1972 Japan Soccer League

March 2026 1972 Japan Soccer League 1971 1973 The 1972 season in Japanese football introduced a Second Division to the Japan Soccer League. Nine clubs were chosen from the 1971 Japanese Regional Leagues; when Nagoya Mutual Bank resigned from the League, a tenth club was chosen from the Kansai League.March 2026 League tables JSL First Division No relegation took place as the First Division was being expanded to 10 clubs.Balitskiy Andrei 2021-02-25 Japan 1972 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesj/jap72.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20251211071933/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesj/jap72.html 2025-12-11 2026-03-12 RSSSF main WDL Q 2 HIT Hitachi YAN Yanmar Diesel TYI Toyo Industries MIT Mitsubishi Motors NKK Nippon Kokan NSY Nippon Steel FUR Furukawa Electric TRE Towa Real Estate 9 3 2 36 16 7 6 1 30 11 7 2 5 20 13 5 6 3 26 19 4 5 5 15 18 4 4 6 22 30 3 2 9 17 41 2 2 10 11 29 #D0F0C0 Champions C complete RSSSF JSL Second Division Toyota Motors, later one of the Japanese big names as Nagoya Grampus, was crowned the inaugural Second Division champion. Tanabe Pharmaceutical, a club from Osaka, followed them into the expanded 10-team First Division. No relegations took place, to keep the Second Division at 10 clubs. main WDL P 2 TYT Toyota Motors TAN Tanabe Pharmaceutical KOF Kofu SC FUJ Fujitsu KYO Kyoto Shiko NLM Nippon Light Metal YOM Yomiuri DNC Dainichi Nippon Cable Industries NTT NTT Kinki TYD Toyoda Automatic Loom Works 13 4 1 34 16 10 6 2 37 22 9 3 6 33 21 4 9 5 19 23 7 3 8 26 31 7 2 9 31 33 7 1 10 27 31 5 4 9 36 40 4 6 8 21 25 4 2 12 14 36 #D0F0C0 Promoted to First Division P P complete RSSSF References first 1972 1 Jap Jap