Japan Soccer League 1977

Championship: Fujita kogyo club
Runner-up: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries
JSL Cup winner: Furukawa electric
Championship of division-2: Yomiuri soccer club
Runner-up of division-2: Nissan Motor

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The 13th Japan Soccer League 1977

The first match day is 8th September 1977, and the last match day is 12th Februrary 1978.

tabel_.JSL 1977
Team	FKC	MIT	HIT	TOY	YAN	FUR	NIP	KOK	FUJ	TMC	Win/s.o/Loss	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
Fujita kogyo club		1:2	4:0	1:0	3:2	5:1	2:2 (4:2)	3:1	4:0	6:0	14/(1/2)/1	64	49	60
Mitsubishi Heavy Industries	1:4		0:0 loss	0:0 win	1:1 loss	2:1	0:0 win	2:2 win	4:1	3:0	9/(4/3)/2	34	13	47
HITACHI	0:1	3:2		2:2 loss	1:3	3:1	2:2 loss	1:0	3:0	2:0	9/(4/2)/3	36	11	46
Toyo kogyo	0:3	2:4	3:3 loss		3:0	1:2	2:0	1:0	1:3	3:0	9/(2/2)/5	38	18	42
Yanmar diesel	2:2 win	2:3	1:3	1:1 loss		3:1	1:1 win	2:1	4:3	4:0	8/(3/2)/5	39	11	40
Furukawa electric	1:5	1:1 win	1:2	1:3	2:1		5:1	3:1	0:0 win	6:0	8/(2/0)/8	33	2	36
Nippon Steel	1:5	0:1	1:1 loss	0:3	1:3	1:0		1:0	0:0 loss	0:2	3/(2/6)/7	14	-15	22
Nippon Kokan	1:1 win	0:1	1:4	0:2	1:1 win	1:3	0:0 loss		0:0 win	7:1	3/(3/2)/10	28	1	20
z'- Fujitsu	1:5	1:1 loss	2:2 loss	0:5	0:2	0:1	1:1 win	1:3		3:2	3/(2/4)/9	18	-20	20
z'- Toyota Motor	0:9	2:6	1:4	0:6	1:6	1:3	1:2	0:9	0:2		1/(0/0)/17	11	-70	4

note

In Japan Soccer League, all teams play each other two times.
When regulation time of league match play fails to determine a winner, the winning team is decided in a penalty shoot-out.
Teams are allotted four points for a win in regulation play, two point for a win in shoot-out, one point for a loss in shoot-out, and no points for a loss in regulation play.
The ranking is determined as follows: 1) total of all points, 2) goal difference, 3) total of goals.

Points

4: a Win in regulation play
2: a Win in shoot-out
1: a Loss in shoot-out
0: a Loss in regulation play

The bottom two teams shall play in play-off matches for division-1.

FUJITA as the champion shall be eligible to play in Super Cup 1978.

Japan Soccer League did not make a clear distinction between home and away team before 1983.
Green-coloured matches are in the first half of the season and yellow-coloured matches are in the second half of the season.

JSL Awards

Goal-scoring leader (Golden ball Award)

23: J.D. CALVARIO (Fujita)

Assists leader (Silver ball Award)

7: NAGAI Yoshikazu (Furukawa)

Co-assists leader

7: HIKA Seihan (Fujita), KOMAEDA Mitsuru (Fujita), YASUHARA Shin-ichi (Toyo)

Rookie of the year

SONOBE Tsutomu (Fujita)

Best eleven

TAGUCHI Mitsuhisa (Mitsubishi)
WAKI Yuji (Fujita)
SAITO Kazuo (Mitsubishi)
IMAI Keizo (Fujita)
OCHIAI Hiroshi (Mitsubishi)
FUJISHIMA Nobuo (Nippon Kokan)
KOMAEDA Mitsuru (Fujita)
A.P. Marinho (Fujita)
NAGAI Yoshikazu (Furukawa)
J.D. CALVARIO (Fujita)
KAMAMOTO Kunishige (Yanmar)

