# 1978 in Japanese football

Japanese football in 1978

## Japan Soccer League
### Division 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Mitsubishi Motors | 18 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 30 | 13 | +17 | 54 | Champions |
| 2 | Yanmar Diesel | 18 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 33 | 26 | +7 | 47 | |
| 3 | Fujita | 18 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 14 | +21 | 46 | |
| 4 | Yomiuri | 18 | 10 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 40 | 30 | +10 | 43 | |
| 5 | Hitachi | 18 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 36 | 30 | +6 | 34 | |
| 6 | Toyo Industries | 18 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 8 | 23 | 34 | −11 | 34 | |
| 7 | Nippon Kokan | 18 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 19 | 21 | −2 | 30 | |
| 8 | Nippon Steel | 18 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 18 | −2 | 26 | |
| 9 | Fujitsu | 18 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 29 | −15 | 17 | To promotion/relegation Series |
| 10 | Furukawa Electric | 18 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 9 | 30 | −21 | 15 | To promotion/relegation Series |

### Division 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | PKW | PKL | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Honda | 18 | 13 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 39 | 9 | +30 | 57 | To promotion/relegation Series with Division 1 |
| 2 | Nissan Motors | 18 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 36 | 16 | +20 | 46 | To promotion/relegation Series with Division 1 |
| 3 | Kofu Club | 18 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 32 | 33 | −1 | 38 | |
| 4 | Yanmar Club (Yanmar Diesel B-Team) | 18 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 29 | 31 | −2 | 38 | |
| 5 | Tanabe Pharmaceutical | 18 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 16 | +7 | 37 | |
| 6 | Teijin | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 25 | 22 | +3 | 34 | |
| 7 | Toshiba Horikawacho | 18 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 34 | |
| 8 | Sumitomo Metal | 18 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 29 | 28 | +1 | 30 | |
| 9 | Toyota Motors | 18 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 26 | 42 | −16 | 22 | To promotion/relegation Series with Regional Series finalists |
| 10 | Kyoto Shiko Club | 18 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 14 | 15 | 51 | −36 | 8 | To promotion/relegation Series with Regional Series finalists |

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

| Player | -1977 | 05.23 | 07.13 | 07.15 | 07.17 | 07.19 | 07.21 | 07.23 | 07.26 | 11.19 | 11.23 | 11.26 | 12.11 | 12.13 | 12.15 | 1978 | Total |
| Nobuo Fujishima | 50(6) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 12(1) | 62(7) |
| Yoshikazu Nagai | 46(5) | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | O | O | O | O | 12(1) | 58(6) |
| Hiroshi Ochiai | 35(5) | O(1) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | 14(3) | 49(8) |
| Atsuyoshi Furuta | 26(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | 6(0) | 32(0) |
| Kazuo Saito | 19(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | O | 9(0) | 28(0) |
| Hideki Maeda | 14(2) | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | O | O(1) | - | 7(1) | 21(3) |
| Mitsunori Fujiguchi | 14(0) | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | - | O(1) | O(1) | O | O | O | O | 12(2) | 26(2) |
| Mitsuhisa Taguchi | 9(0) | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 13(0) | 22(0) |
| Hiroyuki Usui | 7(0) | O(1) | O | O | O(2) | O | O | O(1) | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O(2) | O | 14(7) | 21(7) |
| Akira Nishino | 4(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | 8(1) | 12(1) |
| Keizo Imai | 3(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | 13(0) | 16(0) |
| Nobutoshi Kaneda | 1(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 14(0) | 15(1) |
| Hiromi Hara | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | 6(1) | 6(1) |
| Kazuaki Nagasawa | 0(0) | - | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | 6(0) | 6(0) |
| Hisashi Kato | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O(1) | 5(1) | 5(1) |
| Ichiro Hosotani | 0(0) | - | O | O | - | - | O | - | O(1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4(1) | 4(1) |
| Tsutomu Sonobe | 0(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Haruhisa Hasegawa | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | - | - | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Hisao Sekiguchi | 0(0) | O | - | - | - | - | O | - | O(1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | 3(1) | 3(1) |
| Toyohito Mochizuki | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Yukitaka Omi | 0(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Choei Sato | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Tetsuo Sugamata | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |