J.League Division 1 2012

J.League Division 1 2012
master	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Champions League	Sanfrecce Hiroshima Vegalta Sendai Urawa Red Diamonds Kashiwa Reysol
Relegated	Vissel Kobe Gamba Osaka Consadole Sapporo
Teams	18th
Games	306
Gates	855  (ø 2.79 per game)
← J.League Division 1 2011 J.League Division 1 2013 →
J.League Division 2 2012 ↓

The J.League Division 1 2013 was the 20th season of the highest division of the Japanese J.League and the fourteenth under the name Division 1 . Eighteen clubs took part in it. The season started on March 10th and ended on December 1st, 2012.

The championship was won by Sanfrecce Hiroshima ; for the team from West Honshu it was the first J.League title and the sixth Japanese championship. For the AFC Champions League 2013 , next to Sanfrecce, the second Vegalta Sendai and the third Urawa Red Diamonds placed . Direct relegated to Division 2 2013 were the table sixteenth Vissel Kobe , the seventeenth Gamba Osaka - despite a positive goal difference - and bottom table Consadole Sapporo .

mode

As in the previous season , the clubs faced each other twice in a double round tournament , once at home and once away. There were three points for a win; in the case of a draw, each team received one point. The final table was therefore 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

The club with the best result at the end of the season won the Japanese championship. The best three teams qualified for the AFC Champions League 2013 , should one of these teams also win the Kaiser Cup 2012 , the fourth-placed team moved up. The three worst teams were relegated to the J.League Division 2 2013 .

Attendees

A total of eighteen teams took part in the season. Here, the Ventforet Kofu , Avispa Fukuoka and Montedio Yamagata left the league as the worst teams of the previous season in the direction of Division 2 2012 ; Ventforet and Avispa both returned to Division 2 after just a year, while Montedio ended a three-year membership in Division 1.

The three relegated teams were replaced by the best three clubs in the J.League Division 2 2011 . Master FC Tokyo was able to repair the relegation from the House of Lords immediately at the end of the 2010 season, the third-placed Consadole Sapporo returned to Division 1 for the third time after three years in Division 2. Sagan Tosu placed between Tokyo and Consadole , who made their first promotion to Division 1 after thirteen years in Division 2.

Sapporo Sendai Niigata Iwata Shizuoka Nagoya Osaka Suita Kobe Hiroshima Tosu Kashima Ōmiya Urawa Kashiwa Tokyo Kawasaki Yokohama Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the J.League Division 1 2012

society	City / region
Albirex Niigata	Niigata and Seirō , Niigata
Cerezo Osaka	Osaka , Osaka
Consadole Sapporo	Sapporo , Hokkaidō
Gamba Osaka	Suita , Osaka
Júbilo Iwata	Iwata , Shizuoka
Kashima Antlers	Kashima , Ibaraki
Kashiwa Reysol	Kashiwa , Chiba
Kawasaki Frontale	Kawasaki , Kanagawa
Nagoya Grampus	Nagoya , Aichi
Ōmiya Ardija	Saitama , Saitama
Sagan Tosu	Tosu , saga
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hiroshima , Hiroshima Prefecture
Shimizu S-Pulse	Shizuoka , Shizuoka
FC Tokyo	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	Nobuhiro Ishizaki
Vegalta Sendai	Makoto Teguramori
Kashima Antlers	Jorginho
Urawa Reds	Michael Petrovic
Omiya Ardija	Jun Suzuki → Takeyuki Okamoto → Zdenko Verdenik
Kashiwa Reysol	Nelsinho Baptista
FC Tokyo	Ranko Popović
Kawasaki Frontale	Naoki Sōma → Tatsuya Mochizuki → Yahiro Kazama
Yokohama F. Marinos	Yasuhiro Higuchi
Albirex Niigata	Hisashi Kurosaki → Nobuhiro Ueno → Masaaki Yanagishita
Shimizu S-Pulse	Afshin Ghotbi
Júbilo Iwata	Hitoshi Morishita
Nagoya Grampus	Dragan Stojkovic
Gamba Osaka	José Carlos Serrão → Masanobu Matsunami
Cerezo Osaka	Sérgio Soares → Levir Culpi
Vissel Kobe	Masahiro Wada → Ryō Adachi → Akira Nishino → Ryō Adachi
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hajime Moriyasu
Sagan Tosu	Yoon Jong-hwan

