2009 Japan Football League

Japan Football League
Season	2009
Champions	Sagawa Shiga 2nd JFL title 2nd D3 title
Promoted	New Wave Kitakyushu
Relegated	FC Kariya Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima
Matches played	306
Goals scored	775 (2.53 per match)
Top goalscorer	Shogo Shiozawa (17 goals total)
Highest attendance	9,856 (Round 1, New Wave vs. JEF Reserves)
Lowest attendance	109 (Round 28, Printing vs. Arte)
Average attendance	1,189
← 2008 2010 →

Statistics of Japan Football League in the 2009 season.

Overview

F.C. Ryūkyū

TDK S.C.

Sony Sendai

Ryutsu Keizai
University

Arte Takasaki

Yokogawa Musashino

Machida Zelvia

JEF United Reserves

Honda F.C.

F.C. Kariya

Sagawa Shiga

MIO Biwako Kusatsu

Sagawa Printing

MM Mizushima

Gainare Tottori

New Wave
Kitakyushu

V-Varen Nagasaki

Honda Lock

At the end of the 2008 season, three new clubs were promoted from the Japanese Regional Leagues by virtue of their final placing in the All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series:

Machida Zelvia, Kanto Football League First Division champions
V-Varen Nagasaki, Kyushu Football League runners-up
Honda Lock, 3rd place at the All Japan Senior Football Championship (3rd place in Kyushu Football League)

Machida Zelvia and V-Varen Nagasaki were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in January.

Sagawa Shiga won their second championship title since 2007 season.

Table


Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Sagawa Shiga^† (C)	34	19	9	6	62	36	+26	66
2	Yokogawa Musashino^†	34	17	9	8	48	34	+14	60
3	Sony Sendai	34	17	8	9	49	30	+19	59
4	New Wave Kitakyushu (P)	34	16	10	8	49	31	+18	58	Promotion to 2010 J. League Division 2 ¹
5	Gainare Tottori^†	34	16	8	10	65	37	+28	56
6	Machida Zelvia	34	14	12	8	38	30	+8	54
7	Honda FC	34	13	12	9	49	38	+11	51
8	MIO Biwako Kusatsu	34	13	9	12	51	43	+8	48
9	Sagawa Printing	34	14	5	15	56	46	+10	47
10	TDK SC	34	14	4	16	39	54	−15	46
11	V-Varen Nagasaki	34	12	8	14	38	43	−5	44
12	JEF Reserves^†	34	9	14	11	26	37	−11	41
13	Honda Lock	34	9	13	12	34	38	−4	40
14	Arte Takasaki	34	9	13	12	34	46	−12	40
15	Ryutsu Keizai University	34	11	7	16	41	55	−14	40
16	FC Ryukyu	34	11	5	18	42	57	−15	38
17	FC Kariya (R)	34	7	10	17	26	51	−25	31	Promotion/Relegation Series ²
18	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima (R)	34	4	6	24	28	69	−41	18	Relegation to Okayama prefectural league ³

