The J.League 1994 season was the second season of the J.League. The league commenced on March 12 and completed on November 19. The Suntory Championship took place on November 26 and December 2.

J.League
Season1994
ChampionsVerdy Kawasaki
2nd J.League title
7th Japanese title
Asian Club ChampionshipVerdy Kawasaki
Matches played264
Goals scored841 (3.19 per match)
Top goalscorerFrank Ordenewitz (30 goals)
Highest attendance55,125 - Reds vs. Verdy (September 17)
Lowest attendance7,854 - Reds vs. Sanfrecce (March 23)
Total attendance5,152,117
Average attendance19,516
1993
1995

Clubs

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The following 12 clubs participated in J.League during 1994 season. Of these clubs, Bellmare Hiratsuka and Júblio Iwata were newly promoted teams from Japan Football League.

Club name Hometown Stadium
(majority games)
Capacity Notes Head coach
Bellmare Hiratsuka Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Hiratsuka Stadium 15,380 Promoted   Mitsuru Komaeda
Gamba Osaka Osaka, Osaka Osaka Expo '70 Stadium 21,000   Kunishige Kamamoto
JEF United Ichihara Chiba, Chiba Ichihara Seaside Stadium 14,051   Eijun Kiyokumo
Júbilo Iwata Iwata, Shizuoka Júbilo Iwata Stadium 15,165 Promoted   Hans Ooft
Kashima Antlers Kashima, Ibaraki Kashima Soccer Stadium 37,638   Edu Coimbra
Nagoya Grampus Eight Nagoya, Aichi Paloma Mizuho Rugby Stadium 11,900   Gordon Milne
Sanfrecce Hiroshima Hiroshima, Hiroshima Hiroshima General Ground Main Stadium 13,800   Stuart Baxter
Shimizu S-Pulse Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture Nihondaira Sports Stadium 20,248   Rivellino
Urawa Red Diamonds Saitama, Greater Tokyo Area Urawa Komaba Stadium 21,500   Kenzo Yokoyama
Verdy Kawasaki Kawasaki, Kanagawa Todoroki Athletics Stadium 26,232   Yasutaro Matsuki
Yokohama Flügels Yokohama Yokohama Mitsuzawa Stadium 15,454   Shu Kamo
Yokohama Marinos Yokohama Yokohama Mitsuzawa Stadium 15,454   Hidehiko Shimizu

Foreign players

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Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Non-visa foreign Former players
Bellmare Hiratsuka   Almir   Betinho   Edson   Mirandinha
Gamba Osaka   Sergei Aleinikov   Flávio   Kiril Metkov   Akhrik Tsveiba   Oleh Protasov
JEF United Ichihara   František Mysliveček   Pavel Řehák   Nenad Maslovar   Frank Ordenewitz   Pierre Littbarski   Sandro
  Shin Che-bon
Júbilo Iwata   Walter   Salvatore Schillaci   André Paus   Gerald Vanenburg
Kashima Antlers   Alcindo   Edinho   Leonardo   Santos   Zico
Nagoya Grampus Eight   Elivélton   Garça   Jorginho   Dragan Stojković   Dragiša Binić   Dido Havenaar   Gary Lineker
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   Ivan Hašek   Pavel Černý   Tore Pedersen   Noh Jung-yoon   Andrey   Lee Baxter
Shimizu S-Pulse   Djalminha   Ronaldão   Toninho   Ademir   Sidmar
Urawa Red Diamonds   Guido Buchwald   Michael Rummenigge   Uwe Bein   Edwin Uehara
  Cho Kwi-jae
  Uwe Rahn
  Ľubomír Luhový
  Miroslav Mentel
Verdy Kawasaki   Bentinho   Bismarck   Capitão   Paulo   Pereira
Yokohama Flügels   Fernando Moner   Aldro   Edu   Válber   Raúl Amarilla
Yokohama Marinos   David Bisconti   Gustavo Zapata   Ramón Díaz   Ramón Medina Bello   Everton

Format

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In the 1994 season, the league followed split-season format, just like the previous season. Each halves (or stages) were known as Suntory Series and NICOS Series for sponsorship purposes. In each series, twelve clubs played in double round-robin format with a total of 22 games per club (per series). The games then went to golden-goal extra time and penalties if needed after regulation. The clubs were ranked by number of wins, and tie breakers are, in the following order:

  • Goal differential
  • Goals scored
  • Head-to-head results
  • Extra match or a coin toss

The club that finished at the top of the table is declared stage champion and qualifies for the Suntory Championship. The first stage winner hosts the first leg in the championship series. If the same club win both stages, the runners-up of each stages plays against each other and the winners challenges the stage winner at the championship game.

Changes in competition format
  • Number of competing clubs increased from 10 to 12
  • Number of games per club in a series increased from 18 to 22 games and from 36 to 44 games per season.

