J3 League 2014

J3 League 2014
master	Branches of Kanazawa
Climbers	Branches of Kanazawa
Relegation ↑	AC Nagano Parceiro
Teams	12
Games	198
J3 League 2015 →
^ J. League Division 2 2014 Japan Football League 2014 ↓

The 2014 J3 League was the first season of the J3 League , the third division of the Japanese J. League . Twelve clubs took part in it. The season began on March 9, 2014 and ended on November 23, 2014, the relegation games between the penultimate of the J. League Division 2 2014 and the runner-up took place on November 30 and December 7, 2014.

The first champion of the newly founded division and thus promoted to the J2 League 2015 was Zweigen Kanazawa . Runner-up AC Nagano Parceiro narrowly failed in the relegation games against the penultimate of the J. League Division 2 2014, Kamatamare Sanuki .

mode

The clubs played against each other three times, at least once at home; an exception to this was the J. League U-22 selection, which only played away games. There were a total of 33 games per team. There were three points for a win; in the case of a draw, each team received one point. 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 club with the most points rose directly to the J2 League 2015 at the end of the season , the runner-up played in two relegation games against the penultimate of the J. League Division 2 2014 for promotion to the J2 League.

Attendees

With the aim of achieving better integration between the two professional leagues and the amateur sector, the J. League established another division for the 2014 season, which should not have as strict admission criteria as the J. League Division 2 . This was also due to the fact that more and more clubs in the Japan Football League gathered in the previous years , which had successfully tried to be accepted as so-called "extraordinary members" in the J. League, but due to the limited capacity of the J2 would have had no chance of attaining professional status in the medium to long term.

In order to be considered for the premiere season, clubs interested in participating either had to already have the status of extraordinary member or had to apply for membership by June 30, 2013. In the latter case, the J. League Council then checked whether the respective club met the requirements for participation. On November 19, 2013, the following eleven clubs were confirmed as participants in the J3 League 2014 (in brackets, the league membership in the 2013 season):

• Gainare Tottori ( J2 2013 , relegated)
• Blaublitz Akita ( JFL )
• Machida Zelvia (JFL)
• SC Sagamihara (JFL)
• AC Nagano Parceiro (JFL)
• Branches Kanazawa (JFL)
• YSCC Yokohama (JFL)
• FC Ryūkyū (JFL)
• Fukushima United FC (JFL)
• Fujieda MYFC (JFL)
• Grulla Morioka ( Tōhoku Soccer League, winner of the promotion games of the nine regional league winners)

A U-22 selection team from the J1 and J2 clubs was added as the twelfth team. This team, which is made up of the best young players from the higher-class clubs, was founded with a view to the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . The players were selected on a weekly basis from a pool for which each club was able to name talented individuals worth promoting; the composition of the team therefore varied greatly from game to game. As a further specialty, the U-22 team only played away games.

Morioka Akita Fukushima Kanazawa Nagano Fujieda Tottori Okinawa Machida Yokohama Sagami- hara Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the J3 League 2014

team	city	Home stadium
Blaublitz Akita	Akita , Akita	Akigin Stage 1
Fujieda MYFC	Fujieda , Shizuoka	Fujieda Sports Park Soccer Field
Fukushima United FC	Fukushima , Fukushima	Toho Stadium 2
Gainare Tottori	Tottori , Tottori	Tottori Bank Bird Stadium
Grulla Morioka	Morioka , Iwate	Morioka South Park Stadium
FC Machida Zelvia	Machida , Tokyo	Machida Municipal Athletic Stadium
AC Nagano Parceiro	Nagano , Nagano	Saku Sports Park Athletic Stadium and Nagano Athletic Stadium 3
FC Ryūkyū	Okinawa , Okinawa	Okinawa General Athletic Stadium
SC Sagamihara	Sagamihara , Shiga	Gion Stadium
YSCC Yokohama	Yokohama , Kanagawa	NHK Spring Mitsuzawa Football Stadium 4
Branches of Kanazawa	Kanazawa , Ishikawa	Ishikawa Athletics Stadium

Remarks

1. Akigin Stadium was renamed on September 1, 2014, previously it was named Akita Yabase Sports Park Stadium
2. Fukushima United played a home game at the Aizu Athletic Stadium in Aizu-Wakamatsu , Fukushima and at the Iwaki Greenfield in Iwaki , Fukushima.
3. AC Nagano Parceiro played eleven home games at Saku Sports Park Athletic Stadium and six home games at Nagano Athletic Stadium, and one game was played at Ajinomoto Field Nishigaoka in Tokyo .
4. YSCC played four home games at neighboring Mitsuzawa Athletic Stadium and one home game at Shonan BMW Stadium Hiratsuka in Hiratsuka , Kanagawa.

