2024 J3 League
Season | 2024 |
---|---|
Dates | 24 February – 24 November |
Matches played | 230 |
Goals scored | 555 (2.41 per match) |
Top goalscorer | Kensei Ukita (11 goals) |
Biggest home win | Fukushima United FC 9-0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (28 April 2024) |
Biggest away win | Zweigen Kanazawa 2–6 FC Osaka (9 March 2024) |
Highest scoring | Fukushima United FC 9-0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (28 April 2024) |
Highest attendance | 14,411 Matsumoto Yamaga 1–1 AC Nagano Parceiro (29 June)[1] |
Lowest attendance | 515 Iwate Grulla Morioka 2–1 Nara Club (10 April)[1] |
Total attendance | 708,378[2] |
Average attendance | 3,080[3] |
← 2023 2025 →
All statistics correct as of 21:28, 28 July 2024 (UTC). |
The 2024 J3 League, also known as the 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 League (Japanese: 2024 明治安田J3リーグ, Hepburn: 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is the 11th season of the J3 League, the third-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2013.
Overview
[edit]The league will continue with 20 teams for the 2024 season.
The top two teams in the league will be automatically promoted to the J2 League, provided they have the necessary license. The 2024 season introduces a promotion play-offs, where one of the teams ranked 3rd to 6th will also be promoted.
There is the possibility that as many as two clubs will be relegated to the Japan Football League. Promotion from the JFL is conditional on holding a valid J3 license. If the JFL champions hold a license, the club will be automatically promoted and the J3's 20th-placed team will be automatically relegated. If the JFL runners-up hold a license, the club will need to play promotion/relegation play-offs against J3's 19th or 20th-placed team for the season, depending on whether the JFL champions hold the J3 license. The club(s) who do not hold a license cannot be promoted and no teams will be relegated from the J3 League.[4]
Schedule
[edit]The league and match format was announced on 19 December 2023. The league will begin on 23 February and end on 10 November in a round-robin format of 38 matches.[4]
The J3 promotion play-offs will be held in a similar manner to the J2 playoffs, with the semi-finals on 1 December with the final taking place on 7 December.[5]
Changes from the previous season
[edit]Zweigen Kanazawa and Omiya Ardija were relegated to the J3 League, finishing the previous J2 League season as 21st and 22nd-placed teams, respectively. Zweigen Kanazawa are returning to the J3 League after nine seasons in the second-tier. Omiya Ardija will be competing in the third-tier for the first time as a J.League member.
No teams were relegated from the 2023 J3 League. This is only the second time in J3 history that there will be no new clubs promoted from the JFL.
J3 winners Ehime FC and runners-up Kagoshima United were both promoted from the 2023 season.
Clubs
[edit]- ^ centering on Tottori, Yonago, Kurayoshi, Sakaiminato
- ^ centering on Gifu
- ^ centering on Takamatsu, Marugame
- ^ centering on Toyama
- ^ Matsumoto, Azumino, Yamagata, Shiojiri, Omachi, Ikeda, Ikusaka, Minowa, Asahi
- ^ Hachinohe, Towada, Gonohe, Sannohe, Takko, Hashikami, Nanbu, Shingo, Oirase, Misawa, Shichinohe, Rokunohe, Tohoku, Noheji, Yokohama, Rokkasho
- ^ centering on Kanazawa, Nonoichi, Kahoku, Tsubata, Tsubata
Personnel and kits
[edit]Managerial changes
[edit]Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in the table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Zweigen Kanazawa | ![]() |
End of contract | 5 November 2023 | Pre-season | ![]() |
11 December 2023 | [6][7] |
Giravanz Kitakyushu | ![]() |
Resigned | 22 November 2023 | ![]() |
15 December 2023 | [8][9] | |
Gainare Tottori | ![]() |
End of interim spell | 24 November 2023 | ![]() |
8 December 2023 | [10][11] | |
Fukushima United | ![]() |
Resigned | 27 November 2023 | ![]() |
13 December 2023 | [12][13] | |
FC Osaka | ![]() |
Signed by Renofa Yamaguchi | 5 December 2023 | ![]() |
18 December 2023 | [14][15] | |
Tegevajaro Miyazaki | ![]() |
Resigned | 5 December 2023 | ![]() |
19 December 2023 | [16][17] | |
Omiya Ardija | ![]() |
9 November 2023 | ![]() |
11 December 2023 | [18][19] | ||
FC Imabari | ![]() |
10 December 2023 | ![]() |
11 December 2023 | [20][21] | ||
Iwate Grulla Morioka | ![]() |
Management restructure | 8 May 2024 | 20th | ![]() |
8 May 2024 | [22] |
SC Sagamihara | ![]() |
Contract terminated[23] | 19 June 2024 | 9th | ![]() |
26 June 2024 | [24] |
FC Gifu | ![]() |
Resigned | 27 June 2024 | 11th | ![]() |
28 June 2024 | [25] |
Foreign players
[edit]From the 2021 season onwards, there is no limitations on signing foreign players, but clubs could only register up to five of them for a single matchday squad.[26] Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Qatar) were exempted from these restrictions.
