# 1979 in Japanese football

Japanese football in 1979

## Japan Soccer League
### Division 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Fujita Engineering | 18 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 15 | +21 | 53 | Champions |
| 2 | Yomiuri | 18 | 10 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 48 | 26 | +22 | 44 | |
| 3 | Hitachi | 18 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 23 | 18 | +5 | 44 | |
| 4 | Yanmar Diesel | 18 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 28 | 21 | +7 | 40 | |
| 5 | Furukawa Electric | 18 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 28 | 22 | +6 | 40 | |
| 6 | Toyo Kogyo | 18 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 20 | 19 | +1 | 33 | |
| 7 | Mitsubishi Motors | 18 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 6 | 16 | 20 | −4 | 32 | |
| 8 | Nippon Steel | 18 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 23 | 25 | −2 | 29 | |
| 9 | Nippon Kokan | 18 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 43 | −26 | 10 | To promotion/relegation series |
| 10 | Nissan | 18 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 39 | −30 | 9 | To promotion/relegation series |

### Division 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Toshiba | 18 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 36 | 23 | +13 | 48 | To promotion/relegation series with Division 1 |
| 2 | Yamaha Motors | 18 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 33 | 19 | +14 | 47 | To promotion/relegation series with Division 1 |
| 3 | Fujitsu | 18 | 11 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 29 | 18 | +11 | 47 | |
| 4 | Honda | 18 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 31 | 25 | +6 | 44 | |
| 5 | Yanmar Club (Yanmar Diesel B-Team) | 18 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 37 | 30 | +7 | 36 | Folded |
| 6 | Tanabe Pharmaceuticals | 18 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 21 | 21 | 0 | 28 | |
| 7 | Toyota Motors | 18 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 29 | −8 | 28 | |
| 8 | Kofu Club | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 26 | 42 | −16 | 26 | |
| 9 | Teijin SC Matsuyama | 18 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 24 | 30 | −6 | 25 | To promotion/relegation series with Regional Series finalists |
| 10 | Sumitomo | 18 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 15 | 36 | −21 | 14 | To promotion/relegation series with Regional Series finalists |

## National team
### Results
### Players statistics

| Player | -1978 | 03.04 | 05.31 | 06.16 | 06.27 | 06.29 | 07.01 | 07.11 | 07.13 | 08.23 | 1979 | Total |
| Nobuo Fujishima | 62(7) | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 3(0) | 65(7) |
| Yoshikazu Nagai | 58(6) | O | O(1) | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | 9(3) | 67(9) |
| Hiroshi Ochiai | 49(8) | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 9(1) | 58(9) |
| Eijun Kiyokumo | 28(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 9(0) | 37(0) |
| Mitsuo Watanabe | 22(4) | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | 6(0) | 28(4) |
| Mitsuhisa Taguchi | 22(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | 8(0) | 30(0) |
| Hiroyuki Usui | 21(7) | O(1) | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O(1) | O | 9(3) | 30(10) |
| Hideki Maeda | 21(3) | O | O(1) | O | O(1) | O | O(1) | O | O | O | 9(3) | 30(6) |
| Keizo Imai | 16(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 9(0) | 25(0) |
| Nobutoshi Kaneda | 15(1) | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | O | 3(0) | 18(1) |
| Shigemi Ishii | 9(0) | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | 6(0) | 15(0) |
| Hiromi Hara | 6(1) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | - | 2(0) | 8(1) |
| Haruhisa Hasegawa | 4(0) | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 5(0) |
| Yoshiichi Watanabe | 0(0) | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | - | 6(1) | 6(1) |
| Kazuyoshi Nakamura | 0(0) | O(1) | - | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | 5(1) | 5(1) |
| Yuji Kishioku | 0(0) | - | O | - | O | O | - | - | O | O | 5(0) | 5(0) |
| Kozo Tashima | 0(0) | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | O | - | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Kazushi Kimura | 0(0) | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | O | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Katsuyuki Kawachi | 0(0) | - | - | O | - | - | - | O | O | - | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Shigeharu Ueki | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Michio Yasuda | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Shigemitsu Sudo | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Mitsuo Kato | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Masafumi Yokoyama | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |