Japan Football League
Season2005
Dates27 March – 4 December
ChampionsEhime FC
1st JFL title
1st D3 title
PromotedEhime FC
Matches played240
Goals scored731 (3.05 per match)
Top goalscorerHirokazu Otsubo (18 goals total)
Highest attendance7,726 (Round 21,
Ehime vs. SE Tokyo)
Lowest attendance102 (Round 27,
Printing vs. SE Tokyo)
Average attendance815
← 2004
2006 →

The 2005 Japan Football League (Japanese: 第7回日本フットボールリーグ, Hepburn: Dai Nana-kai Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu) was the seventh season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system.

Overview

2005 Japan Football League is located in Japan
Sony Sendai
Tochigi S.C.
Ryutsu Keizai University
F.C. Horikoshi
Sagawa Express Tokyo
Yokogawa Musashino
Honda F.C.
Denso S.C.
YKK AP
ALO's Hokuriku
Sagawa Express Osaka
Sagawa Printing
MM Mizushima
S.C. Tottori
Ehime F.C.
Honda Lock
2005 JFL teams

It was contested by 16 teams, and Ehime FC won the championship.

Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima, Ryutsu Keizai University and Honda Lock were promoted from Regional Leagues by the virtue of their placing in the Regional League promotion series.

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 Ehime FC (C, P) 30 21 3 6 54 26 +28 66 Promotion to 2006 J.League Division 2
2 YKK AP 30 20 4 6 63 28 +35 64
3 ALO's Hokuriku 30 19 4 7 52 26 +26 61
4 Tochigi SC[a] 30 16 9 5 60 32 +28 57
5 Honda FC[a] 30 17 5 8 59 37 +22 56
6 Sagawa Express Tokyo 30 16 4 10 55 33 +22 52
7 Sony Sendai 30 15 5 10 48 37 +11 50
8 FC Horikoshi 30 15 3 12 53 40 +13 48
9 Yokogawa Musashino 30 14 6 10 37 29 +8 48
10 Sagawa Express Osaka 30 13 6 11 42 36 +6 45
11 SP Kyoto 30 9 7 14 34 43 −9 34
12 SC Tottori 30 9 6 15 40 58 −18 33
13 Ryutsu Keizai University 30 5 7 18 39 79 −40 22
14 Denso SC 30 4 7 19 33 63 −30 19
15 Honda Lock 30 3 6 21 38 79 −41 15
16 Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima 30 2 2 26 24 85 −61 8
Updated to match(es) played on December 4, 2005. Source: Japan Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ^ a b One of two clubs that occupied top 2 places at the end of the first half of the season (15th week) and were seeded for 2005 Emperor's Cup. These clubs were automatically qualified for the tournament, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.