Updated to games played on November 29, 2009.
Source: Japan Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^† Denotes clubs that occupied top 4 places at the end of the first half of the season (17th week) and were seeded for 2009 Emperor's Cup. These clubs were automatically qualified for the tournament, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.
¹ Must hold J. League Associate Membership and submit applications to J. League board by 30 September (club names shown in bold), finish no less than in fourth place and pass a final inspection by J. League to be promoted. V-Varen Nagasaki and Machida Zelvia, both associate members, announced that they would not submit applications for this year due to some unresolved problems pointed out by J. League at the preliminary review.^[1]
² Series' occurrence is dependent on the number of places available after promotions to J2.
³ Mitsubishi Mizushima F.C. submitted a letter to JFL headquarters on 30 September regarding withdrawal from JFL by the end of 2009 season regardless of their 2009 results due to "various factors including recent economic slump."^[2] However, Chugoku Soccer League, one of nine Japanese Regional Leagues, declined to accept Mizushima as its 2010 league member because of their voluntary withdrawal from JFL. Therefore, the highest division which Mizushima will be able to play in 2010 season is Okayama prefectural league division 1.^[3]
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (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; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away^[1]	ART	GAI	HON	LOC	JER	KAR	RKU	MIO	MMM	NWK	PRI	RYU	SSH	SON	TDK	VVN	YMS	ZEL
Arte Takasaki		1–1	0–0	1–1	2–1	3–0	1–1	3–1	1–1	1–2	0–2	1–5	1–4	0–0	2–2	0–2	0–0	0–3
Gainare Tottori	2–2		1–3	0–1	5–0	4–0	0–1	1–0	4–1	0–0	3–0	2–0	1–2	0–0	5–1	3–1	1–1	1–0
Honda FC	0–0	2–1		0–0	1–2	1–2	1–0	1–4	2–1	2–1	1–2	3–1	0–1	1–1	2–3	2–1	0–2	0–3
Honda Lock	1–0	3–3	0–0		0–1	0–0	2–0	1–1	0–0	1–3	4–2	0–2	1–0	0–1	2–0	0–2	1–2	2–0
JEF Reserves	0–0	1–1	1–1	1–1		1–1	1–2	2–0	2–1	0–0	1–0	0–1	0–1	2–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–0
FC Kariya	1–2	4–2	1–6	0–0	0–0		2–2	3–2	3–1	0–3	0–0	2–1	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–0	1–1
Ryutsu Keizai University	0–2	0–4	1–2	3–0	0–1	1–0		3–0	1–2	1–1	1–2	0–0	5–0	4–3	2–0	0–0	0–2	1–4
MIO Biwako Kusatsu	2–1	3–1	2–2	1–1	0–0	3–0	4–0		2–0	2–2	1–1	1–2	3–2	1–2	2–1	3–0	1–3	0–1
Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima	0–2	0–3	0–2	1–6	0–1	2–0	1–1	0–2		1–2	2–4	2–2	0–3	1–3	0–1	2–5	1–2	0–1
New Wave Kitakyushu	1–2	0–0	0–0	2–0	0–0	2–0	4–0	1–0	2–3		2–1	4–1	1–1	1–0	0–1	1–0	2–2	1–1
Sagawa Printing	2–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	7–2	4–0	1–1	3–1	4–1	1–2		1–2	2–3	2–0	2–1	1–4	2–0	0–1
FC Ryukyu	1–2	1–4	0–1	2–2	1–1	0–1	1–3	1–0	0–2	0–2	2–1		0–5	2–1	2–3	0–1	2–1	1–1
Sagawa Shiga	2–0	2–1	0–4	3–0	2–0	1–1	4–0	0–0	0–0	3–1	1–1	2–3		1–1	0–0	3–0	2–2	1–3
Sony Sendai	5–0	3–1	2–2	1–1	3–0	1–0	3–0	0–1	2–0	1–0	1–0	2–1	1–2		2–3	2–0	1–2	2–0
TDK SC	1–0	0–4	1–0	2–1	3–2	1–0	0–2	2–3	2–0	4–2	2–0	0–4	1–3	0–1		1–1	0–2	1–3
V-Varen Nagasaki	0–1	1–2	2–5	2–0	1–2	0–0	1–3	1–1	2–1	1–2	0–3	1–0	2–2	0–0	2–0		2–0	0–0
Yokogawa Musashino	1–1	2–3	0–0	0–0	1–0	2–0	4–1	1–3	1–0	1–0	1–3	4–1	0–2	1–2	1–0	2–0		2–1
Machida Zelvia	1–1	1–0	1–1	1–0	0–0	0–3	2–1	1–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	1–0	0–2	1–1	2–1	1–1	1–2

