J.League Division 1 2004

J.League Division 1 2004
master	Yokohama F. Marinos
Relegation ↓	Kashiwa Reysol
Relegated	no
Teams	16
Games	240
Gates	744  (ø 3.1 per game)
← J.League Division 1 2003 J.League Division 1 2005 →
J.League Division 2 2004 ↓

The J.League Division 1 2004 was the twelfth season of the highest division of the Japanese J.League and the sixth under the name Division 1 . Sixteen clubs took part in it. The regular season was played in two half-series and began on March 13, 2004. After the end of the second half-series on November 28, 2003, the winners of the two half-series, Yokohama F. Marinos and Urawa Red Diamonds , played in two games for the Japanese championship . These finals were played on December 5th and 11th after the regular season. After both teams won their respective home game 1-0 and no decision was made in extra time for the second leg, a penalty shoot-out was used to determine the title holder, with the happier end for defending champion Yokohama.

By expanding the field of participants to eighteen teams for the 2005 season , there was no relegation this season after the last of the overall table, Kashiwa Reysol, prevailed in two relegation games against the third of the J.League Division 2 in 2004 , Avispa Fukuoka .

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.

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 2005 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, Kyōto Purple Sanga and the penultimate Vegalta Sendai , both of whom had to relegate to the J.League Division 2 in 2004 . Kyōto and Sendai had been promoted to Division 1 together two years earlier.

The two relegated teams were replaced by Albirex Niigata , the 2003 division champion , and the runner-up Sanfrecce Hiroshima . Albirex played for the first time in its history in the top Japanese division, Sanfrecce, however, managed to return immediately after relegation from the House of Lords in 2002.

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

Clubs of the J.League Division 1 2004

society	City / region
Albirex Niigata	Niigata and Seirō , Niigata
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
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Nagoya , Aichi
Ōita Trinita	Ōita , Ōita
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hiroshima , Hiroshima
Shimizu S-Pulse	Shizuoka , Shizuoka
FC Tokyo	Tokyo
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Tokyo
Urawa Red Diamonds	Saitama , Saitama
Vissel Kobe	Kobe , Hyogo
Yokohama F. Marinos	Yokohama , Kanagawa

Trainer

society	Head coach
Kashima Antlers	Toninho Cerezo
Urawa Reds	Guido Buchwald
JEF United Ichihara	Ivica Osim
Kashiwa Reysol	Tomoyoshi Ikeya → Hiroshi Hayano
FC Tokyo	Hiromi Hara
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Osvaldo Ardiles
Yokohama F. Marinos	Takeshi Okada
Albirex Niigata	Yasuharu Sorimachi
Shimizu S-Pulse	Antoninho → Nobuhiro Ishizaki
Júbilo Iwata	Takashi Kuwahara → Masakazu Suzuki → Masakuni Yamamoto
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Nelsinho Baptista
Gamba Osaka	Akira Nishino
Cerezo Osaka	Petar Nadoveza → Fuad Muzurović → Albert Pobor → Shinji Kobayashi
Vissel Kobe	Ivan Hašek → Hiroshi Katō
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Takeshi Ono
Oita Trinita	Han Berger