Trainer

society	Head coach
Grulla Morioka	Naoki Naruo
Blaublitz Akita	George Yonashiro
Fukushima United FC	Keisuke Kurihara
FC Machida Zelvia	Naoki Sōma
YSCC Yokohama	Kenji Arima
SC Sagamihara	Tetsumasa Kimura
AC Nagano Parceiro	Naohiko Minobe
Branches of Kanazawa	Hitoshi Morishita
Fujieda MYFC	Musashi Mizushima
Gainare Tottori	Masanobu Matsunami
FC Ryukyu	Norihiro Satsukawa
J.League U-22 Selection	Tsutomu Takahata

player

society	player
Grulla Morioka	Yoshito Matsushita (1/0), Shūsaku Tokita (11/1), Ryōta Kobayashi (30/2), Yūsei Okada (32/5), Shun Tanaka (31/0), Ryūsei Morikawa (10/0), Ryōta Doi (32/12), Kenta Matsuda (29/1), Akira Takase (32/7), Eiji Tomii (29/1), Kōdai Satō (22/3), Kōya Saitō (18/0), Yūsuke Hayashi (19 / 1), Keisuke Matsumoto (15/1), Hiroyuki Ōmichi (7/0), Shinji Morita (15/0), Yūma Takahashi (9/1), Hikaru Fujishima (8/1), Takuji Yokoyama (9/0 ), Kōhei Doi (25/1), Sō Morita (33/0), Kōhei Yoshioka (26/2), Toshikazu Soya (24/3), Masato Hashimoto (9/0), Tarō Sugahara (11/1), Shūhei Doen (1/0)
Blaublitz Akita	Toshimitsu Asai (8/0), Kazuhito Esaki (24/1), Toshio Shimakawa (32/0), Shin'ya Hatta (29/3), Shintarō Hirai (12/0), Kyōhei Maeyama (26/2), Yoshiki Hiraki (6/0), Leonardo (26/8), Shingo Kumabayashi (31/2), Shōhei Shinzato (30/0), Kazuhiro Kawata (32/0), Takeshi Handa (23/0), Hirochika Miyoshi ( 32/12), Hayato Mine (24/4), Kenji Suzuki (16/0), Lee Keun-ho (23/3), Keita Makiuchi (11/0), Kei Ishikawa (21/0), Takanori Miyake ( 5/0), Naoyuki Yamada (27/0), Takashi Fujii (23/3)
Fukushima United FC	Ryōta Okada (17/0), Akihiro Noda (30/0), Yūto Horigome (18/0), Jun Shimizu (17/0), Takashi Kamoshida (33/2), Rui Tokisaki (8/1), Kazuto Ishidō (30/3), Yasutaka Kobayashi (23/2), Kim Kong-chyong (20/1), Jun'ya Kuno (29/4), Takahiro Ōhara (20/2), Yoshihiro Masuko (15/0), Takuya Muraoka (20/1), Ryōsuke Kawano (4/0), Makoto Shibahara (12/1), Yūki Igari (7/0), Shōta Tamura (7/0), Dai Okada (3/0), Yūtarō Shin (5/0), Akira Andō (31/2), Kento Sugino (25/1), Takuya Komine (5/0), Takuto Hashimoto (31/2), Kim Hong-yeon (27/7), Toshihiko Uchiyama (11/0), Kei Uemura (20/0), Tomoyasu Naitō (11/0)
FC Machida Zelvia	Tomohito Shūgyō (23/0), Naoto Yoshii (8/1), Taisei Fujita (2/0), Tomohiro Taira (32/0), Kōta Fukatsu (29/4), Ri Han-jae (27/1), Keisuke Harada (11/0), Keisuke Endō (22/6), Kōji Suzuki (33/19), Yoshihiro Shōji (28/0), Ryūto Ōtake (25/1), Tetsuya Kijima (30/5), Shōta Saitō (16/2), Takafumi Suzuki (27/9), Kai Miki (24/0), Junto Matsushita (5/0), Toshiyasu Takahara (11/0), Kyōhei Shimazaki (1/0), Kento Shiratani (1 / 0), Bae Dae-won (26/0), Satoru Hoshino (29/3), Kōhei Nakashima (5/0), Takuya Kakine (2/0), Hiroki Todaka (27/5), Yūta Inagaki (11 / 0), Satoshi Kukino (14/2)
