Season trivia for J1 League 2025
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 2025 J1 League season in Japan.
Note that the season is not finished yet, and there for the information below is not necessarily the final version.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2025 season were the players Rafael Ratão - Lucas Fernandes (Cerezo Osaka) and Taichi Hara - Rafael Elias (Kyoto Sanga). Together they scored 6 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
The fastest goal scorers during the season 2025 were these players, all of whom scored in minute 2 of any match of the season:
Fastest hat-trick
Rafael Elias, playing for Kyoto Sanga, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 10 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Kashima Antlers-Kyoto Sanga.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
In August 2025, Rafael Elias (Kyoto Sanga) scored 7 goals, which was the most goals in a calendar month of the 2025 season.
Most braces by player
Leo Ceara in Kashima Antlers scored (at least) two goals in a match four times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2025 season.
Most first goals in a match
The player who scored the first goal in a match the most times during the 2025 season was Leo Ceara in Kashima Antlers, in total he did it ten times.
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Kosuke Kinoshita in Kashiwa Reysol/Sanfrecce Hiroshima during the 2025 season, in total he did this seven times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2025 season was Koya Kitagawa, in total he scored six penalties for his Shimizu S-Pulse.
Most penalty goals by team
Most goals from the penalty spot was a feat shared by two teams, and the teams that each scored six penalty goals were FC Tokyo and Shimizu S-Pulse.
Most own goals by player
two players share the less-than-honourable title of "most own goals" during the 2025 season in J1 League. These players each scored two own goals and they were Daihachi Okamura (FC Machida Zelvia) and Kennedy Egbus Mikuni (Nagoya Grampus).
Most own goals by team
FC Machida Zelvia scored four own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2025 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Rafael Elias in Kyoto Sanga scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2025 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with assists in most consecutive matches
The best streak of matches with an assist was 4 matches in the season 2025, a feat achieved bySota Nakamura (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Lucas Fernandes (Cerezo Osaka) and Tomoya Koyamatsu (Kashiwa Reysol)
Players with goals or assists in most consecutive matches
Tomoya Koyamatsu in Kashiwa Reysol scored or assisted in 6 consecutive matches during the 2025 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Leo Ceara in Kashima Antlers who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 13 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Rafael Elias in Kyoto Sanga scored a total of 13 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in J1 League during the 2025 season.
Most consecutive wins
FC Machida Zelvia was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2025 season, with a total of 8 wins in a row.
Most matches in a row without losing
Kashiwa Reysol were the team with the longest unbeaten run during the 2025 season, playing 11 straight matches without losing.
Most consecutive losses
During the 2025 season, there were three teams that had 7 consecutive losses, and those teams were Yokohama F. Marinos, Yokohama FC and Shonan Bellmare.
Most matches in a row without a win
Shonan Bellmare managed the feat of not winning a single match in 19 consecutive matches during the 2025 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most comebacks from behind to win
The art of turning a deficit in a match into a win is something Sanfrecce Hiroshima were best at during the 2025 season, they came back to win six matches in total.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Kawasaki Frontale and Albirex Niigata were the teams that struggled most to win despite taking the lead, these teams blew a lead and lost in five different matches during the 2025 season.