Season 2010 Matches played 306 | Dates 6 Mar 2010 – 4 Dec 2010 Goals scored 813 | |
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Champions League Nagoya Grampus !Nagoya GrampusGamba Osaka !Gamba OsakaCerezo Osaka !Cerezo OsakaKashima Antlers !Kashima Antlers Highest attendance 55,410 (Round 10,Red Diamonds vs. Grampus) People also search for 2009 J.League Division 1 | ||
The 2010 J. League Division 1 season was the 46th season of the top-flight club football in Japan and the 18th season since the establishment of J1 League. The season began on March 6 and ended on December 4.
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A total of eighteen clubs participated in double round-robin format. At the end of the season, top three clubs received automatic qualification to the following years' AFC Champions League. Also the bottom three clubs were relegated to J2 League by default.
Nagoya Grampus !Nagoya Grampus won their first ever Japanese championship. This was also the first time since the advent of the J. League that the top scorer scored less than 20 goals; the honour of scoring 17 goals was shared between Nagoya's Joshua Kennedy and Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata's Ryoichi Maeda. Additionally, this was also the first Japanese top division season in which clubs from the Kantō region did not place among the top three.
Clubs
The following eighteen clubs will play in J. League Division 1 during the 2010 season. Of these clubs, Vegalta Sendai, Cerezo Osaka and Shonan Bellmare are the newly promoted clubs. For the first time since 1995 season all top-flight teams are located on a single island (Honshū).
Format
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:
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 three clubs will be relegated to J. League Division 2. The top three clubs will qualify to AFC Champions League in the following year.
Table
Updated to games played on December 4, 2010.
Source: J.League Division 1
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
1 Kashima Antlers qualified as 2010 Emperor's Cup winners.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results
Updated to games played on December 4, 2010.
Source: J. League Division 1
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
MVP
Attendances
Updated to games played on December 4, 2010
Source: J. League Division 1
Notes:
† Team played previous season in J2.