Japan 1997

J-League 
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First Stage

Pos Prev Team                   Gm Wn(OT/PK) Ls(OT/PK) GF- GA  Dif Pnt
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 1. ( 1) Kashima Antlers        16 13( 0/ 1)  3         32- 15  17  37
 2. ( 2) Yokohama Flugels       16 12( 1/ 0)  4         35- 16  19  35
 3. ( 3) Kashiwa Reysol         16 11( 1/ 0)  5( 1/ 1)  34- 18  16  32
 4. ( 5) Bellmare Hiratsuka     16 10( 2/ 0)  6         25- 20   5  28
 5. ( 4) Yokohama Marinos       16 11( 3/ 1)  5         31- 31   0  28
 6. ( 7) Jubilo Iwata           16  9( 1/ 0)  6( 3/ 0)  32- 21  11  26
 7. ( 6) Shimizu S-Pulse        16  9( 2/ 0)  7( 2/ 0)  25- 24   1  25
 8. ( 8) Gamba Osaka            16  8         8         28- 23   5  24
 9. ( 9) Urawa Red Diamonds     16  8( 1/ 1)  8         25- 24   1  21
10. (10) Sanfrecce Hiroshima    16  8( 1/ 1)  8( 2/ 0)  22- 23  -1  21
11. (11) Cerezo Osaka           16  7( 0/ 1)  9( 2/ 1)  21- 26  -5  19
12. (12) Nagoya Grampus Eight   16  6        10( 1/ 0)  18- 24  -6  18
13. (14) Kyoto Purple Sanga     16  6        10( 1/ 1)  19- 32 -13  18
14. (13) Vissel Kobe            16  6( 1/ 0) 10( 2/ 0)  24- 34 -10  17
15. (15) JEF United Ichihara    16  5( 2/ 0) 11         21- 34 -13  13
16. (16) Verdy Kawasaki         16  4( 2/ 0) 12( 1/ 2)  16- 27 -11  10
17. (17) Avispa Fukuoka         16  3        13( 2/ 0)  11- 27 -16   9

Round 1 [Apr 12] 
Kashima Antlers      5-2  Vissel Kobe                        16,255 
  [Mazinho 34, 48, 83, Atsushi Yanagisawa 44, Bismarck 50 – 
   Thomas Bickel 25, Akihiro Nagashima 39] 
Kashiwa Reysol       0-1  Shimizu S-Pulse                    25,027 
  [Masaaki Sawanobori 6] 
Yokohama Flugels     3-1  Avispa Fukuoka                      8,019 
  [Cézar Sampaio 35, Válber 66, Hiroki Hattori 86 – Yusaku Ueno 90] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 2-3  Cerezo Osaka                       17,480 
  [Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 6, Takashi Hirano 49 – 
   Akinori Nishizawa 28, Ko Jeong-Woon 68, Hiroaki Morishima 80] 
Gamba Osaka          4-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  6,205 
  [Masanobu Matsunami 11, 33, Hiromi Kojima 58, Patrick Mboma 73 – 
   Kazuaki Tasaka 76] 
Jubilo Iwata         2-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 9,545 
  [Masashi Nakayama 58, Adilson 67 pen - Antônio Carlos Santos 90] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   2-3  Yokohama Marinos                   20,098 
  [Masayuki Okano 45, Takafumi Hori 62 – Takahiro Yamada 10, 
   Shoji Jo 25, 77] 
Verdy Kawasaki       0-2  JEF United Ichihara                12,169 
  [Eisuke Nakanishi 47, Yoshika Matsubara 77] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga idle

Round 2 [Apr 16] 
Yokohama Marinos     0-4  Gamba Osaka                         6,503 
  [Hitoshi Morishita 26, Masanobu Matsunami 45, Patrick Mboma 52, 
   Nebojša Krupniković 55] 
JEF United Ichihara  2-4  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  3,057 
  [Yoshika Matsubara 36, Shinichi Muto 90 – Luiz Carlos 23, 
   Shinji Fujiyoshi 29, 60, Takashi Nagata 86] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      0-1  Urawa Red Diamonds                  7,118 
  [Tsutomu Nishino 64] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   0-2  Verdy Kawasaki                      7,503 
  [Hideki Nagai 4, Magrão 79] 
Cerezo Osaka         0-2  Yokohama Flugels                    8,056 
  [Válber 75, 81] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  2-3  Kashiwa Reysol                      4,156 
  [Antônio Carlos Santos 60, Noh Jung-Yoon 90 – Edilson 42, 59, 
   Jamelli 74] 
Avispa Fukuoka       0-1  Jubilo Iwata         [OT]           7,119 
  [Takashi Fukunishi 105] 
Vissel Kobe          2-1  Nagoya Grampus Eight [OT]           5,959 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 17, 105 – Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 45] 
Kashima Antlers idle

Round 3
Nagoya Grampus Eight 0-2  Kashima Antlers                    20,425 
  [Mazinho 29, 50] 
Yokohama Flugels     3-1  Vissel Kobe                         7,251 
  [Hiroki Hattori 63, Válber 67, 90 – Takuya Jinno 62] 
Jubilo Iwata         1-2  Cerezo Osaka                        7,186 
  [Salvatore Schillaci 23 – Akinori Nishizawa 64, 87] 
Kashiwa Reysol       2-1  Avispa Fukuoka                      5,194 
  [Yuji Yokoyama 40, Jamelli 70 – Yusaku Ueno 29] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   0-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                38,707 
  [Takuya Takagi 88] 
Verdy Kawasaki       2-2  Yokohama Marinos     [OT, 3-5 pen] 13,568 
  [Magrão 2, Masakiyo Maezono 32 – Takahiro Yamada 33, 
   Shoji Jo 84 pen] 
Gamba Osaka          4-1  Shimizu S-Pulse                     6,604 
  [Patrick Mboma 13, 40, Masanobu Matsunami 24, Junichi Inamoto 67 – 
   Teruyoshi Ito 69] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   0-2  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  7,193 
  [? (K) 48 og, Wagner Lopes 52] 
JEF United Ichihara idle

Round 4 [Apr 23]
Avispa Fukuoka       0-3  Urawa Red Diamonds                  5,317 
  [Guido Buchwald 26, Osamu Hirose 53, Hiromitsu Isogai 87] 
Kashima Antlers      1-0  Yokohama Flugels                   15,336 
  [Akira Narahashi 65] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      2-1  Verdy Kawasaki       [OT]           9,253 
  [Masaaki Sawanobori 27, Toshihide Saito 104 – Magrão 42] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  2-0  Gamba Osaka                         5,576 
  [Graham Arnold 3, Takuya Takagi 35] 
Yokohama Marinos     3-1  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  4,541 
  [Takahiro Yamada 52, Shoji Jo 68, 77 – Yoshihiro Nishida 44] 
Cerezo Osaka         2-2  Kashiwa Reysol       [OT, 5-4 pen]  6,526 
  [Hiroaki Morishima 29, 54 – Valdir 72, Shin Tanada 87] 
Vissel Kobe          1-2  Jubilo Iwata                        3,670 
  [Ziad Tlemçani 32 – Masashi Nakayama 11, Marcelo Mabilia 77] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   1-0  JEF United Ichihara                 4,875 
  [Wagner Lopes 86] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight idle

Round 5 [Apr 26]
Jubilo Iwata         1-2  Kashima Antlers                    13,754 
  [Takashi Fukunishi 25 – Mazinho 9, Ysuo Manaka 90] 
Kashiwa Reysol       3-1  Vissel Kobe                         5,554 
  [Edilson 19, Jamelli 36, 90 - Ziad Tlemçani 74] 
JEF United Ichihara  1-2  Yokohama Marinos                    7,048 
  [Rade Bogdanović 73 – Shoji Jo 86, Takahiro Yamada 88] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   1-2  Cerezo Osaka                       18,902 
  [Tsutomu Nishino 81 – Takayuki Yokoyama 24, Hiroaki Morishima 56] 
Verdy Kawasaki       1-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 8,573 
  [Keiji Ishizuka 83 – Takuya Takagi 28 pen, Graham Arnold 37] 
Gamba Osaka          0-1  Avispa Fukuoka                      5,187 
  [Hideaki Mori 6] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   1-3  Shimizu S-Pulse                     6,284 
  [Takayuki Yamaguchi 56 – Teruyoshi Ito 30, 85, Mark Bowen 35] 
Yokohama Flugels     2-0  Nagoya Grampus Eight               10,910 
  [Válber 58, Hiroki Hattori 74] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka idle

Round 6 [May 3]
Kashima Antlers      0-4  Kashiwa Reysol                     31,083 
  [Shigenori Hagimura 41, Edilson 53, 60, Jamelli 59] 
Cerezo Osaka         0-2  Gamba Osaka                        27,734 
  [Nebojša Krupniković 47, Masanobu Matsunami 51] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 0-2  Jubilo Iwata                       13,451 
  [? (N) 7 og, Hiroshi Nanami 44] 
Vissel Kobe          0-2  Urawa Red Diamonds                  8,542 
  [Masayuki Okano 33, Hiromitsu Isogai 35] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      2-1  JEF United Ichihara                 9,218 
  [Kenta Hasegawa 22, Mark Bowen 68 - Rade Bogdanović 26] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  1-0  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  8,848 
  [Takuya Takagi 55] 
Avispa Fukuoka       1-2  Verdy Kawasaki       [OT]          14,021 
  [Kiyotaka Ishimaru 77 – Yoshinori Abe 82, Magrão 92] 
Yokohama Marinos     2-4  Bellmare Hiratsuka                 12,754 
  [Shoji Jo 45, Shunsuke Nakamura 87 – Tetsuya Takada 32, 
   Wagner Lopes 59 pen, 70, Hidetoshi Nakata 67] 
Yokohama Flugels idle

Round 7 [May 7]
JEF United Ichihara  3-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima  [OT]           2,245 
  [Tomoyuki Sakai 7, Rade Bogdanović 49, Nenad Maslovar 107 – 
   Noh Jung-Yoon 50, Tatsuhiko Kubo 63] 
Kashiwa Reysol       1-0  Nagoya Grampus Eight                6,816 
  [Edilson 11] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   1-3  Kashima Antlers                    18,741 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 88 – Jorginho 29, Yutaka Akita 85, 
   Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 90] 
Verdy Kawasaki       0-2  Cerezo Osaka                        6,784 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 13, Hiroaki Morishima 80] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   1-2  Shimizu S-Pulse                    19,167 
  [Wagner Lopes 86 – Masaaki Sawanobori 3, ? (B) 28 og] 
Jubilo Iwata         3-1  Yokohama Flugels                    7,274 
  [Takashi Fukunishi 62, Dunga 75, Adilson 88 pen – Zinho 48] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   1-0  Avispa Fukuoka                      4,061 
  [Daniel 72] 
Gamba Osaka          2-3  Vissel Kobe                         5,318 
  [Boban Babunski 51, Patrick Mboma 90 – Akihiro Nagashima 20, 80, 
   Thomas Bickel 65] 
Yokohama Marinos idle

Round 8 [May 10]
Nagoya Grampus Eight 3-1  Urawa Red Diamonds                 18,281 
  [Yasuyuki Moriyama 8, 13, Kenji Ito 68 – Hiromitsu Isogai 21 pen] 
Kashima Antlers      1-2  Gamba Osaka                        16,233 
  [Mazinho 55 – Patrick Mboma 58, Masanobu Matsunami 90] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  0-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka   [OT]           7,548 
  [Daisuke Tonoike 100] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      1-2  Yokohama Marinos     [OT]          15,105 
  [Mark Bowen 90 – Fumitake Miura 68, Takahiro Yamada 104] 
Avispa Fukuoka       2-1  JEF United Ichihara                 6,584 
  [Kiyotaka Ishimaru 47, Yusaku Ueno 83 – Nenad Maslovar 33] 
Cerezo Osaka         1-2  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  6,983 
  [Hiroaki Morishima 48 – Daniel 7, Takayuki Yamaguchi 60] 
Yokohama Flugels     2-0  Kashiwa Reysol                     23,903 
  [Cézar Sampaio 57, Válber 65] 
Vissel Kobe          2-4  Verdy Kawasaki                     13,253 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 78 pen, Masaki Tsukano 90 – Magrão 7, 50, 
   Junichi Watanabe 72, Masakiyo Maezono 87] 
Jubilo Iwata idle

Round 9 
[May 17]
Bellmare Hiratsuka   2-1  Avispa Fukuoka                      7,117 
  [Teruo Iwamoto 24, Wagner Lopes 45 – Yusaku Ueno 84] 
Kashiwa Reysol       2-1  Jubilo Iwata                        8,030 
  [Yuji Yokoyama 19, Edilson 71 – Marcelo Mabilia 6] 
Yokohama Marinos     4-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 7,126 
  [Takehito Suzuki 3, ? (S) 9 og, Fumitake Miura 45, 
   Takahiro Yamada 61 – Yasuhiro Yoshida 30, 
   Antônio Carlos Santos 57] 
JEF United Ichihara  3-0  Cerezo Osaka                        4,573 
  [Eisuke Nakanishi 22, 44, Yoshika Matsubara 42] 
Gamba Osaka          0-1  Nagoya Grampus Eight                8,090 
  [Yasuyuki Moriyama 37] 
Verdy Kawasaki       1-1  Kashima Antlers      [OT, 2-3 pen] 30,211 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 26 – Mazinho 40] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   0-2  Vissel Kobe                         6,757 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 66 pen, 86] 
[Jul 2] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   1-3  Yokohama Flugels [first abandoned at 0-1] 14,937 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 70 – Válber 19, Motohiro Yamaguchi 31, 
   Hiroki Hattori 38] 
Shimizu S-Pulse free

Round 10 [May 24]
Nagoya Grampus Eight 1-0  Verdy Kawasaki                     18,871 
  [Takashi Hirano 13] 
Cerezo Osaka         0-2  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  4,130 
  [Yasuharu Sorimachi 57, Wagner Lopes 88] 
Vissel Kobe          2-3  JEF United Ichihara  [OT]           4,536 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 16, Ziad Tlemçani 43 – Atsuhiko Ejiri 9, 
   Rade Bogdanović 20, Peter Bosz 113] 
Jubilo Iwata         2-0  Urawa Red Diamonds                 11,654 
  [Hiroshi Nanami 9, 82] 
Avispa Fukuoka       1-3  Yokohama Marinos                   11,078 
  [Yoshiteru Yamashita 90 - Julio César Baldivieso 45 pen, 
   Julio Salinas 80, 84] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  1-0  Shimizu S-Pulse                     6,524 
  [Graham Arnold 12] 
Yokohama Flugels     2-1  Gamba Osaka                         8,222 
  [Takeo Harada 37, Motohiro Yamaguchi 90 – Masanobu Matsunami 31] 
Kashima Antlers      4-0  Kyoto Purple Sanga                 15,805 
  [Mazinho 4, Bismarck 14, 79, Yutaka Akita 27] 
Kashiwa Reysol idle

Round 11 [May 28]
Urawa Red Diamonds   3-2  Kashiwa Reysol       [OT]          18,021 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 75, 115, Guido Buchwald 90 – Edilson 47, 
   Jamelli 90] 
Verdy Kawasaki       0-4  Yokohama Flugels                    9,006 
  [Takeo Harada 25, Hiroki Hattori 35, 39, Válber 88] 
Yokohama Marinos     3-2  Cerezo Osaka         [OT]           6,398 
  [Julio Salinas 20, Naoki Matsuda 35, Shoji Jo 106 – 
   Hiroaki Morishima 38, Akinori Nishizawa 42] 
JEF United Ichihara  0-2  Kashima Antlers                    16,484 
  [Tadatoshi Masuda 39, Bismarck 53] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      1-0  Avispa Fukuoka                      6,177 
  [Alessandro Santos 69] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   3-0  Vissel Kobe                         7,175 
  [Yasuharu Sorimachi 19, Claudio 30, Daisuke Tonoike 54] 
Gamba Osaka          3-1  Jubilo Iwata                        5,716 
  [Shigeru Morioka 50, Patrick Mboma 60, 79 – Masashi Nakayama 26] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   1-3  Nagoya Grampus Eight                7,158 
  [Cleber 39 – Yasuyuki Moriyama 31, 66, Ricardinho 86] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima free

