2006 J.League Division 1

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The 2006 J.League Division 1 season was the 14th season since the establishment of the J.League Division 1. It began on March 4 and ended on December 2.

J.League Division 1
Season2006
ChampionsUrawa Red Diamonds
1st J.League title
5th Japanese title
RelegatedAvispa Fukuoka
Cerezo Osaka
Kyoto Purple Sanga
Champions LeagueUrawa Red Diamonds
Kawasaki Frontale
(all to the group stage)
Matches played306
Goals scored976 (3.19 per match)
Top goalscorerMagno Alves & Washington (26)
Highest attendance62,241 (Round 34,
Urawa Red Diamonds vs. Gamba Osaka)
Lowest attendance3,671 (Round 6,
Kyoto Purple Sanga vs. Avispa Fukuoka)
Average attendance18,292
2005
2007

General

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Promotion/relegation

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Changes in competition format

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  • The Division 2 was expanded to 13 clubs.
  • In games that require extra time in case of a tie (i.e. two-legged league cup games) away goals rule is adopted.

Changes in clubs

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Honours

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Competition Champion Runner-Up 3rd place
J.League Division 1 Urawa Red Diamonds Kawasaki Frontale Gamba Osaka
J.League Division 2 Yokohama FC Kashiwa Reysol Vissel Kobe
Emperor's Cup Urawa Red Diamonds Gamba Osaka Kashima Antlers
Consadole Sapporo
Nabisco Cup JEF United Chiba Kashima Antlers Kawasaki Frontale
Yokohama F. Marinos
XEROX Super Cup Urawa Red Diamonds Gamba Osaka

Clubs

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The following eighteen clubs participated in J.League Division 1 during 2006 season. Of these clubs, Kyoto Purple Sanga, Avispa Fukuoka, and Ventforet Kofu were newly promoted clubs.

Foreign players

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Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Non-visa foreign Type-C contract Former players
Albirex Niigata   Edmílson   Fabinho Santos   Silvinho
Avispa Fukuoka   Alex   Baron   Roberto   Alexandre   Gláucio
Cerezo Osaka   Bruno Quadros   Pingo   Zé Carlos   Japa   André Neitzke
FC Tokyo   Jean   Lucas Severino   Washington   Rychely   Santiago Salcedo
Gamba Osaka   Fernandinho   Magno Alves   Sidiclei   Lucas Chiaretti
JEF United Chiba   Mario Haas   Ilian Stoyanov   Nebojša Krupniković   Kim Dong-soo
Júbilo Iwata   Fabrício   Kim Jin-kyu
Kashima Antlers   Alex Mineiro   Fábio Santos   Fernando   Chumbinho
Kawasaki Frontale   Juninho   Magnum   Marcão   Jong Tae-se   Marcus Vinícius
Kyoto Purple Sanga   André Pinto   Paulinho   Pinheiro   Diego   Alemão
  Ricardo
Nagoya Grampus Eight   Frode Johnsen   Marek Špilár   Kim Jung-woo
Oita Trinita   Edmilson Alves   Rafael   Túlio   Platini   Osmar
Omiya Ardija   Alison   Toninho   Rodrigo Gral
  Saúl Martínez
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   Beto   Ueslei   Dario Dabac   Ri Han-jae   Jo Woo-jin   Dininho
Shimizu S-Pulse   Alexandre Goulart   Marquinhos   Cho Jae-jin
Urawa Red Diamonds   Nenê   Robson Ponte   Washington   Sergio Escudero
Ventforet Kofu   Alair   Baré   Biju   Josimar
  Neto
Yokohama F. Marinos   Dutra   Marques   Magrão

Format

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Eighteen clubs will play in double round-robin (home and away) format, a total of 34 games each. A club receives 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order:

  • Goal differential
  • Goals scored
  • Head-to-head results

A draw would be conducted, if necessary. However, if two clubs are tied at the first place, both clubs will be declared as the champions. The bottom two clubs will be relegated to J2, while the 16th placed club plays a two-legged Promotion/relegation Series.