Updated to games played on November 29, 2009.
Source: JFL First Round, JFL Second Round
1 ^{^} The 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^[4]
1	Shogo Shiozawa	Sagawa Printing	17
2	Shingo Kinoshita	MIO Biwako Kusatsu	15
2	Gen Nakamura	Sagawa Shiga	15
4	Keiichi Kubota	Arte Takasaki	11
	Junya Nitta	Honda FC	11
	Toshitaka Tsurumi	Gainare Tottori	11
7	Ryota Arimitsu	V-Varen Nagasaki	10
	Hamed Koné	Gainare Tottori	10
	Shoma Mizunaga	Honda Lock	10
	Tomoya Osawa	Sagawa Shiga	10
	Yuya Sano	New Wave Kitakyushu	10
	Tatsuya Sekino	Yokogawa Musashino	10

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Gainare Tottori	58,128	6,188	1,267	3,419	0.063452566096423+6.3%^†
2	New Wave Kitakyushu	57,983	9,856	1,365	3,411	1.9686684073107+196.8%^†
3	V-Varen Nagasaki	46,966	5,122	1,020	2,763	0.94989414255469+94.9%^†
4	Machida Zelvia	32,059	3,861	1,067	1,886	n/a^†
5	FC Ryukyu	22,919	2,747	618	1,348	-0.4677307425399−53.2%^†
6	Sagawa Shiga	18,617	2,139	316	1,095	0.28672150411281+28.6%^†
7	MIO Biwako Kusatsu	16,929	2,058	338	996	0.16627634660422+16.6%^†
8	Honda Lock	13,865	1,796	501	816	1.0976863753213+109.7%^†
9	Yokogawa Musashino	12,950	1,326	281	762	-0.75820895522388−24.1%^†
10	Honda FC	12,734	2,482	335	749	-0.87704918032787−12.2%^†
11	TDK SC	12,594	2,563	259	741	-0.77917981072555−22.0%^†
12	Sony Sendai	12,425	1,990	239	731	-0.84022988505747−15.9%^†
13	FC Kariya	10,312	1,188	191	607	0.0049668874172186+0.4%^†
14	Ryutsu Keizai University	7,747	725	183	456	-0.83823529411765−16.1%^†
15	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima	7,486	953	304	440	0.23943661971831+23.9%^†
16	Arte Takasaki	7,166	1,121	202	422	0.40666666666667+40.6%^†
17	Sagawa Printing	6,715	834	109	395	0.073369565217391+7.3%^†
18	JEF Reserves	6,362	713	207	374	-0.77113402061856−22.8%^†
	League total	363,957	9,856	109	1,189	−24.2%^†

Source: JFL First Round, JFL Second Round
Notes:
^† Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.

Promotion and relegation

Due to Kitakyushu being promoted and Mitsubishi Mizushima being relegated, the All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series winner and runner-up, Matsumoto Yamaga and Hitachi Tochigi Uva respectively, were promoted automatically. Third-placed team, Zweigen Kanazawa were set to play FC Kariya in the promotion and relegation series.

Zweigen Kanazawa v FC Kariya

December 13, 2009
13:00

Zweigen Kanazawa	1 – 0	FC Kariya
Furube 52'	Report

Seibu Ryoku Chikouen Stadium, Kanazawa
Attendance: 2,176
Referee: Takuto Okabe

FC Kariya v Zweigen Kanazawa

December 19, 2009
13:00

FC Kariya	1 – 1	Zweigen Kanazawa
Kusaka 87'	Report	Nemoto 31'

Kariya Municipal Athletic Park, Kariya
Attendance: 1,605
Referee: Itaru Hirose

Zweigen Kanazawa won the series at 2–1 aggregate score and earned promotion to JFL. F.C. Kariya relegated to Tōkai regional league.

References

↑ JFL:Machida became the second club to give up promotion to J2 for the next season, after Nagasaki (JFL:町田が来季のJ2昇格断念…長崎に続き2チーム目?) Mainichi Shimbun (Japanese) dated 2009-09-26
↑ Announcement:Withdrawal of Mitsubishi Mizushima FC from JFL (お知らせ「三菱水島FCのJFLからの脱退について」?) JFL official website (Japanese) dated 2009-11-02
↑ Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima withdrawn from JFL – being tossed about by the economic slump, inevitably cause another weakening. (三菱自水島JFL脱退　不況に翻弄、弱体化必至?) The Sanyo Shimbun (Japanese) dated 2009-12-12
↑ "JFL Top Scorers". jfl.or.jp. Japan Football League. Retrieved May 1, 2010.

