2008 Japan Football League

Japan Football League

Season	2008
Champions	Honda FC 4th JFL title 5th D3 title
Promoted	Tochigi SC Kataller Toyama Fagiano Okayama
Matches played	306
Goals scored	890 (2.91 per match)
Top goalscorer	Junya Nitta (25 goals total)
Highest attendance	13,821 (Round 34, Tochigi vs. Kariya)
Lowest attendance	141 (Round 4, Mizushima vs. Yokogawa)
Average attendance	1,573
← 2007 2009 →

Statistics of Japan Football League in the 2008 season.

Overview

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F.C. Ryūkyū

TDK S.C.

TDK S.C.

Sony Sendai

Sony Sendai

Tochigi S.C.

Ryutsu Keizai
University

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Arte
Takasaki

Yokogawa Musashino

JEF United Reserves

Honda F.C.

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F.C. Kariya

Kataller Toyama

Sagawa Shiga

Sagawa Shiga

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MIO Biwako Kusatsu

Sagawa Printing

Sagawa
Printing

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima

MM Mizushima

Fagiano Okayama

Gainare Tottori

New Wave Kitakyushu

New Wave
Kitakyushu

It was contested by 18 teams. Honda FC won the championship.

ALO's Hokuriku and YKK AP, both based in Toyama merged before the season to become Kataller Toyama.

Fagiano Okayama, New Wave Kitakyushu and MIO Biwako Kusatsu were promoted from Regional leagues by the virtue of their placing in All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series.

New Wave Kitakyushu and Kataller Toyama were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in January. Fagiano Okayama were approved back in 2007 when playing in Regional league. FC Ryukyu's application was declined.

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Honda FC (C)	34	22	8	4	80	33	+47	74
2	Tochigi SC† (P)	34	18	9	7	65	37	+28	63	Promotion to 2009 J. League Division 2 1
3	Kataller Toyama (P)	34	18	8	8	61	36	+25	62
4	Fagiano Okayama (P)	34	17	9	8	63	43	+20	60
5	Gainare Tottori	34	17	6	11	57	37	+20	57
6	Ryutsu Keizai University	34	17	6	11	56	48	+8	57
7	Yokogawa Musashino	34	15	9	10	43	34	+9	54
8	FC Kariya	34	13	12	9	47	40	+7	51
9	Sony Sendai	34	15	4	15	53	42	+11	49
10	New Wave Kitakyushu	34	13	10	11	49	48	+1	49
11	Sagawa Printing	34	12	13	9	43	42	+1	49
12	Sagawa Shiga	34	12	11	11	53	47	+6	47
13	TDK SC	34	10	11	13	48	47	+1	41
14	MIO Biwako Kusatsu	34	10	8	16	40	62	−22	38
15	JEF Reserves	34	8	6	20	31	53	−22	30
16	FC Ryukyu	34	7	6	21	31	58	−27	27
17	Arte Takasaki	34	5	5	24	40	107	−67	20
18	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima	34	3	7	24	30	76	−46	16

Updated to games played on November 30, 2008.
Source: Japan Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
^† Denotes club that occupied the top place at the end of the first half of the season (17th week) and was automatically qualified for 2008 Emperor's Cup, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.
¹ Must hold J. League Associate Membership (club name shown in bold), finish no less than in fourth place and pass a final inspection by J. League to be promoted.
(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

