List of Albirex Niigata seasons

This is a list of seasons played by Albirex Niigata in Japanese football, from their first competitive to the most recent completed season. It details the club's achievements in major competitions, as well as the club's average attendance and top scorers for each season since 1999. Players in bold were also top scorers in their league that season.

Season	League									Cup		Top goalscorer(s)
	Division	Tier	Position	Pld	W	D	L	Pts	Attendance/G	J.League Cup	Emperor's Cup	Name	Goals
1986	Hokushin'etsu	3	1st	9	8	1	0	17	–	–	Did not qualify
1987			3rd	9	3	4	2	10			1st round
1988			4th	9	4	2	3	10			Did not qualify
1989			8th	9	2	1	6	5
1990			3rd	9	4	2	3	10
1991			3rd	9	5	3	1	13
1992			2nd	9	6	2	1	14
1993			4th	9	4	1	4	9
1994			4th	9	4	1	4	9
1995			3rd	9	7	1	1	22
1996			1st	9	8	1	0	25			1st round
1997			1st	9	9	0	0	27			2nd round
1998	JFL	2	11th	30	12	0	18	34	2,696[1]		3rd round
1999	J.League 2	2	4th	36	22	2	14	58	4,211[2]	1st round	3rd round	Shingo Suzuki	8[1]
2000			7th	45	15	5	20	46	4,007[2]	1st round	3rd round	Naoki Naruo	17[1]
2001			4th	44	26	4	14	78	16,659[2]	1st round	4th round	Hisashi Kurosaki	21[1]
2002			3rd	44	23	13	8	82	21,478[2]	–	3rd round	Marcus	19[3]
2003			1st	44	27	7	10	88	30,339[2]		4th round	Marcus	32[4]
2004	J.League 1	1	10th	30	10	7	13	37	37,689[5]	Group stage	4th round	Edmilson	15[6]
2005			12th	34	11	9	14	42	40,114[5]	Group stage	5th round	Edmilson	18[7]
2006			14th	34	12	6	16	42	38,709[5]	Group stage	5th round	Edmilson	10[8]
2007			6th	34	15	6	13	51	38,276[5]	Group stage	4th round	Edmilson	19[9]
2008			13th	34	11	9	14	42	34,490[5]	Group stage	5th round	Alessandro	13[10]
2009			8th	34	13	11	10	50	33,446[5]	Group stage	Quarter final	Pedro Júnior Márcio Richardes	10[11]
2010			9th	34	12	13	9	49	30,542[5]	Group stage	4th round	Márcio Richardes	16[12]
2011			14th	34	10	9	15	39	26,049[13]	Quarter final	3rd round	Bruno Lopes	13[14]
2012			15th	34	10	10	14	40	25,018[15]	Group stage	3rd round	Bruno Lopes	7[16]
2013			7th	34	17	4	13	55	26,112[17]	Group stage	3rd round	Kengo Kawamata	23[18]
2014			12th	34	12	8	14	44	22,979[19]	Group stage	3rd round	Léo Silva	6[20]
2015			15th	34	8	10	16	34	23,444	Semi final	3rd round	Hiroshi Ibusuki Rafael Silva	7
2016			18th	34	4	7	23	19	22,625	Group stage	4th round	Rafael Silva	11
2017			17th	34	7	7	20	28	22,034	Group stage	3rd round	Rony	7
2018	J.League 2	2	16th	42	15	8	19	53	14,913	Group stage	3rd round	Arata Watanabe	10
2019			10th	42	17	11	14	62	14,402	–	2nd round	Leonardo	28
2020 †			11th	42	14	5	13	57	5,360	–	Did not qualify	Chong Tese	9
2021			6th	42	18	14	10	68	10,879	–	3rd round	Kaito Taniguici	13
2022			1st	42						–	2nd round

Key

General

• The 11-year History of Albirex Niigata (in Japanese). Albirex Niigata. 2007. ISBN 978-4861322211.
• J. League data (in Japanese)