J.League awards

The J.League awards are represented by a ceremony, which is hosted every year in December, at the end of the season. This ceremony was inducted to award the best players of J.League. To win this award, the nominees had to play at least 17 matches of the season. All awards are updated to 2021.^[1][2]

Player of the Year

Main article: J.League Player of the Year

The J.League Player of the Year (formerly known as the "J.League Most Valuable Player Award" from 1993 to 2020) is awarded by the J.League to the most valuable player of the season.^[3]

Year	Footballer	Club	Nationality	Ref[4]
1993	Kazuyoshi Miura	Verdy Kawasaki	Japan	[5]
1994	Pereira	Verdy Kawasaki	Brazil
1995	Dragan Stojković	Nagoya Grampus Eight	Yugoslavia	[6]
1996	Jorginho	Kashima Antlers	Brazil
1997	Dunga	Júbilo Iwata	Brazil	[7]
1998	Masashi Nakayama	Júbilo Iwata	Japan	[8]
1999	Alessandro Santos	Shimizu S-Pulse	Japan	[9]
2000	Shunsuke Nakamura	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
2001	Toshiya Fujita	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
2002	Naohiro Takahara	Júbilo Iwata	Japan	[10]
2003	Emerson	Urawa Red Diamonds	Brazil	[11]
2004	Yuji Nakazawa	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
2005	Araújo	Gamba Osaka	Brazil
2006	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	Urawa Red Diamonds	Japan	[12]
2007	Robson Ponte	Urawa Red Diamonds	Brazil	[13]
2008	Marquinhos	Kashima Antlers	Brazil	[14]
2009	Mitsuo Ogasawara	Kashima Antlers	Japan	[15]
2010	Seigo Narazaki	Nagoya Grampus	Japan	[16]
2011	Leandro Domingues	Kashiwa Reysol	Brazil	[17]
2012	Hisato Satō	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan	[18]
2013	Shunsuke Nakamura	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan	[19]
2014	Yasuhito Endō	Gamba Osaka	Japan	[20]
2015	Toshihiro Aoyama	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan	[21]
2016	Kengo Nakamura	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan	[22]
2017	Yū Kobayashi	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan	[23]
2018	Akihiro Ienaga	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
2019	Teruhito Nakagawa	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
2020	Michael Olunga	Kashiwa Reysol	Kenya
2021	Leandro Damião	Kawasaki Frontale	Brazil
2022	Tomoki Iwata	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan	[24]

Top scorer

Main article: J.League Top Scorer

The J.League Top Scorer is awarded by the J.League to the top scoring player of the season.

Only five players won this award twice: Masashi Nakayama, Ryoichi Maeda, Joshua Kennedy and Yoshito Okubo. Other four players won both the top-scorer award and the one for Most Valuable Player: Masashi Nakayama in 1998, Naohiro Takahara in 2002, Marquinhos in 2008, Hisato Sato in 2012 and Yu Kobayashi in 2017.

Year	Player	Goals	Club	Nationality	Ref[25]
1993	Ramón Díaz	28	Yokohama Marinos	Argentina
1994	Frank Ordenewitz	30	JEF United Ichihara	Germany
1995	Masahiro Fukuda	32	Urawa Red Diamonds	Japan
1996	Kazuyoshi Miura	23	Verdy Kawasaki	Japan
1997	Patrick Mboma	25	Gamba Osaka	Cameroon	[26]
1998	Masashi Nakayama	36	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
1999	Hwang Sun-Hong	24	Cerezo Osaka	South Korea
2000	Masashi Nakayama	20	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
2001	Will	24	Consadole Sapporo	Brazil
2002	Naohiro Takahara	26	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
2003	Ueslei	22	Nagoya Grampus Eight	Brazil
2004	Emerson	27	Urawa Red Diamonds	Brazil
2005	Araújo	33	Gamba Osaka	Brazil
2006	Washington	26	Urawa Red Diamonds	Brazil
	Magno Alves	26	Gamba Osaka	Brazil
2007	Juninho	22	Kawasaki Frontale	Brazil
2008	Marquinhos	21	Kashima Antlers	Brazil
2009	Ryoichi Maeda	20	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
2010	Ryoichi Maeda	17	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
	Joshua Kennedy	17	Nagoya Grampus	Australia	[27]
2011	Joshua Kennedy	19	Nagoya Grampus	Australia	[28]
2012	Hisato Satō	22	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan
2013	Yoshito Ōkubo	26	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
2014	Yoshito Ōkubo	18	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
2015	Yoshito Ōkubo	23	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
2016	Peter Utaka	19	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Nigeria
	Leandro		Vissel Kobe	Brazil
2017	Yū Kobayashi	23	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
2018	Jô	24	Nagoya Grampus	Brazil
2019	Teruhito Nakagawa	15	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
	Marcos Júnior			Brazil
2020	Michael Olunga	28	Kashiwa Reysol	Kenya
2021	Leandro Damião	23	Kawasaki Frontale	Brazil
	Daizen Maeda		Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
2022	Thiago Santana	14	Shimizu S-Pulse	Brazil	[24]

