Japan's professional football league said Monday it was investigating after an apparently racist banner reading "Japanese only" appeared at a weekend match.... more »
Japan's professional football league said Monday it was investigating after a banner that read "Japanese only" appeared at a weekend match, stoking speculation the insult was aimed at a South Korean striker.... more »
Tsukasa Shiotani scored from a 95th-minute free-kick to give two-time defending J-League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima a 2-1 win over Kawasaki Frontale on Saturday.... more »
Japanese playmaker Keisuke Honda has urged AC Milan fans to be patient, saying it's only a "matter of time" before he hits form at his new club.... more »
Uruguay striker Diego Forlan fell flat on his J-League debut as Cerezo Osaka lost 1-0 to defending champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima in Saturday's season opener.... more »
Uruguay striker Diego Forlan fell flat on his J-League debut as Cerezo Osaka lost 1-0 to defending champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima in Saturday's season opener.... more »
Uruguay striker Diego Forlan takes centre-stage as Cerezo Osaka begin the new J-League season looking to claim the scalp of twice-defending champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima on Saturday.... more »
Adisak Kraisorn's injury-time strike secured a 1-1 draw for Buriram United against ambitious Chinese team Shandong Luneng on the opening night of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday.... more »
Adisak Kraisorn's injury-time strike secured a 1-1 draw for Buriram United against ambitious Chinese team Shandong Luneng on the opening night of the AFC Champions League on Tuesday.... more »
Uruguay striker Diego Forlan vowed Wednesday to rediscover his killer goal-scoring instinct as he arrived in Japan to play for Cerezo Osaka in a season which straddles the World Cup.... more »
Australia A-League champions Central Coast Mariners on Sunday signed experienced South Korean attacker Kim Seung-yong to the end of next season.... more »
Uruguay international striker Diego Forlan has joined Cerezo Osaka from SC Internacional of Brazil on an estimated $5.8 million a year, a record for the increasingly austere J-League.... more »
Former Manchester United forward Diego Forlan looks set to move to Cerezo Osaka of Japan, reports said Wednesday, with hopes that the Uruguay international can rev up the J-League.... more »
Yokohama Marinos beat J-League champions Sanfrecce Hiroshima 2-0 to win the prestigious Emperor's Cup on Wednesday, avenging their defeat by one point in the league title race last month.... more »
Western Sydney Wanderers say they do not want to sell their star player Shinji Ono amid moves by Consadole Sapporo to take him back to Japan, reports said Saturday.... more »
China's Guangzhou Evergrande were kept guessing over the group opponents for their AFC Champions League title defence when they were drawn with two still unknown teams on Tuesday.... more »
Former Celtic playmaker Shunsuke Nakamura said he had suffered the "worst moment" of his career after his Yokohama Marinos blew a commanding lead to miss out on the J-League title on Saturday.... more »
Yokohama Marinos put one hand on the J-League title with a 1-0 win over Jubilo Iwata on Saturday to move four points clear at the top of the table with two games remaining.... more »
Japan's shock 3-2 win over Belgium was showered with praise by domestic media Thursday as Alberto Zaccheroni's men lifted spirits ahead of next year's World Cup.... more »
