2006 Japan Football League

The 2006 Japan Football League (Japanese: 第8回日本フットボールリーグ, Hepburn: Dai Hachi-kai Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu) was the eighth season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system.

Japan Football League
Season2006
Dates19 March – 3 December
ChampionsHonda FC
3rd JFL title
4th D3 title
RelegatedHonda Lock
Matches played306
Goals scored945 (3.09 per match)
Top goalscorerTetsuya Okubo (26 goals total)
Highest attendance8,999 (Round 7,
Rosso vs. Mizushima)
Lowest attendance78 (Round 24,
SE Osaka vs. JEF Reserves
Average attendance986
← 2005
2007 →

Overview
2006 JFL teams

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 the Regional League promotion 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 Qualification
1 Honda FC[lower-alpha 1] (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[lower-alpha 2] 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 SP Kyoto 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 match(es) played on December 3, 2006. Source: Japan Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champion; (R) Relegated.
Notes:
  1. 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.
  2. J. League associate members, eligible to J2 promotion if they finish at least in fourth place.

Results
Home \ Away ALO ART HON LOC JER KAR RKU MMM PRI ROS RYU SEO SET SON TOC TOT YKK YMC
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
SP Kyoto 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 match(es) played on December 3, 2006. Source: JFL First Round, JFL Second Round
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers
Rank Scorer Club Goals[1]
1 Tetsuya Okubo Sagawa Express Tokyo 26
2 Yosuke Kobayashi 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

Attendance
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 +40.6%†
4 SC Tottori 19,487 3,216 560 1,146 +47.3%†
5 Honda FC 14,363 2,982 365 845 −24.3%†
6 YKK AP 12,414 2,670 247 730 −5.1%†
7 Yokogawa Musashino 11,697 1,194 403 688 +1.2%†
8 Honda Lock 11,335 1,326 411 667 −6.5%†
9 Sagawa Express Osaka 11,228 5,328 78 660 −2.4%†
10 Sony Sendai 10,945 1,693 322 644 −9.7%†
11 ALO's Hokuriku 9,920 1,536 283 584 −11.9%†
12 FC Kariya 9,568 1,080 202 563 +54.7%†
13 Arte Takasaki 8,197 876 208 482 −33.5%†
14 Sagawa Express Tokyo 7,130 790 148 419 +5.0%†
15 SP Kyoto 6,438 911 109 379 +5.3%†
16 Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima 5,393 525 145 317 −24.2%†
17 JEF Reserves 5,013 678 104 295 n/a†
18 Ryutsu Keizai University 4,112 707 111 242 −21.9%†
League total 301,834 8,999 78 986 +21.0%†

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

Promotion and relegation

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

Honda Lock0 – 4FC Gifu
Report Nakao  48'
Katagiri  63'
Kitamura  74'
Moriyama  89'
Miyazaki General Athletic Park, Miyazaki
Attendance: 1,117
Referee: Yoshirou Imamura
FC Gifu4 – 1Honda Lock
Katagiri  24', 61'
Kojima  82'
Ito  85' (pen.)		 Report Mizunaga  89'
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.

References
  1. "JFL Top Scorers". jfl.or.jp. Japan Football League. Retrieved July 7, 2010.
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