Best XI

Main article: J.League Best XI

Best Young Player

Main article: J.League Best Young Player

The J.League Best Young Player (formerly known as the "J.League Rookie of the Year" from 1993 to 2019) is awarded by the J.League to the most outstanding rookie of the season. To be considered a rookie, there are some criteria to meet:

• a player must be in his first professional year of football (domestically or abroad);
• a player must have played more than half of the season;
• in date 2 April of the incumbent season, he has to be under 21 years old;
• whoever has already won this award, he's excluded from running for it again.

The youngest-ever winner is Takayuki Morimoto: he won the award in 2004 at the age of 16.

Players names shown in bold were also named in the best eleven for that season.

Year	Footballer	Club	Position	Nationality	Ref[29]
1993	Masaaki Sawanobori	Shimizu S-Pulse	MF	Japan
1994	Kazuaki Tasaka	Bellmare Hiratsuka	MF	Japan
1995	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Yokohama Marinos	GK	Japan
1996	Toshihide Saito	Shimizu S-Pulse	DF	Japan
1997	Atsushi Yanagisawa	Kashima Antlers	FW	Japan
1998	Shinji Ono	Urawa Red Diamonds	MF	Japan
1999	Yuji Nakazawa	Verdy Kawasaki	DF	Japan
2000	Kazuyuki Morisaki	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	DF	Japan
2001	Koji Yamase	Consadole Sapporo	MF	Japan
2002	Keisuke Tsuboi	Urawa Red Diamonds	DF	Japan
2003	Daisuke Nasu	Yokohama F. Marinos	DF	Japan
2004	Takayuki Morimoto	Tokyo Verdy 1969	FW	Japan
2005	Robert Cullen	Júbilo Iwata	FW	Japan
2006	Jungo Fujimoto	Shimizu S-Pulse	MF	Japan
2007	Takanori Sugeno	Yokohama FC	GK	Japan
2008	Yoshizumi Ogawa	Nagoya Grampus	MF	Japan
2009	Kazuma Watanabe	Yokohama F. Marinos	FW	Japan
2010	Takashi Usami	Gamba Osaka	MF	Japan
2011	Hiroki Sakai	Kashiwa Reysol	DF	Japan
2012	Gaku Shibasaki	Kashima Antlers	MF	Japan
2013	Takumi Minamino	Cerezo Osaka	FW	Japan	[30]
2014	Caio	Kashima Antlers	MF	Brazil
2015	Takuma Asano	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	FW	Japan
2016	Yosuke Ideguchi	Gamba Osaka	MF	Japan	[31]
2017	Yuta Nakayama	Kashiwa Reysol	DF	Japan	[32]
2018	Hiroki Abe	Kashima Antlers	MF	Japan
2019	Ao Tanaka	Kawasaki Frontale	MF	Japan
2020	Ayumu Seko	Cerezo Osaka	DF	Japan
2021	Ryotaro Araki	Kashima Antlers	MF	Japan
2022	Mao Hosoya	Kashiwa Reysol	FW	Japan	[24]

Manager of the year

Main article: J.League Manager of the Year

The J.League Manager of the Year is an annual award given to one manager by the J.League based on their performance during the season. In the past, the award usually went to the manager of the champions, though this has varied somewhat over the years. From 2017, the award was modified so that the Manager of the J.League champion wins the J.League Champion Manager of the Year, and a separate J.League Manager of the Year award is given to a Manager from each of the J.Leagues (J1, J2 and J3). The list below reflects the award for J1 League Manager of the Year award only.