Japanese club football

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List of champions J. League Championship Promotion/Relegation series Super Cup

Second-tier club football seasons, 1972–present

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List of champions Promotion/Relegation series

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No national third tier, 1994–1998

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J3 League 2014–present	2014 2015

List of champions

Fourth-tier club football seasons, 2014–present

Japan Football League 2014–present	2014 2015

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Football clubs in Japan, 2015

J. League Division 1	Albirex Niigata Kashima Antlers Shonan Bellmare Yokohama F. Marinos Kawasaki Frontale Gamba Osaka Nagoya Grampus Montedio Yamagata Urawa Red Diamonds Kashiwa Reysol Shimizu S-Pulse Sagan Tosu Sanfrecce Hiroshima FC Tokyo Vegalta Sendai Ventforet Kofu Vissel Kobe Matsumoto Yamaga

J. League Division 2	Avispa Fukuoka Omiya Ardija Cerezo Osaka Consadole Sapporo Ehime FC Fagiano Okayama FC Gifu Giravanz Kitakyushu Mito HollyHock JEF United Chiba Júbilo Iwata Kamatamare Sanuki Roasso Kumamoto Kyoto Sanga Thespakusatsu Gunma Tochigi SC Oita Trinita V-Varen Nagasaki Tokyo Verdy Tokushima Vortis Yokohama FC Zweigen Kanazawa

J3 League	Blaublitz Akita Fukushima United Gainare Tottori Grulla Morioka Kataller Toyama Fujieda MYFC Nagano Parceiro Renofa Yamaguchi FC Ryukyu SC Sagamihara YSCC Yokohama Machida Zelvia

100 Year Plan clubs	Azul Claro Numazu Nara Club Tonan Maebashi Vanraure Hachinohe Tochigi Uva

Japan Football League	Azul Claro Numazu Fagiano Okayama Next Honda FC Kagoshima United Honda Lock Maruyasu Okazaki MIO Biwako Shiga Nara Club FC Osaka Sagawa Printing Ryutsu Keizai Dragons Sony Sendai Tochigi Uva Vanraure Hachinohe Verspah Oita Yokogawa Musashino

Defunct clubs (clubs belong to nationwide leagues only)	Fukushima FC Arte Takasaki JEF Reserves Sagawa Express Tokyo NKK SC Yokohama Flügels ALO's Hokuriku Jatco FC Hagoromo Club Toyota Higashi-Fuji Seino Transportation Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi Sagawa Shiga Sagawa Express Osaka Eidai SC Teijin SC Nippon Steel Yawata Tosu Futures Profesor Miyazaki

2009 in Japanese football

Domestic leagues	J. League Division 1 J. League Division 2 Japan Football League Regional Leagues (Promotion Series)

Domestic cups	Emperor's Cup J. League Cup

Asian competitions	AFC Champions League

National teams	FIFA World Cup qualification AFC Asian Cup qualification East Asian Games AFC U-19 Championship qualification AFC U-16 Championship qualification

Club seasons

J. League Division 1	Albirex Niigata F.C. Tokyo Gamba Osaka JEF United Ichihara Chiba Júbilo Iwata Kashima Antlers Kashiwa Reysol Kawasaki Frontale Kyoto Sanga F.C. Montedio Yamagata Nagoya Grampus Oita Trinita Omiya Ardija Sanfrecce Hiroshima Shimizu S-Pulse Urawa Red Diamonds Vissel Kobe Yokohama F. Marinos

J. League Division 2	Avispa Fukuoka Cerezo Osaka Consadole Sapporo Ehime F.C. Fagiano Okayama F.C. Gifu Kataller Toyama Mito HollyHock Roasso Kumamoto Sagan Tosu Shonan Bellmare Thespa Kusatsu Tochigi S.C. Tokushima Vortis Tokyo Verdy Vegalta Sendai Ventforet Kofu Yokohama F.C.