Japan Football League 1996

Japan Football League 1996
master	Honda Motors
Climbers	Vissel Kobe
Teams	16
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The Japan Football League 1996 was the fifth 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.

With Honda Motors was the first time a club was a master who was not an extraordinary member of the J. League , in contrast to the runner-up Vissel Kobe , who rose to the 1997 J. League . There was no relegation to the regional league , but both Tosu Futures and Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi withdrew from the league at the end of the season and then broke up. Instead of the futures, however, a successor club was founded with Sagan Tosu , which took over their place in the Japan Football League in 1997 .

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 1996 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 .

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 1997 , 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 1996 ; Fukuoka Blux and Kyōto Purple Sanga were accepted as new members in the Japanese professional league.

With the rise of Fukuoka and Kyoto there were no relegated teams from the Japan Football League in 1995. The field was supplemented by the two best teams in the regional league finals , Ōita FC and DENSO SC .

Again, some clubs changed their names and sometimes their venues before the start of the season. With the aim of gaining more fans, Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical expanded its name to Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical Vortis Tokushima , mostly abbreviated to Vortis Tokushima . NEC Yamagata also changed its name to Montedio Yamagata . Toshiba SC finally moved from Kawasaki , Kanagawa , which at that time was home to several clubs, to Sapporo , Hokkaidō , and from then on called itself Consadole Sapporo . With the change of location, Consadole also received so-called Associate Membership , as did Brummell Sendai , which had also successfully applied for this.

society	City / region	Carrier company
Brummell Sendai	Sendai , Miyagi	Tōhoku Denryoku
Consadole Sapporo	Sapporo , Hokkaidō	-
Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	Yokkaichi , Mie	Cosmo Oil
DENSO SC	Kariya , Aichi	Denso
Fujitsu	Kawasaki , Kanagawa	Fujitsu
Fukushima FC	Fukushima , Fukushima	-
Honda Motors	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka	Honda
Montedio Yamagata	Yamagata Prefecture	-
NTT Kanto	Saitama Prefecture	Nippon Telegraph and Telephone
Ōita FC	Ōita , Ōita	-
Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical Vortis Tokushima	Tokushima , Tokushima	Ōtsuka Pharmaceutical
Seinō Transportation	Gifu Prefecture	Seinō Transportation
Tōkyō gas	Tokyo	Tōkyō gas
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	Honda Motors	30th	25th	0	5	83	35	+48	75
2	Vissel Kobe	30th	25th	0	5	78	32	+46	75
3	Tokyo Gas	30th	24	1	5	63	28	+35	73
4th	Tosu Futures	30th	20th	2	8th	68	43	+25	62
5	Consadole Sapporo	30th	20th	2	8th	60	43	+17	62
6th	Brummell Sendai	30th	18th	2	10	67	52	+15	56
7th	Vortis Tokushima	30th	18th	1	11	56	41	+15	55
8th	Montedio Yamagata	30th	16	1	13	45	49	0−4	49
9	Fujitsu	30th	15th	0	15th	48	45	0+3	45
10	Ōita FC (N)	30th	13	0	17th	42	52	−10	39
11	Ventforet Kofu	30th	11	0	19th	50	56	0−6	33
12	Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi	30th	11	0	19th	31	59	−28	33
13	NTT Kanto	30th	7th	2	21st	36	55	−19	23
14th	Fukushima FC	30th	7th	1	22nd	30th	63	−33	22nd
15th	DENSO FC (N)	30th	5	1	24	40	90	−50	16
16	Seinō Transportation	30th	5	0	25th	28	82	−54	15th
Stand = end of season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Brummell Sendai, Consadole Sapporo, Tosu Futures, Vissel Kobe

Promotion to the J. League 1997 : Vissel Kobe

Cessation of play at the end of the season: Tosu Futures, Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi

(N)	Newcomers from the Regional League 1995: Ōita FC, DENSO SC

Web links

• Final tables of the 1996 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)