M.League

M.League
	; M League logo
Country	Japan
Inception	2018
Leader	Mr. Susumu Fujita, Chairman ; (Founder/President of CyberAgent)
Members	8 teams

The M.League is a professional mahjong team league. This is the first league, where mahjong players receive a salary for playing games. Players are fielded from the various mahjong professional leagues. An M.League season consists of a number of regular season games followed by a playoff final. Each team is corporate sponsored, and thus they represent their respective companies. All league activity is hosted at the M.League Stadium.

Format

The main format of the competition features a regular season and an post season. The basic format of the season varies in the number of hanchan played.

Rule

Draft

The inaugural draft was held on August 7, 2018.

M.League Stadium

The M.League Stadium is a facility located in Takadanobaba within Shijuku, Tokyo, Japan. The location also functions as a jansou, where players can come in and play no-rate.^[1]

Teams

Team name	Company sponsor	Players	Inception
Akasaka Drivens	Hakuhodo DY media partners	Ken Sonoda (Saikouisen) Jun Murakami (Saikouisen) Taro Suzuki (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai) Kanako Maruyama (Saikouisen)	2018
EX Furinkazan	TV Asahi	Aki Nikaido (JPML) Kazunori Takizawa (JPML) Kenji Katsumata (JPML)	2018
Konami Mahjong Fight Club	KONAMI	Hisato Sasaki (JPML) Mari Takamiya (JPML) Yudai Maehara (JPML) Satoshi Fujisaki (JPML)	2018
Shibuya Abemas	CyberAgent	Takaharu Ooi (RMU) Sho Shiratori (JPML) Yoshihiro Matsumoto (Nihon Pro Mahjong Kyokai) Aiko Hinata (Saikouisen)	2018
SegaSammy Phoenix	SegaSammy	Yuumi Uotani (JPML) Seiichi Kondo (Saikouisen) Sayaka Kayamori (Saikouisen) Akira Wakutsu (JPML)	2018
TEAM RAIDEN	Dentsu	Masato Hagiwara (JPML) Naoki Setokuma (JPML) Saki Kurosawa (JPML)	2018
U-NEXT Pirates	U-Next	Go Kobayashi (Mahjong Union) Koushin Asakura (Saikouisen) Nobuhiro Ishibashi (Saikouisen) Akina Mizuhara (Saikouisen)	2018
KADOKAWA Sakura Knights	KADOKAWA	Kotaro Uchikawa (JPML) Sayaka Okada (JPML) Makoto Sawazaki (JPML)	2019