1972 in Japanese football is an overview of events relating to football in the Japanese culture.
See main article: 1972 Japan Soccer League.
See main article: 1972 Japanese Regional Leagues. All Japan Senior Football Championship finalists Eidai Industries and Teijin Matsuyama were promoted to the Second Division.
See main article: 1972 Emperor's Cup.
| Player | -1971 | 07.12 | 07.16 | 07.18 | 07.22 | 07.26 | 08.04 | 08.06 | 09.14 | 1972 | Total | |
| Aritatsu Ogi | 41(9) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | 8(2) | 49(11) | |
| Yoshitada Yamaguchi | 41(0) | O | O | O | O | O | - | - | - | 5(0) | 46(0) | |
| Kenzo Yokoyama | 40(0) | - | O | - | O | O | - | - | - | 3(0) | 43(0) | |
| Kunishige Kamamoto | 33(39) | O(4) | O(5) | O(1) | O(1) | O | O(2) | O | O(2) | 8(15) | 41(54) | |
| Takaji Mori | 33(1) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 8(0) | 41(1) | |
| Nelson Yoshimura | 10(3) | O | O | O | O | O | O(1) | O | O | 8(1) | 18(4) | |
| Kozo Arai | 10(0) | O | O | O(2) | O | O | O | O | O | 8(2) | 18(2) | |
| Nobuo Kawakami | 5(0) | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | O | 8(0) | 13(0) | |
| Kazumi Takada | 4(0) | O | O | - | - | O | - | O | O | 5(0) | 9(0) | |
| Koji Funamoto | 4(0) | O | - | O | - | - | O | O | O | 5(0) | 9(0) | |
| Seiichi Sakiya | 2(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | - | 2(0) | 3(0) | |
| Nobuo Fujishima | 1(0) | O | - | O | O | - | O | O | O | 6(0) | 7(0) | |
| Atsuyoshi Furuta | 1(0) | - | O | O | - | - | - | O | O | 4(0) | 5(0) | |
| Michio Ashikaga | 1(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | O | 3(0) | 4(0) | |
| Yasuhiko Okudera | 0(0) | O | O | O(1) | O | O | - | - | O | 6(1) | 6(1) | |
| Kuniya Daini | 0(0) | O | O | - | O | O | O | - | O | 6(0) | 6(0) | |
| Mitsunori Fujiguchi | 0(0) | O | - | O | O | O | O | - | - | 5(0) | 5(0) | |
| George Kobayashi | 0(0) | - | O | O | O | - | - | - | - | 3(0) | 3(0) | |
| Shusaku Hirasawa | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | O | O | - | 2(0) | 2(0) | |
| Noritaka Hidaka | 0(0) | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | O | 1(0) | 1(0) |