J.League Division 2 2012

J.League Division 2 2012
master	Ventforet Kofu
Climbers	Ventforet Kofu Shonan Bellmare Ōita Trinita (via playoffs )
Relegated	FC Machida Zelvia
Teams	22nd
Games	462
Gates	1073  (ø 2.32 per game)
← J.League Division 2 2011 J.League Division 2 2013 →
↑ J.League Division 1 2012 Japan Football League 2012 ↓

The J.League Division 2 2012 was the thirteenth season of the Japanese J.League Division 2 . 22 clubs took part in it. The season began on March 4th and ended on November 11th, 2011, the then for the first time carried out promotion playoffs between the teams in places 3 to 6 to determine the third promoter took place on November 18th and 23rd.

Champion and thus promoted to the J.League Division 1 2012 was Ventforet Kofu . In addition to Kofu, runner-up Shonan Bellmare also rose. In the promotion playoffs, sixth-placed Ōita Trinita prevailed.

For the first time since Division 2 was founded, relegation to a lower division was also possible. Ultimately, this unfortunate honor went to the bottom of the table, FC Machida Zelvia , who was transferred to the 2013 Japan Football League after just one year in the Japanese second division .

mode

The clubs played a double round tournament ; thus there were a total of 42 games per team. There were three points for a win and one point for a draw. The table was created according to the following criteria:

1. Number of points scored
2. Goal difference
3. Goals scored
4. Results of the games among themselves
5. Decision game or coin toss

The two clubs with the most points went straight to J.League Division 1 2013 at the end of the season .

The third climber was determined by a tournament in the knockout system over two rounds between the teams in places 3 to 6. Here the third played against the sixth, the fourth competed against the fifth. The higher ranked team enjoyed home rights. In the event of a tie after 90 minutes, the better-ranked club advanced one round. The final took place in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo , the winner was promoted to Division 1.

For the first time since Division 2 was founded, up to two teams were relegated to the Japan Football League in 2013 . The exact circumstances depended on the number of teams eligible for promotion in the first two places in the JFL. In two such teams, the bottom of the table in Division 2 rose directly, the penultimate had to play in two relegation games against the JFL runner-up. If there was only one team eligible for promotion among the two best JFL clubs, the Division 2 bottom of the table rose directly if the JFL representative had become champions, otherwise two relegation games were held here as well.

Attendees

A total of 22 teams took part in the season, two more than in the previous season. At the end of the preseason, three clubs were promoted to Division 1 in 2012 . Master FC Tokyo was able to repair the relegation from the House of Lords immediately at the end of the 2010 season, the third-placed Consadole Sapporo returned to Division 1 for the third time after three years in Division 2. Sagan Tosu was placed between Tokyo and Consadole , the last team of the Division 2 founding members to make their first promotion to Division 1 after thirteen years in this division.

The three promoted teams were replaced by three clubs from Division 1. Sixteenth in the table Ventforet Kofu and seventeenth Avispa Fukuoka both returned to Division 2 after just one year in the House of Lords, while bottom group Montedio Yamagata ended a three-year membership in Division 1.

The field of participants was completed by FC Machida Zelvia , third place in the Japan Football League 2011 , and Matsumoto Yamaga FC , fourth of the same season. With these two clubs, the desired maximum number of 22 clubs for the league was reached.

Toyama Gifu Kyoto Tottori Okayama Tokushima Matsuyama Kita Kyushu Kumamoto Ōita Mito Tochigi Kusatsu Chiba Tokyo Hiratsuka Yokohama Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the J.League Division 2 2012

