Koichi Kidera
is a former Japanese football player. Playing career Kidera was born in Hidaka on April 4, 1972. After graduating from high school, he joined the Japan Soccer League club NKK in 1991. In 1992, the Japan Soccer League was dissolved and the club joined the new Japan Football League (JFL). Kidera became a regular goalkeeper in 1992. However he did not play much in 1993 and the club was disbanded at the end of the 1993 season. In 1994, he moved to the JFL club Kyoto Purple Sanga. Although he played for two seasons, he did not participate in many matches. In 1996, he moved to the Regional Leagues club Honda Luminozo Sayama and played for two seasons. In 1998, he moved to the JFL club Albirex Niigata. He played often and the club was promoted to the new J2 League in 1999. He competed with Shinya Yoshihara for a position and played often until 2000. However he played less often than Yosuke Nozawa in 2001. The club won the championship in 2003 and was promoted to the J1 League in 200 ...
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Hidaka, Saitama
is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 55,294 in 24,328 households and a population density of 1200 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Hidaka is located in south-central Saitama Prefecture. Surrounding municipalities Saitama Prefecture * Kawagoe * Sakado * Hannō * Tsurugashima * Sayama * Moroyama Climate Hidaka has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen ''Cfa'') characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Hidaka is 14.3 °C. The average annual rainfall is 1427 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 26.2 °C, and lowest in January, at around 3.4 °C. Demographics Per Japanese census data, the population of Hidaka has remained relatively stable over the past 30 years. History The area of modern-day Hidaka was part of ancient Koma District, Musashi Provi ...
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J2 League
The or simply J2 is the second division of the and the second level of the Japanese association football league system. The top tier is represented by the J1 League. It (along with the rest of the J.League) is currently sponsored by Meiji Yasuda Life and it is thus officially known as the . Until the 2014 season it was named the J.League Division 2. Second-tier club football has existed in Japan since 1972; however, it was only professionalized during the 1999 season with ten clubs. The league took one relegating club from the top division and nine clubs from the second-tier semi-professional former Japan Football League to create the J2 League. The remaining seven clubs in the Japan Football League, the newly formed Yokohama FC, and one promoting club from the Regional Leagues, formed the nine-club Japan Football League, then the third tier of Japanese football. The third tier is now represented by the J3 League. History Phases of Japanese second-tier association football ...
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1997 Japanese Regional Leagues
Statistics of Japanese Regional Leagues are a group of parallel association football leagues in Japan that are organized on the regional basis. They form the fifth tier of the Japanese association football league system below the nationwide Japan Football League. Overview Japan is ... for the 1997 season. Champions list League standings Hokkaido Tohoku Kanto Hokushinetsu Tokai Kansai Chugoku Shikoku Kyushu {{Japanese Club Football, group=regional Japanese Regional Leagues seasons 3 ...
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1996 Japanese Regional Leagues
Statistics of Japanese Regional Leagues are a group of parallel association football leagues in Japan that are organized on the regional basis. They form the fifth tier of the Japanese association football league system below the nationwide Japan Football League. Overview Japan is ... for the 1996 season. Champions list League standings Hokkaido Tohoku Kanto Hokushinetsu Tokai Kansai Chugoku Shikoku Kyushu {{1996 in Japanese football Japanese Regional Leagues seasons 3 ...
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1995 Japan Football League
Statistics of Japan Football League in the 1995 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Fukuoka Blux won the championship. They were promoted to the J.League along with Kyoto Purple Sanga. Newly promoted before the season were Brummell Sendai (the future Vegalta Sendai), and Fukushima FC, which despite its name was based in Kōriyama. League table References {{1995 in Japanese football 1996 2 Japan Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

1994 Japan Football League
Statistics of Japan Football League in the 1994 season. Overview It was contested by 16 teams, and Cerezo Osaka won the championship. Along with Kashiwa Reysol they were promoted to the J.League. NEC Yamagata, the future Montedio Yamagata, were promoted to the JFL before the season, having won the Regional Promotion Series. League standings References {{Japanese Club Football, group=second 1996 2 Japan Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

