2006 Japan Football League

Japan Football League

Season	2006
Champions	Honda FC 3rd JFL title 4th D3 title
Relegated	Honda Lock
Matches played	306
Goals scored	945 (3.09 per match)
Top goalscorer	Tetsuya Okubo (26 goals total)
Highest attendance	8,999 (Round 7, Rosso vs. Mizushima)
Lowest attendance	78 (Round 24, SE Osaka vs. JEF Reserves
Average attendance	986
← 2005 2007 →

Statistics of Japan Football League in the 2006 season.

Overview

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F.C. Ryūkyū

Sony Sendai

Sony Sendai

Tochigi S.C.

Ryutsu Keizai
University

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Arte
Takasaki

Sagawa Express
Tokyo

Yokogawa
Musashino

JEF United Reserves

Honda F.C.

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F.C. Kariya

YKK AP

YKK AP

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ALO's Hokuriku

Sagawa Express
Osaka

Sagawa Printing

Sagawa Printing

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima

MM Mizushima

S.C. Tottori

Rosso Kumamoto

Honda Lock

Honda Lock

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

Before the season two corporate clubs changed their names and were re-established as independent organizations. Denso SC became FC Kariya and FC Horikoshi became Arte Takasaki.

FC Ryukyu, JEF Reserves and Rosso Kumamoto were promoted from Regional leagues by the virtue of their placing in All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series, thus expanding the league to 18 teams.

At the J. League meeting in August, Rosso Kumamoto were approved as first J. League associate members, becoming eligible to J2 promotion. No such promotion took place because they failed to achieve at least 4th spot in the final standings.

Table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion or relegation
1	Honda FC† (C)	34	26	5	3	77	36	+41	83
2	Sagawa Express Tokyo	34	23	6	5	84	23	+61	75
3	Sagawa Express Osaka	34	23	3	8	68	29	+39	72
4	YKK AP	34	19	10	5	68	34	+34	67
5	Rosso Kumamoto	34	20	6	8	64	39	+25	66
6	Yokogawa Musashino	34	17	9	8	58	38	+20	60
7	Tochigi SC	34	17	9	8	50	35	+15	60
8	ALO's Hokuriku	34	16	9	9	53	30	+23	57
9	Sony Sendai	34	10	7	17	48	65	−17	37
10	Arte Takasaki	34	10	7	17	36	62	−26	37
11	SC Tottori	34	7	15	12	61	62	−1	36
12	JEF Reserves	34	11	2	21	52	68	−16	35
13	FC Kariya	34	8	8	18	46	63	−17	32
14	FC Ryukyu	34	6	11	17	29	57	−28	29
15	Sagawa Printing	34	7	8	19	32	61	−29	29
16	Ryutsu Keizai University	34	8	4	22	48	83	−35	28
17	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima	34	7	6	21	32	74	−42	27
18	Honda Lock (R)	34	5	7	22	39	86	−47	22	Promotion/Relegation Series

Updated to games played on December 3, 2006.
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 2006 Emperor's Cup, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.
Club name in bold indicates J. League associate members, eligible to J2 promotion if they finish at least in fourth place.
(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

