuke Nakanishi (24/0), Megumu Yoshida (8/0), Takayuki Chano (25/1), Milinovic (25/3), Yūki Abe (24/1), Shin'ichi Mutō (25/0), Shigetoshi Hasebe (17/0), Katsutomo Ōshiba (27/4), Choi Yong-soo (23/16), Mujcin (6/0), Moravcik (2/0), Tomonori Tateishi (8/0), Mitsutoshi Watada ( 12/2), Yūto Satō (13/0), Tadatoshi Masuda (14/2), Takenori Hayashi (22/2), Ryō Kushino (23/0), Shinji Murai (26/2), Naotake Hanyū (23 / 2), Masataka Sakamoto (30/1), Akihiro Tabata (3/0), Daisuke Saitō (18/2)
Kashiwa Reysol	Yūta Minami (27/0), Shigenori Hagimura (12/0), Norihiro Satsukawa (28/0), Takeshi Watanabe (28/1), Sōta Nakazawa (1/0), Yoo Sang-chul (9/5), Tomokazu Myōjin (27/1), Sampaio (26/3), Hideaki Kitajima (18/2), Harutaka Ōno (22/2), Nozomu Katō (18/3), Takumi Morikawa (6/0), Mitsuteru Watanabe ( 25/1), Masayuki Ochiai (1/0), Makoto Sunakawa (12/0), Dai Satō (1/0), Shunta Nagai (2/0), Hwang Sun-hong (7/1), Arata Sugiyama ( 2/0), Mitsuru Nagata (6/0), Motohiro Yoshida (3/0), Kensuke Nebiki (21/1), Tomonori Hirayama (27/2), Shin'ya Tanoue (10/1), Keiji Tamada ( 13/3), Tadamichi Machida (3/0), Tarō Sugahara (4/0), Yūji Unozawa (13/3), Edilson (16/7), Ricardinho (11/1), Kenji Ōshiba (1/0) , Ricardo (2/0), Minoru Suganuma (2/0)
FC Tokyo	Yōichi Doi (30/0), Teruyuki Moniwa (19/0), Jean (27/1), Takahiro Shimotaira (23/0), Takayuki Komine (8/0), Satoru Asari (19/0), Ryūji Fujiyama ( 20/0), Kenji Fukuda (21/2), Fumitake Miura (2/0), Amaral (29/15), Mitsuhiro Toda (23/4), Yukihiko Satō (13/0), Tetsuya Itō (23/1 ), Masashi Miyazawa (29/4), Minoru Kobayashi (8/0), Masatoshi Matsuda (2/0), Kelly (29/8), Akira Kaji (20/1), Tetsuhiro Kina (12/0), Masamitsu Kobayashi (6/3), Daisuke Hoshi (9/0), Norio Suzuki (3/0), Kazuya Maeda (1/0), Yūta Baba (8/0), Hiroyuki Omata (1/0), Oh Jang- eun (2/0), Marcelo (1/0), Naohiro Ishikawa (19/4)
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Daijirō Takakuwa (12/0), Takuya Yamada (28/1), Yoshihiro Nishida (3/0), Hayato Yano (4/0), Kentarō Hayashi (20/0), Toshimi Kikuchi (3/0), Atsuhiro Miura (8/1), Edmundo (26/16), Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (4/1), Marquinhos (15/2), Hideki Nagai (11/2), Takahiro Shibasaki (2/0), Keiji Ishizuka (5/0 ), Seitarō Tomisawa (10/0), Kōichi Sugiyama (1/0), Naoto Sakurai (24/4), Naoki Sōma (27/0), Takumi Hayama (5/1), Michiyasu Osada (7/0), Narita Takaki (14/0), Yoshinari Takagi (17/0), Lopes (20/2), Atsushi Yoneyama (28/2), Takuya Kawaguchi (8/0), Kazuki Hiramoto (25/2), Yūya Sano ( 7/0), Daigo Kobayashi (21/1), Masayuki Yanagisawa (15/1), Hiroyuki Takahashi (1/0), Hayuma Tanaka (16/2), Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (23/1), Jun Tamano (5 / 1)
Yokohama F. Marinos	Tatsuya Enomoto (30/0), Dutra (25/1), Naoki Matsuda (25/2), Yasuhiro Hato (27/0), Yoshiharu Ueno (30/2), Naza (20/5), Akihiro Endō (20 / 0), Will (24/14), Shunsuke Nakamura (8/4), Norihisa Shimizu (26/2), Kazuki Satō (1/0), Kunio Nagayama (18/0), Daisuke Tonoike (2/0) , Ryōsuke Kijima (3/0), Tomoyuki Hirase (19/2), Sōtarō Yasunaga (4/0), Yūki Kaneko (1/0), Shōgo Kobara (5/0), Masahiro Kazuma (1/0), Hirotaka Iida (1/0), Daisuke Sakata (19/1), Tatsunori Hisanaga (20/2), Kazuyoshi Mikami (12/0), Yōichi Mori (1/0), Daisuke Nasu (3/0), Daisuke Oku ( 26/7), Yūji Nakazawa (27/1), Yūtarō Abe (3/0)
Shimizu S-Pulse	Masanori Sanada (13/0), Toshihide Saitō (20/1), Takuma Koga (16/0), Kazuyuki Toda (22/1), Yasuhiro Yoshida (27/1), Katsumi Ōenoki (18/0), Teruyoshi Itō (22/0), Alessandro Santos (29/9), Baron (28/6), Masaaki Sawanobori (29/3), Ryūzō Morioka (3/1), Pecelj (7/2), Kōhei Hiramatsu (27/2 ), Yoshikiyo Kuboyama (16/1), Keisuke Hada (6/0), Takayuki Yokoyama (11/0), Shōhei Ikeda (27/0), Takaya Kurokawa (11/0), Keisuke Ōta (2/0), Daisuke Ichikawa (30/1), Ahn Jung-hwan (10/3), Jun Muramatsu (6/0), Jumpei Takaki (10/1), Cvitanovic (5/1)
