# 2007 Japan Football League

The 2007 Japan Football League (Japanese: 第9回日本フットボールリーグ, Hepburn: Dai Kyū-kai Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu) was the ninth season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system.

## Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Sagawa Express won the championship. The club was created before the season by merger of two Sagawa Express corporate clubs from Tokyo and Osaka.
SC Tottori were renamed to Gainare Tottori before the season.
TDK SC and FC Gifu were promoted from Regional leagues 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 Tochigi SC were approved as J. League associate members at the annual meeting in January.

## Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
| 1 | Sagawa Express (C) | 34 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 81 | 31 | +50 | 83 | |
| 3 | Rosso Kumamoto (P) | 34 | 21 | 6 | 7 | 65 | 34 | +31 | 69 | Promotion to 2008 J. League Division 2 |
| 3 | FC Gifu (P) | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 45 | 31 | +14 | 60 | Promotion to 2008 J. League Division 2 |
| 4 | ALO's Hokuriku | 34 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 50 | 35 | +15 | 59 | |
| 5 | Honda FC | 34 | 16 | 10 | 8 | 61 | 42 | +19 | 58 | |
| 6 | YKK AP | 34 | 16 | 7 | 11 | 60 | 53 | +7 | 55 | |
| 7 | Yokogawa Musashino | 34 | 16 | 6 | 12 | 50 | 44 | +6 | 54 | |
| 8 | Tochigi SC | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 43 | 29 | +14 | 52 | |
| 9 | JEF Reserves | 34 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 50 | 45 | +5 | 52 | |
| 10 | Ryutsu Keizai University | 34 | 15 | 5 | 14 | 58 | 49 | +9 | 50 | |
| 11 | Sony Sendai | 34 | 13 | 5 | 16 | 46 | 59 | −13 | 44 | |
| 12 | SP Kyoto | 34 | 13 | 4 | 17 | 45 | 57 | −12 | 43 | |
| 13 | TDK SC | 34 | 11 | 9 | 14 | 49 | 47 | +2 | 42 | |
| 14 | Gainare Tottori | 34 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 42 | 51 | −9 | 39 | |
| 15 | Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima | 34 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 36 | 53 | −17 | 35 | |
| 16 | FC Kariya | 34 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 36 | 59 | −23 | 28 | |
| 17 | FC Ryukyu | 34 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 38 | 82 | −44 | 27 | |
| 18 | Arte Takasaki | 34 | 1 | 4 | 29 | 17 | 71 | −54 | 7 | |
* ↑ Occupied the top place at the end of the first half of the season (17th week) and was automatically qualified for 2007 Emperor's Cup, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.
* 1 2 3 4 J. League Associate Membership
* ↑ Must hold J. League Associate Membership, finish no less than in fourth place and pass a final inspection by J. League to be promoted.

## Results

| Home \ Away | ALO | ART | GAI | GIF | HON | JER | KAR | RKU | MMM | PRI | ROS | RYU | SEX | SON | TDK | TOC | YKK | YMC |
| ALO's Hokuriku | | 7–0 | 0–0 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 3–3 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–0 |
| Arte Takasaki | 0–0 | | 1–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–4 | 1–1 | 1–3 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Gainare Tottori | 2–1 | 2–1 | | 0–3 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 3–1 | 3–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 2–2 |
| FC Gifu | 0–0 | 2–0 | 4–2 | | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–2 | 3–3 | 1–1 |
| Honda FC | 2–2 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | | 4–2 | 1–3 | 0–6 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 2–4 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 4–1 | 2–2 | 3–0 | 3–0 |
| JEF Reserves | 2–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | | 2–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–5 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 |
| FC Kariya | 0–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 0–3 | | 3–2 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–1 | 2–2 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 3–0 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 |
| Ryutsu Keizai University | 1–1 | 3–1 | 4–2 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–4 | 1–0 | 4–1 | 4–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 | 3–0 | 3–1 |
| Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima | 1–2 | 4–0 | 0–2 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 3–1 | 1–4 | | 1–1 | 1–0 | 3–4 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| SP Kyoto | 0–3 | 2–0 | 2–4 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 2–1 | | 0–1 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 0–2 |
| Rosso Kumamoto | 2–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 6–3 | | 6–0 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 3–2 |
| FC Ryukyu | 0–2 | 3–1 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 3–3 | 3–4 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 0–4 | | 1–3 | 2–2 | 0–8 | 1–0 | 2–3 | 0–0 |
| Sagawa Express | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 1–1 | 3–2 | 4–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 4–0 | | 3–0 | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 4–3 |
| Sony Sendai | 3–0 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 2–3 | 1–3 | 4–1 | 2–4 | | 1–3 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 2–3 |
| TDK SC | 2–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 5–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 2–3 | | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 |
| Tochigi SC | 1–1 | 4–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 5–0 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–1 | 0–0 | 0–0 | | 2–0 | 1–0 |
| YKK AP | 1–3 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 4–3 | 0–1 | 4–2 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 4–0 | 0–3 | 6–1 | 0–3 | 2–2 | | 5–1 |
| Yokogawa Musashino | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 5–0 | 4–1 | 0–2 | 2–0 | |

