# 2022 J2 League

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24th season of J2 League

Football league season

J2 League Season 2022 Dates 19 February – 23 October Champions Albirex Niigata 2nd J2 title 2nd D2 title Promoted Albirex Niigata Yokohama FC Relegated FC Ryukyu Iwate Grulla Morioka Champions League Ventforet Kofu Matches 462 Goals 1,136 (2.46 per match) Top goalscorer Koki Ogawa (26 goals) Biggest home win Tokushima Vortis 5–0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (20 April 2022) Biggest away win Thespakusatsu Gunma 1–6 Renofa Yamaguchi (24 September 2022) Highest scoring FC Ryukyu 2–5 Tokyo Verdy (30 March 2022) Albirex Niigata 4−3 Tokyo Verdy (8 May 2022) Ventforet Kofu 5–2 FC Ryukyu (6 August 2022) Roasso Kumamoto 3–4 Yokohama FC (23 October 2022) Longest winning run 6 matches Tokyo Verdy Longest unbeaten run 19 matches Tokushima Vortis Longest winless run 12 matches Blaublitz Akita Longest losing run 7 matches Iwate Grulla Morioka Ventforet Kofu Highest attendance 32,979 Albirex Niigata 3–0 Vegalta Sendai (8 October 2022) Lowest attendance 608 FC Ryukyu 0–1 Blaublitz Akita (3 September 2022) Total attendance 2,318,829 Average attendance 5,019 ← 2021 2023 →

The **2022 J2 League**, also known as the **2022 [Meiji Yasuda](/source/Meiji_Yasuda_Life) [J2 League](/source/J2_League)** ([Japanese](/source/Japanese_language): 2022 明治安田生命J2リーグ, [Hepburn](/source/Hepburn_romanization): *2022 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J2 Rīgu*) for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th season of the [J2 League](/source/J2_League), the second-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1999.

## Clubs

[Albirex Niigata](/source/Albirex_Niigata)

[Blaublitz Akita](/source/Blaublitz_Akita)

[Fagiano Okayama](/source/Fagiano_Okayama)

[Zweigen Kanazawa](/source/Zweigen_Kanazawa)

[Renofa Yamaguchi](/source/Renofa_Yamaguchi_FC)

[V-Varen Nagasaki](/source/V-Varen_Nagasaki)

[FC Ryukyu](/source/FC_Ryukyu)

[Yamagata](/source/Montedio_Yamagata)

[Ventforet Kofu](/source/Ventforet_Kofu)

[Roasso Kumamoto](/source/Roasso_Kumamoto)

[Iwate Grulla Morioka](/source/Iwate_Grulla_Morioka)

[Oita Trinita](/source/Oita_Trinita)

[Tokushima Vortis](/source/Tokushima_Vortis)

[Vegalta Sendai](/source/Vegalta_Sendai)

**Greater Tokyo Area**

**† [Greater Tokyo](/source/Greater_Tokyo_Area) teams**
[Mito HollyHock](/source/Mito_HollyHock)
[JEF United Ichihara Chiba](/source/JEF_United_Ichihara_Chiba)
[Omiya Ardija](/source/Omiya_Ardija)
[FC Machida Zelvia](/source/FC_Machida_Zelvia)
[Tokyo Verdy](/source/Tokyo_Verdy)
[Yokohama FC](/source/Yokohama_FC)
[Tochigi SC](/source/Tochigi_SC)
[Thespakusatsu Gunma](/source/Thespakusatsu_Gunma)

Locations of the 2022 J2 League teams

[Mito HollyHock](/source/Mito_HollyHock)

[JEF United Ichihara Chiba](/source/JEF_United_Ichihara_Chiba)

[Omiya Ardija](/source/Omiya_Ardija)

[Machida Zelvia](/source/FC_Machida_Zelvia)

[Tokyo Verdy](/source/Tokyo_Verdy)

[Tochigi SC](/source/Tochigi_SC)

[Thespakusatsu Gunma](/source/Thespakusatsu_Gunma)

[Yokohama FC](/source/Yokohama_FC)

