2013 Japan Football League

Japan Football League
Season 2013
Champions Nagano Parceiro
1st JFL title
1st D3 title
Promoted Kamatamare Sanuki
Matches played 306
Goals scored 784 (2.56 per match)
Top goalscorer Yuji Unozawa
(20 goals)
Highest attendance 10,116
F.C. Ryukyu vs Uva
Lowest attendance 103
Printing vs Uva
Average attendance 1,322
2012
  2014 (J3) 
2014 (JFL)

The 2013 Japan Football League is the 17th season of the third tier of the Japanese football, and the 15th season since the establishment of Japan Football League. It started on 10 March and finished on 24 November.

Clubs

Due to unfortunate withdrawal of Arte Takasaki, the previous season has featured only 17 teams, but for 2013 the league has brought the number of teams back to 18. After having another team (Sagawa Shiga) ceasing its operations and withdrawing after the season, the league has welcomed into its ranks two newcomers, SC Sagamihara and Fukushima United. Both clubs are looking forward to eventual J. League promotion, with Sagamihara holding the associate membership status, and Fukushima having applied for it in 2007, though unsuccessfully.

Last season has for the first time ever featured direct exchange of teams between JFL and J. League. JFL champions and J. League associate members V-Varen Nagasaki were promoted at the expense of Machida Zelvia, who returned to JFL after only a single season in J2.

Tochigi Uva were on the brink of relegation, as their play-off series against Norbritz Hokkaido was tied after two rounds. It was decided in penalty shootout, which Tochigi club has won 4–1 and retained their place in the JFL.

On 26 February Blaublitz Akita and Zweigen Kanazawa were granted J. League associate membership status,[1] bringing the number of such clubs to six, an all-time high mark for the league. On 20 August YSCC Yokohama's application was also granted by J. League,[2] further increasing associate members count to seven. It raised again to 10 members after another J. League board session on 16 September, when applications of Fukushima United, FC Ryukyu and Fujieda MYFC were approved.[3]

Club Name Home Town Notes
Blaublitz Akita All cities/towns in Akita J. League associate member
Fukushima United Fukushima, Fukushima Promoted from Tohoku league D1 in 2012. J.League associate member
Honda FC Hamamatsu, Shizuoka
Honda Lock Miyazaki, Miyazaki
Hoyo Oita Ōita, Ōita
Kamatamare Sanuki All cities/towns in Kagawa J. League associate member
MIO Biwako Shiga Kusatsu, Shiga
Fujieda MYFC Fujieda, Shizuoka J.League associate member
Nagano Parceiro Nagano, Nagano J. League associate member
SP Kyoto Mukō, Kyoto
FC Ryukyu All cities/towns in Okinawa J.League associate member
SC Sagamihara Sagamihara, Kanagawa Promoted from Kantō league D1 in 2012. J. League associate member
Sony Sendai Tagajō, Miyagi
Tochigi Uva Tochigi, Tochigi
Yokogawa Musashino Musashino, Tokyo
YSCC Yokohama Yokohama, Kanagawa J.League associate member
Machida Zelvia Machida, Tokyo Relegated from J2 in 2012, eligible for J2 promotion
Zweigen Kanazawa Kanazawa, Ishikawa J. League associate member

Change in rules

Promotion to J. League Division 2
As in the previous year, the league winner will promote to J. League Division 2 (J2) if it meets promotion criteria, and the runner-up will promote to J2 if it meets promotion criteria and win a home-and-away play-off against a J2 club.
As the establishment of J3 League, if a playoff is taken place, the losing team will go to J3, but not staying to JFL.
Relegation to regional leagues
As the establishment of J3 League leads to a number of teams' transfer in next year, only promotion of teams from regional leagues will take place, not relegation.[4]

Table

Pos
Team
Pld
W
D
L
GF
GA
GD
Pts
Promotion or relegation
1 Nagano Parceiro (C) 34 21 9 4 61 25+36 72 Formed J3 League
2 Kamatamare Sanuki (P) 34 21 5 8 49 26+23 68 Qualification for Promotion playoffs 1
3 SC Sagamihara 34 18 7 9 58 42+16 61 Formed J3 League
4 Machida Zelvia 34 18 7 9 51 44+7 61
5 Honda FC 34 14 11 9 54 38+16 53
6 SP Kyoto 34 14 11 9 36 25+11 53
7 Zweigen Kanazawa 34 14 8 12 60 48+12 50 Formed J3 League
8 Blaublitz Akita 34 14 8 12 48 45+3 50
9 Sony Sendai 34 12 14 8 33 341 50
10 Yokogawa Musashino 34 13 10 11 36 360 49
11 FC Ryukyu 34 12 10 12 47 514 46 Formed J3 League
12 YSCC Yokohama 34 11 6 17 45 5611 39
13 Fujieda MYFC 34 9 9 16 40 5818 36
14 Fukushima United 34 8 10 16 35 427 34
15 Hoyo Oita 34 9 5 20 32 4513 32
16 MIO Biwako Shiga 34 8 6 20 40 5616 30
17 Tochigi Uva 34 9 3 22 34 6632 30
18 Honda Lock 34 6 11 17 25 4722 29

