# 1972 in Japanese football

1972 in Japanese football is an overview of events relating to football in the Japanese culture.

## Japan Soccer League
### Division 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Hitachi | 14 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 36 | 16 | +20 | 21 | Champions |
| 2 | Yanmar Diesel | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 30 | 11 | +19 | 20 | |
| 3 | Toyo Industries | 14 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 20 | 13 | +7 | 16 | |
| 4 | Mitsubishi Motors | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 26 | 19 | +7 | 16 | |
| 5 | Nippon Kokan | 14 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 18 | −3 | 13 | |
| 6 | Nippon Steel | 14 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 22 | 30 | −8 | 12 | |
| 7 | Furukawa Electric | 14 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 17 | 41 | −24 | 8 | |
| 8 | Towa Real Estate | 14 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 11 | 29 | −18 | 6 | |

### Division 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion |
| 1 | Toyota Motors | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 16 | +18 | 30 | Promoted to First Division |
| 2 | Tanabe Pharmaceutical | 18 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 37 | 22 | +15 | 26 | Promoted to First Division |
| 3 | Kofu SC | 18 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 33 | 21 | +12 | 21 | |
| 4 | Kyoto Shiko | 18 | 7 | 3 | 8 | 19 | 23 | −4 | 17 | |
| 5 | Fujitsu | 18 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 26 | 31 | −5 | 17 | |
| 6 | Nippon Light Metal | 18 | 7 | 2 | 9 | 31 | 33 | −2 | 16 | |
| 7 | Yomiuri | 18 | 7 | 1 | 10 | 27 | 31 | −4 | 15 | |
| 8 | Dainichi Nippon Cable Industries | 18 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 36 | 40 | −4 | 14 | |
| 9 | NTT Kinki | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 21 | 25 | −4 | 14 | |
| 10 | Toyoda Automatic Loom Works | 18 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 14 | 36 | −22 | 10 | |

## Japanese Regional Leagues

All Japan Senior Football Championship finalists Eidai Industries and Teijin Matsuyama were promoted to the Second Division.

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

| Player | -1971 | 07.12 | 07.16 | 07.18 | 07.22 | 07.26 | 08.04 | 08.06 | 09.14 | 1972 | Total |
| Aritatsu Ogi | 41(9) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | 8(2) | 49(11) |
| Yoshitada Yamaguchi | 41(0) | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | 5(0) | 46(0) |
| Kenzo Yokoyama | 40(0) | - | O | - | O | O | - | - | - | 3(0) | 43(0) |
| Kunishige Kamamoto | 33(39) | O(4) | O(5) | O(1) | O(1) | O | O(2) | O | O(2) | 8(15) | 41(54) |
| Takaji Mori | 33(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 8(0) | 41(1) |
| Nelson Yoshimura | 10(3) | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | 8(1) | 18(4) |
| Kozo Arai | 10(0) | O | O | O(2) | O | O | O | O | O | 8(2) | 18(2) |
| Nobuo Kawakami | 5(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 8(0) | 13(0) |
| Kazumi Takada | 4(0) | O | O | - | - | O | - | O | O | 5(0) | 9(0) |
| Koji Funamoto | 4(0) | O | - | O | - | - | O | O | O | 5(0) | 9(0) |
| Seiichi Sakiya | 2(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | 2(0) | 3(0) |
| Nobuo Fujishima | 1(0) | O | - | O | O | - | O | O | O | 6(0) | 7(0) |
| Atsuyoshi Furuta | 1(0) | - | O | O | - | - | - | O | O | 4(0) | 5(0) |
| Michio Ashikaga | 1(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | 3(0) | 4(0) |
| Yasuhiko Okudera | 0(0) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | - | - | O | 6(1) | 6(1) |
| Kuniya Daini | 0(0) | O | O | - | O | O | O | - | O | 6(0) | 6(0) |
| Mitsunori Fujiguchi | 0(0) | O | - | O | O | O | O | - | - | 5(0) | 5(0) |
| George Kobayashi | 0(0) | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Shusaku Hirasawa | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | 2(0) | 2(0) |
| Noritaka Hidaka | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |