Japan Football League 1995

Japan Football League 1995
Climbers	Fukuoka Blux Kyōto Purple Sanga
Teams	16
← Japan Football League 1994 Japan Football League 1996 →
↑ J. League 1995 Regional leagues 1995 ↓

The 1995 Japan Football League was the fourth season of the Japan Football League , a league at the second level of the Japanese football league hierarchy. A total of sixteen clubs took part in it.

Champion and promoted to the J. League 1996 was Fukuoka Blux , in addition, the runner-up Kyōto Purple Sanga 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 J. League mode in 1995 , 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 .

After the number of games won in the last two seasons was decisive, points have now been distributed for the first time. There were three points for a win and one point for a defeat on penalties. 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 best teams rose to the J. League in 1996 , 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. As in the previous year, two teams were promoted to the J. League in 1995 ; Cerezo Osaka and Kashiwa Reysol were accepted as new members in the Japanese professional league.

With the rise of Cerezo and Kashiwa, there were no relegations from the Japan Football League in 1994. The field was supplemented by the two best teams in the regional league finals , Fukushima FC and Brummell Sendai .

Before the start of the season, some clubs changed their names and sometimes also their hometowns. With the aim of making promotion to the J. League, Chūō Bōhan moved from Fujieda , Shizuoka to Fukuoka , Fukuoka and Kawasaki Steel from Kurashiki , Okayama to Kobe , Hyōgo , the new names of these two clubs, which also became the so-called associate Membership of the J. League were Fukuoka Blux and Vissel Kobe . In addition, Kofu Soccer Club was renamed Ventforet Kofu .

society	City / region	Carrier company
Brummell Sendai	Sendai , Miyagi	Tōhoku Denryoku
Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	Yokkaichi , Mie	Cosmo Oil
Fujitsu	Kawasaki , Kanagawa	Fujitsu
Fukuoka Blux	Fukuoka , Fukuoka	-
Fukushima FC	Fukushima , Fukushima	-
Honda Motors	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka	Honda
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
Seinō Transportation	Gifu Prefecture	Seinō Transportation
Tōkyō gas	Tokyo	Tōkyō gas
Toshiba	Kawasaki, Kanagawa	Toshiba
Tosu Futures	Tosu , saga	-
Ventforet Kofu	Kofu , Yamanashi	-
Vissel Kobe	Kobe , Hyogo	-

statistics

Closing table

	society	Games	S.	N11	N	T	GT	Diff.	Pt.
1	Fukuoka Blux	30th	24	0	6th	83	25th	+58	72
2	Kyoto Purple Sanga	30th	23	1	6th	74	38	+36	70
3	Tokyo Gas	30th	20th	1	9	66	35	+31	61
4th	Tosu Futures	30th	19th	3	8th	47	37	+10	60
5	Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical	30th	19th	0	11	53	28	+25	57
6th	Vissel Kobe	30th	18th	1	11	53	36	+17	55
7th	Honda Motors	30th	16	1	13	58	42	+16	49
8th	Toshiba	30th	15th	1	14th	46	55	0–9	46
9	Kofu Soccer Club	30th	14th	1	15th	54	54	0± 0	43
10	NEC Yamagata	30th	13	2	15th	45	47	0−2	41
11	Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	30th	11	3	16	27	47	−20	36
12	Fujitsu	30th	11	1	18th	45	61	-16	34
13	Fukushima FC (N)	30th	11	0	19th	24	67	-43	33
14th	NTT Kanto	30th	9	4th	17th	34	63	-29	31
15th	Brummell Sendai (N)	30th	9	0	21st	40	79	-39	27
16	Seinō Transportation	30th	8th	2	20th	27	62	−35	26th
Stand = end of season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Fukuoka Blux, Kyōto Purple Sanga, Tosu Futures, Vissel Kobe

Promotion to the J. League 1996 : Fukuoka Blux, Kyōto Purple Sanga

(N)	Newcomers from the Regionalliga 1994: Fukushima FC, Brummell Sendai

Web links

• Final tables of the 1995 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)