The J1 100 Year Vision League, also known as the , is a one-off football tournament organised by the Japan Professional Football League held from 6 February to 7 June 2026 and featuring all 20 J1 League clubs. A similar tournament is being held at the same time for J2 and J3 League clubs.
As the Japan Professional Football League (J.League) transitions to an "autumn-spring system" in 2026, the J.League 100 Year Vision League will be a special tournament held during the transitional period. Meiji Yasuda Life, the league's title partner through the end of 2026, also serves as the title partner of this tournament.
Although this tournament is a league competition organized by the J.League, there will be no relegation to the J2 League based on the results of this tournament. The winning club will be given the right to participate as one of Japan's representative in the 2026âÂÂ27 AFC Champions League Elite.
The 20 teams competing in the 2026âÂÂ27 J1 LeagueâÂÂthe top 17 teams from the 2025 J1 League as well as three promoted sides from the 2025 J2 LeagueâÂÂwill be divided into regions East and West, consists of 10 teams each. Each region will play a double round-robin home and away format. Clubs from the same prefecture are grouped together as much as possible. In addition, the number of clubs playing in snowy regions, where home games cannot be played in February and March was also taken into consideration. If the winners can not be decided within 90 minutes, a penalty shoot-out will be played to decide the winners. For this tournament, the usual points system is retained, but the winners of the shoot-out will receive two points and the losers will receive one point.
The East region consists of 10 clubs based within the Greater Tokyo Area, while the West region consists of 10 teams based outside of the capital and its surrounding metropolitan area.
Teams with the same final rank in each region will play home and away matches against each other to determine the overall final ranking (for example, matches between first-placed teams will decide the overall champions and runners-up, matches between second-placed teams will decide overall third and fourth place). The first leg will be played on 30 and 31 May, and the second leg will be held on 6 and 7 June.
If the winners on aggregate cannot be determined after the two legs of 90 minutes, two 15-minute periods of extra time will be played; if the winners is still not decided after extra time, a penalty shoot-out will be played.
The top three teams at the end of the tournament will receive the prize money of JPY 150 million for the winners, JPY 60 million for runners-up, and JPY 30 million for the third place. During the regional round, each point is worth JPY 2 million. All teams will also receive additional fees based on their competition ranking and popularity ranking.
From the 2019 season, there are no limitations on signing foreign players, but clubs can only register up to five of them for a single matchday squad. Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Morocco, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia) were exempted from these restrictions.
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