2009 Japan Football League

Japan Football League 2009 15 March – 29 November Sagawa Shiga2nd JFL title2nd D3 title New Wave Kitakyushu FC KariyaMitsubishi Motors Mizushima Shogo Shiozawa (17 goals total) 306 775 9,856 (Round 1,New Wave vs. JEF Reserves) 109 (Round 28,Printing vs. Arte) 1,189 2008 2010 The 2009 Japan Football League 第11回日本フットボールリーグ Dai Jūikkai Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu yes was the eleventh season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system. Overview Japan Greater Tokyo area 450 2009 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 TDK S.C. Japan Greater Tokyo area 38 19 9 N 140 52 55 E 85 Sony Sendai 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 34 59 21.4 N 137 0 7.7 E 85 F.C. Kariya 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 34 35 N 133 46 E 85 MM Mizushima left Japan Greater Tokyo area 35 27 30 N 134 13 18 E 85 Gainare Tottori left Japan Greater Tokyo area 33.891122 130.888739 85 New Wave Kitakyushu bottom 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 2008 season, three new clubs were promoted from the Japanese Regional Leagues by virtue of their final placing in the Regional League promotion 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 main WDL PR SSH Sagawa ShigaTOP Occupied one of the 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. YMC Yokogawa MusashinoTOP SON Sony Sendai NWK New Wave Kitakyushu GAI Gainare TottoriTOP ZEL Machida Zelvia HON Honda FC MIO MIO Biwako Kusatsu PRI SP Kyoto TDK TDK SC VVN V-Varen Nagasaki JER JEF ReservesTOP LOC Honda Lock ART Arte Takasaki RKU Ryutsu Keizai University RYU FC Ryukyu KAR FC Kariya MMM Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima 19 9 6 62 36 C 17 9 8 48 34 17 8 9 49 30 16 10 8 49 31 P 16 8 10 65 37 14 12 8 38 30 13 12 9 49 38 13 9 12 51 43 14 5 15 56 46 14 4 16 39 54 12 8 14 38 43 9 14 11 26 37 9 13 12 34 38 9 13 12 34 46 11 7 16 41 55 11 5 18 42 57 7 10 17 26 51 R 4 6 24 28 69 R J. League Associate Membership and submitted applications to J. League board by 30 September. NWK green1 Promotion to 2010 J. League Division 2 Must hold J. League Associate Membership and submit applications to J. League board by 30 September, 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.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 https://web.archive.org/web/20090929040409/http://mainichi.jp/enta/sports/soccer/news/20090926k0000m050118000c.html 2009-09-29 Mainichi Shimbun (Japanese) dated 2009-09-26 P red2 Promotion/relegation Series Series' occurrence is dependent on the number of places available after promotions to J2. RP plum Relegation to Okayama prefectural league 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."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」 https://web.archive.org/web/20200504210343/http://www.jfl.or.jp/topics/topics_details.php?tcd=375&ycd=2009 2020-05-04 JFL official website (Japanese) dated 2009-11-02 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.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 https://web.archive.org/web/20091215030654/http://svr.sanyo.oni.co.jp/feature/sports/mitsu/2009/12/12/20091212120540.html 2009-12-15 The Sanyo Shimbun (Japanese) dated 2009-12-12 R 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored. November 29, 2009 Japan Football League Results main FBR grey ART GAI HON LOC JER KAR RKU MIO MMM NWK PRI RYU SSH SON TDK VVN YMC 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 SP Kyoto 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 November 29, 2009 JFL First Round, JFL Second Round Top scorers RankScorerClubGoalshttp://www.jfl.or.jp/archive/2009/result/result.html#goalscorer JFL Top Scorers May 1, 2010 jfl.or.jp Japan Football League 1JPN Shogo ShiozawaSP Kyoto 17 2JPN Shingo KinoshitaMIO Biwako Kusatsu 15JPN Gen NakamuraSagawa Shiga 15 4JPN Keiichi KubotaArte Takasaki 11JPN Junya NittaHonda FC 11JPN Toshitaka TsurumiGainare Tottori 11 7JPN Ryota ArimitsuV-Varen Nagasaki 10CIV Hamed KonéGainare Tottori 10JPN Shoma MizunagaHonda Lock 10JPN Tomoya OsawaSagawa Shiga 10JPN Yuya SanoNew Wave Kitakyushu 10JPN Tatsuya SekinoYokogawa Musashino 10 Attendance 1 Gainare Tottori 58128 6188 1267 3419 3215 2 New Wave Kitakyushu 57983 9856 1365 3411 1149 3 V-Varen Nagasaki 46966 5122 1020 2763 1417 † 4 Machida Zelvia 32059 3861 1067 1886 † 5 FC Ryukyu 22919 2747 618 1348 2882 6 Sagawa Shiga 18617 2139 316 1095 851 7 MIO Biwako Kusatsu 16929 2058 338 996 854 8 Honda Lock 13865 1796 501 816 389 † 9 Yokogawa Musashino 12950 1326 281 762 1005 10 Honda FC 12734 2482 335 749 854 11 TDK SC 12594 2563 259 741 951 12 Sony Sendai 12425 1990 239 731 870 13 FC Kariya 10312 1188 191 607 604 14 Ryutsu Keizai University 7747 725 183 456 544 15 Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima 7486 953 304 440 355 16 Arte Takasaki 7166 1121 202 422 300 17 SP Kyoto 6715 834 109 395 368 18 JEF Reserves 6362 713 207 374 485 363957 9856 109 1189 1570 JFL First Round, JFL Second Round † Team played previous season in Regional Leagues. January 2015 Promotion and relegation Due to Kitakyushu being promoted and Mitsubishi Mizushima being relegated, the Regional League promotion 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. December 13, 2009 13:00 Zweigen Kanazawa 1 – 0 Report FC Kariya Furube 52 Seibu Ryoku Chikouen Stadium, Kanazawa 2,176 Takuto Okabe December 19, 2009 13:00 FC Kariya 1 – 1 Report Zweigen Kanazawa Kusaka 87 Nemoto 31 Kariya Municipal Athletic Park, Kariya 1,605 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 third 2009 3