Round 12 [May 31]
Kashima Antlers      2-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka                 16,093 
  [Bismarck 5, Jorginho 81 – Teppei Nishiyama 60] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 3-2  JEF United Ichihara                13,669 
  [Takashi Hirano 5, Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 11, Yasuyuki Moriyama 53 – 
   Rade Bogdanović 6, 81] 
Yokohama Flugels     0-1  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  6,341 
  [Yuji Okuma 61] 
Jubilo Iwata         0-1  Verdy Kawasaki       [OT]          14,594 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 112] 
Kashiwa Reysol       4-1  Gamba Osaka                        11,031 
  [Jamelli 11, 31, Takeshi Watanabe 66, Elpidio Silva 83 – 
   Boban Babunski 88] 
Cerezo Osaka         1-2  Shimizu S-Pulse      [OT]          10,581 
  [Sergio Manoel 62 – Teruyoshi Ito 58, Toshihide Saito 110] 
Avispa Fukuoka       0-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 7,421 
  [Tatsuhiko Kubo 80] 
Vissel Kobe          2-1  Yokohama Marinos                    9,168 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 7, 69 – Sotaro Yasunaga 72] 
Urawa Red Diamonds idle

Round 13 
[Jul 2]
Bellmare Hiratsuka   1-0  Nagoya Grampus Eight                8,020 
  [Wagner Lopes 39]  
[Jul 5]
JEF United Ichihara  0-4  Yokohama Flugels                    7,119 
  [Cézar Sampaio 21, Hiroki Hattori 29, Motohiro Yamaguchi 59, 
   Válber 78] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  2-2  Cerezo Osaka         [OT, 3-2 pen]  6,234 
  [Yasuhiro Yoshida 45, Takuya Takagi 76 – Hiroaki Morishima 59, 
   Ko Jeong-Woon 65] 
Verdy Kawasaki       1-3  Kashiwa Reysol                     10,081 
  [Kazuyoshi Miura 90 – Takeshi Watanabe 18, Edilson 45, 45+] 
Gamba Osaka          1-2  Urawa Red Diamonds                 16,071 
  [Masanobu Matsunami 57 – Masahiro Fukuda 10 pen, 75] 
Yokohama Marinos     0-3  Kashima Antlers                    14,225 
  [Mazinho 46, Bismarck 68, Yasuo Manaka 82] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      2-4  Vissel Kobe                         9,045 
  [Fernando Oliva 82, 90 - Ziad Tlemçani 33, Thomas Bickel 43, 
   Akihiro Nagashima 79, Michael Yano 90] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   0-6  Jubilo Iwata                        7,659 
  [Adilson 22 pen, Daisuke Oku 43, Toshiya Fujita 61, 
   Hiroshi Nanami 68, Masashi Nakayama 84 pen, Toshihiro Hattori 90] 
Avispa Fukuoka idle
 
Round 14 [Jul 9]
Nagoya Grampus Eight 0-1  Yokohama Marinos                   17,346 
  [Yoshiharu Ueno 26] 
Kashiwa Reysol       3-2  Kyoto Purple Sanga   [OT]           5,997 
  [Jamelli 19 pen, Edilson 56, 99 – Hiroshi Noguchi 7, 
   Takashi Nagata 89] 
Vissel Kobe          0-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima  [OT]           3,839 
  [Takuya Takagi 104] 
Jubilo Iwata         4-1  JEF United Ichihara                 5,065 
  [Masashi Nakayama 38 pen, 90 pen, Daisuke Oku 56, Dunga 73 – 
   Rade Bogdanović 22] 
Kashima Antlers      0-1  Shimizu S-Pulse                    15,475 
  [Kenta Hasegawa 47] 
Cerezo Osaka         2-0  Avispa Fukuoka                      4,110 
  [Akinori Nishizawa 25, Hiroaki Morishima 65] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   2-0  Verdy Kawasaki                     18,927 
  [Yuichiro Nagai 60, Masahiro Fukuda 82] 
Yokohama Flugels     2-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  7,043 
  [Zinho 45, Shoji Nonoshita 62 – Wagner Lopes 76] 
Gamba Osaka idle

Round 15 [Jul 12]
Bellmare Hiratsuka   2-1  Jubilo Iwata         [OT]           6,386 
  [Yasuharu Sorimachi 78, Yoshihiro Natsuka 103 – Daisuke Oku 39] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  2-3  Kashima Antlers                     6,991 
  [Takuya Takagi 45 pen, Masato Fue 63 – Jorginho 5, 
   Yasuo Manaka 28, Atsushi Yanagisawa 84] 
JEF United Ichihara  1-0  Kashiwa Reysol                      3,855 
  [Rade Bogdanović 90] 
Verdy Kawasaki       0-1  Gamba Osaka                         9,090 
  [Patrick Mboma 69]  
Yokohama Marinos     1-0  Yokohama Flugels                   12,307 
  [Julio Salinas 68] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      3-1  Nagoya Grampus Eight                8,243 
  [Fernando Oliva 17, Kenta Hasegawa 69, Masaaki Sawanobori 86 – 
   Tetsuya Okayama 90] 
Avispa Fukuoka       0-1  Vissel Kobe                         6,755 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 9] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   1-1  Urawa Red Diamonds   [OT, 3-4 pen]  6,149 
  [Shinji Fujiyoshi 61 – Yuichiro Nagai 59] 
Cerezo Osaka idle

Round 16 [Jul 16]
Kashima Antlers      2-0  Avispa Fukuoka                     15,937 
  [Tadatoshi Masuda 24, Bismarck 72] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 1-0  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                13,425 
  [Yasuyuki Moriyama 63] 
Yokohama Flugels     4-3  Shimizu S-Pulse      [OT]          11,040 
  [Zinho 8, Hiroki Hattori 77, Válber 78, 100 pen – 
   Carlos Alberto Santos 63, Daizo Okitsu 76, Masaaki Sawanobori 86] 
Jubilo Iwata         3-4  Yokohama Marinos     [OT]          10,032 
  [Masashi Nakayama 17, Daisuke Oku 35, Marcelo Mabilia 87 – 
   Julio Salinas 76, 99, Yoshiharu Ueno 78, Kunio Nagayama 89] 
Kashiwa Reysol       2-0  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  6,577 
  [? (B) 63 og, Elpidio Silva 66] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   3-0  JEF United Ichihara                18,127 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 38, 67, MasayukiOkano 79] 
Gamba Osaka          0-3  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  4,716 
  [Takayuki Yamaguchi 62 pen, 78, Daniel 72] 
Vissel Kobe          1-2  Cerezo Osaka                        7,439 
  [Shigemitsu Egawa 87 – Takayuki Yokoyama 78, Akinori Nishizawa 81] 
Verdy Kawasaki idle

Round 17 [Jul 19]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  2-3  Yokohama Flugels                    8,840 
  [Tatsuhiko Kubo 26, 40 – Válber 53, 90, Cézar Sampaio 87] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   3-2  Urawa Red Diamonds                 11,056 
  [Hiroshi Sakai 19, Claudio 73, Daisuke Tonoike 87 – 
   Nobuhisa Yamada 1, Masayuki Okano 5] 
JEF United Ichihara  1-3  Gamba Osaka                         4,174 
  [Kohei Inoue 28 - Nebojša Krupniković 16 pen, 76 pen, 
   Patrick Mboma 39] 
Cerezo Osaka         0-1  Kashima Antlers                    21,027 
  [Mazinho 15] 
Yokohama Marinos     0-3  Kashiwa Reysol                     11,265 
  [Elpidio Silva 5, Edilson 52, 89] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      1-2  Jubilo Iwata                       17,756 
  [Ryuzo Morioka 84 – Toshiya Fujita 12, Adilson 29] 
Avispa Fukuoka       3-2  Nagoya Grampus Eight               11,217 
  [Yoshiteru Yamashita 9, 86, Yusaku Ueno 13 – Kenji Fukuda 60, 77] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   2-1  Verdy Kawasaki                     16,109 
  [Shinji Fujiyoshi 4, Daniel 80 – Shintetsu Gen 85] 
Vissel Kobe idle

Standings as per 19 Jul 1997 (after 17 rounds)

Pos Prev Team                   Gm Wn(OT/PK) Ls(OT/PK) GF- GA  Dif Pnt
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 1. ( 1) Kashima Antlers        16 13( 0/ 1)  3         32- 15  17  37
 2. ( 2) Yokohama Flugels       16 12( 1/ 0)  4         35- 16  19  35
 3. ( 3) Kashiwa Reysol         16 11( 1/ 0)  5( 1/ 1)  34- 18  16  32
 4. ( 5) Bellmare Hiratsuka     16 10( 2/ 0)  6         25- 20   5  28
 5. ( 4) Yokohama Marinos       16 11( 3/ 1)  5         31- 31   0  28
 6. ( 7) Jubilo Iwata           16  9( 1/ 0)  6( 3/ 0)  32- 21  11  26
 7. ( 6) Shimizu S-Pulse        16  9( 2/ 0)  7( 2/ 0)  25- 24   1  25
 8. ( 8) Gamba Osaka            16  8         8         28- 23   5  24
 9. ( 9) Urawa Red Diamonds     16  8( 1/ 1)  8         25- 24   1  21
10. (10) Sanfrecce Hiroshima    16  8( 1/ 1)  8( 2/ 0)  22- 23  -1  21
11. (11) Cerezo Osaka           16  7( 0/ 1)  9( 2/ 1)  21- 26  -5  19
12. (12) Nagoya Grampus Eight   16  6        10( 1/ 0)  18- 24  -6  18
13. (14) Kyoto Purple Sanga     16  6        10( 1/ 1)  19- 32 -13  18
14. (13) Vissel Kobe            16  6( 1/ 0) 10( 2/ 0)  24- 34 -10  17
15. (15) JEF United Ichihara    16  5( 2/ 0) 11         21- 34 -13  13
16. (16) Verdy Kawasaki         16  4( 2/ 0) 12( 1/ 2)  16- 27 -11  10
17. (17) Avispa Fukuoka         16  3        13( 2/ 0)  11- 27 -16   9

Top Scorers (after 17 rounds/16 games)
 
  1. Edilson Silva Ferreira           Bra  Kashiwa Reysol           14
     Valber da Silva Costa            Bra  Yokohama Flugels         14
  3. Akihiro Nagashima                Jpn  Vissel Kobe              13
  4. Mazinho                          Bra  Kashima Antlers          11
  5. Patrick Mboma                    Cam  Gamba Osaka              10
  6. Wagner Augusto Lopes             Bra  Bellmare Hiratsuka        9
     Hiroaki Morishima                Jpn  Cerezo Osaka              9
     Paulo Roberto Jamelli            Bra  Kashiwa Reysol            9
     Masahiro Fukuda                  Jpn  Urawa Red Diamonds        9
 10. Masanobu Matsunami               Jpn  Gamba Osaka               8
     Rade Bogdanovic                  Yug  JEF United Ichihara       8
     Hiroki Hattori                   Jpn  Yokohama Flugels          8
     Shouji Jou                       Jpn  Yokohama Marinos          8

Second Stage
 
Pos Prev Team                   Gm Wn(OT/PK) Ls(OT/PK) GF- GA  Dif Pnt
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 1. ( 1) Jubilo Iwata          16 14( 2/ 0)  2         40- 14  26  40
 2. ( 3) Gamba Osaka           16 12( 2/ 0)  4( 1/ 0)  38- 23  15  34
 3. ( 4) Yokohama Marinos      16 12( 4/ 0)  4         42- 28  14  32
 4. ( 2) Kashima Antlers       16 11( 2/ 0)  5( 1/ 0)  46- 23  23  31
 5. ( 6) Nagoya Grampus Eight  16 10         6         23- 24  -1  30
 6. ( 5) Shimizu S-Pulse       16 10( 1/ 0)  6( 3/ 0)  27- 16  11  29
 7. ( 7) Urawa Red Diamonds    16  9( 1/ 0)  7( 2/ 0)  26- 21   5  26
 8. ( 8) Cerezo Osaka          16  9( 1/ 1)  7( 3/ 0)  32- 30   2  24
 9. ( 9) Bellmare Hiratsuka    16  8( 1/ 1)  8( 1/ 1)  30- 32  -2  21
10. (10) Kashiwa Reysol        16  7( 1/ 0)  9( 0/ 1)  29- 31  -2  20
11. (11) Yokohama Flugels      16  7( 1/ 1)  9( 2/ 0)  23- 27  -4  18
12. (14) Verdy Kawasaki        16  6( 2/ 0) 10         22- 38 -16  16
13. (12) Sanfrecce Hiroshima   16  5        11( 2/ 0)  21- 27  -6  15
14. (13) JEF United Ichihara   16  6( 3/ 0) 10( 3/ 1)  22- 32 -10  15
15. (15) Avispa Fukuoka        16  4( 0/ 1) 12( 3/ 0)  18- 31 -13  10
16. (16) Kyoto Purple Sanga    16  3        13( 2/ 1)  21- 38 -17   9
17. (17) Vissel Kobe           16  3( 2/ 0) 13         19- 44 -25   7

Round 1 [Jul 30]
JEF United Ichihara  1-0  Urawa Red Diamonds   [OT]           3,610 
  [Nenad Maslovar 100] 
Yokohama Marinos     1-4  Jubilo Iwata                        7,864 
  [Tomokazu Hirama 75 – Dunga 25, Toshiya Fujita 51, Daisuke Oku 57, 
   Hiroshi Nanami 64] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   7-4  Kashiwa Reysol                      5,113 
  [Wagner Lopes 2, 36, Yasuharu Sorimachi 14, Hidetoshi Nakata 29, 
   Claudio 45, Hiroshi Sakai 54, Teruo Iwamoto 75 – Edilson 28, 
   Jamelli 59, 63, Elpidio Silva 68] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      3-1  Yokohama Flugels                    8,014 
  [Fernando Oliva 14, Teruyoshi Ito 24, Kenta Hasegawa 89 – 
   Fernando 5] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   3-2  Gamba Osaka                         8,263 
  [Nobuhiro Takeda 13, 56, Shinji Fujiyoshi 76 – Patrick Mboma 51, 
   Masanobu Matsunami 82] 
Cerezo Osaka         3-1  Vissel Kobe                         5,897 
  [Hiroaki Morishima 49, Claudinho 75, Takayuki Yokoyama 87 – 
   Akihiro Nagashima 84] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  1-0  Nagoya Grampus Eight                4,176 
  [Takuya Takagi 45] 
Avispa Fukuoka       1-3  Kashima Antlers                    16,354 
  [Michael Obiku 21 – Bismarck 19, Atsushi Yanagisawa 72, 
   Hisashi Kurosaki 81] 
Verdy Kawasaki idle

Round 2 [Aug 2]
JEF United Ichihara  3-1  Verdy Kawasaki                      6,209 
  [Eisuke Nakanishi 16, Nenad Maslovar 45, Kohei Inoue 52 – 
   Alcindo 90] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   3-4  Gamba Osaka                         7,174 
  [Wagner Lopes 11, Claudio 41, Yoshihiro Natsuka 66 – 
   Nebojša Krupniković 36 pen, Naoki Hiraoka 64, 
   Patrick Mboma 87, 88] 
Vissel Kobe          0-5  Kashima Antlers                     8,978 
  [Yasuo Manaka 4, ? (V) 29 og, Hisashi Kurosaki 71, 83, 
   Atsushi Yanagisawa 88] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  1-3  Jubilo Iwata                        5,613 
  [Takuya Takagi 74 pen – Masashi Nakayama 23, 82, Daisuke Oku 30] 
Yokohama Marinos     0-2  Urawa Red Diamonds                 13,269 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 56 pen, Aitor Begiristain 66] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      2-3  Kashiwa Reysol       [OT]           9,422 
  [Fernando Oliva 10, Alessandro Santos 71 – Edilson 63, 104, 
   Jamelli 85] 
Cerezo Osaka         2-3  Nagoya Grampus Eight                6,160 
  [Ko Jeong-Woon 7, Takayuki Yokoyama 87 – Kenji Fukuda 16, 
   Takashi Hirano 17, Go Oiwa 74] 
Avispa Fukuoka       0-1  Yokohama Flugels     [OT]           9,477 
  [Válber 115] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga idle

