since introduction of league championship 1965 Toyo Kogyo (Hiroshima) 1966 Toyo Kogyo (Hiroshima) 1967 Toyo Kogyo (Hiroshima) 1968 Toyo Kogyo (Hiroshima) 1969 Mitsubishi Motors (Urawa) 1970 Toyo Kogyo (Hiroshima) 1971 Yanmar Diesel (Osaka) 1972 Hitachi (Tokyo) 1973 Mitsubishi Motors (Urawa) 1974 Yanmar Diesel (Osaka) 1975 Yanmar Diesel (Osaka) 1976 East Furukawa (Yokohama) 1977 Fujita (Tokyo) 1978 Mitsubishi Motors (Urawa) 1979 Fujita (Tokyo) 1980 Yanmar Diesel (Osaka) 1981 Fujita (Tokyo) 1982 Mitsubishi Motors (Urawa) 1983 Yomiuri (Kawasaki) 1984 Yomiuri (Kawasaki) 1985/86 East Furukawa (Yokohama) 1986/87 Yomiuri (Kawasaki) 1987/88 Yamaha Motors (Iwata) 1988/89 Nissan (Yokohama) 1989/90 Nissan (Yokohama) 1990/91 Yomiuri (Kawasaki) 1991/92 Yomiuri (Kawasaki) In 1993 the professional J-League was introduced; following name changes took place: East Furukawa (Yokohama) became JEF United Ichihara Fujita (Tokyo) became Bellmare Hiratsuka Hitachi (Tokyo) became Kashiwa Reysol Mitsubishi Motors (Urawa) became Urawa Red Diamonds Nissan (Yokohama) became Yokohama Marinos Sumitomo (Kashima) became Kashima Antlers Toyo Kogyo (Hiroshima) became Sanfrecce Hiroshima Toyota FC (Nagoya) became Nagoya Grampus Eight Yamaha Motors (Iwata) became Jubilo Iwata Yomiuri (Kawasaki) became Verdy Kawasaki In 1997: Fujitsu (Kawasaki) became Kawasaki Frontale 1993 Verdy Kawasaki 1994 Verdy Kawasaki 1995 Yokohama Marinos 1996 Kashima Antlers 1997 Jubilo Iwata 1998 Kashima Antlers 1999 Jubilo Iwata 2000 Kashima Antlers 2001 Kashima Antlers 2002 Jubilo Iwata 2003 Yokohama F. Marinos 2004 Yokohama F. Marinos 2005 Gamba Osaka 2006 Urawa Red Diamonds 2007 Kashima Antlers 2008 Kashima Antlers 2009 Kashima Antlers 2010 Nagoya Grampus Eight 2011 Kashiwa Reysol 2012 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2013 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2014 Gamba Osaka 2015 Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2016 Kashima Antlers 2017 Kawasaki Frontale 2018 Kawasaki Frontale 2019 Yokohama F. Marinos 2020 Kawasaki Frontale 2021 Kawasaki Frontale 2022 Yokohama F. Marinos 2023 Vissel Kobe 2024 Vissel Kobe Number of Titles (59; J-League titles (32) between square brackets) 8 [ 8] Kashima Antlers [formerly Sumitomo] 8 [ 3] Sanfrecce Hiroshima [includes 5 as Toyo Kogyo] 7 [ 2] Verdy Kawasaki [includes 5 as Yomiuri] 7 [ 5] Yokohama F. Marinos [includes 1 as Yokohama Marinos, 2 as Nissan] 5 [ 1] Urawa Red Diamonds [includes 4 as Mitsubishi Motors] 4 Cerezo Osaka [all 4 as Yanmar Diesel] 4 [ 3] Jubilo Iwata [includes 1 as Yamaha Motors] 4 [ 4] Kawasaki Frontale [formerly Fujitsu] 3 Bellmare Hiratsuka [all 3 as Fujita] 2 [ 2] Gamba Osaka [formerly Matsushita] 2 JEF United Ichihara [both as East Furukawa] 2 [ 1] Kashiwa Reysol [includes 1 as Hitachi] 2 [ 2] Vissel Kobe 1 [ 1] Nagoya Grampus Eight [formerly Toyota]
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