Japan (Second Level) 2008

J.League (Japan Professional Football League) Division 2

Table:

 1.Sanfrecce Hiroshima        21 15  3  3  41-16  48
 2.Montedio Yamagata          22 12  5  5  38-20  41
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 3.Cerezo Osaka               22 12  2  8  38-28  38
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 4.Vegalta Sendai             21 10  7  4  32-24  37
 5.Thespa Kusatsu             22 10  6  6  27-23  36
 6.Sagan Tosu                 22 11  3  8  25-23  36
 7.Shonan Bellmare            21 10  3  8  38-29  33
 8.Yokohama FC                21  7  7  7  28-28  28
 9.FC Gifu                    22  7  6  9  27-30  27
10.Avispa Fukuoka             22  7  5 10  25-36  26
11.Ventforet Kofu             21  5  7  9  20-29  22
12.Ehime FC                   21  5  6 10  21-27  21
13.Mito Hollyhock             22  5  4 12  24-39  19
14.Tokushima Vortis           22  5  3 14  21-37  18
15.Roasso Kumamoto            21  4  5 12  21-37  17

Note:
*The new relegated teams:
 - Sanfrecce Hiroshima (the 16th of Div.1 in 2007 season, 
   and the loser of play-off against Kyoto Sanga F.C.), 
   Ventforet Kofu (17th of Div.1 in 2007), Yokohama FC 
   (18th - the bottom of Div.1 in 2007).
*The new promoted teams:
 - Kumamoto (the runners-up of JFL (Japan Football League, 
   3rd level, amateur) in 2007) and Gifu (the 3rd of JFL).
   At the same time, Kumamoto had changed its own name, 
   from "Rosso Kumamoto" to "Roasso Kumamoto" (add "a").
*Reduce of games:
 As to increasing teams, J.League reduce the times of 
 round-robbins, from four to three in this season. 
 So, the games of each team are minus three, from 48 to 42 
 in 45 rounds (in 2006-2007 season, there is 52 rounds).

Round 1
[Mar 8]
Shonan Bellmare           1-0  Vegalta Sendai                    8,724
   [Jean 74]
Ehime FC                  2-1  Roasso Kumamoto                   5,122
   [Toshiya Tanaka 54, Daisuke Aono 63 - Yutaka Takahashi 80]
Sagan Tosu                1-0  Montedio Yamagata                 7,057
   [Kazuya Iio 86]
[Mar 9]
Mito Hollyhock            0-2  Cerezo Osaka                      5,437
   [Shinji Kagawa 42, 85]
Thespa Kusatsu            0-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               6,974
   [Toshihiro Aoyama 44, Ryuichi Hirashige 71]
Ventforet Kofu            1-1  FC Gifu                          13,211
   [Toshiaki Haji 38 - Hiromi Kojima 66]
Tokushima Vortis          0-2  Yokohama FC                       6,150
   [Takuya Yamada 36, Anderson 62]
Avispa Fukuoka            bye

Round 2
[Mar 15]
Cerezo Osaka              1-3  Montedio Yamagata                 6,937
   [Tatsuya Furuhashi 29 - Yohei Toyoda 13, own goal 43, Shogo Kobara
    62]
Roasso Kumamoto           2-1  Thespa Kusatsu                    5,960
   [Yutaka Takahashi 78, 79 - Yasushi Kita 63]
[Mar 16]
FC Gifu                   0-1  Vegalta Sendai                    5,023
   [Own goal 23]
Avispa Fukuoka            2-1  Mito Hollyhock                   15,157
   [Teruaki Kurobe 50, Ufuk Talay 74 - Kohei Nishino 60]
Ventforet Kofu            0-0  Tokushima Vortis                  9,687
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       3-0  Ehime FC                         17,250
   [Yojiro Takahagi 23, 74, Hisato Sato 89]
Yokohama FC               3-2  Shonan Bellmare                   6,287
   [Anderson 5, 52, 79 - Nozomu Kato 64, Hikaru Mita 80]
Sagan Tosu                bye