Round 3 [Aug 6]
Urawa Red Diamonds   3-4  Shimizu S-Pulse                    17,890 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 1, Tsutomu Nishino 61, Takafumi Hori 89 – 
   Fernando Oliva 27, 90, Masaaki Sawanobori 52, 90+] 
Verdy Kawasaki       1-2  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  7,415 
  [Alcindo 18 – Hiroshi Sakai 26, Wagner Lopes 83] 
Jubilo Iwata         2-1  Avispa Fukuoka                      7,181 
  [Toshiya Fujita 69, Masashi Nakayama 71 – Pablo Maqueda 67] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 3-0  Vissel Kobe                        12,854 
  [Yasuyuki Moriyama 18, 20, Tetsuya Asano 76] 
Gamba Osaka          3-4  Yokohama Marinos                   12,834 
  [Patrick Mboma 24, Boban Babunski 58, 60 – 
   Julio César Baldivieso 13 pen, 26, 29, Julio Salinas 64] 
Kashiwa Reysol       2-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 5,887 
  [Jamelli 60 pen, Nozomu Kato 79 – Tatsuhiko Kubo 6] 
Yokohama Flugels     1-2  Cerezo Osaka         [OT]           5,138 
  [Atsuhiro Miura 15 – Claudinho 24, Takayuki Yokoyama 118] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   2-3  JEF United Ichihara  [OT]          13,776 
  [Takayuki Yamaguchi 71, Hiroshi Noguchi 86 – 
   Nenad Maslovar 38, 62, Nozomi Hiroyama 109] 
Kashima Antlers idle

Round 4 [Aug 9]
Bellmare Hiratsuka   2-1  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  7,693 
  [Hidetoshi Nakata 39, Claudio 86 – Takayuki Yamaguchi 75] 
Vissel Kobe          2-3  Yokohama Flugels                    3,917 
  [? (Y) 58 og, Matthew Bingley 62 – Válber 36, 78, 
   Atsuhiro Miura 65] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  1-2  Urawa Red Diamonds                  6,342 
  [? (U) 23 og – Masahiro Fukuda 70, 72] 
Kashima Antlers      7-0  Nagoya Grampus Eight               16,988 
  [Hisashi Kurosaki 7, 38, Bismarck 8, Yutaka Akita 16, 
   Mazinho 75, 83, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 88] 
Yokohama Marinos     7-2  Verdy Kawasaki                     17,222 
  [Julio Salinas 3, 59, 62, 70, Julio César Baldivieso 24 pen, 
   Shoji Jo 28, 39 – Kazuyoshi Miura 14, Carlos Alberto Dias 69] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      1-2  Gamba Osaka                        12,067 
  [Masaaki Sawanobori 50 – Shigeru Morioka 34, Patrick Mboma 67] 
Cerezo Osaka         1-4  Jubilo Iwata                        7,287 
  [Jean Elias 50 – Toshiya Fujita 4, Takashi Fukunishi 20, 
   Takahiro Yamanishi 45, Masashi Nakayama 73] 
Avispa Fukuoka       1-1  Kashiwa Reysol       [OT, 5-3 pen]  6,495 
  [Michael Obiku 50 – Nozomu Kato 36] 
JEF United Ichihara idle

Round 5 
[Aug 15]
Kyoto Purple Sanga   1-4  Yokohama Marinos                   13,874 
  [Nobuhiro Takeda 22 - Julio César Baldivieso 37, 39, Shoji Jo 41, 
   Julio Salinas 60] 
[Aug 16]
JEF United Ichihara  0-0  Bellmare Hiratsuka   [OT, 5-6 pen]  5,511
Urawa Red Diamonds   1-2  Avispa Fukuoka                     18,223 
  [Alfred Nijhuis 86 – Faisuke Nakaharai 3, Michael Obiku 68] 
Kashiwa Reysol       0-1  Cerezo Osaka                        8,012 
  [Claudinho 76] 
Verdy Kawasaki       1-0  Shimizu S-Pulse      [OT]          11,070 
  [Tsuyoshi Kitazawa 119] 
Yokohama Flugels     5-3  Kashima Antlers                    13,498 
  [Motohiro Yamaguchi 25, 64, 69, Hiroki Hattori 40, 
   Cézar Sampaio 43 – Jorginho 30, Atsushi Yanagisawa 56, 
   Mazinho 85 pen] 
Jubilo Iwata         2-1  Vissel Kobe                        12,366 
  [Kiyokazu Kudo 22, Norihisa Shimizu 83 – Tomoji Eguchi 88] 
Gamba Osaka          3-0  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 6,598 
  [Shigeru Morioka 15, Nebojša Krupniković 29, Masanobu Matsunami 85] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight idle

Round 6 [Aug 20]
Kashima Antlers      2-0  Jubilo Iwata                       16,678 
  [Hisashi Kurosaki 51, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 90] 
Yokohama Marinos     2-1  JEF United Ichihara  [OT]           7,646 
  [Naoki Matsuda 27, Shoji Jo 93 pen – Tomoyuki Sakai 64] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      1-0  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  9,327 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 53] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 2-1  Yokohama Flugels                   13,330 
  [Valdo 66, Tetsuya Asano 76 – Hiroki Hattori 57] 
Cerezo Osaka         1-2  Urawa Red Diamonds                  7,841 
  [Alessandro Santos 52 – Masahiro Fukuda 68 pen, 
   Aitor Begiristain 73] 
Vissel Kobe          2-4  Kashiwa Reysol                      4,113 
  [Akihiro Nagasahima 67, 71 – Edilson 36, 90, 
   Tomohiro Katanosaka 45, Elpidio Silva 62] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  3-1  Verdy Kawasaki                     10,504 
  [Tatsuhiko Kubo 16, Ian Crook 26, Iwao Yamane 68 – 
   Shintetsu Gen 59] 
Avispa Fukuoka       0-1  Gamba Osaka                         7,452 
  [Masanobu Matsunami 83] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka idle

Round 7 [Aug 23]
Bellmare Hiratsuka   1-3  Yokohama Marinos                   10,032 
  [Koji Seki 90 – Shunsuke Nakamura 25, 57, Satoru Noda 71] 
JEF United Ichihara  0-3  Shimizu S-Pulse                     4,761 
  [Masahiro Ando 2, Fernando Oliva 68 pen, Teruyoshi Ito 89] 
Gamba Osaka          3-2  Cerezo Osaka         [OT]          11,893 
  [Nebojša Krupniković 60, 97, Patrick Mboma 78 pen – 
   Takayuki Yokoyama 49, 90] 
Verdy Kawasaki       2-0  Avispa Fukuoka                      6,359 
  [? (A) 74 og, Alcindo 81] 
Kashiwa Reysol       3-5  Kashima Antlers                    12,067 
  [Kentaro Ishikawa 6, Edislon 31, Tomokazu Myojin 38 – 
   Hisashi Kurosaki 36, Mazinho 39, Jorginho 63, 
   Atsushi Yanagisawa 72, 76] 
Jubilo Iwata         1-3  Nagoya Grampus Eight               13,169 
  [Alessandro Cambalhota 10 - Dragan Stojković 11, 
   Alexandre Torres 24, Kenji Fukuda 37] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   0-3  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 5,340 
  [Tatsuhiko Kubo 7, Hajime Moriyasu 83 pen, Iwao Yamane 90] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   2-0  Vissel Kobe                        18,412 
  [Masahiro Fukuda 63, 71] 
Yokohama Flugels idle

Round 8 [Aug 30]
Shimizu S-Pulse      3-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka                 10,346 
  [Kenta Hasegawa 54, Fernando Oliva 69, 85 – Wagner Lopes 57] 
Kashima Antlers      1-0  Urawa Red Diamonds                 16,752 
  [Bismarck 74] 
Vissel Kobe          0-4  Gamba Osaka                        10,195 
  [Boban Babunski 9, Shigeru Morioka 16, Patrick Mboma 49, 
   Masanobu Matsunami 82] 
Yokohama Flugels     0-2  Jubilo Iwata                        8,577 
  [Toshiya Fujita 13, Alessandro Cambalhota 60] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 1-0  Kashiwa Reysol                     19,473 
  [Tetsuya Okayama 63] 
Cerezo Osaka         5-3  Verdy Kawasaki                     13,043 
  [Jean Elias 45, Claudinho 54, Katsuo Kanda 57, 
   Takayuki Yokoyama 62, Alessandro Santos 65 pen – 
   Alcindo 21, Masakiyo Maezono 27, 30] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  3-0  JEF United Ichihara                 6,505 
  [Takuya Takagi 17, Ryuji Michiki 20, Graham Arnold 87] 
Avispa Fukuoka       4-2  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  8,509 
  [Yusaku Ueno 20, 29, Michael Obiku 45, Kiyotaka Ishimaru 46 – 
   Nobuhiro Takeda 14, 63] 
Yokohama Marinos idle

Round 9 [Sep 3]
JEF United Ichihara  2-1  Avispa Fukuoka                      3,085 
  [Satoshi Yamaguchi 14, Yoshika Matsubara 27 pen – 
   Kiyotaka Ishimaru 4] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   3-0  Nagoya Grampus Eight               17,305 
  [Aitor Begiristain 41, 67, Masahiro Fukuda 80] 
Verdy Kawasaki       2-0  Vissel Kobe                         5,087 
  [Alcindo 41, 61] 
Yokohama Marinos     1-0  Shimizu S-Pulse      [OT]           6,638 
  [Julio Salinas 91] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   2-0  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 5,271 
  [Simão 72, Kazuaki Tasaka 85] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   1-1  Cerezo Osaka         [OT, 6-7 pen]  4,781 
  [Hiroshi Noguchi 68 – Alex Lopes 22] 
Gamba Osaka          2-1  Kashima Antlers      [OT]          11,047 
  [Patrick Mboma 68, Shigeru Morioka 96 – Mazinho 76] 
Kashiwa Reysol       0-2  Yokohama Flugels                    5,572 
  [Fernando 29, Atsuhiro Miura 60] 
Jubilo Iwata idle

Round 10 [Sep 6]
Nagoya Grampus Eight 0-1  Gamba Osaka                        17,362 
  [Patrick Mboma 71] 
Kashima Antlers      5-0  Verdy Kawasaki                     16,428 
  [Mazinho 3, 39, Hisashi Kurosaki 53, 71, Tadatoshi Masuda 89] 
Jubilo Iwata         2-1  Kashiwa Reysol                     10,118 
  [Takanori Nunobe 80, 90 – Jamelli 32] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  2-3  Yokohama Marinos     [OT]           5,071 
  [Graham Arnold 39, Ian Crook 51 – Fumitake Miura 37, 
   Kazunari Okayama 89, Tomokazu Hirama 97] 
Yokohama Flugels     1-3  Urawa Red Diamonds                 10,846 
  [Fernando 82 – Alfred Nijhuis 1, 54, Masahiro Fukuda 85 pen] 
Vissel Kobe          4-2  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  3,429 
  [Tomoji Eguchi 3, 64, Akihiro Nagashima 39, Masakazu Koda 83 – 
   Toshihiro Yamaguchi 47, Hiroshi Noguchi 79] 
Avispa Fukuoka       1-2  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  6,318 
  [Michael Obiku 17 – Wagner Lopes 10 pen, Teruo Iwamoto 90] 
Cerezo Osaka         1-0  JEF United Ichihara                 4,492 
  [Claudinho 11] 
Shimizu S-Pulse idle

Round 11 [Sep 10]
Kashima Antlers      2-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima  [OT]          15,743 
  [Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 85, Mazinho 107 – Susumu Oki 19] 
Kashiwa Reysol       1-2  JEF United Ichihara                 5,034 
  [Edilson 15 – Nenad Maslovar 19 pen, Yoshika Matsubara 45] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   4-1  Kyoto Purple Sanga                 16,732 
  [Yuichiro Nagai 7, Masahiro Fukuda 14, 26, Alfred Nijhuis 39 – 
   Daniel 66] 
Jubilo Iwata         3-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  7,540 
  [Alessandro Cambalhota 45, Masashi Nakayama 57, 77 – 
   Teruo Iwamoto 12] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 2-1  Shimizu S-Pulse                    13,026 
  [Tetsuya Okayama 39, Ricardinho 46 – Fernando Oliva 49] 
Gamba Osaka          2-1  Verdy Kawasaki                     10,471 
  [Patrick Mboma 8, 84 – Takuya Yamada 66] 
Vissel Kobe          4-3  Avispa Fukuoka       [OT]           2,568 
  [Tomoji Eguchi 3, Koji Yoshimura 35, 80, Akihiro Nagashima 91 – 
   Daisuke Nakaharai 8, Pablo Maqueda 13, Yusaku Ueno 55] 
Yokohama Flugels     2-3  Yokohama Marinos                    8,273 
  [Hiroki Hattori 38, Fernando 81 – Julio Salinas 75, 90, 
   Kazunari Okayama 85] 
Cerezo Osaka idle

Round 12 [Sep 13]
Verdy Kawasaki       2-0  Nagoya Grampus Eight                8,077 
  [Masakiyo Maezono 16, Alcindo 90] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   5-4  Cerezo Osaka         [OT]           5,471 
  [Simão 45, 102, Yoshihiro Natsuka 53, Wagner Lopes 68, 78 – 
   Tomotaka Fukagawa 44, Alex Lopes 70, Claudinho 74, 
   Toshihiro Uchida 79] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      1-0  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 8,360 
  [Masaaki Sawanobori 81] 
Gamba Osaka          2-1  Yokohama Flugels                   10,067 
  [Patrick Mboma 61, Hitoshi Morishita 85 – Shoji Nonoshita 45] 
JEF United Ichihara  3-4  Vissel Kobe          [OT]           4,184 
  [Nenad Maslovar 10, Yoshikazu Nonomura 71, Peter Bosz 79 – 
   Akihiro Nagashima 28, 45, 54, Yoshihiko Matsuoka 113] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   0-1  Jubilo Iwata         [OT]          18,783 
  [Toshiya Fujita 106] 
Yokohama Marinos     4-1  Avispa Fukuoka                      6,752 
  [Julio César Baldivieso 39 pen, Kazunari Okayama 49, 
   Julio Salinas 58, Dušan Petković 81 – Tatsunori Hisanaga 74] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   3-2  Kashima Antlers                     8,148 
  [Daniel 59, Nobuhiro Takeda 71, 85 – Atsushi Yanagisawa 43, 
   Tadatoshi Masuda 74] 
Kashiwa Reysol idle

Round 13 [Sep 20]
Bellmare Hiratsuka   2-5  Kashima Antlers                     7,499 
  [Claudio 69, Wagner Lopes 88 – Mazinho 36, 47, 
   Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 67, 73, 77] 
Yokohama Marinos     2-1  Vissel Kobe                         5,558 
  [Julio Salinas 8, Dušan Petković 86 – Akihiro Nagashima 12] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   1-2  Yokohama Flugels                    4,522 
  [Nobuhiro Takeda 46 – Válber 18, 36] 
Gamba Osaka          1-2  Kashiwa Reysol                      7,427 
  [Junichi Inamoto 32 – Edilson 5, 64] 
JEF United Ichihara  1-2  Nagoya Grampus Eight               10,459 
  [Nenad Maslovar 81 – Alexandre Torres 34, Dragan Stojković 50] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      2-0  Cerezo Osaka                        7,339 
  [Masaaki Sawanobori 5, Fernando Oliva 85] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  1-3  Avispa Fukuoka                      6,210 
  [Kazuyoshi Matsunaga 83 – Michael Obiku 25, 90, Pablo Maqueda 54] 
Verdy Kawasaki       1-6  Jubilo Iwata                       11,230 
  [Alcindo 66 – Toshihiro Hattori 7, Masashi Nakayama 24, 28, 34, 
   Daisuke Oku 58, Toshiya Fujita 72] 
Urawa Red Diamonds idle

Round 14 [Sep 24]
Kashima Antlers      2-1  JEF United Ichihara  [OT]          15,176 
  [Bismarck 45, Hisashi Kurosaki 93 – Yoshika Matsubara 90] 
Kashiwa Reysol       3-0  Urawa Red Diamonds                  7,892 
  [Tomohiro Katanosaka 27, Elpidio Silva 44, 82] 
Yokohama Flugels     0-1  Verdy Kawasaki                     20,119 
  [Alcindo 41] 
Jubilo Iwata         1-0  Gamba Osaka          [OT]          10,542 
  [Dunga 103] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 1-2  Kyoto Purple Sanga                  6,266 
  [Kenji Fukuda 49 – Nobuhiro Takeda 23, Shinji Fujiyoshi 75] 
Cerezo Osaka         2-3  Yokohama Marinos     [OT]           8,028 
  [Tomotaka Fukagawa 23, 40 – Julio Salinas 45, 
   Julio César Baldivieso 74, Shunsuke Nakamura 107] 
Vissel Kobe          0-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  5,178 
  [Tomoaki Matsukawa 83] 
Avispa Fukuoka       0-1  Shimizu S-Pulse      [OT]           5,653 
  [Alessandro Santos 112] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima idle

