Japan Football League 2006

Japan Football League 2006
master	Honda FC
Relegated	Honda Lock SC (after play-offs )
Teams	18th
Games	306
Gates	945  (ø 3.09 per game)
← Japan Football League 2005 Japan Football League 2007 →
^ J. League Division 2 2006 Regionalliga 2006 ↓

The 2006 Japan Football League was the eighth season of the Japan Football League . Eighteen clubs took part in it. The season started on March 19 and ended on December 3, 2006.

Honda FC won the championship. During the season, Rosso Kumamoto was the first club to receive the re-introduced Extraordinary Membership of the J. League , which has been the main criterion for admission to the professional league since this season, but failed to achieve promotion in a sporting way with a 5th place. Honda Lock SC increased after two clear defeats in the relegation matches against the runner-up of the regional leagues final round , FC Gifu , in the Kyushu - Regional from.

mode

The clubs held a simple double round tournament . There were three points for a win; in the event of a tie, each team received a counter. The table for each semi-series 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

For promotion to the J. League Division 2 2007 only clubs were eligible that had the Extraordinary Membership of the J. League , completed at the end of the season within the top four of the table and withstood a final review by the J. League .

Relegation games were originally planned for the two worst teams against the two best teams in the regional league final round , with the JFL penultimate against the final round second and the JFL last against the final round champion. Due to the merger of the two teams of Sagawa Express for the following season, the penultimate remained directly in the league, the final round champion rose directly and the last played in a round trip against the final round second. In the event of a tie after these two games, extra time and, if necessary, a penalty shoot- out was carried out.

Attendees

A total of eighteen teams took part in the season, two more than in the 2005 season . The preseason champions Ehime FC , who were promoted to the J. League Division 2 in 2006 , were no longer there . Due to the expansion of the field of participants, however, there were no relegations to the regional leagues.

To complete the field of participants, the three best clubs of the regional league finals 2005, FC Ryūkyū , JEF Club (the reserve of the J. League Club) and Rosso Kumamoto , rose to the Japan Football League.

Before this season, two teams also changed their structures from company teams to independent clubs, which went hand in hand with corresponding name changes. From FC Horikoshi was Arte Takasaki , DENSO FC named to FC Kariya order.

Tagajō Toyama Kirobe Hamamatsu Kariya Muko Osaka Tottori Kurashiki Kumamoto Miyazaki Okinawa Ryūgasaki Utsunomiya Takasaki Chiba Tokyo Musashino Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the Japan Football League 2006

society	City / region	Remarks
ALO's Hokuriku	Toyama , Toyama
Arte Takasaki	Takasaki , Gunma
Honda FC	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka
Honda Lock SC	Miyazaki , Miyazaki
JEF Club	Chiba , Chiba	Runner-up in the regional league finals in 2005
FC Kariya	Kariya , Aichi
Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC	Kurashiki , Okayama
Rosso Kumamoto	Kumamoto , Kumamoto	Third place in the regional league finals 2005
FC Ryūkyū	Okinawa , Okinawa	Winner of the regional league finals 2005
Ryūtsū Keizai University FC	Ryūgasaki , Ibaraki
Sagawa Express Osaka SC	Osaka , Osaka
Sagawa Express Tōkyō SC	Tokyo
Sagawa Printing SC	Mukō , Kyoto
Sony Sendai FC	Tagajō , Miyagi
Tochigi SC	Utsunomiya , Tochigi
SC Tottori	Yonago , Tottori
YKK AP SC	Kurobe , Toyama
Yokogawa Musashino FC	Musashino , Tokyo

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Honda FC	34	26th	5	3	077:360	+41	83
2.	Sagawa Express Tōkyō SC	34	23	6th	5	084:230	+61	75
3.	Sagawa Express Osaka SC	34	23	3	8th	068:290	+39	72
4th	YKK AP SC	34	19th	10	5	068:340	+34	67
5.	Rosso Kumamoto (N)	34	20th	6th	8th	064:390	+25	66
6th	Yokogawa Musashino FC	34	17th	9	8th	058:380	+20	60
7th	Tochigi SC	34	17th	9	8th	050:350	+15	60
8th.	ALO's Hokuriku	34	16	9	9	053:300	+23	57
9.	Sony Sendai FC	34	10	7th	17th	048:650	−17	37
10.	Arte Takasaki	34	10	7th	17th	036:620	−26	37
11.	SC Tottori	34	7th	15th	12	061:620	−1	36
12.	JEF Club (N)	34	11	2	21st	052:680	−16	35
13.	FC Kariya	34	8th	8th	18th	046:630	−17	32
14th	FC Ryūkyū (N)	34	6th	11	17th	029:570	−28	29
15th	Sagawa Printing SC	34	7th	8th	19th	032:610	−29	29
16.	Ryūtsū Keizai University FC	34	8th	4th	22nd	048:830	−35	28
17th	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC	34	7th	6th	21st	032:740	−42	27
18th	Honda Lock SC	34	5	7th	22nd	039:860	−47	22nd
Status: end of the season

Eligible clubs: Rosso Kumamoto

Relegation matches against the winners of the regional league final round : Honda Lock SC

(N)	Newcomers from the regional league in 2005: FC Ryūkyū, JEF Club, Rosso Kumamoto

Crosstab

Relegation

After the end of the season, shortly before the turn of the year, the relegation games between the Japan Football League and the best teams in the regional league finals took place. The original plan was that the sixteenth against the final round winner and the fifteenth against the runner-up should play; after the established merger of the two Sagawa Express clubs in the following season, however, the final round champion TDK SC was allowed to rise directly, the runner-up FC Gifu competed in two games with the bottom of the JFL table Honda Lock SC, the penultimate Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC was spared.

Both games were won by the lower class club; after a 4-0 win in the first leg in Miyazaki, the second leg in Gifu , Gifu was clearly won 4-1.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Honda Lock SC	1: 8	FC Gifu	0: 4	1: 4

Web links

• Season on the official website of the Japan Football League (Japanese)
• Final tables of the 2006 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)