# 1976 in Japanese football

The year 1976 in Japanese football, or football in Japan, saw the Japan national football team lose more matches than it won.

## Japan Soccer League
### Division 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Furukawa Electric | 18 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 37 | 15 | +22 | 26 | Champions |
| 2 | Mitsubishi Motors | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 16 | +12 | 22 | |
| 3 | Fujita | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 28 | 20 | +8 | 22 | |
| 4 | Yanmar Diesel | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 34 | 20 | +14 | 21 | |
| 5 | Hitachi | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 22 | 14 | +8 | 21 | |
| 6 | Nippon Kokan | 18 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 21 | +1 | 20 | |
| 7 | Eidai | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 18 | 24 | −6 | 18 | Folded |
| 8 | Toyo Industries | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 16 | 20 | −4 | 15 | |
| 9 | Nippon Steel | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 23 | 30 | −7 | 12 | To Promotion/relegation Series |
| 10 | Toyota Motors | 18 | 1 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 58 | −48 | 3 | To Promotion/relegation Series |

### Division 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Fujitsu | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 32 | 6 | +26 | 29 | To Promotion/relegation Series with Division 1 |
| 2 | Yomiuri | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 51 | 28 | +23 | 25 | To Promotion/relegation Series with Division 1 |
| 3 | Tanabe Pharmaceutical | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 28 | 18 | +10 | 25 | |
| 4 | Honda | 18 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 25 | 17 | +8 | 21 | |
| 5 | Teijin Matsuyama | 18 | 9 | 1 | 8 | 32 | 28 | +4 | 19 | |
| 6 | Yanmar Club (Yanmar Diesel B-Team) | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 17 | |
| 7 | Sumitomo Metal | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 27 | 34 | −7 | 13 | |
| 8 | Kofu SC | 18 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 30 | −16 | 12 | |
| 9 | Kyoto Shiko | 18 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 25 | −14 | 11 | To Promotion/relegation Series with Senior Cup finalists |
| 10 | Furukawa Electric Chiba | 18 | 3 | 2 | 13 | 17 | 51 | −34 | 8 | To Promotion/relegation Series with Senior Cup finalists |

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

| Player | -1975 | 01.25 | 01.28 | 02.01 | 03.14 | 03.17 | 03.21 | 03.27 | 03.31 | 04.11 | 08.08 | 08.10 | 08.13 | 08.16 | 08.18 | 08.20 | 08.22 | 12.04 | 1976 | Total |
| Aritatsu Ogi | 60(11) | - | - | O | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 62(11) |
| Kunishige Kamamoto | 56(66) | O(1) | O | O | O | - | O | O(2) | O | O | O(1) | O(1) | O(1) | O(2) | O | O(1) | O | O | 16(9) | 72(75) |
| Takaji Mori | 52(2) | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4(0) | 56(2) |
| Daishiro Yoshimura | 34(7) | O | O | O | - | - | O | O | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | 12(0) | 46(7) |
| Nobuo Kawakami | 32(0) | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8(0) | 40(0) |
| Kozo Arai | 31(4) | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | 15(0) | 46(4) |
| Nobuo Fujishima | 29(3) | O | O | O | - | O(2) | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 16(3) | 45(6) |
| Kuniya Daini | 29(0) | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 15(0) | 44(0) |
| Yoshikazu Nagai | 24(3) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | 17(2) | 41(5) |
| Atsuyoshi Furuta | 24(0) | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 26(0) |
| Mitsuo Watanabe | 19(4) | O | O | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 22(4) |
| Hiroshi Ochiai | 15(3) | O | O | O | O(2) | - | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | 15(2) | 30(5) |
| Eijun Kiyokumo | 14(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9(0) | 23(0) |
| Mitsunori Fujiguchi | 12(0) | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 14(0) |
| Yasuhiko Okudera | 11(1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O(2) | O(3) | O(1) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | 8(7) | 19(8) |
| Masaki Yokotani | 11(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | - | O | O | O | 6(0) | 17(0) |
| Tatsuhiko Seta | 10(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | - | - | O | 14(0) | 24(0) |
| Hideki Maeda | 5(1) | - | - | - | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6(1) | 11(2) |
| Toshio Takabayashi | 4(1) | - | - | - | O(1) | O | O | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | 8(1) | 12(2) |
| Akira Matsunaga | 3(0) | O | O(1) | O | - | O | - | O | O | O(1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7(2) | 10(2) |
| Hiroyuki Usui | 2(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 3(0) |
| Mitsuhisa Taguchi | 1(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | 3(0) | 4(0) |
| Kazuo Saito | 0(0) | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | 14(0) | 14(0) |
| Hiroji Imamura | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | O | - | - | O | - | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Mitsuru Komaeda | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O(2) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(2) | 1(2) |