1973 Japan Soccer League

Football tournament's editionOctober 2026 1973 Japan Soccer League 10 Mitsubishi Motors2nd title Hitachi 90 264 Akira Matsunaga (11 goals) 1973 1974 The 1973 season of Japanese football. League tables JSL First Division Tanabe Pharmaceuticals was relegated, thereby becoming the first Japanese team to go straight back down one season after promotion.March 2026 main WDL Q 2 MIT Mitsubishi Motors HIT Hitachi YAN Yanmar Diesel TRE Towa Real Estate FUR Furukawa Electric NSY Nippon Steel TYT Toyota Motors TYI Toyo Industries NKK Nippon Kokan TAN Tanabe Pharmaceutical 14 2 2 35 12 12 1 5 35 18 10 3 5 40 17 9 3 6 29 22 9 3 6 31 27 7 2 9 25 26 5 5 8 22 31 4 6 8 16 28 4 4 10 24 32 1 1 16 7 51 #D0F0C0 Champions C #ff9999 To promotion/relegation Series RP RP complete RSSSF JSL 1/2 promotion/relegation Series JSL Division 1 1st leg 2nd leg JSL Division 2 Nippon Kokan 2-1 2-2 Kofu SC Tanabe Pharmaceutical 2-1 0-2 Eidai IndustriesBalitskiy Andrei 2021-02-25 Japan 1973 https://www.rsssf.org/tablesj/jap73.html live https://web.archive.org/web/20251205213419/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesj/jap73.html 2025-12-05 2026-03-12 RSSSF Eidai promoted, Tanabe relegated. JSL Second Division main WDL Q 2 EID Eidai Industries KOF Kofu SC YOM Yomiuri FUJ Fujitsu NTT NTT Kinki DNC Dainichi Nippon Cable Industries KYO Kyoto Shiko TJN Teijin Matsuyama TYD Toyoda Automatic Loom Works HAG Hagoromo Club 11 4 3 51 24 12 2 4 39 25 10 4 4 40 21 9 4 5 33 28 8 5 5 31 29 5 6 7 30 34 5 4 9 31 35 4 5 9 21 43 2 5 11 20 34 3 3 12 25 48 #D0F0C0 To promotion/relegation Series with Division 1 PP PP #ff9999 To promotion/relegation Series with Senior Cup Finalists RP RP complete RSSSF JSL promotion/relegation Series Sumitomo, at the time based in Osaka, would move to Kashima, Ibaraki in 1975 and become today's Kashima Antlers. JSL 1st leg 2nd leg Senior Cup Toyoda Automatic Loom Works 1-1 1-2 Ibaraki Hitachi (Cup runner-up) Hagoromo Club 2-2 1-2 Sumitomo Metal (Cup winner) Ibaraki Hitachi and Sumitomo promoted, Toyota Industries and Hagoromo Club relegated. References first 1973 1 Jap Jap