Season 2016 Champion Consadole Sapporo Goals scored 1,108 | Start date 2016 Relegated Giravanz Kitakyushu Matches played 462 | |
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Champions Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo Promoted Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo
Shimizu S-Pulse
Cerezo Osaka Top goalscorer Jong Tae-se
(Shimizu S-Pulse)
(26 goals) Highest attendance 33,697
Sapporo vs Kanazawa
(20 November) Lowest attendance 1,795
Giravanz Kitakyushu vs Kanazawa
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The 2016 Meiji Yasuda J2 League season is the 45th season of second-tier club football in Japan and the 18th season since the establishment of J2 League.
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Clubs
Omiya Ardija !Omiya Ardija have stayed in the second division for just a year, winning promotion as the champions. Júbilo Iwata !Júbilo Iwata have spent only 2 seasons in J2 after their first relegation from the J1 League in 2013 after 20 seasons. Third-placed Avispa Fukuoka !Avispa Fukuoka won the promotion playoffs and will return to the first division after playing in the J2 for four years. Matsumoto Yamaga !Matsumoto Yamaga were relegated from the J1 immediately after their inaugural promotion. Shimizu S-Pulse !Shimizu S-Pulse also suffered their first relegation to the J2 after 23 seasons in the J1, while Montedio Yamagata !Montedio Yamagata returned after one season.
On the other end of the table, Renofa Yamaguchi !Renofa Yamaguchi have been promoted from the 2015 J3 League as the champions of the second season of the J3 League, replacing Tochigi SC !Tochigi SC and becoming the first club based in Yamaguchi Prefecture to play in the second tier since Eidai SC !Eidai SC back in 1973. J3 runners-up Machida Zelvia !Machida Zelvia were also promoted by beating Oita Trinita !Oita Trinita in the promotion-relegation playoffs.
The participating clubs are listed in the following table:
Positions by round
Last updated: 20 November 2016
Source: J. League Data Site
Note 1: Two games for Matchday 8 (V. Varen Nagasaki vs. Mito HollyHock; Kyoto Sanga FC vs. Roasso Kumamoto) scheduled on 17 April 2016 were affected by the series of earthquakes in Kumamoto prefecture.
Note 2: Matchday 8 schedule for Zweigen Kanazawa vs. Ehime FC, scheduled on 17 April 2016, was postponed due to severe storms in the area. The match was rescheduled on May 18 and results were included on Matchday 14 Ranking.
Note 3: Fixtures of Roasso Kumamoto for Matchdays 9 (Roasso Kumamoto vs. Yokohama FC), 10 (Montedio Yamagata vs. Roasso Kumamoto), 11 (Roasso Kumamoto vs. Ehime FC) and 12 (Consadole Sapporo vs. Roasso Kumamoto) were postponed by the J. League due to series of earthquakes in Kumamoto prefecture.
Results
Updated to games played on 20 November 2016.
Source: J.League Data
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorers
Updated to games played on 20 November 2016
Source: J.League Data
Attendances
Updated to games played on 20 November 2016
Source: J. League Data
Notes:
†from J1‡from J3