J.League Best XI

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

J1 League Winners (1993–present)

Season	Goalkeeper (GK)	Defenders (DF)	Midfielders (MF)	Forwards (FW)	Ref
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 Sōma (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 Flugels)	Naoki Sōma (Kashima Antlers) Masami Ihara (Yokohama Marinos) Guido Buchwald (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Masakiyo Maezono (Yokohama Flugels) Motohiro Yamaguchi (Yokohama Flugels) Jorginho (Kashima Antlers) Hiroshi Nanami (Jubilo Iwata)	Masayuki Okano (Urawa Red Diamonds)) Kazuyoshi Miura (Verdy Kawasaki) Dragan Stojković (Nagoya Grampus Eight)
1997	Tomoaki Ōgami (Jubilo Iwata)	Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers) Masami Ihara (Yokohama Marinos) Naoki Sōma (Kashima Antlers)	Hiroshi Nanami (Jubilo Iwata) Bismarck (Kashima Antlers) Motohiro Yamaguchi (Yokohama Flugels) Dunga (Jubilo Iwata) Hidetoshi Nakata (Bellmare Hiratsuka)	Patrick Mboma (Gamba Osaka) Masashi Nakayama (Jubilo Iwata)
1998	Seigo Narazaki (Yokohama Flugels)	Makoto Tanaka (Jubilo Iwata) Naoki Sōma (Kashima Antlers) Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers)	Shinji Ono (Urawa Red Diamonds) Toshiya Fujita (Jubilo Iwata) Hiroshi Nanami (Jubilo Iwata) Dunga (Jubilo Iwata) Daisuke Oku (Jubilo Iwata)	Atsushi Yanagisawa (Kashima Antlers) Masashi Nakayama (Jubilo Iwata)
1999	Masanori Sanada (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Toshihide Saito (Shimizu S-Pulse) Yuji Nakazawa (Verdy Kawasaki) Ryuzo Morioka (Shimizu S-Pulse)	Takashi Fukunishi (Jubilo 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 (Jubilo Iwata) Tuto (F.C. Tokyo)
2001	Arno van Zwam (Jubilo Iwata)	Go Oiwa (Jubilo Iwata) Akira Narahashi (Kashima Antlers) Yutaka Akita (Kashima Antlers)	Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Takashi Fukunishi (Jubilo Iwata) Toshiya Fujita (Jubilo Iwata) Toshihiro Hattori (Jubilo Iwata) Koji Nakata (Kashima Antlers)	Will (Consadole Sapporo) Atsushi Yanagisawa (Kashima Antlers)
2002	Hitoshi Sogahata (Kashima Antlers)	Hideto Suzuki (Jubilo Iwata) Makoto Tanaka (Jubilo Iwata) Naoki Matsuda (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Hiroshi Nanami (Jubilo Iwata) Takashi Fukunishi (Jubilo Iwata) Toshiya Fujita (Jubilo Iwata)	Emerson (Urawa Red Diamonds) Masashi Nakayama (Jubilo Iwata) Naohiro Takahara (Jubilo Iwata)
2003	Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus Eight)	Keisuke Tsuboi (Urawa Red Diamonds) Dutra (Yokohama F. Marinos) Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos)	Daisuke Oku (Jubilo Iwata) Takashi Fukunishi (Jubilo Iwata) Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka)	Emerson (Urawa Red Diamonds) Tatsuhiko Kubo (Yokohama F. Marinos) Ueslei (Nagoya Grampus Eight)
2004	Yoichi Doi (F.C. Tokyo)	Marcos 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 (Jubilo Iwata) Yasuhito Endo (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) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Yuki Abe (JEF United Chiba) Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) Fernandinho (Gamba Osaka) Tatsuya Furuhashi (Cerezo Osaka)	Hisato Satō (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Araújo (Gamba Osaka)
2006	Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi (Jubilo Iwata)	Akira Kaji (Gamba Osaka) Satoshi Yamaguchi (Gamba Osaka) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Keita Suzuki (Urawa Red Diamonds) Yuki Abe (JEF United Chiba) Yasuhito Endo (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) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) Satoshi Yamaguchi (Gamba Osaka)	Yuki Abe (Urawa Red Diamonds) Keita Suzuki (Urawa Red Diamonds) Yasuhito Endo (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) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) Daiki Iwamasa (Kashima Antlers) Satoshi Yamaguchi (Gamba Osaka)	Yoshizumi Ogawa (Nagoya Grampus) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Marquinhos (Kashima Antlers) Atsushi Yanagisawa (Kyoto Sanga)
2009	Eiji Kawashima (Kawasaki Frontale)	Yuto Nagatomo (F.C. Tokyo) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Urawa Red Diamonds) Atsuto Uchida (Kashima Antlers) Daiki Iwamasa (Kashima Antlers)	Naohiro Ishikawa (F.C. Tokyo) Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Ryoichi Maeda (Jubilo Iwata) Shinji Okazaki (Shimizu S-Pulse)
2010	Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus)	Tomoaki Makino (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus) Takahiro Masukawa (Nagoya Grampus)	Danilson Cordoba (Nagoya Grampus) Marcio Richardes (Albirex Niigata) Jungo Fujimoto (Shimizu S-Pulse) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)	Ryoichi Maeda (Jubilo Iwata) Joshua Kennedy (Nagoya Grampus)
2011	Seigo Narazaki (Nagoya Grampus)	Naoya Kondo (Kashiwa Reysol) Hiroki Sakai (Kashiwa Reysol) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus)	Hiroshi Kiyotake (Cerezo Osaka) Jorge Wagner (Kashiwa Reysol) Yasuhito Endo (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) Yuichi Komano (Jubilo Iwata) Marcos Tulio Tanaka (Nagoya Grampus)	Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Leandro Domingues (Kashiwa Reysol) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) Yojiro Takahagi (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Yohei Toyoda (Sagan Tosu) Hisato Satō (Sanfrecce Hiroshima) Wilson (Vegalta Sendai)
2013	Shusaku Nishikawa (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Masato Morishige (F.C. 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 Okubo (Kawasaki Frontale)
2014	Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Kosuke Ota (F.C. Tokyo) Masato Morishige (F.C. Tokyo) Tsukasa Shiotani (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Yoshinori Muto (F.C. Tokyo) Léo Silva (Albirex Niigata) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) Gaku Shibasaki (Kashima Antlers)	Patric (Gamba Osaka) Takashi Usami (Gamba Osaka) Yoshito Okubo (Kawasaki Frontale)
2015	Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Red Diamonds)	Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Red Diamonds) Kosuke Ota (F.C. Tokyo) Masato Morishige (F.C. Tokyo) Tsukasa Shiotani (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Mu Kanazaki (Kashima Antlers) Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka) Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)	Yoshito Okubo (Kawasaki Frontale) Takashi Usami (Gamba Osaka) Douglas (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)

