Official 2011 non-League Club Football Thread [R]

That's correct, there haven't been any play-offs in Tohoku. There have been no updates to the Tohoku League site since October, which doesn't help as regards clarity of information. My assumption is that the league will revert for this year to its regular format of a first division and two regionalised second divisions, although there are three months to go to the normal start of the season so that could change.

The Kyushu play-offs are this coming weekend, 14th and 15th January. Also this weekend are the extra play-offs in Kanto to decide the team that will replace YSCC.

 

Oh, so did JEF Reserves fold completely? I was under the impression that they dropped out of the JFL to play in the Regional Leagues, but I guess JEF Utd just wasn't competitive enough then.

Btw, how will they handle promotion in the Tokai league? Chukyo Uni. B won with Chukyo Univ. A at second place. Will they both get promoted despite being B and A team? I guess Hamamatsu Univ. will take the third spot since Fujieda MyFC got promoted, or will they have a playoff to resolve this?

 

Yes, JEF Reserves folded at the end of the 2011 JFL season.

As far as I know both the Chukyo University teams will be promoted to Division 1 of the Tokai League; there's no reason for that to be a problem if they were both in Division 2 last season, after all.

 

Arte Takasaki have withdrawn from the JFL, which according to the league's press release here will operate with 17 teams in 2012.

 

Even after just surviving year after year

Sagamihara must be so steamed right now.

 

Yeah, I wonder why JFL didn't use them.

BTW, has Arte folded completely or relegated to some bottom league (Gunma prefecture I believe, if we take case of MM Mizushima as example)?

 

The company structure is gone and there is no plan to continue the club. I guess there might be a successor club in the future, or the players may try to band together to play on some level...

They could have at least merged with Tonan Maebashi, which already has the proper structure to qualify for JFL. It must have just come down to the wire without the time to get it worked out.

 

Seconded. I can't see any problem with promoting them considering that they actually placed fourth in the promotion play-off too.

I don't speak Japanese, but is there anyone who does who knows if it's definite that JFL will run with 17 teams or if there's still a chance that they will admit a team like Sagamihara?

 

Yes, 17 teams - that's what it says on the JFL site, linked to in my previous post.

 

What scum! I hope the JFA lays the smackdown on them. Sagamihara may have finished 4th but they had good showing and it wasn't just JFA's push.

I doubt a merger with Tonan Maebashi, which represents a different town (remember Omiya and Urawa down the railway?) would have been the way to go.

 

Saturday results:

KNT Extra Prefectural Play-off Semi-Finals / 14 Jan / Tokyo 23 2-1 Honda Luminozo, Ibaraki Teachers 1-3 Tonan Maebashi Satellite

KYU Prefectural Play-offs First Round / 14 Jan / Kumamoto Teachers 0-1 Nobeoka City, MD Nagasaki 0-2 Liberty FC, Saga Nanyo 0-2 Okinawa City, Yabakei 1-4 Kyushu Mitsubishi Motors

 

I suppose Club Dragons will get promoted to Kanto 1 despite being the reserve team of RKU if we follow the example of the Chukyos. Or is anything different here?

 

Nothing wrong with that. The teams are fairly evenly matched anyway.

 

It was almost exactly the same with Mito. A team in Tsuchiura (40 km away) was in JFL and FC Mito merged into the league when that team wanted to fold. The same with Fujieda MYFC jumping rungs in the pyramid by merging with Shizuoka, leading them to be able to enter JFL this year.

It just seems a waste of a spot. Tonan is a good little club that could hang in the league better than Takasaki.

 

Tokyo 23 beat Tonan Maebashi Satellite 1-0 on Sunday and so are promoted to KNT2 2012.

 

Yes, finally some good news! Tokyo 23 was definitely worthy to get promoted. I suspect they will get promoted to Kanto 1 in their first year.

 

Club Dragons beat RKU in the Kanto Soccer League Cup in October.

For clarification, here are the teams currently scheduled to be in the Kanto League 2012:

Division 1

Aries FC Tokyo
Club Dragons
FC KOREA
Kanagawa Teachers
RKU
Saitama SC
SC Sagamihara
Toho Titanium
Tonan Maebashi
Vertfee Takahara Nasu

Division 2

AC Almaleza
Hitachi Building System
Mitsubishi Yowa
MSDF Atsugi Marcus
Nihon Kogakuin College F Marinos
Pioneer Kawagoe
Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance
Tokyo 23 FC
Urayasu JSC
Yokohama Takeru

 

This is what I have, I think it's correct but spelling might be wrong:

Hokkaido

Infini Vankei
Komazawa OB
Norbritz Hokkaido
Rokkatei Marseiz
Sapporo FC
Sapporo Univ. GoalPlunderers
Tokachi FairSky
Toyota Motors Hokkaido