society	City / region	Stadion
Avispa Fukuoka	Fukuoka , Fukuoka	Level 5 stage
Ehime FC	Matsuyama , Ehime	Ningineer Stadium
Fagiano Okayama	Okayama , okayama	Kanko stage 1
Gainare Tottori	Tottori , Tottori	Tottori Bank Bird Stadium
FC Gifu	Gifu , Gifu	Nagaragawa Stadium 2
Giravanz Kitakyushu	Kitakyushu , Fukuoka	Honjō Athletic Stadium
JEF United Ichihara Chiba	Chiba , Chiba	Fukuda Denshi Arena
Kataller Toyama	Toyama , Toyama	Toyama Athletic Recreation Park Stadium
Kyoto Sanga	Kyōto , Kyōto	Nishikyōgoku Athletic Stadium 3
FC Machida Zelvia	Machida , Tokyo	Machida Municipal Stadium 4
Matsumoto Yamaga FC	Matsumoto , Nagano	Matsumotodaira Park Stadium Alwin
Mito HollyHock	Mito , Ibaraki	K's denki Stadium
Montedio Yamagata	Tendō , Yamagata	ND Soft Stadium
Ōita Trinita	Ōita , Ōita	Ōita Bank Dome
Roasso Kumamoto	Kumamoto , Kumamoto	Kumamoto Athletics Stadium 5
Shonan Bellmare	Hiratsuka , Kanagawa	Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka
Thespa Kusatsu	Kusatsu , Gunma	Shoda Shoyu Stadium Gunma 6
Tochigi SC	Tochigi , Tochigi	Tochigi Green Stadium
Tokushima Vortis	Tokushima , Tokushima	Pocarisweat Stadium
Tokyo Verdy	Tokyo	Ajinomoto Stadium 7
Ventforet Kofu	Kofu , Yamanashi	Yamanashi Chūō Bank Stadium
Yokohama FC	Yokohama , Kanagawa	NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium 8

Remarks

1. Fagiano Okayama played a home game at the Tsuyama Athletics Stadium in Tsuyama , Okayama.
2. Gifu FC played four home games at the neighboring Nagaragawa Ballgame Field Meadow , a court adjacent to Nagaragawa Stadium.
3. Kyōto Sanga played a home game at the Kagoshima Kamoike Stadium in Kagoshima , Kagoshima .
4. FC Machida Zelvia played a home game at the Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium .
5. Roasso Kumamoto played three games at the Kumamoto Suizenji Stadium in Kumamoto.
6. Thespa Kusatsu played two home games at the Kumagaya Athletic Stadium in Kumagaya , Saitama .
7. Tokyo Verdy played two home games each at Komazawa Olympic Park Stadium and Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka, as well as one game at Tokyo Olympic Stadium.
8. Yokohama FC played a home game at Fukushima Azuma Stadium in Fukushima , Fukushima .

Trainer

society	Head coach
Montedio Yamagata	Ryosuke Okuno
Mito HollyHock	Tetsuji Hashiratani
Tochigi SC	Hiroshi Matsuda
Thespa Kusatsu	Hiroshi Soejima
JEF United Chiba	Takashi Kiyama
Tokyo Verdy	Ryōichi Kawakatsu → Shin'ichirō Takahashi
FC Machida Zelvia	Osvaldo Ardiles → Naoki Kusunose → Yutaka Akita
Yokohama FC	Yasuyuki Kishino → Takahiro Taguchi → Motohiro Yamaguchi
Shonan Bellmare	Cho Kwi-jae
Ventforet Kofu	Hiroshi Jofuku
Matsumoto Yamaga FC	Yasuharu Sorimachi
Kataller Toyama	Takayoshi Amma
FC Gifu	Kōji Gyōtoku
Kyoto Sanga FC	Takeshi Ōki
Gainare Tottori	Hideo Yoshizawa
Fagiano Okayama	Masanaga Kageyama
Tokushima Vortis	Shinji Kobayashi
Ehime FC	Ivica Barbaric
Avispa Fukuoka	Kōji Maeda → Futoshi Ikeda
Giravanz Kitakyushu	Yasutoshi Miura
Roasso Kumamoto	Takuya Takagi
Oita Trinita	Kazuaki Tasaka

