First Division

Pos	Club	PTS	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1	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-...	26	11	4	3	37	15	＋22	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...	22	9	4	5	28	16	＋12
3	Fujita Engineering 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"...	22	9	4	5	28	20	＋8
4	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....	21	9	3	6	34	20	＋14
5	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...	21	7	7	4	22	14	＋8
6	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...	20	6	8	4	22	21	＋1
7	Eidai Sangyo	18	7	4	7	18	24	－6
8	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'...	15	5	5	8	16	20	－4
9	Nippon Steel	12	5	2	11	23	30	－7	To Promotion/Relegation Series
10	Toyota Motors Nagoya Grampus are a Japanese association football club that play in the J. League. Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and originally founded as the company team of the Toyota Motor Corp...	3	1	1	16	10	58	－48

Promotion/Relegation Series

JSL Division 1	1st leg	2nd leg	JSL Division 2
Nippon Steel	2-1	3-2	Yomiuri S.C.
Toyota Motors Nagoya Grampus are a Japanese association football club that play in the J. League. Based in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture and originally founded as the company team of the Toyota Motor Corp...	2-2	2-1	Fujitsu Kawasaki Frontale is a J. League Division 1 association football club. The team is located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. Their home stadium is Todoroki Athletics Stadium, in Nakahara Ward, in the central area of Kawasaki.-History:...

No relegations. As Eidai Sangyo dissolved the club and withdrew from the league in March 1977, Fujitsu was promoted anyway.

Second Division

Pos	Club	PTS	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1	Fujitsu Kawasaki Frontale is a J. League Division 1 association football club. The team is located in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo. Their home stadium is Todoroki Athletics Stadium, in Nakahara Ward, in the central area of Kawasaki.-History:...	29	13	3	2	32	6	＋26	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Division 1
2	Yomiuri S.C.	25	11	3	4	51	28	＋23
3	Tanabe Pharmaceuticals	25	10	5	3	28	18	＋10
4	Honda Honda F.C. are a Japanese football club based in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. They play in the Japan Football League.-History:The club was founded as in 1971. They were promoted to the Japan Soccer League Division 2 in 1975 and to the JSL Division 1 in 1981; the closest they came to the title was in...	21	6	9	3	25	17	＋8
5	Teijin S.C. Matsuyama	19	9	1	8	32	28	＋4
6	Yanmar Club	17	6	5	7	23	23	±0
7	Sumitomo Kashima Antlers are a Japanese professional association football club playing in the J. League Division 1. Antlers is derived from the city name, Kashima, which literally means "deer island"....	13	5	3	10	27	34	－7
8	Kofu Club Ventforet Kofu are a Japanese football club from Kofu. They compete in the J. League Division 1, and their home ground is the Kose Sports Stadium.The word "Ventforet" is coined combining two French words Vent and Forêt...	12	4	4	10	14	30	－16
9	Kyoto Shiko Club	11	3	5	10	11	25	－14	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Senior Cup finalists
10	Furukawa Electric Chiba	8	3	2	13	17	51	－34

JSL Promotion/Relegation Series

Nissan Motors, future Yokohama Marinos, currently Yokohama F. Marinos

Yokohama F. Marinos

is a Japanese association football team that participates in the fully professional J. League Division 1; the top Japanese professional football league. Having won the J-League title three times and finished second twice, they are one of the most successful J-League clubs. The team are based in...

, joined the league for the first time.

JSL	1st leg	2nd leg	Senior Cup
Kyoto Shiko Club	2-1	2-1	Dainichi Nippon Cable Industries (Cup runner-up)
Furukawa Electric Chiba	0-0	0-1	Nissan Motors Yokohama F. Marinos is a Japanese association football team that participates in the fully professional J. League Division 1; the top Japanese professional football league. Having won the J-League title three times and finished second twice, they are one of the most successful J-League clubs. The team are based in... (Cup winner)

Nissan promoted. Furukawa Chiba was not relegated due to Eidai's withdrawal.