2010 Japan Football League

Japan Football League 2010 14 March – 28 November Gainare Tottori1st JFL title1st D3 title Gainare Tottori Ryutsu Keizai University Sho Gokyu (27 goals total) 306 847 9,499 (Round 25,Gainare vs. Sagawa) 0 (Round 19,Lock vs. Zweigen) 1,464 2009 2011 The 2010 Japan Football League 第12回日本フットボールリーグ Dai Jūni-kai Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu yes was the twelfth season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system. Overview Japan Greater Tokyo area 450 2010 JFL teams Japan Greater Tokyo area 26.308612 127.820993 85 F.C. Ryūkyū Japan Greater Tokyo area 39 43 17.58 N 140 5 57.4 E 85 Blaublitz Akita Japan Greater Tokyo area 38 19 9 N 140 52 55 E 85 Sony Sendai Japan Greater Tokyo area 36 22 52.8 N 139 43 49 E 85 TochigiUva top Japan Greater Tokyo area 36 23 48.1 N 140 32 4.8 E 85 Ryutsu KeizaiUniversity Japan Greater Tokyo area 36 19 18.8 N 139 0 11.8 E 85 Arte Takasaki left Japan Greater Tokyo area 35.717441 139.568354 85 Yokogawa Musashino Japan Greater Tokyo area 35.5925 139.438889 85 Machida Zelvia left Japan Greater Tokyo area 35.527974 140.071639 85 JEF United Reserves Japan Greater Tokyo area 34 48 38.3 N 137 43 20.6 E 85 HondaF.C. Japan Greater Tokyo area 36.179662 137.917128 85 Matsumoto Yamaga Japan Greater Tokyo area 36 34 33 N 136 36 19 E 85 Zweigen Kanazawa Japan Greater Tokyo area 35 3 31 N 135 59 39 E 85 Sagawa Shiga left Japan Greater Tokyo area 35 0 N 136 5 E 85 MIO Biwako Kusatsu top Japan Greater Tokyo area 34 52 11 N 135 48 14 E 85 SagawaPrinting bottom Japan Greater Tokyo area 35 27 30 N 134 13 18 E 85 Gainare Tottori left Japan Greater Tokyo area 32.838611 130.039444 85 V-Varen Nagasaki Japan Greater Tokyo area 31 55 N 131 25 E 85 Honda Lock At the end of the 2009 season, three new clubs were promoted from the Japanese Regional Leagues by virtue of their final placing in the Regional League promotion series: Matsumoto Yamaga and Hitachi Tochigi Uva were promoted automatically. Zweigen Kanazawa won the play-off series against FC Kariya. Before the season corporate TDK SC were renamed to Blaublitz Akita and started operations as an independent football club. Hitachi Tochigi Uva S.C. has dropped the company prefix and changed its name to simply Tochigi Uva F.C. Matsumoto Yamaga were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in February. Zweigen Kanazawa applied for the membership later in April but the application was not accepted because of incomplete documentation. Gainare Tottori are the first club to be promoted to J. League Division 2 as champions since Ehime FC in 2005 season. Table main WDL 5 PR GAI Gainare Tottori SSH Sagawa Shiga ZEL Machida Zelvia HON Honda FC VVN V-Varen Nagasaki PRI SP Kyoto YAM Matsumoto Yamaga BLA Blaublitz Akita ZWE Zweigen Kanazawa RYU FC Ryukyu MIO MIO Biwako Kusatsu YMC Yokogawa Musashino LOC Honda Lock SON Sony Sendai UVA Tochigi Uva JER JEF Reserves ART Arte Takasaki RKU Ryutsu Keizai University 24 5 5 64 31 C,P 17 11 6 69 35 19 4 11 71 44 18 5 11 52 43 