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J.League Division 1
Season	2001
Champions	Kashima Antlers 4th J.League title 4th Japanese title
Promoted	Urawa Red Diamonds Consadole Sapporo
Relegated	Avispa Fukuoka Cerezo Osaka
AFC Champions League	Kashima Antlers Shimizu S-Pulse (as Emperor's Cup winner)
Matches played	240
Goals scored	788 (3.28 per match)
Top goalscorer	Will (24 goals)
Highest attendance	60,553 - Reds vs. Marinos (13 October)
Lowest attendance	4,014 - JEF Utd. vs. Gamba (31 October)
Average attendance	16,548
← 2000 2002 →

The 2001 J.League Division 1 season was the ninth season since the establishment of the J.League Division 1. The league began on March 10 and ended on November 24. At the end of the season, the second stage winner Kashima Antlers won the Suntory Championship against Júbilo Iwata who won the first stage.

Clubs

The following sixteen clubs participated in J.League Division 1 during 2001 season. Of these clubs, Consadole Sapporo and Urawa Red Diamonds were promoted from Division 2.

Personnel

Club	Head coach
Avispa Fukuoka	Nestor Omar Piccoli
Cerezo Osaka	Akihiro Nishimura
Consadole Sapporo	Takeshi Okada
FC Tokyo	Kiyoshi Okuma
Gamba Osaka	Kazuhiko Takemoto
JEF United Ichihara	Zdenko Verdenik
Júbilo Iwata	Masakazu Suzuki
Kashima Antlers	Toninho Cerezo
Kashiwa Reysol	Steve Perryman
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Tetsuro Miura
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Valery Nepomnyashchy
Shimizu S-Pulse	Zdravko Zemunović
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Yukitaka Omi
Urawa Red Diamonds	Pita
Vissel Kobe	Ryoichi Kawakatsu
Yokohama F. Marinos	Sebastião Lazaroni

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Non-visa foreign	Type-C contract	Former players
Avispa Fukuoka	Claudio Biaggio	David Bisconti	Noh Jung-yoon				Martín Vilallonga Pavel Badea
Cerezo Osaka	Cláudio	Wágner	Washington	Yoon Jong-hwan			Marcelo Rosa Kim Do-keun Noh Jung-yoon
Consadole Sapporo	Adalto	Biju	Will				Almir
FC Tokyo	Amaral	Kelly			Sandro
Gamba Osaka	Reginaldo	Mirko Hrgović	Nino Bule				Claude Dambury
JEF United Ichihara	Edin Mujčin	Željko Milinovič	Choi Yong-soo		Kim Myung-hwi
Júbilo Iwata	Aleksandar Živković	Arno van Zwam
Kashima Antlers	Augusto César	Bismarck	Fabiano
Kashiwa Reysol	Hong Myung-bo	Hwang Sun-hong	Yoo Sang-chul
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Marcelo Ramos	Ueslei	Dragan Stojković	Tarik Oulida	Ko Ishikawa	Adriano Pimenta
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Steve Corica	Oleg Pashinin			Marcus Tulio Tanaka Ri Han-jae		Tony Popovic Serhiy Skachenko
Shimizu S-Pulse	Fernando Oliva	Baron			Alex	Alair
Tokyo Verdy 1969	Edmundo	Emerson	Marquinhos
Urawa Red Diamonds	Adriano Gerlin	Emerson Sheik	Harison	Tuto			Donizete Oliveira
Vissel Kobe	Daniel	Santos	Sidiclei
Yokohama F. Marinos	Dutra	Marco Brito	Nasa	Marcelo Lipatín			Leandro Simioni

Overview

First stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	D	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Júbilo Iwata	15	9	4	1	1	0	32	12	+20	36	Qualification to the Suntory Championship
2	JEF United Ichihara	15	7	3	0	2	3	35	26	+9	27
3	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15	5	5	2	0	3	29	20	+9	27
4	Shimizu S-Pulse	15	6	4	0	2	3	28	18	+10	26
5	Gamba Osaka	15	7	2	0	3	3	29	22	+7	25
6	Kashiwa Reysol	15	6	2	0	2	5	29	23	+6	22
7	Urawa Red Diamonds	15	6	1	1	1	6	24	22	+2	21
8	Consadole Sapporo	15	6	0	3	2	4	20	21	−1	21
9	FC Tokyo	15	5	3	0	0	7	18	19	−1	21
10	Vissel Kobe	15	5	1	2	3	4	16	20	−4	19
11	Kashima Antlers	15	5	1	1	3	5	21	23	−2	18
12	Avispa Fukuoka	15	4	1	0	2	8	13	25	−12	14
13	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15	3	2	0	2	8	25	33	−8	13
14	Cerezo Osaka	15	3	0	2	2	8	22	31	−9	11
15	Yokohama F. Marinos	15	3	0	2	3	7	13	24	−11	11
16	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15	2	2	0	3	8	16	31	−15	10

