J.League Best XI

The J.League Best XI is an acknowledgement of the best eleven players in J.League.

J1 League (1993–present)

Season	Goalkeeper (GK)	Defenders (DF)	Midfielders (MF)	Forwards (FW)	Ref[1][2]
1993	Shigetatsu Matsunaga (Yokohama Marinos)	Shunzo Ono (Kashima Antlers) Pereira (Verdy Kawasaki) Masami Ihara (Yokohama Marinos) Takumi Horiike (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Tetsuji Hashiratani (Verdy Kawasaki) Santos (Kashima) Yasuto Honda (Kashima Antlers) Ruy Ramos (Verdy Kawasaki)	Kazuyoshi Miura (Verdy Kawasaki) Ramón Díaz (Yokohama Marinos)
1994	Shinkichi Kikuchi (Verdy Kawasaki)	Pereira (Verdy Kawasaki) Masami Ihara (Yokohama Marinos) Yoshihiro Natsuka (Bellmare Hiratsuka)	Tsuyoshi Kitazawa (Verdy Kawasaki) Bismarck (Verdy Kawasaki) Tetsuji Hashiratani (Verdy Kawasaki) Betinho (Bellmare Hiratsuka) Ruy Ramos (Verdy Kawasaki)	Nobuhiro Takeda (Verdy Kawasaki) Takuya Takagi (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
1995	Shinkichi Kikuchi (Verdy Kawasaki)	Naoki Soma (Kashima Antlers) Masami Ihara (Yokohama Marinos) Masaharu Suzuki (Yokohama Marinos) Guido Buchwald (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Hiroaki Morishima (Cerezo Osaka) Bismarck (Verdy Kawasaki) Tetsuji Hashiratani (Verdy Kawasaki)	Masahiro Fukuda (Urawa Red Diamonds)) Kazuyoshi Miura (Verdy Kawasaki) Dragan Stojković (Nagoya Grampus Eight)
1996	Seigo Narazaki (Yokohama Flügels)	Naoki Soma (Kashima Antlers) Masami Ihara (Yokohama Marinos) Guido Buchwald (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Masakiyo Maezono (Yokohama Flügels) Motohiro Yamaguchi (Yokohama Flügels) Jorginho (Kashima Antlers) Hiroshi Nanami (Júbilo Iwata)	Masayuki Okano (Urawa Red Diamonds)) Kazuyoshi Miura (Verdy Kawasaki) Dragan Stojković (Nagoya Grampus Eight)
1997	Tomoaki Ōgami (Júbilo Iwata)	Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers) Masami Ihara (Yokohama Marinos) Naoki Soma (Kashima Antlers)	Hiroshi Nanami (Júbilo Iwata) Bismarck (Kashima Antlers) Motohiro Yamaguchi (Yokohama Flügels) Dunga (Júbilo Iwata) Hidetoshi Nakata (Bellmare Hiratsuka)	Patrick Mboma (Gamba Osaka) Masashi Nakayama (Júbilo Iwata)
1998	Seigo Narazaki (Yokohama Flügels)	Makoto Tanaka (Júbilo Iwata) Naoki Soma (Kashima Antlers) Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers)	Shinji Ono (Urawa Red Diamonds) Toshiya Fujita (Júbilo Iwata) Hiroshi Nanami (Júbilo Iwata) Dunga (Júbilo Iwata) Daisuke Oku (Júbilo Iwata)	Atsushi Yanagisawa (Kashima Antlers) Masashi Nakayama (Júbilo Iwata)
1999	Masanori Sanada (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Toshihide Saito (Shimizu S-Pulse) Yuji Nakazawa (Verdy Kawasaki) Ryuzo Morioka (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Takashi Fukunishi (Júbilo Iwata) Shunsuke Nakamura (Yokohama F. Marinos) Alex (Shimizu S-Pulse) Masaaki Sawanobori (Shimizu S-Pulse) Teruyoshi Ito (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Hwang Sun-hong (Kashiwa Reysol) Dragan Stojković (Nagoya Grampus Eight)
2000	Daijiro Takakuwa (Kashima Antlers)	Hong Myung-bo (Kashiwa Reysol) Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers) Naoki Matsuda (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Hiroaki Morishima (Cerezo Osaka) Shunsuke Nakamura (Yokohama F. Marinos) Tomokazu Myojin (Kashiwa Reysol) Junichi Inamoto (Gamba Osaka)	Akinori Nishizawa (Cerezo Osaka) Masashi Nakayama (Júbilo Iwata) Tuto (FC Tokyo)
2001	Arno van Zwam (Júbilo Iwata)	Go Oiwa (Júbilo Iwata) Akira Narahashi (Kashima Antlers) Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers)	Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Takashi Fukunishi (Júbilo Iwata) Toshiya Fujita (Júbilo Iwata) Toshihiro Hattori (Júbilo Iwata) Kōji Nakata (Kashima Antlers)	Will (Consadole Sapporo) Atsushi Yanagisawa (Kashima Antlers)
2002	Hitoshi Sogahata (Kashima Antlers)	Hideto Suzuki (Júbilo Iwata) Makoto Tanaka (Júbilo Iwata) Naoki Matsuda (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Hiroshi Nanami (Júbilo Iwata) Takashi Fukunishi (Júbilo Iwata) Toshiya Fujita (Júbilo Iwata)	Emerson (Urawa Red Diamonds) Masashi Nakayama (Júbilo Iwata) Naohiro Takahara (Júbilo Iwata)
2003	Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus Eight)	Keisuke Tsuboi (Urawa Red Diamonds) Dutra (Yokohama F. Marinos) Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Daisuke Oku (Júbilo Iwata) Takashi Fukunishi (Júbilo Iwata) Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka)	Emerson (Urawa Red Diamonds) Tatsuhiko Kubo (Yokohama F. Marinos) Ueslei (Nagoya Grampus Eight)