15 8 11 50 38 15 8 11 54 46 15 7 12 48 41 14 9 11 54 41 13 9 12 46 41 14 6 14 51 51 13 7 14 51 56 12 9 13 34 38 10 12 12 36 39 11 9 14 34 42 7 10 17 41 75 7 9 18 31 55 7 8 19 28 51 5 4 25 33 80 R ZEL ZEL Occupied one of the top 3 places at the end of the first half of the season (17th week) and were seeded for 2010 Emperor's Cup. These clubs were automatically qualified for the tournament, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier. YAM J. League Associate Membership and passed a final inspection by J. League. green1 Promotion to 2011 J.League Division 2 Must hold J. League Associate Membership, pass a final inspection by J. League and finish no less than in fourth place to be promoted. Machida Zelvia have announced that their stadium is not meeting the J. League standards so they are not eligible for the promotion till 2012 season.About J. League admission Jリーグ入会に向けて https://web.archive.org/web/20100908091311/http://www.zelvia.jp/cgi-bin/info/info.cgi?month=201009&num=1273 2010-09-08 , official Machida Zelvia website, dated 2010-09-07. Later the announcement of the same kind was made by V-Varen Nagasaki, although their eligibility date is as far as 2013 season.Preliminary results of J. League admission Jリーグ入会予備審査の結果について https://web.archive.org/web/20101125063602/http://www.v-varen.com/news/detail.cfm?page_id=316 2010-11-25 , official V-Varen Nagasaki website, dated 2010-09-16. P red2 Promotion/relegation Series Play-off series' and direct relegation occurrence is dependent on the number of places available after promotions to J2. RP red1 Relegation to Regional Leagues RP R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. November 28, 2010 Japan Football League Results main FBR grey ART BLA GAI HON LOC JER RKU MIO PRI RYU SSH SON UVA VVN YAM YMC ZEL ZWE Arte Takasaki 0–1 0–3 1–2 1–1 1–1 1–0 1–4 0–1 1–2 0–2 0–0 1–1 0–2 2–2 1–0 2–4 1–1 Blaublitz Akita 2–0 3–2 5–0 1–1 3–0 4–2 3–0 1–1 2–1 2–3 1–0 1–1 0–0 1–3 1–1 1–2 2–2 Gainare Tottori 1–0 2–0 1–0 0–0 2–1 2–1 1–0 4–2 3–0 3–1 3–1 2–1 2–1 3–0 2–1 3–2 3–1 Honda FC 1–2 3–1 1–3 2–0 2–1 1–0 1–2 2–1 0–1 2–0 0–0 4–0 1–0 0–3 2–0 2–1 2–0 Honda Lock 0–1 2–2 0–0 2–2 3–0 3–2 3–4 1–0 0–1 0–0 2–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 3–0 2–1 1–1 JEF Reserves 1–3 1–2 0–3 1–0 3–0 1–2 0–0 0–0 2–1 0–0 1–0 1–1 1–2 1–0 0–1 2–3 1–3 Ryutsu Keizai University 1–0 0–1 1–3 1–2 0–2 1–2 2–2 0–3 0–3 2–5 1–3 2–0 0–4 1–2 0–1 0–3 2–4 MIO Biwako Kusatsu 3–0 1–0 5–0 0–1 2–2 5–0 0–1 2–0 2–1 1–2 2–0 0–1 2–3 2–2 0–2 4–3 1–0 SP Kyoto 2–1 2–1 0–0 3–4 1–0 1–0 2–2 8–2 2–1 0–3 0–1 3–0 3–3 0–2 2–0 1–4 1–2 FC Ryukyu 1–2 1–0 1–1 2–2 1–2 2–2 0–2 4–1 3–3 1–1 2–1 2–2 2–1 0–2 0–1 3–1 3–1 Sagawa Shiga 1–0 4–1 4–1 2–0 2–0 2–2 7–0 3–0 2–0 3–0 1–2 5–1 1–0 1–2 2–2 1–1 2–2 Sony Sendai 1–1 1–0 1–1 0–3 0–0 0–0 3–2 1–1 2–3 1–0 1–1 0–0 2–3 3–2 2–1 2–1 0–1 Tochigi Uva 2–1 1–5 0–6 4–4 0–1 1–0 2–2 1–1 1–2 2–5 2–3 4–0 0–2 2–2 1–0 1–4 1–3 V-Varen Nagasaki 1–0 1–1 1–2 1–2 2–0 0–1 3–1 1–1 1–1 4–2 2–1 1–0 5–2 1–0 0–1 0–1 0–1 Matsumoto Yamaga 0–0 1–2 1–0 1–0 0–2 5–1 