1979 Japan Soccer League

Statistics of Japan Soccer League for the 1979 season.

Japan Soccer League

Season	1979
← 1978 1980 →

First Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PKW	PKL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Fujita Engineering	18	12	1	3	2	36	15	+21	53	Champions
2	Yomiuri	18	10	0	4	4	48	26	+22	44
3	Hitachi	18	8	5	2	3	23	18	+5	44
4	Yanmar Diesel	18	9	1	2	6	28	21	+7	40
5	Furukawa Electric	18	7	5	2	4	28	22	+6	40
6	Toyo Kogyo	18	5	4	5	4	20	19	+1	33
7	Mitsubishi Motors	18	5	5	2	6	16	20	−4	32
8	Nippon Steel	18	6	2	1	9	23	25	−2	29
9	Nippon Kokan	18	1	1	4	12	17	43	−26	10	To promotion/relegation Series
10	Nissan	18	1	2	1	14	9	39	−30	9

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Promotion/relegation Series

JSL Division 1	1st leg	2nd leg	JSL Division 2
Nippon Kokan	0-0(PK3-4)	1-2	Yamaha Motors
Nissan Motors	4-1	2-1	Toshiba Horikawa-cho

Yamaha promoted, NKK relegated.

Second Division

Pos	Team	Pld	W	PKW	PKL	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Toshiba	18	10	3	2	3	36	23	+13	48	To promotion/relegation Series with Division 1
2	Yamaha Motors	18	10	2	3	3	33	19	+14	47
3	Fujitsu	18	11	0	3	4	29	18	+11	47
4	Honda	18	10	1	2	5	31	25	+6	44
5	Yanmar Club	18	8	2	0	8	37	30	+7	36	Folded
6	Tanabe Pharmaceuticals	18	7	0	0	11	21	21	0	28
7	Toyota Motors	18	5	3	2	8	21	29	−8	28
8	Kofu Club	18	5	2	2	9	26	42	−16	26
9	Teijin SC Matsuyama	18	5	1	3	9	24	30	−6	25	To promotion/relegation Series with Regional Series finalists
10	Sumitomo	18	2	3	0	13	15	36	−21	14

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

Promotion/relegation Series

JSL	1st leg	2nd leg	Regional Series
Teijin SC Matsuyama	2-1	1-1	Kyoto Shiko Club
Sumitomo	1-0	3-1	Daikyo Oil

No relegations. Due to withdrawal of Yanmar Club, Yanmar Diesel's B-squad, Daikyo was promoted.

References

• Japan - List of final tables (RSSSF)