The 1973 season of Japanese football.
League tables JSL First Division Tanabe Pharmaceuticals was relegated, thereby becoming the first Japanese team to go straight back down one season after promotion.
JSL 1/2 promotion/relegation Series JSL Division 1 1st leg 2nd leg JSL Division 2 Nippon Kokan 2-1 2-2 Kofu SC Tanabe Pharmaceutical 2-1 0-2 Eidai Industries Eidai promoted, Tanabe relegated.
JSL Second Division
JSL promotion/relegation Series Sumitomo, at the time based in Osaka, would move to Kashima, Ibaraki in 1975 and become today's Kashima Antlers. JSL 1st leg 2nd leg Senior Cup Toyoda Automatic Loom Works 1-1 1-2 Ibaraki Hitachi (Cup runner-up) Hagoromo Club 2-2 1-2 Sumitomo Metal (Cup winner) Ibaraki Hitachi and Sumitomo promoted, Toyota Industries and Hagoromo Club relegated.
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