Round 3 [Mar 20]
Vegalta Sendai            1-0  Avispa Fukuoka                   15,626
   [Yuki Nakashima 13]
Montedio Yamagata         3-5  FC Gifu                           5,430
   [Yohei Toyoda 15, Takumi Watanabe 18, Leonardo 89 - Kazumasa Takagi
    11, 46, Masato Katayama 26, 44, Kazunori Kan 83]
Thespa Kusatsu            0-0  Yokohama FC                       2,868
Sagan Tosu                1-0  Cerezo Osaka                      7,839
   [Kenzo Taniguchi 64]
Mito Hollyhock            1-0  Ventforet Kofu                    1,506
   [Tomoyuki Arata 84]
Shonan Bellmare           0-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               4,027
   [Koji Morisaki 21, Tomoaki Makino 77]
Tokushima Vortis          0-3  Ehime FC                          3,564
   [Shuichi Akai 8, Manabu Wakabayashi 9, Toshiya Tanaka 84]
Roasso Kumamoto           bye

Round 4 [Mar 23]
Yokohama FC               0-0  Sagan Tosu                        3,728
Cerezo Osaka              2-1  Vegalta Sendai                    6,069
   [Ale 12, Germano 81 - Yuki Nakashima 70]
Roasso Kumamoto           0-2  Shonan Bellmare                   3,046
   [Yuzo Tamura 48, Naoki Ishihara 61]
Ehime FC                  1-2  Thespa Kusatsu                    2,342
   [Manabu Wakabayashi 1 - Daisuke Fujii 48, Ryoji Ujihara 58]
Ventforet Kofu            2-2  Avispa Fukuoka                    9,185
   [Josimar 1, Yohei Onishi 71 - Tetsuya Okubo 3, Ufuk Talay 61]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       2-2  Mito Hollyhock                    6,677
   [Tatsuhiko Kubo 67, Ryota Moriwaki 89 - Kohei Nishino 55, Takafumi
    Akahoshi 79]
FC Gifu                   2-1  Tokushima Vortis                  2,028
   [Takashi Umeda 34, Masato Katayama 76 - Seydou Doumbia 75]
Montedio Yamagata         bye

Round 5
[Mar 29]
Vegalta Sendai            1-0  Thespa Kusatsu                   12,167
   [Takayuki Nakahara 54]
Montedio Yamagata         0-0  Ventforet Kofu                    3,164
Mito Hollyhock            2-2  Yokohama FC                       5,024
   [Kento Hori 30, Masashi Owada 62 - Anderson 70, Atsuhiro Miura 82]
Shonan Bellmare           2-3  Tokushima Vortis                  4,474
   [Nobutaka Suzuki 13, Jean 61 - Seydou Doumbia 35, Jun Tamano 43,
    Yutaro Abe 76]
Cerezo Osaka              1-0  FC Gifu                           5,617
   [Noriyuki Sakemoto 12]
[Mar 30]
Avispa Fukuoka            2-0  Ehime FC                          9,096
   [Tetsuya Okubo 37, Joel Griffiths 62]
Sagan Tosu                1-1  Roasso Kumamoto                   6,201
   [Kim Shin-young 24 - Yutaka Takahashi 60]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       bye