Source:
Notes:

^ Promoted from 2000 J.League Division 2
Champion from 2000 J.League Division 1 and Cup-Winner 2000 Emperor's Cup

Results

Home \ Away	ANT	FMA	REY	JÚB	CER	GAM	TOK	SSP	GRA	VER	SFR	AVI	VIS	JEF	CON	RED
Kashima Antlers		2–0	3–2	1–2				3–4			2–1		2–0			0–3
Yokohama F. Marinos			0–2	1–2			0–2	1–3			2–1		0–1			0–1
Kashiwa Reysol				0–1			0–2	2–1			2–1	1–0	5–1			3–2
Júbilo Iwata						2–0	1–0		3–0	2–1		2–1		4–1	2–1
Cerezo Osaka	0–0	0–2	3–2				1–2	2–1				3–0			1–2
Gamba Osaka	3–1	3–2	3–2		2–1			0–1	2–3	5–0				3–4
FC Tokyo	2–0					0–2			0–1	2–1		1–2		0–3	2–1
Shimizu S-Pulse				1–0			1–2				5–1	1–0	1–0		5–2	1–0
Nagoya Grampus Eight	2–1	1–1	1–4		3–1			2–1			3–2		0–2			2–0
Tokyo Verdy 1969	2–1	2–3	1–0		2–1			1–2	0–3				1–0	1–2
Sanfrecce Hiroshima				1–4	3–2	2–3	3–0			3–2		2–3			1–0	1–3
Avispa Fukuoka	0–2	1–0				2–0			0–4	1–0				2–3	0–2
Vissel Kobe				2–2	3–1	0–1	2–0				1–0	2–1			0–0	1–2
JEF United Ichihara	2–0	2–0	2–3		4–2			2–0	1–2		1–3		4–1
Consadole Sapporo	2–1	1–1	2–1			1–0			2–2	2–0				2–3
Urawa Red Diamonds				0–2	2–2	1–2	1–3			4–2		2–0		3–1	2–0

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Second stage

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	D	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Kashima Antlers	15	10	3	0	0	2	36	19	+17	36	Qualification to the Suntory Championship
2	Júbilo Iwata	15	9	4	0	0	2	31	14	+17	35
3	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	15	8	0	0	0	7	36	27	+9	24
4	Shimizu S-Pulse	15	5	4	0	1	5	34	27	+7	23
5	JEF United Ichihara	15	7	0	2	0	6	25	28	−3	23
6	Nagoya Grampus Eight	15	7	0	1	1	6	27	25	+2	22
7	Kashiwa Reysol	15	6	0	3	0	6	29	23	+6	21
8	FC Tokyo	15	5	0	5	1	4	29	28	+1	20
9	Tokyo Verdy 1969	15	6	0	2	2	5	22	26	−4	20
10	Yokohama F. Marinos	15	4	2	3	3	3	19	20	−1	19
11	Gamba Osaka	15	5	0	2	1	7	21	26	−5	17
12	Urawa Red Diamonds	15	4	0	3	3	5	20	24	−4	15
13	Vissel Kobe	15	3	0	5	1	6	25	32	−7	14
14	Consadole Sapporo	15	3	1	2	2	7	23	29	−6	13
15	Avispa Fukuoka	15	3	1	2	3	6	22	31	−9	13
16	Cerezo Osaka	15	2	3	0	0	10	19	39	−20	12

Source:
Notes:

Champion from 2000 J.League Division 1 and Cup-Winner 2000 Emperor's Cup
^ Promoted from 2000 J.League Division 2

Results

Home \ Away	ANT	FMA	REY	JÚB	CER	GAM	TOK	SSP	GRA	VER	SFR	AVI	VIS	JEF	CON	RED
Kashima Antlers
Yokohama F. Marinos
Kashiwa Reysol
Júbilo Iwata
Cerezo Osaka
Gamba Osaka
FC Tokyo
Shimizu S-Pulse
Nagoya Grampus Eight
Tokyo Verdy 1969
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Avispa Fukuoka
Vissel Kobe
JEF United Ichihara
Consadole Sapporo
Urawa Red Diamonds

Source:
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Suntory Championship

2 December 20011st Leg

Júbilo Iwata	2–2	Kashima Antlers
Hattori 11' Nakayama 54'	Report	Akita 80' Hirase 83'

Shizuoka Stadium, FukuroiAttendance: 32,368Referee: Masayoshi Okada

9 December 20012nd Leg

Kashima Antlers	1–0 (a.e.t.)	Júbilo Iwata
Ogasawara 100'	Report

Kashima Soccer Stadium, KashimaAttendance: 40,115Referee: Leslie Mottram

Kashima Antlers won 3–2 on aggregate.