Updated to games played on 8 December 2013.
Source: Japan Football League
Rules for classification: 1st points; 2nd goal differential; 3rd goals scored; 4th head-to-head results; 5th disciplinary points; 6th draw
If two clubs are tied for first place, both clubs will be declared champions.
Kamatamare Sanuki topped the table at the end of the 17th round and thus were awarded JFL seed for 2013 Emperor's Cup.[5]
1 Direct promotion and pro/rele series will take place only if there will be promotion-eligible teams (shown in bold) that will claim either of two top spots in JFL.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.

Results

Home ╲ Away BLA FUK HONLOCHOYKAMMIOMYFPARPRIRYUSGMSONUVAYMCYSCZELZWE
Blaublitz Akita 10 20 11 11 21 21 36 11 10 22 21 40 20 11 40 22 14
Fukushima United 23 33 01 02 12 03 21 01 00 00 12 02 02 20 01 12 30
Honda FC 31 11 20 32 02 11 32 13 11 12 21 01 50 00 20 30 00
Honda Lock 01 22 00 20 01 10 11 04 03 22 24 22 11 12 00 20 15
Hoyo Oita 02 30 02 02 13 21 20 13 00 01 01 11 01 01 32 12 03
Kamatamare Sanuki 10 00 20 20 01 21 22 00 00 30 10 20 10 10 10 01 32
MIO Biwako Shiga 30 10 02 10 20 04 02 15 01 41 01 00 04 12 12 23 22
Fujieda MYFC 21 02 33 20 00 01 03 21 10 15 22 12 20 14 12 10 11
Nagano Parceiro 10 10 11 10 20 11 22 00 21 10 10 50 02 10 31 51 21
SP Kyoto 20 02 01 20 21 31 02 20 11 32 21 00 21 11 01 12 30
FC Ryukyu 11 11 11 11 10 21 31 00 01 21 22 11 12 10 03 12 01
SC Sagamihara 11 32 04 21 32 01 21 31 21 00 01 00 20 10 40 14 11
Sony Sendai 21 00 31 31 00 10 00 11 21 01 23 02 21 10 20 01 11
Tochigi Uva 12 15 03 01 05 21 32 12 23 12 21 34 11 12 01 00 04
Yokogawa Musashino 10 11 22 10 01 23 20 20 00 00 21 04 00 10 05 01 42
YSCC Yokohama 02 12 21 00 21 24 11 12 11 00 14 14 01 40 13 11 52
Machida Zelvia 20 01 12 00 10 21 31 30 04 00 34 12 11 31 22 32 21
Zweigen Kanazawa 21 11 10 10 12 01 32 41 12 12 50 22 21 20 00 32 12

Updated to games played on 24 November 2013.
Source: Japan Football League: first round, second round
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
For coming matches, an a indicates there is an article about the match.

Top scorers

Rank Scorer Club Goals
1 Japan Yuji Unozawa Nagano Parceiro
20
2 Japan Ryosuke Kijima Kamatamare Sanuki
15
Japan Koji Suzuki Machida Zelvia
15
4 Japan Shohei Kiyohara Zweigen Kanazawa
13
Japan Yuki Matsumoto SC Sagamihara
13
Japan Yatsunori Shimaya Hoyo Oita
13
Japan Shunta Takahashi FC Ryukyu
13
8 Japan Kazuki Ganaha FC Ryukyu
12
Japan Sho Gokyu SC Sagamihara
12
Japan Goshi Okubo Sony Sendai
12