Round 6
[Apr 5]
Thespa Kusatsu            1-2  Shonan Bellmare                   4,751
   [Takeshi Terada 70 - Lincoln 81, 86]
Ehime FC                  1-2  Sagan Tosu                        2,617
   [Shingo Hoshino 78 - Yuichi Shibakoya 22, Kenzo Taniguchi 55]
[Apr 6]
Yokohama FC               1-1  Vegalta Sendai                    6,465
   [Elizeu 74 - Ryang Yong-gi 2]
Tokushima Vortis          3-1  Avispa Fukuoka                    2,722
   [Shogo Nishikawa 49, Jun Tamano 51, Seydou Doumbia 66 - Joel
    Griffiths 48]
Roasso Kumamoto           1-2  Montedio Yamagata                 3,515
   [Satoshi Nakayama 40 - Rychely 19, 71]
Ventforet Kofu            3-2  Cerezo Osaka                     10,389
   [Jun Uruno 11, Josimar 36, 39 - Germano 57, Careca 89]
FC Gifu                   1-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               5,471
   [Kazunori Kan 60 - Tomoaki Makino 22]
Mito Hollyhock            bye

Round 7
[Apr 12]
Montedio Yamagata         1-0  Yokohama FC                       3,832
   [Shogo Sakai 48]
Avispa Fukuoka            1-5  FC Gifu                           7,854
   [Hokuto Nakamura 18 - Atsushi Katagiri 56, 57, Kazumasa Takagi 59,
    Takashi Umeda 61, 83]
Vegalta Sendai            1-1  Tokushima Vortis                 11,013
   [Kunimitsu Sekiguchi 62 - Yasuaki Oshima 75]
[Apr 13]
Mito Hollyhock            2-2  Roasso Kumamoto                   1,464
   [Tomoyuki Arata 2, Kohei Nishino 58 - Kazuya Kawabata 12, Satoshi
    Nakayama 31]
Sagan Tosu                1-1  Thespa Kusatsu                    4,797
   [Yoshihito Fujita 68 - Ryo Goto 83]
Shonan Bellmare           1-0  Ventforet Kofu                    5,652
   [Naoki Ishihara 35]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       4-1  Cerezo Osaka                      8,415
   [Yojiro Takahagi 22, Hisato Sato 45, 75, Ryota Moriwaki 59 - Own
    goal 39]
Ehime FC                  bye

Round 8
[Apr 19]
FC Gifu                   2-3  Yokohama FC                       6,269
   [Masato Katayama 20, Koji Yoshimura 60, Anderson 89 - Own goal 44,
    Kosuke Yatsuda 81]
Ehime FC                  1-1  Vegalta Sendai                    3,271
   [Yoshihiro Uchimura 89 - Ryang Yong-gi 25]
[Apr 20]
Thespa Kusatsu            1-1  Montedio Yamagata                 3,903
   [Ryo Goto 22 - Shogo Sakai 89]
Cerezo Osaka              1-0  Roasso Kumamoto                   8,382
   [Germano 84]
Avispa Fukuoka            2-0  Sagan Tosu                       11,368
   [Yusuke Tanaka 12, Toru Miyamoto 37]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       1-2  Ventforet Kofu                   10,746
   [Kota Hattori 4 - Josimar 7, Michitaka Akimoto 25]
Tokushima Vortis          2-0  Mito Hollyhock                    3,283
   [Takuya Muguruma 42, Seydou Doumbia 89]
Shonan Bellmare           bye

Round 9 [Apr 26]
Montedio Yamagata         0-0  Avispa Fukuoka                    3,012
Yokohama FC               1-1  Cerezo Osaka                      4,316
   [Shingo Nejime 34 - Rui Komatsu 43]
Sagan Tosu                2-1  Tokushima Vortis                  4,487
   [Keiji Takachi 6, Yoshihito Fujita 56 - Yuki Ishida 86]
Ventforet Kofu            1-0  Ehime FC                          8,305
   [Josimar 56]
Roasso Kumamoto           1-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               5,822
   [Own goal 87 - Ryuichi Hirashige 56, Kota Hattori 82]
Vegalta Sendai            3-3  Mito Hollyhock                   11,755
   [Ryang Yong-gi 69, Tomoyuki Hirase 79, 85 - Tomoyuki Arata 23,
    Kohei Nishino 80, 88]
Shonan Bellmare           4-2  FC Gifu                           3,543
   [Naoki Ishihara 3, Ryuta Hara 57, Adiel 81, Nozomu Kato 89 - Own
    goals 38, 40]
Thespa Kusatsu            bye