The 6th Japan Soccer League division-2 1977

tabel_.JSL2 1977
Team	YOM	NIS	SUM	YC	KOF	KSC	HON	TEI	FEC	TAN	Win/s.o/Loss	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
y'- Yomiuri soccer club		0:1	2:3	1:0	1:0	5:1	2:1	4:2	2:0	1:0	11/(1/1)/5	41	22	47
y'- Nissan Motor	0:0 win		2:4	1:0	2:1	1:1 loss	1:0	1:1 loss	0:0 win	3:2	8/(4/3)/3	23	5	43
Sumitomo Metal Industries	1:6	1:2		1:3	3:0	1:1 loss	2:4	2:2 win	1:1 loss	2:1	6/(4/3)/5	33	1	35
Yanmar club	1:2	0:1	3:3 win		1:2	1:2	2:1	4:0	1:0	2:2 win	6/(4/0)/8	25	1	32
Kofu soccer club	1:5	2:1	0:0 loss	1:1 loss		0:0 loss	4:1	3:2	1:2	1:1 win	6/(2/4)/6	28	0	32
Kyoto Shiko soccer club	0:6	1:1 win	1:2	5:4	0:3		2:2 loss	0:1	4:1	3:2	5/(4/3)/6	26	-11	31
Honda Motor	1:1 loss	0:0 loss	0:0 loss	0:1	1:1 win	4:1		5:2	1:2	0:1	5/(3/3)/7	25	1	29
Teijin Matsuyama	2:1	1:3	2:2 loss	2:0	2:0	1:1 win	2:2 loss		0:1	1:0	5/(3/3)/7	24	-7	29
z'- Furukawa electric Chiba	4:2	3:2	0:4	0:0 loss	4:4 loss	0:0 win	0:1	1:1 loss		0:1	5/(2/4)/7	19	-9	28
z'- Tanabe seiyaku	1:0	1:1 loss	2:1	0:1	1:4	2:3	0:1	1:0	3:0		6/(0/3)/9	21	-3	27

note

Points

4: a Win in regulation play
2: a Win in shoot-out
1: a Loss in shoot-out
0: a Loss in regulation play

The top two teams shall be eligible to play in play-off matches for division-1.
The bottom two teams shall play in play-off matches for division-2.

Awards

Goal-scoring leader (division-2): 11: OKAJIMA Toshiki (Yomiuri)
Assists leader (division-2): 10: Jorge YONASHIRO (Yomiuri)

The 2nd JSL Cup

finals

The x-Teams progress to next round.

Yanmar
- Honda
  - Nippon Kokan (1st of East A)
  - Honda (2nd of West B)
- Yanmar
  - Mitsubishi (2nd of East B)
  - Yanmar (1st of West A)
Furukawa
- Fujita kogyo
  - Fujita kogyo (1st of East B)
  - Kyoto Shiko (2nd of West A)
- Furukawa
  - Furukawa (2nd of East A)
  - Nippon Steel (1st of West B)

Results

tabel_.Quarter-finals
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
Nippon Kokan	0:2	Honda	15/5/1977	Nishigaoka stadium, Tokyo
Mitsubishi	0:1	Yanmar	15/5/1977	Utsubo, Osaka
Fujita kogyo	4:0	Kyoto Shiko	15/5/1977	Yokkaichi
Furukawa	2:0	Nippon Steel	14/5/1977	Nishigaoka stadium, Tokyo

tabel_.Semi-finals
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
Honda	2:3	Yanmar	22/5/1977	Kobe
Fujita kogyo	1:2	Furukawa	22/5/1977	Nishigaoka stadium, Tokyo

tabel_.Final
Team	Score	Team	Date	Venues
Yanmar	0:4	Furukawa	25/5/1977	National stadium, Tokyo

Preliminary Rounds

The first match day is 17th April, and the last match day is 8th May 1977.

tabel_.Preliminary Round: East Group A
Team	KOK	FUR	HIT	FUJ	SUM	Win/Draw/Loss	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- Nippon Kokan (division-1)		1:0	1:0	3:0	1:0	4/0/0	6	6	8
x- Furukawa electric (division-1)	0:1		2:1	6:2	4:1	3/0/1	12	7	6
HITACHI (division-1)	0:1	1:2		1:0	5:0	2/0/2	7	4	4
Fujitsu (division-1)	0:3	2:6	0:1		1:0	1/0/3	3	-7	2
Sumitomo Metal Industries (division-2)	0:1	1:4	0:5	0:1		0/0/4	1	-10	0

The first match day is 16th April, and the last match day is 8th May 1977.

