Japan Football League 1993

Japan Football League 1993
Climbers	Fujita Júbilo Iwata
Relegated	Toho Titanium
Teams	20 (in 2 divisions of 10 each)
← Japan Football League 1992 Japan Football League 1994 →
↑ J. League 1993 Regional leagues 1993 ↓

The 1993 Japan Football League was the second season of the Japan Football League , a league at the second and third levels of the Japanese football league hierarchy. A total of twenty clubs took part in it.

Champion and promoted to the J. League 1994 was Fujita , in addition, the runner-up Júbilo Iwata made the leap into paid football. The only relegated from Division 2 to the Regionalliga was Toho Titanium , after both Seinō Transportation and Kofu Soccer Club were able to assert themselves in their relegation games against the two best-placed teams in the Regional League finals .

Both divisions were merged after the end of the season due to the withdrawal and the subsequent dissolution of the two Division 2 teams NKK and Toyota Motor Higashi-Fuji .

mode

The twenty teams were divided into two divisions of ten teams each. Each division played a simple double round tournament , so each club had to play a total of 18 games. Similar to the J. League mode in 1993 , there were no draws; are level after 90 minutes of the playing time was about twice fifteen minutes extended , the golden goal rule was used. If it was still a draw after that, the winner of the game was determined by a penalty shoot-out . The table was created according to the following criteria:

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

The two best teams in Division 1 rose to the J. League in 1994 , provided they had the status of a so-called Associate Member of the J. League. Two teams were to be exchanged between the two divisions at the end of the season, but this was made obsolete by the withdrawal of two teams at the end of the season and the subsequent merger of the two divisions. The worst team in Division 2 was relegated to the corresponding regional league , the two overlying teams played relegation games against the two best teams in the regional league finals .

Attendees

As in the previous year, a total of twenty teams took part in two divisions. The best eight teams of the previous season and the two promoted teams from Division 2 of the previous year formed Division 1.

With the start of the J. League, a so-called associate membership system was introduced. This meant that clubs interested in professional football could submit an application for membership, which was granted if all economic and organizational requirements were met and at the same time a place among the two best teams of a season was achieved. In the 1993 season, the three clubs Fujita , Yamaha FC Júbilo Iwata and Hitachi FC Kashiwa Reysol received this status. Yamaha and Hitachi officially renamed their teams before the start of the season, while Fujita only unofficially carried the name Shonan Bellmare .

society	City / region	Carrier company
Chūō Bōhan	Fujieda , Shizuoka	Chūō Bōhan
Fujita	Hiratsuka , Kanagawa	Fujita Industries
Fujitsu	Kawasaki , Kanagawa	Fujitsu
Hitachi FC Kashiwa Reysol	Kashiwa , Chiba	Hitachi
Kyoto Shiko Club	Kyōto , Kyōto	-
Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical	Tokushima , Tokushima	Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical
Tōkyō gas	Tokyo	Tōkyō gas
Toshiba	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	Toshiba
Yamaha FC Júbilo Iwata	Iwata , Shizuoka	Yamaha engine
Yanmar Diesel	Prefectures Hyogo , Osaka and Shiga	Yanmar

The two relegated teams from Division 1 of the previous year, the six teams in positions 3 to 8 last season as well as the two best teams in the Regional League finals , PJM Futures and Toyota Motors Higashi-Fuji FC , formed Division 2.

society	City / region	Carrier company
Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	Yokkaichi , Mie	Cosmo Oil
Honda Motors	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka	Honda
Kawasaki Steel	Kurashiki , Okayama	Kawasaki Steel
Kofu Soccer Club	Kofu , Yamanashi	-
NKK	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	Nihon Kokan
NTT Kanto	Saitama Prefecture	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
PJM futures	Hamamatsu, Shizuoka	PJM Japan
Seinō Transportation	Gifu Prefecture	Seinō Transportation
Toho Titanium	Chigasaki , Kanagawa	Toho Titanium
Toyota Motors Higashi-Fuji FC	Shizuoka Prefecture	Toyota

statistics

Final table Division 1

	society	Games	S.	N	T	GT	Diff.
1	Fujita	18th	16	2	49	12	+37
2	Yamaha FC Júbilo Iwata	18th	14th	4th	31	15th	+16
3	Toshiba	18th	11	7th	42	30th	0+8
4th	Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical	18th	10	8th	33	39	0–6
5	Hitachi FC Kashiwa Reysol	18th	9	9	41	24	+17
6th	Fujitsu	18th	8th	10	27	37	−10
7th	Yanmar Diesel	18th	7th	11	34	43	0−9
8th	Tokyo Gas	18th	7th	11	20th	31	−11
9	Chūō Bōhan (N)	18th	6th	12	25th	39	−14
10	Kyoto Shiko Club (N)	18th	2	16	20th	52	−32
Status: end of the season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Fujita, Yamaha FC Júbilo Iwata, Hitachi FC Kashiwa Reysol

Promoted to the J. League 1994 : Fujita, Yamaha FC Júbilo Iwata

(N)	Promoted from Division 2 1992 : Chūō Bōhan, Kyōto Shiko Club

Final table Division 2

	society	Games	S.	N	T	GT	Diff.
1	Honda Motors (A)	18th	15th	3	62	21st	+41
2	PJM Futures (N)	18th	15th	3	46	9	+37
3	NKK (A)	18th	14th	4th	37	17th	+20
4th	Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	18th	11	7th	30th	26th	0+4
5	Kawasaki Steel	18th	10	8th	30th	23	0+7
6th	Toyota Motors Higashi-Fuji FC (N)	18th	6th	12	25th	33	0−8
7th	NTT Kanto	18th	6th	12	20th	30th	−10
8th	Seinō Transportation	18th	6th	12	20th	42	−22
9	Kofu Soccer Club	18th	6th	12	15th	37	−22
10	Toho Titanium	18th	1	17th	10	57	−47
Status: end of the season

Relegation against the best of the regional league final round : Seinō Transportation, Kofu Soccer Club

Relegated to the respective regional league 1993: Toho Titanium ( Kantō )

Cessation of game operations at the end of the season: NKK, Toyota Motors Higashi-Fuji

(A)	Relegated from Division 1 1992: Honda Motors, NKK
(N)	Newcomers from the Regionalliga 1992: PJM Futures, Toyota Motors Higashi-Fuji FC

Relegation

In the relegation games for three free places in the Japan Football League in 1994 a total of four teams took part. In addition to Seinō Transportation , table eighth of the past season, as well as the table ninth Kofu Soccer Club , these were the winner of the regional league finals Nippon Denso and the runner-up NEC Yamagata .

A total of two rounds were played. In the first round the better placed Division 2 participant met the worse of the two final round participants, accordingly the worse of the two Division 2 clubs played against the final round champion. The winners of the two games were qualified for the coming season, the losers played the third participant in another game. In all games, if necessary, in the event of a tie after 90 minutes, extra time with the golden goal rule and a penalty shoot-out were used.

1 round

	Result
Seinō Transportation	1-0	NEC Yamagata
Kofu Soccer Club	2: 1	Nippon Denso

Seinō Transportation and Kofu Soccer Club remain in the Japan Football League.

2nd round

	Result
Nippon Denso	0: 2	NEC Yamagata

NEC Yamagata is promoted to the Japan Football League.

Web links

• Final tables of the 1993 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)