Round 10 [Apr 29]
Montedio Yamagata         1-0  Shonan Bellmare                   4,787
   [Yu Hasegawa 50]
Mito Hollyhock            1-3  FC Gifu                           1,971
   [Tomoyuki Arata 40 - Yasuyuki Moriyama 26, Masato Katayama 76, 89]
Tokushima Vortis          1-4  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               7,254
   [Shogo Nishikawa 12 - Koji Morisaki 9, 14, Hisato Sato 10, 86]
Vegalta Sendai            3-0  Sagan Tosu                       13,461
   [Tomoyuki Hirase 57, Kazunari Okayama 73, Kunimitsu Sekiguchi 84]
Roasso Kumamoto           2-1  Ventforet Kofu                    4,464
   [Tomoaki Komorida 26, Daisuke Yano 52 - Ken Fujita 48]
Avispa Fukuoka            1-1  Thespa Kusatsu                    6,432
   [Tatsunori Hisanaga 59 - Yusuke Shimada 73]
Ehime FC                  1-4  Cerezo Osaka                      3,782
   [Takuya Yokoyama 20 - Rui Komatsu 24, Ale 27, Germano 33, Shinji
    Kagawa 89]       
Yokohama FC               bye

Round 11 [May 3]
Thespa Kusatsu            0-0  Ventforet Kofu                    6,459
Yokohama FC               5-0  Roasso Kumamoto                   4,061
   [Anderson 25, 42, 46, Hiroaki Namba 52, Cho Young-cheol 62]
Shonan Bellmare           4-0  Avispa Fukuoka                    6,146
   [Adiel 11, Naoki Ishihara 14, 52, Lincoln 88]
FC Gifu                   0-3  Ehime FC                          3,524
   [Shuichi Akai 7, Yuji Miyahara 23, Kenichi Ego 25]
Sagan Tosu                3-0  Mito Hollyhock                    5,507
   [Yoshiki Takahashi 66, Keiji Takachi 85, Hiroyuki Ishida 88]
Cerezo Osaka              1-0  Tokushima Vortis                  9,694
   [Rui Komatsu 64]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       1-0  Montedio Yamagata                14,332
   [Hisato Sato 68]       
Vegalta Sendai            bye

Round 12 [May 6]
Mito Hollyhock            0-2  Shonan Bellmare                   2,653
   [Yoshiro Abe 63, Koji Sakamoto 88]
Ehime FC                  0-0  Montedio Yamagata                 3,917
Avispa Fukuoka            2-4  Roasso Kumamoto                  10,822
   [Tetsuya Okubo 8, Joel Griffiths 41 - Yutaka Takahashi 28, 33, 72,
    Tomoaki Komorida 57]
Ventforet Kofu            2-1  Yokohama FC                      14,521
   [Junya Kuno 14, Ken Fujita 33 - Anderson 73]
FC Gifu                   0-1  Sagan Tosu                        4,347
   [Yoshihito Fujita 81]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       0-1  Vegalta Sendai                   13,116
   [Takayuki Nakahara 89]
Tokushima Vortis          2-3  Thespa Kusatsu                    3,247
   [Yuki Ishida 19, Yasuaki Oshima 65 - Ryo Goto 13, Jun Tanaka 86,
    Yasunori Takada 87]
Cerezo Osaka              bye

