2005 J.League Division 1

J.League Division 1
Season	2005
Champions	Gamba Osaka; 1st J.League title; 1st Japanese title
Relegated	Kashiwa Reysol; Tokyo Verdy 1969; Vissel Kobe
Champions League	Gamba Osaka; Tokyo Verdy 1969; (all to the group stage)
Matches played	306
Goals scored	873 (2.85 per match)
Top goalscorer	Clemerson (33 goals)
Highest attendance	55,476 (Round 9,; Reds vs. Grampus)
Lowest attendance	3,267 (Round 5,; Verdy vs. Sanfrecce)
Average attendance	18,765
	← 2004 2006 →

The 2005 J.League Division 1 season was the 13th season since the establishment of J.League Division 1. It began on March 5 and ended on December 3, followed by J. League promotion/relegation series matches on December 7 and 10.

General

Promotion and relegation

At the end of the 2004 season, Kawasaki Frontale and Omiya Ardija were promoted to J1.
At the end of the 2004 season, there were no relegation to J2.
At the end of the 2004 season, Tokushima Vortis and Thespakusatsu Gunma were promoted to J2 from JFL.

Changes in competition formats

The Division 1 was expanded to 18 clubs, and Division 2 stays at 12 clubs.
The format of Division 1 was changed from the double-season format to a single season.
In games that require extra time in case of a tie (i.e. league cup finals), golden goal rules were eliminated. Clubs now had to play the full extra time.

Changes in clubs

JEF United relocates from Ichihara to the prefecture capital, Chiba, and becomes JEF United Ichihara Chiba.

Honours

Competition	Champion	Runner-up	3rd place
J.League Division 1	Gamba Osaka	Urawa Red Diamonds	Kashima Antlers
J.League Division 2	Kyoto Purple Sanga	Avispa Fukuoka	Ventforet Kofu
Emperor's Cup	Urawa Red Diamonds	Shimizu S-Pulse	Cerezo Osaka Omiya Ardija
Nabisco Cup	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	Gamba Osaka	Urawa Red Diamonds Yokohama F. Marinos
XEROX Super Cup	Tokyo Verdy 1969	Yokohama F. Marinos

Clubs

Following eighteen clubs played in J.League Division 1 during 2005 season. Of these clubs, Omiya Ardija and Kawasaki Frontale were newly promoted clubs.

Personnel

Club	Head coach
Albirex Niigata	Yasuharu Sorimachi
Cerezo Osaka	Shinji Kobayashi
FC Tokyo	Hiromi Hara
Gamba Osaka	Akira Nishino
JEF United Ichihara Chiba	Ivica Osim
Júbilo Iwata	Masakuni Yamamoto
Kashima Antlers	Toninho Cerezo
Kashiwa Reysol	Hiroshi Hayano
Kawasaki Frontale	Takashi Sekizuka
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Hitoshi Nakata
Oita Trinita	Péricles Chamusca
Omiya Ardija	Toshiya Miura
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Takeshi Ono
Shimizu S-Pulse	Kenta Hasegawa
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Vadão
Urawa Red Diamonds	Guido Buchwald
Vissel Kobe	Pavel Řehák
Yokohama F. Marinos	Takeshi Okada

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Non-visa foreign	Type-C contract	Former players
Albirex Niigata	Ânderson Lima	Edmílson	Fabinho Santos		Neto Potiguar	Marcel Sacramento
Cerezo Osaka	Bruno Quadros	Fabinho	Zé Carlos
FC Tokyo	Jean	Lucas Severino	Santiago Salcedo		Rychely	Danilo Gomes
Gamba Osaka	Clemerson	Fernandinho	Sidiclei
JEF United Ichihara Chiba	Mario Haas	Ilian Stoyanov	Gabriel Popescu	Kim Dong-soo
Júbilo Iwata	Choi Yong-soo	Kim Jin-kyu			Ibrahima Rene Camara	Rodrigo Gral
Kashima Antlers	Alex Mineiro	Fernando	Ricardinho			Ari
Kashiwa Reysol	Cléber Santana	França	Reinaldo			Ricardinho Choi Sung-kuk
Kawasaki Frontale	Augusto César	Juninho	Marcus Vinícius	Chong Yong-de	Hulk
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Claiton	Eduardo		An Yong-hak	Jorge Sebastián Núñez	Luizão Marques Ueslei
Oita Trinita	Edmilson Alves	Magno Alves	Túlio			Dodô Patrick Zwaanswijk
Omiya Ardija	Leandro	Toninho	Tuto			Christian
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Beto	Dininho	Galvão	Ri Han-jae	Jorginho
Shimizu S-Pulse	Marquinhos	Cho Jae-jin	Choi Tae-uk			Rogério Corrêa
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Gil	Washington			Lee Woo-jin Moon Je-chun
Urawa Red Diamonds	Nenê	Robson Ponte	Tomislav Marić	Sergio Escudero	Eliézio	Emerson Sheik Alpay Özalan
Vissel Kobe	Ivo Ulich	Martin Müller	Pavel Horváth	Park Kang-jo		Roger Machado Patrick Mboma
Yokohama F. Marinos	Dutra	Magrão	Rodrigo Gral			Adhemar Ahn Jung-hwan

Format

Eighteen clubs will play in double round-robin (home and away) format, a total of 34 games each. A club receives 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order:

Goal differential
Goals scored
Head-to-head results

A draw would be conducted, if necessary. However, if two clubs are tied at the first place, both clubs will be declared as the champions. The bottom two clubs will be relegated to J2, while the 16th placed club plays a two-legged Promotion/relegation Series.

