2018 J1 League
| Season | 2018 |
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2019 →
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| Qualification to 2019 AFC Champions League group stage / qualifying play-off | |
| Relegation to 2019 J2 League |
The 2018 J1 League (known as the Meiji Yasuda J1 League for sponsorship reasons) will be the 26th season of J1 League, the top Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1993.
Kawasaki Frontale are the defending champions.
A total of 18 clubs will contest the league. The 2017 J2 League champion Shonan Bellmare and the winner of the promotion play-offs Nagoya Grampus return to the top flight a year after being relegated from J1 in the 2016 season. V-Varen Nagasaki, J2 runner-up in 2017, will play in the J1 League for the first time.
The total number of foreign players is restricted to five per club. Clubs can register up to four foreign players for a single match-day squad, of which a maximum of three are allowed from nations outside the Asian Football Confederation (AFC). Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, and Qatar) are exempt from these restrictions.
Last updated: March 2018
Source: Meiji Yasuda J1 League
Updated to games played on March 2018.
Source: J.League Data
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
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