This is a list of seasons played by Albirex Niigata in Japanese football, from their first competitive to the most recent completed season. It details the club's achievements in major competitions, as well as the club's average attendance and top scorers for each season since 1999. Players in bold were also top scorers in their league that season.
Champions | Runners-up | Promoted | Relegated |
Season | League | Cup | Top goalscorer(s) | ||||||||||
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Division | Tier | Position | Pld | W | D | L | Pts | Attendance/G | J.League Cup | Emperor's Cup | Name | Goals | |
1986 | Hokushin'etsu | 3 | 1st | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 17 | – | – | Did not qualify | ||
1987 | 3rd | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 1st round | ||||||
1988 | 4th | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | Did not qualify | ||||||
1989 | 8th | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | |||||||
1990 | 3rd | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | |||||||
1991 | 3rd | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 13 | |||||||
1992 | 2nd | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 14 | |||||||
1993 | 4th | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |||||||
1994 | 4th | 9 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 | |||||||
1995 | 3rd | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 22 | |||||||
1996 | 1st | 9 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 1st round | ||||||
1997 | 1st | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 2nd round | ||||||
1998 | JFL | 2 | 11th | 30 | 12 | 0 | 18 | 34 | 2,696 [1] | 3rd round | |||
1999 | J.League 2 | 2 | 4th | 36 | 22 | 2 | 14 | 58 | 4,211 [2] | 1st round | 3rd round | Shingo Suzuki | 8 [1] |
2000 | 7th | 45 | 15 | 5 | 20 | 46 | 4,007 [2] | 1st round | 3rd round | Naoki Naruo | 17 [1] | ||
2001 | 4th | 44 | 26 | 4 | 14 | 78 | 16,659 [2] | 1st round | 4th round | Hisashi Kurosaki | 21 [1] | ||
2002 | 3rd | 44 | 23 | 13 | 8 | 82 | 21,478 [2] | – | 3rd round | Marcus | 19 [3] | ||
2003 | 1st | 44 | 27 | 7 | 10 | 88 | 30,339 [2] | 4th round | Marcus | 32 [4] | |||
2004 | J.League 1 | 1 | 10th | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 37 | 37,689 [5] | Group stage | 4th round | Edmilson | 15 [6] |
2005 | 12th | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 42 | 40,114 [5] | Group stage | 5th round | Edmilson | 18 [7] | ||
2006 | 14th | 34 | 12 | 6 | 16 | 42 | 38,709 [5] | Group stage | 5th round | Edmilson | 10 [8] | ||
2007 | 6th | 34 | 15 | 6 | 13 | 51 | 38,276 [5] | Group stage | 4th round | Edmilson | 19 [9] | ||
2008 | 13th | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 42 | 34,490 [5] | Group stage | 5th round | Alessandro | 13 [10] | ||
2009 | 8th | 34 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 50 | 33,446 [5] | Group stage | Quarter final | Pedro Júnior Márcio Richardes | 10 [11] | ||
2010 | 9th | 34 | 12 | 13 | 9 | 49 | 30,542 [5] | Group stage | 4th round | Márcio Richardes | 16 [12] | ||
2011 | 14th | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 39 | 26,049 [13] | Quarter final | 3rd round | Bruno Lopes | 13 [14] | ||
2012 | 15th | 34 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 40 | 25,018 [15] | Group stage | 3rd round | Bruno Lopes | 7 [16] | ||
2013 | 7th | 34 | 17 | 4 | 13 | 55 | 26,112 [17] | Group stage | 3rd round | Kengo Kawamata | 23 [18] | ||
2014 | 12th | 34 | 12 | 8 | 14 | 44 | 22,979 [19] | Group stage | 3rd round | Léo Silva | 6 [20] | ||
2015 | 15th | 34 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 34 | 23,444 | Semi final | 3rd round | Hiroshi Ibusuki Rafael Silva | 7 | ||
2016 | 18th | 34 | 4 | 7 | 23 | 19 | 22,625 | Group stage | 4th round | Rafael Silva | 11 | ||
2017 | 17th | 34 | 7 | 7 | 20 | 28 | 22,034 | Group stage | 3rd round | Rony | 7 | ||
2018 | J.League 2 | 2 | 16th | 42 | 15 | 8 | 19 | 53 | 14,913 | Group stage | 3rd round | Arata Watanabe | 10 |
2019 | 10th | 42 | 17 | 11 | 14 | 62 | 14,402 | – | 2nd round | Leonardo | 28 | ||
2020 † | 11th | 42 | 14 | 5 | 13 | 57 | 5,360 | – | Did not qualify | Chong Tese | 9 | ||
2021 | 6th | 42 | 18 | 14 | 10 | 68 | 10,879 | – | 3rd round | Kaito Taniguici | 13 | ||
2022 | 1st | 42 | – | 2nd round |
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