- Players name in bold indicates the player is registered during the summer transfer window.
- Player's name in italics indicates the player has Japanese nationality in addition to their FIFA nationality, holds the nationality of a J.League partner nation, or is exempt from being treated as a foreign player due to having been born in Japan and being enrolled in, or having graduated from an approved type of school in the country.[27]
League table
[edit]Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Omiya Ardija | 24 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 43 | 16 | +27 | 56 | Promotion to the 2025 J2 League |
2 | Azul Claro Numazu | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 41 | 24 | +17 | 43 | |
3 | FC Imabari | 24 | 13 | 4 | 7 | 33 | 26 | +7 | 43 | Qualification for the promotion play-offs |
4 | Kataller Toyama | 24 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 27 | 18 | +9 | 39 | |
5 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | 24 | 10 | 9 | 5 | 23 | 16 | +7 | 39 | |
6 | Zweigen Kanazawa | 24 | 11 | 6 | 7 | 38 | 34 | +4 | 39 | |
7 | SC Sagamihara | 24 | 9 | 9 | 6 | 24 | 19 | +5 | 36 | |
8 | Matsumoto Yamaga | 24 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 37 | 30 | +7 | 35 | |
9 | FC Osaka[a] | 24 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 24 | 19 | +5 | 34 | |
10 | Fukushima United | 24 | 10 | 3 | 11 | 36 | 27 | +9 | 33 | |
11 | Vanraure Hachinohe | 24 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 24 | 22 | +2 | 33 | |
12 | FC Ryukyu | 24 | 9 | 6 | 9 | 30 | 34 | −4 | 33 | |
13 | FC Gifu | 24 | 8 | 6 | 10 | 34 | 36 | −2 | 30 | |
14 | Nagano Parceiro | 24 | 7 | 7 | 10 | 36 | 41 | −5 | 28 | |
15 | YSCC Yokohama | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 20 | 30 | −10 | 26 | |
16 | Nara Club | 24 | 5 | 10 | 9 | 33 | 38 | −5 | 25 | |
17 | Gainare Tottori | 24 | 6 | 7 | 11 | 24 | 39 | −15 | 25 | |
18 | Kamatamare Sanuki | 24 | 4 | 10 | 10 | 22 | 29 | −7 | 22 | |
19 | Tegevajaro Miyazaki | 24 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 21 | 39 | −18 | 16 | Possible relegation via play-offs |
20 | Iwate Grulla Morioka | 24 | 3 | 5 | 16 | 15 | 48 | −33 | 14 | Possible relegation to 2025 JFL[b] |
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Goals scored; 4) Head-to-head points; 5) Head-to-head goal difference; 6) Head-to-head goal scored; 7) Fair-play points.
Notes:
- ^ The team does not hold either a J1 or J2 license, and so is ineligible for promotion to the J2 League.
- ^ Promotion from the JFL is conditional on holding a valid J3 license. If the JFL champions hold a license, the club will be automatically promoted and the J3's 20th-placed team will be automatically relegated. If the JFL runners-up hold a license, the club will need to play promotion/relegation play-offs against J3's 19th or 20th-placed team for the season, depending on whether the JFL champions hold the J3 license. The club(s) who do not hold a license cannot be promoted.
Season statistics
[edit]Top scorers
[edit]- As of 17 August 2024[28]
Awards
[edit]Monthly awards
[edit]Month | Manager of the Month | Monthly MVP | Goal of the Month | Young Player of the Month | References | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Manager | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | ||
February/March | ![]() |
FC Gifu | ![]() |
FC Gifu | ![]() |
FC Imabari | ![]() |
Omiya Ardija | [29][30][31][32] |
April | ![]() |
Omiya Ardija | ![]() |
Azul Claro Numazu | ![]() |
FC Imabari | ![]() |
Fukushima United | [33][34][35][36] |
May | ![]() |
Fukushima United | ![]() |
FC Ryukyu | ![]() |
FC Ryukyu | ![]() |
Zweigen Kanazawa | [37][38][39][40] |
June | ![]() |
Giravanz Kitakyushu | ![]() |
Omiya Ardija | ![]() |
SC Sagamihara | ![]() |
FC Ryukyu | [41][42][43][44] |
July | ![]() |
FC Imabari | ![]() |
Giravanz Kitakyushu | ![]() |
Azul Claro Numazu | ![]() |
FC Imabari | [45][46][47][48] |
See also
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External links
[edit]- Official website on jleague.co (in English)