Season | 2022 |
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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 played | 462 |
Goals scored | 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 J2 League (Japanese: 2022 明治安田生命J2リーグ, Hepburn: 2022 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J2 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 24th season of the J2 League, the second-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1999.