Changes from previous year

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Table

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Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Qualification or relegation
1 Urawa Red Diamonds (C) 34 22 6 6 67 28 +39 72 Qualification for 2007 AFC Champions League Group stage[a]
2 Kawasaki Frontale 34 20 7 7 84 55 +29 67
3 Gamba Osaka 34 20 6 8 80 48 +32 66
4 Shimizu S-Pulse 34 18 6 10 60 41 +19 60
5 Júbilo Iwata 34 17 7 10 68 51 +17 58
6 Kashima Antlers 34 18 4 12 62 53 +9 58
7 Nagoya Grampus Eight 34 13 9 12 51 49 +2 48
8 Oita Trinita 34 13 8 13 47 45 +2 47
9 Yokohama F. Marinos 34 13 6 15 49 43 +6 45
10 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 34 13 6 15 50 56 −6 45
11 JEF United Chiba 34 13 5 16 57 58 −1 44
12 Omiya Ardija 34 13 5 16 43 55 −12 44
13 FC Tokyo 34 13 4 17 56 65 −9 43
14 Albirex Niigata 34 12 6 16 46 65 −19 42
15 Ventforet Kofu 34 12 6 16 42 64 −22 42
16 Avispa Fukuoka (R) 34 5 12 17 32 56 −24 27 2006 promotion/relegation Series
17 Cerezo Osaka (R) 34 6 9 19 44 70 −26 27 Relegation to 2007 J.League Division 2
18 Kyoto Purple Sanga (R) 34 4 10 20 38 74 −36 22
Updated to match(es) played on December 2, 2006. Source: J. League Division 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (R) Relegated
Notes:
  1. ^ Urawa Red Diamonds won the 2005 Emperor's Cup and already qualified for 2007 ACL; therefore Kawasaki Frontale takes the second ACL spot.

Results

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Home \ Away ALB ANT ARD AVI CER FRO GAM GRA JEF JÚB SAN SFR SSP TOK TRI RED VEN FMA
Albirex Niigata 0–1 1–2 0–1 2–2 2–1 1–0 2–1 1–2 0–2 1–1 1–1 4–2 2–0 3–3 2–1 3–0 1–0
Kashima Antlers 5–1 2–1 4–1 2–0 2–4 3–1 2–1 0–4 3–0 1–0 0–2 3–1 3–2 0–1 2–2 3–1 0–3
Omiya Ardija 1–2 0–3 2–2 2–0 1–5 0–2 1–4 4–2 2–1 1–0 0–1 1–0 0–1 2–2 0–2 3–1 2–1
Avispa Fukuoka 2–0 2–1 1–1 1–0 1–2 1–1 0–1 1–3 2–1 4–5 0–2 1–2 0–0 0–2 0–1 1–1 1–3
Cerezo Osaka 3–1 2–2 0–1 0–0 1–3 1–6 1–1 3–2 2–3 2–2 4–2 1–1 1–5 0–2 1–2 2–3 2–0
Kawasaki Frontale 6–0 3–2 3–1 2–1 1–0 3–2 4–2 2–2 3–4 2–0 3–3 2–2 2–2 2–1 0–2 2–0 1–1
Gamba Osaka 3–0 1–0 3–1 2–2 3–1 4–0 5–1 1–0 2–2 3–2 3–2 3–0 1–0 1–3 1–1 2–0 1–1
Nagoya Grampus Eight 3–1 0–0 2–0 2–0 3–2 0–2 3–3 2–1 3–1 1–1 2–3 1–1 1–2 0–3 1–0 5–1 1–1
JEF United Chiba 1–3 0–1 1–3 2–2 2–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 0–0 2–0 0–1 1–3 3–4 2–1 2–0 2–2 0–2
Júbilo Iwata 7–0 3–3 2–1 1–1 3–1 1–2 3–2 2–2 3–1 1–1 3–0 1–0 4–1 2–3 3–2 2–0 3–1
Kyoto Purple Sanga 1–1 1–2 1–1 2–1 4–4 2–7 1–4 0–1 1–2 1–3 2–2 2–1 1–0 1–1 1–5 1–1 0–4
Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2–1 3–4 1–0 1–0 1–1 1–3 1–3 0–0 2–4 2–1 1–0 1–2 5–2 0–1 1–4 1–3 3–0
Shimizu S-Pulse 1–1 1–2 1–1 4–0 1–0 4–3 2–3 2–0 1–2 2–0 1–0 3–0 2–0 4–1 2–1 4–0 1–0
FC Tokyo 1–4 2–4 1–2 5–1 2–3 5–4 3–2 2–1 2–3 3–1 2–1 0–2 0–1 2–0 0–0 1–3 1–2
Oita Trinita 4–0 2–0 1–2 0–0 1–1 1–1 0–2 0–1 0–3 1–2 2–1 1–1 3–3 0–1 2–1 3–2 1–2
Urawa Red Diamonds 3–1 4–0 2–0 2–1 3–0 2–2 3–2 0–0 2–0 3–1 3–0 2–1 1–0 4–0 1–0 3–0 1–0
Ventforet Kofu 0–4 2–1 3–2 1–1 0–1 1–0 3–2 2–1 2–3 1–1 3–1 1–0 0–2 1–3 2–0 1–1 1–0
Yokohama F. Marinos 2–0 2–1 1–2 0–0 3–1 1–2 3–4 2–1 1–1 0–1 4–1 2–1 2–3 1–1 0–1 1–3 3–0
Updated to match(es) played on December 2, 2006. Source: J. League Division 1
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