player

society	player
Consadole Sapporo	Takahiro Takagi (3/0), Takuma Hidaka (19/3), Jade North (21/0), Ryūji Kawai (25/0), Masaki Yamamoto (25/3), Shunsuke Iwanuma (30/0), Jumpei Takaki (17/2), Makoto Sunakawa (17/0), Masashi Nakayama (1/0), Hiroki Miyazawa (23/0), Shunsuke Maeda (14/1), Yoshihiro Uchimura (27/2), Hiroyuki Furuta (28 / 4), Lee Ho-seung (10/0), Yasuaki Okamoto (30/0), Hironobu Haga (9/0), Quirino (7/0), Toshiyasu Takahara (10/0), Yōsuke Mikami (2 / 0), Hideo Ōshima (20/0), Junki Yokono (1/0), Kazuki Kushibiki (11/0), Shin'ya Uehara (11/3), Takuma Arano (3/0), Tatsuki Nara (22 / 1), Tetsu Sugiyama (11/0), Takayuki Mae (15/0), Yūsuke Kondō (21/1), Shōta Sakaki (12/2), Kazunari Okayama (5/0), Ramon (10/1), Tele (5/0), Kim Jae-hoan (9/0)
Vegalta Sendai	Jirō Kamata (31/3), Kōdai Watanabe (18/1), Makoto Kakuda (28/0), Hiroaki Okuno (2/0), Toshihiro Matsushita (26/1), Takayuki Nakahara (16/2), Ryang Yong -gi (27/3), Kunimitsu Sekiguchi (28/3), Atsushi Yanagisawa (16/2), Sacconi (1/0), Yoshiaki Ōta (34/4), Takuto Hayashi (34/0), Shingo Tomita ( 29/2), Wilson (32/13), Yūki Mutō (13/1), Toshihiko Uchiyama (8/1), Naoya Tamura (26/1), Shingo Akamine (30/14), Naoki Sugai (30/5 ), Park Ju-sung (23/0), Taikai Uemoto (22/1), Kōji Hachisuka (1/0)
Kashima Antlers	Daiki Iwamasa (32/3), Kazuya Yamamura (18/1), Alex (5/0), Kōji Nakata (5/0), Tōru Araiba (31/0), Juninho (27/3), Yūya Ōsako (32 / 9), Masashi Motoyama (17/3), Dutra (27/8), Shinzō Kōroki (30/11), Chikashi Masuda (14/0), Takeshi Aoki (28/0), Takuya Honda (8/0) , Ryūta Sasaki (1/0), Hideya Okamoto (5/0), Gaku Shibasaki (31/1), Hitoshi Sogahata (34/0), Daigo Nishi (30/1), Gen Shōji (9/0), Yasushi Endō (32/6), Takahide Umebachi (4/0), Shōma Doi (4/0), Renato (14/2), Mitsuo Ogasawara (31/2)
Urawa Reds	Keisuke Tsuboi (33/0), Tomoya Ugajin (24/2), Nobuhisa Yamada (8/0), Tsukasa Umesaki (33/7), Yōsuke Kashiwagi (30/6), Marcio Richardes (31/9), Tatsuya Tanaka (7/0), Kōji Noda (12/0), Keita Suzuki (31/2), Tadaaki Hirakawa (31/1), Sergio Escudero (1/0), Popo (21/3), Mitsuru Nagata (29 / 0), Nobuhiro Katō (34/0), Tomoaki Makino (33/6), Despotovic (11/1), Yūki Abe (34/4), Genki Haraguchi (32/60), Mizuki Hamada (13/0), Shūto Kojima (12/0), Shin'ya Yajima (8/0), Naoki Yamada (2/0)
Omiya Ardija	Takashi Kitano (24/0), Kōsuke Kikuchi (33/2), Hiroyuki Kōmoto (13/0), Yūki Fukaya (11/0), Carlinhos (29/3), Takuya Aoki (34/4), Kōta Ueda ( 12/0), Keigo Higashi (26/1), Cho Young-cheol (30/4), Rafael (15/2), Zlatan (12/4), Daigō Watanabe (31/3), Shūsuke Tsubouchi (5 / 0), Jun Kanakubo (16/1), Hayato Hashimoto (1/0), Novakovic (12/5), Kim Young-gwon (13/0), Kōji Ezumi (11/0), Takumi Shimohira (34/0 ), Shin Kanazawa (17/1), Norio Suzuki (1/0), Kazuhiro Murakami (14/0), Masahiko Ichikawa (1/0), Shintarō Shimizu (6/1), Daisuke Watabe (25/2), Yū Hasegawa (30/5), Yōsuke Kataoka (11/0)
