Top-Scoring centre-backs in J1 League

The top-scoring centre-backs in J1 League, ranked on Field Insider.

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At a glance

Kim Tae-Hyeon of Kashima is the standout for raw talent across centre-backs in J1 League, with a Field Insider Rating of 52.1, and T. Koga has been the form player this season, grading 69.2, and D. Okamura leads the scoring with 4 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.

Kashima · 24/25→25/26

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T. Koga+45.3SsN

Kashiwa Reysol · 24/25→25/26

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	Player	Team
1	D. Okamura Centre-back	Machida Zelvia	29	4	448.4%	3811.1%
2	Matheus Thuler Centre-back	Vissel Kobe	27	3	3524.4%	4520%
3	G. Shōji Centre-back	Machida Zelvia	33	3	474.5%	2515.8%
4	H. Taniguchi Centre-back	Tokyo Verdy	26	3	5779.1%	4811.6%
5	H. Araki Centre-back	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	29	3	5488.1%	3913.2%
6	M. Høibråten Centre-back	Urawa	31	2	4435.9%	3117.6%
7	B. Nduka Centre-back	Yokohama FC	30	2	4368%	3320.4%
8	R. Tsunoda Centre-back	Yokohama F. Marinos	27	2	149.4%	3721.2%
9	A. Scholz Centre-back	FC Tokyo	33	2	2052.6%	1624.2%
10	N. Ueda Centre-back	Kashima	31	2	5016.8%	3416.4%
11	M. Ito Centre-back	Yokohama FC	33	2	32200%	1813.3%
12	J. Quiñónes Centre-back	Yokohama F. Marinos	28	2	22	35
13	R. Kikuchi Centre-back	Machida Zelvia	29	2	1471.6%	3022%
14	R. Shindo Centre-back	Cerezo Osaka	30	2	1170.8%	2811.5%
15	S. Nakatani Centre-back	Gamba Osaka	30	2	3513.3%	3424.5%
16	Kim Ju-Sung Centre-back	Sanfrecce Hiroshima	25	1	1829.4%	47±0%
17	Niko Takahashi Cendagorta Centre-back	Cerezo Osaka	20	1	13	50
18	K. Nemoto Centre-back	Urawa	23	1	7	47
19	D. Fukazawa Centre-back	Tokyo Verdy	27	1	34185%	3911.1%
20	N. Hayashi Centre-back	Tokyo Verdy	28	1	2516.2%	3231.4%
21	M. Tashiro Centre-back	Avispa Fukuoka	33	1	2937.3%	1842.2%
22	T. Kamijima Centre-back	Avispa Fukuoka	29	1	2824.2%	3225.1%
23	Y. Suzuki Centre-back	Kyoto Sanga	33	1	3225.2%	244%
24	Danilo Boza Centre-back	Urawa	28	1	4381.6%	4330.6%
25	K. Oiwa Centre-back	Shonan Bellmare	36	1	376.5%	936.5%
26	M. Morishige Centre-back	FC Tokyo	39	1	2319.7%	103%
27	M. Fitzgerald Centre-back	Albirex Niigata	37	1	1636.6%	1331.6%
28	J. Sumiyoshi Centre-back	Shimizu S-pulse	28	1	38331.8%	3914.4%
29	S. Fukuoka Centre-back	Gamba Osaka	30	1	3219%	3321.7%
30	K. Tachi Centre-back	Shonan Bellmare	28	1	121277.8%	329.8%