Japan Football League 2012

Japan Football League 2012
master	V-Varen Nagasaki
Climbers	V-Varen Nagasaki
Relegated	Sagawa Shiga FC (retreat)
Teams	17th
Games	272
Gates	762  (ø 2.8 per game)
← Japan Football League 2011 Japan Football League 2013 →
^ J. League Division 2 2012 Regionalliga 2012 ↓

The Japan Football League 2012 was the 14th season of the Japan Football League . Due to the withdrawal of Arte Takasaki after the registration deadline, only seventeen clubs took part in it. The season started on March 11th and ended on November 18, 2012.

The championship was won by the extraordinary J. League member V-Varen Nagasaki , the club thus rose to the J. League Division 2 2013 . There was no sporting relegation in the regional leagues after Tochigi Uva FC was able to hold the class in the relegation against the third-placed in the regional league final round Norbritz Hokkaidō . However, with the three-time JFL champions Sagawa Shiga FC, one of the most successful teams to date withdrew from the league after the end of the season for financial reasons, and the club was subsequently dissolved.

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 2013 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 .

Due to the reduced number of participants, it was originally planned that the worst team would be relegated directly to the regional league and the penultimate relegation games should play against the third-placed team in the regional league finals . By the withdrawal of Sagawa Shiga at the end of the season, however, the penultimate was spared and the last took part in the relegation games instead.

Attendees

A total of seventeen teams took part in the season. The exceptionally reduced number of participants was due to the short-term withdrawal of Arte Takasaki after the closing date for financial reasons . Also no longer there were the promoted J. League Division 2 2012 , FC Machida Zelvia and Matsumoto Yamaga FC , as well as JEF Reserves , who had already announced their retirement at the end of the season during the 2011 season. Machida, Matsumoto and the JEF reserve were replaced by the three best of the 2011 regional league finals , YSCC Yokohama , Fujieda MYFC and Hoyo AC Elan Ōita .

Prior to the start of this season, AC Nagano Parceiro received J. League Extraordinary status . The number of extraordinary members in the league fell at the beginning of the season to a total of only two teams, with V-Varen Nagasaki being the other club with this status. During the season, AC Nagano Parceiro was also awarded extraordinary membership, but due to the inadequate stadium, Nagano was not eligible for promotion to Division 2 until the renovation work was completed.

In other changes, Mio Biwako Kusatsu replaced the name of the hometown with the name of the prefecture and henceforth was called Mio Biwako Shiga .

Tagajō Nikaho Kanazawa Nagano Hamamatsu Fujieda 2 3 1 Takamatsu Nagasaki Yufu Miyazaki Okinawa Tochigi Musashino Yokohama Associations of the Kantō region

Clubs of the Japan Football League 2012 1: Mukō; 2: Moriyama; 3: Kusatsu

society	City / region	Remarks
Blaublitz Akita	Nikaho , Akita
Fujieda MYFC	Fujieda , Shizuoka	Runner-up in the 2011 regional league finals
Honda FC	Hamamatsu , Shizuoka
Honda Lock SC	Miyazaki , Miyazaki
Hoyo AC Elan Ōita	Yufu , Ōita	Third place in the 2011 regional league finals
Kamatamare Sanuki	Takamatsu , Kagawa
Mio Bivouac Shiga	Kusatsu , Shiga
AC Nagano Parceiro	Nagano , Nagano
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
YSCC Yokohama	Yokohama , Kanagawa	Winner of the regional league finals 2011
Branches of Kanazawa	Kanazawa , Ishikawa

statistics

table

Pl.	society	Sp.	S.	U	N	Gates	Diff.	Points
1.	V-Varen Nagasaki	32	20th	7th	5	057:240	+33	67
2.	AC Nagano Parceiro	32	17th	7th	8th	057:340	+23	58
3.	Sagawa Shiga FC	32	16	9	7th	061:370	+24	57
4th	Kamatamare Sanuki	32	15th	8th	9	049:290	+20	53
5.	Honda FC	32	16	5	11	055:390	+16	53
6th	YSCC Yokohama (N)	32	15th	4th	13	058:500	+8	49
7th	Sagawa Printing SC	32	12	9	11	043:430	± 0	45
8th.	MIO Bivouac Kusatsu	32	11	10	11	053:520	+1	43
9.	FC Ryūkyū	32	12	7th	13	058:620	−4	43
10.	Yokogawa Musashino FC	32	11	8th	13	035:500	−15	41
11.	Fujieda MYFC (N)	32	11	7th	14th	039:480	−9	40
12.	Sony Sendai FC	32	9	12	11	027:290	−2	39
13.	Blaublitz Akita	32	9	10	13	033:410	−8	37
14th	Branches of Kanazawa	32	8th	12	12	033:410	−8	36
15th	Hoyo AC Elan Ōita (N)	32	9	8th	15th	040:570	−17	35
16.	Honda Lock SC	32	7th	7th	18th	028:560	−28	28
17th	Tochigi Uva FC	32	4th	10	18th	036:700	−34	22nd
Status: end of the season

Clubs eligible for promotion: Kamatamare Sanuki, V-Varen Nagasaki

Promoted to J. League Division 2 2013 : V-Varen Nagasaki

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

Cessation of play after the end of the season: Sagawa Shiga FC

(N)	Newcomers from the Regionalliga 2011: YSCC Yokohama, Fujieda MYFC, Hoyo AC Elan Ōita

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 withdrawal of Sagawa Shiga FC, the sixteenth Honda Lock SC was spared and the actually relegated seventeenth Tochigi Uva FC was named as a JFL participant. As an opponent of the team from Tochigi Norbritz Hokkaidō qualified for the two games.

In order to forestall a weather-related failure due to the climatic conditions Hokkaidōs in December, both games were played in Tochigi. In the first leg, Norbritz, officially functioning as the home team, prevailed 2-1, a penalty goal in the second leg equalized for Uva after the return leg. Since the away goals rule did not apply, an extension first followed ; However, this remained goalless, so that ultimately the penalty shoot-out had to decide. Here the higher-class club prevailed with 4: 1.

	total		First leg	Return leg
Norbritz Hokkaidō	2: 2 (1: 4 i.E.)	Tochigi Uva FC	2: 1	0: 1 a.d.

Web links

• Season on the official website of the Japan Football League (Japanese)
• Final tables of the 2012 season in Japanese football , RSSSF (English)