Executive Summary
35%
Clubs' average hit rate
In total we identified 257 real signings by the clubs of J1 League in the 2025 season — academy promotions, loan returns, internal moves and transfers that never went through are excluded. Of these, 241 are included in the hit-rate calculation; 16 are youth investments (under-23 with no game time), classified separately. Signings without relevant minutes in the season count as unsuccessful.
League Analysis
Champions Kashima posted a hit rate of 56% on signings (8 evaluated), holding 3rd place in the accuracy ranking. The bottom four in the table had an average hit rate of 12% on signings — below the league average (35%), highlighting the link between recruitment quality and sporting performance.
FC Tokyo leads the accuracy ranking with 75% and Tokyo Verdy closes the list with 4%. p. over the clubs' decisions).
Club Ranking
| Club | League position | Signings | Evaluated | Successful | Fair | Unsuccessful | Hit rate % | SigningLab* |
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| 1 | FC Tokyo | 11º | 9 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 75% | 75% |
| 2 | Gamba Osaka | 9º | 6 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 58% | 100% |
| 3 | Kashima | 1º | 8 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 56% | 100% |
| 4 | Avispa Fukuoka | 12º | 9 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 56% | 67% |
| 5 | Urawa | 7º | 10 | 10 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 55% | 90% |
| 6 | Kashiwa Reysol | 2º | 19 | 16 | 5 | 6 | 5 | 50% | 94% |
| 7 | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | 4º | 12 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 41% | 82% |
| 8 | Machida Zelvia | 6º | 11 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 40% | 80% |
| 9 | Vissel Kobe | 5º | 5 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 40% | 100% |
| 10 | Cerezo Osaka | 10º | 13 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 38% | 83% |
| 11 | Yokohama F. Marinos | 15º | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 36% | 86% |
| 12 | Shimizu S-pulse | 14º | 23 | 23 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 35% | 83% |
| 13 | Yokohama FC | 18º | 26 | 25 | 1 | 11 | 13 | 26% | 96% |
| 14 | Fagiano Okayama | 13º | 34 | 30 | 2 | 11 | 17 | 25% | 97% |
| 15 | Kyoto Sanga | 3º | 10 | 9 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 22% | 100% |
| 16 | Nagoya Grampus | 16º | 9 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 17% | 78% |
| 17 | Kawasaki Frontale | 8º | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 17% | 67% |
| 18 | Shonan Bellmare | 19º | 14 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 11% | 93% |
| 19 | Albirex Niigata | 20º | 16 | 15 | 0 | 2 | 13 | 7% | 100% |
| 20 | Tokyo Verdy | 17º | 12 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 4% | 100% |
* SigningLab: hit rate of SigningLab’s verdicts (recommend or not recommend) on each club’s evaluated signings, projected at the time of signing.
The difference between Signings and Evaluated are youth investments (under-23 with no game time in the season), classified separately. Signings without relevant minutes are unsuccessful (Did not deliver).
Season Highlights
The ten signings with the greatest technical impact of the season, according to the Player Impact Score (PIS).
| Player | Club | Pos | Min | G+A | Avg rating | Rating | SigningLab |
|---|
| Léo Ceará | Kashima | F | 2467 | 21+0 | 7.31 | Excellent |
| Matheus Sávio | Urawa | M | 2747 | 4+7 | 7.12 | Excellent |
| Nobuteru Nakagawa | Kashiwa Reysol | M | 1671 | 3+4 | 6.03 | Excellent |
| Tomoya Miki | Avispa Fukuoka | M | 2431 | 6+1 | 7.33 | Excellent |
| Alexander Scholz | FC Tokyo | D | 1440 | 2+0 | 7.42 | Excellent |
| Tomoya Ando | Avispa Fukuoka | D | 3195 | 4+0 | 7.11 | Excellent |
| Yoshio Koizumi | Kashiwa Reysol | M | 2912 | 7+4 | 7.14 | Excellent |
| Ju-sung Kim | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | D | 649 | 1+1 | 5.31 | Excellent |
| Sota Nakamura | Sanfrecce Hiroshima | F | 2129 | 6+6 | 7.07 | Excellent |
| Ryuho Kikuchi | Machida Zelvia | D | 709 | 2+0 | 5.19 | Excellent |
Methodology
Club assessment — the universe of signings
The report considers exclusively genuine signings for the first-team squad, identified by the player's effective incorporation into the group between seasons. Excluded from the universe are: academy promotions, loan returns, internal administrative moves and transfers recorded but never completed. The aim is to measure the quality of market decisions — and those alone.