2004	Yoichi Doi (FC Tokyo)	Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) Dutra (Yokohama F. Marinos) Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Makoto Hasebe (Urawa Red Diamonds) Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Daisuke Oku (Júbilo Iwata) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka)	Emerson (Urawa Red Diamonds) Masashi Oguro (Gamba Osaka) Marques (Nagoya Grampus Eight)
2005	Motohiro Yoshida (Cerezo Osaka)	Ilian Stoyanov (JEF United Chiba) Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Yuki Abe (JEF United Chiba) Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Fernandinho (Gamba Osaka) Tatsuya Furuhashi (Cerezo Osaka)	Hisato Satō (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Araújo (Gamba Osaka)
2006	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Júbilo Iwata)	Akira Kaji (Gamba Osaka) Satoshi Yamaguchi (Gamba Osaka) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Keita Suzuki (Urawa Red Diamonds) Yuki Abe (JEF United Chiba) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale) Hiroyuki Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale)	Washington (Urawa Red Diamonds) Magno Alves (Gamba Osaka)
2007	Ryōta Tsuzuki (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Daiki Iwamasa (Kashima Antlers) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) Satoshi Yamaguchi (Gamba Osaka)	Yuki Abe (Urawa Red Diamonds) Keita Suzuki (Urawa Red Diamonds) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Robson Ponte (Urawa Red Diamonds) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Juniho (Kawasaki Frontale) Baré (Gamba Osaka)
2008	Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus)	Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers) Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) Daiki Iwamasa (Kashima Antlers) Satoshi Yamaguchi (Gamba Osaka)	Yoshizumi Ogawa (Nagoya Grampus) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Marquinhos (Kashima Antlers) Atsushi Yanagisawa (Kyoto Sanga)
2009	Eiji Kawashima (Kawasaki Frontale)	Yuto Nagatomo (FC Tokyo) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers) Daiki Iwamasa (Kashima Antlers)	Naohiro Ishikawa (FC Tokyo) Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Ryoichi Maeda (Júbilo Iwata) Shinji Okazaki (Shimizu S-Pulse)
2010	Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus)	Tomoaki Makino (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus) Takahiro Masukawa (Nagoya Grampus)	Danilson Córdoba (Nagoya Grampus) Márcio Richardes (Albirex Niigata) Jungo Fujimoto (Shimizu S-Pulse) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Ryoichi Maeda (Júbilo Iwata) Joshua Kennedy (Nagoya Grampus)
2011	Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus)	Naoya Kondo (Kashiwa Reysol) Hiroki Sakai (Kashiwa Reysol) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus)	Hiroshi Kiyotake (Cerezo Osaka) Jorge Wagner (Kashiwa Reysol) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Leandro Domingues (Kashiwa Reysol) Jungo Fujimoto (Nagoya Grampus)	Joshua Kennedy (Nagoya Grampus) Mike Havenaar (Ventforet Kofu)
2012	Shusaku Nishikawa (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Hiroki Mizumoto (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Yūichi Komano (Júbilo Iwata) Marcus Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus)	Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Leandro Domingues (Kashiwa Reysol) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Yojiro Takahagi (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Yohei Toyoda (Sagan Tosu) Hisato Satō (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Wilson (Vegalta Sendai)
2013	Shusaku Nishikawa (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo) Daisuke Nasu (Urawa Red Diamonds) Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Yoichiro Kakitani (Cerezo Osaka) Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka) Shunsuke Nakamura (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Yuya Osako (Kashima Antlers) Kengo Kawamata (Albirex Niigata) Yoshito Ōkubo (Kawasaki Frontale)
