List of J League awards
The J. League awards are represented by a ceremony, which is hosted every year in December, at the end of the season. This ceremony was inducted to award the best players of J. League. To win this award, the nominees had to play at least 17 matches of the season.
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Awards
Most Valuable Player (MVP)
The J. League Player of the Year is awarded by the J.League.[3]Shunsuke Nakamura holds a particular record: he won the award twice and he's at the same time the youngest and oldest winner. He won in 2000 (when he was 22 years old) and 2013 (35 years old).[4]
Best XI
For more information about this voice, read J. League Best XI.
Top scorer
The J. League Top Scorer is awarded by the J.League to the top scoring player of the season.
Only four players won this award twice: Masashi Nakayama, Ryoichi Maeda, Joshua Kennedy and Yoshito Okubo. Other four players won both the top-scorer award and the one for Most Valuable Player: Masashi Nakayama in 1998, Naohiro Takahara in 2002, Marquinhos in 2008 and Hisato Sato in 2012.
Rookie of the year
The J. League Rookie of the Year is awarded by the J. League to the most outstanding rookie of the season. To be considered a rookie, there are some criteria to meet:
- a player must be in his first professional year of football (domestically or abroad);
- a player must have played more than half of the season;
- in date 2 April of the incumbent season, he has to be under 21 years old;
- whoever has already won this award, he's excluded from running for it again.
The youngest winner-ever is Takayuki Morimoto: he won the award in 2004 at the age of 16.
Players names shown in bold were also named in the best eleven for that season.
Manager of the year
The J. League Manager of the Year is an annual award given to one manager by the J. League based on their performance during the season. The award does not necessarily go to the manager of the champions, although for the last seven years that has been the case.
Fair-Play award
The goal is to be under the 1 point-media to win the award. For J. League the limit is 34, while in J. League 2 and J3 League the limit is respectively 42 and 33. In bold the winners of Prince Takamado Cup.
Individual Fair-Play award
This award was established since 1996.
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