Season trivia for J1 League 2019
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2019 J1 League season in Japan.
Best scoring couple
The top goal-scoring pair, in other words two players where one scored the goal and the other player assisted to it, were Teruhito Nakagawa and Marcos Junior. Together they were behind 6 goals for Yokohama F. Marinos in the 2019 season.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2019 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Lukas Podolski, playing for Vissel Kobe, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 49 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Vissel Kobe-Júbilo Iwata.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2019 was 5 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Anderson Lopes (Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo) - March 2019
Diego Oliveira (FC Tokyo) - April 2019
Jay Bothroyd (Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo) - August 2019
Erik (Yokohama F. Marinos) - November 2019
Most braces by player
Most braces (at least two goals in a match) were scored 2 times during this season, and the players who managed that were these:
Kenta Nishizawa (Shimizu S-Pulse)
Marcos Junior (Yokohama F. Marinos)
Jay Bothroyd (Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo)
Edigar Junio (Yokohama F. Marinos)
Shun Nagasawa (Vegalta Sendai)
Noriaki Fujimoto (Vissel Kobe/Oita Trinita)
Junya Tanaka (Vissel Kobe)
Diego Oliveira (FC Tokyo)
Erik (Yokohama F. Marinos)
Musashi Suzuki (Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo)
Most first goals in a match
The first goal of a match means a lot, and these players each scored it in a total of 7 matches during the season:
Noriaki Fujimoto (Vissel Kobe/Oita Trinita)
David Villa (Vissel Kobe)
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Musashi Suzuki in Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo during the 2019 season, in total he did this 6 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2019 season was Marcos Junior, in total he scored 5 penalties for his Yokohama F. Marinos.
Most penalty goals by team
Yokohama F. Marinos was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2019 season, in total they scored 9 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 2 players scored 3 goals in added time, and the players who did so were Shuhei Akasaki (Nagoya Grampus) and Gerson Rodrigues (Júbilo Iwata).
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, Júbilo Iwata was the best team, in total they scored 8 goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
2 players share the less-than-honourable title of most own goals during the 2019 season in J1 League. These players each scored 2 own goals and they were Shinnosuke Nakatani (Nagoya Grampus) and Hayato Araki (Sanfrecce Hiroshima).
Most own goals by team
Sanfrecce Hiroshima scored 4 own goals in all their matches, making them the best at it in the entire league during the 2019 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Douglas in Shimizu S-Pulse scored in 7 consecutive matches during the 2019 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
The players with the most goals in the first half of the match scored 7 goals, and the players who did this were:
Marcos Junior (Yokohama F. Marinos)
Kosuke Onose (Gamba Osaka)
Douglas (Shimizu S-Pulse)
Kensuke Nagai (FC Tokyo)
Yu Kobayashi (Kawasaki Frontale)
Players with most goals in the second half
Diego Oliveira in FC Tokyo scored a total of 11 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in J1 League during the 2019 season.
Most consecutive wins
There were 3 teams that had 5 consecutive wins in the 2019 season, and those teams were Cerezo Osaka, Kawasaki Frontale and Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
Most matches in a row without losing
Kawasaki Frontale were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2019 season, playing 15 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
Vissel Kobe had a streak of 7 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in J1 League during the 2019 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
The longest winless run in the 2019 season was 10 matches in a row, and it was Shonan Bellmare, Nagoya Grampus and Matsumoto Yamaga who managed that dubious achievement.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something FC Tokyo were best at during the 2019 season, they came back to win 4 matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Gamba Osaka and Shimizu S-Pulse were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in 5 different matches during the 2019 season.
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