2–1 6–0 0–1 0–2 0–0 0–2 2–3 1–1 1–0 1–2 1–0 Yokogawa Musashino 3–1 1–1 0–1 1–1 3–0 2–2 0–0 1–0 1–4 0–1 2–1 1–0 0–0 0–0 0–1 2–3 3–2 Machida Zelvia 2–3 1–0 0–1 1–2 1–1 2–1 5–1 2–0 0–0 1–2 1–1 3–1 3–1 3–0 6–1 1–2 2–0 Zweigen Kanazawa 2–0 0–3 1–0 2–1 0–0 2–1 4–0 0–1 0–1 3–0 2–2 0–1 1–0 2–2 1–1 1–1 0–1 November 28, 2010 First round, Second round Top scorers {| class="wikitable" |- !Rank !Scorer !Club !Goalshttp://www.jfl.or.jp/jfl-pc/view/s.php?a=34#goalscorer JFL Top Scorers May 1, 2010 jfl.or.jp Japan Football League https://web.archive.org/web/20100421111110/http://www.jfl.or.jp/jfl-pc/view/s.php?a=34 21 April 2010 live |- ! 1 |JPN Sho Gokyu |Sagawa Shiga |align=center| 27 |- ! 2 |JPN Masatoshi Matsuda |Blaublitz Akita |align=center| 24 |- ! 3 |JPN Yoshinori Katsumata |Machida Zelvia |align=center| 18 |- ! 4 |JPN Ryosuke Kijima |Machida Zelvia |align=center| 16 |- !rowspan=2| 5 |JPN Ryota Arimitsu |V-Varen Nagasaki |align=center| 13 |- |JPN Shunta Takahashi |Tochigi Uva |align=center| 13 |- ! 7 |JPN Shintaro Hirai |SP Kyoto |align=center| 11 |- !rowspan=4| 8 |JPN Michiaki Kakimoto |Matsumoto Yamaga |align=center| 10 |- |CIV Hamed Koné |Gainare Tottori |align=center| 10 |- |JPN Junya Nitta |Honda FC |align=center| 10 |- |JPN Kodai Suzuki |Honda FC |align=center| 10 |- |} Attendance 1 Matsumoto Yamaga 86357 8243 3271 5080 3482 † 2 Machida Zelvia 59552 7081 1411 3503 1886 3 Gainare Tottori 59318 9499 1837 3489 3419 4 V-Varen Nagasaki 42917 5942 1155 2525 2763 5 FC Ryukyu 30207 3698 424 1777 1348 6 Zweigen Kanazawa 26314 6894 476 1548 1487 † 7 Blaublitz Akita 21349 2183 845 1256 741 8 Sagawa Shiga 20108 2801 517 1183 1095 9 MIO Biwako Kusatsu 13474 2144 163 793 996 10 Honda FC 13258 2489 316 780 749 11 Yokogawa Musashino 13196 1212 449 776 762 12 Sony Sendai 12919 1958 400 760 731 13 Tochigi Uva 12753 1313 361 750 † 14 Honda Lock 9135 1225 0 537 816 ‡ 15 Ryutsu Keizai University 7454 958 184 438 456 16 Arte Takasaki 7318 1021 186 430 422 17 SP Kyoto 6830 743 169 402 395 18 JEF Reserves 5515 555 133 324 374 447974 9499 0 1464 1189 November 28, 2010 First round, Second round † Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.‡ Some Honda Lock games were played without spectators because of the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak in Miyazaki Prefecture. May 2012 Promotion and relegation Due to Gainare Tottori being promoted to J2, the Regional League promotion series champions and runners-up, Kamatamare Sanuki and Nagano Parceiro, were promoted automatically. The third-placed Sanyo Electric Sumoto S.C. faced Arte Takasaki in the promotion and relegation series. December 11, 2010 13:00 Sanyo Electric Sumoto S.C. 0 – 3 Report Arte Takasaki Kawasato 38Iwama 44Yoshida 64 Asupa Sports Park Ground, Sumoto 680 Jumpei Iida December 19, 2010 13:00 Arte Takasaki 1 – 1 Report Sanyo Electric Sumoto S.C. Yoshida 90+1 Ota 19 Takasaki Hamakawa Athletic Stadium, Takasaki 1,173 Itaru Hirose Arte Takasaki won the series 4–1 on aggregate and stayed in JFL. References third 2010 3