Júbilo Iwata	Van Zwam (16/0), Hideto Suzuki (27/0), Gō Ōiwa (20/0), Takahiro Kawamura (16/0), Makoto Tanaka (25/0), Toshihiro Hattori (26/2), Hiroshi Nanami (24/1), Grail (9/1), Masashi Nakayama (29/16), Toshiya Fujita (30/10), Norihiro Nishi (26/4), Hiromasa Yamamoto (14/0), Nobuo Kawaguchi (23 / 3), Takahiro Yamanishi (24/1), Zivkovic (10/2), Ryōichi Maeda (4/0), Jō Kanazawa (22/1), Takashi Fukunishi (28/5), Taikai Uemoto (1/0), Yasumasa Nishino (1/0), Naohiro Takahara (27/26)
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Seigō Narazaki (30/0), Keiji Kaimoto (12/0), Yasunari Hiraoka (8/0), Masayuki Ōmori (27/0), Masahiro Koga (28/1), Motohiro Yamaguchi (25/2), Oulida ( 5/1), Tomoyuki Sakai (29/1), Marcelo (7/3), Vastic (18/10), Ueslei (27/20), Naoki Hiraoka (12/1), Kunihiko Takizawa (29/0), Naoshi Nakamura (29/4), Yasuyuki Moriyama (7/0), Yūsuke Nakatani (11/1), Junji Nishizawa (2/0), Kō Ishikawa (1/0), Ryūta Hara (18/5), Tetsuya Okayama (28/0), Keiji Yoshimura (2/0), Taku Harada (3/0), Atsushi Katagiri (5/0), Kei Yamaguchi (17/0), Panadic (22/0)
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Naohito Hirai (26/0), Hiroshi Noguchi (1/0), Tadashi Nakamura (24/0), Kazuhiro Suzuki (28/0), Kazuki Teshima (20/0), Jin Satō (4/0), Park Ji -sung (25/7), Makoto Atsuta (18/0), Teruaki Kurobe (27/13), Daisuke Matsui (23/4), Kiyotaka Ishimaru (26/0), Masahiko Nakagawa (1/0), Shingo Suzuki (30/7), Tomoaki Matsukawa (3/0), Yūsuke Mori (1/0), Shigeki Tsujimoto (13/1), Shin'ya Tomita (20/3), Yūsaku Ueno (23/2), Hiroshi Ōtsuki (2/0), An Hyo-yeon (7/1), Hideaki Ueno (4/0), Daisuke Saitō (22/1), Takatoshi Matsumoto (4/0), Noboru Kohara (1/0), Daisuke Nakaharai (27/3), Makoto Kakuda (22/0), Zelic (1/0), Yutaka Tahara (5/1)
Gamba Osaka	Naoki Matsuyo (18/0), Shin Asahina (2/0), Masao Kiba (30/0), Noritada Saneyoshi (15/0), Satoshi Yamaguchi (29/2), Masahiro Andō (2/0), Marcelinho ( 21/3), Takahiro Futagawa (28/2), Magrao (29/22), Fabinho (20/0), Masanobu Matsunami (23/5), Shigeru Morioka (21/1), Masashi Ōguro (6/1) , Tōru Araiba (30/1), Kōta Yoshihara (27/11), Kōki Habata (2/0), Ryōta Tsuzuki (12/0), Toshihiro Matsushita (5/0), Satoshi Nakayama (12/2), Hideo Hashimoto (18/0), Yasuhito Endō (30/5), Hiroshige Yanagimoto (11/0), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (20/1)
Vissel Kobe	Makoto Kakegawa (30/0), Kōji Maeda (3/0), Ataliba (7/1), Sidiclei (27/6), Tomo Sugawara (21/0), Kōji Yoshimura (16/0), Masayuki Okano (24 / 1), Shōji Jō (25/1), Shigeyoshi Mochizuki (25/1), Kazuyoshi Miura (17/3), Ryūji Bando (26/4), Masaya Nishitani (9/1), Naoya Saeki (23/2 ), Yukio Tsuchiya (28/1), Mitsunori Yabuta (19/0), Takayuki Yamaguchi (2/0), Daniel (11/1), Harison (11/3), Yasutoshi Miura (7/0), Takashi Hirano (28/1), Kazuhiro Mori (1/0), Kunie Kitamoto (22/1), Tōru Irie (5/0), Shūsuke Tsubouchi (1/0), Oseas (15/6)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Takashi Shimoda (29/0), Shin'ya Kawashima (8/0), Kentarō Sawada (26/2), Hiroyoshi Kuwabara (14/0), Yūichi Komano (27/1), Tulio (22/1), Kōji Morisaki (22/6), Kazuyuki Morisaki (25/1), Yutaka Takahashi (15/1), Tatsuhiko Kubo (28/7), Chikara Fujimoto (29/4), Naoki Naruo (3/0), Kyōhei Yamagata ( 1/0), Yūki Matsushita (13/0), Naoya Umeda (14/1), Kōta Hattori (21/0), Kōsuke Yatsuda (7/0), Ken'ichi Uemura (10/1), Susumu Ōki ( 18/4), Takuto Hayashi (1/0), Ri Han-jae (1/0), Hiroto Mogi (15/2), Genki Nakayama (6/0), Yoshirō Nakamura (4/0), Billong (25 / 0), Milo (8/0), Yūshi Ozaki (2/0), Jun Ideguchi (7/0), Erceg (10/1)

