J1 League
Sign in to savetop level of association football in Japan
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
Article
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).