Results

Home \ Away ALO DEN EHI HOR HON LOC RKU MMM PRI SEO SET SON TOC TOT YKK YMC
ALO's Hokuriku 4–2 0–1 2–1 3–2 2–1 2–2 5–0 1–0 0–1 2–2 1–3 0–0 4–0 2–1 1–0
Denso SC 0–4 0–1 0–0 0–3 1–2 0–2 1–1 0–0 0–2 0–3 0–4 0–4 2–3 1–2 0–1
Ehime FC 2–0 2–0 1–0 2–2 4–1 2–0 1–0 2–1 1–0 0–3 1–2 1–0 4–1 0–1 3–0
FC Horikoshi 0–2 0–1 1–3 2–1 1–1 5–2 6–2 1–1 2–0 2–0 3–0 3–1 4–1 2–0 0–1
Honda FC 3–2 1–1 1–3 2–1 3–1 2–1 4–0 2–0 2–1 1–3 1–1 0–0 3–0 2–2 0–1
Honda Lock 0–2 2–5 0–3 2–3 1–2 4–1 3–4 1–4 0–4 0–3 1–4 1–3 1–2 2–2 1–1
Ryutsu Keizai University 0–3 3–1 1–4 3–2 1–3 2–2 2–1 1–1 1–2 0–7 1–1 0–6 2–4 1–5 1–1
Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima 0–1 3–8 0–2 1–4 1–5 0–1 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–4 0–3 1–5 1–1 0–2 2–1
SP Kyoto 0–1 1–0 1–2 0–3 1–2 2–2 2–1 1–0 2–4 0–1 1–2 1–1 3–2 0–2 0–1
Sagawa Express Osaka 1–4 2–0 2–2 2–3 1–3 3–1 2–1 3–0 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–1 0–0 0–3 1–0
Sagawa Express Tokyo 0–1 0–2 1–0 0–1 0–2 5–1 3–1 1–0 2–2 2–1 4–0 2–2 1–0 2–1 0–1
Sony Sendai 2–0 4–0 1–2 0–1 0–1 3–1 3–3 2–0 1–0 1–0 1–2 0–3 0–0 0–4 2–0
Tochigi SC 1–1 4–4 3–2 1–0 3–2 3–2 2–1 2–1 1–2 1–0 1–1 1–0 5–0 1–2 2–3
SC Tottori 0–1 2–2 1–1 1–0 3–4 3–1 4–0 4–1 0–1 0–2 3–1 1–3 1–1 1–5 0–2
YKK AP 1–0 3–2 1–2 6–1 1–0 3–1 1–1 1–0 4–2 0–0 3–1 3–2 0–1 2–0 2–0
Yokogawa Musashino 0–1 0–0 2–0 3–1 1–0 1–1 3–1 5–1 1–1 2–2 3–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–0
Updated to match(es) played on December 4, 2005. 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 Japan Hirokazu Otsubo Sagawa Express Osaka
18
2 Japan Shinji Honda Sony Sendai
17
3 Japan Mitsuru Hasegawa YKK AP
16
4 Brazil Amaral FC Horikoshi
15
5 Japan Naoki Ishibashi ALO's Hokuriku
14
Japan Kohei Masumoto SC Tottori
14
Japan Yoshihide Ogushi Honda Lock
14
Japan Kodai Suzuki Honda FC
14
Japan Manabu Wakabayashi Tochigi SC
14
10 Japan Hiroki Kishida YKK AP
13
Japan Kentaro Yoshida Tochigi SC
13

Attendance

Pos Team Total High Low Average Change
1 Ehime FC 42,655 7,726 1,077 2,844 +26.0%†
2 Tochigi SC 22,811 3,328 745 1,521 +31.1%†
3 Honda FC 16,736 3,275 654 1,116 −3.0%†
4 SC Tottori 11,663 1,369 429 778 +22.3%†
5 YKK AP 11,535 1,802 258 769 +29.5%†
6 FC Horikoshi 10,868 2,108 246 725 +19.4%†
7 Honda Lock 10,701 2,011 424 713 n/a†
8 Sony Sendai 10,688 1,614 381 713 +14.8%†
9 Yokogawa Musashino 10,201 1,123 448 680 +18.1%†
10 Sagawa Express Osaka 10,133 4,632 142 676 −11.1%†
11 ALO's Hokuriku 9,950 2,005 281 663 +5.6%†
12 Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima 6,272 698 267 418 n/a†
13 Sagawa Express Tokyo 5,981 1,013 107 399 +6.4%†
14 Denso SC 5,464 888 154 364 +48.0%†
15 SP Kyoto 5,400 630 102 360 −3.5%†
16 Ryutsu Keizai University 4,651 706 113 310 n/a†
League total 195,709 7,726 102 815 −28.6%†

Source:[citation needed]
Notes:
† Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.

Promotion and relegation

No relegation has occurred due to expansion of the league to 18 teams. At the end the season, FC Ryukyu, JEF Reserves and Rosso Kumamoto were promoted from Regional leagues by the virtue of their placing in the Regional League promotion series.

References

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