Round 15 [Sep 27]
Kashima Antlers      2-1  Yokohama Marinos                   16,379 
  [Mazinho 45, Ichiei Muroi 66 – Julio Salinas 40] 
Kashiwa Reysol       2-1  Verdy Kawasaki                     10,959 
  [Nozomu Kato 14, Elpidio Silva 71 – Carlos Alberto Dias 88] 
Jubilo Iwata         2-1  Kyoto Purple Sanga                 10,034 
  [Adilson 63 pen, Alessandro Cambalhota 86 – Mineiro 61] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 2-1  Bellmare Hiratsuka                  9,117 
  [Suguru Ito 31, Seiichi Ogawa 44 – Hiroshi Sakai 78] 
Vissel Kobe          0-3  Shimizu S-Pulse                    10,281 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 33, Masaaki Sawanobori 71, 
   Teruyoshi Ito 75] 
Cerezo Osaka         3-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 4,553 
  [Claudinho 20, Takayuki Yokoyama 27, Jean Elias 82 – 
   Takuya Takagi 89] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   1-4  Gamba Osaka                        37,565 
  [Takafumi Hori 67 – Kojiro Kaimoto 21, Patrick Mboma 54, 
   Junichi Inamoto 59, Masanobu Matsunami 73] 
Yokohama Flugels     1-2  JEF United Ichihara  [OT]           7,565 
  [Cézar Sampaio 60 – Peter Bosz 65, Yoshika Matsubara 100] 
Avispa Fukuoka idle

Round 16 [Oct 1]
Yokohama Marinos     1-2  Nagoya Grampus Eight                7,312 
  [Julio Salinas 20 – Tetsuya Asano 61, Valdo 68] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima  2-0  Vissel Kobe                         5,396 
  [Graham Arnold 39, Takuya Takagi 60] 
Shimizu S-Pulse      2-0  Kashima Antlers                    11,418 
  [Masahiro Ando 45, Fernando Oliva 84] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga   0-1  Kashiwa Reysol                      6,019 
  [Shin Tanada 88] 
JEF United Ichihara  0-5  Jubilo Iwata                        4,712 
  [Daisuke Oku 43, 52, Alessandro Cambalhota 65, Toshiya Fujita 70, 
   Dunga 73] 
Verdy Kawasaki       1-2  Urawa Red Diamonds                 20,161 
  [Alcindo 90 – Masahiro Fukuda 55, Kenji Oshiba 65] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka   0-0  Yokohama Flugels     [OT, 4-5 pen]  5,905 
Avispa Fukuoka       0-2  Cerezo Osaka                        8,681 
  [Alex Lopes 18, Claudinho 78] 
Gamba Osaka idle

Round 17 [Oct 4]
Kashima Antlers      1-2  Cerezo Osaka                       15,404 
  [Tadatoshi Masuda 51 – Takayuki Yokoyama 69, 86] 
Kashiwa Reysol       2-3  Yokohama Marinos                    8,968 
  [Takeshi Watanabe 13, Nozomu Kato 41 – Julio Salinas 6, 
   Shunsuke Nakamura 36, Tomokazu Hirama 83] 
Urawa Red Diamonds   1-0  Bellmare Hiratsuka   [OT]          16,690 
  [Kenji Oshiba 95] 
Verdy Kawasaki       2-1  Kyoto Purple Sanga   [OT]           6,047 
  [Carlos Alberto Dias 68, Hideki Nagai 97 – Daniel 65] 
Yokohama Flugels     2-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima                 4,601 
  [Fernando 38, Válber 56 – Ian Crook 73] 
Jubilo Iwata         2-0  Shimizu S-Pulse                    17,117 
  [Masashi Nakayama 24, 90] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight 2-0  Avispa Fukuoka                     11,625 
  [Ricardinho 24, Tetsuya Asano 90] 
Gamba Osaka          4-3  JEF United Ichihara                 6,844 
  [Tsuneyasu Miyamoto 28, Patrick Mboma 30, 50 pen, 
   Nebojša Krupniković 61 – Naoki Matsushita 47, 
   Satoshi Yamaguchi 59, Yoshika Matsubara 86] 
Vissel Kobe idle

Pos Prev Team                  Gm Wn(OT/PK) Ls(OT/PK) GF- GA  Dif Pnt
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 1. ( 1) Jubilo Iwata          16 14( 2/ 0)  2         40- 14  26  40
 2. ( 3) Gamba Osaka           16 12( 2/ 0)  4( 1/ 0)  38- 23  15  34
 3. ( 4) Yokohama Marinos      16 12( 4/ 0)  4         42- 28  14  32
 4. ( 2) Kashima Antlers       16 11( 2/ 0)  5( 1/ 0)  46- 23  23  31
 5. ( 6) Nagoya Grampus Eight  16 10         6         23- 24  -1  30
 6. ( 5) Shimizu S-Pulse       16 10( 1/ 0)  6( 3/ 0)  27- 16  11  29
 7. ( 7) Urawa Red Diamonds    16  9( 1/ 0)  7( 2/ 0)  26- 21   5  26
 8. ( 8) Cerezo Osaka          16  9( 1/ 1)  7( 3/ 0)  32- 30   2  24
 9. ( 9) Bellmare Hiratsuka    16  8( 1/ 1)  8( 1/ 1)  30- 32  -2  21
10. (10) Kashiwa Reysol        16  7( 1/ 0)  9( 0/ 1)  29- 31  -2  20
11. (11) Yokohama Flugels      16  7( 1/ 1)  9( 2/ 0)  23- 27  -4  18
12. (14) Verdy Kawasaki        16  6( 2/ 0) 10         22- 38 -16  16
13. (12) Sanfrecce Hiroshima   16  5        11( 2/ 0)  21- 27  -6  15
14. (13) JEF United Ichihara   16  6( 3/ 0) 10( 3/ 1)  22- 32 -10  15
15. (15) Avispa Fukuoka        16  4( 0/ 1) 12( 3/ 0)  18- 31 -13  10
16. (16) Kyoto Purple Sanga    16  3        13( 2/ 1)  21- 38 -17   9
17. (17) Vissel Kobe           16  3( 2/ 0) 13         19- 44 -25   7

Top Scorers (after 34 rounds/32 games)

  1. Patrick Mboma                    Cam  Gamba Osaka              25
  2. Edilson Silva Ferreira           Bra  Kashiwa Reysol           23
  3. Mazinho                          Bra  Kashima Antlers          22
     Akihiro Nagashima                Jpn  Vissel Kobe              22
  5. Masahiro Fukuda                  Jpn  Urawa Red Diamonds       21
     Julio Salinas                    Esp  Yokohama Marinos         21
  7. Valber da Silva Costa            Bra  Yokohama Flugels         20
  8. Wagner Lopes                     Jpn  Bellmare Hiratsuka       18
     Masashi Nakayama                 Jpn  Jubilo Iwata             18
 10. Paulo Roberto Jamelli            Bra  Kashiwa Reysol           14


Championship Playoff
--------------------

First Leg [Dec 6]
Jubilo Iwata           - Kashima Antlers         3- 2     (OT)  17,269
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(h1) 0. Nakayama 1-0, (h2) 1. Nakayama 2-0, 17. Bismarck 2-1,
43. Mazinho 2-2, (o2) 14. Shimizu 3-2. At Iwata. Referee: Okada.

Second Leg [Dec 13]
Kashima Antlers        - Jubilo Iwata            0- 1
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(h2) 36. Nakayama 0-1

Jubilo Iwata Champions 1997.



Japan Second Level 1997

JFL
===

The JFL is about to start on its 6th season; the first round will be
played on Sunday 20 April. Last year's champion Honda Giken Hamamatsu
have announced that they would apply for J.League associate membership
on Friday 18 April (today); if everything goes as planned, they will
be accepted at the Executive Board Meeting in June (along with
Kawasaki Frontale I think) and be eligible for promotion to the
J.League at the end of the season (if they end in the top two of
course).

Also the J.League has started accepting applications of teams that
want to be in the second division of the J.League when it starts in
two years' time; the deadline is somewhere in May, and the decision
will be made in October I think. This process is not limited to JFL
teams, teams that are in the regional leagues now can also apply, and
the conditions are apparently less strict than for J.League
(associate) membership.

Also, it seems that Tokyo Gas and NTT Kanto have applied (or are going to
apply) for the second division of the J.League.

JFL 1997 Final Standings (2 November 1997)

Pos r29 Team                   Gm Wn(OT/PK) Ls(OT/PK)  GF- GA Diff Pnt
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 1.( 1) Consadole Sapporo      30 26( 2/ 0)  4( 0/ 1)  77- 26   51  76  Promoted
 2.( 2) Tokyo Gas              30 24( 2/ 1)  6( 1/ 0)  70- 30   40  68
 3.( 3) Kawasaki Frontale      30 23( 2/ 0)  7( 3/ 0)  87- 36   51  67
 4.( 4) Honda Giken Hamamatsu  30 23( 2/ 1)  7( 1/ 0)  60- 37   23  65
 5.( 5) Montedio Yamagata      30 19( 1/ 0) 11( 2/ 0)  57- 36   21  56
 6.( 6) Ventforet Kofu         30 19( 3/ 1) 11( 2/ 1)  59- 41   18  52
 7.( 8) Vortis Tokushima       30 14( 1/ 0) 16( 3/ 1)  50- 45    5  41
 8.(10) Brummell Sendai        30 15( 1/ 2) 15( 1/ 1)  37- 43   -6  40
 9.( 7) NTT Kanto              30 14( 3/ 0) 16( 1/ 1)  48- 49   -1  39
10.( 9) Fukushima FC           30 13( 1/ 0) 17( 0/ 1)  38- 54  -16  38
11.(11) Sagan Tosu             30 13( 3/ 2) 17( 0/ 2)  38- 49  -11  32
12.(12) Oita Trinity           30 11( 4/ 0) 19( 5/ 1)  42- 64  -22  29
13.(13) Nippon Denso           30 11( 2/ 2) 19( 2/ 1)  29- 49  -20  27
14.(14) Seino Transports       30  5        25( 3/ 1)  24- 67  -43  15
15.(15) Jatco                  30  6( 1/ 3) 24( 2/ 1)  25- 70  -45  11
16.(16) Mito Hollyhock         30  4( 0/ 1) 26( 2/ 1)  24- 69  -45  10

Round 1 (20 April 1997)
Brummell Sendai        - NTT Kanto               0- 3            3,756 
  [Taisuke Hiramoto 4, 45, Naoki Takizawa 27] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Seino Transports        3- 0            2,115 
  [Angelo 9, 45, Marquinho 20] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Consadole Sapporo       0- 2            2,438 
  [Nobuhito Toriizuka 67, Jorge Dely Valdés 90] 
Tokyo Gas              - Fukushima FC            1- 0            2,918 
  [Takashi Okuhara] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Jatco                   4- 0            3,411 
  [Momodu Mutairu (3), Hideki Katsura] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Ventforet Kofu          2- 1            4,012 
  [Hiroyasu Ibata (2) – Mario] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Oita Trinity            1- 2    (OT)      985 
  [Takahiro Kawaji – Koichi Sugiyama, Hwangbo Kwan] 
Sagan Tosu             - Nippon Denso            0- 0   (3-1)    3,335 
 
Round 2 (26/27 April 1997)
(Saturday 26 April 1997)
Oita Trinity           - Brummell Sendai         1- 2    (OT)    1,503 
  [Hwangbo Kwan 69 – Yasunobu Chiba 57, Katsuyuki Saito 98] 
Nippon Denso           - Montedio Yamagata       2- 1              358 
  [Tatsuya Kobayashi 49, 59 – Sidiclei 87] 
(Sunday 27 April 1997)
Fukushima FC           - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   0- 1            1,517 
  [Douglas 22] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Sagan Tosu              2- 3    (OT)    1,108 
  [Carinho, Mitsunori Yamao – Taro Goto, Takashi Uemura, Shin Nakamura] 
Jatco                  - Consadole Sapporo       0- 3            2,482 
  [Yoshikazu Goto 36, Kota Yoshihara 47, 74] 
Seino Transports       - Vortis Tokushima        0- 3              343 
  [Yoshiyuki Yokose, Takao Sekiguchi (2)] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Tokyo Gas               1- 3              783 
  [Masaaki Ueki – Masamitsu Kobayashi, Hiroki Shinjo, Edwin Ifeanyi] 
NTT Kanto              - Kawasaki Frontale       0- 1            3,059 
  [Betinho 30] 
 
Round 3 (4/5 May 1997)
(Sunday 4 May 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - NTT Kanto               1- 0            8,442 
  [Luiz Pereira 53] 
Brummell Sendai        - Vortis Tokushima        2- 0            2,743 
  [Shuji Kusano 22, Ante Šimundža 33] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Ventforet Kofu          2- 3            1,311 
  [Angelo (2) – Tatsuya Ai (2), Susumu Watanabe] 
Tokyo Gas              - Jatco                   4- 1            1,205 
  [Biluca (2), Takeshi Motoyoshi, Edwin Ifeanyi – Nenê] 
Sagan Tosu             - Fukushima FC            4- 1            4,450 
  [Shinichi Sato, Takashi Uemura, Shin Nakamura, Masato Koga – 
   Norio Haryu] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Mito Hollyhock          3- 2            2,309 
  [Fumiaki Aoshima 60, 78, Sandro 63 – Yuji Ozaki 17, Teppei Isaka 48] 
(Monday 5 May 1997)
Kawasaki Frontale      - Oita Trinity            4- 0            3,766 
  [Momodu Mutairu (2), Rafael Scheidt, Tetsuo Nakanishi] 
Seino Transports       - Nippon Denso            0- 3              380 
  [Keisuke Koike, Yukinobu Yanagisawa, Toshihiro Nishimura] 
 
Round 4 (Sunday 11 May 1997)
Ventforet Kofu         - Nippon Denso            2- 1    (OT)      758 
  [Katsutomo Oshiba, Susumu Watanabe – Tatsuya Kobayashi] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Sagan Tosu              0- 2              766 
  [Yuji Hashimoto, Shin Nakamura] 
Oita Trinity           - Consadole Sapporo       1- 2            1,269 
  [Hwangbo Kwan 40 – Kota Yoshihara 37, Taku Watanabe 73] 
Brummell Sendai        - Seino Transports        2- 1            2,848 
  [Ante Šimundža 9, Yasunobu Chiba 90 – Takashi Umeda 26] 
Fukushima FC           - Montedio Yamagata       2- 1              805 
  [Koji Nakamura 32, Shinji Kobayashi 54 – Angelo 65] 
NTT Kanto              - Tokyo Gas               0- 3            1,334 
  [Masamitsu Kobayashi, Edwin Ifeanyi, Kiyonobu Okajima] 
Jatco                  - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 2            2,290 
  [Akihide Mochizuki 80 – Jacques 67, Yasuyuki Iwasaki 86] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Kawasaki Frontale       0- 1    (OT)    1,500 
  [Kenichi Sugano] 
 
Round 5 (Thursday 15 May 1997)
Fukushima FC           - Nippon Denso            1- 0              185 
  [Hiroyuki Kawaguchi] 
Seino Transports       - Ventforet Kofu          1- 4              108 
  [Takashi Umeda – Katsutomo Oshiba (2), Carinho, Shinya Hara (?)] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Mito Hollyhock          2- 0            1,761 
  [Satoshi Mashimo, Daiki Wakamatsu] 
Tokyo Gas              - Oita Trinity            3- 2    (OT)      724 
  [Amaral (2), Hiroki Shinjo – Hwangbo Kwan (2)] 
Consadole Sapporo      - Vortis Tokushima        5- 1            8,091 
  [Kota Yoshihara 17, 46, 68, Jorge Dely Valdés 64, 72] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Brummell Sendai         3- 0            3,646 
  [Betinho 31, Tatsuru Mukojima 34, Momodu Mutairu 85] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - NTT Kanto               1- 0            1,504 
  [Jacques 20] 
Sagan Tosu             - Jatco                   1- 2            2,458 
  [Takashi Uemura – Nenê, Gerson] 
 
