2025 M.League season

2025 M.League season

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Host	M.League
Type	Professional league
Team count	10 teams
Finalists

The 2025-26 M.League season is the eighth season of M.League.

Rosters

Team name	Previous roster	Drafted player(s)	Released	Coach
Akasaka Drivens	Ken Sonoda (Saikouisen) Taro Suzuki (Saikouisen) Maki Asami (Saikouisen) Futoshi Watanabe (Saikouisen)	None	None
Beast X	Daisuke Suzuki (JPML) Kana Nakada (JPML)	Geki Shimoishi (NPM) Rio Tojo (JPML)	Masatoshi Sarukawa (JPML) Hiroe Sugawara (JPML)
Earth Jets	None	Kazuma Ishii (Saikouisen) Tomohiro Miura (JPML) Megumu Aikawa (NPM) Shibata Hiro (JPML)	None
EX Furinkazan	Aki Nikaido (JPML) Kenji Katsumata (JPML)	Kousuke Nagai (Saikouisen) Kotaro Uchikawa (JPML)	Takaya Matsugase (RMU) Rumi Nikaido (JPML)	Aki Nikaido (JPML)
KADOKAWA Sakura Knights	Sayaka Okada (JPML) Shingo Hori (NPM) Nanba Shibukawa (NPM)	Shota Akutsu (JPML)	Kotaro Uchikawa (JPML)
Konami Mahjong Fight Club	Hisato Sasaki (JPML) Mari Takamiya (JPML) Arisa Date (JPML) Kazunori Takizawa (JPML)	None	None	Kazunori Takizawa (JPML)
SegaSammy Phoenix	Sayaka Kayamori (Saikouisen) Hiroshi Daigo (Saikouisen) Genta Takeuchi (Saikouisen) Takaki Asai (NPM)	None	None	Sayaka Kayamori (Saikouisen)
Shibuya Abemas	Takaharu Ooi (RMU) Sho Shiratori (JPML) Yoshihiro Matsumoto (NPM) Aiko Hinata (Saikouisen)	None	None
TEAM RAIDEN	Masato Hagiwara (JPML) Naoki Setokuma (JPML) Saki Kurosawa (JPML) Tomohiro Honda (JPML)	None	None
U-NEXT Pirates	Go Kobayashi (MU) Akina Mizuhara (Saikouisen) Yu Suzuki (Saikouisen) Kei Nakabayashi (NPM)	None	None

Abbreviations:

• JPML = Japan Professional Mahjong League
• Saikouisen = Saikouisen Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai
• NPM = Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai
• RMU = Real Mahjong Unit
• MU = Mahjong Union

New team

An expansion team, the Earth Jets, was announced late May.

Draft

For the draft, the new team will take priority for the first four picks. Then the following picks will each be as follows: Beast X, EX Furinkazan, and KADOKAWA Sakura Knights. Finally, Beast X and EX Furinkazan each receives one more pick to fill in their second vacancy.

The season's draft date is set for June 30. The draft went as follows:

1. Kazuma Ishii (Saikouisen) to Earth Jets
2. Tomohiro Miura (JPML) to Earth Jets
3. Megumu Aikawa (NPM) to Earth Jets
4. Shibata Hiro (JPML) to Earth Jets
5. Geki Shimoishi (NPM) to Beast X
6. Kousuke Nagai (Saikouisen) to EX Furinkazan
7. Shota Akutsu (JPML) to KADOKAWA Sakura Knights
8. Rio Tojo (JPML) to Beast X
9. Kotaro Uchikawa (JPML) to EX Furinkazan

External links

• Mリーグ2025-26

2025-26 season in Japanese Wikipedia