Changes from previous year

Number of clubs competing increased from 16 to 18
The season format was changed from the double-season format to a single season.
Number of games per club increased from 30 games to 34 games per season.

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Gamba Osaka (C)	34	18	6	10	82	58	+24	60	Qualification for 2006 AFC Champions League Group stage^[a]
2	Urawa Red Diamonds	34	17	8	9	65	37	+28	59
3	Kashima Antlers	34	16	11	7	61	39	+22	59
4	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	34	16	11	7	56	42	+14	59
5	Cerezo Osaka	34	16	11	7	48	40	+8	59
6	Júbilo Iwata	34	14	9	11	51	41	+10	51
7	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	34	13	11	10	50	42	+8	50
8	Kawasaki Frontale	34	15	5	14	54	47	+7	50
9	Yokohama F. Marinos	34	12	12	10	41	40	+1	48
10	FC Tokyo	34	11	14	9	43	40	+3	47
11	Oita Trinita	34	12	7	15	44	43	+1	43
12	Albirex Niigata	34	11	9	14	47	62	−15	42
13	Omiya Ardija	34	12	5	17	39	50	−11	41
14	Nagoya Grampus Eight	34	10	9	15	43	49	−6	39
15	Shimizu S-Pulse	34	9	12	13	40	49	−9	39
16	Kashiwa Reysol (R)	34	8	11	15	39	54	−15	35	Relegation to 2006 J.League Division 2^[a]
17	Tokyo Verdy 1969 (R)	34	6	12	16	40	73	−33	30
18	Vissel Kobe (R)	34	4	9	21	30	67	−37	21

Updated to match(es) played on December 3, 2005. Source: J. League Division 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:

^ ^a ^b Tokyo Verdy 1969 qualified to 2006 AFC Champions League as 2004 Emperor's Cup winners.

Results

Home \ Away	ALB	ANT	ARD	CER	FRO	GAM	GRA	JEF	JÚB	REY	SFR	SSP	TOK	TRI	RED	VER	VIS	FMA
Albirex Niigata		2–2	3–2	1–2	2–1	4–2	3–0	1–1	0–1	2–2	0–1	0–0	0–1	2–1	0–4	1–1	3–2	1–0
Kashima Antlers	7–2		2–0	0–1	2–0	2–2	1–0	2–2	2–1	4–0	1–2	2–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	2–1	4–0	0–2
Omiya Ardija	1–4	0–2		1–0	1–0	1–0	3–2	0–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	3–2	0–1	3–1	1–3	2–3	1–1	1–1
Cerezo Osaka	1–0	0–0	1–0		2–0	2–4	1–0	2–0	2–0	1–1	1–1	1–1	2–2	1–1	3–1	0–0	2–1	2–3
Kawasaki Frontale	3–0	2–1	2–1	3–2		2–4	0–2	1–0	0–2	3–1	1–1	0–1	0–0	2–1	3–3	1–0	3–1	2–1
Gamba Osaka	1–1	3–3	0–2	4–1	3–2		3–1	1–2	3–1	3–2	4–2	3–3	5–3	1–2	2–1	7–1	3–1	3–2
Nagoya Grampus Eight	0–1	3–0	1–1	1–3	1–4	2–1		2–2	2–0	4–0	1–1	1–2	1–0	0–0	0–2	5–4	0–2	1–1
JEF United Ichihara Chiba	3–2	2–4	2–0	1–2	1–0	3–1	2–1		2–2	2–2	1–1	2–1	2–1	4–2	1–0	1–0	4–0	2–2
Júbilo Iwata	2–3	1–1	2–0	3–0	1–2	2–1	0–3	1–3		1–0	1–3	1–1	1–1	2–1	2–2	6–0	1–0	3–1
Kashiwa Reysol	0–0	1–3	1–2	1–1	1–1	2–1	0–2	1–2	0–4		1–1	1–2	4–2	0–0	3–0	5–1	1–0	0–1
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	5–0	0–1	2–1	1–2	2–1	1–2	1–2	1–1	0–0	0–0		3–1	0–0	0–4	3–4	3–0	2–0	0–1
Shimizu S-Pulse	2–1	2–2	2–1	1–1	3–2	1–4	2–2	2–1	1–1	1–2	1–1		0–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–0	0–1
FC Tokyo	4–0	0–2	3–3	2–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	2–1	1–0	0–2	2–2	1–0		0–0	0–2	0–0	1–1	4–0
Oita Trinita	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–2	1–0	0–2	2–0	0–1	1–2	1–1	0–1	5–0	2–1		1–0	1–2	2–1	0–2
Urawa Red Diamonds	2–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	3–2	1–1	3–0	0–0	1–0	7–0	2–0	1–1	2–1	1–2		4–1	2–2	0–0
Tokyo Verdy 1969	2–2	2–0	1–1	0–1	1–2	0–1	0–0	2–2	4–4	1–0	1–4	0–0	1–2	4–2	0–7		3–3	1–1
Vissel Kobe	1–1	0–2	0–1	3–1	1–6	1–4	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–4	2–3	0–3	1–2	2–1	0–1	1–1		0–2
Yokohama F. Marinos	4–1	2–1	1–2	1–1	0–2	2–2	2–2	2–1	0–1	0–0	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–3	0–1	1–0	1–1