Round  6 (18 and 20 May 1997)
(Sunday 18 May)
NTT Kanto              - Sagan Tosu              2- 0            1,544 
  [Satoru Kobayashi 4, Taisuke Hiramoto 58] 
Jatco                  - Montedio Yamagata       0- 3              679 
  [Marquinho 21, Satoshi Mashimo 61, Taketo Shiokawa 84] 
Oita Trinity           - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 2              572 
  [Lee Woo-Young – Fumiaki Aoshima, Takayoshi Onaka] 
Brummell Sendai        - Consadole Sapporo       0- 1            3,206 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 77] 
Fukushima FC           - Ventforet Kofu          2- 2  (3-4)       676 
  [Koichi Usunaga, Kinya Takehara – Shinya Hara (?), Katsutomo Oshiba] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Nippon Denso            0- 1              354 
  [Takaaki Tokushige] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Tokyo Gas               1- 2              580 
  [Keiji Takao – Kiyonobu Okajima, Ryuji Fujiyama] 
(Tuesday 20 May)
Kawasaki Frontale      - Seino Transports        3- 0            1,354 
  [Tatsuru Mukojima, Shinji Otsuka, Momodu Mutairu] 
 
Round  7 (Sunday 25 May 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Kawasaki Frontale       4- 3   (OT)    10,531 
  [Hugo Maradona 53, Jorge Dely Valdés 90, 90+, 113 – Betinho 23, 89, 
   Momodu Mutairu 25] 
Montedio Yamagata      - NTT Kanto               1- 2   (OT)     1,477 
  [Daiki Wakamatsu 40 – Tsuji Ishihara 34, Satoru Kobayashi 105] 
Seino Transports       - Fukushima FC            0- 2              161 
  [Koichi Usunaga, Kinya Takehara] 
Tokyo Gas              - Brummell Sendai         5- 0            2,407 
  [Tomohiro Hasumi 19, 45, 65, ? (B) 30 og, Jun Wada 81] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Mito Hollyhock          2- 1   (OT)       743 
  [Tsuneki Sumiya, Mario – Yoshifumi Kanakubo] 
Jatco                  - Nippon Denso            0- 1              890 
  [Toshihiro Nishimura] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Vortis Tokushima        2- 0            1,840 
  [Jacques 17, 85 pen] 
Sagan Tosu             - Oita Trinity            1- 0            3,661 
  [Shinichi Sato] 
 
Round  8 (30 and 31 May, 1 June 1997)
(Friday 30 May)
Oita Trinity           - Montedio Yamagata       0- 1              157 
  [Angelo 49] 
(Saturday 31 May)
Mito Hollyhock         - Fukushima FC            0- 2              487 
  [Gwak Kyung-Keun, Kinya Takehara] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Tokyo Gas               3- 0            3,186 
  [Tatsuru Mukojima (2), Momodu Mutairu] 
(Sunday 1 June)
Brummell Sendai        - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 1  (3-4)    14,145 
  [Slobodan Dubajić 90 – Walter 49] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Jatco                   3- 0            1,032 
  [Osamu Takada, Tsuneki Sumiya (2)] 
NTT Kanto              - Nippon Denso            1- 2   (OT)     1,003 
  [Tsuji Ishihara 12 – Omi Sato 4, 100] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Sagan Tosu              1- 1  (3-5)       553 
  [Takahiro Kawaji – Yuji Hashimoto] 
Consadole Sapporo      - Seino Transports        3- 0            6,238 
  [Takashi Yamahashi 35, Hugo Maradona 69, Jorge Dely Valdés 82] 
 
Round  9 (Saturday 7 June 1997)
Tokyo Gas              - Consadole Sapporo       0- 0  (6-5)     2,624 
Ventforet Kofu         - NTT Kanto               3- 2            1,007 
  [Carinho, Susumu Watanabe, Tatsuya Ai – Ryugo Okamoto, 
   Taisuke Hiramoto] 
Fukushima FC           - Jatco                   3- 1              743 
  [Gwak Kyung-Keun, Koji Kawada, Eiji Sakurai – Akihide Mochizuki] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Kawasaki Frontale       2- 4            3,256 
  [Hiroyuki Yoshida 44, Douglas 68 – Rafael Scheidt 29, Betinho 45, 
   Tetsuo Nakanishi 62, Tatsuru Mukojima 81] 
Nippon Denso           - Oita Trinity            3- 3  (5-4)     1,792 
  [Omi Sato, Tatsuya Kobayashi, Kunio Kitamura – Tsuyoshi Kato, 
   Choi Dae-Shik (2)] 
Seino Transports       - Mito Hollyhock          4- 1              220 
  [Takashi Umeda (2), Shigehito Tsuchiya (2) – Yuji Ozaki] 
Sagan Tosu             - Brummell Sendai         2- 1            4,130 
  [Akimasa Tsukamoto, Masato Koga – Katsuyuki Saito] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Vortis Tokushima        2- 1            1,551 
  [Angelo 49, 77 pen – Eiji Hirata 73] 
 
Round 10 (12, 13 and 14 June 1997)
(Thursday 12 June)
Kawasaki Frontale      - Sagan Tosu              5- 0            2,931 
  [Tatsuru Mukojima (2), Momodu Mutairu, Betinho, Shinji Otsuka] 
(Friday 13 June)
Consadole Sapporo      - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 0           13,245 
  [Hugo Maradona 82] 
(Saturday 14 June)
Oita Trinity           - Ventforet Kofu          2- 0              417 
  [Tsuyoshi Kato, Choi Dae-Shik] 
Brummell Sendai        - Montedio Yamagata       1- 3            2,165 
  [Ante Šimundža 62 – Marquinho 33, Daiki Wakamatsu 64, 
   Sidiclei 88 pen] 
NTT Kanto              - Fukushima FC            2- 0              934 
  [Taisuke Hiramoto 55, 77] 
Tokyo Gas              - Seino Transports        2- 0              754 
  [Assis, Edwin Ifeanyi] 
Jatco                  - Mito Hollyhock          1- 0   (OT)     1,055 
  [Akihide Mochizuki] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Nippon Denso            1- 0   (OT)       245 
  [Satoru Yoshida] 
 
Round 11 (Saturday 21 June 1997)
Mito Hollyhock         - NTT Kanto               2- 3              824 
  [Akira Fukuda 4, Makoto Yamazaki 2h – Masanari Yamashita 33, 
   Naoki Takizawa 50, 87] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Vortis Tokushima        4- 0            2,169 
  [Susumu Watanabe (2), Katsutomo Oshiba, Tatsuya Ai] 
Fukushima FC           - Oita Trinity            4- 3   (OT)     1,018 
  [Kinya Takehara (3), Hiroyuki Kawaguchi – Motoki Kawasaki, 
   Choi Dae-Shik, Takeshi Yonezawa] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Tokyo Gas               3- 2            1,850 
  [Hiroyasu Ibata 15, Junya Nitta 38, Hirohito Nakamura 86 – 
   Jun Wada 64, Kiyonobu Okajima 82 pen] 
Nippon Denso           - Brummell Sendai         1- 0   (OT)     1,081 
  [Tatsuya Kobayashi 101] 
Seino Transports       - Jatco                   1- 1  (2-4)       238 
  [Kazunori Kuroda – Hidemasa Tanaka] 
Sagan Tosu             - Consadole Sapporo       0- 2            4,821 
  [Yoshikazu Goto 33, Hugo Maradona 75] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Kawasaki Frontale       1- 2   (OT)     2,445 
  [Marquinho 60 – Tetsuo Nakanishi 43, Naoki Urata 105] 

Round 12 (27 and 29 June, 1 July 1997)
(Friday 27 June 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Montedio Yamagata       3- 0           10,229 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 11, 21, Hugo Maradona 51] 
(Sunday 29 June 1997)
Brummell Sendai        - Ventforet Kofu          2- 0            2,001 
  [Satoshi Okura 44, 90] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Nippon Denso            1- 0            3,508 
  [Tatsuru Mukojima] 
Oita Trinity           - Mito Hollyhock          4- 2              510 
  [Yoshio Kitajima, Tsuyoshi Kato, Hwangbo Kwan (2) – 
   Makoto Yamazaki, Hiroshi Ninomiya] 
NTT Kanto              - Jatco                   3- 2              721 
  [Jiro Matsuzaki 9, Tsuji Ishihara 65 pen, Satoru Kobayashi 90 – 
   Nenê 10, Akihide Mochizuki 35] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Seino Transports        1- 2            2,122 
  [Takayoshi Onaka 49 – Takashi Umeda 32, Kosuke Harada 59] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Fukushima FC            3- 0              314 
  [Takahiro Kawaji, Hideki Koga, Satoru Yoshida] 
(Tuesday 1 July 1997)
Tokyo Gas              - Sagan Tosu              5- 2              826 
  [Assis (2), Hayato Okamoto, Masamitsu Kobayashi, Amaral – 
   Shin Nakamura, Takashi Uemura] 

Round 13 (Sunday 6 July 1997)
Montedio Yamagata      - Tokyo Gas               1- 0            1,082 
  [Naoki Naruo] 
Fukushima FC           - Brummell Sendai         1- 0            4,855 
  [Koichi Usunaga 75] 
Jatco                  - Oita Trinity            0- 1   (OT)       712 
  [Choi Dae-Shik] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Vortis Tokushima        1- 6              612 
  [Nobuhisa Isono – Yoshiyuki Yokose (2), Takao Sekiguchi, 
   Ryoichi Fukushige, Hideki Koga, Koji Kataoka] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Kawasaki Frontale       3- 0            1,863 
  [Osamu Takada, Katsutomo Oshiba, Yuji Minami] 
Nippon Denso           - Consadole Sapporo       1- 6            1,667 
  [Hirokazu Hori 2h – Kota Yoshihara 13, 
   Jorge Dely Valdés 24, 53, 77, 87, ? (N) 90 og] 
Seino Transports       - NTT Kanto               1- 2              204 
  [Kazunori Kuroda 49 pen – Taisuke Hiramoto 66, 77] 
Sagan Tosu             - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   3- 0            3,827 
  [Shinichi Sato 5, 78, Takashi Uemura 65] 

Round 14 (12, 13, and 15 July 1997)
(Saturday 12 July 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Ventforet Kofu          3- 0           10,272 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 41, 57, 64] 
(Sunday 13 July 1997)
Oita Trinity           - NTT Kanto               2- 1              509 
  [Hwangbo Kwan, Kim Byun-Soo – Ryugo Okamoto] 
Brummell Sendai        - Mito Hollyhock          1- 0            8,541 
  [Ante Šimundža 86] 
Tokyo Gas              - Nippon Denso            2- 1              478 
  [Masamitsu Kobayashi (2) – Omi Sato] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Montedio Yamagata       3- 0            1,301 
  [Yasuyuki Iwasaki 18, Hiromasa Suguri 25 – Douglas 66 pen] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Jatco                   5- 1              362 
  [Takao Sekiguchi (4), Koji Kataoka – Hidemasa Tanaka] 
Sagan Tosu             - Seino Transports        2- 1   (OT)     4,470 
  [Tetsuya Tanaka, Junichi Mori – Koji Kawamoto] 
(Tuesday 15 July 1997)
Kawasaki Frontale      - Fukushima FC            3- 1            2,749 
  [Betinho (2), Naoki Urata – Kinya Takehara] 

Round 15 (19 and 20 July 1997)
(Saturday 19 July 1997)
Mito Hollyhock         - Kawasaki Frontale       2- 1            1,543 
  [Hiroshi Ninomiya (2) – Rafael Scheidt] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Tokyo Gas               1- 0   (OT)       973 
  [Susumu Watanabe] 
(Sunday 20 July 1997)
Jatco                  - Brummell Sendai         2- 2  (1-4)     1,251 
  [Hidemasa Tanaka 64, Nenê 71 – Toshiki Hommyo 58, Ante Šimundža 62] 
Fukushima FC           - Consadole Sapporo       2- 5            5,120 
  [Shu Yashiro 23, Makoto Segawa 64 – Taku Watanabe 11, 58, 
   Jorge Dely Valdés 52, Hugo Maradona 64, Nobuhito Toriizuka 87] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Sagan Tosu              2- 1            5,290 
  [Takashi Shoji 46, Daisuke Nakamori 84 – Junichi Mori 90] 
NTT Kanto              - Vortis Tokushima        2- 1   (OT)     1,412 
  [Tsuji Ishihara 82 pen, Kazunori Hanawa 98 – Takao Sekiguchi 48] 
Nippon Denso           - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   0- 3              915 
  [Hiroaki Tajima 19, Walter 33, Jacques 87] 
Seino Transports       - Oita Trinity            1- 2              300 
  [Koji Kawamoto – Yasuhiko Ishihara, Koji Kawai] 

Round 16 (Sunday 17 August 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Mito Hollyhock          6- 1            5,609 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 6, 37, 54, 88, Hugo Maradona 9, Takamitsu Ota 57] 
Fukushima FC           - Tokyo Gas               1- 2            2,016 
  [Koji Kawada – Masamitsu Kobayashi, Jun Wada] 
Jatco                  - Kawasaki Frontale       0- 6            1,635 
  [Shigetoshi Hasebe (3), Yasuhiro Nagahashi, Betinho, Koji Noguchi] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 2   (OT)     1,287 
  [Osamu Takada 58 pen – Marcus 76 pen, Hiromasa Suguri 120] 
NTT Kanto              - Brummell Sendai         0- 3            3,468 
  [Manabu Nakamura 36, Ante Šimundža 84, Satoshi Okura 89] 
Nippon Denso           - Sagan Tosu              1- 3              682 
  [Keisuke Koike – Shin Nakamura, Tetsuya Tanaka, Koichi Sekimoto] 
Seino Transports       - Montedio Yamagata       1- 4              218 
  [Takashi Umeda 48 – Naoki Naruo 35, 44, 64, Angelo 41] 
Oita Trinity           - Vortis Tokushima        2- 3            1,025 
  [Hwangbo Kwan (2) – Ken Kasahara, Hideki Koga, Noriaki Tsutsui] 

Round 17 (22, 23 and 24 August 1997)
(Friday 22 August 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Fukushima FC            2- 0            7,412 
  [Koichi Togashi 45, Jorge Dely Valdés 90] 
(Saturday 23 August 1997)
Tokyo Gas              - Ventforet Kofu          3- 0              914 
  [Hiroki Shinjo, Masaki Tsukano, Amaral] 
Oita Trinity           - Seino Transports        1- 0   (OT)     1,018 
  [Koji Kawai] 
(Sunday 24 August 1997)
Brummell Sendai        - Jatco                   2- 0            3,960 
  [Ante Šimundža 23, Satoshi Okura 67] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Nippon Denso            2- 1              866 
  [Sandro 52, Fumiaki Aoshima 59 – Tatsuya Kobayashi 37] 
Vortis Tokushima       - NTT Kanto               1- 5              493 
  [Toshiyuki Akimoto 2h – Tsuji Ishihara 4, Keiji Nakamura 11, 24, 
   Ryugo Okamoto 51, Jiro Matsuzaki 53] 
Sagan Tosu             - Montedio Yamagata       0- 1            7,733 
  [Naoki Naruo 58] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Mito Hollyhock          1- 0            2,821 
  [Yasuhiro Nagahashi] 

Round 18 (Thursday 28 August 1997)
Ventforet Kofu         - Consadole Sapporo       2- 0            1,045 
  [Shinya Hara (?) 5, Tetsuya Fukasawa 87] 
Fukushima FC           - Kawasaki Frontale       2- 6            3,087 
  [Makoto Segawa, Yoshiyuki Takemoto – Momodu Mutairu (2), Betinho, 
   Shigetoshi Hasebe, Tetsuo Nakanishi, Takahisa Gempei] 
Seino Transports       - Sagan Tosu              2- 1              158 
  [Junji Kawabata, Kazunori Kuroda – Takashi Uemura] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 0   (OT)     1,353 
  [Satoshi Mashimo 107] 
NTT Kanto              - Oita Trinity            3- 2   (OT)       611 
  [Kenta Hori 19, Tsuji Ishihara 90 pen, 98 – Choi Dae-Shik 49, 
   Hwangbo Kwan 80] 
Nippon Denso           - Tokyo Gas               1- 3              353 
  [Tatsuya Kobayashi – Edwin Ifeanyi, Amaral, Yutaka Ishii] 
Jatco                  - Vortis Tokushima        1- 3            1,181 
  [Takayuki Uchida – Koji Kataoka, Kazushi Isoyama, Toshiyuki Akimoto] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Brummell Sendai         1- 2              716 
  [Akira Fukuda 71 - Ante Šimundža 55, Manabu Nakamura 90] 