Player Impact Score (PIS)
Each evaluated signing receives a score from 0 to 100 that combines four observable technical dimensions: individual performance (average match ratings over the season), output (goals, assists and decisive actions adjusted for game time), collective performance (starting status and correlation with the club's results) and availability (volume of matches, adjusted for interruptions). High-impact players with reduced game time are promoted through an alternative efficiency criterion.
Outcome classification
The rating tiers are: Excellent and Good (successful signings — a full point in the index), Fair (intermediate performance — half a point) and Below expectations / Did not deliver (unsuccessful signings). Two categories sit outside the calculation, for distinct reasons: Injury (a serious injury prevented a fair assessment) and Investment (an under-23 player with low game time — the return depends on development and cannot be counted for or against the club in this cycle). Signings that did not reach relevant game time in the season are classified as unsuccessful, reflecting the sporting cost of the decision.
A note on scope
This is SigningLab's public, simplified model, developed for transparent retrospective market assessment. SigningLab's commercial solutions for partner clubs use a substantially larger set of variables and dedicated predictive mechanisms, and are not fully reflected in this document.
Appendix — Signings by club
* Youth investment (under-23, no game time in the season) — outside the hit-rate calculation.
Albirex Niigata (16 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Taiki Arai | 31 | 1657 | 1 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Jason Geria | 28 | 1456 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Ryuga Tashiro | 23 | 1350 | 0 | 1 | Did not deliver |
| Eiji Shirai | 15 | 1342 | 2 | 0 | Fair |
| Abdelrahman Boudah | 14 | 889 | 0 | 1 | Did not deliver |
| Daisuke Yoshimitsu | 19 | 630 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Matheus Moraes | 12 | 613 | 3 | 2 | Fair |
| Takuya Shimamura | 13 | 603 | 1 | 1 | Did not deliver |
| Motoki Ohara | 12 | 514 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kakeru Funaki | 7 | 468 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Hiroto Uemura | 14 | 458 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yamato Wakatsuki | 17 | 139 | 1 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Miguel Silveira * | 8 | 88 | 1 | 0 | Investment |
| Kodai Mori | 4 | 55 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Riku Ochiai | 5 | 23 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Shosei Okamoto | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Avispa Fukuoka (9 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Tomoya Ando | 37 | 3195 | 4 | 0 | Excellent |
| Tomoya Miki | 29 | 2431 | 6 | 1 | Excellent |
| Shintaro Nago | 38 | 2414 | 2 | 5 | Good |
| Kazuki Fujimoto | 31 | 1866 | 1 | 3 | Below expectations |
| Takumi Kamijima | 32 | 1806 | 1 | 0 | Fair |
| Yuma Obata | 24 | 1800 | 0 | 0 | Good |
| Hiroki Akino | 30 | 797 | 0 | 1 | Below expectations |
| Shosei Usui | 12 | 732 | 3 | 0 | Fair |
| Ichika Maeda | 6 | 11 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Cerezo Osaka (13 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Shinnosuke Hatanaka | 34 | 2898 | 0 | 0 | Good |
| Koki Fukui | 37 | 2699 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Rafael Ratão | 36 | 2583 | 18 | 3 | Good |
| Motohiko Nakajima | 36 | 2283 | 5 | 2 | Fair |
| Thiago Andrade | 38 | 1845 | 4 | 4 | Fair |
| Dion Cools | 17 | 923 | 2 | 1 | Fair |
| Ayumu Ohata | 11 | 740 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Rikito Inoue | 14 | 703 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Shion Homma | 20 | 670 | 0 | 2 | Fair |
| Kyohei Yoshino | 17 | 403 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Takumi Nakamura | 9 | 36 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Jaroensak Wonggorn | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Go Kambayashi * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
FC Tokyo (9 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Kein Sato | 36 | 2226 | 7 | 5 | Excellent |
| Kento Hashimoto | 28 | 1943 | 0 | 2 | Good |
| Marcelo Ryan | 30 | 1752 | 8 | 1 | Fair |
| Alexander Scholz | 16 | 1440 | 2 | 0 | Excellent |
| Sei Muroya | 17 | 1393 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Seung-gyu Kim | 14 | 1260 | 0 | 0 | Good |
| Motoki Nagakura | 12 | 762 | 4 | 1 | Good |
| Marcos Guilherme | 12 | 576 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Kyota Tokiwa * | 18 | 168 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