Overall table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	OTW	D	OTL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification or relegation
1	Kashima Antlers	30	15	4	1	3	7	57	42	+15	54	Champion and qualified to the AFC Champions League 2002–03 Group stage
2	Júbilo Iwata	30	18	8	1	1	2	63	26	+37	71
3	JEF United Ichihara	30	14	3	2	2	9	60	54	+6	50
4	Shimizu S-Pulse	30	11	8	0	3	8	62	45	+17	49	Cup-Winner 2001 Emperor's Cup and qualified to the AFC Champions League 2002–03 Qualification Round 2
5	Nagoya Grampus Eight	30	12	5	3	1	9	56	45	+11	49
6	Kashiwa Reysol	30	12	2	3	2	11	58	46	+12	43
7	Gamba Osaka	30	12	2	2	4	10	50	48	+2	42
8	FC Tokyo	30	10	3	5	1	11	47	47	0	41
9	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	30	11	2	0	2	15	61	60	+1	37
10	Urawa Red Diamonds	30	10	1	4	4	11	44	46	−2	36
11	Consadole Sapporo	30	9	1	5	4	11	43	50	−7	34
12	Vissel Kobe	30	8	1	7	4	10	41	52	−11	33
13	Yokohama F. Marinos	30	7	2	5	6	10	32	44	−12	30
14	Tokyo Verdy 1969	30	8	2	2	5	13	38	57	−19	30
15	Avispa Fukuoka	30	7	2	2	5	14	35	56	−21	27	Relegated to the 2002 J.League Division 2
16	Cerezo Osaka	30	5	3	2	2	18	41	70	−29	23	Relegated to the 2002 J.League Division 2

Source:
Notes:

Champion from 2000 J.League Division 1 and Cup-Winner 2000 Emperor's Cup
^ Promoted from 2000 J.League Division 2

Awards

Individual

Award	Recipient	Club
Player of the Year	Toshiya Fujita	Júbilo Iwata
Young Player of the Year	Koji Yamase	Consadole Sapporo
Manager of the Year	Masakazu Suzuki	Júbilo Iwata
Top Scorer	Will	Consadole Sapporo

Best Eleven

Position	Footballer	Club	Nationality
GK	Arno van Zwam (1)	Júbilo Iwata	Netherlands
DF	Yutaka Akita (4)	Kashima Antlers	Japan
DF	Akira Narahashi (1)	Kashima Antlers	Japan
DF	Go Oiwa (1)	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
MF	Toshiya Fujita (2)	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
MF	Takashi Fukunishi (2)	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
MF	Toshihiro Hattori (1)	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
MF	Kōji Nakata (1)	Kashima Antlers	Japan
MF	Mitsuo Ogasawara (1)	Kashima Antlers	Japan
FW	Will (1)	Consadole Sapporo	Brazil
FW	Atsushi Yanagisawa (2)	Kashima Antlers	Japan

* The number in brackets denotes the number of times that the footballer has appeared in the Best 11.

References

v t e Kashima Antlers
Club	Players History Statistics All articles
Stadium	Kashima Soccer Stadium
Honours	J.League (1996 1998 2000 2001 2007 2008 2009 2016) Emperor's Cup (1997 2000 2007 2010 2016) J.League Cup (1997 2000 2002 2011 2012 2015) Japanese Super Cup (1997 1998 1999 2000 2010 2017) AFC Champions League (2018) Suruga Bank Championship (2012 2013) A3 Champions Cup (2003)
Personalities	Zico Jorginho Masakatsu Miyamoto Naoki Soma Yutaka Akita Bismarck Akira Narahashi Yasuto Honda Toninho Cerezo Oswaldo de Oliveira Yoshiyuki Hasegawa Kurosaki Hisashi Leonardo Mitsuo Ogasawara Kōji Nakata Masashi Motoyama Toru Araiba Daijiro Takakuwa Hitoshi Sogahata Takuya Nozawa Carlos Alberto Alcindo Marquinhos Atsuto Uchida Takayuki Suzuki Atsushi Yanagisawa Go Oiwa Shinzo Koroki João Carlos Daiki Iwamasa Yuya Osako Mu Kanazaki
Seasons	1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Matches	2016 FIFA Club World Cup Final 2018 AFC Champions League Final
Sponsors	Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Lixil Group Riso Kagaku Corporation Nike Sony All Nippon Airways Asahi Breweries Suntory Showa Corporation KDDI Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Segway Inc.
Training ground	Club House Ground Forest of Heisei

Japanese club football

First-tier club football seasons, 1965–present

Japan Soccer League 1965–1992 Japan Soccer League Division 1 since 1972	1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92
J.League 1993–present J.League Division 1/J1 League since 1999	1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
List of champions J.League Championship Promotion / Relegation series Super Cup