tabel_.Preliminary Round: East Group B
Team	FKC	MIT	KOF	NIS	YOM	Win/Draw/Loss	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- Fujita kogyo club (division-1)		3:0	1:0	1:0	5:0	4/0/0	10	10	8
x- Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (division-1)	0:3		2:0	4:0	3:2	3/0/1	9	4	6
Kofu soccer club (division-2)	0:1	0:2		1:0	1:1	1/1/2	2	-2	3
Nissan Motor (division-2)	0:1	0:4	0:1		5:1	1/0/3	5	-2	2
Yomiuri soccer club (division-2)	0:5	2:3	1:1	1:5		0/1/3	4	-10	1

The first match day is 23rd April, and the last match day is 8th May 1977.

tabel_.Preliminary Round: West Group A
Team	YAN	KSC	TAN	TMC	Win/Draw/Loss	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- Yanmar diesel (division-1)		4:1	2:1	2:0	3/0/0	8	6	6
x- Kyoto Shiko soccer club (division-2)	1:4		1:1	win	1/1/1	2*	-3*	3
Tanabe seiyaku (division-2)	1:2	1:1		1:1	0/2/1	3	-1	2
Toyota Motor (division-1)	0:2	loss	1:1		0/1/2	1*	-2*	1

* The match, Kyoto Shiko v. Toyota, is not includeded in these data.

The first match day is 17th April, and the last match day is 8th May 1977.

tabel_.Preliminary Round: West Group B
Team	NIP	HON	YC	TOY	TEI	Win/Draw/Loss	Goals	Dif.	Pts.
x- Nippon Steel (division-1)		1:1	2:0	1:1	3:1	2/2/0	7	4	6
x- Honda Motor (division-2)	1:1		2:4	2:0	2:1	2/1/1	7	1	5
Yanmar club (division-2)	0:2	4:2		2:1	1:2	2/0/2	7	0	4
Toyo kogyo (division-1)	1:1	0:2	1:2		2:1	1/1/2	4	-2	3
Teijin Matsuyama (division-2)	1:3	1:2	2:1	1:2		1/0/3	5	-3	2

note

In Preliminary Rounds, all teams play each other one time.
Teams are allotted two points for a win, one point for a draw, and no points for a loss.
The ranking is determined as follows: 1) total of all points, 2) goal difference, 3) total of goals.

Points

2: a Win
1: a Draw
0: a Loss

The top two teams in each group progress to Quarter-finals.

Furukawa electric Chiba (division-2) withdraws?

Super Cup 1977

tabel_.Super Cup 1977
Champion	Score	Cup winner	Date	Venues
FURUKAWA	3:2	YANMAR	10/4/1977	National stadium, Tokyo

note

Furukawa electric: Japan Soccer League 1976 champion & the 56th Emperor's Cup winner
Yanmar diesel: The 56th Emperor's Cup finalist

The play-off matches

tabel_.play-off for division-1
Division-1	Score	Division-2	Date	Venues
Fujitsu	3:1 3:0	Nissan	5/3/1978 12/3/1978	Nishigaoka stadium, Tokyo Nishigaoka stadium, Tokyo
Toyota	0:2 0:2	Yomiuri	5/3/1978 12/3/1978	Toyota Nishigaoka stadium, Tokyo

tabel_.play-off for division-2
Division-2	Score	Regional team	Date	Venues
Furukawa Chiba	0:0 (2:4) 1:3	TOSHIBA Horikawa (Regional Runner-up)	-/3/1978 11/3/1978	venue Nishigaoka stadium, Tokyo
Tanabe	3:1 0:1	Yamaha Motor (Regional Winner)	4/3/1978 12/3/1978	Suita Iwata

note

In the play-off matches, when regulation time of the match play fails to determine a winner, the winning team is decided in a penalty shoot-out.
Teams are allotted four points for a win in regulation play, two point for a win in shoot-out, one point for a loss in shoot-out, and no points for a loss in regulation play.
The winning teams of the play-off matches are determined as follows: 1) total of points in both matches, 2) goal difference.
If two teams are level at the end of the play-off matches, both teams remain the same divisions.

Points

4: a Win in regulation play
2: a Win in shoot-out
1: a Loss in shoot-out
0: a Loss in regulation play

Yomiuri soccer club (in Tokyo) is promoted to division-1.
And Toyota Motor is relegated to division-2.

TOSHIBA Horikawa-cho (in Kanagawa) is promoted to Japan Soccer League division-2.
And Furukawa electric Chiba is relegated.

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