player

society	player
Montedio Yamagata	Kenta Shimizu (42/0), Ryō Kobayashi (36/1), Hidenori Ishii (28/4), Shōgo Nishikawa (37/1), Kazuya Maeda (24/0), Takumi Yamada (9/0), Katsuyuki Miyazawa (19/0), Yūji Funayama (27/2), Yūki Nakashima (41/9), Shun Itō (2/0), Tomotaka Kitamura (3/0), Tatsuya Ishikawa (41/3), Takuya Miyamoto (16 / 0), Masaki Miyasaka (40/6), Tomoyasu Hirose (18/1), Hiroki Bandai (32/4), Masaru Akiba (41/8), Daichi Kawashima (2/0), Ryōta Nagata (20/2 ), Kōhei Higa (10/0), Naoya Okane (8/0), Tetsurō Ōta (15/1), Masato Yamazaki (35/4), Branquinho (13/3), Ryōhei Hayashi (16/2)
Mito HollyHock	Kōji Homma (42/0), Yūki Okada (11/0), Naoki Wako (30/0), Kei Omoto (30/0), Hiroki Katō (8/1), Tsukasa Shiotani (25/2), Sai Kanakubo (3/0), Shō Murata (10/0), Kōta Yoshihara (18/1), Kōji Hashimoto (38/6), Kōhei Mishima (9/0), Tatsuya Okamoto (18/8), Kenta Nishioka (35 / 2), Yūki Shimada (29/4), Kōsei Ishigami (27/0), Yūto Suzuki (19/1), Kim Yong-gi (20/1), Kenji Dai (8/0), Yōhei Sakai (6 / 0), Kōhei Uchida (4/0), Romero Frank (41/5), Daisuke Ichikawa (32/1), Tsukasa Ozawa (39/7), Yūki Yamamura (5/1), Takayuki Suzuki (36/4 ), Kenta Hoshihara (11/1), Kazunori Yoshimoto (2/1), Jun'ya Hosokawa (7/1)
Tochigi SC	Kunihiro Shibazaki (5/0), Yoshiya Nishizawa (9/0), Masashi Ōwada (22/1), Shūto Suzuki (4/0), Takefumi Tōma (29/2), Paulinho (29/1), Kōji Hirose ( 41/11), Sabia (38/9), Kazumasa Takagi (41/4), Kazuhisa Kawahara (16/0), Takumi Motohashi (4/0), Kazunori Kan (32/1), Kenji Arabori (17/0 ), Makoto Sugimoto (27/4), Tatsunori Yamagata (19/0), Hideyuki Akai (21/1), Ryūta Sasaki (15/0), Hiroyuki Takeda (35/0), Yūki Natsume (34/1), Masaki Yanagawa (4/0), Yoo Dea-hyun (8/0), Tatsuya Onodera (26/3), Hirokazu Usami (23/0), Tomoyuki Suzuki (3/0), Takurō Kikuoka (39/7), Cha Young-hwan (24/2), Yūdai Tanaka (4/0), Kōhei Usui (1/0), Satoshi Kukino (13/1)
Thespa Kusatsu	Keisuke Naitō (2/0), Sunao Hozaki (10/0), Takafumi Mikuriya (36/2), Takuya Nagata (36/0), Hideyuki Nakamura (30/0), Kazuki Sakurada (35/1), Yūsuke Hayashi (27/0), Keisuke Endō (37/1), Lincoln (16/4), Heberty (22/5), Kim Seng-yong (39/3), Shingo Arizono (13/0), Shingo Kumabayashi (34 / 1), Tatsuki Kobayashi (36/4), Ryōta Doi (18/0), Satoru Hoshino (6/0), Hiroyuki Sugimoto (18/1), Ryō Gotō (21/0), Hiroto Yamamoto (2/0 ), Kazuma Kita (40/0), Tatsushi Koyanagi (27/0), Daichi Inui (7/0), Shōhei Yokoyama (19/1), Alex Rafael (10/3), Yūki Matsushita (37/3)
JEF United Chiba	Masahiro Okamoto (34/0), Masataka Sakamoto (9/0), Akira Takeuchi (42/2), Ryōta Aoki (2/0), Satoshi Yamaguchi (37/5), Mark Milligan (9/2), Yūto Satō (31/2), Aaroy (15/1), Masaki Fukai (36/4), Reginaldo (10/0), Kōki Yonekura (22/2), Kei Yamaguchi (8/0), Tomoyuki Arata (20/6 ), Akihiro Hyōdō (41/7), Kentarō Satō (34/0), Ryō Kushino (9/0), Yoshihito Fujita (36/15), Yūsuke Tanaka (34/8), Daisuke Itō (25/2), Yūichi Kubo (2/0), Eijirō Takeda (28/0), Keiji Watanabe (9/0), Yamato Machida (7/0), Kazuki Ōiwa (33/2), Shōhei Ōtsuka (15/1), Shunki Takahashi (14/0), Ricardo Lobo (12/0), Tatsuya Yazawa (14/2)