Updated to games played on 24 November 2013
Source: Japan Football League

Attendances

Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Machida Zelvia 53,956 6,379 2,317 3,174 -0.8751033912324212.4%
2 Kamatamare Sanuki 53,129 8,968 1,037 3,125 0.33319112627986+33.3%
3 Nagano Parceiro 39,768 3,213 1,418 2,339 -0.8323843416370116.7%
4 FC Ryukyu 35,180 10,116 846 2,069 -0.956099815157124.3%
5 Zweigen Kanazawa 35,074 8,112 699 2,063 -0.8919152615650710.8%
6 SC Sagamihara 32,705 4,893 513 1,924 n/a
7 Blaublitz Akita 30,057 4,889 1,011 1,768 0.55633802816901+55.6%
8 Fukushima United 17,464 2,195 339 1,027 -0.8080251770259619.1%
9 Fujieda MYFC 16,209 1,563 565 953 0.79135338345865+79.1%
10 YSCC 13,310 1,889 355 783 0.10281690140845+10.2%
11 Yokogawa Musashino 13,085 2,257 298 770 0.076923076923077+7.6%
12 Honda FC 12,824 1,238 354 754 -0.916160388821398.3%
13 Sony Sendai 10,929 951 334 643 0.093537414965986+9.3%
14 Tochigi Uva 10,276 1,679 239 604 0.23014256619145+23.0%
15 MIO Biwako Shiga 9,233 1,091 224 543 -0.8524332810047114.7%
16 Honda Lock 8,727 1,153 283 513 -0.941284403669725.8%
17 SP Kyoto 6,982 1,004 103 405 0.038461538461539+3.8%
18 Hoyo Oita 5,654 641 218 333 -0.6951983298538630.4%
League total 404,472 10,116 103 1,322 0.066129032258065+6.6%

Updated to games played on 24 November 2013
Source: Japan Football League: first round, second round

Notes:
Team played previous season in J2
Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.

Post-season promotion and relegation

J2 Promotion playoffs

After conclusion of the JFL and J2 seasons, playoffs for participation in 2014 J2 season were contested by lowest-placed J2 club Gainare Tottori and Kamatamare Sanuki, who possess J2 license and have finished second in JFL. The playoffs took place on 1 and 8 December.

Team 1 Agg. Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
Gainare Tottori 1–2 Kamatamare Sanuki 1–1 0–1

1 December 2013 (2013-12-01)
13:03
Kamatamare Sanuki 1–1 Gainare Tottori
Takahashi  47' Report  50' Mori
Kagawa Marugame Stadium, Marugame, Kagawa
Attendance: 5,793
Referee: Yosuke Kubota

8 December 2013 (2013-12-08)
13:00
Gainare Tottori 0–1 Kamatamare Sanuki
Report  20' Takahashi
Tottori Bank Bird Stadium, Tottori, Tottori
Attendance: 6,313
Referee: Koichiro Fukushima

Kamatamare Sanuki won the playoffs on aggregate and were promoted to 2014 J. League Division 2. Gainare Tottori were relegated to the newly created 2014 J3 League.

Promotion from Regional Leagues

After 10 of 18 teams were set to leave JFL for the newly created J3, the league announced that it would suffer a contraction and only 14 teams would participate in 2014.[6] The league accommodated all winners of the Regional League promotion series and accepted applications from other Regional clubs that were willing to participate in the nationwide league.

The top three spots of the Regional League promotion series were occupied by Grulla Morioka, Fagiano Okayama Next and FC Kagoshima respectively, and Volca Kagoshima took the last spot. However, the Morioka club has been chosen by J. League for participation in the 2014 J3 season, and both Kagoshima clubs have announced their post-season merger to Kagoshima United. On December 4 the league announced the final list of promoted teams:[7]

References

  1. Jリーグ準加盟審査結果について [Examination results of J. League associate members] (in Japanese). J. League. 26 February 2013. Retrieved 27 February 2013.
  2. Jリーグ準加盟審査結果について [Examination results of J. League associate members] (in Japanese). J. League. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 21 August 2013.
  3. Jリーグ準加盟審査結果について [Examination results of J. League associate members] (in Japanese). J. League. 17 September 2013. Retrieved 17 September 2013.
  4. "JFL 来季はJ3発足により6減の12チームで開催へ!" [JFL will decrease the number of teams by 6 into 12, due to the establishment of J3 next year]. Sports Nippon. 22 February 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
  5. "第15回JFL第17節「福島ユナイテッドFCが逆転勝利、第93回天皇杯のJFLシードはカマタマーレ讃岐が獲得!」" [After defeating Fukushima United FC in Round 17 of 15th JFL season, Kamatamare Sanuki has earned a place in 93rd Emperor's Cup!]. Japan Football League. 2013-06-24. Retrieved 2013-07-01.
  6. "2014年度 第16回日本フットボールリーグ チーム数についてのお知らせ" [Announcement on number of teams for 2014 JFL season]. Japan Football League. 7 November 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2013.
  7. "お知らせ「第16回日本フットボールリーグ新入会チーム決定!」" [Announcement on the decision on admission of new teams for 16th JFL season!]. Japan Football League. 4 December 2013. Retrieved 4 December 2013.

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