Round 19 (Sunday 31 August 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Brummell Sendai         3- 0           15,318 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 1, 39, 78] 
Tokyo Gas              - Vortis Tokushima        1- 0              862 
  [Biluca] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Fukushima FC            3- 0            1,073 
  [Shinya Hara (?), Tsuneki Sumiya, Katsutomo Oshiba] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Oita Trinity            4- 0            1,084 
  [Fumiaki Aoshima 6, 21, Hiroyasu Ibata 40, Marcus 86] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Jatco                   2- 1            1,892 
  [Angelo 78, 80 pen] 
Nippon Denso           - Mito Hollyhock          1- 0              506 
  [Yukinobu Yanagisawa] 
Seino Transports       - Kawasaki Frontale       1- 5            1,449 
  [Takayuki Uda – Momodu Mutairu, Betinho, Shigetoshi Hasebe, 
   Kenichi Sugano, Tatsuru Mukojima] 
Sagan Tosu             - NTT Kanto               4- 1            2,363 
  [Takashi Ujiie (2), Shinichi Sato, Tetsuya Tanaka – Yoshinori Oe 51] 

Round 20 (Thursday 4 September 1997)
Fukushima FC           - Seino Transports        0- 1              267 
  [Shigehito Tsuchiya] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 2              243 
  [Kazushi Isoyama – Marcus (2)] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Ventforet Kofu          1- 5              326 
  [Nobuhisa Isono – Carinho (3), Tsuneki Sumiya, Mitsunori Yamao] 
NTT Kanto              - Montedio Yamagata       0- 2            1,340 
  [Marquinho 7, Angelo 86] 
Nippon Denso           - Jatco                   4- 3              357 
  [Tatsuya Kobayashi (2), unknown, Keisuke Koike – 
   Nenê, Makoto Iguchi (2)] 
Brummell Sendai        - Tokyo Gas               3- 1            5,145 
  [Takeshi Mizuuchi 8, 65, Satoshi Okura 45 – Amaral 71] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Consadole Sapporo       3- 4   (OT)     5,819 
  [Rafael Scheidt 10, Betinho 13, Shigetoshi Hasebe 37 – 
   Yoshikazu Goto 29, Jorge Dely Valdés 77, 86, 117] 
Oita Trinity           - Sagan Tosu              2- 3   (OT)     1,806 
  [Tsuyoshi Kato, Yoshio Kitajima – Takashi Uemura (3)] 

Round 21 (7 and 8 September 1997)
(Sunday 7 September 1997)
Fukushima FC           - Mito Hollyhock          1- 2              615 
  [Shunichiro Konishi – Masayuki Tabata, Masaaki Ueki] 
Jatco                  - Ventforet Kofu          0- 3              525 
  [Tsuneki Sumiya (2), Tatsuya Ai] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Brummell Sendai         4- 0              807 
  [Fumiaki Aoshima 15, Marcus 22 pen, 29, 75] 
Nippon Denso           - NTT Kanto               0- 0  (4-3)       372 
Montedio Yamagata      - Oita Trinity            1- 2            1,079 
  [Satoshi Mashimo 30 – Choi Dae-Shik 17, Atsushi Kijima 90] 
Seino Transports       - Consadole Sapporo       1- 2              354 
  [Takashi Umeda 16 – Hugo Maradona 45, Tatsuya Murata 86] 
Sagan Tosu             - Vortis Tokushima        0- 1            3,629 
  [Kazushi Isoyama] 
(Monday 8 September 1997)
Tokyo Gas              - Kawasaki Frontale       4- 3   (OT)     1,150 
  [Amaral (4) – Koji Noguchi (2), Momodu Mutairu] 

Round 22 (Thursday 18 September 1997)
Vortis Tokushima       - Montedio Yamagata       2- 1              120 
  [Takahiro Kawaji 6, Ken Kasahara 20 – Kenji Takahashi 11] 
NTT Kanto              - Ventforet Kofu          0- 1              341 
  [Tsuneki Sumiya] 
Consadole Sapporo      - Tokyo Gas               2- 1           13,218 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 7, 85 – Amaral 52] 
Brummell Sendai        - Sagan Tosu              2- 0            3,809 
  [Yasunobu Chiba 69, Slobodan Dubajić 89] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Seino Transports        2- 0              232 
  [Yuji Ozaki, Nobuhisa Isono] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   1- 3              666 
  [Tatsuru Mukojima 57 – Marcus 38, Fumiaki Aoshima 53, 
   Shigeru Suzuki 87] 
Jatco                  - Fukushima FC            0- 1              585 
  [Yoshiyuki Takemoto] 
Oita Trinity           - Nippon Denso            1- 0            1,108 
  [Hwangbo Kwan] 

Round 23 (Sunday 21 September 1997)
Montedio Yamagata      - Brummell Sendai         3- 1            2,221 
  [Angelo 24, Taketo Shiokawa 40, Marquinho 73 - Ante Šimundža 67] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Oita Trinity            3- 1              912 
  [Carinho, Katsutomo Oshiba (2) – Koji Kawai] 
Seino Transports       - Tokyo Gas               1- 2              765 
  [Takashi Umeda – Hayato Okamoto, Jun Wada] 
Fukushima FC           - NTT Kanto               2- 3              462 
  [Koichi Usunaga 45, Yoshiyuki Takemoto 60 – Fumiyuki Takasu 18, 
   Ryugo Okamoto 52, 90] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Jatco                   0- 0   (5-6)      876 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Consadole Sapporo       2- 1            2,103 
  [Marcus 22, Hiromasa Suguri 77 – Hugo Maradona 46] 
Nippon Denso           - Vortis Tokushima        1- 5              453 
  [Shinya Gempei – Takao Sekiguchi, Takahiro Kawaji, Kazushi Isoyama, 
   Satoru Yoshida, Toshiyuki Akimoto] 
Sagan Tosu             - Kawasaki Frontale       0- 3            3,137 
  [Momodu Mutairu, Betinho (2)] 

Round 24 (27 and 28 September 1997)
(Saturday 27 September 1997)
Tokyo Gas              - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   5- 0            1,005 
  [Tomohiro Hasumi 69, Jun Wada 74, Edwin Ifeanyi 77, 
   Masaki Tsukano 84, Amaral 90] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Montedio Yamagata       2- 1            1,200 
  [Betinho 5 pen, Tetsuo Nakanishi 74 – Angelo 8] 
Brummell Sendai        - Nippon Denso            1- 0            2,976 
  [Ante Šimundža 82] 
(Sunday 28 September 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Sagan Tosu              4- 0            8,031 
  [Hugo Maradona 7, Jorge Dely Valdés 61, 86, Tatsuya Murata 84] 
Oita Trinity           - Fukushima FC            1- 2              161 
  [Hwangbo Kwan – Masahiro Sukigara, Gwak Kyung-Keun] 
NTT Kanto              - Mito Hollyhock          3- 2            1,342 
  [Ryugo Okamoto 42, 58, Masanari Yamashita 49 – Yuji Ozaki 20, 
   Teppei Isaka 2h] 
Jatco                  - Seino Transports        0- 1              380 
  [Junji Kawabata] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Ventforet Kofu          3- 0              304 
  [Takao Sekiguchi, Kazushi Isoyama (2)] 

Round 25 (Thursday 2 October 1997)
Fukushima FC           - Vortis Tokushima        3- 1              238 
  [Masahiro Sukigara (2), Makoto Segawa – Takao Sekiguchi] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Brummell Sendai         1- 1  (3-4)       625 
  [Susumu Watanabe 89 - Ante Šimundža 53] 
Seino Transports       - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   2- 3   (OT)       132 
  [Takayuki Uda 53, Shigehito Tsuchiya 61 – Douglas 42, 
   Junya Nitta 45, Hiromasa Suguri 100] 
Nippon Denso           - Kawasaki Frontale       1- 4              583 
  [Keisuke Koike – Betinho (2), Rafael Scheidt, Momodu Mutairu] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Consadole Sapporo       4- 1            1,586 
  [Angelo 17, 82, Takashi Shoji 52, Marquinho 58 – Keiji Ishizuka 73] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Oita Trinity            1- 2              321 
  [Nobuhisa Isono – Hwangbo Kwan, ? (M) og] 
Jatco                  - NTT Kanto               0- 3              319 
  [Masamitsu Tadaka, Ryugo Okamoto, Yoshinori Oe] 
Sagan Tosu             - Tokyo Gas               0- 2            2,034 
  [Masamitsu Kobayashi, Edwin Ifeanyi] 

Round 26 (5 and 6 October 1997)
(Sunday 5 October 1997)
Tokyo Gas              - Montedio Yamagata       2- 1              705 
  [Hayato Okamoto 29, 55 – Angelo 90] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Sagan Tosu              2- 1              681 
  [Marcus 69, Hirohito Nakamura 90 – Yuji Hashimoto 18] 
NTT Kanto              - Seino Transports        2- 1              834 
  [Ryutoku Matsui 45, Masanari Yamashita 49 – Takashi Umeda 43] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Mito Hollyhock          2- 1              467 
  [Takahiro Kawaji, Takao Sekiguchi – Yuji Ozaki] 
Oita Trinity           - Jatco                   2- 1   (OT)       552 
  [Motoki Kawasaki, Hwangbo Kwan – Akihide Mochizuki] 
Consadole Sapporo      - Nippon Denso            1- 0           10,518 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 29] 
Brummell Sendai        - Fukushima FC            0- 1            5,158 
  [Masahiro Sukigara 32] 
(Monday 6 October 1997)
Kawasaki Frontale      - Ventforet Kofu          2- 3            1,269 
  [Koji Noguchi, unknown – Carinho (2), Tsuneki Sumiya] 

Round 27 (11 and 12 October 1997)
(Saturday 11 October 1997)
Mito Hollyhock         - Montedio Yamagata       0- 4              950 
  [Sidiclei, Marquinho, Masayuki Ota, Atsushi Moriyama] 
(Sunday 12 October 1997)
Brummell Sendai        - Kawasaki Frontale       2- 3            8,602 
  [Koji Nakajima 57, Toshiki Hommyo 86 – Koji Noguchi 23, 
   Momodu Mutairu 30, 78] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Seino Transports        3- 0            1,351 
  [Susumu Watanabe, Carinho, Tsuneki Sumiya] 
Jatco                  - Sagan Tosu              1- 1  (4-1)       640 
  [Gerson – Kosei Kitauchi] 
NTT Kanto              - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   0- 1            1,225 
  [Fumiaki Aoshima 84] 
Nippon Denso           - Fukushima FC            0- 1              422 
  [Masahiro Sukigara] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Consadole Sapporo       0- 2            1,330 
  [Tatsuya Murata 4, Ryuji Tabuchi 81] 
Oita Trinity           - Tokyo Gas               0- 4            1,008 
  [Amaral (2), Hayato Okamoto, Tomohiro Hasumi] 

Round 28 (18, 19, 22 October 1997)
(Saturday 18 October 1997)
Tokyo Gas              - NTT Kanto               3- 1            1,049 
  [Edwin Ifeanyi 52, Tomohiro Hasumi 59, Amaral 79] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - Vortis Tokushima        1- 0            2,585 
  [Hideki Katsura 90] 
(Sunday 19 October 1997)        
Montedio Yamagata      - Fukushima FC            2- 1            2,436 
  [Takashi Shoji 43, Sidiclei 56 – Masahiro Sukigara 14 pen] 
Seino Transports       - Brummell Sendai         1- 3            1,515 
  [Junji Kawabata 70 – Satoshi Okura 38, 64, Kazuo Echigo 39] 
Sagan Tosu             - Mito Hollyhock          1- 1  (3-4)     3,010 
  [Takashi Uemura – Hiroshi Ninomiya] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Jatco                   1- 5              862 
  [Fumiaki Aoshima 68 – Akihide Mochizuki 22, 35, 90, 
   Makoto Iguchi 58, Gerson 63] 
Nippon Denso           - Ventforet Kofu          0- 2              540 
  [Tatsuya Ai (2)] 
(Wednesday 22 October 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Oita Trinity            2- 1           17,492 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 58, 74 – Hwangbo Kwan 86] 

Round 29 (25 and 26 October 1997)
(Saturday 25 October 1997)
Jatco                  - Tokyo Gas               1- 4            1,476 
  [Nenê – Amaral (3), Jun Wada] 
(Sunday 26 October 1997)        
Fukushima FC           - Sagan Tosu              2- 0            1,379 
  [Masahiro Sukigara, Koichi Usunaga] 
NTT Kanto              - Consadole Sapporo       3- 5            4,235 
  [Naoki Takizawa 13, 55, Fumiyuki Takasu 82 – 
   Jorge Dely Valdés 32, 45, 60, Keiji Ishizuka 71, Kota Yoshihara 90] 
Ventforet Kofu         - Montedio Yamagata       2- 5            1,467 
  [Tsuneki Sumiya, Tatsuya Ai – Taketo Shiokawa, Angelo (2; 1 pen), 
   Daiki Wakamatsu, Takashi Shoji] 
Mito Hollyhock         - Honda Giken Hamamatsu   0- 3            1,163 
  [Hirohito Nakamura 35, 63, Tsuyoshi Ikawa 85] 
Nippon Denso           - Seino Transports        2- 0              771 
  [Toshihiro Nishimura (2)] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Brummell Sendai         1- 0              669 
  [Hideki Koga 62] 
Oita Trinity           - Kawasaki Frontale       1- 7            1,581 
  [Hwangbo Kwan 26 – Koji Noguchi 30, 70, Shinji Otsuka 55, 
   Momodu Mutairu 58, 78, 88, Betinho 77] 

Round 30 (29 October and 2 November 1997)
(Wednesday 29 October 1997)
Consadole Sapporo      - Jatco                   1- 0            8,535 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 19] 
(Sunday 2 November 1997)
Brummell Sendai        - Oita Trinity            3- 0           11,558 
  [Kazuo Echigo 1, Takeshi Mizuuchi 7, Satoshi Okura 23] 
Montedio Yamagata      - Nippon Denso            2- 1            3,369 
  [Daiki Wakamatsu 10, Sidiclei 90 – Yukinobu Yanagisawa 69] 
Tokyo Gas              - Mito Hollyhock          1- 0            1,365 
  [Hayato Okamoto 21] 
Kawasaki Frontale      - NTT Kanto               2- 1            5,705 
  [Betinho 20 pen, Koji Noguchi 52 – Ryutoku Matsui 71] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu  - Fukushima FC            5- 0            2,603 
  [Yasuyuki Iwasaki, Hirohito Nakamura (2), Hiroyasu Ibata, Jacques] 
Vortis Tokushima       - Seino Transports        3- 0              607 
  [Takao Sekiguchi (3)] 
Sagan Tosu             - Ventforet Kofu          2- 0            6,403 
  [Shin Nakamura, Tetsuya Tanaka] 

JFL 1997 Final Standings (2 November 1997)