Greater Tokyo Area J2 League teams

Club name Hometown Stadium Capacity Previous season rank License Albirex Niigata Niigata & Seiro, Niigata Denka Big Swan Stadium 42,300 J2 (6th) J1 Blaublitz Akita Akita Soyu Stadium 20,125 J2 (13th) J1 Fagiano Okayama All cities/towns in Okayama[a] City Light Stadium 20,000 J2 (11th) J1 Iwate Grulla Morioka All cities/towns in Iwate Iwagin Stadium & Kitakami Stadium 4,946 J3 (2nd) J1 JEF United Chiba Chiba & Ichihara, Chiba Fukuda Denshi Arena 18,500 J2 (8th) J1 Machida Zelvia Machida, Tokyo Machida Athletic Stadium 10,600 J2 (5th) J1 Mito HollyHock Cities/towns in Ibaraki[b] K's denki Stadium Mito 12,000 J2 (10th) J1 Montedio Yamagata All cities/towns in Yamagata[c] ND Soft Stadium 20,315 J2 (7th) J1 Oita Trinita Ōita Prefecture Showa Denko Dome Oita 40,000 J1 (18th) J1 Omiya Ardija Saitama, Saitama NACK5 Stadium Omiya 15,500 J2 (16th) J1 Renofa Yamaguchi All cities/towns in Yamaguchi Yamaguchi Ishin Park Stadium 20,000 J2 (15th) J1 Roasso Kumamoto Kumamoto, Kumamoto Egao Kenko Stadium 32,000 J3 (1st) J1 FC Ryukyu All cities/towns in Okinawa[d] Tapic Kenso Hiyagon Stadium 25,000 J2 (9th) J1 Thespakusatsu Gunma All cities/towns in Gunma[e] Shoda Shoyu Stadium Gunma 15,253 J2 (18th) J1 Tochigi SC Utsunomiya, Tochigi Kanseki Stadium Tochigi 25,244 J2 (14th) J1 Tokushima Vortis Tokushima Prefecture Pocarisweat Stadium 20,441 J1 (17th) J1 Tokyo Verdy All cities/towns in Tokyo Ajinomoto Stadium 49,970 J2 (12th) J1 V-Varen Nagasaki All cities/towns in Nagasaki Prefecture[f] Nagasaki Athletic Stadium 20,246 J2 (4th) J1 Vegalta Sendai Miyagi Prefecture Yurtec Stadium Sendai 19,694 J1 (19th) J1 Ventforet Kofu All cities/towns in Yamanashi Prefecture[g] Yamanashi Chuo Bank Stadium 17,000 J2 (3rd) J1 Yokohama FC Kanagawa Prefecture Mitsuzawa Stadium 15,046 J1 (20th) J1 Zweigen Kanazawa All cities/towns in Ishikawa[h] Ishikawa Kanazawa Stadium 20,000 J2 (17th) J1

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** centering on [Okayama](/source/Okayama%2C_Okayama), [Kurashiki](/source/Kurashiki%2C_Okayama), [Tsuyama](/source/Tsuyama%2C_Okayama)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [Mito](/source/Mito%2C_Ibaraki), [Hitachinaka](/source/Hitachinaka), [Kasama](/source/Kasama%2C_Ibaraki), [Naka](/source/Naka%2C_Ibaraki), [Omitama](/source/Omitama), [Ibaraki](/source/Ibaraki%2C_Ibaraki), [Shirosato](/source/Shirosato%2C_Ibaraki), [Oarai](/source/Oarai%2C_Ibaraki), [Tokai](/source/Tokai%2C_Ibaraki)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** centering on [Yamagata](/source/Yamagata%2C_Yamagata), [Tendo](/source/Tendo%2C_Yamagata), [Tsuruoka](/source/Tsuruoka%2C_Yamagata)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** centering on [Okinawa](/source/Okinawa%2C_Okinawa)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** centering on [Kusatsu](/source/Kusatsu%2C_Gunma) and [Maebashi](/source/Maebashi)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** centering on [Nagasaki](/source/Nagasaki) and [Isahaya](/source/Isahaya%2C_Nagasaki)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** centering on [Kofu](/source/Kofu) and [Nirasaki](/source/Nirasaki%2C_Yamanashi)