2014	Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Kosuke Ota (FC Tokyo) Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo) Tsukasa Shiotani (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Yoshinori Muto (FC Tokyo) Léo Silva (Albirex Niigata) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Gaku Shibasaki (Kashima Antlers)	Patric (Gamba Osaka) Takashi Usami (Gamba Osaka) Yoshito Ōkubo (Kawasaki Frontale)
2015	Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Red Diamonds) Kosuke Ota (FC Tokyo) Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo) Tsukasa Shiotani (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Mu Kanazaki (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endō (Gamba Osaka) Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Yoshito Ōkubo (Kawasaki Frontale) Takashi Usami (Gamba Osaka) Douglas (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	[3]
2016	Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Red Diamonds) Gen Shoji (Kashima Antlers) Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo) Tsukasa Shiotani (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Yuki Abe (Urawa Red Diamonds) Manabu Saitō (Yokohama F. Marinos) Yōsuke Kashiwagi (Urawa Red Diamonds) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Yū Kobayashi (Kawasaki Frontale) Leandro (Vissel Kobe)
2017	Kosuke Nakamura (Kashiwa Reysol)	Shintaro Kurumaya (Kawasaki Frontale) Gen Shoji (Kashima Antlers) Elsinho (Kawasaki Frontale) Daigo Nishi (Kashima Antlers)	Hotaru Yamaguchi (Cerezo Osaka) Yosuke Ideguchi (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Yū Kobayashi (Kawasaki Frontale) Shinzo Koroki (Urawa Red Diamonds) Kenyu Sugimoto (Cerezo Osaka)	[4]
2018	Jung Sung-ryong (Kawasaki Frontale)	Daigo Nishi (Kashima Antlers) Elsinho (Kawasaki Frontale) Shintaro Kurumaya (Kawasaki Frontale) Shogo Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale)	Chanathip Songkrasin (Consadole Sapporo) Akihiro Ienaga (Kawasaki Frontale) Ryota Oshima (Kawasaki Frontale) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Jô (Nagoya Grampus) Hwang Ui-jo (Gamba Osaka)	[5]
2019	Akihiro Hayashi (FC Tokyo)	Sei Muroya (FC Tokyo) Thiago Martins (Yokohama F. Marinos) Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo)	Takuya Kida (Yokohama F. Marinos) Kento Hashimoto (FC Tokyo) Andrés Iniesta (Vissel Kobe) Teruhito Nakagawa (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Marcos Júnior (Yokohama F. Marinos) Diego Oliveira (FC Tokyo) Kensuke Nagai (FC Tokyo)	[6]
2020	Jung Sung-ryong (Kawasaki Frontale)	Miki Yamane (Kawasaki Frontale) Shogo Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale) Jesiel (Kawasaki Frontale) Kyohei Noborizato (Kawasaki Frontale)	Akihiro Ienaga (Kawasaki Frontale) Ao Tanaka (Kawasaki Frontale) Hidemasa Morita (Kawasaki Frontale) Kaoru Mitoma (Kawasaki Frontale)	Everaldo (Kashima Antlers) Michael Olunga (Kashiwa Reysol)	[7]
2021	Mitchell Langerak (Nagoya Grampus)	Miki Yamane (Kawasaki Frontale) Shogo Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale) Jesiel (Kawasaki Frontale)	Akihiro Ienaga (Kawasaki Frontale) Yasuto Wakizaka (Kawasaki Frontale) Andrés Iniesta (Vissel Kobe) Sho Inagaki (Nagoya Grampus)	Leandro Damião (Kawasaki Frontale) Reo Hatate (Kawasaki Frontale) Daizen Maeda (Yokohama F. Marinos)	[8]
2022	Yohei Takaoka (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Miki Yamane (Kawasaki Frontale) Shogo Taniguchi (Kawasaki Frontale) Tomoki Iwata (Yokohama F. Marinos) Ryuta Koike (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Akihiro Ienaga (Kawasaki Frontale) Yasuto Wakizaka (Kawasaki Frontale) Kota Mizunuma (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Marcinho (Kawasaki Frontale) Thiago Santana (Shimizu S-Pulse) Élber (Yokohama F. Marinos)	[9][10]
2023	Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Alexander Scholz (Urawa Red Diamonds) Marius Høibråten (Urawa Red Diamonds) Seiya Maikuma (Cerezo Osaka) Gōtoku Sakai (Vissel Kobe)	Atsuki Ito (Urawa Red Diamonds) Yasuto Wakizaka (Kawasaki Frontale) Hotaru Yamaguchi (Vissel Kobe)	Anderson Lopes (Yokohama F. Marinos) Yuya Osako (Vissel Kobe) Yoshinori Muto (Vissel Kobe)	[11]
2024	Keisuke Osako (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Kimito Nono (Kashima Antlers) Shinnosuke Nakatani (Gamba Osaka) Matheus Thuler (Vissel Kobe) Sho Sasaki (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Matheus Sávio (Kashiwa Reysol) Kei Chinen (Kashima Antlers)	Anderson Lopes (Yokohama F. Marinos) Yuya Osako (Vissel Kobe) Yoshinori Muto (Vissel Kobe) Takashi Usami (Gamba Osaka)	[12]