Pos r29 Team                   Gm Wn(OT/PK) Ls(OT/PK)  GF- GA Diff Pnt
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 1.( 1) Consadole Sapporo      30 26( 2/ 0)  4( 0/ 1)  77- 26   51  76  Promoted
 2.( 2) Tokyo Gas              30 24( 2/ 1)  6( 1/ 0)  70- 30   40  68
 3.( 3) Kawasaki Frontale      30 23( 2/ 0)  7( 3/ 0)  87- 36   51  67
 4.( 4) Honda Giken Hamamatsu  30 23( 2/ 1)  7( 1/ 0)  60- 37   23  65
 5.( 5) Montedio Yamagata      30 19( 1/ 0) 11( 2/ 0)  57- 36   21  56
 6.( 6) Ventforet Kofu         30 19( 3/ 1) 11( 2/ 1)  59- 41   18  52
 7.( 8) Vortis Tokushima       30 14( 1/ 0) 16( 3/ 1)  50- 45    5  41
 8.(10) Brummell Sendai        30 15( 1/ 2) 15( 1/ 1)  37- 43   -6  40
 9.( 7) NTT Kanto              30 14( 3/ 0) 16( 1/ 1)  48- 49   -1  39
10.( 9) Fukushima FC           30 13( 1/ 0) 17( 0/ 1)  38- 54  -16  38
11.(11) Sagan Tosu             30 13( 3/ 2) 17( 0/ 2)  38- 49  -11  32
12.(12) Oita Trinity           30 11( 4/ 0) 19( 5/ 1)  42- 64  -22  29
13.(13) Nippon Denso           30 11( 2/ 2) 19( 2/ 1)  29- 49  -20  27
14.(14) Seino Transports       30  5        25( 3/ 1)  24- 67  -43  15
15.(15) Jatco                  30  6( 1/ 3) 24( 2/ 1)  25- 70  -45  11
16.(16) Mito Hollyhock         30  4( 0/ 1) 26( 2/ 1)  24- 69  -45  10

Top Scorers, Final Standings (after 30 rounds)

  1. Jorge Dely Valdes                Pan  Consadole Sapporo        40
  2. Momodu Mutairu                   Nig  Kawasaki Frontale        21
  3. Betinho                          Bra  Kawasaki Frontale        19
     Angelo                           Bra  Montedio Yamagata        19
  5. Amaral                           Bra  Tokyo Gas                18



Japan Cup (Emperor's Cup) 1997
==============================

First Round [Nov 30]
Brummell Sendai (Miyagi)       7-0 Yamaga Club (Nagano)           
  [Takeshi Mizuuchi 11, 29, 71, Satoshi Okura 21, 38, ? (Y) 28 og, 
   Katsuyuki Saito 31] 
Iwami FC (Shimane)             0-7 Juntendo Univ (Kanto U)       
Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Nagasaki 2-1 Hatsushiba Hashimoto HS          
                    (Nagasaki)                   (Wakayama)
Mito Hollyhock (Ibaraki)       3-0 Hokkaido El. Power (Hokkaido)  
  [Hiroshi Ninomiya 39, Toyoaki Soga 52, Yoshifumi Kanakubo 82] 
Nirasaki Astros (Yamanashi)    0-2 NTT Kanto (JFL)                  
  [Ryutoku Matsui, Yoshinori Oe] 
Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima    0-0 Yamagata FC (Yamagata)  [pen 6-7]       
                     (Okayama)
Kusatsu East HS (Shiga)        0-3 Sagan Tosu (JFL)                 
  [Ryuichi Yoneyama, Akimasa Tsukamoto, Shinichi Sato] 
Nara Sangyo Univ (Nara)        3-1 Nippon Steel Oita (Oita)         
Saga Com HS (Saga)             1-5 Oita Trinity (JFL)               
  [Obama – Tsuyoshi Kato, Hwangbo Kwan (2), Shingo Mizushima (2)] 
Mindhouse TC (Mie)             0-3 Momoyama Gakuin Univ  
                                          (Kansai Stud)
Kansai Univ (Osaka)            0-9 Tokyo Gas (JFL)                  
  [Biluca, Assis (2), Takashi Okuhara, Edwin Ifeanyi, 
   Kiyonobu Okajima, Hayato Okamoto] 
Ehime FC Youth (Ehime)         2-1 Alo’s Hokuriku (Toyama)          
Blaze Kumamoto (Kumamoto)      0-2 Honda Giken Hamamatsu (JFL)      
  [Yoshitaka Maeda 24, Hiroyasu Ibata 42] 
Kwansei Gakuin Univ (Hyogo)    2-6 Albirex Niigata (Niigata)        
Jatco (Shizuoka)               1-0 Okinawa Int'l Univ (Okinawa)     
Kagawa Shiun Club (Kagawa)     1-0 Waseda Univ (Kanto U)           
Seino Transports (Gifu)        5-0 Kochi Univ (Kochi)             
Moka HS (Tochigi)              1-5 Kokushikan Univ (Kanto U)       
SC Tottori (Tottori)           0-7 Kawasaki Frontale (JFL)          
  [Betinho (3), Hideki Katsura, ? (T) og, Takahisa Gempei, 
   Momodu Mutairu] 
Luminozo Sayama (Saitama)      4-1 Nippon Steel Kamaishi (Iwate)    
Kanagawa Univ (Kanagawa)       1-3 Ventforet Kofu (JFL)             
  [Uemura pen – Shimizu, Tsuneki Sumiya (2)] 
Fukuoka Univ (Fukuoka)         5-1 Akita City Hall (Akita)          
Aoyama Gakuin Univ (Tokyo)     1-0 Denso (JFL)                      
FC Primeiro (Fukushima)        0-1 Hannan Univ (Kansai Stud)        
Maebashi Com HS (Gunma)        0-6 Fukushima FC (JFL)               
  [Yoshiyuki Takemoto, Hiroshi Munakata, Masahiro Sukigara pen, 
   Makoto Segawa, Koji Kawada, Hiroyuki Kawaguchi] 
Nagoya Bank (Aichi)            3-4 Fukui Teachers' SC (Fukui)
Kyoiku Kenkyusha (Kyoto)       0-5 Montedio Yamagata (JFL)          
  [Taketo Shiokawa (2), Sidiclei, Satoshi Mashimo, Angelo pen] 
Hosho HS (Miyazaki)            3-2 Tatara Gakuen HS (Yamaguchi)     
Kagoshima Jitsugyo HS          1-2 Consadole Sapporo (JFL)          
           (Kagoshima)
  [Kazuya Yamashita 72 – Taku Watanabe 30, Kota Yoshihara 86] 
Hiroshima Univ (Hiroshima)     2-3 Aster Aomori (Aomori)            
Vortis Tokushima (Tokushima)   8-1 Teihens FC (Ishikawa)            
Funabashi Mun HS (Chiba)       0-2 Komazawa Univ (Kantou U)         

Second Round [Dec 7]
Brummell Sendai (Miyagi)       0-1 Juntendo Univ (Kanto U)        
  [Akihiro Tadaki 7] 
Verdy Kawasaki (J.League)      2-0 Mitsubishi Heavy Ind. Nagasaki   
                                                        (Nagasaki)
  [Kazuyoshi Miura, Nobuyuki Zaizen] 
Mito Hollyhock (Ibaraki)       1-2 Avispa Fukuoka (J.League)        
  [Toyoaki Soga 35 – Michael Obiku 19, Kiyotaka Ishimaru 88] 
NTT Kanto (JFL)                1-0 Yamagata FC (Yamagata)           
  [Satoru Kobayashi 90] 
Sagan Tosu (JFL)               4-0 Nara Sangyo Univ (Nara)             
Oita Trinity (JFL)             1-1 Momoyama Gakuin Univ          [pen 5-3] 
                                            (Kansai Stud)
  [Choi Dae-Shik – Nagano] 
Tokyo Gas (JFL)                2-1 Ehime FC Youth (Ehime)         [OT]
  [Kensuke Kagami, Takashi Okuhara – Ishikawa] 
Honda Giken Hamamatsu (JFL)    3-1 Albirex Niigata (Niigata)        
  [Jacques 35, 62 pen, Shigeru Suzuki 45 – Ignace Moleka 11] 
Jatco (Shizuoka)               6-0 Kagawa Shiun Club (Kagawa)       
  [Akihide Mochizuki (2), Nenê (2; 1 pen), ? (K) og, Fukushima] 
Seino Transports (Gifu)        1-2 Kokushikan Univ (Kanto U)       
  [Koji Kawamoto – Makoto Atsuta, Toru Kaburagi] 
Kawasaki Frontale (JFL)        3-0 Luminozo Sayama (Saitama)       
  [Koji Noguchi, Momodu Mutairu, Hideki Katsura] 
Ventforet Kofu (JFL)           2-1 Fukuoka Univ (Fukuoka)           
  [Tatsuya Ai, Susumu Watanabe] 
Aoyama Gakuin Univ (Tokyo)     0-1 Hannan Univ (Kansai Stud)        
Fukushima FC (JFL)             1-0 Fukui Teachers' SC 
  [Norio Haryu 16] 
Montedio Yamagata (JFL)        8-0 Hosho HS (Miyazaki)            
  [Satoshi Mashimo (2), Angelo (3; 1 pen), Daiki Wakamatsu (2), 
   Atsushi Moriyama] 
Consadole Sapporo (JFL)        4-1 Aster Aomori (Aomori)            
  [Luiz Pereira 19, 78, Keiji Ishizuka 55, Kota Yoshihara 89 – 
   Yuya Ogasawara 35] 
Vortis Tokushima (Tokushima)   1-3 Komazawa Univ (Kanto U)         

Third Round [Dec 14,17]
Kashima Antlers (J.League)     4-1 Juntendo Univ (Kanto U)        6,941 
  [Mazinho 27, Tadatoshi Masuda 36, Jorginho 38, Bismarck 76 – 
   Tomonobu Hayakawa 42] 
Verdy Kawasaki (J.League)      0-2 Avispa Fukuoka (J.League)      2,082 
  [Yusaku Ueno 23, Kiyotaka Ishimaru 84] 
Urawa Red Diamonds (J.League)  2-1 NTT Kanto (JFL)               15,261 
  [Željko Petrović, Yasushi Fukunaga – Taisuke Hiramoto] 
Gamba Osaka (J.League)         3-2 Sagan Tosu (JFL)       [OT]    2,489 
  [Boban Babunski, Naoki Hiraoka (2) – Masato Koga, ? (G) og] 
Yokohama Marinos (J.League)    5-0 Momoyama Gakuin Univ           2,812 
  [Shoji Jo 19, 25, Julio Salinas 26, ? (M) 56 og, Kazunari Okayama 84] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight (J.League)1-3 Tokyo Gas (JFL)                5,160 
  [Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 34 – Takashi Okuhara 10, 53, Hayato Okamoto 67] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga (J.League)  3-2 Honda Giken Hamamatsu  [OT]    2,111 
  [Yoshiyuki Matsuyama 56, Takashi Nagata 87, Nobuhiro Takeda 103 – 
   Shigeru Suzuki 48, Hirohito Nakamura 75] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka (J.League)  7-0 Jatco (Shizuoka)              12,197 
  [Wagner Lopes (2), Hong Myung-Bo, Hiroshi Sakai, Koji Seki, 
   Hiroaki Kumon, Yasuharu Sorimachi pen] 
Kashiwa Reysol (J.League)      4-1 Kokushikan Univ (Kanto U)      3,468 
  [Elpidio Silva, Nozomu Kato, Jamelli – Suzuki] 
Vissel Kobe (J.League)         2-0 Kawasaki Frontale (JFL)        3,028 
  [Keiji Kaimoto 13, Akihiro Nagashima 67] 
Cerezo Osaka (J.League)        5-1 Ventforet Kofu (JFL)           2,302 
  [Claudinho 17, 76, Alex Lopes 59, Jean Elias 69, 
   Akinori Nishizawa 79 – Tsuneki Sumiya 84] 
Jubilo Iwata (J.League)        3-0 Hannan Univ (Kansai Stud)      3,552 
  [Alessandro Cambalhota 31, Masashi Nakayama 88 pen, 
   Takashi Fukunishi 90] 
Shimizu S-Pulse (J.League)     3-0 Fukushima FC (JFL)            10,834 
  [Teruyoshi Ito 32, Masaaki Sawanobori 57 pen, Fernando Oliva 84] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima (J.League) 3-1 Montedio Yamagata (JFL)        3,537 
  [Kazuyoshi Matsunaga (2), Takuya Takagi – Marquinho] 
JEF United Ichihara (J.League) 1-0 Consadole Sapporo (JFL)        2,885 
  [Eisuke Nakanishi 15] 
Yokohama Flugels (J.League)    4-3 Komazawa Univ (Kanto U)        2,590 
  [Hiroki Hattori 28, Takayuki Yoshida 51, Fernando 55, 74 – 
   Atsushi Yoneyama 38, Kohei Morita 63, Yoshiyuki Kobayashi 66] 

Fourth Round [Dec 20]
Kashima Antlers (J.League)     6-0 Avispa Fukuoka (J.League)      3,018 
  [Mazinho 6, 70, Atsushi Yanagisawa 20, Jorginho 31, Yutaka Akita 75, 
   Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 90] 
Urawa Red Diamonds (J.League)  1-2 Gamba Osaka (J.League)  [OT]   5,138 
  [Masayuki Okano - Nebojša Krupniković, Yuzo Funakoshi] 
Yokohama Marinos (J.League)    1-2 Tokyo Gas (JFL)                2,017 
  [Julio Salinas 31 – Hiroki Shinjo 62, Assis 82] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga (J.League)  1-5 Bellmare Hiratsuka (J.League) 12,252 
  [Masaki Ogawa – Teruo Iwamoto (2), Wagner Lopes, Koji Seki, Claudio] 
Kashiwa Reysol (J.League)      2-1 Vissel Kobe (J.League)         2,681 
  [Tomohiro Katanosaka 68, Michihisa Date 74 – Tomoji Eguchi 27] 
Cerezo Osaka (J.League)        2-3 Jubilo Iwata (J.League)        3,577 
  [Hiroaki Morishima 27, 73 – Masashi Nakayama 2, Toshiya Fujita 17, 55] 
Shimizu S-Pulse (J.League)     3-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima (J.League) 3,005 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 56, 65, Fernando Oliva 90 – Noh Jung-Yoon 40] 
JEF United Ichihara (J.League) 1-2 Yokohama Flugels (J.League)    7,700 
  [Satoshi Yamaguchi 63 – Atsuhiro Miura 19, 75] 

Quarterfinals [Dec 23]
Kashima Antlers (J.League)     3-0 Gamba Osaka (J.League)         5,497 
  [Mazinho 51, 66, Jorginho 87] 
Tokyo Gas (JFL)                3-2 Bellmare Hiratsuka (J.L.) [OT] 6,008 
  [Masamitsu Kobayashi, Takeshi Motoyoshi, Hayato Okamoto – 
   Wagner Lopes pen, Claudio] 
Kashiwa Reysol (J.League)      1-2 Jubilo Iwata (J.League)        4,688 
  [Naoki Sakai 54 – Hiroshi Nanami 31, ? (K) 89 og] 
Shimizu S-Pulse (J.League)     1-6 Yokohama Flugels (J.League)    3,123 
  [Carlos Alberto Santos 17 – Takayuki Yoshida 36, 37, Kazuki Sato 45, 
   Hiroki Hattori 50, Seiichiro Okuno 56, Shinya Mitsuoka 90] 

Semifinals [Dec 28]

Kashima Antlers        - Tokyo Gas               3- 1           32,308
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(h1) 8. Jorginho 1-0, 21. Bismarck 2-0, (h2) 18. Okamoto 2-1,
41. Mazinho 3-1. Shots: 22-9. At Tokyo National Stadium.

Jubilo Iwata           - Yokohama Flugels        2- 3           10,957
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(h1) 21. Shimizu 1-0, (h2) 9. Hattori 1-1, 20. Fujita 2-1,
33. Yamaguchi 2-2, 45. Hattori 2-3. Shots: 15-14.
At Kobe Universiad Memorial Stadium.

Final [Jan 1]

Kashima Antlers        - Yokohama Flugels        3- 0           48,016
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(h1) 4. Masuda 1-0, 25. Mazinho 2-0, (h2) 42. Yanagisawa 3-0. At Tokyo
National Stadium. Referee: Okada. Shots: 14-7 (h1/h2 8-4/6-3);
GK 7-18 (3-9/4-9); CK 5-3 (1-2/4-1); FK 25-26 (8-14/17-12);
possession 57%-43%.

Kashima Antlers - GK Satou, DF Narahashi, Akita, Okuno, Souma,
 MF Honda, Jorginho, Bismarck, Masuda, FW Mazinho, Yanagisawa.
Yokohama Flugels - GK Narazaki, DF K.Satou, Maeda, Satsukawa, Miura,
 MF Okuno, Sampaio, Yamaguchi, Harada, FW Fernando, Hattori.
 Subs: Mitsuoka (h2-18 for Harada).
 Cards: Harada, Sampaio, Yamaguchi.



