1994 Japan Football League

Japan Football League

Season	1994
Champions	Cerezo Osaka
Promoted	Cerezo Osaka Kashiwa Reysol
Relegated	no relegation
← 1993 1995 →

Statistics of Japan Football League in the 1994 season.

Overview

It was contested by 16 teams, and Cerezo Osaka won the championship.^[1] Along with Kashiwa Reysol, they were promoted to the J.League.^[2]

NEC Yamagata, the future Montedio Yamagata, were promoted to the JFL before the season, having won the Regional Promotion Series.

Clubs

The following sixteen clubs participated in Japan Football League during the 1994 season.

• Cerezo Osaka
• Cosmo Oil
• Fujieda Flux
• Fujitsu
• Honda
• Kashiwa Reysol
• Kawasaki Steel
• Kofu Club
• Kyoto Purple Sanga
• NEC Yamagata
• NTT Kanto
• Otsuka Pharmaceutical
• PJM Futures
• Seino Transportation
• Tokyo Gas
• Toshiba

Personnel

Club	Head coach
Cerezo Osaka	Paulo Emilio
Cosmo Oil
Fujieda Flux	Yoshio Kikugawa
Fujitsu
Honda
Kashiwa Reysol	Zé Sérgio
Kawasaki Steel
Kofu Club	Susumu Katsumata
Kyoto Purple Sanga	George Yonashiro
NEC Yamagata	Naoki Sugisawa
NTT Kanto
Otsuka Pharmaceutical	Hajime Ishii
PJM Futures	Ivan Čabrinović
Seino Transportation
Tokyo Gas	Toshiaki Imai
Toshiba	Takeo Takahashi

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Non-visa foreign	Former players
Cerezo Osaka	Carlos Moura	Marquinhos	Toninho Cecílio
Cosmo Oil	Kim Byung-soo
Fujieda Flux	Carlos Mayor	Darío Siviski	Nestor Omar Piccoli	Pedro Troglio	Cho Min-kook
Fujitsu	Gao Sheng
Honda
Kashiwa Reysol	Aílton Ferraz	Careca	Nelsinho	Wagner Lopes
Kawasaki Steel
Kofu Club
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Angelo	Everton	Walter	Mario López	Santiago Ostolaza	Jair Masaoka
NEC Yamagata							Beto
NTT Kanto
Otsuka Pharmaceutical	Wagner
PJM Futures	Héctor Enrique	Hugo Maradona	Pedro Pasculli	Sergio Batista	Johnny Miqueiro
Seino Transportation
Tokyo Gas	Amaral
Toshiba	Jorge Dely Valdés	Pedro Pedrucci

League standings

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Promotion
1	Cerezo Osaka	30	26	4	85	33	+52	Promoted to J.League
2	Kashiwa Reysol	30	25	5	82	29	+53
3	Fujieda Blux	30	24	6	61	32	+29
4	PJM Futures	30	22	8	70	47	+23
5	Kyoto Purple Sanga	30	20	10	63	47	+16
6	Otsuka Pharmaceutical	30	18	12	63	46	+17
7	Tokyo Gas	30	18	12	55	43	+12
8	Kawasaki Steel	30	13	17	36	46	−10
9	Honda	30	12	18	49	62	−13
10	Fujitsu	30	11	19	39	52	−13
11	Toshiba	30	11	19	56	71	−15
12	NTT Kanto	30	10	20	37	46	−9
13	NEC Yamagata	30	10	20	30	57	−27
14	Kofu Club	30	9	21	36	74	−38
15	Cosmo Oil	30	7	23	33	67	−34
16	Seino Transportation	30	4	26	29	72	−43

Source: RSSSF

References

1. "Cerezo Osaka". jsoccer.com. Retrieved 2026-08-04.
2. "柏レイソル Official Site". 柏レイソル Official site (in Japanese). Retrieved 2026-08-04.