1971 in Japanese football
# 1971 in Japanese football

Japanese football in 1971

## Japan Soccer League

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Yanmar Diesel | 14 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 32 | 13 | +19 | 22 | Champions |
| 2 | Mitsubishi Motors | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 32 | 12 | +20 | 18 | |
| 3 | Nippon Steel | 14 | 8 | 2 | 4 | 34 | 23 | +11 | 18 | |
| 4 | Hitachi | 14 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 18 | 17 | +1 | 18 | |
| 5 | Furukawa Electric | 14 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 24 | 24 | 0 | 15 | |
| 6 | Toyo Industries | 14 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 17 | −6 | 10 | |
| 7 | Nippon Kokan | 14 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 23 | −12 | 8 | To promotion/relegation series |
| 8 | Nagoya Mutual Bank | 14 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 10 | 43 | −33 | 3 | To promotion/relegation series |

## National team

### Players statistics

| Player | -1970 | 07.28 | 08.13 | 09.23 | 09.27 | 09.29 | 10.02 | 1971 | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Teruki Miyamoto | 52(18) | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | 6(1) | 58(19) |
| Ryuichi Sugiyama | 50(13) | O | O(2) | O | O | O | O | 6(2) | 56(15) |
| Masakatsu Miyamoto | 40(1) | - | - | O | O | O | O | 4(0) | 44(1) |
| Aritatsu Ogi | 36(7) | O | O | - | O(2) | O | O | 5(2) | 41(9) |
| Yoshitada Yamaguchi | 35(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | 6(0) | 41(0) |
| Kenzo Yokoyama | 34(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | 6(0) | 40(0) |
| Hiroshi Katayama | 33(0) | O | - | O | O | O | O | 5(0) | 38(0) |
| Takaji Mori | 30(1) | O | O | - | - | - | O | 3(0) | 33(1) |
| Kunishige Kamamoto | 27(31) | O(2) | O | O | O(3) | O(3) | O | 6(8) | 33(39) |
| Yoshio Kikugawa | 14(0) | O | O | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 16(0) |
| Tadahiko Ueda | 10(7) | O | O | O | - | - | - | 3(0) | 13(7) |
| Kozo Arai | 6(0) | - | - | O | O | O | O | 4(0) | 10(0) |
| Kiyoshi Tomizawa | 6(0) | - | - | O | O(2) | - | O | 3(2) | 9(2) |
| Nelson Yoshimura | 4(1) | O | O | O | O(1) | O(1) | O | 6(2) | 10(3) |
| Nobuo Kawakami | 4(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 5(0) |
| Takeshi Ono | 1(0) | O | O | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 3(0) |
| Yoshikazu Nagai | 0(0) | - | O | - | O | O | O(1) | 4(1) | 4(1) |
| Seiichi Sakiya | 0(0) | - | - | - | O | O | - | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Atsuyoshi Furuta | 0(0) | - | O | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Michio Ashikaga | 0(0) | - | - | O | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Nobuo Fujishima | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | O | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
