Yoshito Okubo, Takashi Usami and Mu Kanazaki are amongst the frontrunners to be named in the 2015 MEIJI YASUDA J1 League’s Best XI.

The J.League announced its list of 32 nominees for the award on Sunday, with the players to receive Outstanding Player Awards at the 2015 J.League Awards next month

The finalists were selected by fellow players and J1 managers via balloting.

Selections to the Best XI will be finalised on December 21, the day of the ceremony.

GK

Shusaku Nishikawa (Urawa Reds)
Masaaki Higashiguchi (Gamba Osaka)
Takuto Hayashi (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)

DF

Daigo Nishi (Kashima Antlers)
Tomoaki Makino (Urawa Reds)
Kosuke Ota (FC Tokyo)
Masato Morishige (FC Tokyo)
Yuji Nakazawa (Yokohama F. Marinos)
Wataru Endo (Shonan Bellmare)
Koki Yonekura (Gamba Osaka)
Tsukasa Shiotani (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
Kazuhiko Chiba (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
Hiroki Mizumoto (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)

MF

Mitsuo Ogasawara (Kashima Antlers)
Caio (Kashima Antlers)
Mu Kanazaki (Kashima Antlers)
Gaku Shibasaki (Kashima Antlers)
Yuki Abe (Urawa Reds)
Yosuke Kashiwagi (Urawa Reds)
Kengo Nakamura (Kawasaki Frontale)
Shunsuke Nakamura (Yokohama F. Marinos)
Yasuhito Endo (Gamba Osaka)
Toshihiro Aoyama (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)
Yoshifumi Kashiwa (Sanfrecce HIroshima)

FW

Yuki Muto (Urawa Reds)
Cristiano (Kashiwa Reysol)
Yoshito Okubo (Kawasaki Frontale)
Ademilson (Yokohama F. Marinos)
Takashi Usami (Gamba Osaka)
Patric (Gamba Osaka)
Douglas (Sanfrecce Hiroshima)