The was the eleventh season of the

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, the third tier of the Japanese

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league system.

Overview

At the end of the 2008 season, three new clubs were promoted from the

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 ...

by virtue of their final placing in the Regional League promotion series: * Machida Zelvia, Kanto Football League First Division champions *

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, Kyushu Football League runners-up * Honda Lock, 3rd place at the All Japan Senior Football Championship (3rd place in Kyushu Football League) Machida Zelvia and V-Varen Nagasaki were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in January. Sagawa Shiga won their second championship title since 2007 season.

Table

Results

Top scorers

Attendance

Promotion and relegation

Due to Kitakyushu being promoted and Mitsubishi Mizushima being relegated, the Regional League promotion series winner and runner-up, Matsumoto Yamaga and Hitachi Tochigi Uva respectively, were promoted automatically. Third-placed team,

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were set to play FC Kariya in the promotion and relegation series. ---- Zweigen Kanazawa won the series at 2–1 aggregate score and earned promotion to JFL. F.C. Kariya relegated to Tōkai regional league.

References

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