YSCC Yokohama	Takuya Takahashi (28/0), Mitsuki Watanabe (20/0), Shūhei Shirai (5/1), Shōgo Iike (6/0), Daiki Hattori (17/0), Hikaru Ozawa (31/0), Naomichi Hirama (28/0), Masato Yamazaki (24/1), Kōsuke Matsuda (25/2), Akio Yoshida (33/10), Kazuki Itō (10/1), Yūji Fujikawa (14/0), Manabu Minami (5 / 0), Yūsuke Miura (12/0), Hisao Mita (32/1), Kazuma Inoue (21/1), Keisuke Kurouji (5/0), Masaya Yamamoto (27/2), Shunta Nishiyama (15/0 ), Kazuma Umenai (19/1), Yūmu Kudō (1/0), Gōki Tomozawa (32/5), Norimasa Nakanishi (33/2), Kazuya Ōizumi (15/1), Shō Aota (19/1)
SC Sagamihara	Tsuyoshi Satō (28/0), Kōta Amano (26/0), Yūsei Kudō (19/2), Weslley (22/4), Masataka Tamura (5/0), Yūtarō Masuda (13/0), Tetsuya Kanno ( 33/6), Keita Sogabe (30/7), Yūya Sano (27/1), Mobi Fehr (32/3), Yōsuke Terada (11/0), Masatoshi Aki (3/0), Kaijirō Fujiyoshi (5 / 0), Tsukasa Morimoto (14/0), Yūki Matsumoto (32/5), Masaya Suzuki (11/0), Kōhei Hattori (25/3), Takahisa Kitahara (15/0), Hidetoshi Miyuki (28/1) , Shunta Awaka (1/0), Masaya Jitōzono (7/0), Yumemi Kanda (10/0), Jun Suzuki (14/2), Hiroki Ōmori (18/0), Naohiro Takahara (21/5), Kenta Suzuki (15/0), Toro (8/2)
AC Nagano Parceiro	Yūki Matsubara (32/3), Takahiro Ōshima (32/1), Yūki Kawabe (1/0), Yoshitaka Ōhashi (31/1), Yūki Satō (33/9), Keita Tanaka (14/0), Shunta Takahashi (22/3), Yūji Unozawa (33/16), Naoki Hatada (15/6), Yoshinori Katsumata (32/9), Kōhei Takano (15/1), Ryō Nishiguchi (32/1), Kōta Sameshima (2 / 0), Shōgo Matsuo (14/0), Ryōsuke Kawanabe (23/1), Shin'ichi Mukai (32/2), Ken'ichi Nozawa (19/2), Kazuki Mine (1/0), Minato Yoshida (4/0), Kazuki Arinaga (32/2), Kōhei Yamada (16/0), Teruyoshi Itō (8/0), Kengo Tanaka (33/0)
Branches of Kanazawa	Shin'ya Awatari (29/1), Yūji Sakuda (33/2), Tokyo Hatamoto (6/0), Kōsuke Ōta (33/7), Shōgo Ōmachi (30/4), Shōhei Kiyohara (32/9), Kenta Yamafuji (32/2), Masao Tsuji (10/4), Kazuhiro Satō (27/7), Jun'ichi Tanaka (24/2), Shōma Mizunaga (16/8), Kento Onodera (3/0), Sunao Hozaki (29/1), Keisuke Minegishi (12/0), Yasuhito Tomita (23/3), Asuki Ōishi (6/0), Ryōsuke Ochi (16/1), Motofumi Ōhashi (1/0), Masayuki Tokutake (7/0), Shingo Honda (4/0), Shōichirō Sakamoto (11/0), Shōgo Yoshikawa (3/0), Masahiro Kaneko (11/2), Shinji Tsujio (30/3), Yoshinobu Harada (33 / 0), Kang Song-ho (6/0)
Fujieda MYFC	Hiroyuki Matsumoto (1/0), Hiroki Narabayashi (23/0), Kazushi Uchida (30/0), Desmond (5/1), Daijirō Okuda (16/0), Masaya Satō (30/2), Takumi Hashimoto ( 26/0), Yūsuke Ishii (23/2), Ken Hisatomi (33/2), Takahisa Nishiyama (21/2), Yūhei Marumoto (23/0), Mitsuru Manshō (20/1), Masato Mizuki (27 / 2), Ryūji Mochizuki (25/0), Tsugutoshi Ōishi (29/17), Shun'ya Andō (11/0), Takuya Sasagaki (4/0), Takahiro Tanio (14/2), Yūichirō Edamoto (24 / 3), Shōgo Nakatsuru (25/0), Yūta Kutsukake (23/1), Daisuke Ichikawa (6/0), Park Iru-gyu (32/0)
Gainare Tottori	Takuya Sugimoto (12/0), Masaki Yanagawa (21/0), Keisuke Hayashi (19/0), Kenta Togawa (31/1), Tadayo Fukuō (25/0), Tsubasa Yokotake (10/0), Kazuki Kuranuki (32/0), Kōya Tanio (11/0), Fernandinho (15/7), Tatsuya Okamoto (30/5), Naoto Andō (24/1), Ryūji Hirota (27/4), Daiki Yamamoto (15 / 0), Katsuhisa Inamori (1/0), Kazuaki Mawatari (21/5), Masato Nakayama (23/3), Takahiko Sumida (26/0), Ryōsuke Kakigi (16/0), Kōdai Yasuda (16/1) , Eijirō Mori (33/3), Shōgo Fujimaki (3/0), Tetsuya Koishi (13/0), Yasuhiro Okuyama (13/0), Ken'ichi Tanimura (6/0), Masato Ishiwa (6/0) , Ramazotti (12/4), Kiyomitsu Kobari (21/0)
