Japan Football League 2009

Japan Football League 2009
master	Sagawa Shiga FC
Climbers	New Wave Kitakyushu
Relegated	FC Kariya (after play-off ) Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC
Teams	18th
Games	306
Gates	775  (ø 2.53 per game)
← Japan Football League 2008 Japan Football League 2010 →
^ J. League Division 2 2009 Regionalliga 2009 ↓

The Japan Football League 2009 was the eleventh season of the Japan Football League . Eighteen clubs took part in it. The season started on March 15 and ended on November 29, 2009.

Sagawa Shiga FC won the championship. The extraordinary J. League member New Wave Kitakyūshū rose to the J. League Division 2 in 2010 . In addition, after three years a club was relegated to the regional leagues for the first time , the table penultimate FC Kariya failed in the relegation against Zweigen Kanazawa . Previously, Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC , who were already directly relegated to the bottom of the table, announced that they would withdraw to the highest league in Okayama Prefecture for financial reasons .

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 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 2010 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 . With the rise of New Wave Kitakyūshū in the J. League, however, only the bottom of the table rose directly and the penultimate took part in the relegation games.

Attendees

A total of eighteen teams took part in the season. The three promoted J. League Division 2 2009 , Tochigi SC , Kataller Toyama and Fagiano Okayama were no longer there . The three vacancies were filled by the three best teams in the 2008 regional league finals , FC Machida Zelvia , V-Varen Nagasaki and Honda Lock SC . Honda Lock is to this day the only club that managed to return to the JFL after relegating it.

Before the start of this season, the two climbers from Machida and Nagasaki also received the status of extraordinary J. League member . The number of extraordinary members in the league thus decreased again by one team to a total of four teams, with Gainare Tottori and New Wave Kitakyushu the other clubs with this status.

Tagajō Nikaho Hamamatsu Kariya 2 3 1 Tottori Kurashiki Kita Kyushu Naga saki Miyazaki Okinawa Ryūgasaki Takasaki Chiba Machida Musashino Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the Japan Football League 2008 1: Mukō; 2: Moriyama; 3: Kusatsu

society	City / region	Remarks
Arte Takasaki	Takasaki , Gunma
Gainare Tottori	Yonago , Tottori
Honda FC	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka
Honda Lock SC	Miyazaki , Miyazaki	Third place in the regional league finals in 2008
JEF Reserves	Chiba , Chiba
FC Kariya	Kariya , Aichi
FC Machida Zelvia	Machida , Tokyo	Winner of the regional league finals 2008
MIO Bivouac Kusatsu	Kusatsu , Shiga
Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC	Kurashiki , Okayama
New Wave Kitakyushu	Kitakyushu , Fukuoka
FC Ryūkyū	Okinawa , Okinawa
Ryūtsū Keizai University FC	Ryūgasaki , Ibaraki
Sagawa Printing SC	Mukō , Kyoto
Sagawa Shiga FC	Moriyama , Shiga
Sony Sendai FC	Tagajō , Miyagi
TDK SC	Nikaho , Akita
V-Varen Nagasaki	Nagasaki , Nagasaki	Second place in the regional league finals in 2008
Yokogawa Musashino FC	Musashino , Tokyo

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sagawa Shiga FC	34	19th	9	6th	062:360	+26	66
2.	Yokogawa Musashino FC	34	17th	9	8th	048:340	+14	60
3.	Sony Sendai FC	34	17th	8th	9	049:300	+19	59
4th	New Wave Kitakyushu	34	16	10	8th	049:310	+18	58
5.	Gainare Tottori	34	16	8th	10	065:370	+28	56
6th	FC Machida Zelvia (N)	34	14th	12	8th	038:300	+8	54
7th	Honda FC	34	13	12	9	049:380	+11	51
8th.	MIO Bivouac Kusatsu	34	13	9	12	051:430	+8	48
9.	Sagawa Printing SC	34	14th	5	15th	056:460	+10	47
10.	TDK SC	34	14th	4th	16	039:540	−15	46
11.	V-Varen Nagasaki (N)	34	12	8th	14th	038:430	−5	44
12.	JEF Reserves	34	9	14th	11	026:370	−11	41
13.	Honda Lock SC (N)	34	9	13	12	034:380	−4	40
14th	Arte Takasaki	34	9	13	12	034:460	−12	40
15th	Ryūtsū Keizai University FC	34	11	7th	16	041:550	−14	40
16.	FC Ryūkyū	34	11	5	18th	042:570	−15	38
17th	FC Kariya	34	7th	10	17th	026:510	−25	31
18th	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC	34	4th	6th	24	028:690	−41	18th
Status: end of the season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Gainare Tottori, FC Machida Zelvia, New Wave Kitakyūshū, V-Varen Nagasaki

Promoted to J. League Division 2 2010 : New Wave Kitakyūshū

Relegation games against the third placed in the regional league final round : FC Kariya

Direct relegation from the Japan Football League, withdrawal to the Okayama prefectural league : Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC

(N)	Newcomers from the Regionalliga 2008: FC Machida Zelvia, V-Varen Nagasaki, Honda Lock SC

Crosstab

Relegation

After the end of the season, shortly before the turn of the year, the relegation games between a participant of the Japan Football League and a team in the regional league final round took place. The original plan stipulated that the sixteenth should play against the third party in the final round; after the rise of New Wave Kitakyūshū in the J. League, the sixteenth FC Ryūkyū was spared and the actually relegated seventeenth FC Kariya named as a JFL participant. As opponents of the team from Aichi Prefecture , Zweigen Kanazawa qualified for the two games.

The first leg in Kanazawa ended with a narrow 1-0 for the lower class team, so that Kariya had to win in the second leg to avoid relegation. There the JFL founding member only achieved a 1: 1.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Branches of Kanazawa	2: 1	FC Kariya	1-0	1: 1

Web links

• Season on the official website of the Japan Football League (Japanese)
• Final tables of the 2009 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)