Japan Football League 2011

Japan Football League 2011
master	Sagawa Shiga FC
Climbers	FC Machida Zelvia Matsumoto Yamaga FC
Relegated	Arte Takasaki (withdrawal) JEF Reserves (withdrawal)
Teams	18th
Games	289
Gates	792  (ø 2.74 per game)
← Japan Football League 2010 Japan Football League 2012 →
^ J. League Division 2 2011 Regionalliga 2011 ↓

The Japan Football League 2011 was the thirteenth season of the Japan Football League . Eighteen clubs took part in it. The season was originally supposed to start on March 13, 2011 and end on November 27, but due to the Tōhoku earthquake that took place two days earlier , the start was postponed to April 23 and the end to December 11.

Sony Sendai FC was hardest hit by the quake and was only able to enter the competition at the beginning of July due to the damage in the region. For the club from Miyagi Prefecture , only the seventeen games of the second half of the season were included in the official rating.

The championship was won for the third time in five years by Sagawa Shiga FC . Promoted to J. League Division 2 2012 were the extraordinary J. League members FC Machida Zelvia and Matsumoto Yamaga FC . There were no relegated athletes in the regional leagues, but both JEF Reserves and Arte Takasaki withdrew from play after the end of the season. Since the withdrawal of Arte Takasaki took place after the promoted from the regional leagues for the 2012 season had already been determined, only seventeen teams took part in the following season.

mode

Due to the Tōhoku earthquake in 2011 , some changes to the mode were necessary. Sony Sendai FC , which were hardest hit by the quake, applied to the league to temporarily suspend gaming. This was approved so that the club only entered the competition with the start of the second half of the season on July 3. The following regulations applied:

• For Sony Sendai, only the 17 games of the second half of the season, played according to the schedule for game days 18 to 34, were included in the rating; the club was classified in the table according to the points it scored in the games.
• Sony Sendai also took part in the rescheduled games for the first six game days. These games, officially known as 東 日本 大 震災 災害 復興 支援 試 合 ( Higashinihon daishinsai saigai fukkō shien shiai , German translation about "Games to support the reconstruction after the Tōhoku earthquake"), were considered regular competitive games, but were not included in the evaluation. Nevertheless, Sony Sendai was able to use all points scored in these games as bonus points for the purpose of determining who were relegated.
• The other clubs held a simple double round tournament as usual , so a total of 33 games (32 games among themselves and the respective second round match against Sony Sendai) were included in the rating.

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 2012 , as usual, only clubs that had the Extraordinary Membership of the J. League , finished in the top four of the table at the end of the season and withstood a final review by the J. League were eligible .

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, with the rise of Machida Zelvia and Matsumoto Yamaga in the J. League and the withdrawal of JEF Reserves at the end of the season, this rule was not applied.

Attendees

A total of eighteen teams took part in the season. No longer there was the promoted to the J. League Division 2 2011 , Gainare Tottori , and the relegated to the regional league , Ryūtsū Keizai University FC . Arte Takasaki was able to keep the class in the relegation against the third placed in the regional league final round 2010, Sanyo Electric Sumoto SC, so that only the champion and the runner-up of the regional league final round, Kamatamare Sanuki and AC Nagano Parceiro , rose.

Prior to the start of this season, Kamatamare was also granted extraordinary J. League member status . The number of extraordinary members in the league remained again at four teams, with FC Machida Zelvia , Matsumoto Yamaga FC and V-Varen Nagasaki being the other clubs with this status.

Tagajō Nikaho Kanazawa Matsumoto moto Na gano Hamamatsu 2 3 1 Takamatsu Nagasaki Miyazaki Okinawa Tochigi Taka saki Chiba Machida Musashino Nagano Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the Japan Football League 2010 1: Mukō; 2: Moriyama; 3: Kusatsu

society	City / region	Remarks
Arte Takasaki	Takasaki , Gunma
Blaublitz Akita	Nikaho , Akita
Honda FC	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka
Honda Lock SC	Miyazaki , Miyazaki
JEF Reserves	Chiba , Chiba
Kamatamare Sanuki	Takamatsu , Kagawa	Winner of the regional league finals 2010
FC Machida Zelvia	Machida , Tokyo
Matsumoto Yamaga FC	Matsumoto , Nagano
MIO Bivouac Kusatsu	Kusatsu , Shiga
AC Nagano Parceiro	Nagano , Nagano	Runner-up in the regional league finals 2010
FC Ryūkyū	Okinawa , Okinawa
Sagawa Printing SC	Mukō , Kyoto
Sagawa Shiga FC	Moriyama , Shiga
Sony Sendai FC	Tagajō , Miyagi
Tochigi Uva FC	Tochigi , Tochigi
V-Varen Nagasaki	Nagasaki , Nagasaki
Yokogawa Musashino FC	Musashino , Tokyo
Branches of Kanazawa	Kanazawa , Ishikawa

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	Sagawa Shiga FC	33	23	1	9	060:340	+26	70
2.	AC Nagano Parceiro (N)	33	19th	6th	8th	051:270	+24	63
3.	FC Machida Zelvia	33	18th	7th	8th	061:280	+33	61
4th	Matsumoto Yamaga FC	33	17th	8th	8th	060:380	+22	59
5.	V-Varen Nagasaki	33	15th	11	7th	061:440	+17	56
6th	Honda FC	33	15th	7th	11	040:360	+4	52
7th	Branches of Kanazawa	33	13	8th	12	049:400	+9	47
8th.	Honda Lock SC	33	12	11	10	047:450	+2	47
9.	FC Ryūkyū	33	14th	4th	15th	047:510	−4	46
10.	Tochigi Uva FC	33	12	9	12	040:430	−3	45
11.	Kamatamare Sanuki (N)	33	11	7th	15th	039:490	−10	40
12.	Sagawa Printing SC	33	11	5	17th	043:610	−18	38
13.	MIO Bivouac Kusatsu	33	11	5	17th	043:650	−22	38
14th	Blaublitz Akita	33	10	7th	16	038:520	−14	37
15th	Yokogawa Musashino FC	33	9	9	15th	033:370	−4	36
16.	Arte Takasaki	33	9	7th	17th	039:550	−16	34
18th	JEF Reserves	33	4th	7th	22nd	027:630	−36	19th
17th	Sony Sendai FC	17th	3	7th	7th	014:240	−10	16
Status: end of the season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Kamatamare Sanuki, FC Machida Zelvia, Matsumoto Yamaga FC, V-Varen Nagasaki

Promoted to J. League Division 2 2012 : FC Machida Zelvia, Matsumoto Yamaga FC

Cessation of play after the end of the season: Arte Takasaki, JEF Reserves

(N)	Newcomers from the regional league 2010: Kamatamare Sanuki, AC Nagano Parceiro

Crosstab

Web links

• Season on the official website of the Japan Football League (Japanese)
• Final tables of the 2011 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)