Fagiano Okayama (34 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Svend Brodersen | 37 | 3281 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Ataru Esaka | 38 | 2909 | 6 | 5 | Excellent |
| Daichi Tagami | 31 | 2761 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Yugo Tatsuta | 28 | 2432 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Ibuki Fujita | 27 | 2307 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Lucão | 38 | 2111 | 5 | 1 | Fair |
| Kota Kudo | 32 | 1960 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Hijiri Kato | 30 | 1771 | 0 | 3 | Fair |
| Ryo Tabei | 28 | 1642 | 1 | 5 | Good |
| Kamiya Yuta | 37 | 1547 | 1 | 3 | Fair |
| Masaya Matsumoto | 34 | 1532 | 1 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Kaito Abe | 31 | 1471 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Yoshitake Suzuki | 21 | 1465 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Ryunosuke Sato | 21 | 1414 | 5 | 1 | Fair |
| Kazunari Ichimi | 35 | 1374 | 5 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Hiroto Iwabuchi | 35 | 1098 | 3 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yanagi Takahiro | 26 | 948 | 1 | 2 | Below expectations |
| Eiji Miyamoto | 11 | 780 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Ryunosuke Sato | 7 | 630 | 1 | 1 | Fair |
| Rui Sueyoshi | 11 | 240 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Werik Popó | 17 | 238 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Ryo Takeuchi | 23 | 188 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Noah Browne | 16 | 147 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yasutaka Yanagi | 12 | 146 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Goro Kawanami | 17 | 123 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Gleyson | 3 | 36 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Riku Saga | 7 | 25 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Junki Kanayama | 6 | 14 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yuji Wakasa | 5 | 10 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Ryunosuke Ota * | 2 | 10 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Keita Saito | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Masato Sasaki * | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Yoko Iesaka * | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| S. Sumi * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
Gamba Osaka (6 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Makoto Mitsuta | 35 | 2649 | 2 | 0 | Good |
| Deniz Hümmet | 32 | 1773 | 7 | 3 | Fair |
| Shuto Abe | 15 | 1254 | 2 | 1 | Fair |
| Kanji Okunuki | 14 | 405 | 1 | 1 | Fair |
| Shogo Sasaki | 14 | 338 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Ryo Hatsuse | 5 | 332 | 0 | 2 | Good |
Kashima (8 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Léo Ceará | 34 | 2467 | 21 | 0 | Excellent |
| Ryuta Koike | 30 | 2344 | 1 | 3 | Good |
| Tae-hyeon Kim | 37 | 2183 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Ryoya Ogawa | 19 | 1027 | 0 | 2 | Good |
| Élber | 13 | 704 | 1 | 1 | Good |
| Rick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yuji Kajikawa | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kaito Chida | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Kashiwa Reysol (19 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Ryosuke Kojima | 38 | 3420 | 0 | 0 | Good |
| Yoshio Koizumi | 36 | 2912 | 7 | 4 | Excellent |
| Wataru Harada | 32 | 2721 | 2 | 0 | Fair |
| Tojiro Kubo | 31 | 2542 | 7 | 4 | Excellent |
| Nobuteru Nakagawa | 25 | 1671 | 3 | 4 | Excellent |
| Masaki Watai | 29 | 1536 | 1 | 2 | Below expectations |
| Daiki Sugioka | 18 | 949 | 0 | 2 | Fair |
| Hayato Nakama | 33 | 943 | 2 | 3 | Fair |
| Riki Harakawa | 20 | 933 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Seiya Baba | 17 | 573 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Yusuke Segawa | 14 | 515 | 3 | 1 | Good |
| Yudai Konishi | 6 | 298 | 1 | 1 | Fair |
| Yota Komi * | 11 | 118 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Shumpei Naruse | 3 | 90 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Haruki Saruta | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kengo Nagai | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| T. Kuwata * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Daiki Sakata | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Y. Furusawa * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
Kawasaki Frontale (4 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Filip Uremović | 11 | 794 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Lazar Romanić | 9 | 256 | 2 | 0 | Fair |
| Ryota Kamihashi * | 12 | 100 | 0 | 1 | Investment |