1. **[^](#cite_ref-8)** centering on [Kanazawa](/source/Kanazawa), [Nonoichi](/source/Nonoichi%2C_Ishikawa), [Kahoku](/source/Kahoku%2C_Ishikawa), [Tsubata](/source/Tsubata%2C_Ishikawa), [Tsubata](/source/Uchinada%2C_Ishikawa)

### Personnel and kits

Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Albirex Niigata Rikizo Matsuhashi Yuto Horigome Adidas Blaublitz Akita Ken Yoshida[1] Shuto Inaba ATHLETA Fagiano Okayama Takashi Kiyama Junki Kanayama Penalty Iwate Grulla Morioka Yutaka Akita Yusuke Muta Kelme JEF United Chiba Yoon Jong-hwan Daisuke Suzuki Hummel Machida Zelvia Ranko Popović Taiki Hirato SVOLME Mito HollyHock Tadahiro Akiba[2] Ryo Niizato soccer junky Montedio Yamagata Peter Cklamovski Shuto Minami Penalty Oita Trinita Takahiro Shimotaira Hokuto Shimoda Puma Omiya Ardija Naoki Soma Yuta Mikado Under Armour Renofa Yamaguchi Yoshihiro Natsuka Joji Ikegami Finta Roasso Kumamoto Takeshi Oki So Kawahara Puma FC Ryukyu Nacho Fernández Ryohei Okazaki sfida Thespakusatsu Gunma Tsuyoshi Otsuki Hajime Hosogai Kelme Tochigi SC Yu Tokisaki Yuki Nishiya ATHLETA Tokushima Vortis Dani Poyatos Hidenori Ishii Mizuno Tokyo Verdy Hiroshi Jofuku Tomohiro Taira ATHLETA V-Varen Nagasaki Fábio Carille Caio César Umbro Vegalta Sendai Akira Ito Ryang Yong-gi Adidas Ventforet Kofu Tatsuma Yoshida Sho Araki Mizuno Yokohama FC Shuhei Yomoda Tatsuya Hasegawa Soccer Junky Zweigen Kanazawa Masaaki Yanagishita Tomonobu Hiroi Hummel

### Managerial changes

Team Outgoing Manner Exit date Position in table Incoming Incoming date Ref. Announced on Departed on Announced on Arrived on Omiya Ardija Masahiro Shimoda Sacked 26 May 2022 26 May 2022 20th Naoki Soma 26 May 2022 28 May 2022 [3] FC Ryukyu Tetsuhiro Kina Sacked 8 June 2022 8 June 2022 22nd Kazuki Kuranuki (caretaker) 9 June 2022 9 June 2022 [4] V-Varen Nagasaki Hiroshi Matsuda Sacked 12 June 2022 12 June 2022 5th Takeo Harada (caretaker) 12 June 2022 12 June 2022 [5] Takeo Harada End of caretaker spell 12 June 2022 1 July 2022 TBD Fábio Carille 12 June 2022 2 July 2022 FC Ryukyu Kazuki Kuranuki End of caretaker spell 13 June 2022 13 June 2022 22nd Nacho Fernández 13 June 2022 14 June 2022 [6] Tokyo Verdy Takafumi Hori Sacked 13 June 2022 13 June 2022 14th Hiroshi Jofuku 13 June 2022 14 June 2022 [7][8] Vegalta Sendai Masato Harasaki Sacked 6 September 2022 6 September 2022 4th Akira Ito 6 September 2022 6 September 2022 [9][10]

## Foreign players

As of 2022 season, there are no more restrictions on a number of signed foreign players, but clubs can only register up to five foreign players for a single match-day squad.[11] Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia and Qatar) are exempt from these restrictions.

- Players name in **bold** indicates the player is registered during the midseason transfer window.

