# 1980 in Japanese football

Japanese football in 1980

## Japan Soccer League
### Division 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Yanmar Diesel | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 29 | 13 | +16 | 30 | Champions |
| 2 | Fujita Engineering | 18 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 33 | 19 | +14 | 23 | |
| 3 | Furukawa Electric | 18 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 26 | 21 | +5 | 22 | |
| 4 | Mitsubishi Motors | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 24 | 20 | +4 | 20 | |
| 5 | Hitachi | 18 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 32 | 28 | +4 | 19 | |
| 6 | Yomiuri | 18 | 8 | 1 | 9 | 37 | 29 | +8 | 17 | |
| 7 | Toyo Kogyo | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 22 | 26 | −4 | 15 | |
| 8 | Nippon Steel | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 21 | 27 | −6 | 15 | |
| 9 | Yamaha Motors | 18 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 28 | 39 | −11 | 13 | To promotion/relegation Series |
| 10 | Nissan | 18 | 2 | 2 | 14 | 11 | 41 | −30 | 6 | Relegated to Second Division |

### Division 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Honda | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 43 | 17 | +26 | 28 | Promoted to First Division |
| 2 | Fujitsu | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 45 | 12 | +33 | 25 | To promotion/relegation Series with First Division |
| 3 | Toshiba | 18 | 8 | 6 | 4 | 30 | 17 | +13 | 22 | |
| 4 | Nippon Kokan | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 23 | 17 | +6 | 20 | |
| 5 | Toyota Motors | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 34 | −5 | 18 | |
| 6 | Tanabe Pharmaceuticals | 18 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 15 | 22 | −7 | 17 | |
| 7 | Teijin Matsuyama | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 20 | 24 | −4 | 17 | |
| 8 | Sumitomo | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 22 | 33 | −11 | 13 | |
| 9 | Kofu Club | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 17 | 33 | −16 | 10 | To promotion/relegation Series with Regional Series |
| 10 | Daikyo Oil | 18 | 5 | 0 | 13 | 27 | 46 | −19 | 10 | Relegated to Regional Leagues |

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

| Player | -1979 | 03.22 | 03.24 | 03.28 | 03.30 | 04.02 | 06.09 | 06.11 | 06.18 | 12.22 | 12.26 | 12.28 | 12.30 | 1980 | Total |
| Yoshikazu Nagai | 67(9) | O | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 69(9) |
| Hiroshi Ochiai | 58(9) | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5(0) | 63(9) |
| Eijun Kiyokumo | 37(0) | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5(0) | 42(0) |
| Hiroyuki Usui | 30(10) | O | O(1) | O | O(1) | O(1) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5(3) | 35(13) |
| Hideki Maeda | 30(6) | O | O(1) | O(1) | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O(1) | O | 11(3) | 41(9) |
| Mitsuhisa Taguchi | 30(0) | - | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4(0) | 34(0) |
| Keizo Imai | 25(0) | O | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4(0) | 29(0) |
| Tatsuhiko Seta | 24(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 25(0) |
| Nobutoshi Kaneda | 18(1) | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | 12(2) | 30(3) |
| Hiromi Hara | 8(1) | - | - | - | - | - | O(1) | O | O(1) | - | O | - | O | 5(2) | 13(3) |
| Hisashi Kato | 5(1) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 8(1) |
| Haruhisa Hasegawa | 5(0) | - | O(2) | O | - | - | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | 9(4) | 14(4) |
| Yuji Kishioku | 5(0) | O | O(2) | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5(2) | 10(2) |
| Kozo Tashima | 4(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O(1) | O | O | - | - | - | - | 3(1) | 7(1) |
| Kazushi Kimura | 3(0) | O | O(1) | O(1) | O | O | - | - | - | O(1) | O | O(1) | O | 9(4) | 12(4) |
| Masafumi Yokoyama | 1(0) | O | O(1) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 12(2) | 13(2) |
| Shigemitsu Sudo | 1(0) | - | O | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 8(0) | 9(0) |
| Tetsuo Sugamata | 1(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 7(0) | 8(0) |
| Yukitaka Omi | 1(0) | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5(0) | 6(0) |
| Ikuo Takahara | 0(0) | O(1) | O(1) | O | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 4(2) | 4(2) |
| Shinji Tanaka | 0(0) | - | - | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Yasuhito Suzuki | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Tetsuya Totsuka | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Yahiro Kazama | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | O | 4(0) | 4(0) |
| Yoshio Kato | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Hiroshi Soejima | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Takeshi Okada | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Satoshi Tsunami | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Takayoshi Yamano | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Satoshi Tezuka | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Masakuni Yamamoto | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Akihiro Nishimura | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Takeshi Koshida | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |
| Hiroyuki Sakashita | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |