# 2006 Japan Football League

The 2006 Japan Football League (Japanese: 第8回日本フットボールリーグ, Hepburn: Dai Hachi-kai Nihon Futtobōru Rīgu) was the eighth season of the Japan Football League, the third tier of the Japanese football league system.

## Overview

It was contested by 18 teams, and Honda FC won the championship.
Before the season two corporate clubs changed their names and were re-established as independent organizations. Denso SC became FC Kariya and FC Horikoshi became Arte Takasaki.
FC Ryukyu, JEF Reserves and Rosso Kumamoto were promoted from Regional leagues by the virtue of their placing in the Regional League promotion series, thus expanding the league to 18 teams.
At the J. League meeting in August, Rosso Kumamoto were approved as first J. League associate members, becoming eligible to J2 promotion. No such promotion took place because they failed to achieve at least 4th spot in the final standings.

## Table

| Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Qualification |
| 1 | Honda FC (C) | 34 | 26 | 5 | 3 | 77 | 36 | +41 | 83 | |
| 2 | Sagawa Express Tokyo (M) | 34 | 23 | 6 | 5 | 84 | 23 | +61 | 75 | Merged after the season |
| 3 | Sagawa Express Osaka (M) | 34 | 23 | 3 | 8 | 68 | 29 | +39 | 72 | Merged after the season |
| 4 | YKK AP | 34 | 19 | 10 | 5 | 68 | 34 | +34 | 67 | |
| 5 | Rosso Kumamoto | 34 | 20 | 6 | 8 | 64 | 39 | +25 | 66 | |
| 6 | Yokogawa Musashino | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 58 | 38 | +20 | 60 | |
| 7 | Tochigi SC | 34 | 17 | 9 | 8 | 50 | 35 | +15 | 60 | |
| 8 | ALO's Hokuriku | 34 | 16 | 9 | 9 | 53 | 30 | +23 | 57 | |
| 9 | Sony Sendai | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 48 | 65 | −17 | 37 | |
| 10 | Arte Takasaki | 34 | 10 | 7 | 17 | 36 | 62 | −26 | 37 | |
| 11 | SC Tottori | 34 | 7 | 15 | 12 | 61 | 62 | −1 | 36 | |
| 12 | JEF Reserves | 34 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 52 | 68 | −16 | 35 | |
| 13 | FC Kariya | 34 | 8 | 8 | 18 | 46 | 63 | −17 | 32 | |
| 14 | FC Ryukyu | 34 | 6 | 11 | 17 | 29 | 57 | −28 | 29 | |
| 15 | SP Kyoto | 34 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 32 | 61 | −29 | 29 | |
| 16 | Ryutsu Keizai University | 34 | 8 | 4 | 22 | 48 | 83 | −35 | 28 | |
| 17 | Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima | 34 | 7 | 6 | 21 | 32 | 74 | −42 | 27 | |
| 18 | Honda Lock (R) | 34 | 5 | 7 | 22 | 39 | 86 | −47 | 22 | Promotion/relegation Series |
* ↑ Occupied the top place at the end of the first half of the season (17th week) and was automatically qualified for 2006 Emperor's Cup, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.
* ↑ J. League associate members, eligible to J2 promotion if they finish at least in fourth place.

## Results

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

## Top scorers

| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
| 1 | Tetsuya Okubo | Sagawa Express Tokyo | 26 |
| 2 | Yosuke Kobayashi | Yokogawa Musashino | 23 |
| 2 | Junya Nitta | Honda FC | 23 |
| 4 | Yoshio Kitagawa | ALO's Hokuriku | 22 |
| 5 | Sho Gokyu | Sagawa Express Osaka | 21 |
| 6 | Hiroki Kishida | YKK AP | 20 |
| 7 | Kodai Suzuki | Honda FC | 18 |
| 8 | Hideki Uchiyama | SC Tottori | 17 |
| 9 | Yutaka Takahashi | Rosso Kumamoto | 15 |
| 10 | Kento Hori | Sagawa Express Tokyo | 14 |

## Attendance

| Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
| 1 | Rosso Kumamoto | 64,012 | 8,999 | 1,813 | 3,765 | n/a$^†$ |
| 2 | FC Ryukyu | 54,213 | 4,837 | 927 | 3,189 | n/a$^†$ |
| 3 | Tochigi SC | 36,369 | 6,153 | 1,142 | 2,139 | +40.6%$^†$ |
| 4 | SC Tottori | 19,487 | 3,216 | 560 | 1,146 | +47.3%$^†$ |
| 5 | Honda FC | 14,363 | 2,982 | 365 | 845 | −24.3%$^†$ |
| 6 | YKK AP | 12,414 | 2,670 | 247 | 730 | −5.1%$^†$ |
| 7 | Yokogawa Musashino | 11,697 | 1,194 | 403 | 688 | +1.2%$^†$ |
| 8 | Honda Lock | 11,335 | 1,326 | 411 | 667 | −6.5%$^†$ |
| 9 | Sagawa Express Osaka | 11,228 | 5,328 | 78 | 660 | −2.4%$^†$ |
| 10 | Sony Sendai | 10,945 | 1,693 | 322 | 644 | −9.7%$^†$ |
| 11 | ALO's Hokuriku | 9,920 | 1,536 | 283 | 584 | −11.9%$^†$ |
| 12 | FC Kariya | 9,568 | 1,080 | 202 | 563 | +54.7%$^†$ |
| 13 | Arte Takasaki | 8,197 | 876 | 208 | 482 | −33.5%$^†$ |
| 14 | Sagawa Express Tokyo | 7,130 | 790 | 148 | 419 | +5.0%$^†$ |
| 15 | SP Kyoto | 6,438 | 911 | 109 | 379 | +5.3%$^†$ |
| 16 | Mitsubishi Motors Mizushima | 5,393 | 525 | 145 | 317 | −24.2%$^†$ |
| 17 | JEF Reserves | 5,013 | 678 | 104 | 295 | n/a$^†$ |
| 18 | Ryutsu Keizai University | 4,112 | 707 | 111 | 242 | −21.9%$^†$ |
| | League total | 301,834 | 8,999 | 78 | 986 | +21.0%$^†$ |
Source: Notes: $^†$ Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.

## Promotion and relegation

Due to the merger of Sagawa Express teams into one club, the Regional League promotion series winners TDK SC were promoted automatically. FC Gifu were set to play Honda Lock in the promotion and relegation series.
F.C. Gifu won the series at 8–1 aggregate score and earned promotion to JFL. Honda Lock were relegated to Kyushu regional league.