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The Japanese association football league system is organized in a pyramidal shape similar to football league systems in many other countries around the world. The leagues are bound by the principle of promotion and relegation; however, there are stringent criteria for promotion from the JFL to J3, which demands a club being backed by the town itself including the local government, a community ...
J.League 100 Year Plan club status, Jei Rīgu hyakunen kōsō kurabu (Jリーグ百年構想クラブ) is a status given to Japanese non-league football clubs. The applicant must have an intention to become a professional club and to join the professional league, J.League , that governs the top three levels of the Japanese football pyramid .
[1] Teams with "C" are company teams. Teams with "Un" are feeder (or "B") teams for their universities' main football teams. In the Regional Leagues, first divisions equal to Japanese fifth tier of league football, while second divisions equal to the sixth tier.
Before the inception of the J.League, the highest level of club football was the Japan Soccer League (JSL), which consisted of amateur clubs. [2] [3] Despite being well-attended during the boom of the late 1960s and early 1970s (when Japan's national team won the Olympic bronze medal at the 1968 games in Mexico), the JSL went into decline in the 1980s, in general line with the deteriorating ...
"Qualifiable base for J.League" indicates the club holds a J3 League license. Clubs who actually hold the license are denoted in bold. Formerly, clubs who wished to join the J.League had to also acquire a 100 Year Plan status membership. The J.League decided that since 2023, it would not be necessary for a club to hold this status in order to ...
The top flight became the J.League Division 1 (J1) with 16 clubs while the J.League Division 2 (J2) was launched with ten clubs in 1999. The former second-tier Japan Football League now became the third-tier Japan Football League (J3). Also, until 2004 (with the exception of 1996 season), the J1 season was divided into two stages.
Britain said consultations on future cooperation between the three AUKUS partners and other nations including Japan were set to begin this year. A summit in Washington between U.S. President Joe ...
J.League (Japan Professional Football League) is the top national league in Japan with a J1, J2 and J3 League. Japan Football League (JFL) is the national amateur league. Emperor's Cup (since 1921) the national open cup. J.League Cup is the cup restricted to J.League members (usually J1 alone). All Japan Adults Football Tournament, cup for ...