Tokyo Verdy	Yōichi Doi (18/0), Mitsuyuki Yoshihiro (2/0), Kōta Fukatsu (32/3), Shōhei Takahashi (38/6), Naoya Saeki (2/0), Yūsuke Nakatani (20/0), Kōsei Shibasaki (13/0), Masaki Chūgo (19/2), Takuma Abe (40/18), Yūki Kobayashi (24/4), Norihiro Nishi (38/6), Junki Koike (23/3), Josimar (16 / 1), Kazunori Iio (35/4), Yukio Tsuchiya (31/1), Seiichirō Maki (18/1), Yūsuke Mori (39/2), Alex (9/1), Ryōsuke Tone (8/0), Takuya Wada (39/0), Ryōta Kajikawa (35/3), Shūto Minami (4/0), Takahiro Shibasaki (24/0), Takahiro Tanaka (5/0), Kōki Takenaka (1/0), Ryūji Sugimoto (3/0), Shōya Nakajima (8/4), Naoki Maeda (4/0), Ken'yū Sugimoto (18/5), Bae Dae-won (3/0), Jymmy Franca (7/1), Ryosuke Kijima (9/0)
FC Machida Zelvia	Tomohito Shūgyō (34/0), Kazuki Tsuda (22/0), Taisei Fujita (38/0), Kazuyuki Toda (2/0), Masakazu Tashiro (34/0), Kōsuke Ōta (38/4), Yoshinori Katsumata (26/3), Takumi Ogawa (1/0), Dragan Dimic (32/4), Ryō Sakai (1/0), Ryūto Ōtake (6/0), Jun Sonoda (21/0), Shōhei Yanagizaki (20 / 0), Yoshihiro Shōji (27/0), Takafumi Suzuki (38/7), Kai Miki (34/1), Yūki Kitai (38/5), Kōji Suzuki (18/0), Takashi Aizawa (9/0 ), Katsuya Senzaki (1/0), Kazuki Hiramoto (36/5), Colin Marshall (27/0), Kōhei Katō (29/0), Kōhei Shimoda (16/1), Lee Gang-jin (11/1 ), Shūto Kōno (15/1)
Yokohama FC	Junnosuke Schneider (34/0), Takumi Abe (39/1), Roberto (2/0), Bae Seung-jin (36/0), Tsuyoshi Hakkaku (29/0), Keiji Takachi (34/3), Tomoya Uchida (9/1), Kensuke Satō (28/3), Hiroaki Namba (9/0), Kaio (25/10), Kazuyoshi Miura (14/1), Yōsuke Nozaki (36/4), Yūto Takeoka (34 / 7), Takanori Nakajima (3/0), Takahiro Nakazato (27/1), Yūichirō Nagai (7/2), Kōsuke Onose (15/2), Masaki Watanabe (6/0), Masaaki Ideguchi (13/0 ), Satoshi Horinouchi (22/2), Hiroshi Nakano (9/0), Park Tae-hong (3/0), Tsukasa Morimoto (23/3), Yūki Nogami (3/0), Kentarō Seki (8/0 ), Arata Sugiyama (27/0), Yutaka Tahara (30/7), Tetsuya Ōkubo (42/12), Shin'ichi Terada (16/0)
Shonan Bellmare	Kim Yeong-gi (4/0), Shōma Kamata (40/0), Wataru Endō (32/7), Takahiro Yamaguchi (10/0), Shōta Kobayashi (38/3), Ryōta Nagaki (41/2), Han Kook-young (27/0), Kōji Sakamoto (25/0), Macena (2/0), Quirino (17/7), Daisuke Kikuchi (39/7), Yūya Nakamura (8/2), Ken Iwao (2/0), Tōmi Shimomura (17/1), Yūzō Iwakami (21/5), Yūki Igari (6/0), Kenji Baba (28/9), Tatsuya Furuhashi (36/5), Shūhei Ōtsuki (18 / 5), Kōhei Mihara (6/0), Takuya Matsumoto (1/0), Kazunari Ōno (38/2), Kaoru Takayama (38/6), Taisuke Miyazaki (16/1), Masashi Kamekawa (37/0 ), Lee Min-soo (3/0), Ryōhei Yoshihama (3/1), Tsuyoshi Shimamura (32/3), Alex (2/0)
Ventforet Kofu	Kōta Ogi (42/0), Kensuke Fukuda (41/1), Daisuke Tomita (7/0), Hideomi Yamamoto (40/2), Douglas (29/1), Shō Sasaki (35/2), Katsuya Ishihara ( 23/1), Atsushi Katagiri (12/1), Hiroyuki Takasaki (27/5), Atsushi Izawa (31/2), Davi (38/32), Choi Sung-keun (9/0), Genki Nagasato (27 / 4), Kōta Aoki (13/0), Masaru Matsuhashi (14/0), Takuma Tsuda (23/1), Yoshifumi Kashiwa (41/4), Kōhei Morita (25/0), Pimba (10/0) , Fernandinho (17/1), Yūki Horigome (21/1), Renato (3/0), Teruyoshi Itō (25/0), Naoki Hatada (5/1), Hidetoshi Miyuki (5/0), Kazunari Hosaka ( 24/1)
Matsumoto Yamaga FC	Ryūji Itō (3/0), Masaki Iida (39/1), Kenta Komatsu (22/1), Shōta Imai (2/0), Ryūji Kitamura (4/0), Kento Tsurumaki (32/3), Eydison ( 8/0), Allisson Ricardo (6/1), Masato Katayama (7/0), Tetsuya Kijima (23/2), Mutsumi Tamabayashi (38/2), Hiroshi Tetsuto (37/3), Ken Hisatomi (3 / 1), Akihito Kusunose (30/0), Shōgo Shiozawa (35/11), Yūsuke Sudō (2/0), Yōsuke Nozawa (29/0), Akito Tachibana (1/0), Atsuto Tatara (42/3) , Yūji Fujikawa (7/1), Yūto Shirai (14/0), Masahiro Ōhashi (18/1), Kazuya Iio (41/3), Takumi Watanabe (12/0), Takayuki Funayama (40/12), Ryōsuke Kijima (6/0), Shingo Kukita (7/0), Tsukasa Masuyama (1/0), Yoon Sung-yeul (23/0), Kōhei Kiyama (39/0), Choi Su-bin (9/1)