ALO

ART

HON

LOC

JER

KAR

RKU

MMM

PRI

ROS

RYU

SEO

SET

SON

TOC

TOT

YKK

YMS

ALO's Hokuriku

0–1

1–2

4–1

1–0

2–0

1–1

4–0

3–1

1–2

0–0

0–2

3–3

4–2

2–1

0–0

2–1

2–2

Arte Takasaki

0–3

1–2

0–0

2–4

1–0

2–0

0–4

1–0

0–2

3–1

1–2

1–0

2–6

0–0

2–2

0–2

1–5

Honda FC

1–0

4–1

2–1

4–1

2–0

4–1

2–0

3–0

2–1

1–0

2–3

0–3

0–0

2–0

3–3

2–2

1–0

Honda Lock

0–5

1–1

4–6

0–3

1–1

3–1

2–1

2–3

1–5

0–1

2–1

0–1

2–6

0–1

1–1

1–2

2–3

JEF Reserves

1–2

2–1

0–3

3–1

1–3

1–2

1–2

0–3

3–1

0–1

0–1

1–3

4–1

2–2

3–4

0–3

4–1

FC Kariya

1–0

1–1

1–2

3–2

2–1

5–1

2–3

2–2

2–3

2–1

0–1

0–6

2–3

0–2

1–3

1–3

0–1

Ryutsu Keizai University

0–3

3–0

1–2

2–2

3–5

2–2

3–2

1–2

1–2

4–2

2–5

0–8

3–0

0–1

2–1

0–2

2–3

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima

0–1

0–1

0–0

4–2

1–1

3–2

0–4

3–1

0–3

0–0

0–6

0–5

4–2

1–2

2–2

0–4

0–2

Sagawa Printing

0–1

0–2

1–4

1–3

2–1

0–2

1–0

1–1

2–4

0–0

0–4

1–3

0–0

2–0

3–1

1–1

1–1

Rosso Kumamoto

2–1

3–2

1–2

2–0

1–0

3–1

0–0

4–0

0–0

3–1

1–0

2–3

3–1

0–1

1–1

2–1

2–2

FC Ryukyu

2–4

1–1

1–5

0–0

0–1

1–0

3–0

0–0

2–0

1–2

2–1

0–6

1–2

0–0

3–3

2–2

0–0

Sagawa Express Osaka

1–0

1–0

0–2

2–1

6–0

3–2

4–2

2–1

3–0

1–0

1–0

2–2

5–0

2–1

3–1

0–1

2–1

Sagawa Express Tokyo

1–0

3–1

1–1

2–0

3–0

1–1

5–1

3–0

1–0

0–1

5–0

1–0

0–1

1–2

2–0

0–0

1–2

Sony Sendai

0–0

2–1

2–3

2–3

2–4

1–1

0–2

4–0

1–1

2–1

1–0

2–1

0–1

0–4

0–0

0–3

0–2

Tochigi SC

1–2

1–2

3–2

0–0

2–1

0–0

3–1

1–0

2–1

1–3

3–2

0–2

0–0

3–2

3–2

3–0

4–0

SC Tottori

1–1

1–1

3–4

7–0

3–4

3–4

4–1

3–0

2–1

2–2

1–1

0–0

0–3

2–1

1–1

2–2

1–3

YKK AP

0–0

5–1

0–1

7–1

1–0

2–2

2–1

3–0

5–1

3–1

1–0

2–1

0–3

1–1

1–1

2–1

1–1

Yokogawa Musashino

0–0

1–2

0–1

3–0

1–0

2–0

3–1

1–0

2–0

1–1

5–0

0–0

3–4

2–1

1–1

2–0

2–3

Updated to games played on December 3, 2006.
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	Tetsuya Okubo	Sagawa Express Tokyo	26
2	Yosuke Kobauyashi	Yokogawa Musashino	23
	Junya Nitta	Honda FC	23
4	Yoshio Kitagawa	ALO's Hokuriku	22
5	Sho Gokyu	Sagawa Express Osaka	21
6	Hiroki Kishida	YKK AP	20
7	Kodai Suzuki	Honda FC	18
8	Hideki Uchiyama	SC Tottori	17
9	Yutaka Takahashi	Rosso Kumamoto	15
10	Kento Hori	Sagawa Express Tokyo	14

Attendances

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Rosso Kumamoto	64,012	8,999	1,813	3,765	n/a†
2	FC Ryukyu	54,213	4,837	927	3,189	n/a†
3	Tochigi SC	36,369	6,153	1,142	2,139	0.40631163708087+40.6%†
4	SC Tottori	19,487	3,216	560	1,146	0.47300771208226+47.3%†
5	Honda FC	14,363	2,982	365	845	-0.75716845878136−24.2%†
6	YKK AP	12,414	2,670	247	730	-0.94928478543563−5.0%†
7	Yokogawa Musashino	11,697	1,194	403	688	0.011764705882353+1.1%†
8	Honda Lock	11,335	1,326	411	667	-0.93548387096774−6.4%†
9	Sagawa Express Osaka	11,228	5,328	78	660	-0.97633136094675−2.3%†
10	Sony Sendai	10,945	1,693	322	644	-0.90322580645161−9.6%†
11	ALO's Hokuriku	9,920	1,536	283	584	-0.88084464555053−11.9%†
12	FC Kariya	9,568	1,080	202	563	0.5467032967033+54.6%†
13	Arte Takasaki	8,197	876	208	482	-0.6648275862069−33.5%†
14	Sagawa Express Tokyo	7,130	790	148	419	0.050125313283208+5.0%†
15	Sagawa Printing	6,438	911	109	379	0.052777777777778+5.2%†
16	Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima	5,393	525	145	317	-0.75837320574163−24.1%†
17	JEF Reserves	5,013	678	104	295	n/a†
18	Ryutsu Keizai University	4,112	707	111	242	-0.78064516129032−21.9%†
	League total	301,834	8,999	78	986	+20.9%†

Source:
Notes:
^† Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.

Promotion and relegation

Due to the merger of Sagawa Express teams into one club, the All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series winners, TDK SC were promoted automatically. FC Gifu were set to play Honda Lock in the promotion and relegation series.

Honda Lock v FC Gifu

December 17, 2006 13:00

Honda Lock	0 – 4	FC Gifu
	Report	Nakao  48' Katagiri  63' Kitamura  74' Moriyama  89'

Miyazaki General Athletic Park, Miyazaki Attendance: 1,117 Referee: Yoshirou Imamura

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FC Gifu v Honda Lock

December 23, 2006 13:00

FC Gifu	4 – 1	Honda Lock
Katagiri  24', 61' Kojima  82' Ito  85' (pen.)	Report	Mizunaga  89'

Nagaragawa Stadium, Gifu Attendance: 3,040 Referee: Itaru Hirose

F.C. Gifu won the series at 8–1 aggregate score and earned promotion to JFL. Honda Lock were relegated to Kyushu regional league.