Tohoku Div. 1

Akita FC Cambiare
FC Primeiro
Fuji Club 2003
Fukushima United
Grulla Morioka
Morioka Zebra
NEC Tokin
Shiogama FC Wiese

Kanto Div. 1

Aries FC Tokyo
Club Dragons
FC Korea
Kanagawa Kyoin SC
Ryutsu Keizai Univ. FC
Saitama SC
SC Sagamihara
Vertfee Takahara
Toho Titanium
Tonan Maebashi

Hokushinetsu Div. 1

Antelope Shiojiri
Artista Tomi
Granscena Niigata
Japan Soccer College
Saurcos Fukui
Teihens FC
Toyama Shinjo Club
Ueda Gentian

Tokai Div. 1

Chukyo Univ. A
Chukyo Univ. B
FC Gifu 2
FC Kariya
Fujieda Shi-yakusho
Suzuka Rampole
Yazaki Valente
1 spot TBD (Hamamatsu Univ? A new play-off? Will Maruyasu Industries keep their place in the league?)

Kansai Div. 1

Ain Shokuhin
Amitie SC Kyoto
Arterivo Wakayama
AS Laranja Kyoto
Banditonce Kakogawa
Diablossa Takada
Nara Club
Sanyo Sumoto

Chugoku

Dezzolla Shimane
Fagiano Okayama Next
Fuji Xerox Hiroshima
Hitachi Kasado
JX Energy Mizushima
Matsue City
Mitsubishi Mizushima
NTN Okayama
Renofa Yamaguchi
SC Tottori Dreams

Shikoku

Ehime Shimanami
KFC Gracias Saijo
Kuroshio FC
Minami Club
Nangoku Kochi
R. Velho
Sanyo Tokushima
Tadotsu FC

Kyushu

FC Kagoshima
Kaiho Bank
Kyushu Sogo
Mitsubishi Nagasaki
MSU FC
Nippon Steel Oita
Saga LIXIL
Volca Kagoshima
2 spots TBD (Nobeoka City/Liberty FC/Okinawa City/Kyushu Mitsubishi Motors)

Tohoku Div. 2 North

Ganju Iwate
Mizusawa SC
Nippon Steel Kamaishi
Omiya SC
Reinmeer Aomori
TDK Shinwakai
Tono Club
Vanraure Hachinohe

Tohoku Div. 2 South

Bandits Iwaki
Cobaltore Onagawa
Iwaki Furukawa
Marysol Matsushima
Meli
Parafrente Yonezawa
Scheinen Fukushima
Sendai Nakada

Kanto Div. 2

AC Almaleza
Hitachi Buil System
JMSDF Atsugi Marcus
Mitsubishi Yowa
Nihon Kogakuin F. Marinos
Pioneer Kawagoe
Tokyo 23 FC
Tokyo MNFI
Urayasu JSC
Yokohama Takeru

Hokushinetsu Div. 2

'09 Keidai FC
CUPS Seiro
FC Hokuriku
Fukui KSC
Maruoka Phoenix
Nagaoka Billboard
Okuetsu FC
Valiente Toyama

Tokai Div. 2

Azul Claro Numazu
FC Kawasaki
Hamamatsu Univ.
Ise Yamato FC
Kasugai Club
Konica Minolta
Maruyasu Industries
Nagara Club
Toyota FC

Kansai Div. 2

Biwako SC Hira
FC Osaka
Hannan Univ.
Kansai Univ.
Kyoto Shiko Club
Lagend Shiga
Osaka Korean FC
1 spot TBD (play-off between Kansai Univ. 2008 and Rennais Gakuen Koka. Are Kansai Univ. 2008 the reserve team of Kansai Univ?)

 

Liberty FC from Kagoshima and Kyushu Mitsubishi Motors FC from Fukuoka have qualified for KYU 2012.

 

Furtho, is there no promotion from Tohoku 2 -> Tohoku 1?
I know many teams dropped last season but it's a shame for Vanraure Hachinohe, guys are really interesting and ended last season with a 10-0-0 record, 61 goal scored and only 1 conceded...

 

As mentioned a page or two back on this thread, there's no official confirmation of anything coming from the Tohoku League. Cobaltore Onagawa have indicated on their site that they expect to be participating in an eight-team Division 2 South, as they would have done if the tsunami hadn't taken place. But it looks like that's all there is to go on at the moment.

 

Don't have time to look at this at the moment, but stuff from the J-League about J2/JFL promotion and relegation is here.

 

Basically only associate members in JFL can enter J2. If finishing #1, there is automatic promotion replacing J2 #22. If JFL #2, there is a playoff with J2 #21, or if JFL #1 is ineligible, the playoff is with J2 #22.

It seems really hard to break through with this system, much harder than before, and hard to be relegated to JFL.

 

I guess it was exactly what designers of this system had in mind.