| Rick | 1 | 8 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Kyoto Sanga (10 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Hidehiro Sugai | 38 | 2670 | 2 | 4 | Fair |
| Masaya Okugawa | 32 | 1293 | 7 | 2 | Fair |
| João Pedro Mendes | 26 | 1222 | 1 | 0 | Fair |
| Shun Nagasawa | 28 | 873 | 3 | 3 | Fair |
| Patrick | 23 | 670 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Léo Gomes | 13 | 355 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Mitsuki Saito | 5 | 119 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Barreto | 5 | 24 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kodai Nagata * | 11 | 12 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Kentaro Kakoi | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Machida Zelvia (11 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Hiroyuki Mae | 34 | 2789 | 0 | 2 | Good |
| Daihachi Okamura | 32 | 2704 | 4 | 2 | Excellent |
| Takuma Nishimura | 30 | 2190 | 7 | 4 | Good |
| Ryuho Kikuchi | 13 | 709 | 2 | 0 | Excellent |
| Asahi Masuyama | 15 | 352 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Hotaka Nakamura | 5 | 345 | 1 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Neta Lavi | 8 | 164 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Tatsuya Morita | 33 | 90 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Tomoki Imai | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yoshiaki Arai | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kaung Zan Mara * | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
Nagoya Grampus (9 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Yota Sato | 37 | 2368 | 5 | 0 | Good |
| Teruki Hara | 30 | 2176 | 3 | 0 | Fair |
| Yuya Asano | 30 | 770 | 0 | 1 | Below expectations |
| Yudai Kimura | 14 | 630 | 1 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Daniel Schmidt | 11 | 630 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Daiki Miya | 11 | 350 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Gen Kato | 24 | 257 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Daichi Sugimoto | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Tsuyoshi Kodama | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Sanfrecce Hiroshima (12 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Ryo Germain | 36 | 3024 | 4 | 3 | Fair |
| Satoshi Tanaka | 28 | 2280 | 1 | 1 | Fair |
| Sota Nakamura | 32 | 2129 | 6 | 6 | Excellent |
| Naoki Maeda | 32 | 1006 | 1 | 1 | Below expectations |
| Kosuke Kinoshita | 20 | 863 | 6 | 2 | Fair |
| Daiki Suga | 34 | 808 | 1 | 2 | Fair |
| Valère Germain | 27 | 760 | 3 | 1 | Fair |
| Ju-sung Kim | 11 | 649 | 1 | 1 | Excellent |
| Shion Inoue | 19 | 220 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Jeong Min-ki | 30 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Cailen Hill * | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Yudai Tanaka | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Shimizu S-pulse (23 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Matheus Bueno | 37 | 3316 | 1 | 2 | Good |
| Jelani Reshaun Sumiyoshi | 33 | 2764 | 1 | 0 | Fair |
| Sodai Hasukawa | 33 | 2531 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Yuya Oki | 38 | 2160 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Kai Matsuzaki | 36 | 1870 | 4 | 5 | Fair |
| Capixaba | 28 | 1864 | 2 | 2 | Fair |
| Yutaka Yoshida | 27 | 1321 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Togo Umeda | 22 | 1260 | 0 | 0 | Good |
| Yuji Takahashi | 19 | 1225 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Kengo Kitazume | 30 | 1193 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Shinya Yajima | 32 | 1056 | 1 | 1 | Fair |
| Toshiki Takahashi | 14 | 1045 | 5 | 1 | Good |
| Hikaru Nakahara | 33 | 992 | 2 | 2 | Fair |
| Min Tae Kim | 9 | 630 | 0 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Mateus Brunetti | 8 | 602 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Masaki Yumiba | 22 | 509 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Kazuki Kozuka | 20 | 437 | 2 | 0 | Fair |
| Ahmed Ahmedov | 13 | 242 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kento Haneda | 25 | 203 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Douglas Tanque | 15 | 143 | 1 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Alfredo Stephens | 9 | 133 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Rick | 1 | 68 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Haruto Hidaka | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Shonan Bellmare (14 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Tomoya Fujii | 35 | 2073 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Hiroaki Okuno | 26 | 1169 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Hiroya Matsumoto | 15 | 1143 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yutaro Oda | 25 | 906 | 1 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Shinya Nakano | 10 | 818 | 0 | 1 | Below expectations |
