# 2025 Prince Takamado U-18 Premier League

The 2025 Prince Takamado JFA U-18 Football Premier League (Japanese: 高円宮杯 JFA U-18サッカープレミアリーグ 2025, Hepburn: Takamado no Miya-hai JFA U-18 Sakkā Puremia Rīgu 2025) will be the 36th season of the main competition for under-18 teams in Japan, the 15th after rebranding the competition to the current "Premier League" format, and the 4th season with 24 clubs participating in the league, out of the almost 3,900 existing "Type 2" (Under-18) registered teams with the JFA.

## Changes from the previous season

| Promoted via Play-offs | Relegated by bottom-league finish (East) | Relegated by bottom-league finish (West) |
| Urawa Red Diamonds Tokyo Verdy Gamba Osaka Avispa Fukuoka | Shoshi HS Omiya Ardija | Yonago Kita HS Kagoshima Josei HS |

## Participating clubs

As usual, the teams were allocated to each division by the JFA based on geographical positions. This year, no team was relocated from a division to another.

### Premier League EAST

| Team | Prefecture | 2024 record |
| Aomori Yamada High School | Aomori | 8th |
| Kashima Antlers | Ibaraki | 2nd |
| Maebashi Ikuei High School | Gunma | 6th |
| Shohei High School | Saitama | 7th |
| Urawa Red Diamonds | Saitama | Play-offs win |
| RKU Kashiwa High School | Chiba | 4th |
| Kashiwa Reysol | Chiba | 3rd |
| Ichiritsu Funabashi High School | Chiba | 9th |
| FC Tokyo | Tokyo | 10th |
| Tokyo Verdy | Tokyo | Play-offs win |
| Kawasaki Frontale | Kanagawa | 5th |
| Yokohama FC | Kanagawa | 1st |

### Premier League WEST

| Team | Prefecture | 2024 record |
| Teikyo Nagaoka High School | Niigata | 7th |
| Shizuoka Gakuen High School | Shizuoka | 9th |
| Nagoya Grampus | Aichi | 4th |
| Vissel Kobe | Hyogo | 2nd |
| Gamba Osaka | Osaka | Play-offs win |
| Fagiano Okayama | Okayama | 10th |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | Hiroshima | 3rd |
| Higashi Fukuoka High School | Fukuoka | 8th |
| Avispa Fukuoka | Fukuoka | Play-offs win |
| Sagan Tosu | Saga | 6th |
| Ohzu High School | Kumamoto | 1st |
| Kamimura Gakuen High School | Kagoshima | 5th |

## League table
### Premier League East

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Aomori Yamada | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Premier League final |
| 2 | Kashima Antlers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Maebashi Ikuei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Shohei | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Urawa Red Diamonds | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Ichiritsu Funabashi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | Kashiwa Reysol | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | RKU Kashiwa | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | Tokyo Verdy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | FC Tokyo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | Yokohama FC | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |
| 12 | Kawasaki Frontale | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |

### Premier League West

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Teikyo Nagaoka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Qualification for Premier League final |
| 2 | Shizuoka Gakuen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 3 | Nagoya Grampus | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 4 | Gamba Osaka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 5 | Vissel Kobe | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 6 | Fagiano Okayama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 7 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 8 | Higashi Fukuoka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 9 | Ohzu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 10 | Sagan Tosu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 11 | Avispa Fukuoka | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |
| 12 | Kamimura Gakuen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Relegation to the Prince Leagues |

## Promotion/relegation play-offs

Qualifies for the stage the 16 top-ranked teams of the nine Prince League divisions, with each region having its amount of qualifying slots predetermined by the JFA. They will be divided into four blocks, with their respective block winners (or 2nd round winners) qualifying for the next season's Premier League.
Kanto's Prince League is the only one to qualify three teams from, whereas Tohoku, Tokai, Kansai, Chugoku and Kyushu qualifies two teams each, and just one each qualifies from Hokkaido, Hokushin'etsu and Shikoku. The play-offs will be played at 12 (1st round) and 14 December (2nd round).
* ↑ Reserve teams, however, can not participate in the play-offs. If their final league placement sits in the qualifying zone for the play-offs, their slot will be allocated to the next best-ranked team.

## Top scorers

To be added.