Season 2006 Goals scored 945 (3.09 per match) Location Japan Matches played 306 | Relegated Honda Lock !Honda Lock Start date 2006 End date December 3, 2006 | |
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Champions Honda FC !Honda FC
3rd JFL title
4th D3 title Top goalscorer Tetsuya Okubo (26 goals total) Highest attendance 8,999 (Round 7,
Rosso vs. Mizushima) People also search for 2007 Japan Football League | ||
Statistics of Japan Football League in the 2006 season.
Contents
Overview
It was contested by 18 teams, and Honda FC !Honda FC won the championship.
Before the season two corporate clubs changed their names and were re-established as independent organizations. Denso SC !Denso SC became FC Kariya !FC Kariya and FC Horikoshi !FC Horikoshi became Arte Takasaki !Arte Takasaki.
FC Ryukyu !FC Ryukyu, JEF Reserves !JEF Reserves and Rosso Kumamoto !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
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
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.
Attendances
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 !TDK SC were promoted automatically. FC Gifu !FC Gifu were set to play Honda Lock !Honda Lock in the promotion and relegation series.
F.C. Gifu won the series at 8–1 aggregate score and earned promotion to JFL. Honda Lock were relegated to Kyushu regional league.