2000 Japan Football League

Japan Football League
Season 2000
Champions Yokohama F.C.
2nd D3 title
2nd JFL title
Promoted Yokohama F.C.
Matches played 132
Goals scored 468 (3.55 per match)
Top goalscorer Kenji Arima (24 goals total)
Highest attendance 5,324 (Round 1,
Yokohama vs. Tochigi)
Lowest attendance 84 (Round 17,
Kokushinkan vs. ALO's)
Average attendance 901
1999
2001

Statistics of Japan Football League in the 2000 season.

Contents

Overview

Kokushikan
University
Jatco F.C.
Shizuoka Sangyo
University
Kyoken Kyoto

It was contested by 12 teams, and Yokohama F.C. defended their champions title.

Table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
WO
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Promotion or relegation
1 Yokohama F.C. (C) (P) 22 19 1 2 0 66 24 +42 61 Promotion to the 2001 J. League Division 2
2 Honda Motor 22 15 2 0 5 51 29 +22 49
3 Denso S.C. 22 11 5 1 5 43 23 +20 44
4 Otsuka Pharmaceuticals 22 12 2 0 8 57 37 +20 40
5 Sony Sendai 22 11 2 0 9 51 37 +14 37
6 Jatco F.C. 22 9 0 1 12 42 44 −2 28
7 Kokushikan University 22 7 3 1 11 45 48 −3 28
8 ALO's Hokuriku 22 6 2 0 14 26 49 −23 22
9 F.C. Kyoken 22 4 3 1 14 20 38 −18 19
10 Shizuoka Sangyo University 22 4 1 2 15 25 50 −25 16
11 Tochigi S.C. 22 3 2 1 16 21 48 −27 14
12 Yokogawa F.C. 22 2 0 3 17 21 41 −20 9

Updated to games played on November 12, 2000
Source: Japan Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
Denotes clubs that occupied top three places at the end of the first half of the season (11th week) and were seeded for 2000 Emperor's Cup. These clubs were automatically qualified for the tournament, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home \ Away1 ALO DEN HON JAT KSU KYO OTP SON SSU TOC YOK YFC
ALO's Hokuriku 0–1 1–2
 OT 
4–2 2–1 1–0 1–6 2–1 1–4 0–2 3–2 0–1
Denso S.C. 2–0 1–0
 OT 
5–1 2–1
 OT 
1–2 2–1 1–2
 OT 
2–1 2–1
 OT 
1–0 1–2
 OT 
Honda Motor 3–1 2–0 1–2 2–0 2–1
 OT 
2–1 5–1 5–0 2–0 2–1 2–7
Jatco F.C. 5–1 0–2 0–3 2–2
 OT 
4–0 1–3 1–0 1–2 4–3 3–2 0–1
Kokushikan University 3–2
 OT 
2–3 3–4 3–1 1–2
 OT 
1–3 4–5 2–1 2–0 2–1 1–4
F.C. Kyoken 1–2
 OT 
0–4 0–3 1–4 2–1 1–2
 OT 
1–2 0–1 2–1
 OT 
0–0
 OT 
0–1
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals 1–0 1–2
 OT 
3–1 4–0 2–4 3–2 2–1
 OT 
8–0 0–1 1–0 1–5
Sony Sendai 3–1 2–1
 OT 
2–3 1–0 1–2
 OT 
2–0 3–4 3–0 7–0 1–0 1–2
Shizuoka Sangyo University 5–1 1–3 1–2 1–4 1–2
 OT 
2–3
 OT 
2–1
 OT 
1–3 1–2 0–1 1–2
Tochigi S.C. 0–1
 OT 
0–2 0–2 0–4 2–3 0–1 2–4 0–3 0–0
 OT 
3–2
 OT 
0–1
Yokogawa F.C. 1–2 2–3
 OT 
1–3 2–1 1–2 0–1 0–4 1–2 0–0
 OT 
2–3
 OT 
1–3
Yokohama F.C. 3–0 2–2
 OT 
3–0 3–2 5–3 1–0 6–2 6–5 4–0 3–1 1–1
 OT 

Updated to games played on November 12, 2000
Source: Japan Football League
1The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Kenji Arima Yokohama F.C.
24
2 Hidenori Tabata Sony Sendai
19
3 Takehiro Hayashi Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
16
4 Shusuke Shimada Otsuka Pharmaceuticals
15
5 Tatsuya Furuhashi Honda Motor
14

Attendances

Rank Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Yokohama F.C. 40,293 5,324 2,808 3,663 -0.89779411764706−10.2%
2 Sony Sendai 12,027 4,421 317 1,093 0.67381316998469+67.3%
3 Tochigi S.C. 11,543 2,279 473 1,049
n/a
4 Honda Motor 10,982 3,139 438 998 -0.88084730803177−11.9%
5 Yokogawa F.C. 7,736 2,744 265 703 0.17166666666667+17.1%
6 Jatco F.C. 7,335 2,803 210 667 0.075806451612903+7.5%
7 Shizuoka Sangyo University 5,763 1,568 172 524
n/a
8 Otsuka Pharmaceuticals 5,550 2,219 203 505 -0.89065255731922−10.9%
9 ALO's Hokuriku 5,320 1,602 260 484
n/a
10 Denso S.C. 4,760 1,168 241 433 -0.82791586998088−17.2%
11 F.C. Kyoken 4,246 1,080 206 386
n/a
12 Kokushikan University 3,375 1,786 84 307 -0.86723163841808−13.2%
League total 118,930 5,324 84 901 −16.8%

Source:
Notes:
Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.
Team played previous season in College Leagues.

Promotion and relegation

No relegation has occurred as league continued to expand. At the end of the season, the winner and runner-up of All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series, Sagawa Express Tokyo and YKK F.C. were promoted automatically. In addition, NTT West Kumamoto, S.C. Tottori and Ehime F.C. were included by JFA recommendation.

References