1977 Japan Soccer League

Statistics of Japan Soccer League in season 1977. This was the inaugural season of the Regional Promotion Series, which replaced the Senior Cup as the source of the clubs promoted from the regional Japanese football leagues.

First Division

Pos	Club	Pts	W	PK(W)	PK(L)	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1	Fujita	60	14	1	2	1	64	15	+49	Champions
2	Mitsubishi Motors	47	9	4	3	2	34	21	+13
3	Hitachi	46	9	4	2	3	36	25	+11
4	Toyo Industries	42	9	2	2	5	38	20	+18
5	Yanmar Diesel	40	8	3	2	5	39	28	+11
6	Furukawa Electric	36	8	2	0	8	33	31	+2
7	Nippon Steel	22	3	2	6	7	14	29	-15
8	Nippon Kokan	20	3	3	2	10	28	27	+1
9	Fujitsu	20	3	2	4	9	18	38	-20	To Promotion/Relegation Series
10	Toyota Motors	4	1	0	0	17	11	81	-79

Promotion/Relegation Series

JSL Division 1	1st leg	2nd leg	JSL Division 2
Fujitsu	3-1	3-0	Nissan Motors
Toyota Motors	0-2	0-2	Yomiuri

Yomiuri promoted, Toyota Motors relegated.

Second Division

Pos	Club	Pts	W	PK(W)	PK(L)	L	GF	GA	GD	Notes
1	Yomiuri	47	11	1	1	5	41	19	+22	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Division 1
2	Nissan Motors	43	8	4	3	3	23	18	+5
3	Sumitomo Metal	35	6	4	3	5	33	32	+1
4	Yanmar Club	32	6	4	0	8	25	24	+1
5	Kofu Club	32	6	2	4	6	28	28	0
6	Kyoto Shiko Club	31	5	4	3	6	26	37	-11
7	Honda	29	5	3	3	7	25	24	+1
8	Teijin Matsuyama	29	5	3	3	7	24	31	-7
9	Furukawa Electric Chiba	28	5	2	4	7	19	28	-9	To Promotion/Relegation Series with Regional Series finalists
10	Tanabe Pharmaceutical	27	6	0	3	9	21	24	-3

Promotion/Relegation Series

JSL	1st leg	2nd leg	Regional Series
Furukawa Electric Chiba	0-0(PK2-4)	1-3	Toshiba Horikawacho (Runner-up)
Tanabe Pharmaceutical	3-1	0-1	Yamaha Motors (Champion)

Toshiba promoted, Furukawa Chiba relegated.

References

• Japan - List of final tables (RSSSF)