Les contrats des joueurs suivants expirent à la fin de la saison et leurs clubs ont décidé de ne pas les renouveler.
Kashiwa Reysol
– Yohei Kurakawa
– Park Dong Hyuk
Gamba Osaka
– Hideo Hashimoto
– Satoshi Yamaguchi
– Kazumichi Takagi
– Tomokazu Myojin ?
– Takahiro Futagawa ?
Yokohama F.Marinos
– Yasuhiro Hato (retraite)
Sanfrecce Hiroshima
– Kota Hattori
– Kohei Morita
– Issei Takayanagi
– David Mujiri
– Ante Tomic
– Masato Yamazaki
Jubilo Iwata
– Gilsinho
Shimizu S-Pulse
– Yuichiro Nagai
Kawasaki Frontale
– Juninho (débouche sur une retraite)
Vissel Kobe
– Rogerinho
– Botti
– Masaki Yanagawa
– Kohei Mishima
– Yosuke Ishibitsu
– Akihito Kusunose
– Kenji Baba
Omiya Ardija
– Arata Sugiyama
– Chikara Fujimoto
– Rodrigo Pimpao
– Taishi Tsukamoto
Urawa Red Diamonds
– Shunsuke Tsutsumi
Ventforet Kofu
– Teruaki Kobayashi
– Daisuke Ichikawa
– Toshihiko Uchiyama
– Tomoya Uchida
– Hiroki Aratani
– Yuki Koike
– Yusuke Inuzuka
– Kim Jin Kyu
– Kim Shin Young
Avispa Fukuoka
– Ramazotti
– Norihisa Shimizu
– Tatsunori Yamagata
– Makoto Tanaka (retraite)
Montedio Yamagata
– Osama Elamni
– Tetsuya Okubo
– Tatsuya Furuhashi
– Kohei Miyazaki
Sagan Tosu
– Tatsunori Arai (retraite)
– Terukazu Tanaka
– Yukihiro Yamase
– Ryota Nagata
– Nobuhisa Uruta
– Kenichiro Meta
– Jun Yanagisawa
JEF United Chiba
– Yohei Fukumoto
– Sander Van Gessel
– Matthew Lam
– Takenori Hayashi
– Takayuki Chano
– Shinji Murai
– Keisuke Ota
Kyoto Sanga FC
– Alair
– Kim Seng Yong
– Shingo Suzuki
– Koken Kato
Roasso Kumamoto
– Edmilson
Shonan Bellmare
– Adiel
Thespa Kusatsu
– Yasunori Takada (retraite)
Gainare Tottori
– Yutaro Abe (retraite)
Yokohama FC
– Masayuki Yanagisawa
– França