Japan Football League 2007

Japan Football League 2007
master	Sagawa Express SC
Climbers	Rosso Kumamoto FC Gifu
Teams	18th
Games	306
Gates	872  (ø 2.85 per game)
← Japan Football League 2006 Japan Football League 2008 →
^ J. League Division 2 2007 Regionalliga 2007 ↓

The 2007 Japan Football League was the ninth season of the Japan Football League . Eighteen clubs took part in it. The season started on March 18 and ended on December 2, 2007.

Sagawa Express FC won the championship. The extraordinary J. League members Rosso Kumamoto and FC Gifu rose in the two 2008 J. League Division on. Due to the two J2 promoted players and the merger of ALO's Hokuriku and YKK AP SC for the following season , there were no relegations to the regional leagues at the end of the season .

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 2008 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 .

The two worst teams were originally supposed to relegate directly to the regional leagues, and relegation games were also planned for the sixteenth against the third-placed team in the regional league finals . However, due to the merger of ALO's Hokuriku and YKK AP SC for the following season and two promoters to the J. League, relegation was completely suspended at the end of the season.

Attendees

A total of eighteen teams took part in the season. Honda Lock SC was no longer there, as bottom of the table in relegation games against FC Gifu , second in the regional league finals in 2006, had to compete and clearly lost both games. In addition to Gifu, TDK SC also rose directly to the championship of the RL final round; the club benefited from the merger of the two company teams from Sagawa Express, which a place in the league was.

Before the start of this season, after Rosso Kumamoto with FC Gifu , SC Tottori and Tochigi SC, three other clubs received the status of extraordinary J. League members . In the case of SC Tottori, this led to a name change, the team entered the new season as Gainare Tottori . In addition to Gainare, JEF Club , the reserve team of J. League club JEF United Ichihara Chiba , officially renamed itself to JEF Reserves .

Tagajō Nikaho Toyama Kirobe Gifu Hamamatsu Kariya 2 1 Tottori Kurashiki Kumamoto Okinawa Ryūgasaki Utsunomiya Takasaki Chiba Musashino Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the Japan Football League 2007 1: Mukō; 2: Moriyama

society	City / region	Remarks
ALO's Hokuriku	Toyama , Toyama
Arte Takasaki	Takasaki , Gunma
Gainare Tottori	Yonago , Tottori
FC Gifu	Gifu , Gifu	Runner-up in the 2006 regional league finals
Honda FC	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka
JEF Reserves	Chiba , Chiba
FC Kariya	Kariya , Aichi
Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC	Kurashiki , Okayama
Rosso Kumamoto	Kumamoto , Kumamoto
FC Ryūkyū	Okinawa , Okinawa
Ryūtsū Keizai University FC	Ryūgasaki , Ibaraki
Sagawa Express SC	Moriyama , Shiga
Sagawa Printing SC	Mukō , Kyoto
Sony Sendai FC	Tagajō , Miyagi
TDK SC	Nikaho , Akita	Winner of the regional league finals 2006
Tochigi SC	Utsunomiya , Tochigi
YKK AP SC	Kurobe , Toyama
Yokogawa Musashino FC	Musashino , Tokyo

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sagawa Express SC (F)	34	26th	5	3	081:310	+50	83
2.	Rosso Kumamoto	34	21st	6th	7th	065:340	+31	69
3.	FC Gifu (N)	34	17th	9	8th	045:310	+14	60
4th	ALO's Hokuriku	34	16	11	7th	050:350	+15	59
5.	Honda FC	34	16	10	8th	061:420	+19	58
6th	YKK AP SC	34	16	7th	11	060:530	+7	55
7th	Yokogawa Musashino FC	34	16	6th	12	050:440	+6	54
8th.	Tochigi SC	34	14th	10	10	043:290	+14	52
9.	JEF Reserves	34	14th	10	10	050:450	+5	52
10.	Ryūtsū Keizai University FC	34	15th	5	14th	058:490	+9	50
11.	Sony Sendai FC	34	13	5	16	046:590	−13	44
12.	Sagawa Printing SC	34	13	4th	17th	045:570	−12	43
13.	TDK SC (N)	34	11	9	14th	049:470	+2	42
14th	Gainare Tottori	34	10	9	15th	042:510	−9	39
15th	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC	34	11	2	21st	036:530	−17	35
16.	FC Kariya	34	8th	4th	22nd	036:590	−23	28
17th	FC Ryūkyū	34	7th	6th	21st	038:820	−44	27
18th	Arte Takasaki	34	1	4th	29	017:710	−54	07th
Status: end of the season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Gainare Tottori, FC Gifu, Rosso Kumamoto, Tochigi SC

Promoted to J. League Division 2 2008 : Rosso Kumamoto, FC Gifu

(N)	Newcomers from the Regionalliga 2006: TDK SC, FC Gifu
(F)	Merger of Sagawa Express Tōkyō SC and Sagawa Express Ōsaka SC : Sagawa Express SC

Crosstab

Web links

• Season on the official website of the Japan Football League (Japanese)
• Final tables of the 2007 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)