Kashiwa Reysol	Naoya Kondō (26/2), Hiroki Sakai (15/1), Tatsuya Masushima (30/4), Daisuke Nasu (23/0), Hidekazu Ōtani (31/1), Masakatsu Sawa (26/6), Hideaki Kitajima (5/1), Leandro Domingues (28/10), Ryōhei Hayashi (3/0), Neto Baiano (11/1), Kweon Han-jin (4/1), Jorge Wagner (33/7), Kōji Inada (4/0), An Yong-hak (6/0), Jun'ya Tanaka (31/5), Masato Kudō (33/13), Akimi Barada (28/0), Takanori Sugeno (30/0), Wataru Hashimoto (25/1), Hirofumi Watanabe (5/0), Ricardo Lobo (7/0), Ryōji Fukui (3/0), Masato Fujita (14/0), Ryōichi Kurisawa (26/0), Kōki Mizuno (14/1), Ryōsuke Yamanaka (1/0)
FC Tokyo	Hitoshi Shiota (4/0), Yūhei Tokunaga (31/1), Masato Morishige (33/2), Hideto Takahashi (33/1), Ken'ichi Kaga (17/0), Kōsuke Ōta (14/0), Takuji Yonemoto (27/0), Ariajasuru Hasegawa (28/3), Edmilson (10/2), Yōhei Kajiyama (26/2), Kazuma Watanabe (27/6), Sōta Hirayama (4/0), Hokuto Nakamura ( 11/1), Yūichi Maruyama (3/0), Hiroki Kawano (9/1), Naohiro Ishikawa (28/5), Yōhei Ōtake (3/0), Shūichi Gonda (31/0), Naotake Hanyū (13 / 0), Yōhei Hayashi (1/0), Kentarō Shigematsu (1/0), Sōtan Tanabe (18/3), Shūto Kōno (3/0), Jang Hyun-soo (14/2), Nemanja Vucicevic (13 / 6), Kenta Mukuhara (19/1), Hirotaka Mita (1/0), Tatsuya Yazawa (20/1), Lucas (34/10)
Kawasaki Frontale	Rikihiro Sugiyama (5/0), Hiroki Itō (14/1), Yūsuke Tanaka (29/4), Yūsuke Igawa (21/0), Jeci (15/1), Yūsuke Tasaka (16/3), Masaru Kurotsu ( 3/0), Takanobu Komiyama (7/0), Takurō Yajima (20/7), Renato (29/10), Yū Kobayashi (26/6), Kōji Yamase (17/2), Kengo Nakamura (34/5 ), Yūki Saneto (26/2), Jumpei Kusukami (28/5), Rui Komatsu (12/0), Kōsei Shibasaki (8/0), Jun'ichi Inamoto (20/0), Yōhei Nishibe (28/0 ), Akito Fukumori (3/0), Kyōhei Noborizato (16/2), Yūdai Tanaka (3/0), Rene Santos (4/0), Shunsuke Andō (1/0), Jun'ichi Tanaka (3/0 ), Ryōta Ōshima (20/3), Kōki Kazama (16/0), Shun Morishita (12/0), Kōya Kazama (10/0), Kyōtarō Yamakoshi (13/0)
Yokohama F. Marinos	Tetsuya Enomoto (7/0), Yūzō Kurihara (31/0), Dutra (29/0), Shōhei Ogura (4/0), Shingō Hyōdō (34/4), Kōsuke Nakamachi (20/1), Masashi Ōguro ( 25/2), Yūji Ono (33/2), Manabu Saitō (29/6), Yūzō Kobayashi (30/0), Kenta Kanō (4/0), Yūsuke Higa (1/0), Rei Matsumoto (13 / 0), Marquinhos (22/10), Kentarō Moriya (4/0), Hiroki Iikura (28/0), Yūji Nakazawa (33/3), Shō Matsumoto (3/0), Takashi Kanai (16/1), Shunsuke Nakamura (31/6), Naoaki Aoyama (7/0), Seitarō Tomisawa (26/4), Andrew Kumagai (10/1), Hiroyuki Taniguchi (25/3)