- Player's name in *italics* indicates the player has Japanese nationality in addition to their FIFA nationality, or is exempt from being treated as a foreign player due to having been born in Japan and being enrolled in, or having graduated from school in the country.[12]

Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7 Player 8 Left midseason Albirex Niigata Thomas Deng Kazuyoshi Shimabuku Alexandre Guedes Ippei Shinozuka Blaublitz Akita Fagiano Okayama Tiago Alves Han Eui-kwon Mitchell Duke Stefan Mauk Jordy Buijs Yu Yong-hyeon Iwate Grulla Morioka Brenner Cristiano Lucas Morelatto Kim Jong-min Jang Hyun-soo Paul Tabinas Han Yong-thae Kenneth Otabor JEF United Chiba Daniel Ricardo Lopes Tiago Leonço Jang Min-gyu Saldanha Machida Zelvia Dudu Vinícius Araújo Jong Tae-se Mito HollyHock Leonard Brodersen Jefferson Tabinas Montedio Yamagata Dellatorre Tiago Alves Oita Trinita Eduardo Neto Matheus Pereira Samuel Omiya Ardija Renofa Yamaguchi Renan Roasso Kumamoto Leo Kenta Thales FC Ryukyu Kelvin Álex Barrera Danny Carvajal Ri Yong-jik Sittichok Paso Phạm Văn Luân Vũ Hồng Quân Sadam Sulley Vinícius Faria Thespakusatsu Gunma Tochigi SC Juninho Carlos Gutiérrez Ömer Tokaç Tokushima Vortis Cacá Elsinho Rio Hyon Oriola Sunday Mushaga Bakenga José Aurelio Suárez Tokyo Verdy Matheus Vidotto Pratama Arhan Byron Vásquez V-Varen Nagasaki Caio César Cristiano Edigar Junio Kaique Clayson Víctor Ibarbo Vegalta Sendai Felippe Cardoso Foguinho Kim Tae-hyeon Ryang Yong-gi Leandro Desábato Nedeljko Stojišić Ventforet Kofu Renato Willian Lira Eduardo Mancha Foguete Getúlio Igor Sartori Bruno Paraíba Yokohama FC Gabriel Kléber Rhayner Saulo Mineiro Marcelo Ryan Mateus Moraes Svend Brodersen Felipe Vizeu Zweigen Kanazawa Taiga Son

## League table

Pos Team v t e Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation 1 Albirex Niigata (C, P) 42 25 9 8 73 35 +38 84 Promotion to the J1 League 2 Yokohama FC (P) 42 23 11 8 66 49 +17 80 3 Fagiano Okayama 42 20 12 10 61 42 +19 72 Qualification for the promotion play-offs 4 Roasso Kumamoto 42 18 13 11 58 48 +10 67 5 Oita Trinita 42 17 15 10 62 52 +10 66 6 Montedio Yamagata 42 17 13 12 62 40 +22 64 7 Vegalta Sendai 42 18 9 15 67 59 +8 63 8 Tokushima Vortis 42 13 23 6 48 35 +13 62 9 Tokyo Verdy 42 16 13 13 62 55 +7 61 10 JEF United Chiba 42 17 10 15 44 42 +2 61 11 V-Varen Nagasaki 42 15 11 16 50 54 −4 56 12 Blaublitz Akita 42 15 11 16 39 46 −7 56 13 Mito HollyHock 42 14 12 16 47 46 +1 54 14 Zweigen Kanazawa 42 13 13 16 56 69 −13 52 15 Machida Zelvia 42 14 9 19 51 50 +1 51 16 Renofa Yamaguchi 42 13 11 18 51 54 −3 50 17 Tochigi SC 42 11 16 15 32 40 −8 49 18 Ventforet Kofu (X) 42 11 15 16 47 54 −7 48 Qualification for the AFC Champions League group stage[a] 19 Omiya Ardija 42 10 13 19 48 64 −16 43 20 Thespakusatsu Gunma 42 11 9 22 36 57 −21 42 21 FC Ryukyu (R) 42 8 13 21 41 65 −24 37 Relegation to J3 League 22 Iwate Grulla Morioka (R) 42 9 7 26 35 80 −45 34

Source: [Meiji Yasuda J2 League](https://jleague.co/standings/j2/2022/), [J.League Data Site](https://data.j-league.or.jp/SFRT01/?competitionSectionIdLabel=Up+to+date&competitionIdLabel=MEIJI+YASUDA+J2+LEAGUE&yearIdLabel=2022&yearId=2022&competitionId=522&competitionSectionId=0&search=search)
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goal scored; 7) Fair-play points.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated; (X) Qualified for the AFC Champions League.
Notes:

1. **[^](#cite_ref-table_note_res_CW-CLGS0.79435132993122_21-0)** Qualified as the [2022 Emperor's Cup](/source/2022_Emperor's_Cup) winners.

