1994 J.League

The following 12 clubs participated in J.League during 1994 season. Of these clubs, Bellmare Hiratsuka and Júblio Iwata were newly promoted teams from Japan Football League.

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Club name	Hometown	Stadium (majority games)	Capacity	Notes	Head coach
Bellmare Hiratsuka	Hiratsuka, Kanagawa	Hiratsuka Stadium	15,380	Promoted	Mitsuru Komaeda
Gamba Osaka	Osaka, Osaka	Osaka Expo '70 Stadium	21,000		Kunishige Kamamoto
JEF United Ichihara	Chiba, Chiba	Ichihara Seaside Stadium	14,051		Eijun Kiyokumo
Júbilo Iwata	Iwata, Shizuoka	Júbilo Iwata Stadium	15,165	Promoted	Hans Ooft
Kashima Antlers	Kashima, Ibaraki	Kashima Soccer Stadium	37,638		Edu Coimbra
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Nagoya, Aichi	Paloma Mizuho Rugby Stadium	11,900		Gordon Milne
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Hiroshima, Hiroshima	Hiroshima General Ground Main Stadium	13,800		Stuart Baxter
Shimizu S-Pulse	Shimizu-ku, Shizuoka, Shizuoka Prefecture	Nihondaira Sports Stadium	20,248		Rivellino
Urawa Red Diamonds	Saitama, Greater Tokyo Area	Urawa Komaba Stadium	21,500		Kenzo Yokoyama
Verdy Kawasaki	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	Todoroki Athletics Stadium	26,232		Yasutaro Matsuki
Yokohama Flügels	Yokohama	Yokohama Mitsuzawa Stadium	15,454		Shu Kamo
Yokohama Marinos	Yokohama	Yokohama Mitsuzawa Stadium	15,454		Hidehiko Shimizu

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Foreign players

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Club	Player 1	Player 2	Player 3	Player 4	Player 5	Non-visa foreign	Former players
Bellmare Hiratsuka	Almir	Betinho	Edson	Mirandinha
Gamba Osaka	Sergei Aleinikov	Flávio Campos	Kiril Metkov	Akhrik Tsveiba	Oleh Protasov
JEF United Ichihara	František Mysliveček	Pavel Řehák	Nenad Maslovar	Frank Ordenewitz	Pierre Littbarski	Sandro Shin Che-bon
Júbilo Iwata	Walter	Salvatore Schillaci	André Paus	Gerald Vanenburg
Kashima Antlers	Alcindo	Edinho	Leonardo	Santos			Zico
Nagoya Grampus Eight	Elivélton	Garça	Jorginho	Dragan Stojković	Dragiša Binić	Dido Havenaar	Gary Lineker
Sanfrecce Hiroshima	Ivan Hašek	Pavel Černý	Tore Pedersen	Lee Baxter	Noh Jung-yoon	Andrey
Shimizu S-Pulse	Djalminha	Ronaldão	Sidmar	Toninho		Ademir
Urawa Red Diamonds	Guido Buchwald	Michael Rummenigge	Uwe Bein	Ľubomír Luhový		Edwin Uehara Cho Kwi-jae	Uwe Rahn Miroslav Mentel
Verdy Kawasaki	Bentinho	Bismarck	Capitão	Paulo	Pereira	Ko Ishikawa
Yokohama Flügels	Fernando Moner	Aldro	Edu Marangon	Válber			Raúl Amarilla
Yokohama Marinos	David Bisconti	Gustavo Zapata	Ramón Díaz	Ramón Medina Bello			Everton

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In the 1994 season, the league followed split-season format, just like the previous season. Each halves (or stages) were known as Suntory Series and NICOS Series for sponsorship purposes. In each series, twelve clubs played in double round-robin format with a total of 22 games per club (per series). The games then went to golden-goal extra time and penalties if needed after regulation. The clubs were ranked by number of wins, and tie breakers are, in the following order:

• Goal differential
• Goals scored
• Head-to-head results
• Extra match or a coin toss

The club that finished at the top of the table is declared stage champion and qualifies for the Suntory Championship. The first stage winner hosts the first leg in the championship series. If the same club win both stages, the runners-up of each stages plays against each other and the winners challenges the stage winner at the championship game.

Changes in competition format

• Number of competing clubs increased from 10 to 12
• Number of games per club in a series increased from 18 to 22 games and from 36 to 44 games per season.

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• Source: J. League 1994 (RSSSF)