2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season

This article is about the 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season only. For information on all of baseball, see 2024 in baseball.

2024 NPB season
League	Nippon Professional Baseball
Sport	Baseball
Duration	March 29 – October 4
Number of games	143
Number of teams	12
Central League Pennant
Pacific League Pennant
Climax Series
Japan Series

The 2024 Nippon Professional Baseball season is the 75th season of professional baseball in Japan since Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) was reorganized in 1950. There are 12 NPB teams, split evenly between the Central League and Pacific League.

Regular season standings

Current through May 12.

Central League regular season standings

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
1	Hanshin Tigers	36	18	14	4	.563	—	9–7–1	9–7–3
2	Yomiuri Giants	38	19	16	3	.543	½	10–8–0	9–8–3
3	Hiroshima Toyo Carp	32	14	14	4	.500	2	7–7–3	7–7–1
4	Yokohama DeNA BayStars	35	16	18	1	.471	3	6–11–1	10–7–0
5	Chunichi Dragons	36	15	17	4	.469	3	7–8–2	8–9–2
6	Tokyo Yakult Swallows	35	15	18	2	.455	3½	7–10–2	8–8–0

Pacific League regular season standings

Rank	Team	G	W	L	T	Pct.	GB	Home	Road
1	Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks	34	23	9	2	.719	—	12–4–1	11–5–1
2	Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters	34	19	14	1	.576	4½	11–4–1	8–10–0
3	Chiba Lotte Marines	35	16	18	1	.471	8	8–8–0	8–10–1
4	Orix Buffaloes	35	15	19	1	.441	9	8–10–0	7–9–1
5	Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles	35	15	19	1	.441	9	7–11–1	8–8–0
6	Saitama Seibu Lions	35	13	22	0	.371	11½	8–11–0	5–11–0

See also

• 2024 Major League Baseball season
• 2024 KBO League season
• 2024 Mexican League season
• 2024 Chinese Professional Baseball League season
• 2024 Frontier League season
• 2024 Pioneer League season