| Competition: | Prince Takamado JFA U-18 Premier League |
| Season: | 2022 |
| Dates: | 3 April – 4 December |
| Winners: | Sagan Tosu (1st title) |
| Relegated: | East: JFA Academy Fukushima Kiryu Daiichi West: Cerezo Osaka Shimizu S-Pulse Gamba Osaka |
| League Topscorer: | East: Kotaro Uchino (21 goals) West: Shinnosuke Kinoshita (15 goals) |
| Biggest Home Win: | |
| Biggest Away Win: | |
| Highest Scoring: | |
| Matches: | 264 |
| Total Goals: | 911 |
| Prevseason: | 2021 |
| Nextseason: | 2023 |
The is the 33rd season of the main competition for under-18 teams in Japan, the 12nd after rebranding the competition to the current "Premier League" format, and the 1st season with 24 clubs participating in the league.
Aomori Yamada High School were the defending champions, winning the 2020 title. In 2021, they even qualified to the Premier League Final, but it ended up cancelled due to COVID-19 precautions.[1]
Sagan Tosu, as West champions, faced East champions Kawasaki Frontale in the final, winning past them by 3–2. This win earned them the first Premier League title, becoming the first ever team from Saga Prefecture to do so, and the first from the Kyushu region, after Kunimi High School won it on 2002.
As usual, the teams were allocated to each division by the JFA based on geographical positions. Shimizu S-Pulse was the only team to be relocated from a conference to another, having playing the previous season on the EAST conference.[2]
| Team | Prefecture |
|---|---|
| Aomori Yamada High School | Aomori |
| JFA Academy Fukushima | Fukushima |
| Kiryu University Daiichi High School | Gunma |
| Maebashi Ikuei High School | Gunma |
| Omiya Ardija | Saitama |
| Ryutsu Keizai University Kashiwa High School | Chiba |
| Kashiwa Reysol | Chiba |
| Ichiritsu Funabashi High School | Chiba |
| FC Tokyo | Tokyo |
| Kanagawa | |
| Yokohama F. Marinos | Kanagawa |
| Yokohama FC | Kanagawa |
| Team | Prefecture |
|---|---|
| Shimizu S-Pulse | Shizuoka |
| Shizuoka | |
| Júbilo Iwata | Shizuoka |
| Nagoya Grampus | Aichi |
| Cerezo Osaka | Osaka |
| Gamba Osaka | Osaka |
| Riseisha High School | Osaka |
| Vissel Kobe | Hyogo |
| Sanfrecce Hiroshima | Hiroshima |
| Higashi Fukuoka High School | Fukuoka |
| Sagan Tosu | Saga |
| Ohzu High School | Kumamoto |
There was a difference from the 2021 edition, who awarded six direct promotions from the Prince Leagues while only two teams got relegated, to accommodate the transition from 20 to 24 teams, starting from this 2022 season.[3]
On 2022, a total of 18 teams participated at this stage, to definitively determine all the participating teams of the posterious season. Qualified to the stage were the 16 top-ranked teams of the nine Prince League divisions and the 10th-placed teams of the East and West Premier League conferences. They were divided into six blocks, with their respective block winners (highlighted in bold) qualifying for next season's Premier League.[4] [5]
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| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[6] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Kotaro Uchino | Yokohama F. Marinos | 21 |
| 2 | Naoki Kumata | FC Tokyo | 19 |
| 3 | Ota Yamamoto | Kashiwa Reysol | 15 |
| 4 | Kishin Gokita | Kawasaki Frontale | 13 |
| 5 | Kosuke Matsumura | Yokohama F. Marinos | 10 |
| 6 | Aoi Okamura | Kiryu Daiichi | 9 |
| Hikaru Takahashi | Omiya Ardija | ||
| Naoya Koike | Maebashi Ikuei | ||
| 9 | Kota Suwa | Kiryu Daiichi | 8 |
| Torataro Okazaki | Kawasaki Frontale | ||
| Hayato Moriya | Yokohama FC | ||
| Rank | Player | Club | Goals[7] |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shinnosuke Kinoshita | Cerezo Osaka | 15 |
| 2 | Kazunosuke Furuta | Riseisha | 14 |
| Shunei Kobayashi | Ohzu | ||
| 4 | Yuzuki Saito | Shimizu S-Pulse | 13 |
| 5 | Takeshi Ito | Júbilo Iwata | 12 |
| Ritsuki Sarara | Cerezo Osaka | ||
| Niina Tominaga | Vissel Kobe | ||
| 8 | Soma Kanda | Shizuoka Gakuen | 10 |
| Renko Hikasa | Gamba Osaka | ||
| Keisuke Goto | Júbilo Iwata | ||
| Kyota Funahashi | Júbilo Iwata | ||
| Keiji Yamashita | Ohzu | ||