Kataller Toyama	Tatsumi Iida (8/0), Shō Asuke (34/1), Shunsuke Fukuda (35/4), Naoto Yoshii (18/0), Makoto Nishino (20/0), Daisuke Asahi (15/2), Yōhei Ōnishi (39/1), Teruaki Kurobe (29/5), Takuya Kokeguchi (25/4), Seo Yong-duk (38/5), Kai Hirano (22/1), Yukihiro Yamase (8/0), Ryō Hiraide (26/0), Yūsuke Yada (23/0), Keisuke Kimoto (16/0), Kōken Katō (31/3), Yōsuke Ikehata (29/0), Ryōga Sekihara (15/0), Takuya Yoshikawa (10 / 0), Yūki Matsubara (6/0), Taijirō Mori (14/0), Kenta Yoshikawa (16/0), Yūdai Nishikawa (25/5), Kazuya Myōdō (4/1), Shōta Kimura (35/3 ), Tatsuya Tsuruta (14/0), Takahiro Kuniyoshi (9/2), Tatsuya Morita (22/0)
FC Gifu	Kyōhei Noda (3/0), Akihiro Noda (26/0), Shōhei Ikeda (10/0), Shūto Tanaka (37/0), Toshihiro Hattori (42/1), Hidemi Jinushizono (18/2), Ri Han -jae (32/1), Naoya Umeda (10/0), Hiroki Higuchi (34/6), Kazuki Someya (36/1), Taira Inoue (42/2), Masato Yamazaki (6/0), Kim Dong -gwon (4/0), Shun Nogaito (34/0), Kōichi Satō (33/10), Hikaru Mita (12/0), Daisuke Tada (15/0), Suguru Hashimoto (20/0), Kazuki Murakami (18/0), Hiroshi Sekita (35/1), Kazuto Sakamoto (1/0), Kōhei Nakashima (16/0), Bruno (1/0), Ryūji Hirota (22/1), Daiki Oizumi (11 / 0), Shōgo Tokihisa (24/0), Abuda (12/1), Kim Jung-hyun (9/0), Tatsuya Arai (3/0), Danilo (6/1), Hirofumi Moriyasu (3/0)
Kyoto Sanga FC	Yūichi Mizutani (42/0), Ryūsuke Sakai (7/0), Yūta Someya (27/0), Michitaka Akimoto (22/2), Takashi Uchino (3/0), Hwang Te-song (21/1), Jung Woo-young (33/1), Jun Andō (42/3), Kōhei Kudō (42/4), Kazuki Hara (26/6), Takumi Miyayoshi (39/11), Shun Nagasawa (14/1), Hiroki Nakayama (39/6), Takayuki Fukumura (37/0), Kazuki Kuranuki (13/0), Yōhei Naitō (16/1), Bajalica (26/1), Yoshiaki Komai (32/6), Atsutaka Nakamura ( 41/14), Yūta Itō (10/1), Riki Harakawa (3/0), Kazuki Mine (2/0), Yūya Kubo (20/1), Sanou (9/2)
Gainare Tottori	Atsushi Inoue (3/0), Eiichirō Ozaki (29/1), Hidenori Katō (30/0), Kenta Togawa (34/2), Tomokazu Nagira (16/1), Shōta Koide (37/4), Atsushi Mio (42/4), Noriaki Sanenobu (28/3), Kenny Cunningham (9/1), Yūichi Kubo (16/2), Tomoyuki Yoshino (20/1), Yasumichi Uchima (11/0), Kim Sun-min (8/0), Toshitaka Tsurumi (29/3), Nobutaka Suzuki (1/0), Takahiko Sumida (26/4), Roy Smith (6/0), Eijirō Mori (34/2), Katsunari Mizumoto (21 / 0), Keisuke Kumazawa (7/0), Yasuhiro Okuyama (37/1), Shūji Fujimoto (5/0), Osamu Miura (17/0), Akito Miura (25/0), Masato Fukui (27/2 ), Masayuki Okano (20/0), Kiyomitsu Kobari (39/0)
Fagiano Okayama	Hirotsugu Nakabayashi (42/0), Masahiko Sawaguchi (41/0), Keita Gotō (41/1), Tetsushi Kondō (4/0), Ryūjirō Ueda (34/1), Kim Min-kyun (38/6), Takanori Chiaki (36/0), Anderson (1/0), Tiago (20/1), Shin'ichirō Kuwada (21/0), Takayoshi Ishihara (35/2), Ren Sengoku (41/3), Kōta Hattori (14/0), Tadashi Takeda (34/1), Yūta Nakano (16/1), Kengo Kawamata (38/18), Kōjiro Shinohara (12/0), Ryō Tadokoro (34/4), Kazuya Okazaki (3 / 0), Tsubasa Ōya (2/0), Yūgo Ichiyanagi (12/0), Sōichi Tanaka (2/0), Hiroaki Kamijō (15/0), Kenji Sekido (37/3), Makoto Mimura (11/0 )