Year	Manager	Club	Nationality	Ref[33]
1993	Yasutaro Matsuki	Verdy Kawasaki	Japan
1994	Yasutaro Matsuki	Verdy Kawasaki	Japan
1995	Arsène Wenger	Nagoya Grampus Eight	France
1996	Nicanor	Kashiwa Reysol	Brazil
1997	João Carlos	Kashima Antlers	Brazil
1998	Osvaldo Ardiles	Shimizu S-Pulse	Argentina
1999	Steve Perryman	Shimizu S-Pulse	England
2000	Akira Nishino	Kashiwa Reysol	Japan
2001	Masakazu Suzuki	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
2002	Masakazu Suzuki	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
2003	Takeshi Okada	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
2004	Takeshi Okada	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
2005	Akira Nishino	Gamba Osaka	Japan
2006	Guido Buchwald	Urawa Red Diamonds	Germany	[34]
2007	Oswaldo de Oliveira	Kashima Antlers	Brazil
2008	Oswaldo de Oliveira	Kashima Antlers	Brazil
2009	Oswaldo de Oliveira	Kashima Antlers	Brazil
2010	Dragan Stojković	Nagoya Grampus	Serbia
2011	Nelsinho Baptista	Kashiwa Reysol	Brazil
2012	Hajime Moriyasu	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan
2013	Hajime Moriyasu	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan
2014	Kenta Hasegawa	Gamba Osaka	Japan
2015	Hajime Moriyasu	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan
2016	Masatada Ishii	Kashima Antlers	Japan
2017	Yoon Jong-hwan	Cerezo Osaka	South Korea
2018	Mihailo Petrović	Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	Serbia
2019	Tomohiro Katanosaka	Oita Trinita	Japan
2020	Tsuneyasu Miyamoto	Gamba Osaka	Japan
2021	Ricardo Rodríguez	Urawa Red Diamonds	Spain
2022	Michael Skibbe	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Germany	[24]

Monthly Most Valuable Player (Monthly MVP)

Main article: J.League Monthly MVP

Goal of the Year

J1 League winners

Season	Player	Club	Nationality	Scored against	Score	Minute	Result	Round	Ref
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022	Takumu Kawamura	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan

J2 League winners

J3 League winners

Fair Play Award

The goal is to be under the 1 point-media to win the award. For J.League the limit is 34, while in J.League 2 and J3 League the limit is respectively 42 and 33. In bold the winners of Prince Takamado Cup.

Year	J1-winning team	J2-winning team	J3-winning team
1993	not assigned	League non-existing	League non-existing
1994
1995
1996
1997	Vissel Kobe
1998	not assigned
1999		not assigned
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007	Gamba Osaka
2008	Shimizu S-Pulse, Gamba Osaka	Vegalta Sendai
2009	Júbilo Iwata, Montedio Yamagata	Vegalta Sendai
2010	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Montedio Yamagata, Yokohama F. Marinos	not assigned
2011	Gamba Osaka, Montedio Yamagata	FC Tokyo
2012	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Kawasaki Frontale	not assigned
2013	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Vegalta Sendai	Gamba Osaka, Vissel Kobe, Matsumoto Yamaga, Fagiano Okayama
2014	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Vegalta Sendai, Urawa Red Diamonds, Yokohama F. Marinos, Albirex Niigata, Tokushima Vortis	Montedio Yamagata, Thespakusatsu Gunma, Shonan Bellmare, Matsumoto Yamaga, Júbilo Iwata, Kyoto Sanga, Fagiano Okayama, Giravanz Kitakyushu	Fukushima United, Fujieda MYFC, Nagano Parceiro
2015	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Montedio Yamagata, Kawasaki Frontale, Yokohama F. Marinos, Ventforet Kofu, Matsumoto Yamaga, Gamba Osaka, Sagan Tosu	Zweigen Kanazawa, Fagiano Okayama, Tokushima Vortis, Ehime FC, Giravanz Kitakyushu	Grulla Morioka, Blaublitz Akita, Nagano Parceiro
2016	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Urawa Red Diamonds, Sagan Tosu, Kashima Antlers, Kawasaki Frontale	Shimizu S-Pulse, Giravanz Kitakyushu, Tokushima Vortis, Thespakusatsu Gunma, Fagiano Okayama	Grulla Morioka, YSCC Yokohama, Oita Trinita, Fujieda MYFC
2017	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Vegalta Sendai, Cerezo Osaka, FC Tokyo, Sagan Tosu, Kawasaki Frontale, Gamba Osaka, Júbilo Iwata	Oita Trinita, Matsumoto Yamaga FC, Ehime FC, Tokyo Verdy, Fagiano Okayama, Montedio Yamagata, Zweigen Kanazawa	Blaublitz Akita, Azul Claro Numazu, YSCC Yokohama, Cerezo Osaka U-23, Grulla Morioka, Nagano Parceiro, Fukushima United FC
2018	Cerezo Osaka, Urawa Red Diamonds, Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Oita Trinita	Blaublitz Akita
2019	FC Tokyo, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Oita Trinita	Fagiano Okayama	Cerezo Osaka U-23
2020	Oita Trinita, Kawasaki Frontale, Gamba Osaka	Giravanz Kitakyushu	Blaublitz Akita
2021	Kawasaki Frontale, Urawa Red Diamonds, Oita Trinita	Montedio Yamagata	Gainare Tottori
2022	Urawa Red Diamonds, Vissel Kobe, Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Nagoya Grampus, Cerezo Osaka, Shonan Bellmare, FC Tokyo	Albirex Niigata, Omiya Ardija, V-Varen Nagasaki, Thespakusatsu Gunma, Ventforet Kofu, Fagiano Okayama, JEF United Chiba, Roasso Kumamoto, Tokyo Verdy, Zweigen Kanazawa, Blaublitz Akita, Oita Trinita, Yokohama FC, Montedio Yamagata	Kataller Toyama, Vanraure Hachinohe, Tegevajaro Miyazaki, Iwaki FC, Kamatamare Sanuki, Fukushima United, Azul Claro Numazu, Ehime FC, Gainare Tottori, Giravanz Kitakyushu