Multiple appearances

N°	Player	Clubs	Years
12	Yasuhito Endō	Gamba Osaka	2003–2012, 2014–2015
9	Marcus Tulio Tanaka	Urawa Red Diamonds, Nagoya Grampus	2004–2012
8	Kengo Nakamura	Kawasaki Frontale	2006–2010, 2016–2018
6	Mitsuo Ogasawara	Kashima Antlers	2001–2005, 2009
	Seigo Narazaki	Yokohama Flügels, Nagoya Grampus	1996, 1998, 2003, 2008, 2010–2011
	Yuji Nakazawa	Tokyo Verdy, Yokohama F. Marinos	1999, 2003–2005, 2008, 2013
	Shusaku Nishikawa	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Urawa Red Diamonds	2012–2016, 2023
5	Masami Ihara	Yokohama F. Marinos	1993–1997
	Masato Morishige	FC Tokyo	2013–2016, 2019
4	Yutaka Akita	Kashima Antlers	1997–1998, 2000–2001
	Naoki Soma	Kashima Antlers	1995–1998
	Hiroshi Nanami	Júbilo Iwata	1996–1998, 2002
	Masashi Nakayama	Júbilo Iwata	1997–1998, 2000, 2002
	Takashi Fukunishi	Júbilo Iwata	1999, 2001–2003
	Yuki Abe	JEF United Chiba, Urawa Red Diamonds	2005-2007, 2016
	Akihiro Ienaga	Kawasaki Frontale	2018, 2020-2022
	Shogo Taniguchi	Kawasaki Frontale	2018, 2020-2022

Appearances by club

Team	GK	DF	MF	FW	Total
Consadole Sapporo	0	0	1	1	2
Vegalta Sendai	0	0	0	1	1
Kashima Antlers	2	20	14	5	41
Urawa Red Diamonds	5	14	9	7	35
JEF United Chiba	0	1	2	0	3
Kashiwa Reysol	1	3	5	1	10
FC Tokyo	2	9	3	3	17
Tokyo Verdy	2	4	7	4	17
Kawasaki Frontale	3	14	20	9	46
Yokohama (F.) Marinos	2	18	7	8	35
Shonan Bellmare	0	1	2	0	3
Ventforet Kofu	0	0	0	1	1
Albirex Niigata	0	0	2	1	3
Shimizu S-Pulse	1	3	4	2	10
Júbilo Iwata	3	5	15	7	30
Nagoya Grampus	5	4	4	8	21
Kyoto Sanga	0	0	0	1	1
Gamba Osaka	0	5	15	10	30
Cerezo Osaka	1	1	6	4	12
Vissel Kobe	0	2	3	5	10
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3	6	4	4	17
Sagan Tosu	0	0	0	1	1
Yokohama Flügels	2	0	3	0	5

Appearances by country

N°	Country
275	Japan
53	Brazil
5	South Korea
3	Australia
	Yugoslavia
2	Spain
	Germany
1	Argentina
	Bulgaria
	Cameroon
	Colombia
	Kenya
	Netherlands
	Thailand
	Norway
	Denmark

• Only on two occasions there has been a full-Japanese Best XI (2009 and 2013).