Tokushima Vortis	Tatsuya Enomoto (10/0), Takashi Miki (17/0), Yūya Hashiuchi (25/3), Elizeu (9/2), Takashi Hirajima (12/0), Hiroyuki Nishijima (28/2), Takaaki Tokushige ( 20/1), Jun Aoyama (16/1), Douglas (28/4), Tatsuya Suzuki (28/1), Tomohiro Tsuda (35/9), Keita Sugimoto (1/0), Takeshi Hamada (29/1 ), Keisuke Ōta (20/0), Daisuke Saitō (22/0), Yū Etō (35/6), Kōhei Miyazaki (24/2), Kim Jong-min (25/3), Kazumasa Uesato (32/0 ), Oh Seung-hoon (31/0), Diogo (26/3), Masahiro Nasukawa (36/1), Yūki Ōkubo (9/0), Alex (14/3), Shō Hanai (31/1), Tōru Hasegawa (1/0), Yōhei Fukumoto (23/0)
Ehime FC	Nobuhisa Urata (32/1), Tomic (25/1), Kazuhito Watanabe (18/0), Alair (24/2), Daiki Tamori (27/0), Takanori Maeno (41/3), Kenta Uchida (31 / 2), Kōki Arita (37/14), Kengo Ishii (37/6), Eigo Sekine (25/0), Hiroshi Azuma (25/3), Hikaru Kuba (10/0), Shūichi Akai (36/5 ), Shunsuke Ōyama (34/4), Masaru Katō (19/2), Susumu Ōki (1/0), Takuya Sonoda (32/0), Yūsei Ogasawara (15/0), Kenji Fukuda (14/0), Naoya Fuji (1/1), Takumi Murakami (38/1), Ryōta Takasugi (8/0), Shun Itō (13/1), Yōta Akimoto (42/0)
Avispa Fukuoka	Ryūichi Kamiyama (32/0), Kim Min-je (27/0), Ryū Okada (25/0), Takumi Wada (24/0), Masahiro Koga (33/1), Kazuki Yamaguchi (14/0), Toshiya Sueyoshi (32/1), Jun Suzuki (36/3), Samir (11/0), Hisashi Jōgo (41/12), Yutaka Takahashi (31/3), Shōgo Kobara (23/1), Masakazu Kihara ( 23/3), Daisuke Sakata (40/8), Daisuke Ishizu (27/3), Oh Chang-hyun (8/0), Gō Nishida (28/3), Shō Naruoka (37/6), Yōsuke Miyaji ( 2/0), Hiroyuki Omata (19/0), Kōhei Kawata (10/0), Tokyo Hatamoto (16/0), Shunsuke Tsutsumi (23/0), Osmar (14/5)
Giravanz Kitakyushu	Yūya Satō (42/0), Tōru Miyamoto (33/0), Tomoaki Komorida (18/2), Satoshi Nagano (5/0), Kim Jong-pil (18/1), Yūki Fuji (18/0), Yūji Kimura (41/1), Kōta Morimura (19/0), Yasuaki Ōshima (8/0), Kōdai Yasuda (35/1), Tomoki Ikemoto (34/7), Mitsuhiro Seki (33/0), Ryō Takeuchi (30/3), Kentoku Noborio (8/1), Takayuki Tada (22/1), Yūki Nagahata (1/0), Satoshi Tokiwa (28/5), Hiroyuki Hayashi (21/2), Leonardo (13 / 3), Jin Hanato (39/14), Colin Killoran (29/3), Kōji Takano (2/0), Daiki Watari (24/5), Ryōhei Arai (34/1), Ryōsuke Kawanabe (16/0) , Miran Kabe (2/0), Shūto Nakahara (5/1), Shingo Suzuki (9/0)
Roasso Kumamoto	Fumiya Iwamaru (4/0), Yūtarō Takahashi (22/2), Tomonobu Hiroi (35/1), Daisuke Yano (28/2), Tadayo Fukuō (11/0), Shōsuke Katayama (40/2), Taku Harada (35/0), Choi Kun-sik (17/1), Yūji Yabu (40/1), Chikara Fujimoto (21/1), Nozomi Ōsako (24/3), Kōsuke Taketomi (37/14), Atsushi Ichimura (25/1), Kazuki Saitō (30/4), Yūta Minami (39/0), Junki Goryō (21/2), Kento Shiratani (13/0), Kōsuke Yoshii (29/1), Shingo Nejime (14 / 1), Kazuto Tsuyuki (22/0), Masaaki Nishimori (13/0), Shun'ichi Tanaka (4/0), Fabio (3/0), Hayato Nakama (15/0), Yūki Yamazaki (3 / 0), Yōhei Kurakawa (34/1), Hideaki Kitajima (8/3)
Oita Trinita	Keisuke Shimizu (40/0), Yūji Fujikawa (4/0), Akihiro Sakata (40/4), Yūji Sakuda (23/1), Masashi Wakasa (6/0), Kōhei Tokita (23/0), Kōki Kotegawa (13/1), Hironori Nishi (24/3), Kazushi Mitsuhira (39/14), Choi Jung-han (28/3), Shinji Murai (37/5), Daiki Takamatsu (32/5), Yūdai Inoue (1/0), Takuma Nagayoshi (7/0), Yū Yasukawa (26/0), Naoya Ishigami (39/1), Lee Dong-myung (18/1), Kim Chang-hun (6/0), Yasuhito Morishima (37/14), Kenta Tanno (2/0), Kim Jeong-hyun (8/0), Ryōsuke Tada (1/0), Yū Kijima (28/4), Yūsuke Gotō (2/0), Ken Matsubara (10/0), Hirotaka Tameda (31/2), Takenori Hayashi (5/0), Masashi Miyazawa (39/0), Takuya Marutani (14/0)

