1973 Japan Soccer League

The 1973 season of Japanese football.

League Tables

Tanabe Pharmaceuticals was relegated, thereby becoming the first Japanese team to go straight back down one season after promotion.

Pos	Club	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1.	Mitsubishi Motors	30	14	2	2	35	12	＋23	Champions
2.	Hitachi	25	12	1	5	35	18	＋17
3.	Yanmar Diesel	23	10	3	5	40	17	＋23
4.	Towa Real Estate	21	9	3	6	29	22	＋7
5.	Furukawa Electric	21	9	3	6	31	27	＋4
6.	Nippon Steel	16	7	2	9	25	26	－1
7.	Toyota Motors	15	5	5	8	22	31	－9
8.	Toyo Industries	14	4	6	8	16	28	－12
9.	Nippon Kokan	12	4	4	10	24	32	－8	To Promotion/Relegation Series
10.	Tanabe Pharmaceutical	3	1	1	16	7	51	－44	To 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 Industries

Eidai promoted, Tanabe relegated.

Pos	Club	Pts	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1	Eidai Industries	26	11	4	3	51	24	＋27	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Division 1
2	Kofu SC	26	12	2	4	39	25	＋14	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Division 1
3	Yomiuri	24	10	4	4	40	21	＋19
4	Fujitsu	22	9	4	5	33	28	＋5
5	NTT Kinki	21	8	5	6	31	29	＋2
6	Dainichi Nippon Cable Industries	16	6	6	7	30	34	－4
7	Kyoto Shiko	14	5	4	9	31	35	－4
8	Teijin Matsuyama	13	4	5	9	21	43	－22
9	Toyoda Automatic Loom Works	9	2	6	11	30	34	－4	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Senior Cup Finalists
10	Hagoromo Club	9	3	3	12	25	48	－23	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Senior Cup Finalists

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	Hitachi Ibaraki (Cup runner-up)
Hagoromo Club	2-2	1-2	Sumitomo Metal (Cup winner)

Hitachi Ibaraki and Sumitomo promoted, Toyota Industries and Hagoromo Club relegated.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.