## Top scorers

| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Sho Gokyu | Sagawa Express | 30 |
| 2 | Yutaka Takahashi | Rosso Kumamoto | 29 |
| 3 | Masatoshi Matsuda | TDK SC | 18 |
| 4 | Hideyuki Ishida | ALO's Hokuriku | 17 |
| 5 | Kodai Suzuki | Honda FC | 15 |
| 5 | Yuki Muto | Ryutsu Keizai University | 15 |
| 7 | Kento Hori | Sagawa Express | 14 |
| 8 | Shōgo Shimada | Sagawa Express | 13 |
| 9 | Takashi Harashima | Yokogawa Musashino | 12 |
| 9 | Syogo Kawano | JEF Reserves | 12 |
| 9 | Yuya Nagatomi | ALO's Hokuriku | 12 |
| 9 | Junya Nitta | Honda FC | 12 |
| 9 | Satoshi Yokoyama | Tochigi SC | 12 |

## Attendance

| Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
| 1 | Tochigi SC | 75,771 | 12,539 | 2,449 | 4,457 | +108.4%$^†$ |
| 2 | Rosso Kumamoto | 60,680 | 6,365 | 1,559 | 3,569 | −5.2%$^†$ |
| 3 | FC Gifu | 59,994 | 7,688 | 1,954 | 3,529 | −13.4%$^†$ |
| 4 | FC Ryukyu | 41,539 | 4,675 | 1,153 | 2,443 | −23.4%$^†$ |
| 5 | Gainare Tottori | 29,832 | 3,811 | 851 | 1,755 | +53.1%$^†$ |
| 6 | TDK SC | 16,711 | 2,245 | 427 | 983 | n/a$^†$ |
| 7 | Sagawa Express | 15,705 | 3,138 | 312 | 924 | −14.4%$^‡$ |
| 8 | YKK AP | 12,669 | 2,646 | 267 | 745 | +2.1%$^†$ |
| 9 | Yokogawa Musashino | 11,437 | 1,405 | 317 | 673 | −2.2%$^†$ |
| 10 | ALO's Hokuriku | 11,025 | 2,555 | 130 | 649 | +11.1%$^†$ |
| 11 | Honda FC | 10,894 | 1,328 | 168 | 641 | −24.1%$^†$ |
| 12 | Sony Sendai | 9,841 | 1,411 | 215 | 579 | −10.1%$^†$ |
| 13 | Ryutsu Keizai University | 9,541 | 1,505 | 154 | 561 | +131.8%$^†$ |
| 14 | FC Kariya | 8,749 | 1,458 | 211 | 515 | −8.5%$^†$ |
| 15 | JEF Reserves | 7,041 | 945 | 113 | 414 | +40.3%$^†$ |
| 16 | Arte Takasaki | 6,966 | 1,015 | 177 | 410 | −14.9%$^†$ |
| 17 | SP Kyoto | 6,754 | 772 | 101 | 397 | +4.7%$^†$ |
| 18 | Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima | 6,291 | 711 | 204 | 370 | +16.7%$^†$ |
| | League total | 401,440 | 12,539 | 101 | 1,312 | +33.1%$^†$ |
Source: JFL First Round, JFL Second Round Notes: $^†$ Team played previous season in Regional Leagues. $^‡$ Sagawa Express attendance is compared to the combined figure of its predecessors, Sagawa Express Tokyo and Sagawa Express Osaka.

## Promotion and relegation

No relegation has occurred due to a post-season merger of ALO's Hokuriku and YKK AP into one club named Kataller Toyama.
Fagiano Okayama, New Wave Kitakyushu and MIO Biwako Kusatsu were promoted to JFL from Regional leagues at the end of the season.