Most In-Form centre-backs This Season in J1 League

The most in-form centre-backs in J1 League, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

K. Hayashi of Machida Zelvia is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs in J1 League, with a Field Insider Rating of 54, and T. Koga has been the form player this season, grading 69.2, and Y. Sato leads the scoring with 5 goals.

The numbers a scout watches are the year-on-year jumps: T. Koga has improved his Season rating most, up +45.3 on last season, while Kim Tae-Hyeon's scouting Rating has risen fastest, +3.7 over the same span. Those are the players whose trajectory is bending upward fastest.

By our market-value index, T. Koga of Kashiwa Reysol is the most valuable name in this group at 22.7.

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Kashiwa Reysol · 24/25→25/26

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	Player	Team
1	T. Koga Centre-back	Kashiwa Reysol	27	69189.5%	504.6%
2	H. Taniguchi Centre-back	Tokyo Verdy	26	5779.1%	4811.6%
3	H. Araki Centre-back	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	30	5488.1%	3522.7%
4	W. Harada Centre-back	Kashiwa Reysol	30	52110.4%	3312.1%
5	S. Sasaki Centre-back	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	36	5124%	220.5%
6	G. Shōji Centre-back	Machida Zelvia	33	474.5%	2515.8%
7	T. Yamakawa Centre-back	Vissel Kobe	28	4513.7%	4417%
8	M. Høibråten Centre-back	Urawa	31	4435.9%	3117.6%
9	I. Drešević Centre-back	Machida Zelvia	29	4317.2%	3523.2%
10	T. Shiotani Centre-back	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	37	437.5%	1529%
11	B. Nduka Centre-back	Yokohama FC	30	4368%	3320.4%
12	Danilo Boza Centre-back	Urawa	28	4381.6%	4330.6%
13	G. Sakai Centre-back	Vissel Kobe	35	413.8%	1813.7%
14	K. Hayashi Centre-back	Machida Zelvia	25	3930.3%	545.3%
15	J. Sumiyoshi Centre-back	Shimizu S-pulse	28	38331.8%	3914.4%
16	D. Tagami Centre-back	Fagiano Okayama	33	35330.5%	215.9%
17	Matheus Thuler Centre-back	Vissel Kobe	27	3524.4%	4520%
18	S. Nakatani Centre-back	Gamba Osaka	30	3513.3%	3424.5%
19	D. Fukazawa Centre-back	Tokyo Verdy	27	34185%	3911.1%
20	Y. Tatsuta Centre-back	Fagiano Okayama	28	33341.9%	381.3%
21	Y. Suzuki Centre-back	Kyoto Sanga	33	3225.2%	244%
22	S. Fukuoka Centre-back	Gamba Osaka	30	3219%	3321.7%
23	M. Ito Centre-back	Yokohama FC	33	32192.6%	1714.8%
24	Kim Tae-Hyeon Centre-back	Kashima	25	3178.4%	527.6%
25	K. Yamazaki Centre-back	Yokohama FC	30	3120.2%	2725.5%
26	S. Hasukawa Centre-back	Shimizu S-pulse	28	31483%	3812.8%
27	Y. Miyamoto Centre-back	Kyoto Sanga	26	2918.5%	50±0%
28	T. Shichi Centre-back	Avispa Fukuoka	32	29750%	2014.4%
29	Y. Suzuki Centre-back	Shonan Bellmare	32	2926.6%	2426.9%
30	M. Tashiro Centre-back	Avispa Fukuoka	33	2839%	1743.1%
31	T. Kamijima Centre-back	Avispa Fukuoka	29	2824.2%	3225.1%
32	T. Deng Centre-back	Yokohama F. Marinos	29	2627.5%	3123.9%
33	K. Kudo Centre-back	Fagiano Okayama	22	25	51
34	Y. Sato Centre-back	Nagoya Grampus	27	2575.5%	432.7%
35	N. Hayashi Centre-back	Tokyo Verdy	28	2516.2%	3231.4%
36	M. Morishige Centre-back	FC Tokyo	39	2319.7%	103%
37	T. Nara Centre-back	Avispa Fukuoka	32	2235.8%	1920.5%
38	J. Quiñónes Centre-back	Yokohama F. Marinos	28	22	35
39	I. Sekigawa Centre-back	Kashima	25	2251.6%	4718.7%
40	K. Doi Centre-back	FC Tokyo	21	2141.1%	510.8%
41	K. Takai Centre-back	Kawasaki Frontale	21	2151.8%	530.8%
42	S. Hatanaka Centre-back	Cerezo Osaka	30	2149.3%	324.2%
43	S. Fukuda Centre-back	Kyoto Sanga	25	2138.7%	535.4%
44	A. Scholz Centre-back	FC Tokyo	33	2052.6%	1624.2%
45	H. Tanaka Centre-back	Kashiwa Reysol	22	206633.3%	5018.3%
46	Y. Maruyama Centre-back	Kawasaki Frontale	37	20304.1%	1122.2%
47	K. Matsubara Centre-back	Yokohama F. Marinos	33	191.1%	1641.4%
48	K. Mikuni Centre-back	Nagoya Grampus	26	1853.5%	4419%
49	Y. Horigome Centre-back	Albirex Niigata	31	1737.6%	2224.4%
50	Kim Min-Tae Centre-back	Shonan Bellmare	32	1732.1%	2034.9%