Japan League Cup (Nabisco Cup) 1997
===================================

Group A

Round 1 [Mar 8] 
Shimizu S-Pulse        0-0 Bellmare Hiratsuka              11,039 
JEF United Ichihara    4-0 Brummell Sendai                  5,004 
  [Nenad Maslovar 26, 49, 51, Rade Bogdanović 46] 

Round 2 [Mar 15] 
Brummell Sendai        0-2 Shimizu S-Pulse                  3,270 
  [Kenta Hasegawa 28, Teruyoshi Ito 68] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka     1-2 JEF United Ichihara              6,118 
  [Wagner Lopes 38 – Yoshika Matsubara 63, Rade Bogdanović 87] 

Round 3 [Mar 19] 
Bellmare Hiratsuka     6-0 Brummell Sendai                  5,310 
  [Wagner Lopes 2, 33, 48, 87, Koji Noguchi 41, Tetsuya Takada 81] 
Shimizu S-Pulse        2-0 JEF United Ichihara              6,014 
  [Fernando Oliva 21, 54] 

Round 4 [Mar 22] 
JEF United Ichihara    3-1 Bellmare Hiratsuka               2,881 
  [Rade Bogdanović 2, 61, 81 – Wagner Lopes 71] 
Shimizu S-Pulse        1-1 Brummell Sendai                  8,043 
  [Mark Bowen 54 – Shuji Kusano 71] 

Round 5 [Mar 26] 
Brummell Sendai        3-4 Bellmare Hiratsuka               3,921 
  [Kazuo Echigo 18, Toshiki Hommyo 35, Shuji Kusano 75 – 
   Hidetoshi Nakata 21, Wagner Lopes 43, Koji Noguchi 61, 67] 
JEF United Ichihara    3-0 Shimizu S-Pulse                  3,775 
  [Rade Bogdanović 49, Yoshika Matsubara 58, 71] 

Round 6 [Mar 29]
Bellmare Hiratsuka     2-2 Shimizu S-Pulse                  6,585 
  [Koji Noguchi 9, Wagner Lopes 38 – Kenta Hasegawa 35, 
   Alessandro Santos 37] 
Brummell Sendai         1-3 JEF United Ichihara             3,554 
  [Shuji Kusano 37 - Rade Bogdanović 62, 84, Eisuke Nakanishi 70] 

Standings              Games  W  D  L   GF-GA Pnt
1. JEF United Ichihara    6   5  0  1   15- 5  15 -- to quarterfinals
2. Shimizu S-Pulse        6   2  3  1    7- 6   9
3. Bellmare Hiratsuka     6   2  2  2   14-10   8
4. Brummell Sendai        6   0  1  5    5-20   1
 
Group B
 
Round 1 [Mar 8] 
Verdy Kawasaki         1-1 Yokohama Marinos                23,491 
  [Junichi Watanabe 83 – Julio Salinas 29] 
Gamba Osaka            3-3 Consadole Sapporo               10,514 
  [Patrick Mboma 23, 90+, Nebojša Krupniković 90 – 
   Jorge Dely Valdés 54, 78, Nobuhito Toriizuka 81] 

Round 2 [Mar 15] 
Yokohama Marinos       3-4 Gamba Osaka                      6,309 
  [Julio César Baldivieso 18, Sotaro Yasunaga 29, 
   Julio Salinas 74 – Hiromi Kojima 33, 
   Nebojša Krupniković 45, Patrick Mboma 46, 65] 
Consadole Sapporo      2-2 Verdy Kawasaki                   4,823 
  [Yasuhiko Niimura 5, 54 – Kentaro Hayashi 17, 
   Shigetoshi Hasebe 52] 

Round 3 [Mar 19] 
Yokohama Marinos       1-3 Consadole Sapporo                5,121 
  [Yoshiharu Ueno 66 - Jorge Dely Valdés 32, 
   Yoshikazu Goto 83, 87] 
Verdy Kawasaki         1-2 Gamba Osaka                      6,915 
  [Keiji Ishizuka 71 – Naoki Hiraoka 34, 
   Masanobu Matsunami 89] 

Round 4 [Mar 22] 
Verdy Kawasaki         2-2 Consadole Sapporo                6,940 
  [Keisuke Kurihara 23, Shigetoshi Hasebe 90 – 
   Jorge Dely Valdés 84, 89] 
Gamba Osaka            1-2 Yokohama Marinos                14,446 
  [Boban Babunski 10 - ? (G) 12 og, Fumitake Miura 47] 

Round 5 [Mar 26] 
Gamba Osaka            0-1 Verdy Kawasaki                  14,791 
  [Nobuhiro Takeda 80] 
Consadole Sapporo      1-2 Yokohama Marinos                 2,913 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 42 – Yoshiaki Maruyama 81, 
   Sotaro Yasunaga 85] 

Round 6 [Mar 29]
Consadole Sapporo      1-0 Gamba Osaka                      2,881 
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 45] 
Yokohama Marinos       1-2 Verdy Kawasaki                  12,175 
  [Julio Salinas 60 – Hideki Nagai 28, 87] 

Standings              Games  W  D  L   GF-GA Pnt
1. Consadole Sapporo      6   2  3  1   12-10   9 -- to quarterfinals
2. Verdy Kawasaki         6   2  3  1    9- 8   9
3. Gamba Osaka            6   2  1  3   10-11   7
4. Yokohama Marinos       6   2  1  3   10-12   7

Group C
 
Round 1 [Mar 8] 
Kashima Antlers        2-4 Cerezo Osaka                    14,749 
  [Mazinho 7, Jorginho 58 – Tomotaka Fukagawa 54, 
   Takahiro Sasaki 66, Takayuki Yokoyama 74, Ko Jeong-Woon 83] 
Sagan Tosu             0-0 Urawa Red Diamonds               7,021 

Round 2 [Mar 15] 
Urawa Red Diamonds     1-1 Kashima Antlers                 18,165 
  [Akihiro Tabata 51 – Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 75] 
Cerezo Osaka           2-0 Sagan Tosu                       7,298 
  [Ko Jeong-Woon 17, Sergio Manoel 37] 

Round 3 [Mar 19] 
Kashima Antlers        5-0 Sagan Tosu                       9,344 
  [Tadatoshi Masuda 7, 35, Atsushi Yanagisawa 43, Bismarck 53, 
   Akira Narahashi 60] 
Cerezo Osaka           1-1 Urawa Red Diamonds               5,087 
  [Ko Jeong-Woon 48 – Masahiro Fukuda 33] 

Round 4 [Mar 22] 
Kashima Antlers        0-0 Urawa Red Diamonds              14,322 
Sagan Tosu             0-0 Cerezo Osaka                     4,079 

Round 5 [Mar 26] 
Urawa Red Diamonds     3-1 Cerezo Osaka                    17,550 
  [Takafumi Hori 4, 21, Masaki Tsuchihashi 68 – 
   Akinori Nishizawa 69] 
Sagan Tosu             1-4 Kashima Antlers                  5,202 
  [Junichi Mori 90 – Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 47, 
   Atsushi Yanagisawa 50, Mazinho 51, 57] 

Round 6 [Mar 29]
Cerezo Osaka           3-4 Kashima Antlers                  6,331 
  [Makoto Yonekura 1, Sergio Manoel 65, Akinori Nishizawa 74 – 
   ? (C) 10 og, Jorginho 21, 90, Mazinho 70] 
Urawa Red Diamonds     4-0 Sagan Tosu                      16,987 
  [Michael Baur 45, Masahiro Fukuda 51, 58, Masaki Tsuchihashi 70] 

Standings              Games  W  D  L   GF-GA Pnt
1. Kashima Antlers        6   3  2  1   16- 9  11 -- to quarterfinals
2. Urawa Red Diamonds     6   2  4  0    9- 3  10 -- to quarterfinals
3. Cerezo Osaka           6   2  2  2   11-10   8
4. Sagan Tosu             6   0  2  4    1-15   2
 
Group D
 
Round 1 [Mar 8] 
Kashiwa Reysol         5-1 Vissel Kobe                      6,215 
  [Edilson 24, 50, 69, 79, Kenji Arima 89 – Shigemitsu Egawa 83] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight   2-1 Sanfrecce Hiroshima              6,333 
  [Ricardinho 44, Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 51 – Graham Arnold 49] 

Round 2 [Mar 15] 
Vissel Kobe            1-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight             7,761 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 59 – Takashi Hirano 3] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima    0-2 Kashiwa Reysol                   5,629 
  [Tomohiro Katanosaka 25, Edilson 58] 

Round 3 [Mar 19] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight   1-1 Kashiwa Reysol                  14,303 
  [Ricardinho 58 – Edilson 90] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima    1-0 Vissel Kobe                      4,124 
  [Tatsuhiko Kubo 44] 

Round 4 [Mar 22] 
Kashiwa Reysol         3-0 Sanfrecce Hiroshima              5,772 
  [Jamelli 29, Takeshi Watanabe 32, Nozomu Kato 58] 
Nagoya Grampus Eight   3-0 Vissel Kobe                     14,209 
  [Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 6, Tetsuya Okayama 9, Takashi Hirano 42] 

Round 5 [Mar 26] 
Kashiwa Reysol         1-1 Nagoya Grampus Eight             7,695 
  [Edilson 69 – Takashi Hirano 78] 
Vissel Kobe            2-2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima              2,275 
  [Akihiro Nagashima 30, 34 - Antônio Carlos Santos 45, 
   Graham Arnold 61] 

Round 6 [Mar 29]
Vissel Kobe            2-1 Kashiwa Reysol                   1,740 
  [Michael Laudrup 78, Ziad Tlemçani 87 – Edilson 60] 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima    4-2 Nagoya Grampus Eight             3,317 
  [Graham Arnold 21, 45, Hiroyoshi Kuwabara 29, 
   Antônio Carlos Santos 55 – Alexandre Torres 12, 
   Yasuyuki Moriyama 57] 

Standings              Games  W  D  L   GF-GA Pnt
1. Kashiwa Reysol         6   3  2  1   13- 5  11 -- to quarterfinals
2. Nagoya Grampus Eight   6   2  3  1   10- 8   9 -- to quarterfinals
3. Sanfrecce Hiroshima    6   2  1  3    8-11   7
4. Vissel Kobe            6   1  2  3    6-13   5
 
Group E
 
Round 1 [Mar 8] 
Yokohama Flugels       1-2 Jubilo Iwata                     9,035 
  [Hiroki Hattori 72 – Salvatore Schillaci 21, 
   Takashi Fukunishi 80] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga     1-0 Avispa Fukuoka                   3,581 
  [Cleber 27] 

Round 2 [Mar 15] 
Jubilo Iwata           2-1 Kyoto Purple Sanga               7,058 
  [Adilson 2, Masashi Nakayama 51 – Yoshiyuki Matsuyama 68] 
Avispa Fukuoka         1-1 Yokohama Flugels                 5,633 
  [Daisuke Nakaharai 24 – Válber 3] 

Round 3 [Mar 19] 
Avispa Fukuoka         1-1 Jubilo Iwata                     4,166 
  [? (J) 26 og – Adilson 36] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga     0-1 Yokohama Flugels                 3,563 
  [Zinho 49] 

Round 4 [Mar 22] 
Yokohama Flugels       1-0 Avispa Fukuoka                   5,044 
  [Cézar Sampaio 5] 
Kyoto Purple Sanga     1-3 Jubilo Iwata                     4,342 
  [Yoshiyuki Matsuyama 45 – Masashi Nakayama 24, 
   Marcelo Mabilia 40, Daisuke Oku 56] 

Round 5 [Mar 26] 
Yokohama Flugels       1-0 Kyoto Purple Sanga               4,573 
  [Válber 22] 
Jubilo Iwata           4-2 Avispa Fukuoka                   7,141 
  [Kiyokazu Kudo 6, Masashi Nakayama 25, Daisuke Oku 42, 
   Norihisa Shimizu 63 - ? (J) 9 og, Sebastián Riep 19] 

Round 6 [Mar 29]
Avispa Fukuoka         2-2 Kyoto Purple Sanga               4,085 
  [Yusaku Ueno 48, Yoshiyuki Takemoto 90 – 
   Takayuki Yamaguchi 12, Cleber 53] 
Jubilo Iwata           0-0 Yokohama Flugels                 8,056 

Standings              Games  W  D  L   GF-GA Pnt
1. Jubilo Iwata           6   4  2  0   12- 6  14 -- to quarterfinals
2. Yokohama Flugels       6   3  2  1    5- 3  11 -- to quarterfinals
3. Kyoto Purple Sanga     6   1  1  4    5- 9   4
4. Avispa Fukuoka         6   0  3  3    6-10   3

     
Quarterfinal first leg (Oct 15)
Nagoya Grampus Eight   - JEF United Ichihara     4- 0            4,033
  [Kenji Fukuda 42, Dragan Stojković 47, Shigeyoshi Mochizuki 72, 
   Tetsuya Okayama 84] 
Consadole Sapporo      - Kashima Antlers         1- 2           12,983
  [Jorge Dely Valdés 43 – Jorginho 17, Bismarck 84] 
Urawa Red Diamonds     - Jubilo Iwata            0- 0           14,411
Yokohama Flugels       - Kashiwa Reysol          0- 1            4,093
  [Shin Tanada 10] 

Quarterfinal second leg (Oct 18)
JEF United Ichihara    - Nagoya Grampus Eight    1- 1            3,527
  [Nozomi Hiroyama 49 – Tetsuhiro Kina 72] 
Kashima Antlers        - Consadole Sapporo       7- 0           14,579
  [Jorginho 6, Tadatoshi Masuda 19, Hisashi Kurosaki 23, 29, 36, 
   Bismarck 40, Yoshiyuki Hasegawa 78] 
Jubilo Iwata           - Urawa Red Diamonds      3- 2           10,091
  [Masashi Nakayama 29, 54, Adilson 62 – Masahiro Fukuda 38, 
   Masaki Tsuchihashi 44] 
Kashiwa Reysol         - Yokohama Flugels        0- 3            6,766
  [Válber 14, 58, Atsuhiro Miura 32] 

Semifinal first leg (Nov 1)
Kashima Antlers        - Nagoya Grampus Eight    1- 0           13,361
  [Jorginho 40] 
Yokohama Flugels       - Jubilo Iwata            1- 0            5,844
  [Válber 54] 

Semifinal second leg (Nov 8)
Nagoya Grampus Eight   - Kashima Antlers         0- 0            9,948
Jubilo Iwata           - Yokohama Flugels        2- 0    (OT)    8,699
  [Daisuke Oku 36, Dunga 105] 

Final [Nov 22,29]
Jubilo Iwata           - Kashima Antlers         1- 2           10,437
  (h1) 33. Akita 0-1, (h2) 29. Nakayama 1-1, 41. Jorginho 1-2 (PK)
Kashima Antlers        - Jubilo Iwata            5- 1           14,444
  (h1) 23. Souma 1-0, 28. Mazinho 2-0, (h2) 5. Mazinho 3-0,
   6. Hasegawa 4-0, 28. Shimizu 4-1, 39. Akita 5-1. 

Scorers ranking

  1. Jorge Dely Valdes          Pan  Consadole Sapporo       8 
     Rade Bogdanovic            Yug  JEF United Ichihara     8 
     Edilson                    Bra  Kashiwa Reysol          8 
     Wagner Lopes               Jpn  Bellmare Hiratsuka      8 



Japan Super Cup 1997
====================

The 1997 Super Cup, between the league champions (Kashima Antlers) and
the Emperor's Cup winners (Verdy Kawasaki) of 1996, was held on a
rainy Saturday 5 April 1997 in the National Stadium in Tokyo. It was
the fourth clash between these two teams since the end of last season:
Verdy had whipped Kashima 5-0 in the last game of the 1996 regular
competition, then Kashima had taken revenge in the semifinal of the
much-maligned J.League Champions' Final, and Verdy had struck back
again with a victory in the semifinal of the Emperor's Cup. Logically
speaking, it was Kashima's turn this time...
 
Kashima Antlers        - Verdy Kawasaki          3- 2        +/-30,000
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
(h1) 8. Hashiratani 0-1, 26. Mazinho 1-1, (h2) 23. Magrao 1-2,
27. Yanagisawa 2-2, 34. Yanagisawa 3-2. Referee: Petrovic.
Shots 6-10, freekicks 26-27, corner kicks 7-9.


1996.

1997 (3rd and lower levels).

1998.

list of champions.

list of final tables.

list of cup finals.

list of super cup finals.


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