Albirex Niigata	Takaya Kurokawa (7/0), Kentarō Ōi (14/0), Daisuke Suzuki (28/0), Naoki Ishikawa (32/1), Yūta Mikado (31/1), Seiya Fujita (24/1), Fumiya Kogure (4/0), Kishō Yano (30/2), Michael (26/4), Bruno Lopes (32/7), Shōki Hirai (21/0), Isao Homma (33/0), Kim Young-keun ( 2/0), Jun Uchida (5/0), Alan Mineiro (22/3), Kim Jin-su (23/1), Masaaki Higashiguchi (24/0), Atomu Tanaka (34/4), Yūsuke Murakami ( 30/0), Kenji Koyano (9/0), Musashi Suzuki (9/0), Noriyoshi Sakai (2/0), Hideaki Ozawa (3/0), Yoshiyuki Kobayashi (1/0), Naoya Kikuchi (18 / 1), Shūsuke Tsubouchi (9/2)
Shimizu S-Pulse	Kaito Yamamoto (8/0), Taisuke Muramatsu (29/3), Yasuhiro Hiraoka (28/0), Calvin Jong-a-Pin (32/0), Keisuke Iwashita (12/1), Kōta Sugiyama (20/0 ), Alex (23/6), Takuma Edamura (4/0), Jymmy Franca (14/0), Daigo Kobayashi (17/0), Genki Ōmae (34/13), Toshiyuki Takagi (30/9), Shō Itō (11/1), Shinji Tsujio (1/0), Kōhei Hattanda (9/0), Yōsuke Kawai (32/0), Shinji Ono (14/0), Naohiro Takahara (18/1), Ryōhei Shirasaki ( 7/0), Tomoya Inukai (1/0), Atomu Nabeta (5/0), Yutaka Yoshida (25/0), Kang Song-ho (2/0), Akihiro Hayashi (26/0), Hideki Ishige ( 16/0), Lee Ki-je (33/0), Yūji Senuma (3/1), Kim Hyun-sung (12/3), Kiyotaka Miyoshi (3/0)
Júbilo Iwata	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (2/0), Mitsuru Chiyotanda (7/0), Yūichi Komano (34/3), Rodrigo Souto (22/1), Yūki Kobayashi (32/2), Baek Sung-dong (12/2), Ryōhei Yamazaki (26/2), Hiroki Yamada (31/9), Takuya Matsuura (26/3), Tomohiko Miyazaki (26/1), Yūki Oshitani (4/0), Minoru Suganuma (18/2), Jō Kanazawa (5/0), Hidetaka Kanazono (5/1), Ryōichi Maeda (33/13), Shūto Yamamoto (16/1), Naoki Hatta (32/0), Shun'ya Suganuma (21/1), Kōsuke Yamamoto (23/7), Cho Byung-kuk (23/6), Ryōsuke Matsuoka (1/0), Yoshirō Abe (17/1), Akihiko Takeshige (1/0), Yoshiaki Fujita (31/1), Han Sang -woon (5/0), Yūki Kobayashi (11/0)
Nagoya Grampus	Seigō Narazaki (32/0), Marcus Tulio Tanaka (33/9), Takahiro Masukawa (33/1), Shōhei Abe (29/0), Naoshi Nakamura (5/0), Jungo Fujimoto (33/2), Yoshizumi Ogawa (31/1), Keiji Tamada (25/5), Ryōta Isomura (5/0), Keiji Yoshimura (11/0), Kennedy (18/5), Yūki Maki (11/0), Kensuke Nagai (30 / 10), Danilson (27/3), Daniel (30/0), Yōsuke Ishibitsu (10/0), Mū Kanazaki (32/5), Ryōta Tanabe (3/0), Taishi Taguchi (25/2), Hayuma Tanaka (31/1), Makito Yoshida (2/0), Teruki Tanaka (8/0), Alessandro Santos (5/0), Yoshinari Takagi (2/0)