Second-tier club football seasons, 1972–present

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J2 League 1999–present	1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
List of champions Promotion / Relegation series

Third-tier club football seasons, 1992–93, 1999–present

(former) Japan Football League Division 2 1992–93	1992 1993
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Suruga Bank Championship

Football clubs in Japan, 2025

J1 League	Albirex Niigata Avispa Fukuoka Cerezo Osaka Fagiano Okayama Gamba Osaka Kashima Antlers Kashiwa Reysol Kawasaki Frontale Kyoto Sanga FC FC Machida Zelvia Nagoya Grampus Sanfrecce Hiroshima Shimizu S-Pulse Shonan Bellmare FC Tokyo Tokyo Verdy Urawa Red Diamonds Vissel Kobe Yokohama F. Marinos Yokohama FC
J2 League	Blaublitz Akita Ehime FC Fujieda MYFC Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo FC Imabari Iwaki FC JEF United Chiba Júbilo Iwata Kataller Toyama Mito HollyHock Montedio Yamagata Oita Trinita Omiya Ardija Renofa Yamaguchi FC Roasso Kumamoto Sagan Tosu Tokushima Vortis V-Varen Nagasaki Vegalta Sendai Ventforet Kofu
J3 League	AC Nagano Parceiro Azul Claro Numazu FC Gifu Fukushima United FC Gainare Tottori Giravanz Kitakyushu Kagoshima United FC Kamatamare Sanuki Kochi United Matsumoto Yamaga FC Nara Club FC Osaka FC Ryukyu SC Sagamihara Tegevajaro Miyazaki Thespa Gunma Tochigi City Tochigi SC Vanraure Hachinohe Zweigen Kanazawa
100 Year Plan clubs	Criacao Shinjuku Nankatsu SC Tokyo 23 Vonds Ichihara
Japan Football League	Asuka FC Atletico Suzuka Club Briobecca Urayasu Criacao Shinjuku Honda FC Iwate Grulla Morioka Maruyasu Okazaki Minebea Mitsumi Okinawa SV Reilac Shiga ReinMeer Aomori FC Tiamo Hirakata Veertien Mie Verspah Oita Yokogawa Musashino YSCC Yokohama
Defunct clubs (clubs belonging to nationwide leagues only)	Sony Sendai Fukushima FC Arte Takasaki JEF Reserves Sagawa Express Tokyo NKK SC Yokohama Flügels ALO's Hokuriku Jatco SC Hagoromo Club Toyota Higashi-Fuji Seino Transportation Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi Sagawa Shiga NTT Kinki/Kansai SP Kyoto Tanabe Pharmaceutical Dainichi Cable Industries Sagawa Express Osaka Eidai SC Kagura Shimane Teijin SC Nippon Steel Yawata Tosu Futures Profesor Miyazaki J.League U-22 Selection FC Tokyo U-23 Cerezo Osaka U-23 Gamba Osaka U-23

2001 in Japanese football

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League competitions

Men	J.League Division 1 J.League Division 2 Japan Football League Regional Leagues
Women	L.League

Cup competitions

Men	Emperor's Cup (Final) J.League Cup (Final) Super Cup
Women	Empress's Cup (Final)

AFC competitions

Men	Asian Club Championship 2000–01 2001–02 Asian Cup Winners' Cup

Related to national teams

Men	Summary FIFA Confederations Cup
Women	Summary AFC Women's Championship

Club seasons
J.League Division 1	Consadole Sapporo Kashima Antlers Urawa Red Diamonds JEF United Ichihara Kashiwa Reysol FC Tokyo Tokyo Verdy 1969 Yokohama F. Marinos Shimizu S-Pulse Júbilo Iwata Nagoya Grampus Eight Gamba Osaka Cerezo Osaka Vissel Kobe Sanfrecce Hiroshima Avispa Fukuoka
J.League Division 2	Vegalta Sendai Montedio Yamagata Mito HollyHock Omiya Ardija Kawasaki Frontale Yokohama FC Shonan Bellmare Ventforet Kofu Albirex Niigata Kyoto Purple Sanga Sagan Tosu Oita Trinita

v t e J1 League champions
8 titles	Kashima Antlers 1996 1998 2000 2001 2007 2008 2009 2016
5 titles	Yokohama F. Marinos 1995 2003 2004 2019 2022
4 titles	Kawasaki Frontale 2017 2018 2020 2021
3 titles	Júbilo Iwata 1997 1999 2002 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2012 2013 2015
2 titles	Tokyo Verdy 1993 1994 Gamba Osaka 2005 2014 Vissel Kobe 2023 2024
1 title	Urawa Red Diamonds 2006 Nagoya Grampus 2010 Kashiwa Reysol 2011

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