The was the ninth season of the

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, the third tier of the Japanese

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league system.

Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and

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won the championship. The club was created before the season by merger of two Sagawa Express corporate clubs from

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and

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. SC Tottori were renamed to Gainare Tottori before the season.

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and FC Gifu were promoted from

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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. FC Gifu, Gainare Tottori and

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were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in January.

Table

Results

Top scorers

Attendance

Promotion and relegation

No relegation has occurred due to a post-season merger of ALO's Hokuriku and YKK AP into one club named

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, New Wave Kitakyushu and

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were promoted to JFL from

at the end of the season.

References

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