Gamba Osaka	Yōsuke Fujigaya (28/0), Sōta Nakazawa (19/2), Kim Jung-ya (7/0), Hiroki Fujiharu (34/1), Daiki Niwa (14/0), Shigeru Yokotani (7/0), Yasuhito Endō (34/5), Hayato Sasaki (15/0), Rafinha (10/3), Leandro (15/14), Takahiro Futagawa (29/3), Paulinho (21/8), Shin'ichi Terada ( 9/0), Keisuke Iwashita (12/0), Shū Kurata (31/7), Yasuyuki Konno (33/2), Tomokazu Myōjin (31/1), Shōta Kawanishi (2/0), Kōtarō Ōmori (4 / 0), Akihiro Satō (26/11), Akira Kaji (16/0), Takuya Takei (26/2), Kenta Hoshihara (2/0), Hiroyuki Abe (18/2), Tatsuya Uchida (5/0) , Atsushi Kimura (6/0), Lee Seung-yeoul (8/0), Akihiro Ienaga (12/5)
Cerezo Osaka	Takahiro Ōgihara (29/2), Teruyuki Moniwa (33/0), Kōta Fujimoto (32/0), Tetsuya Funatsu (5/0), Hotaru Yamaguchi (30/2), Kim Bo-kyung (15/7), Simplicio (15/3), Hiroshi Kiyotake (16/2), Kempes (27/7), Branquinho (16/1), Ryūji Bando (17/2), Yōichirō Kakitani (30/11), Yūsuke Maruhashi (24 / 1), Takamitsu Yoshino (5/0), Takuma Edamura (15/4), Noriyuki Sakemoto (30/0), Tomonobu Yokoyama (9/2), Ryō Nagai (8/0), Daisuke Takahashi (13/0) , Kim Jin-hyeon (34/0), Arata Kodama (3/0), Tatsuya Yamashita (9/0), Kim Song-gi (2/0), Masato Kurogi (8/0), Kazuya Murata (13 / 1), Takumi Minamino (3/0), Heberty (13/0), Ken'yū Sugimoto (12/1)
Vissel Kobe	Gakuto Kondō (4/1), Takahito Sōma (32/2), Kunie Kitamoto (29/0), Hiroyuki Kōmoto (1/0), Park Kang-jo (20/0), Takuya Nozawa (33/5), Ken Tokura (25/6), Yoshito Ōkubo (26/4), Yūzō Tashiro (18/6), Keijirō Ogawa (28/9), Ryōta Morioka (20/1), Tsubasa Ōya (11/1), Takayuki Yoshida (19/1), Hideo Tanaka (27/1), Masahiko Inoha (29/0), Hiroto Mogi (21/1), Kazumichi Takagi (9/0), Lee Kwang-seon (15/1), Masatoshi Mihara (12/0), Ryō Okui (27/1), Hideo Hashimoto (24/1), Jun Kamita (3/0), Kenta Tokushige (31/0), Takuya Iwanami (2/0), Ryō Matsumura (1 / 0), Fernando (4/0)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Shūsaku Nishikawa (34/0), Hwang Seok-ho (18/0), Hiroki Mizumoto (34/2), Kazuhiko Chiba (33/1), Toshihiro Aoyama (34/2), Kōji Morisaki (28/7), Kazuyuki Morisaki (33/2), Naoki Ishihara (32/7), Hisato Satō (34/22), Mikic (28/0), Yōjirō Takahagi (34/4), Satoru Yamagishi (16/2), Ryūichi Hirashige ( 3/2), Hironori Ishikawa (20/1), Ryōta Moriwaki (33/4), Jun'ya Ōsaki (12/1), Sena Inami (1/0), Kōhei Shimizu (24/4), Gakuto Notsuda ( 5/0), Shinji Tsujio (5/0), Tsukasa Shiotani (3/0), Kōji Nakajima (2/1)
Sagan Tosu	Taku Akahoshi (30/0), Kōsuke Kitani (4/0), Keita Isozaki (26/0), Teruaki Kobayashi (26/2), Kim Kun-hwan (31/1), Tomotaka Okamoto (26/0), Keisuke Funatani (2/0), Kōta Mizunuma (33/5), Tozin (23/3), Kim Min-woo (31/2), Yōhei Toyoda (33/19), Tatsurō Okuda (4/0), Yūsuke Inuzuka (4/0), Naoyuki Fujita (33/6), Ryūhei Niwa (33/0), Ryūnosuke Noda (17/4), Shōhei Okada (19/0), Yeo Sung-hye (27/1), Kei Ikeda (26/3), Ryōta Hayasaka (21/0), Tatsuya Sakai (2/0), Kōki Kiyotake (2/0), Yoshiki Takahashi (16/0), Shōhei Kishida (1/0), Kōhei Kuroki ( 3/0)

