1979 Japan Soccer League

Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1979.

First Division

Pos	Club	Pts	W	PK(W)	PK(L)	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1	Fujita Engineering	53	12	1	3	2	36	15	+21	Champions
2	Yomiuri	44	10	0	4	4	48	26	+22
3	Hitachi	44	8	5	2	3	23	18	+5
4	Yanmar Diesel	40	9	1	2	6	28	21	+7
5	Furukawa Electric	40	7	5	2	4	28	22	+6
6	Toyo Kogyo	33	5	4	5	4	20	19	+1
7	Mitsubishi Motors	32	5	5	2	6	16	20	-4
8	Nippon Steel	29	6	2	1	9	23	25	-2
9	Nippon Kokan	10	1	1	4	12	17	43	-26	To Promotion/Relegation Series
10	Nissan	9	1	2	1	14	9	39	-30

Promotion/Relegation Series

JSL Division 1	1st leg	2nd leg	JSL Division 2
Nippon Kokan	0-0(PK3-4)	1-2	Yamaha Motors
Nissan Motors	4-1	2-1	Toshiba Horikawa-cho

Yamaha promoted, NKK relegated.

Second Division

Pos	Club	Pts	W	PK(W)	PK(L)	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1	Toshiba	48	10	3	2	3	36	23	+13	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Division 1
2	Yamaha Motors	47	10	2	3	3	33	19	+14
3	Fujitsu	47	11	0	3	4	29	18	+11
4	Honda	44	10	1	2	5	31	25	+6
5	Yanmar Club	36	8	2	0	8	37	30	+7	Folded
6	Tanabe Pharmaceuticals	28	7	0	0	11	21	21	0
7	Toyota Motors	28	5	3	2	8	21	29	-8
8	Kofu Club	26	5	2	2	9	26	42	-16
9	Teijin S.C. Matsuyama	25	5	1	3	9	24	30	-6	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Regional Series finalists
10	Sumitomo	14	2	3	0	13	15	36	-21

Promotion/Relegation Series

JSL	1st leg	2nd leg	Regional Series
Teijin S.C. Matsuyama	2-1	1-1	Kyoto Shiko Club
Sumitomo	1-0	3-1	Daikyo Oil

No relegations. Due to withdrawal of Yanmar Club, Yanmar Diesel's B-squad, Daikyo was promoted.

References

• Japan - List of final tables (RSSSF)