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Pos Scorer Club Goals[1]
1   Magno Alves Gamba Osaka 26
  Washington Urawa Red Diamonds
3   Juninho Kawasaki Frontale 20
4   Lucas Severino FC Tokyo 18
  Hisato Satō Sanfrecce Hiroshima
  Kazuki Ganaha Kawasaki Frontale
7   Ueslei Sanfrecce Hiroshima 16
  Ryūji Bando Gamba Osaka
  Cho Jae-jin Shimizu S-Pulse
10   Ryoichi Maeda Júbilo Iwata 15

Attendance

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Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Urawa Red Diamonds 774,749 62,241 16,040 45,573 +15.8%
2 Albirex Niigata 658,050 42,056 33,993 38,709 −3.5%
3 FC Tokyo 409,634 41,528 17,033 24,096 −11.1%
4 Yokohama F. Marinos 402,270 50,572 11,623 23,663 −8.0%
5 Oita Trinita 345,955 28,690 12,843 20,350 −7.8%
6 Júbilo Iwata 306,033 37,711 10,560 18,002 +4.1%
7 Gamba Osaka 276,395 20,916 8,388 16,259 +1.8%
8 Kashima Antlers 262,365 34,236 7,427 15,433 −17.2%
9 Nagoya Grampus Eight 253,702 32,109 6,618 14,924 +12.3%
10 Kawasaki Frontale 243,780 23,005 9,430 14,340 +5.0%
11 Shimizu S-Pulse 243,137 24,920 9,079 14,302 +12.2%
12 Avispa Fukuoka 234,259 21,545 8,585 13,780 +27.8%
13 JEF United Chiba 227,680 17,438 8,567 13,393 +40.5%
14 Cerezo Osaka 221,438 30,561 6,282 13,026 −26.2%
15 Ventforet Kofu 207,629 17,000 8,025 12,213 +76.2%
16 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 190,066 17,564 5,545 11,180 −10.8%
17 Omiya Ardija 173,986 35,059 4,873 10,234 +2.5%
18 Kyoto Purple Sanga 166,280 16,492 3,670 9,781 +24.5%
League total 5,597,408 62,241 3,670 18,292 −2.5%

Updated to games played on December 2, 2006
Source: J. League Division 1
Notes:
Team played previous season in J2.

Awards

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Individual

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Award Recipient Club
Player of the Year   Marcus Tulio Tanaka Urawa Red Diamonds
Young Player of the Year   Jungo Fujimoto Shimizu S-Pulse
Manager of the Year   Guido Buchwald Urawa Red Diamonds
Top Scorer   Magno Alves Gamba Osaka
  Washington Urawa Red Diamonds
Fair Play Player Award   Satoru Yamagishi JEF United Chiba
  Yuichi Nemoto Oita Trinita
Referee of the Year   Toru Kamikawa
Assistant Referee of the Year   Yoshikazu Hiroshima
Meritoriousness Player Award   Masaaki Sawanobori
  Naoki Soma
  Nobuyuki Kojima

Best Eleven

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Position Footballer Club Nationality
GK Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (1) Júbilo Iwata   Japan
DF Akira Kaji (1) Gamba Osaka   Japan
DF Marcus Tulio Tanaka (3) Urawa Red Diamonds   Japan
DF Satoshi Yamaguchi (1) Gamba Osaka   Japan
MF Hiroyuki Taniguchi (1) Kawasaki Frontale   Japan
MF Keita Suzuki (1) Urawa Red Diamonds   Japan
MF Kengo Nakamura (1) Kawasaki Frontale   Japan
MF Yasuhito Endō (4) Gamba Osaka   Japan
MF Yuki Abe (2) JEF United Chiba   Japan
FW Magno Alves (1) Gamba Osaka   Brazil
FW Washington (1) Urawa Red Diamonds   Brazil

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

References

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  1. ^ "2006 J1 Top Scorers". j-league.or.jp. J-League. Archived from the original on 29 June 2011. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
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