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	34	19th	7th	8th	063:340	+29	64
2.	Vegalta Sendai	34	15th	12	7th	059:430	+16	57
3.	Urawa Red Diamonds	34	15th	10	9	047:420	+5	55
4th	Yokohama F. Marinos	34	13	14th	7th	044:330	+11	53
5.	Sagan Tosu (N)	34	15th	8th	11	048:390	+9	53
6th	Kashiwa Reysol (M)	34	15th	7th	12	057:520	+5	52
7th	Nagoya Grampus	34	15th	7th	12	046:470	−1	52
8th.	Kawasaki Frontale	34	14th	8th	12	051:500	+1	50
9.	Shimizu S-Pulse	34	14th	7th	13	039:400	−1	49
10.	FC Tokyo (N, P)	34	14th	6th	14th	047:440	+3	48
11.	Kashima Antlers	34	12	10	12	050:430	+7	46
12.	Júbilo Iwata	34	13	7th	14th	057:530	+4	46
13.	Ōmiya Ardija	34	11	11	12	038:450	−7	44
14th	Cerezo Osaka	34	11	9	14th	047:530	−6	42
15th	Albirex Niigata	34	10	10	14th	029:340	−5	40
16.	Vissel Kobe	34	11	6th	17th	041:500	−9	39
17th	Gamba Osaka	34	9	11	14th	067:650	+2	38
18th	Consadole Sapporo (N)	34	4th	2	28	025:880	−63	14th
Status: end of the season

After the end of the season:
	Japanese champion 2012 and qualification for the AFC Champions League 2013 : Sanfrecce Hiroshima
	Qualifiers for the AFC Champions League 2013: Vegalta Sendai, Urawa Red Diamonds
	Japanese cup winner and qualification for the AFC Champions League 2013: Kashiwa Reysol
	Relegated to the J.League Division 2 2013 : Vissel Kobe, Gamba Osaka, Consadole Sapporo
At the end of the 2011 season:
(M)	Japanese champion 2011 : Kashiwa Reysol
(P)	Japanese Cup Winner 2011: FC Tokyo
(N)	Newcomers from the J.League Division 2 2011 : FC Tokyo, Sagan Tosu, Consadole Sapporo

Crosstab

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFMS01/search?competition_years=2012&competition_frame_ids=1
2. ↑ J.League (Japanese)
3. ↑ J. League Division 1 2012: Overall table for the season. Accessed August 7, 2016 .