Official 2015 JFL & lower leagues thread

Today JFL started. We have a good picture of whos gonna up to J3 and whos going to be top and bottom of the table this year.

Honda-RKU 2-0
SP Kyoto-FC Osaka 0-1
Kagoshima U-Nara Club 2-0
Musashino-Tochigi UVA 1-0
Verspah Oita-Mio Shiga 3-3
Numazu-Okayama Next 1-0
Hondalack-Hachinohe 2-2

 

Also Maruyasu played 1-1 against Sony Sendai seems as if we are lucky 2 teams could go up to J3 next season, Kagoshima will be one of them but who it else will be is a question........ Mio could be the darkhorse, many are expecting Mio to go up if they will sort their licence out since theyve strenghtened significantly.

 

They have a fairlly good team this season one of the best in JFL after Kagoshima and Honda, however they are mostly new and havent played together much. We will probably see them do better in second stage than first wether thats enough to go beyond FC Osaka, Nara, Sony Sendai is really a good question. One thing is for sure is that SP Kyoto wont be in top 4 this season. They lost their coach to Sagamihara and one of their two best players to regional league side FC Imabari.

Also Mio is a darkhorse this year they seems as finally pulled them together and signed a lot of quality. I am not so sure that Numazu will get in top 4.

 

That was cheeky, although I would actually prefer to have seperate threads for the JFL and regional leagues since this thread becomes very messy.

 

Its Ok to put them together I have always accepted that. But In an Ideal world I think the discussion about JFL and Regional leagues are quite different.

JFL can besides discussion about whos going to J3 also have the usual attendance and match results, while in regional leagues theres 9 leagues to have status on plus all the shakaijin cups (theres several).

 

Tokachi has upgraded the team a lot but will not further progress this year.

In Tohoku League Reinmeer Aomori seems as the strongest this season by far.

Kanto it will be a race between Vonds Ichihara and Urayasu these 2 teams are this season by far the strongest in the whole regional leagues and by many japanese considered to be the candidates for promotion to J3.

In Hokushinetsu Fukui seems to have lost power while Artista Toomi has signed a lot of quality.

Tokai I wouls also say Suzuka Rampole however Veertien Mie in Tokai 2 seems much better than Rampole this season.

In Kansai the Kyoto teams seems to be stronger than Wakayama after this winters transfers.

In Chugoku League Matsue City seems by far the best team. Dezzola has only got one foreign interesting signing while Matsue City is probably the team among all the regional clubs has upgraded this winter, I consider them a darkhorse for promotion this season.

Shikoku, Igosso has no chance, Imabari has signed Nakata Kei from Sagawa Printing *being one of the best of JFL players last season) and Kochi Torastar has had a frighting preseason they seem even stronger than last year.

Kyushu........ hm....... XD

All in all Vonds, Urayasu, Imabari and Matsue are after my oppinion the teams we will see in the regional play off finals.

 

Tokachi is much better this year whats positive in Hokkaido is that Norbritz seems as being saved by closure also. But even Tokachi is a much smaller city than Hakodate, Asahikawa or Tomakomai, the local medias really backing Tokachi Fairsky, if you dig a bit you will realise fast that they are probably the regional league club in whole japan with best press both newspapers, local tv and also on online medias, its basically only a question of money for them (OK they have difficulty attracting good players).

With Saurcos Fukui seemig to take the plunge (OK they have made one or two decent last minutes signings today) a surprise Hokushinetsu Championship by Toumi is possible in the same way as a 4th.place finish for Mio in JFL is possible also (Mio looks really good this season).

 

Its pretty silly but since Mindhouse owned them before gymnastics probably doesnt exist there.

 

Mio Biwako and Lagend Shiga will merge next season and aim for J3 in 2 years.

http://www.kyoto-np.co.jp/top/article/20150502000012