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The 2025 J2 League, also known as the 2025 Meiji Yasuda J2 League (Japanese: 2025 明治安田J2リーグ, Hepburn: 2025 Meiji Yasuda J2 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is the 27th season of the J2 League, the second-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 1999. This will also be the eleventh season of the league since its rebrand from J.League Division 2.

Overview

This is the last J.League season played in a whole calendar year from late winter to early winter, with the following season onwards played from summer to spring.

Schedule

The league and match format were announced on 25 November 2024, with the season starts on 15 February 2025 and will conclude on 29 November 2025.

Promotion play-off has been scheduled from 7 and 13 December 2025.

Changes from the previous season

Tochigi SC, Kagoshima United and Thespa Gunma were relegated to the 2025 J3 League, finishing the previous season as 18th, 19th and 20th placed, respectively, ended seven, one and five years stays in the second-tier, respectively.

Júbilo Iwata, Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo and Sagan Tosu were relegated from the 2024 J1 League, after one, eight and thirteen season in the top flight, respectively.

Both Shimizu S-Pulse and Yokohama FC are promoted to the 2025 J1 League as champions and runners-up, respectively, of the previous J2 League season. Shizuoka-based Shimizu will return in the top flight of Japanese football after two years absence, while Yokohama FC will make their immediate comeback to the J1. Joining them are Fagiano Okayama, who finished 5th in 2024 and earned promotion after winning the promotion play-offs, thus making their first top flight appearance from next season.

2024 J3 League winners Omiya Ardija, runners-up FC Imabari, and promotion play-off winners Kataller Toyama were both promoted from the J3 League. Omiya are returning to the second-tier after one year absence, Imabari makes their debut in the second-tier for this season and Kataller, who finished 3rd, earned promotion after winning the promotion play-offs, thus returning after 11 years absence.

From this season, Omiya Ardija changed their name to RB Omiya Ardija after they were acquired by Red Bull since 2025.

Clubs

Personnel and kits

Club	Manager	Captain	Kit manufacturer	Main shirt sponsor
Blaublitz Akita	Ken Yoshida	Hiroto Morooka	Athleta	TDK
Ehime FC	Kiyotaka Ishimaru	Kenta Tokushige	Jogarbola	Ningineer Network
Fujieda MYFC	Daisuke Sudo	Masahiko Sugita	Gol.	Seikan Kensa Center
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	Daiki Iwamasa	Takuma Arano	Mizuno	GROP
FC Imabari	Keiji Kuraishi	Yuta Mikado	Asics	BHC
Iwaki FC	Yuzo Tamura	Kengo Tanaka	Under Armour	BHC
JEF United Chiba	Yoshiyuki Kobayashi	Daisuke Suzuki	Hummel	Fuji Electric
Júbilo Iwata	John Hutchinson		Admiral	Yamaha
Kataller Toyama	Michiharu Otagiri	Kosei Wakimoto	Goldwin	K's Holdings
Montedio Yamagata	Susumu Watanabe	Shuto Minami	Penalty	ABeam
Oita Trinita	Tomohiro Katanosaka	Arata Watanabe	Puma	Daihatsu Kyushu
RB Omiya Ardija	Tetsu Nagasawa	Kota Kawano	Under Armour	Red Bull
Renofa Yamaguchi	Ryo Shigaki	Kota Kawano	Finta	upr
Roasso Kumamoto	Takeshi Oki	Rei Hirakawa	Puma	Hirata
Sagan Tosu	Akio Kogiku	Naoyuki Fujita	New Balance	Kimura Information Technology
Tokushima Vortis	Kosaku Masuda	Yoichiro Kakitani	Mizuno	Otsuka Pharmaceutical (Pocari Sweat)
V-Varen Nagasaki	Takahiro Shimotaira	Hiroki Akino	Macron	Japanet
Vegalta Sendai	Yoshiro Moriyama	Yasushi Endo	Adidas	Iris Ohyama
Ventforet Kofu	Shinji Otsuka	Masahiro Sekiguchi	Mizuno	Hakubaku

Managerial changes

Foreign players

Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Player 6	Player 7	Former players
Blaublitz Akita	Luka Radotić
Ehime FC	Ben Duncan	Bak Keon-woo	Kang Sung-chan	Yu Ye-chan	Ekanit Panya
Fujieda MYFC	Anderson Chaves	Roque Júnior	Cheikh Diamanka
Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo	Francis Cann	Kinglord Safo	Amadou Bakayoko	Jordi Sánchez	Kim Gun-hee	Park Min-gyu	Supachok Sarachat
FC Imabari	Danilo Cardoso	Marcus Vinicius	Wesley Tanque	Lee Young-jun
Iwaki FC	Hyun Woo-bin	Joo Hyun-jin
JEF United Chiba	Derek	Dudu Pacheco
Júbilo Iwata	Jordy Croux	Léo Gomes	Matheus Peixoto	Ricardo Graça	Hassan Hilu	Park Se-gi
Kataller Toyama	Gabriel Nascimento	Koh Bong-jo
Mito HollyHock
Montedio Yamagata	Tom Heward-Belle	Beka Mikeltadze
Oita Trinita	Derlan	Matheus Pereira	Kim Hyun-woo	Mun Kyung-gun
RB Omiya Ardija	Arthur Silva	Gabriel	Mauricio Caprini	Fabián González	Oriola Sunday
Renofa Yamaguchi	Sílvio	Nick Marsman	Choi Hyung-chan	Kim Byeom-yong
Roasso Kumamoto	Ri Thae-ha	Bae Jeong-min
Sagan Tosu	Jô	Vinícius Araújo	Vykintas Slivka	Yang Han-been	Arnau Riera
Tokushima Vortis	Elsinho	João Victor	Kaique	Lucas Barcellos	Thonny Anderson	Lawrence Izuchukwu
V-Varen Nagasaki	Edigar Junio	Eduardo	Emerson Deocleciano	Marcos Guilherme	Matheus Jesus	Juanma
Vegalta Sendai	Eron	Gustavo Santos	Mateus Moraes
Ventforet Kofu	Eduardo Mancha	Matheus Leiria	Renato Augusto	Taiga Son

League table

Play-offs

Season statistics

Top scorers

Awards

Monthly awards

See also

• 2025 Japanese Super Cup
• 2025 Emperor's Cup
• 2025 J.League Cup
• 2025 J1 League
• 2025 J3 League
• 2025 Japan Football League
• 2025 Japanese Regional Leagues

Footnotes

References

External links

• J2 League
• 2025 in Asian association football leagues
• Current association football seasons