player

society	player
Kashima Antlers	Hideaki Ozawa (4/0), Akira Narahashi (12/0), Seiji Kaneko (22/3), Gō Ōiwa (29/0), Kōji Nakata (21/1), Yasuto Honda (7/0), Tōru Araiba (28/1), Mitsuo Ogasawara (28/7), Fabio Junior (13/1), Masashi Motoyama (24/3), Masaki Fukai (20/3), Daiki Iwamasa (18/4), Fernando (26 / 5), Jun Uchida (17/0), Kōji Kumagai (7/0), Baron (12/2), Tomoyuki Hirase (11/0), Tomohiko Ikeuchi (5/0), Hitoshi Sogahata (27/0), Tatsuya Ishikawa (12/2), Masashi Ōtani (2/0), Takeshi Aoki (20/0), Takuya Nozawa (16/2), Chikashi Masuda (8/2), Yūki Nakashima (10/0), Takayuki Suzuki (14/5)
Urawa Reds	Norihiro Yamagishi (11/0), Keisuke Tsuboi (14/0), Alpay (10/0), Marcus Tulio Tanaka (21/3), Ichiei Muroi (12/1), Nobuhisa Yamada (27/2), Tomoyuki Sakai (19/1), Kōji Yamase (18/5), Yūichirō Nagai (27/6), Emerson (26/27), Tatsuya Tanaka (23/10), Takuya Mikami (1/0), Keita Suzuki (25 / 0), Tadaaki Hirakawa (22/1), Tōru Chishima (1/0), Alessandro Santos (27/2), Makoto Hasebe (27/5), Hideki Uchidate (26/0), Satoshi Horinouchi (9/0) , Hiroyuki Kobayashi (1/0), Ryōta Tsuzuki (19/0), Takuya Yokoyama (2/0), Masayuki Okano (15/1), Nene (10/1), Shunsuke Ōyama (1/0)
JEF United Ichihara	Tomonori Tateishi (1/0), Masataka Sakamoto (29/1), Daisuke Saitō (25/1), Takayuki Chano (26/1), Milinovic (26/0), Yūki Abe (24/5), Yūto Satō ( 29/7), Marquinhos (14/12), Takenori Hayashi (20/2), Shinji Murai (29/1), Sandro (22/9), Kōji Nakajima (16/0), Satoru Yamagishi (12/4) , Ryō Kushino (29/0), Seiichirō Maki (30/6), Kōhei Kudō (12/1), Naotake Hanyū (25/1), Takashi Rakuyama (8/0), Kōzō Yūki (11/0), Hiroki Mizumoto (5/0), Kōki Mizuno (7/1), Mitsuki Ichihara (3/0), Hironobu Haga (1/0), Yūichi Yōda (5/2)
Kashiwa Reysol	Yūta Minami (28/0), Kensuke Nebiki (1/0), Palacios (7/0), Norihiro Satsukawa (8/0), Takeshi Watanabe (15/0), Sōta Nakazawa (9/0), Dudu (11 / 2), Tomokazu Myōjin (28/5), Ricardinho (11/0), Yoshiteru Yamashita (13/0), Ze Roberto (18/1), Nozomu Katō (7/0), Tadatoshi Masuda (19/2) , Yūzō Kobayashi (9/0), Masayuki Ochiai (2/0), Harutaka Ōno (12/0), Tatsuya Yazawa (26/0), Shin'ya Tanoue (1/0), Shunta Nagai (2/0) , Kishō Yano (2/0), Yūji Unozawa (11/1), Mitsuru Nagata (28/2), Kenta Shimizu (2/0), Toshiaki Haji (8/1), Hidekazu Ōtani (16/1), Tomonori Hirayama (5/1), Takahiro Shimotaira (13/0), Naoya Kondō (26/1), Takehito Shigehara (15/0), Keiji Tamada (28/10), Minoru Suganuma (3/0), Erikson Noguchipinto ( 1/0), Takayuki Komine (2/0), Yasuhiro Hato (20/1)
FC Tokyo	Yōichi Doi (30/0), Teruyuki Moniwa (22/1), Jean (26/3), Oh Jang-eun (7/0), Tatsuya Masushima (7/0), Yasuyuki Konno (26/4), Satoru Asari (9/0), Ryūji Fujiyama (18/0), Lucas (27/11), Fumitake Miura (22/2), Yoshirō Abe (28/4), Mitsuhiro Toda (22/2), Yūta Baba (26 / 3), Norio Suzuki (14/4), Masashi Miyazawa (18/0), Jō Kanazawa (24/0), Naohiro Ishikawa (17/0), Kelly (15/4), Akira Kaji (22/0) , Yōhei Kajiyama (16/2), Masamitsu Kobayashi (1/0), Yūsuke Kondō (9/0), Kazuya Maeda (1/0), Yūhei Tokunaga (6/0), Ryōichi Kurisawa (6/0)