statistics

First half series

The first half series began on March 2, 2002 and ended on August 17, 2002. Due to the soccer World Cup 2002 , no games were played between April 21 and July 13. The half series was won by Júbilo Iwata.

table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1	Júbilo Iwata	15th	9	4th	1	1	0	36	39	17th	+22	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 2002
2	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	8th	3	3	1	0	33	28	11	+17
3	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	9	1	0	4th	1	29	28	18th	+10
4th	Gamba Osaka	15th	8th	1	1	3	2	27	35	19th	+16
5	Kashima Antlers	15th	9	0	0	4th	2	27	21st	18th	+3
6th	Kyoto Purple Sanga	15th	5	4th	1	5	0	24	26th	18th	+8
7th	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	5	3	3	4th	0	24	17th	19th	-2
8th	JEF United Ichihara	15th	6th	1	3	4th	1	23	22nd	23	-1
9	Vegalta Sendai	15th	6th	1	0	5	3	20th	23	27	-4
10	FC Tokyo	15th	5	0	2	6th	2	17th	23	27	-4
11	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	3	2	1	7th	2	14th	21st	24	-3
12	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	2	3	1	9	0	13	15th	24	–9
13	Vissel Kobe	15th	3	1	1	5	5	12	12	22nd	-10
14th	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	3	1	0	10	1	11	20th	31	–11
15th	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	3	0	1	9	2	10	14th	26th	-12
16	Consadole Sapporo	15th	2	0	0	9	4th	6th	15th	35	-20

