Season 2007 Location Japan Goals scored 872 | Start date 2007 End date December 2, 2007 Matches played 306 | |
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Champions Sagawa Express !Sagawa Express
1st JFL title
1st D3 title Promoted Rosso Kumamoto !Rosso Kumamoto
FC Gifu !FC Gifu Top goalscorer Sho Gokyu (30 goals total) Highest attendance 12,539 (Round 1,
Tochigi vs. Ryukyu Lowest attendance 101 (Round 20,
Printing vs. Mizushima People also search for 2006 Japan Football League | ||
Statistics of Japan Football League in the 2007 season.
Contents
Overview
It was contested by 18 teams, and Sagawa Express !Sagawa Express won the championship. The club was created before the season by merger of two Sagawa Express corporate clubs from Tokyo and Osaka.
SC Tottori !SC Tottori were renamed to Gainare Tottori !Gainare Tottori before the season.
TDK SC !TDK SC and FC Gifu !FC Gifu were promoted from Regional leagues by the virtue of their placing in the Regional League promotion series, the former promoted automatically and the latter won the play-off series against Honda Lock !Honda Lock.
FC Gifu !FC Gifu, Gainare Tottori !Gainare Tottori and Tochigi SC !Tochigi SC were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in January.
Table
Updated to games played on December 2, 2007.
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 2007 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
Updated to games played on December 2, 2007.
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: JFL First Round, JFL Second Round
Notes:
† Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.
‡ Sagawa Express attendance is compared to the combined figure of its predecessors, Sagawa Express Tokyo !Sagawa Express Tokyo and Sagawa Express Osaka !Sagawa Express Osaka.
Promotion and relegation
No relegation has occurred due to a post-season merger of ALO's Hokuriku !ALO's Hokuriku and YKK AP !YKK AP into one club named Kataller Toyama !Kataller Toyama.
Fagiano Okayama !Fagiano Okayama, New Wave Kitakyushu !New Wave Kitakyushu and MIO Biwako Kusatsu !MIO Biwako Kusatsu were promoted to JFL from Regional leagues at the end of the season.