| Shusuke Ota | 11 | 687 | 1 | 0 | Below expectations |
| William Popp | 14 | 630 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Rio Nitta | 16 | 597 | 1 | 2 | Fair |
| Zé Ricardo | 11 | 413 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Soki Tamura | 8 | 212 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Shun Yoshida | 9 | 180 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Tatsunari Nagai | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Rick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| K. Itohara | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Tokyo Verdy (12 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Rei Hirakawa | 36 | 2286 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Yuya Fukuda | 29 | 1662 | 1 | 2 | Below expectations |
| Yosuke Uchida | 11 | 713 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Shuhei Kawasaki | 22 | 340 | 1 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Shoji Toyama | 10 | 280 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Issei Kumatoriya | 24 | 205 | 1 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Shimon Teranuma | 11 | 147 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kaito Suzuki * | 25 | 109 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Inoue Ryota | 4 | 86 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Taiju Yoshida | 5 | 51 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Yuya Nagasawa | 38 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Hiroki Mawatari | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Urawa (10 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Danilo Boza | 36 | 3150 | 1 | 0 | Good |
| Matheus Sávio | 37 | 2747 | 4 | 7 | Excellent |
| Takuro Kaneko | 33 | 2275 | 1 | 4 | Excellent |
| Taishi Matsumoto | 34 | 1337 | 3 | 2 | Fair |
| Isaac Thelin | 10 | 561 | 2 | 0 | Fair |
| Hiiro Komori | 12 | 473 | 3 | 0 | Fair |
| Kenta Nemoto | 14 | 376 | 1 | 0 | Good |
| Motoki Nagakura | 19 | 150 | 1 | 1 | Did not deliver |
| Hiroki Abe | 2 | 25 | 0 | 1 | Did not deliver |
| Shun Yoshida | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Vissel Kobe (5 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Erik | 30 | 1782 | 8 | 4 | Good |
| Katsuya Nagato | 19 | 1451 | 0 | 1 | Excellent |
| Gustavo Klismahn | 27 | 149 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Caetano | 12 | 114 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Ren Komatsu | 7 | 54 | 0 | 1 | Did not deliver |
Yokohama F. Marinos (7 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Kaina Tanimura | 15 | 1011 | 6 | 0 | Good |
| Jordy Croux | 12 | 843 | 2 | 5 | Good |
| Dean David | 13 | 312 | 3 | 0 | Fair |
| Yuri Araújo | 11 | 301 | 0 | 1 | Below expectations |
| George Onaiwu | 11 | 96 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Rick | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Eitaro Matsuda | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
Yokohama FC (26 signings)
| Player | Matches | Minutes | Goals | Assists | Rating |
|---|
| Kota Yamada | 32 | 2563 | 2 | 1 | Fair |
| Kaili Shimbo | 38 | 2545 | 0 | 2 | Fair |
| Lukian | 31 | 2100 | 3 | 1 | Fair |
| Makito Ito | 35 | 2078 | 2 | 0 | Fair |
| Akito Fukumori | 37 | 2029 | 0 | 2 | Excellent |
| Kosuke Yamazaki | 34 | 1965 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| Solomon Sakuragawa | 36 | 1753 | 4 | 3 | Fair |
| Yoshiaki Komai | 21 | 1466 | 0 | 1 | Fair |
| João Paulo | 23 | 1286 | 1 | 1 | Fair |
| Musashi Suzuki | 23 | 1210 | 2 | 1 | Below expectations |
| Jakub Słowik | 13 | 1080 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Toma Murata | 24 | 757 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Junya Suzuki | 26 | 737 | 0 | 0 | Fair |
| Keisuke Muroi | 16 | 631 | 2 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Adailton | 14 | 614 | 3 | 0 | Fair |
| Takanari Endo | 21 | 325 | 0 | 1 | Did not deliver |
| Naoya Komazawa | 9 | 285 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Ryo Kubota | 11 | 267 | 1 | 0 | Below expectations |
| Phelipe Megiolaro | 21 | 180 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Koki Kumakura * | 12 | 135 | 0 | 0 | Investment |
| Yoshihiro Nakano | 12 | 59 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Kaito Mori | 3 | 28 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Michel | 4 | 21 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Masaki Endo | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Tsubasa Shibuya | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |
| Ryo Ishii | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | Did not deliver |