Sillok Rankings — J1 2024

The top ten in each group

Forwards

#	Sillok Score v2 i	Player	Age	Pos	2024 club	Minutes	Per-90 inputs
1	89.3	K. Endo†	28	FW	FC Tokyo	494small sample	Goals 0.36 · SoT 2.19 · Ast 0.55 · KP 3.28 · Drb 2.55 · Shot acc 60%
2	88.3	H. Yamami	27	FW	Tokyo Verdy	1,504	Goals 0.42 · SoT 1.50 · Ast 0.36 · KP 2.21 · Drb 1.26 · Shot acc 66%
3	81.2	Rafael Elias	27	FW	Kyoto Sanga	1,129	Goals 0.88 · SoT 2.07 · Ast 0.08 · KP 1.59 · Drb 1.04 · Shot acc 55%
4	78.1	Erison	27	FW	Kawasaki Frontale	1,167	Goals 0.54 · SoT 1.62 · Ast 0.23 · KP 0.77 · Drb 1.54 · Shot acc 50%
5	78.0	T. Usami	34	FW	Gamba Osaka	2,669	Goals 0.41 · SoT 1.25 · Ast 0.20 · KP 2.33 · Drb 0.98 · Shot acc 56%
6	77.4	A. Čavrić	32	FW	Kashima	1,241	Goals 0.51 · SoT 0.87 · Ast 0.22 · KP 1.09 · Drb 1.67 · Shot acc 52%
7	75.8	S. Zahedi	31	FW	Avispa Fukuoka	1,307	Goals 0.62 · SoT 1.31 · Ast 0.14 · KP 1.17 · Drb 1.45 · Shot acc 39%
8	64.6	Marcelo Ryan	24	FW	Sagan Tosu	2,174	Goals 0.58 · SoT 1.32 · Ast 0.04 · KP 0.70 · Drb 0.83 · Shot acc 57%
9	64.1	Y. Muto	34	FW	Vissel Kobe	3,091	Goals 0.38 · SoT 0.84 · Ast 0.20 · KP 1.19 · Drb 0.99 · Shot acc 45%
10	63.0	M. Kato	29	FW	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	3,081	Goals 0.26 · SoT 0.91 · Ast 0.20 · KP 1.43 · Drb 1.02 · Shot acc 44%

Midfielders

#	Sillok Score v2 i	Player	Age	Pos	2024 club	Minutes	Per-90 inputs
1	89.1	Y. Koizumi†	30	MF	Urawa	710small sample	KP 2.03 · Tkl 2.54 · Ast 0.25 · Drb 1.14 · Int 1.14
2	77.1	M. Mitsuta	27	MF	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	2,032	KP 3.10 · Tkl 2.21 · Ast 0.18 · Drb 0.80 · Int 0.27
3	76.3	Matheus Sávio	29	MF	Kashiwa Reysol	3,010	KP 2.96 · Tkl 1.38 · Ast 0.15 · Drb 2.12 · Int 0.75
4	75.7	T. Miki	28	MF	Tokyo Verdy	2,484	KP 1.59 · Tkl 2.35 · Ast 0.07 · Drb 0.98 · Int 1.30
5	75.6	R. Oshima†	33	MF	Kawasaki Frontale	680small sample	KP 2.12 · Tkl 1.06 · Ast 0.27 · Drb 0.79 · Int 1.32
6	73.6	H. Kawabe	31	MF	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	1,006	KP 2.24 · Tkl 1.70 · Ast 0.18 · Drb 0.36 · Int 1.07
7	73.4	S. Nakajima†	32	MF	Urawa	821small sample	KP 2.30 · Tkl 1.10 · Ast 0.44 · Drb 1.53 · Int 0.55
8	73.4	Samuel Gustafson	31	MF	Urawa	2,044	KP 1.63 · Tkl 1.85 · Ast 0.13 · Drb 0.40 · Int 1.36
9	71.5	T. Sekine	31	MF	Urawa	1,514	KP 1.13 · Tkl 2.44 · Ast 0.12 · Drb 1.13 · Int 0.71
10	71.2	K. Morita	26	MF	Tokyo Verdy	2,582	KP 1.11 · Tkl 2.02 · Ast 0.10 · Drb 0.91 · Int 1.19

Defenders

#	Sillok Score v2 i	Player	Age	Pos	2024 club	Minutes	Per-90 inputs
1	95.6	G. Sakai	35	DF	Vissel Kobe	2,403	Tkl 1.91 · Int 2.13 · KP 1.05
2	95.2	K. Bangnagande	25	DF	FC Tokyo	1,464	Tkl 1.91 · Int 2.09 · KP 1.35
3	84.2	Y. Suzuki	32	DF	Shonan Bellmare	3,315	Tkl 1.87 · Int 1.33 · KP 1.03
4	83.2	Henrique Trevisan	29	DF	FC Tokyo	1,389	Tkl 2.01 · Int 2.01 · KP 0.26
5	80.9	D. Fukazawa†	28	DF	Tokyo Verdy	764small sample	Tkl 1.77 · Int 1.41 · KP 0.59
6	80.8	S. Tokumoto†	31	DF	Nagoya Grampus	717small sample	Tkl 1.51 · Int 1.38 · KP 1.63
7	80.0	S. Nishikubo	23	DF	Jubilo Iwata	966	Tkl 1.68 · Int 1.40 · KP 0.84
8	78.0	K. Hashimoto†	26	DF	Albirex Niigata	610small sample	Tkl 1.33 · Int 1.48 · KP 1.92
9	76.7	H. Tawiah	28	DF	Kyoto Sanga	1,448	Tkl 1.74 · Int 1.55 · KP 0.31
10	75.7	Diego	31	DF	Kashiwa Reysol	3,020	Tkl 1.34 · Int 1.61 · KP 0.78

† under 900 minutes — read as a small sample

What separates the leaders

Among forwards, finishing alone does not reach the top. Rafael Elias scored 0.88 goals per 90, the highest rate of any ranked J1 forward, yet sits third because he made 0.08 assists per 90. The two players above him, K. Endo and H. Yamami, are the only forwards in the ten with more than 0.3 assists per 90. Endo’s 494 minutes are a small sample; Yamami’s 1,504 are not.

In midfield, key passes are the largest single contribution for all ten players, ahead of tackling. Three of the ten played under 900 minutes, including the group leader, Y. Koizumi, with 710 for Urawa, so the top of this table is its least settled part. Four of the ten were Urawa players in 2024, more than any other club; Urawa’s midfield scores well as a group, which says as much about how the team used its midfielders as about any one of them.

Among defenders, the top two stand apart: G. Sakai and K. Bangnagande score 95.6 and 95.2, eleven points clear of third. Their profiles are almost identical, 1.91 tackles per 90 each and 2.13 against 2.09 interceptions, across a ten-year age gap. Bangnagande is the subject of Scouting Report #010. S. Baba, 12th at 74.3, falls just outside the ten; his profile is covered in Scouting Report #011.

Reading a 2024 snapshot

This table applies no league adjustment, so a high J1 percentile says nothing about how the same output would rate in Belgium or Germany. It describes 2024 only: several of these players have since changed clubs, and minutes in later seasons can rise or fall sharply, as Baba’s did after his move. The club shown is each player’s 2024 club, not always his current one. Small samples also cluster near the top: seven of the thirty players across the three tables played under 900 minutes, and per-90 rates move most when minutes are few. Nor is anything adjusted for team strength. A strong score here is a reason to look at a player’s current season, not a verdict on it.