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Key facts
- Organising body
- J.League
- Founded
- 1992 ; 34 years ago ( 1992 )
- Country
- Japan
- Confederation
- AFC
- Relegation to
- J2 League
- Domestic cup s
- Emperor's Cup , Japanese Super Cup
- League cup
- J.League Cup
- International cup s
- AFC Champions League Elite , AFC Champions League Two
- Current champions
- Kashima Antlers (9th title) , ( 2025 )
- Most championships
- Kashima Antlers (9 titles)
- Most appearances
- Yasuhito Endō (672)
- Top scorer
- Yoshito Ōkubo (191)
- Broadcaster s
- DAZN (including Abema de DAZN ) , NHK General TV (selected matches) , NHK BS (selected matches) , YouTube (selected matches and markets)
- Website
- jleague.jp
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
The J1 League (Japanese: J1リーグ, Hepburn: Jē-wan Rīgu), a.k.a. the J.League or the Meiji Yasuda J1 League (Japanese: 明治安田J1リーグ, Hepburn: Meiji Yasuda Jē-wan Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Japan and the highest level of the Japanese football league system.
Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the J2 League. Both the J1 and J2 leagues are operated by the Japan Professional Football League (日本プロサッカーリーグ, Nihon Puro Sakkā Rīgu).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “J1 League” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.