1972 season

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
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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
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
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Japanese Regional Leagues

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

Emperor's Cup

National team

Results

1972.07.12 Japan 4–1 Khmer Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kamamoto 50', 65', 71', 89' JFA ? ?'
1972.07.16 Japan 5–0 Sri Lanka Ipoh, Malaysia
Kamamoto 7', 11', 60', 65', 89' JFA
1972.07.18 Japan 5–1 Philippines Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Ogi 21'
Arai 39', 47'
Okudera 44'
Kamamoto 68'
JFA ? ?'
1972.07.22 Japan 1–3 Malaysia Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kamamoto 15' JFA ? ?'
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Attendance: 40,000
1972.07.26 Japan 0–3 South Korea Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
JFA ? ?'
? ?'
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Attendance: 30,000
1972.08.04 Japan 4–1 Philippines Singapore
Kamamoto 29', 83'
Yoshimura 71'
Ogi 75'
JFA ? ?' Attendance: 15,000
1972.08.06 Japan 0–1 Indonesia Singapore
JFA ? ?'
1972.09.14 Japan 2–2 South Korea Tokyo, Japan
Kamamoto 19', 89' JFA ? ?'
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Stadium: Tokyo National Stadium
Attendance: 15,000

Players statistics

Player-197107.1207.1607.1807.2207.2608.0408.0609.141972Total
Aritatsu Ogi41(9)OOO(1)OOO(1)OO8(2)49(11)
Yoshitada Yamaguchi41(0)OOOOO---5(0)46(0)
Kenzo Yokoyama40(0)-O-OO---3(0)43(0)
Kunishige Kamamoto33(39)O(4)O(5)O(1)O(1)OO(2)OO(2)8(15)41(54)
Takaji Mori33(1)OOOOOOOO8(0)41(1)
Nelson Yoshimura10(3)OOOOOO(1)OO8(1)18(4)
Kozo Arai10(0)OOO(2)OOOOO8(2)18(2)
Nobuo Kawakami5(0)OOOOOOOO8(0)13(0)
Kazumi Takada4(0)OO--O-OO5(0)9(0)
Koji Funamoto4(0)O-O--OOO5(0)9(0)
Seiichi Sakiya2(0)------O-2(0)3(0)
Nobuo Fujishima1(0)O-OO-OOO6(0)7(0)
Atsuyoshi Furuta1(0)-OO---OO4(0)5(0)
Michio Ashikaga1(0)-----OOO3(0)4(0)
Yasuhiko Okudera0(0)OOO(1)OO--O6(1)6(1)
Kuniya Daini0(0)OO-OOO-O6(0)6(0)
Mitsunori Fujiguchi0(0)O-OOOO--5(0)5(0)
George Kobayashi0(0)-OOO----3(0)3(0)
Shusaku Hirasawa0(0)-----OO-2(0)2(0)
Noritaka Hidaka0(0)-------O1(0)1(0)
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