Crosstab

Second half series

The second half series began on August 31, 2002 and ended on November 30, 2002. Júbilo Iwata also won this half series, so the final games of the J.League championship were canceled according to the competition regulations.

table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1	Júbilo Iwata	15th	9	4th	0	2	0	35	33	13	+20	Qualification for the Suntory Championship 2002
2	Gamba Osaka	15th	7th	3	0	4th	1	27	24	13	+11
3	Kashima Antlers	15th	8th	1	0	6th	0	26th	25th	21st	+4
4th	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	6th	2	2	4th	1	24	26th	19th	+7
5	FC Tokyo	15th	6th	2	0	6th	1	22nd	20th	19th	+1
6th	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	5	3	1	6th	0	22nd	16	16	± 0
7th	Kyoto Purple Sanga	15th	6th	2	0	6th	1	22nd	18th	24	–6
8th	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	4th	4th	1	4th	2	21st	20th	14th	+6
9	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	6th	0	3	4th	2	21st	18th	17th	+1
10	Vissel Kobe	15th	5	1	2	4th	3	19th	21st	22nd	-1
11	JEF United Ichihara	15th	6th	0	0	8th	1	18th	16	19th	-3
12	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	5	1	0	7th	2	17th	16	24	-8th
13	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	5	0	1	7th	2	16	21st	23	-2
14th	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	4th	1	2	4th	4th	16	18th	21st	-3
15th	Vegalta Sendai	15th	3	1	1	8th	2	12	17th	30th	-13
16	Consadole Sapporo	15th	2	1	1	7th	4th	9	15th	29	-14

Crosstab

Overall table

	society	Sp	Victories		U	Dutch		Pts	T	GT	Diff.	Comments
			90 ′	GG		90 ′	GG
1	Júbilo Iwata	30th	18th	8th	1	3	0	71	72	30th	+42
2	Yokohama F. Marinos	30th	13	6th	4th	7th	0	55	44	27	+17
3	Gamba Osaka	30th	15th	4th	1	7th	3	54	59	32	+27
4th	Kashima Antlers	30th	17th	1	0	10	2	53	46	39	+7
5	Kyoto Purple Sanga	30th	11	6th	1	11	1	46	44	42	+2
6th	Nagoya Grampus Eight	30th	14th	1	1	11	3	45	49	41	+8
7th	JEF United Ichihara	30th	12	1	3	12	2	41	38	42	-4
8th	Shimizu S-Pulse	30th	10	4th	3	11	2	41	33	43	-10
9	FC Tokyo	30th	11	2	2	12	3	39	43	46	-3
10	Tokyo Verdy 1969	30th	8th	5	3	13	1	37	41	43	-2
11	Urawa Red Diamonds	30th	7th	6th	2	11	4th	35	41	38	+3
12	Kashiwa Reysol	30th	9	1	3	14th	3	32	38	48	-10
13	Vegalta Sendai	30th	9	2	1	13	5	32	40	57	-17
14th	Vissel Kobe	30th	8th	2	3	9	8th	31	33	44	–11
15th	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	30th	7th	1	3	13	6th	26th	32	47	-15	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2003
16	Consadole Sapporo	30th	4th	1	1	16	8th	15th	30th	64	-34	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 in 2003
Status: end of the season

Suntory Championship

For the first time in the history of the J.League there were no finals. The reason for this was the fact that both half series were won by Júbilo Iwata, which, according to the competition regulations, automatically led to the championship title. For Júbilo it was the third J.League title after 1997 and 1999 and the fourth Japanese championship overall; under the name Yamaha Motors succeeded in winning the Japan Soccer League 1987/88 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFMS01/search?competition_years=2002&competition_frame_ids=1&competition_frame_ids=12
2. ↑ J.League (Japanese)
3. ↑ J. League Division 1 2002: Overall table for the season. Retrieved July 27, 2016 .