FC Ryukyu	Sunao Kasahara (10/0), Daiki Asada (31/1), Kazuya Kawabata (20/1), Takahiro Urashima (31/3), Kōichi Maeda (18/0), Daichi Okumiya (26/1), Hikaru Mizuno (8/0), Keisuke Tanabe (30/0), Satoshi Nakayama (32/5), Ken'ya Maeshiro (17/1), Jumpei Obata (33/2), Kazuki Kotera (14/0), Yū Tomidokoro (32/1), Noritaka Fujisawa (33/6), Shōta Aoki (32/7), Satoru Makino (8/0), Jun'ichi Kōno (11/0), Keitarō Koga (7/1), Taishi Sunagawa (9/0), Ryōya Ueda (25/1), Yasuhiro Fukuda (3/0), Yūsuke Matsuda (7/0), Kiichi Tomori (26/1), Kenji Tanaka (12/0)
J.League U-22 Selection	Ryōta Tanabe (1/0), Yūji Takahashi (11/1), Kazuki Mine (10/3), Yūsuke Gotō (2/2), Shūto Kōno (2/0), Kazuki Satō (4/0), Naoya Fuji (1/0), Satoru Kashiwase (17/0), Andrew Kumagai (2/0), Takaaki Kinoshita (5/2), Ken Tajiri (4/0), Takaya Osanai (1/0), Shō Satō (8 / 0), Shōhei Yokoyama (4/0), Riki Harakawa (1/0), Keita Fujimura (4/0), Yukitoshi Itō (2/0), Takaharu Nishino (2/0), Shin'ya Yajima (3 / 1), Ryōta Suzuki (3/0), Musashi Suzuki (1/0), Ryūta Miyauchi (10/0), Haruya Ide (1/0), Shūhei Kawata (1/0), Shō Kagami (13/2 ), Tsubasa Suzuki (7/0), Ryōsuke Maeda (13/2), Ayumi Niekawa (9/0), Daiki Kogure (5/0), Shōgo Nakahara (7/1), Yūto Nagasaka (3/0), Naoki Kawaguchi (5/0), Yū Kimura (3/1), Gakuto Notsuda (2/1), Ryō Matsumura (2/1), Tatsuya Wada (12/1), Shūto Hira (14/2), Kazuki Kozuka (1/0), Hideyuki Nozawa (5/0), Takuya Kida (9/1), Yūta Toyokawa (2/1), Tsubasa Nihei (3/0), Hideki Ishige (2/1), Taishin Morikawa (5 / 0), Hiroki Akino (8/0), Yūsuke Kobayashi (4/0), Naomichi Ueda (2/0), Tomoki Wada (1 2/0), Hiroto Nakagawa (3/0), Kengo Nagai (8/0), Kyōhei Yoshino (5/0), Takuma Asano (2/0), Genki Yamada (4/0), Reo Mochizuki (1 / 0), Ken'ichi Tanimura (3/0), Shunta Awaka (4/0), Nikki Havenaar (7/1), Kōsuke Nakamura (3/0), Genta Miura (8/1), Tōru Takagiwa (11 / 0), Yūto Mori (2/0), Tomoya Koyamatsu (3/2), Yūto Uchida (6/0), Shōta Kaneko (9/2), Masatoshi Ishida (5/1), Yūki Uchiyama (11/0) , Keisuke Ōyama (11/0), Ryōsuke Tamura (8/1), Haruki Umemura (2/0), Tsuyoshi Miyaichi (5/0), Keita Ishii (9/0), Gō Iwase (6/0), Naoki Ogawa (9/0), Kōya Yuruki (2/0), Hiroyuki Mae (2/0), Yōsei Ōtsu (5/0), Daiki Yagishita (9/1), Fumitaka Kitatani (4/1), Shinnosuke Hatanaka ( 2/0), Hayao Kawabe (1/0), Yūto Koizumi (1/0), Naoki Ōtani (5/0), Eiji Shirai (5/1), Shūhei Kamimura (2/0), Shōta Fukuoka (2 / 0), Ado Onaiwu (2/0), Yūya Mitsunaga (6/0), Tarō Sugimoto (6/0), Tasuku Hiraoka (11/3), Sōya Takahashi (9/0), Ryōta Aoki (7/0) , Yōhei Takaoka (3/0), Gōson Sakai (3/0), Kazuya Miyahara (5/0), Shinnosuke Nakatani (6/0), Kenshin Yoshimaru (8/0), Yōsuke Ideguchi (3/0), Kōki Sugimori (3/0)