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Takuya Yamada (27/1), Ubeda (25/3), Kentarō Hayashi (29/1), Atsushi Yoneyama (29/3), Atsuhiro Miura (23/4), Nozomi Hiroyama (4/0), Daigo Kobayashi ( 27/0), Mboma (12/4), Hugo (14/1), Kazuki Hiramoto (25/6), Masayuki Yanagisawa (14/0), Seitarō Tomisawa (1/0), Takahito Sōma (11/2) , Naoto Sakurai (21/6), Kenta Togawa (15/0), Shingo Nejime (1/0), Yūhei Ono (1/0), Kazunori Iio (12/0), Yoshinari Takagi (30/0), Takashi Hirano (28/4), Takayuki Morimoto (22/4), Lee Gang-jin (7/0), Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (29/4), Jun Tamano (2/0)
Yokohama F. Marinos	Tatsuya Enomoto (30/0), Eisuke Nakanishi (20/0), Naoki Matsuda (24/1), Yasuhiro Hato (1/0), Dutra (22/0), Yoshiharu Ueno (22/3), Yukihiko Satō ( 16/2), Yoo Sang-chul (19/0), Tatsuhiko Kubo (19/4), Akihiro Endō (22/1), Daisuke Sakata (28/10), Daisuke Oku (25/10), Hayuma Tanaka ( 23/1), Norihisa Shimizu (14/1), Sōtarō Yasunaga (7/0), Yūji Nakazawa (27/1), Masahiro Ōhashi (8/0), Daisuke Nasu (24/1), Masato Yamazaki (13 / 0), Nobuki Hara (1/0), Yūzō Kurihara (8/0), Ryūji Kawai (9/0), Ahn Jung-hwan (25/12)
Albirex Niigata	Kōichi Kidera (11/0), Yoshiaki Maruyama (19/0), Anderson (12/0), Kentarō Suzuki (8/0), Osamu Umeyama (7/0), Tadahiro Akiba (14/0), Keisuke Kurihara ( 11/0), Motohiro Yamaguchi (29/2), Fabinho (27/9), Edmilson (29/15), Yūsaku Ueno (30/5), Naoki Takahashi (6/1), Isao Homma (12/0) , Yoshito Terakawa (27/0), An Yong-hak (26/3), Shingo Suzuki (30/5), Hikaru Mita (10/0), Hiroyoshi Kuwabara (24/0), Yōsuke Nozawa (19/0) , Masahiro Fukazawa (7/1), Hiroshi Morita (3/1), Katsuyuki Miyazawa (7/0), Yūzō Funakoshi (4/0), Yasushi Kita (17/0), Roberto (1/0), Tomokazu Hirama (1/0), Naoto Matsuo (11/1), Oseas (12/4)
Shimizu S-Pulse	Toshihide Saitō (26/3), Shōhei Ikeda (8/0), Fabinho (3/0), Kazuyuki Toda (12/0), Yasuhiro Yoshida (1/0), Naoki Hiraoka (11/1), Teruyoshi Itō ( 30/1), Araujo (29/9), Hideaki Kitajima (27/5), Masaaki Sawanobori (24/1), Ryūzō Morioka (29/0), Kōhei Hiramatsu (27/2), Jumpei Takaki (18/0 ), Yoshikiyo Kuboyama (24/4), Yōhei Nishibe (27/0), Tomoyoshi Tsurumi (20/1), Jamelli (3/0), Cho Jae-jin (12/7), Takumi Wada (11/0) , Takaya Kurokawa (4/0), Kazumichi Takagi (2/0), Keisuke Ōta (29/1), Daisuke Ichikawa (3/0), Bun'ichirō Abe (3/0), Jun Muramatsu (10/0) , Hayato Suzuki (1/0), Kōta Sugiyama (16/2)
Júbilo Iwata	Yōhei Satō (23/0), Hideto Suzuki (28/1), Takahiro Kawamura (21/1), Makoto Tanaka (28/1), Toshihiro Hattori (29/0), Hiroshi Nanami (29/3), Gral ( 26/16), Masashi Nakayama (19/3), Toshiya Fujita (29/7), Norihiro Nishi (17/4), Fumiya Iwamaru (7/0), Nobuo Kawaguchi (8/0), Takahiro Yamanishi (18 / 0), Hitoshi Morishita (9/0), Yoshiaki Ōta (7/1), Ryōichi Maeda (27/8), Shō Naruoka (20/1), Kentarō Ōi (3/0), Ken'ya Matsui (1 / 0), Robert Cullen (9/0), Takashi Fukunishi (26/6), Yasumasa Nishino (9/1), Naoya Kikuchi (18/1), Gaviao (1/0)
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Seigō Narazaki (26/0), Yutaka Akita (26/0), Panadic (3/0), Yūsuke Igawa (11/0), Masayuki Ōmori (19/0), Masahiro Koga (24/1), Yūsuke Nakatani ( 25/0), Naoshi Nakamura (29/5), Teruo Iwamoto (5/0), Marques (29/17), Ueslei (25/10), Harutaka Ōno (10/0), Kunihiko Takizawa (8/0) , Taisei Fujita (6/0), Chung Yong-dae (3/0), Kōjirō Kaimoto (21/2), Keiji Kaimoto (9/0), Jorginho (8/2), Makoto Kakuda (22/4), Tetsuya Okayama (21/4), Eiji Kawashima (4/0), Ryōji Ujihara (2/0), Keiji Yoshimura (22/0), Kiyohiro Hirabayashi (8/0), Keiji Watanabe (5/0), Claiton ( 13/3), Kei Yamaguchi (13/0), Yōhei Toyoda (4/0), Yasuyuki Moriyama (1/0)
