Japan Football League 1994

Japan Football League 1994
Climbers	Cerezo Osaka Kashiwa Reysol
Teams	16
← Japan Football League 1993 Japan Football League 1995 →
↑ J. League 1994 Regional leagues 1994 ↓

The Japan Football League in 1994 was the third season of the Japan Football League , a league in the second tier of the Japanese football league hierarchy. A total of sixteen clubs took part in it.

Champion and promoted to the J. League 1995 was Cerezo Osaka , in addition, the runner-up Kashiwa Reysol made the leap into paid football. There was no relegation to the regional league .

mode

The teams played a simple double round tournament , so that each club had to play a total of 30 games. Similar to the mode of the J. League 1994 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 1995 , provided they had the status of a so-called Associate Member of the J. League. Depending on the promotion, up to two teams were relegated to the corresponding regional league .

Attendees

A total of sixteen teams took part in the competition. After the withdrawal of NKK SC and Toyota Motor Higashi-Fuji SC at the end of the 1993 season as well as the rise of Fujita , who renamed themselves Bellmare Hiratsuka after the rise , and Yamaha FC Júbilo Iwata , which is the sponsor according to the J. League statutes had to delete from the club name, the originally two divisions were merged.

The only athletic relegated from the Japan Football League in 1993 was Toho Titanium SC , who returned to the Kantō Regionalliga. Seinō Transportation SC and Kofu Soccer Club prevailed in their relegation games against the two best teams in the regional league finals , Nippon Denso SC and NEC Yamagata . Nippon Denso and NEC then played off a promoted team, and the team from Yamagata Prefecture won 2-0.

In addition to Kashiwa Reysol , who had finally deleted the sponsor name from the team name before the season, three other clubs received the so-called Associate Membership of the J. League. Before the start of the season, Cerezo Osaka , formerly Yanmar Diesel SC , was awarded this status, and Kyōto Purple Sanga , previously known as the Kyōto Shiko Club , and PJM Futures received this status during the season . The futures were also officially moved during the current season from the local Shizuoka Prefecture to Tosu , Saga Prefecture ; Since the stadium in Tosu was still under construction at that time, the team played the season in Shizuoka to the end.

society	City / region	Carrier company
Cerezo Osaka	Prefectures Hyogo , Osaka and Shiga	Yanmar
Chūō Bōhan	Fujieda , Shizuoka	Chūō Bōhan
Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	Yokkaichi , Mie	Cosmo Oil
Fujitsu	Kawasaki , Kanagawa	Fujitsu
Honda Motors	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka	Honda
Kashiwa Reysol	Kashiwa , Chiba	Hitachi
Kawasaki Steel	Kurashiki , Okayama	Kawasaki Steel
Kofu Soccer Club	Kofu , Yamanashi	-
Kyoto Purple Sanga	Kyōto , Kyōto	-
NEC Yamagata	Yamagata Prefecture	NEC Corporation
NTT Kanto	Saitama Prefecture	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical	Tokushima , Tokushima	Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical
PJM futures	Hamamatsu, Shizuoka	PJM Japan
Seinō Transportation	Gifu Prefecture	Seinō Transportation
Tōkyō gas	Tokyo	Tōkyō gas
Toshiba	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	Toshiba

statistics

Closing table

	society	Games	S.	N	T	GT	Diff.
1	Cerezo Osaka	30th	26th	4th	85	33	+52
2	Kashiwa Reysol	30th	25th	5	82	29	+53
3	Chūō Bōhan	30th	24	6th	61	32	+29
4th	PJM futures	30th	22nd	8th	70	47	+23
5	Kyoto Purple Sanga	30th	20th	10	63	47	+16
6th	Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical	30th	18th	12	63	46	+17
7th	Tokyo Gas	30th	18th	12	55	43	+12
8th	Kawasaki Steel	30th	13	17th	36	46	-10
9	Honda Motors	30th	12	18th	49	62	-13
10	Fujitsu	30th	11	19th	39	52	-13
11	Toshiba	30th	11	19th	56	71	-15
12	NTT Kanto	30th	10	20th	37	46	0–9
13	NEC Yamagata (N)	30th	10	20th	30th	57	−27
14th	Kofu Soccer Club	30th	9	21st	36	74	−38
15th	Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	30th	7th	23	33	67	−34
16	Seinō Transportation	30th	4th	26th	29	72	−43
Stand = end of season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Cerezo Osaka, Kashiwa Reysol, Kyōto Purple Sanga, PJM Futures

Promotion to the J. League 1995 : Cerezo Osaka, Kashiwa Reysol

(N)	Promoted from the Regionalliga 1993: NEC Yamagata

Web links

• Final tables of the 1994 season in the Japanese football , RSSSF (English)