1996 Japan Football League

Japan Football League 1996 Honda Vissel Kobe Tosu Futures Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi (both were folded after the season) 240 825 1995 1997 Statistics of Japan Football League in the 1996 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Honda won the championship. However, citing continuing corporate ownership, they were refused promotion by the J.League, who took in the runner-up, Vissel Kobe, instead. Newly promoted before the season were Nippon Denso, later known as FC Kariya, and Oita Trinity, later known as Oita Trinita. Clubs The following sixteen clubs participated in Japan Football League Division 1 during the 1996 season. Brummell Sendai Consadole Sapporo Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi Denso Fujitsu Kawasaki Fukushima Honda Montedio Yamagata NTT Kanto Oita Trinity Otsuka Pharmaceutical Seino Transportation Tokyo Gas Tosu Futures Ventforet Kofu Vissel Kobe Personnel Club Head coachBrummell Sendai JPN Choei SatoConsadole Sapporo JPN Takeo TakahashiCosmo Oil Yokkaichi JPN Yoshihiko YamamotoDenso Fujitsu Kawasaki Fukushima Honda Montedio Yamagata JPN Nobuhiro IshizakiNTT Kanto Oita Trinity KOR Moon Jung-sikOtsuka Pharmaceutical BRA EdinhoSeino Transportation Tokyo Gas JPN Kiyoshi OkumaTosu Futures KOR Chang Woe-ryongVentforet Kofu JPN Yuji TsukadaVissel Kobe SCO Stuart Baxter Foreign players Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Non-visa foreign Former players Brummell Sendai Brazil Edmar Czech Republic František Mysliveček Germany Frank Ordenewitz Germany Pierre Littbarski Germany Reinhard Stumpf Consadole Sapporo Brazil Pereira Czech Republic Luboš Zákostelský Czech Republic Pavel Řehák Uruguay Raul Otero North Korea Kim Jong-songPeru David Soria Yoshinari Brazil Alcindo Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi South Korea Kim Byung-soo Denso Fujitsu Kawasaki Netherlands André Paus Nigeria Momodu Mutairu Fukushima South Korea Gwak Kyung-keun Honda Brazil Wagner Lopes Brazil Walter Montedio Yamagata Brazil Aldro Brazil Angelo NTT Kanto Oita Trinity South Korea Choi Dae-shik South Korea Hwangbo Kwan South Korea Lee Woo-young South Korea Lee Young-jin Otsuka Pharmaceutical Brazil Almir Seino Transportation Tokyo Gas Brazil Amaral Brazil João Cavalo Brazil Júnior Cameroon Edwin Ifeanyi Tosu Futures Cameroon Stephen Tataw Panama Jorge Dely Valdés Peru Edwin UeharaPeru Hector Takayama Ventforet Kofu Brazil Baron Uruguay Mario López Vissel Kobe Denmark Michael Laudrup Scotland Lee Baxter Sweden Jan Jönsson Switzerland Thomas Bickel Tunisia Ziad Tlemçani South Korea Cho Kwi-jae League standings PosClubPWLFA GDPtsNotes1Honda302558335 4875Champions (Refused promotion)2Vissel Kobe302557832 4675Promoted to J.League3Tokyo Gas302466328 35734Tosu Futures3020106843 2562Folded5Consadole Sapporo3020106043 17626Brummell Sendai3018126752 15567Otsuka Pharmaceutical3018125641 15558Montedio Yamagata3016144549 -4499Fujitsu Kawasaki3015154845 34510Oita Trinity3013174252 -103911Ventforet Kofu30 11 19 50 56 -633 12Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi3011193149 -2833Folded13NTT Kanto307233655 -192314Fukushima307233063 -332215Denso305254090 -501616Seino Transportation305252882 -5415 Updated to match(es) played in November 1996. Source: rsssf.org https://www.rsssf.org/tablesj/jap96.html RSSSF 15 February 2021 Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. Notes: Teams in Bold are the J.League associate members After the season Tosu Futures & Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi folded References second 1996 2 Japan Japan