Updated to match(es) played on December 3, 2005. Source: J. League Division 1
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals^[1]
1	Clemerson	Gamba Osaka	33
2	Washington	Tokyo Verdy 1969	22
3	Edmílson	Albirex Niigata	18
	Magno Alves	Oita Trinita
	Hisato Satō	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
6	Juninho	Kawasaki Frontale	16
6	Masashi Oguro	Gamba Osaka	16
8	Alex Mineiro	Kashima Antlers	15
9	Robert Cullen	Júbilo Iwata	13
10	Ryoichi Maeda	Júbilo Iwata	12
	Seiichiro Maki	JEF United Ichihara Chiba
	Yuki Abe	JEF United Ichihara Chiba

Attendance figures

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Albirex Niigata	681,945	41,988	35,337	40,114	+6.4%^†
2	Urawa Red Diamonds	669,066	55,476	15,760	39,357	+7.4%^†
3	FC Tokyo	460,721	43,104	18,089	27,101	+6.5%^†
4	Yokohama F. Marinos	437,121	53,097	14,450	25,713	+3.6%^†
5	Oita Trinita	375,359	30,048	12,683	22,080	+0.9%^†
6	Kashima Antlers	316,897	35,467	7,076	18,641	+6.0%^†
7	Cerezo Osaka	300,020	43,927	5,232	17,648	+23.2%^†
8	Júbilo Iwata	294,040	37,384	9,854	17,296	+1.0%^†
9	Gamba Osaka	271,416	22,884	6,646	15,966	+27.6%^†
10	Vissel Kobe	253,524	25,104	7,643	14,913	−5.2%^†
11	Tokyo Verdy 1969	250,177	35,257	3,267	14,716	−2.3%^†
12	Kawasaki Frontale	232,183	24,332	7,023	13,658	+49.3%^†
13	Nagoya Grampus Eight	225,896	22,110	6,348	13,288	−15.4%^†
14	Shimizu S-Pulse	216,784	21,730	7,280	12,752	−6.0%^†
15	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	212,960	26,083	6,230	12,527	−15.4%^†
16	Kashiwa Reysol	212,368	27,328	6,457	12,492	+18.8%^†
17	Omiya Ardija	169,667	30,038	4,556	9,980	+63.4%^†
18	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	162,089	17,087	4,249	9,535	−4.8%^‡
	League total	5,742,233	55,476	3,267	18,765	−1.1%^†

Updated to games played on December 3, 2005
Source: J. League Division 1
Notes:
^† Team played previous season in J2.
^‡ Relocated from Ichihara to Chiba.

Awards

Individual

Award	Recipient	Club
Player of the Year	Clemerson	Gamba Osaka
Young Player of the Year	Robert Cullen	Júbilo Iwata
Manager of the Year	Akira Nishino	Gamba Osaka
Top Scorer	Clemerson	Gamba Osaka
Fair Play Player Award	Masashi Oguro	Gamba Osaka
Fair Play Player Award	Teruyuki Moniwa	FC Tokyo
Referee of the Year	Kazuhiko Matsumura
Assistant Referee of the Year	Masatoshi Shibata
Meritoriousness Player Award	Bismarck

Best Eleven

Position	Footballer	Club	Nationality
GK	Motohiro Yoshida (1)	Cerezo Osaka	Japan
DF	Ilian Stoyanov (1)	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	Bulgaria
DF	Marcus Tulio Tanaka (2)	Urawa Red Diamonds	Japan
DF	Yuji Nakazawa (4)	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
MF	Fernandinho (1)	Gamba Osaka	Brazil
MF	Mitsuo Ogasawara (5)	Kashima Antlers	Japan
MF	Tatsuya Furuhashi (1)	Cerezo Osaka	Japan
MF	Yasuhito Endō (3)	Gamba Osaka	Japan
MF	Yuki Abe (1)	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	Japan
FW	Clemerson (1)	Gamba Osaka	Brazil
FW	Hisato Satō (1)	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan