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Statistics of J. League Cup, officially the '96 J.League Yamazaki Nabisco Cup, in the 1996 season.
Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Shimizu S-Pulse won the championship.
Results
In what is the most unusual format ever used in the history of the J.League Cup, the win-draw-lose results were based on their aggregate score of the ties between teams, not the individual games' results.