J2 League (2022–present)

Season	Goalkeeper (GK)	Defenders (DF)	Midfielders (MF)	Forwards (FW)	Ref
2022	Ryosuke Kojima (Albirex Niigata)	Yuto Horigome (Albirex Niigata) Jordy Buijs (Fagiano Okayama) Michael Fitzgerald (Albirex Niigata)	So Kawahara (Roasso Kumamoto) Yoshiaki Takagi (Albirex Niigata) Takahiro Ko (Albirex Niigata) Ryotaro Ito (Albirex Niigata) Tatsuya Hasegawa (Yokohama FC)	Toshiki Takahashi (Roasso Kumamoto) Koki Ogawa (Yokohama FC)	[13]
2023	Shūichi Gonda (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Kazuya Miyahara (Tokyo Verdy) Yoshinori Suzuki (Shimizu S-Pulse) Ricardo Graça (Júbilo Iwata)	Taishi Taguchi (JEF United Chiba) Koki Morita (Tokyo Verdy) Takashi Inui (Shimizu S-Pulse) Rei Hirakawa (Roasso Kumamoto)	Hiiro Komori (JEF United Chiba) Erik (FC Machida Zelvia) Juanma (V-Varen Nagasaki)	[14]
2024	Svend Brodersen (Fagiano Okayama)	Akito Fukumori (Yokohama FC) Boniface Nduka (Yokohama FC) Jelani Reshaun Sumiyoshi (Shimizu S-Pulse) Reon Yamahara (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Yuri Lara (Yokohama FC) Takashi Inui (Shimizu S-Pulse) Matheus Jesus (V-Varen Nagasaki)	Kaina Tanimura (Iwaki FC) Hiiro Komori (JEF United Chiba) Kazuki Tanaka (JEF United Chiba)	[15]

J3 League (2022–present)

Season	Goalkeeper (GK)	Defenders (DF)	Midfielders (MF)	Forwards (FW)	Ref
2022	Kei Uchiyama (Fujieda MYFC)	Rei Ieizumi (Iwaki FC) Makoto Rindo (Kataller Toyama) Tomoya Ando (FC Imabari) Kenta Hirose (Kagoshima United)	Riku Saga (Iwaki FC) Masaru Hidaka (Iwaki FC) Yuto Yamashita (Iwaki FC) Akiyuki Yokoyama (Fujieda MYFC)	Koki Arita (Kagoshima United) Ryo Arita (Iwaki FC)	[16]
2023	Shugo Tsuji (Ehime FC)	Sora Ogawa (Ehime FC) Reiya Morishita (Ehime FC) Hayato Teruyama (FC Imabari)	Yusuke Kikui (Matsumoto Yamaga) Shunsuke Tanimoto (Ehime FC) Shunsuke Motegi (Ehime FC)	Ren Komatsu (Matsumoto Yamaga) Hayato Asakawa (Nara Club) Riki Matsuda (Ehime FC) Marcus Índio (FC Imabari)	[17]
2024	Takashi Kasahara (Omiya Ardija)	Rion Ichihara (Omiya Ardija) Niki Urakami (Omiya Ardija) Ryota Ichihara (FC Imabari)	Yuto Ozeki (Fukushima United FC) Toya Izumi (Omiya Ardija) Masato Kojima (Omiya Ardija)	Ryo Shiohama (Fukushima United FC) Kenyu Sugimoto (Omiya Ardija) Kosuke Fujioka (FC Gifu) Marcus Índio (FC Imabari)	[18]

J.League 20th Anniversary Team

Goalkeeper (GK)	Defenders (DF)	Midfielders (MF)	Forwards (FW)	Ref
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Naoki Matsuda Yuji Nakazawa Masami Ihara	Yasuhito Endō Hidetoshi Nakata Shunsuke Nakamura Hiroshi Nanami	Kazuyoshi Miura Masashi Nakayama Dragan Stojković	[19]

J.League 30th Anniversary Team

Goalkeeper (GK)	Defenders (DF)	Midfielders (MF)	Forwards (FW)	Ref
Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi	Naoki Matsuda Yuji Nakazawa Masami Ihara Marcus Tulio Tanaka Atsuto Uchida	Yasuhito Endō (MVP) Shinji Ono Shunsuke Nakamura Kengo Nakamura	Kazuyoshi Miura	[20]

See also

• J.League awards
• J.League Player of the Year
• J.League Top Scorer
• J.League Rookie of the Year
• J.League Manager of the Year