| Season | 2010 |
|---|---|
| Champions | Nagoya Grampus 1st J. League title 1st Japanese title |
| Relegated | FC Tokyo Kyoto Sanga Shonan Bellmare |
| Champions League | Nagoya Grampus Gamba Osaka Cerezo Osaka Kashima Antlers |
| Matches played | 306 |
| Goals scored | 813 (2.66 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Joshua Kennedy, Ryoichi Maeda (17 goals total) |
| Highest attendance | 55,410 (Round 10, Red Diamonds vs. Grampus) |
| Lowest attendance | 5,334 (Round 11, Sanfrecce vs. Cerezo) |
| Average attendance | 18,428 |
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The 2010 J.League Division 1 season was the 46th season of the top-flight club football in Japan and the 18th season since the establishment of J1 League. The season began on March 6 and ended on December 4.[1]
A total of eighteen clubs participated in double round-robin format. At the end of the season, top three clubs received automatic qualification to the following years' AFC Champions League. Also the bottom three clubs were relegated to J2 League by default.
Nagoya Grampus won their first Japanese championship. This was also the first time since the advent of the J.League that the top scorer scored less than 20 goals; the honour of scoring 17 goals was shared between Nagoya's Joshua Kennedy and Júbilo Iwata's Ryoichi Maeda. Additionally, this was also the first Japanese top division season in which clubs from the Kantō region did not place among the top three.