2015 J1 League

Meiji Yasuda J1 League
Season2015
ChampionsSanfrecce Hiroshima
3rd J.League title
8th Japanese title
RelegatedMatsumoto Yamaga
Montedio Yamagata
Shimizu S-Pulse
Champions LeagueSanfrecce Hiroshima
Urawa Red Diamonds
Gamba Osaka
FC Tokyo
Club World CupSanfrecce Hiroshima
Matches played306
Goals scored820 (2.68 per match)
Top goalscorerYoshito Ōkubo (23 goals)
Highest attendance53,148 Urawa vs Gamba Osaka
(2 May)
Lowest attendance6,100 Yamagata vs Nagoya
(29 July)
Average attendance17,803
2014
2016
All statistics correct as of 22 November 2015.

The 2015 Meiji Yasuda J1 League (2015 明治安田生命J1リーグ) season[1] was the 50th season of top-flight football in Japan and the 23rd since the establishment of the J.League in 1992. This was first season of J1 League as renamed from J. League Division 1.

For a five-year period starting in 2015, the J.League changed to a newly conceived multistage system, with the year split into two halves and a third and final championship stage. The winners of the first and second stages and the highest ranking club of the aggregate table (other than the first or second stage winners) will qualify for the Championship Stage. Sanfrecce Hiroshima won the Championship Stage and advanced to the 2015 FIFA Club World Cup as the host nation's entrant.

  1. ^ "新年のご挨拶" (Press release) (in Japanese). J.League. 1 January 2015. Retrieved 19 January 2015.