The J. League 100 Years Vision - non-League Club Football

Kataller Toyama are supported by two big companies in Toyama Prefecure, Hokuriku Electric Power Company and YKK. I don't see any problems with them in terms of financial situation.

 

JFL - Final Round Results

Sagawa Shiga FC 2-0 New Wave Kitakyushu

Kataller Toyama 1-1 Fagiano Okayama

Honda FC 11-1 Arte Takasaki

Yokogawa Musashino FC 1-1 FC Ryukyu

Tochigi SC 1-1 FC Kariya

JEF United Chiba Reserves 1-1 Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC

Ryutsu Keizai University 2-0 Gainare Tottori

Sony Sendai 3-2 TDK

Sagawa Printing SC 1-1 MIO Biwako Kusatsu

 

Japan Football League 2008 Final Table

* = J. League associate member

Code:

                                    Pts    Pld    W     D     L    GF   GA    GD
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 1. Honda FC                        74 P    34   22  -  8  -  4    80   33   +47
 2. Tochigi SC[COLOR="red"]*[/COLOR]                     63 P    34   18  -  9  -  7    65   37   +28
 3. Kataller Toyama[COLOR="red"]*[/COLOR]                62 P    34   18  -  8  -  8    61   36   +25
 4. Fagiano Okayama[COLOR="red"]*[/COLOR]                60 P    34   17  -  9  -  8    63   43   +20
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 5. Gainare Tottori[COLOR="red"]*[/COLOR]                57 P    34   17  -  6  - 11    57   37   +20
 6. Ryutsu Keizai University        57 P    34   17  -  6  - 11    56   48    +8
 7. Yokogawa Musashino FC           54 P    34   15  -  9  - 10    43   34    +9
 8. FC Kariya                       51 P    34   13  - 12  -  9    47   40    +7
 9. Sony Sendai                     49 P    34   15  -  4  - 15    53   42   +11
10. New Wave Kitakyushu[COLOR="red"]*[/COLOR]            49 P    34   13  - 10  - 11    49   48    +1
11. Sagawa Printing SC              49 P    34   12  - 13  -  9    43   42    +1
12. SAGAWA SHIGA FC                 47 P    34   12  - 11  - 11    53   47    +6
13. TDK                             41 P    34   10  - 11  - 13    48   47    +1
14. MIO Biwako Kusatsu              38 P    34   10  -  8  - 16    40   62   -22
15. JEF United Chiba Reserves       30 P    34    8  -  6  - 20    31   53   -22
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16. FC Ryukyu                       27 P    34    7  -  6  - 21    31   58   -27
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17. Arte Takasaki                   20 P    34    5  -  5  - 24    40  107   -67
18. Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima FC  16 P    34    3  -  7  - 24    30   76   -46

 

3 clubs join J-League
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D94PRKO80&show_article=1

 

Congratulations to Tochigi, Toyama and Okayama!

Hopefully Tottori will come back just as strong next season and we'll have 19 in J2 for 2010; Kitakyushu will have to do quite a bit of improving if they want to join them and make it 20.

Will be interesting to see Honda take on Honda in the Honda derby next season,

 

51 games? I thought slavery was abolished by the civilized world

Machida intends to apply for associate membership since with gongs they are announcing they intend to make it by 2011. Whether they should go all the way to J1 is beyond me, but every league needs a Leyton Orient I guess.

 

The crowds for the four 2005 and 2006 JFL matches between Lock and Honda FC were in fact as follows:

27 Mar 05: Honda FC 3-1 Lock (1233)

03 Jul 05: Lock 1-2 Honda FC (2011)

26 Mar 06: Lock 4-6 Honda FC (1326)

03 Dec 06: Honda FC 2-1 Lock (1233)

 

Wait... are you betting they will or will not make it?
If you're betting they won't make it, I'm in... otherwise I think we'd be on the same side.
However, I will bet that they won't make it to J1 before Avispa (again)... not because I believe it though.

 

We'll make it to J1 next year
We'll catch a big fish from the transfer-sea

 

I surfed around at RSN and checked the regional leagues and i noticed some teams got similar logos to famous clubs, like:

Fukushima Primeiro FC


and Gremio

 

or FC Kyoto


and Juve



this one is kinda cute!

 

Kawasaki Frontale use to carry that logo as well before they changed it:

 

This one is more poor creativity and design than anything else. As is Primeiro, which I'm not too fond of.

 

http://output.simseed.net/ksl/disp/team_ranking.jsp?leagueid=2&color_flg=2

3rd place (W 9 - D 0 - L 5)

 

Kansai League Div 1 Table
http://output.simseed.net/ksl/disp/team_ranking.jsp?leagueid=1&color_flg=1

 

Every season depends on whether or not anyone gets promoted out of the top of Division 1 into the JFL, but as Banditonce failed yet again it's pretty straightforward this year: the bottom two in Division 1 go down, the top two in Division 2 go up. Seventh place in Division 2 has a separate mini-play-off, with the runner-up of the local prefectural play-off tournament. Bottom team in Division 2 is relegated to the appropriate Prefectural League and obviously is replaced by the winner of said play-off.

The decider of this play-off is due to be staged on 18 January and by coincidence is between two teams from Nara, namely Nara Club and JST.