JAKARTA - A number of records were set in the Japanese Premier League or J1 League. However, there are five records that will be difficult to break in the near future.

The first record is the most goals in history. The record belongs to Yoshito Okubo.

He has the record for the most goals in history in J1 League by scoring 191 goals in 477 matches in the top caste of the Japanese League, as quoted from J League data via Antara.

He started his career at Cerezo Osaka in 2001 after being recruited from SMA Kunimi. Okubo then played in many other J1 League teams such as Vissel Kobe, Kawasaki Frontale, FC Tokyo, to Jubilo Iwata, as well as having played in Europe with Real Mallorca in the Spanish League and VfL Wolfsburg in the German League.

Currently, only three active players in the J1 League already have goal records above 100, but all of them are still very far from the Okubo goal record which means it is still a long time until we can see the Okubo goal record broken by other players.

The second record is the most goals in one season. It was Masashi Nakayama. He became the top scorer of the J1 League in 1998 season by scoring 36 goals for Jubilo Iwata. This record looks like it will be difficult to break in the near future.

After Nakayama, there was only one player who had scored more than 30 goals a season, namely Brazilian Araujo, when he scored 33 goals for Gambi Osaka in 2005. The rest, no other player can get close to Nakayama's record.

The third record is the youngest player and goalscorer. Takayuki Morimoto is a player who is listed as the youngest player and goalscorer in the top caste J.League.

Morimoto made his professional debut for Tokyo Verdy against Jubilo Iwata, March 13, 2004. At that time, he was 15 years and 10 months and 6 days old. This is the youngest player in the history of the J1 League.

Not only that, Morimoto then scored for Tokyo Verdy against JEF United Ichihara on May 5, 2004, aged 15 years 11 months 28 days. This goal is still a goal scored by the youngest player in the J1 League to date.

The fourth record is the fastest goals and hat-tricks. Regarding the fastest goal record, to date no one has beaten Hisato Sato's record. On April 22, 2006, he was able to score for Sanfrecce Hiroshima against Cerezo Osaka in just 8 seconds.

This record is still the fastest goal record in the history of the J1 League to date.

Regarding hat-tricks, the fastest record still belongs to Yasuo Manaka. Manaka was able to score three goals aka hat-trick in just three minutes. He created these goals for Cerezo Osaka against Kashiwa Reysol on July 14, 2001.

The fifth record is the most goals in one game. This happened in the match between Cerezo Osaka and Kashiwa Reysol on August 8, 1998.

Playing at home, Cerezo Osaka was able to score five goals through a hat-trick Hiroaki Morwiel and goals from Ha Seok-ju and Akinori Nishizawa. Despite scoring five goals, Cerezo Osaka failed to win, as Kashiwa Reysol's visitors scored seven goals.

Nozomu Kato scored a hat-trick, plus two goals each from Bentinho and Bulgarian national team legend Hristo Stoichkov, making Kashiwa Reysol win the match.

A total of 12 goals in one match is still the match with the highest number of goals in one J1 League match to date.


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