Gamba Osaka	Naoki Matsuyo (29/0), Sidiclei (30/3), Masao Kiba (2/0), Noritada Saneyoshi (22/0), Tsuneyasu Miyamoto (24/0), Satoshi Yamaguchi (27/5), Yasuhito Endō ( 29/9), Fernandinho (28/10), Magrao (10/5), Takahiro Futagawa (30/4), Masanobu Matsunami (9/0), Shigeru Morioka (14/2), Tōru Irie (10/0) , Mitsuteru Watanabe (19/0), Masashi Ōguro (30/20), Arata Kodama (13/0), Kōta Yoshihara (22/5), Satoshi Nakayama (22/3), Shin'ichi Terada (1/0) , Motohiro Yoshida (1/0), Toshihiro Matsushita (4/0), Hideo Hashimoto (27/1), Akihiro Ienaga (8/1)
Cerezo Osaka	Daisuke Tada (2/0), Kablar (10/0), Mario (4/0), Hiroshige Yanagimoto (13/0), Takanori Nunobe (28/0), Radeljic (15/0), Takeshi Hamada (18 / 1), Kiyokazu Kudō (23/1), Hiroaki Morishima (28/3), Lovrek (5/0), Tatsuya Furuhashi (14/5), Yoshito Ōkubo (22/15), Takaaki Tokushige (24/3), Yūsuke Satō (13/0), Takahito Chiba (26/1), Ryū Saitō (8/0), Noriyuki Sakemoto (16/0), Shō Gokyū (4/0), Ken'ichi Uemura (15/0), Akinori Nishizawa (29/8), Tomohiko Itō (23/0), Keisuke Hada (4/0), Tōmi Shimomura (24/1), Daisuke Yoneyama (3/1), Yoshiki Nakai (1/0), Takuya Kokeguchi (21/1), Jun'ya Yamashiro (1/0), Miki (4/1), Kensaku Ōmori (5/0), Kenta Tokushige (1/0)
Vissel Kobe	Makoto Kakegawa (17/0), Naoto Matsuo (2/0), Kazumichi Takagi (13/0), Shūsuke Tsubouchi (21/0), Kunie Kitamoto (27/2), Tomo Sugawara (12/0), Roger ( 28/3), Park Kang-jo (26/0), Naoya Saeki (12/0), Leandrao (11/2), Mboma (6/2), Chikara Fujimoto (20/1), Kazuyoshi Miura (21 / 4), Ryūji Bando (28/17), Horvy (14/6), Kōji Yoshimura (7/0), Kunihiko Takizawa (2/0), Fumiya Iwamaru (6/0), Hiromasa Yamamoto (1/0), Yukio Tsuchiya (21/1), Mitsunori Yabuta (25/1), Mitsutoshi Watada (17/6), Hiromi Kojima (21/2), Kazuhiro Mori (4/0), Hiroyuki Kōmoto (8/2), Kazutaka Murase (4/0), Ilhan (3/0), Tomoyuki Hirase (10/1), Ryūhei Niwa (8/0), Seiji Honda (6/0)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Takashi Shimoda (30/0), Ricardo (26/0), Norio Omura (25/3), Daisuke Tonoike (7/0), Yūichi Komano (18/1), Sampaio (14/0), Beto (14 / 2), Kōji Morisaki (25/7), Kazuyuki Morisaki (28/5), Yasuo Manaka (6/0), Tiago (10/2), Hiroto Mogi (8/1), Kōji Matsuura (2/0), Kazuki Satō (3/0), Kazumasa Takagi (2/0), Ri Han-jae (26/1), Kōta Hattori (30/2), Kōsuke Yatsuda (3/0), Yūsuke Igawa (6/0), Kōhei Morita (14/1), Susumu Ōki (21/5), Yūki Ōkubo (1/0), Toshiya Tanaka (6/1), Tatsurō Kimura (4/0), Mitsuyuki Yoshihiro (11/0), Yōjirō Takahagi (4/1), Genki Nakayama (11/0), Megumu Yoshida (26/0), Yūki Tamura (8/1), Shōgo Nishikawa (5/0), Shunsuke Maeda (11/1), Issei Takayanagi (3 / 0)
Oita Trinita	Hayato Okanaka (11/0), Takashi Miki (23/1), Sandro (25/1), Richard Witschge (9/0), Patrick (11/0), Kazuyoshi Mikami (19/0), Teppei Nishiyama (14 / 1), Tomoaki Komorida (24/0), Takayuki Yoshida (30/5), Magno Alves (29/11), Ryōsuke Kijima (18/3), Daiki Takamatsu (24/8), Haruki Seto (17/0 ), Takashi Umeda (25/0), Riki Takasaki (20/0), Yūichi Nemoto (18/2), Takashi Kuramoto (1/0), Taku Harada (20/2), Shōta Matsuhashi (16/1), Kentarō Uramoto (1/0), Kōji Arimura (25/0), Tetsuya Yamazaki (13/0), Yoshihiro Uchimura (1/0), Kōji Yoshimura (13/0), Hideki Nagai (2/0)