Multiple appearances

Number	Player	Clubs
12	Yasuhito Endo	Gamba Osaka
9	Marcos Tulio Tanaka	Urawa Red Diamonds, Nagoya Grampus
6	Mitsuo Ogasawara	Kashima Antlers
	Seigo Narazaki	Yokohama Flugels, Nagoya Grampus
	Yuji Nakazawa	Tokyo Verdy, Yokohama F. Marinos
6	Masami Ihara	Yokohama F. Marinos
	Kengo Nakamura	Kawasaki Frontale
4	Yutaka Akita	Kashima Antlers
	Naoki Soma	Kashima Antlers
	Hiroshi Nanami	Jubilo Iwata
	Masashi Nakayama	Jubilo Iwata
	Takashi Fukunishi	Jubilo Iwata
	Shusaku Nishikawa	Sanfrecce Hiroshima, Urawa Red Diamonds

Appearances by club

Number	Club
33	Kashima Antlers
32	Jubilo Iwata
26	Urawa Red Diamonds
	Gamba Osaka
21	Yokohama (F.) Marinos
18	Nagoya Grampus
	Tokyo Verdy
14	Sanfrecce Hiroshima
11	Kawasaki Frontale
10	F.C. Tokyo
9	Shimizu S-Pulse
8	Kashiwa Reysol
	Cerezo Osaka
5	Yokohama Flugels
4	JEF United Chiba
3	Bellmare Hiratsuka
2	Albirex Niigata
1	Sagan Tosu
	Vegalta Sendai
	Ventforet Kofu
	Kyoto Sanga
	Consadole Sapporo

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

References

• ULTRAZONE Website : All-Time Award Winners (Japanese)