Japan Soccer League 1971
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Japan Soccer League
| Pos | Club | PTS | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yanmar Diesel Cerezo Osaka is a J. League Division 1 association football team. The team name Cerezo means cherry tree in Spanish, which is also the flower of Ōsaka city.... |
22 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 13 | ＋19 | Champions |
| 2 | Mitsubishi Motors Urawa Red Diamonds are a professional association football club playing in Japan's football league, J. League Division 1. One of Japan and Asia's best supported teams, the club has been able to boast the highest average crowds for thirteen of the J-League's twenty season history... |
18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 12 | ＋20 | |
| 3 | Nippon Steel | 18 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 23 | ＋11 | |
| 4 | Hitachi Kashiwa Reysol is a J. League Division 1 team. Its home town is Kashiwa, Chiba, about an hour northeast of Tokyo.-History:Founded in 1940 as Hitachi, Ltd. Soccer Club in Koganei, Tokyo, the team was a founding member of the Japan Soccer League... |
18 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 17 | ＋1 | |
| 5 | Furukawa Electric JEF United Ichihara Chiba is a Japanese professional football club that plays in J. League Division 2. On February 1, 2005, the club changed its name from JEF United Ichihara to the current name after Chiba city had joined Ichihara, Chiba as its hometown in 2003. The club name, JEF -taken from JR East and Furukawa Electric-... |
15 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 24 | ±0 | |
| 6 | Toyo Kogyo Sanfrecce Hiroshima is a Japanese association football club in the J. League Division 1.-Club name:The club name is a portmanteau of the Japanese numeral for three, San and an Italian word frecce or 'arrows'... |
10 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 17 | －8 | |
| 7 | Nippon Kokan NKK F.C. Nippon Kokan Soccer Club, or NKK Soccer Club was a Japanese football club which operated from 1912 to 1994. It played in the old Japan Soccer League since 1967 until its closing... |
8 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 | －12 | To Promotion/Relegation Series |
| 8 | Nagoya Mutual Bank | 3 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 43 | －33 |
Promotion/Relegation Series
Nagoya Mutual Bank lost its place in the League for a second time, this time to Towa Real Estate, which would become one of the biggest names in Japanese football as Fujita Engineering and Bellmare Hiratsuka, currently known as Shonan BellmareShonan Bellmare
are a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 2. The team is located in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium in Hiratsuka. The name Bellmare is derived from the Latin "bellum" for "war" and "mare"...
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| JSL | 1st leg | 2nd leg | Senior Cup |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nippon Kokan | 2-2 | 0-0 | Tanabe Pharmaceutical (Cup runner-up) |
| Nagoya Mutual Bank | 0-0 | 0-1 | Towa Real Estate Shonan Bellmare are a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 2. The team is located in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium in Hiratsuka. The name Bellmare is derived from the Latin "bellum" for "war" and "mare"... (Cup winner) |
Towa RE promoted, Nagoya Mutual Bank relegated; NMB resigned from JSL instead of forming Second Division.