The was the sixth season of the nationwide fourth tier of Japanese football, and the 21st season since the establishment of Japan Football League.
Starting from this season, the league reverted to a one-stage double round-robin again.
Clubs
Sixteen clubs will feature in this season of Japan Football League. There were some changes: Vanraure Hachinohe won promotion to pro football in 2018, while Cobaltore Onagawa was relegated. There are two new clubs in the JFL, debuting in this category: Matsue City won the Regional Promotion Series, while Suzuka Unlimited came second in the final phase.
Club name Home town Position Notes FC Imabari Imabari, Ehime 5th J.League 100 Year Plan club status and J3 license holders Higashiōsaka, Osaka 2nd Honda FC Hamamatsu, Shizuoka 1st Defending champions of 2018 Miyazaki, Miyazaki 14th Maruyasu Okazaki Okazaki, Aichi 13th Matsue City Matsue, Shimane RPS 1st Promoted from CSL after 1st place in 42nd Regional Promotion Series MIO Biwako Shiga Kusatsu, Shiga 7th Nara Club All cities/towns in Nara 8th J.League 100 Year Plan club status and J3 license holders Aomori, Aomori 10thJ.League 100 Year Plan club status and J3 license holders Ryūgasaki, Ibaraki 15th Sony Sendai Tagajō, Miyagi 4th Suzuka Unlimited Suzuka, Mie RPS 2nd Promoted from TASL after 2nd place in 42nd Regional Promotion Series Tegevajaro Miyazaki Miyazaki & Shintomi, Miyazaki 12thJ.League 100 Year Plan club status Tokyo Musashino City Musashino, Tokyo 6thJ.League 100 Year Plan club status and J3 license holders Veertien Mie All cities/towns in Mie 11th Verspah Oita Yufu & Ōita, Ōita 9th
Personnel and kits Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer FC Imabari Takeshi Ono Adidas Haruo Wada Tomoyuki Iwamoto bonera Honda FC Hiroyasu Ibata Yuya Suzuki Umbro Shinya Shirakawa Naoya Oyama Kappa Maruyasu Okazaki Ryuji Kitamura Keita Sugimoto ATHLETA Matsue City Koji Tanaka Yuzuru Tabira GAViC MIO Biwako Shiga Masafumi Nakaguchi JOGARBOLA Nara Club Koichi Sugiyama Shinichi Mukai SQUADRA Tatsuya Mochizuki Kanta Takahashi Umbro Yuji Nakano Adidas Sony Sendai Shinji Honda Kenta Ogihara Umbro Suzuka Unlimited Milagros Martínez Domínguez Toshihiro Horikawa ATHLETA Tegevajaro Miyazaki Keiji Kuraishi Penalty Tokyo Musashino City Hisayuki Ikegami Koji Ishihara Yonex Veertien Mie Nobuhiro Ueno Hitoshi Nishimura Mizuno Verspah Oita Shigemitsu Sudo Kosuke Fukumoto LINES
League table
Top scorers . Rank Player Club Goals Efrain RintaroSuzuka Unlimited Tsubasa AndoHonda Lock SC Kazuki SakamotoMIO Biwako Shiga Yuta UchinoSony Sendai FC Hiroki BandaiReinMeer Aomori Masahiko SugitaSony Sendai FC Jin ShioyaVeertien Mie Yuki MizutaniTokyo Musashino City FC Daiya TonoHonda FC Koji IshiharaTokyo Musashino City Hiroto MiyauchiMatsue City
Promotion from Regional Leagues Iwaki FC and Kochi United SC won the promotion after coming in the Top 2 of the Final Round of the 2019 Regional Promotion Series.
Attendances
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References
External links Official Site (in Japanese)