Standings

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Suntory Series (1st Stage) standings

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Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD Qualification
1   Sanfrecce Hiroshima 22 17 5 44 26 +18 1994 Suntory Series Champions
Qualified to Suntory Championship '94
2   Shimizu S-Pulse 22 16 6 41 25 +16
3   Kashima Antlers 22 16 6 45 32 +13
4   Verdy Kawasaki 22 14 8 43 21 +22
5   Yokohama Flügels 22 13 9 36 27 +9
6   JEF United Ichihara 22 10 12 34 43 −9
7   Júbilo Iwata 22 9 13 27 32 −5
8   Nagoya Grampus Eight 22 9 13 23 28 −5
9   Yokohama Marinos 22 8 14 29 35 −6
10   Gamba Osaka 22 7 15 37 46 −9
11   Bellmare Hiratsuka 22 7 15 27 54 −27
12   Urawa Red Diamonds 22 6 16 26 43 −17
Source: [citation needed]

NICOS Series (2nd stage) standings

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Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD Qualification
1 Verdy Kawasaki 22 17 5 48 26 +22 1994 NICOS Series Champions
Qualifies to Suntory Championship '94
2 Bellmare Hiratsuka 22 16 6 48 26 +22
3 Yokohama Marinos 22 14 8 44 26 +18
4 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 22 12 10 27 31 −4
5 Kashima Antlers 22 11 11 44 36 +8
6 Shimizu S-Pulse 22 11 11 28 31 −3
7 Júbilo Iwata 22 11 11 29 37 −8
8 Yokohama Flügels 22 9 13 31 33 −2
9 JEF United Ichihara 22 9 13 35 42 −7
10 Gamba Osaka 22 8 14 29 36 −7
11 Urawa Red Diamonds 22 8 14 33 51 −18
12 Nagoya Grampus Eight 22 6 16 33 54 −21
Source: [citation needed]

Suntory Championship '94

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Sanfrecce Hiroshima0 – 1Verdy Kawasaki
  35' Kitazawa
Attendance: 42,316

Verdy Kawasaki1 – 0Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Ramos   80'
Attendance: 50,512
VERDY KAWASAKI won the series on 2-0 aggregate.

Overall standings

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Pos Team Pld W L GF GA GD Qualification
1 Verdy Kawasaki 44 31 13 91 47 +44 1994 J.League Champions
Qualifies to 1995/96 ACC, 1995 Super Cup, and 1995 Sanwa Bank Cup
2 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 44 29 15 71 57 +14
3 Kashima Antlers 44 27 17 89 68 +21
4 Shimizu S-Pulse 44 27 17 69 56 +13
5 Bellmare Hiratsuka 44 23 21 75 80 −5
6 Yokohama Marinos 44 22 22 73 61 +12
7 Yokohama Flügels 44 22 22 67 60 +7
8 Júbilo Iwata 44 20 24 56 69 −13
9 JEF United Ichihara 44 19 25 69 85 −16
10 Gamba Osaka 44 15 29 66 82 −16
11 Nagoya Grampus Eight 44 15 29 56 82 −26
12 Urawa Red Diamonds 44 14 30 59 94 −35
Source: [citation needed]

Honours

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Competition Champion Runner-Up 3rd Place
League Competition
J.League Suntory Series Sanfrecce Hiroshima Shimizu S-Pulse Kashima Antlers
J.League NICOS Series Verdy Kawasaki Bellmare Hiratsuka Yokohama Marinos
Suntory Championship Verdy Kawasaki Sanfrecce Hiroshima
Cup Tournaments
Emperor's Cup Bellmare Hiratsuka Cerezo Osaka Yokohama Marinos
Gamba Osaka
Nabisco Cup Verdy Kawasaki Júbilo Iwata Gamba Osaka
Yokohama Marinos
XEROX Super Cup Verdy Kawasaki Yokohama Flügels

Top scorers

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Rank Scorer Club Goals
1   Frank Ordenewitz JEF United Ichihara 30
2   Alcindo Sartori Kashima Antlers 28
3   Betinho Bellmare Hiratsuka 24
4   Ramón Díaz Yokohama Marinos 23
  Nobuhiro Takeda Verdy Kawasaki
6   Toninho Shimizu S-Pulse 22
7   Yoshiyuki Hasegawa Kashima Antlers 21
8   Ivan Hašek Sanfrecce Hiroshima 19
  Koji Noguchi Bellmare Hiratsuka
10   Kazuyoshi Miura Verdy Kawasaki 16
  Toshihiro Yamaguchi Gamba Osaka
12   Ramón Medina Bello Yokohama Marinos 15
  Pavel Černý Sanfrecce Hiroshima
14   Bismarck Verdy Kawasaki 14
  Takuya Takagi Sanfrecce Hiroshima

Awards

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Individual awards

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Award Recipient Club
Most Valuable Player   Pereira Verdy Kawasaki
Rookie of the Year   Kazuaki Tasaka Bellmare Hiratsuka
Manager of the Year   Yasutaro Matsuki Verdy Kawasaki
Top Scorer   Frank Ordenewitz JEF United Ichihara

Best Eleven

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Position Footballer Club Nationality
GK Shinkichi Kikuchi Verdy Kawasaki   Japan
DF Pereira Verdy Kawasaki   Brazil
DF Masami Ihara Yokohama Marinos   Japan
DF Yoshihiro Natsuka Bellmare Hiratsuka   Japan
MF Betinho Bellmare Hiratsuka   Brazil
MF Bismarck Verdy Kawasaki   Brazil
MF Tetsuji Hashiratani Verdy Kawasaki   Japan
MF Tsuyoshi Kitazawa Verdy Kawasaki   Japan
MF Ruy Ramos Verdy Kawasaki   Japan
FW Takuya Takagi Sanfrecce Hiroshima   Japan
FW Nobuhiro Takeda Verdy Kawasaki   Japan

References

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