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Ventforet Kofu (A)	42	24	14th	4th	063:350	+28	86
2.	Shonan Bellmare	42	20th	15th	7th	066:430	+23	75
3.	Kyoto Sanga	42	23	5	14th	061:450	+16	74
4th	Yokohama FC	42	22nd	7th	13	062:450	+17	73
5.	JEF United Ichihara Chiba	42	21st	9	12	061:330	+28	72
6th	Ōita Trinita	42	21st	8th	13	059:400	+19	71
7th	Tokyo Verdy	42	20th	6th	16	065:460	+19	66
8th.	Fagiano Okayama	42	17th	14th	11	041:340	+7	65
9.	Giravanz Kitakyushu	42	19th	7th	16	053:470	+6	64
10.	Montedio Yamagata (A)	42	16	13	13	051:490	+2	61
11.	Tochigi SC	42	17th	9	16	050:490	+1	60
12.	Matsumoto Yamaga FC (N)	42	15th	14th	13	046:430	+3	59
13.	Mito HollyHock	42	15th	11	16	047:490	−2	56
14th	Roasso Kumamoto	42	15th	10	17th	040:480	−8	55
15th	Tokushima Vortis	42	13	12	17th	045:490	−4	51
16.	Ehime FC	42	12	14th	16	047:460	+1	50
17th	Thespa Kusatsu	42	12	11	19th	031:450	−14	47
18th	Avispa Fukuoka (A)	42	9	14th	19th	053:680	−15	41
19th	Kataller Toyama	42	9	11	22nd	038:590	−21	38
20th	Gainare Tottori	42	11	5	26th	033:780	−45	38
21st	FC Gifu	42	7th	14th	21st	027:550	−28	35
22nd	FC Machida Zelvia (N)	42	7th	11	24	034:670	−33	32
Status: end of the season

