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, the third tier of the Japanese

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league system.

Overview

At the end of the 2009 season, three new clubs were promoted from the Japanese Regional Leagues by virtue of their final placing in the Regional League promotion series: *

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and Hitachi Tochigi Uva were promoted automatically. *

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won the play-off series against

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. Before the season corporate TDK SC were renamed to

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and started operations as an independent football club. Hitachi Tochigi Uva S.C. has dropped the company prefix and changed its name to simply Tochigi Uva F.C. Matsumoto Yamaga were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in February. Zweigen Kanazawa applied for the membership later in April but the application was not accepted because of incomplete documentation. Gainare Tottori are the first club to be promoted to J. League Division 2 as champions since

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in 2005 season.

Table

Results

Top scorers

Attendance

Promotion and relegation

Due to Gainare Tottori being promoted to J2, the Regional League promotion series champions and runners-up,

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and Nagano Parceiro, were promoted automatically. The third-placed Sanyo Electric Sumoto S.C. faced Arte Takasaki in the promotion and relegation series. ---- Arte Takasaki won the series 4–1 on aggregate and stayed in JFL.

References

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