1993 Japan Football League
Statistics of Japan Football League in the 1993 season. Division 1 Overview It was contested by 10 teams, and Fujita won the championship. League Standings Division 2 Overview It was contested by 10 teams, and Honda won the championship. League standings References {{1993 in Japanese football 1996 2 Japan Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

1992 Japan Football League
Statistics of Japan Football League in the 1992 season. First Division Second Division Seino Unyu and Osaka Gas had been promoted automatically after winning the Regional Playoffs. References {{1992 in Japanese football 1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

1991–92 Japan Soccer League
The 1991–92 season in Japanese football was the last of the old Japan Soccer League before the transition period into the J.League. League tables First Division Second Division Successor seasons * 1992 Japan Football League * 1993 J.League References {{DEFAULTSORT:1991-92 Japan Soccer League Japan Soccer League seasons 1991 in Japanese football 1992 in Japanese football leagues Japan Soccer League , or JSL, was the top flight association football league in Japan between 1965 and 1992, and was the precursor to the current professional league, the J.League. JSL was the second national league of a team sport in Japan after the professional ...

1990–91 Japan Soccer League
Both divisions of the Japan Soccer League were given the 3-1-0 league format. League tables First Division Yomiuri won its fourth JSL title and went to the Asian Club Championship. Nissan, by virtue of its Emperor's Cup win, represented Japan for the first time in the Asian Cup Winners' Cup. Yanmar Diesel, four-time champions in the 1970s, was relegated for the first time after an aimless decade. Nippon Kokan, who two seasons before was contending for the title, was relegated as well and would cease to exist by the middle of the decade. Second Division Struggling fallen giants Hitachi and Mazda were promoted back to the top flight after a few seasons of second division wilderness: Hitachi at the first attempt, Mazda on the third. Yawata Steel, co-founder of the First Division with them in 1965, was relegated, leaving only five JSL founding clubs that would professionalize for the J.League. Osaka Gas, who never looked like national league material, joined them. {{DEFAULTSO ...
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Japan Football League
The also known as simply the JFL is the 4th tier of the Japanese association football league system, positioned beneath the three divisions of the J.League. The league features fully professional teams that hold J.League associate membership among its ranks. Relationship and position of J. League and Japan Football League (JFL) According to the official document published in December 2013 when the J3 League was established, the J3 League was the 3rd level of the J.League. The J.League and non-J.League amateur leagues have different hierarchical structures, and the J3 League was ranked on the same level as the JFL. In addition, the JFL itself has the same recognition in the material showing the league composition on the official website. Therefore, the JFL is treated as equal to J3 in theory, but in practice it is considered equivalent to a 4th division. History The Japan Football League started from the 1999 season when the second division of J.League (J2) was also born. Un ...
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Takashi Shimoda
is a former Japanese football player. He who is the currently goalkeeper coach for Japan. Club career Shimoda was born in Hiroshima on 28 November 1975. After graduating from high school, he joined Sanfrecce Hiroshima in 1994. He did not play many matches until the mid 1990s, as he was behind Kazuya Maekawa and Kazumasa Kawano. Kawano left the club in 1997 and Maekawa was injured in 1998; Shimoda then became a regular goalkeeper in 1998. Although he played as the regular goalkeeper until 2007, he sustained a knee injury that same year. He did not play from 2008 and retired at the end of the 2010 season. National team career In April 1995, Shimoda was selected to the Japan U-20 national team for the 1995 World Youth Championship. He played two matches including the quarterfinal. In July 1996, he was also selected to the Japan U-23 national team for the 1996 Summer Olympics. However he did not play in any matches behind Yoshikatsu Kawaguchi. Although Japan won two matches, Japa ...
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