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Branches of Kanazawa	33	23	6th	4th	056:200	+36	75
2.	AC Nagano Parceiro	33	20th	9	4th	058:230	+35	69
3.	Machida Zelvia	33	20th	8th	5	059:220	+37	68
4th	Gainare Tottori (A)	35	14th	11	10	034:250	+9	53
5.	Grulla Morioka	33	12	9	12	043:390	+4	45
6th	SC Sagamihara	33	12	7th	14th	044:480	−4	43
7th	Fukushima United FC	33	9	9	15th	030:380	−8	36
8th.	Blaublitz Akita	33	10	4th	19th	038:570	−19	34
9.	FC Ryūkyū	33	8th	10	15th	031:500	−19	34
10.	J. League U-22 selection	33	9	6th	18th	037:630	−26	33
11.	Fujieda MYFC	33	7th	9	17th	036:520	−16	30th
12.	YSCC Yokohama	33	4th	12	17th	029:580	−29	24
Status: end of the season

	Promotion to J2 League 2015 : Branches Kanazawa
	Participation in the relegation games to the J2 League: AC Nagano Parceiro
(A)	A bsteiger from the J. League Division 2 2013 : Gainare Tottori

Relegation

The 21st of the J. League Division 2 2014 played against the runner-up of the J3 League 2014 in two relegation games for a place in the J2 League 2015 . The first leg took place on November 30th and the second leg on December 7th, 2014.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Kamatamare Sanuki	1-0	AC Nagano Parceiro	0-0	1-0

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2014 J3 LEAGUE Fukushima United Results & Schedule. In: J. League data site. J. League, accessed August 19, 2016 . 
2. ↑ 2014 J3 LEAGUE AC Nagano Parceiro Results & Schedule. In: J. League data site. J. League, accessed August 19, 2016 . 
3. ↑ 2014 J3 LEAGUE YSCC Yokohama Results & Schedule. In: J. League data site. J. League, accessed August 19, 2016 . 
4. ↑ J.League (Japanese)

Web links

• J.League Data Site - Official J. League Tables, Results and Statistics