## Promotion–relegation playoffs

Main article: [2022 J1 League § Promotion–relegation playoffs](/source/2022_J1_League#Promotion–relegation_playoffs)

First round 30 October Second round 6 November Final 13 November J2 (3) Fagiano Okayama 0 J1 (16) Kyoto Sanga 1 J2 (6) Montedio Yamagata 3 J2 (6) Montedio Yamagata 2 J2 (4) Roasso Kumamoto 1 J2 (4) Roasso Kumamoto 2 J2 (4) Roasso Kumamoto 2 J2 (5) Oita Trinita 2

## Results table

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## Season statistics

- *As of 31 October 2022*

### Goal contributions

#### Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals[13] 1 Koki Ogawa Yokohama FC 26 2 Tiago Alves Fagiano Okayama 16 3 Masato Nakayama Vegalta Sendai 14 Toshiki Takahashi Roasso Kumamoto 5 Masamichi Hayashi Zweigen Kanazawa 13 Ryoga Sato Tokyo Verdy

#### Clean sheets

Rank Player Club Clean sheets[14] 1 Ryosuke Kojima Albirex Niigata 18 2 Masaaki Goto Montedio Yamagata 17 3 Shota Arai JEF United Chiba 14 4 José Aurelio Suárez Tokushima Vortis 13 Shuhei Kawata Tochigi SC Yudai Tanaka Blaublitz Akita

### Discipline

#### Player

- Most yellow cards: **9**[15] - [Kota Fukatsu](/source/Kota_Fukatsu) (Machida Zelvia)

- Most red cards: **2** [16] - [Carlos Gutiérrez](/source/Carlos_Guti%C3%A9rrez_(Spanish_footballer)) (Tochigi SC)

#### Club

- Most yellow cards: **67** [17] (Iwate Grulla Morioka)

- Most red cards: **4**[18] (Mito HollyHock)

## Awards

### Monthly awards

Month Manager of the Month Monthly MVP Goal of the Month References Manager Club Player Club Player Club February/March Shuhei Yomoda Yokohama FC Koki Ogawa Yokohama FC Tiago Alves Fagiano Okayama [19][20][21] April Masato Harasaki Vegalta Sendai Ryoma Kida Vegalta Sendai Kota Yamada Montedio Yamagata [22][23][24] May Rikizo Matsuhashi Albirex Niigata Shunsuke Mito Albirex Niigata Kazuma Yamaguchi Machida Zelvia [25][26][27] June Takashi Kiyama Fagiano Okayama Koki Ogawa Yokohama FC Hiroki Noda Montedio Yamagata [28][29][30] July Takeshi Oki Roasso Kumamoto Edigar Junio V-Varen Nagasaki Naohiro Sugiyama Roasso Kumamoto [31][32][33] August Takashi Kiyama Fagiano Okayama Jordy Buijs Fagiano Okayama Wataru Tanaka Renofa Yamaguchi [34][35][36] September Takeshi Oki Roasso Kumamoto Hiroya Matsumoto Zweigen Kanazawa Kazuma Takai Renofa Yamaguchi [37] October/November Hiroshi Jofuku Tokyo Verdy Koki Ogawa Yokohama FC Ryotaro Ito Albirex Niigata [38]

## See also

- [Japan Football Association](/source/Japan_Football_Association) (JFA)

- [2022 Nadeshiko League](/source/2022_Nadeshiko_League)

- [2022 Blaublitz Akita season](/source/2022_Blaublitz_Akita_season)

- [2022 Mito HollyHock season](/source/2022_Mito_HollyHock_season)

- [2022 Vegalta Sendai season](/source/2022_Vegalta_Sendai_season)

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## External links

- [Official website](https://www.jleague.co/standings/j2/2022) on jleague.co (in English)

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