# 1983 in Japanese football

Japanese football in 1983

## Japan Soccer League
### Division 1

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification or relegation |
| 1 | Yomiuri | 18 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 27 | 13 | +14 | 27 | Champions |
| 2 | Nissan | 18 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 28 | 17 | +11 | 25 | |
| 3 | Fujita Engineering | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 15 | +3 | 21 | |
| 4 | Yamaha Motors | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 25 | 20 | +5 | 19 | |
| 5 | Yanmar Diesel | 18 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 19 | 21 | −2 | 19 | |
| 6 | Mitsubishi Motors | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 17 | 16 | +1 | 16 | |
| 7 | Furukawa Electric | 18 | 6 | 3 | 9 | 13 | 15 | −2 | 15 | |
| 8 | Honda | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 23 | −6 | 14 | |
| 9 | Hitachi | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 22 | −8 | 12 | To promotion/relegation Series |
| 10 | Mazda | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 31 | −16 | 12 | Relegated to Second Division |

### Division 2

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Nippon Kokan | 18 | 13 | 4 | 1 | 39 | 12 | +27 | 30 | Promoted to First Division |
| 2 | Sumitomo | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 33 | 27 | +6 | 24 | To promotion/relegation Series with First Division |
| 3 | Toshiba | 18 | 8 | 4 | 6 | 38 | 23 | +15 | 20 | |
| 4 | Nippon Steel | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 29 | 21 | +8 | 19 | |
| 5 | Toyota Motors | 18 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 23 | 30 | −7 | 19 | |
| 6 | Tanabe Pharmaceuticals | 18 | 7 | 4 | 7 | 29 | 29 | 0 | 18 | |
| 7 | Fujitsu | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 26 | 26 | 0 | 16 | |
| 8 | Kofu Club | 18 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 29 | 40 | −11 | 14 | |
| 9 | Toho Titanium | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 21 | 42 | −21 | 12 | To promotion/relegation Series with Regional Series |
| 10 | Saitama Teachers | 18 | 4 | 1 | 13 | 14 | 28 | −14 | 9 | Relegated to Regional Leagues |

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

| Player | -1982 | 02.12 | 02.25 | 03.06 | 06.07 | 09.04 | 09.07 | 09.15 | 09.20 | 09.25 | 10.07 | 1983 | Total |
| Hideki Maeda | 55(9) | O | O | O | - | - | O(1) | - | O(1) | O | O | 7(2) | 62(11) |
| Mitsuhisa Taguchi | 46(0) | O | O | O | O | - | O | O | O | O | O | 9(0) | 55(0) |
| Nobutoshi Kaneda | 44(3) | - | - | O | O(1) | O | O(1) | O | O | O | O | 8(2) | 52(5) |
| Hiromi Hara | 29(7) | O(2) | O | O | O | O(1) | O(1) | O(1) | O | O(1) | O | 10(6) | 39(13) |
| Hisashi Kato | 24(2) | - | - | O | O | O(1) | - | O | O | O | O | 7(1) | 31(3) |
| Masafumi Yokoyama | 23(8) | - | - | - | O | O(1) | O(1) | O | O | O | O | 7(2) | 30(10) |
| Kazushi Kimura | 21(5) | O | O | O | O | O(2) | O(5) | O(1) | O | O | O | 10(8) | 31(13) |
| Satoshi Tsunami | 18(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 10(0) | 28(0) |
| Tetsuo Sugamata | 17(0) | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | O | - | - | 5(0) | 22(0) |
| Kazuo Ozaki | 16(3) | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 17(3) |
| Akihiro Nishimura | 16(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 10(0) | 26(0) |
| Yahiro Kazama | 16(0) | - | - | - | - | O | - | O | - | O | - | 3(0) | 19(0) |
| Koichi Hashiratani | 12(0) | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 13(0) |
| Takeshi Okada | 10(1) | O | O | - | O | - | O | O | O | O | - | 7(0) | 17(1) |
| Takeshi Koshida | 9(0) | O | - | - | - | O | O | O | - | O | O | 6(0) | 15(0) |
| Hiroshi Yoshida | 7(1) | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 2(0) | 9(1) |
| Toshio Matsuura | 6(1) | O | O | O | - | - | O | - | O | - | - | 5(0) | 11(1) |
| Koji Tanaka | 6(0) | O | O | O(1) | O | O(2) | O | O | - | - | O | 8(3) | 14(3) |
| Kazumi Tsubota | 5(0) | - | - | - | - | O | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 6(0) |
| Yutaka Ikeuchi | 0(0) | O | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 3(0) | 3(0) |
| Toru Yoshikawa | 0(0) | O | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1(0) | 1(0) |