statistics

First half series

The first half series began on March 13, 2004 and ended on June 26, 2004. The half series was won by Yokohama F. Marinos.

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	11	3	1	026:130	+13	36
2.	Júbilo Iwata	15th	11	1	3	031:160	+15	34
3.	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	7th	4th	4th	030:240	+6	25th
4th	Gamba Osaka	15th	7th	3	5	031:230	+8	24
5.	Kashima Antlers	15th	7th	3	5	018:140	+4	24
6th	FC Tokyo	15th	6th	5	4th	019:190	± 0	23
7th	JEF United Ichihara	15th	5	7th	3	028:230	+5	22nd
8th.	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	5	5	5	024:220	+2	20th
9.	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	5	4th	6th	021:230	−2	19th
10.	Ōita Trinita	15th	5	2	8th	021:270	−6	17th
11.	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	3	7th	5	020:270	−7	16
12.	Vissel Kobe	15th	3	6th	6th	021:250	−4	15th
13.	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	3	6th	6th	015:190	−4	15th
14th	Albirex Niigata	15th	3	5	7th	016:250	−9	14th
15th	Kashiwa Reysol	15th	3	3	9	014:220	−8	12
16.	Cerezo Osaka	15th	2	4th	9	017:300	−13	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 14, 2004 and ended on November 28, 2004. Urawa Red Diamonds qualified by winning the series for the Suntory Championship.

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Urawa Red Diamonds	15th	12	1	2	040:150	+25	37
2.	JEF United Ichihara	15th	8th	4th	3	027:220	+5	28
3.	Gamba Osaka	15th	8th	3	4th	038:250	+13	27
4th	Kashima Antlers	15th	7th	3	5	023:170	+6	24
5.	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15th	7th	3	5	025:210	+4	24
6th	Yokohama F. Marinos	15th	6th	5	4th	021:170	+4	23
7th	Albirex Niigata	15th	7th	2	6th	031:330	−2	23
8th.	Vissel Kobe	15th	6th	3	6th	029:300	−1	21st
9.	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15th	6th	2	7th	022:230	−1	20th
10.	FC Tokyo	15th	4th	6th	5	021:220	−1	18th
11.	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15th	3	7th	5	021:230	−2	16
12.	Cerezo Osaka	15th	4th	4th	7th	025:340	−9	16
13.	Júbilo Iwata	15th	3	5	7th	023:280	−5	14th
14th	Shimizu S-Pulse	15th	4th	1	10	017:260	−9	13
15th	Kashiwa Reysol	16	3	7th	6th	015:270	−12	16
16.	Ōita Trinita	14th	2	4th	8th	014:290	−15	10
Status: End of the half series

After the end of the semi-series:
	Qualifier for the Suntory Championship : Urawa Red Diamonds

Crosstab

Overall table

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

After the end of the season:
	Participation in the relegation games against third-placed J.League Division 2: Kashiwa Reysol

Suntory Championship

For the first time in three years the finals of the Suntory Championship took place again, defending champion Yokohama F. Marinos met the Urawa Red Diamonds. Urawa, trained by Guido Buchwald , equalized Yokohama's 1-0 victory in their own stadium a week later after 90 minutes. The subsequent extra time was inconclusive, so the penalty shoot-out had to bring the decision. The Reds were allowed to start here, but their first shooter, Marcus Tulio Tanaka, missed. A little later, the Brazilian Dutra sealed the renewed championship for F. Marinos with his decisive penalty, after the future Bundesliga player Makoto Hasebe had forgiven immediately before .

First leg

pairing	Yokohama F. Marinos - Urawa Red Diamonds
Result	1-0
date	December 5, 2004
Stadion	International Stadium , Yokohama 64,899 spectators
referee	Masayoshi Okada
Gates	1-0 Ryūji Kawai (66th)

Return leg

pairing	Urawa Red Diamonds - Yokohama F. Marinos
Result	1: 0 n.V. , 2: 4 i. E.
date	December 11, 2004
Stadion	Saitama Stadium 2002 , Saitama 59,715 spectators
referee	Tōru Kamikawa
Gates	1-0 Alex (76th) penalty shoot-out Marcus Tulio Tanaka shoots , 0-1 Daisuke Oku , 1: 1 Alex, 1: 2 Yoshiharu Ueno , 2: 2 Nenê , 2: 3 Daisuke Sakata , Makoto Hasebe shoots , 2: 4 Dutra

Relegation

In the relegation for a place in the J.League for the coming season, which was held for the first time, Kashiwa Reysol met Avispa Fukuoka , third in Division 2, last in the overall table . The two games were altogether a one-sided affair; after goals from Harutaka Ōno and Tatsuya Yazawa for Reysol in the first leg held in Fukuoka, Yūji Unozawa and Yasuhiro Hato made it clear that the favorites were not relegated a week later in front of their home crowd.

First leg

pairing	Avispa Fukuoka - Kashiwa Reysol
Result	0: 2
date	4th December 2004
Stadion	Hakatanomori Stadium , Fukuoka 20,522 spectators
referee	Toshimitsu Yoshida
Gates	0: 1 Harutaka Ōno (47th), 0: 2 Tatsuya Yazawa (89th)

Return leg

pairing	Kashiwa Reysol - Avispa Fukuoka
Result	2-0
date	December 12, 2004
Stadion	Hitachi Kashiwa Soccer Stadium , Kashiwa 13,149 spectators
referee	Jōji Kashihara
Gates	1-0 Yūji Unozawa (57th), 2-0 Yasuhiro Hato (61th)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFMS01/search?competition_years=2004&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 28, 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 .