Individual Fair Play Award

This award was established since 1996.

Year	Footballer	Position	Club	Nationality	Ref
1996	Masayuki Okano	FW	Urawa Reds	Japan
1997	Akihiro Nagashima	FW	Vissel Kobe	Japan
1998	Naoki Soma	DF	Kashima Antlers	Japan
1999	Not assigned
2000	Atsushi Yoneyama	DF	Tokyo Verdy	Japan
2001	Yuta Minami	GK	Kashiwa Reysol	Japan
2002	Keisuke Tsuboi	DF	Urawa Reds	Japan
2003	Yuichi Nemoto	DF	Vegalta Sendai	Japan
	Hitoshi Sogahata	GK	Kashima Antlers
	Naohiro Ishikawa	MF	FC Tokyo
	Shohei Ikeda	DF	Shimizu S-Pulse
2004	Takashi Shimoda	GK	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan
	Yoshinari Takagi	GK	Yokohama F. Marinos
2005	Teruyuki Moniwa	DF	FC Tokyo	Japan
	Masashi Oguro	FW	Gamba Osaka
2006	Satoru Yamagishi	MF	JEF United Chiba	Japan
	Yuichi Nemoto	DF	Oita Trinita
2007	Daisuke Sakata	FW	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
	Hisato Sato	FW	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
	Teruyoshi Ito	MF	Shimizu S-Pulse
2008	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	GK	Júbilo Iwata	Japan
2009	Eiji Kawashima	GK	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
	Kota Hattori	MF	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
2010	Tomoaki Makino	DF	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan
2011	Ryang Yong-gi	MF	Vegalta Sendai	North Korea
	Kosuke Ota	DF	Shimizu S-Pulse	Japan
2012	Hisato Satō	FW	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Japan
2013	Yoichiro Kakitani	FW	Cerezo Osaka	Japan
	Hisato Satō	FW	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
2014	Shusaku Nishikawa	GK	Urawa Reds	Japan
	Masato Kudo	FW	Kashiwa Reysol
	Ryota Morioka	MF	Vissel Kobe
	Yohei Toyoda	FW	Sagan Tosu
	Hiroki Mizumoto	DF	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
	Yasuhiro Hiraoka	DF	Shimizu S-Pulse
2015	Shogo Taniguchi	MF	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
	Yuji Nakazawa	DF	Yokohama F. Marinos
2016	Yota Akimoto	GK	FC Tokyo	Japan
	Yūsuke Tanaka	MF	Ventforet Kofu
2017	Yuji Nakazawa	DF	Yokohama F. Marinos	Japan
	Yoichiro Kakitani	FW	Cerezo Osaka
	Hiroki Mizumoto	DF	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
2018	Shusaku Nishikawa	GK	Urawa Reds	Japan
	Yota Akimoto	GK	Shonan Bellmare
	Takashi Sawada	FW	V-Varen Nagasaki
2019	Not assigned
2020	Hotaru Yamaguchi	MF	Vissel Kobe	Japan
2021	Miki Yamane	DF	Kawasaki Frontale	Japan
2022	Not assigned				[24]

Referees of the Year

Year	Referee	Assistant Referee	Ref
2013	Yuichi Nishimura	Toru Sagara	[35]
2014	Yuichi Nishimura	Toru Sagara	[35]
2015	Yuichi Nishimura	Toru Sagara	[35]
2016	Yuichi Nishimura	Toshiyuki Nagi	[35]
2017	Yuichi Nishimura	Toru Sagara	[35]
2018	Ryuji Sato	Hiroshi Yamauchi	[35]
2019	Yuichi Nishimura	Shinji Ochi	[35]
2020	Yuichi Nishimura	Yosuke Takebe	[35]
2021	Jumpei Iida	Isao Nishihashi	[35]
2022	Ryuji Sato	Takumi Takagi	[35]

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