ART

FAG

GAI

HON

JER

KAR

KAT

RKU

MIO

MMM

NWK

PRI

RYU

SSH

SON

TDK

TOC

YMS

Arte Takasaki

1–3

1–1

0–3

2–1

1–2

0–5

1–0

3–1

3–2

1–3

0–5

1–1

1–1

2–6

1–3

2–3

1–7

Fagiano Okayama

5–1

0–1

2–3

3–1

0–0

3–2

2–2

2–0

2–0

4–2

0–0

2–2

0–1

2–2

1–2

0–0

2–0

Gainare Tottori

8–1

2–3

4–1

0–1

1–3

1–2

3–1

2–1

2–1

1–0

1–0

5–1

1–2

0–0

4–0

0–1

1–0

Honda FC

11–1

2–3

5–1

3–1

6–1

2–1

0–0

4–0

1–0

2–2

1–1

1–0

0–0

1–0

4–2

2–1

1–0

JEF Reserves

1–1

1–2

0–1

1–0

0–3

1–2

0–2

0–1

1–1

2–3

1–2

1–0

2–1

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–2

FC Kariya

3–1

2–2

0–1

1–2

1–0

1–2

1–1

0–1

1–0

1–1

2–2

4–1

2–1

0–3

1–1

0–1

1–2

Kataller Toyama

2–1

1–1

1–0

2–2

0–1

0–1

3–2

5–1

3–0

2–2

1–1

1–0

1–1

3–0

3–1

0–0

4–1

Ryutsu Keizai University

3–2

2–1

2–0

0–2

1–0

0–2

1–0

4–3

1–1

2–1

1–2

1–3

3–1

1–3

1–1

2–1

1–2

MIO Biwako Kusatsu

2–2

1–2

0–3

2–4

0–3

0–0

1–2

1–2

2–0

1–0

1–1

1–0

3–3

1–0

1–4

2–2

0–2

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima

3–1

0–3

0–2

1–2

1–1

3–3

0–4

1–4

3–0

1–2

0–1

1–1

1–3

0–1

0–2

0–3

0–2

New Wave Kitakyushu

1–0

3–1

1–1

2–2

3–2

1–0

2–0

4–2

0–1

2–0

1–1

0–1

1–1

0–3

0–2

2–3

2–1

Sagawa Printing

1–0

0–0

3–0

1–6

2–0

1–2

0–1

0–2

1–1

3–3

0–0

2–0

0–1

1–0

1–1

2–2

1–1

FC Ryukyu

1–0

1–2

0–4

0–2

4–0

1–4

2–1

1–4

1–1

4–1

1–1

1–2

0–2

0–2

0–1

0–1

1–2

Sagawa Shiga

7–4

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–2

0–0

2–2

2–3

1–2

1–2

2–0

1–3

3–0

2–1

1–0

3–2

1–1

Sony Sendai

1–2

3–2

1–2

0–2

1–1

0–1

2–0

0–1

1–3

4–3

3–1

5–1

0–1

1–2

3–2

3–2

0–1

TDK SC

3–0

1–2

1–1

1–1

1–2

1–1

1–1

0–1

1–1

5–0

2–3

1–2

1–0

3–2

0–2

0–0

1–3

Tochigi SC

6–1

2–1

1–1

1–0

4–0

1–1

1–2

4–3

4–3

5–0

1–1

4–0

3–1

2–1

1–0

2–1

0–1

Yokogawa Musashino

2–1

1–3

2–1

0–1

1–0

2–2

1–2

0–0

0–1

1–1

1–2

1–0

1–1

0–0

0–0

1–1

1–0

Updated to games played on November 30, 2008.
Source: JFL First Round, JFL Second Round
1 ^{^} The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Junya Nitta	Honda FC	25
2	Kodai Suzuki	Honda FC	20
3	Yasutaka Kobayashi	Fagiano Okayama	19
4	Kohei Kiyama	Fagiano Okayama	18
5	Yusuke Sato	Tochigi SC	16
6	Mitsuru Hasegawa	Kataller Toyama	15
	Gen Nakamura	Sagawa Shiga	15
8	Goshi Okubo	Sony Sendai	14
	Go Togashi	TDK SC	14
10	Kiyohiro Hirabayashi	FC Kariya	12
	Hideyuki Ishida	Kataller Toyama	12

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Tochigi SC	85,816	13,821	2,704	5,048	0.1326004038591+13.2%†
2	Kataller Toyama	73,205	10,704	2,008	4,306	2.0889526542324+208.8%†
3	Fagiano Okayama	62,297	11,053	1,457	3,665	0.15797788309637+15.7%‡
4	Gainare Tottori	54,652	7,117	1,363	3,215	0.83190883190883+83.1%†
5	FC Ryukyu	48,997	6,247	1,708	2,882	0.17969709373721+17.9%†
6	New Wave Kitakyushu	19,539	1,752	725	1,149	-0.95037220843672−4.9%‡
7	Yokogawa Musashino	17,087	4,101	384	1,005	0.49331352154532+49.3%†
8	TDK SC	16,170	3,261	564	951	-0.96744659206511−3.2%†
9	Sony Sendai	14,788	2,379	325	870	0.50259067357513+50.2%†
10	Honda FC	14,512	3,042	529	854	0.33229329173167+33.2%†
11	MIO Biwako Kusatsu	14,511	2,102	307	854	2.429718875502+242.9%‡
12	Sagawa Shiga	14,469	3,623	259	851	-0.92099567099567−7.9%†
13	FC Kariya	10,261	1,777	227	604	0.17281553398058+17.2%†
14	Ryutsu Keizai University	9,246	1,284	183	544	-0.96969696969697−3.0%†
15	JEF Reserves	8,243	1,467	204	485	0.17149758454106+17.1%†
16	Sagawa Printing	6,262	636	165	368	-0.92695214105793−7.3%†
17	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima	6,038	1,115	141	355	-0.95945945945946−4.0%†
18	Arte Takasaki	5,104	854	144	300	-0.73170731707317−26.8%†
	League total	481,197	13,821	141	1,573	+19.8%†

Source: JFL First Round, JFL Second Round
Notes:
^† Kataller Toyama attendance is compared to the combined figure of its predecessors, ALO's Hokuriku and YKK AP
^‡ Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.

Promotion and relegation

No relegation has occurred. Machida Zelvia, V-Varen Nagasaki and Honda Lock were promoted to JFL from Regional leagues at the end of the season.