	Promotion to J.League Division 1 2013 : Ventforet Kofu, Shonan Bellmare
	Participation in the promotion playoffs: Kyōto Sanga, Yokohama FC, JEF United Ichihara Chiba, Ōita Trinita
	Relegation to the Japan Football League 2013 : FC Machida Zelvia
(A)	A bsteiger from the J.League Division 1 2011 : Ventforet Kofu, Avispa Fukuoka, Montedio Yamagata
(N)	N Euling from the Japan Football League 2011 : Matsumoto Yamaga FC, FC Machida Zelvia

Crosstab

Promotion Playoffs

For the first played promotion playoffs qualified with Kyōto Sanga , Yokohama FC , JEF United Ichihara Chiba and Ōita Trinita, the teams in places 3 to 6 of the regular season.

Semifinals

In the first of two semi-finals, Kyōto Sanga and Ōita Trinita met. The Kyushu Island side easily prevailed thanks to striker Yasuhito Morishima, who scored all four of his side's goals. For the home team, Yūta Someya was also sent off after an hour with a yellow-red card .

pairing	Kyōto Sanga - Ōita Trinita
Result	0: 4 (0: 2)
date	November 18, 2012
Stadion	Nishikyōgoku Athletic Stadium , Kyōto 10,760 spectators
referee	Hajime Matsuo
Gates	0: 1, 0: 2, 0: 3 and 0: 4 Yasuhito Morishima (17th, 33rd, 61st, 90th)

In the second semi-final, Yokohama FC played against JEF United Ichihara Chiba. A goal from Yoshihito Fujita gave the guests a guided tour for the break. Two hits by Kōki Yonekura and again Fujita within five minutes shortly after the break set the course for the progress of JEF United, Kentarō Satō set the final point shortly before the final whistle.

pairing	Yokohama FC - JEF United Ichihara Chiba
Result	0: 4 (0: 1)
date	November 18, 2012
Stadion	NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium , Yokohama 10,594 spectators
referee	Nobutsugu Murakami
Gates	0: 1 Yoshihito Fujita (35.), 0: 2 Kōki Yonekura (53.), 0: 3 Yoshihito Fujita (58.), 0: 4 Kentarō Satō (88.)

final

In the final, which was played in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, the spectators had to wait until shortly before the end for a goal before Takenori Hayashi decided the game in favor of Ōita Trinita.

pairing	Ōita Trinita - JEF United Ichihara Chiba
Result	1: 0 (0: 0)
date	November 23, 2012
Stadion	Olympic Stadium , Tokyo 27,433 spectators
referee	Yūichi Nishimura
Gates	1-0 Takenori Hayashi (86.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
2. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 Fagiano Okayama Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
3. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 FC Gifu Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
4. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 Kyoto Sanga Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
5. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 FC Machida Zelvia Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
6. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 Roasso Kumamoto Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
7. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 Thespa Kusatsu Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
8. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 Tokyo Verdy Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
9. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 Yokohama FC Results & Schedule. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
10. ↑ J.League (Japanese)
11. ↑ 2012 J.LEAGUE Division 2 League table. In: J.League data site. J.League, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
12. ↑ 2012 J1 Promotion Play-Offs Semi-Finals Kyoto Sanga 0–4 Oita Trinita. In: J.League Data Site. J.League, November 18, 2012, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
13. ↑ 2012 J1 Promotion Play-Offs Semi-Finals Yokohama FC 0–4 JEF United Chiba. In: J.League Data Site. J.League, November 18, 2012, accessed August 28, 2016 . 
14. ↑ 2012 J1 Promotion Play-Offs Final Oita Trinita 1–0 JEF United Chiba. In: J.League Data Site. J.League, November 23, 2012, accessed August 28, 2016 . 

Web links

• Official website of the J.League (Japanese / English)
• Official J.League Statistics (Japanese / English)