Round 13
[May 10]
Montedio Yamagata         3-1  Mito Hollyhock                    3,582
   [Ryosuke Nemoto 18, Leonardo 47, Kohei Miyazaki 85 - Takuro Kikuoka
    34]
Thespa Kusatsu            1-3  Cerezo Osaka                      2,301
   [Wataru Yamazaki 89 - Rui Komatsu 4, 79, Germano 83]
[May 11]
Vegalta Sendai            2-0  Ventforet Kofu                   12,325
   [Kazunari Okayama 55, Takayuki Nakahara 84]
Avispa Fukuoka            0-3  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               9,217
   [Koji Morisako 29, 81, Ryota Moriwaki 72]
Yokohama FC               1-0  Ehime FC                          2,734
   [Anderson 58]
Shonan Bellmare           2-1  Sagan Tosu                        5,023
   [Adiel 49, Yoshiro Abe 51 - Kim Shin-young 89]
Roasso Kumamoto           0-2  FC Gifu                           4,608
   [Takashi Umeda 56, Atsushi Katagiri 64]
Tokushima Vortis          bye

Round 14
[May 17]
Sagan Tosu                0-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               7,897
   [Hisato Sato 75]
Cerezo Osaka              2-0  Shonan Bellmare                   6,629
   [Germano 11, Rui Komatsu 89]
[May 18]
Vegalta Sendai            3-2  Montedio Yamagata                16,931
   [Tomoyuki Hirase 51, Ryang Yong-gi 80, Yukihiko Sato 84 - Masaru
    Akiba 18, Yu Hasegawa 39]
FC Gifu                   0-1  Thespa Kusatsu                    3,035
   [Yasunori Takada 75]
Tokushima Vortis          2-0  Roasso Kumamoto                   2,665
   [Yasuaki Oshima 37, Seydou Doumbia 42]
Yokohama FC               2-1  Avispa Fukuoka                    3,953
   [Anderson 16, Tomoki Ikemoto 55 - Tetsuya Okubo 53]
Mito Hollyhock            1-0  Ehime FC                          1,721
   [Daishi Hiramatsu 76]
Ventforet Kofu            bye

Round 15 [May 21]
Montedio Yamagata         2-0  Tokushima Vortis                  2,479
   [Rychely 26, Masaru Akiba 41]
Thespa Kusatsu            2-1  Mito Hollyhock                    3,011
   [Yuki Matsushita 28, 89 - Own goal 40]
Ventforet Kofu            1-2  Sagan Tosu                        8,705
   [Junya Kuno 54 - Yoshihito Fujita 18, 29]
Cerezo Osaka              2-1  Avispa Fukuoka                    5,796
   [Germano 14, Own goal 76 - Tomokazu Nagira 19]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       1-0  Yokohama FC                       6,954
   [Ryuichi Hirashige 85]
Ehime FC                  1-1  Shonan Bellmare                   4,511
   [Kenichi Ego 11 - Ryuta Hara 39]
Roasso Kumamoto           2-2  Vegalta Sendai                    3,691
   [Yutaka Takahashi 33, 59 - Naoki Sugai 44, Takayuki Nakahara 61]    
FC Gifu                   bye

Round 16 [May 25]
Montedio Yamagata         3-1  Roasso Kumamoto                   3,019
   [Tomotaka Kitamura 59, 67, Katsuyuki Miyazawa 74 - Yutaka Takahashi
    4]
Shonan Bellmare           4-1  Yokohama FC                       5,788
   [Naoki Ishihara 16, 64, Yoshiro Abe 71, Own goal 78 - Sho Gokyu 88]
Avispa Fukuoka            2-0  Vegalta Sendai                    7,232
   [Yusuke Tanaka 60, Tetsuya Okubo 81]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       1-0  Thespa Kusatsu                    9,357
   [Tomoaki Makino 44]
Tokushima Vortis          0-4  Sagan Tosu                        2,553
   [Yoshihito Fujita 12, Leonardo 16, 25, Hiroyuki Ishida 87]
FC Gifu                   0-5  Cerezo Osaka                      3,259
   [Germano 31, 80, Careca 55, Tatsuya Furuhashi 72, 77]
Ehime FC                  2-1  Ventforet Kofu                    3,155
   [Toshiya Tanaka 3, Takuya Yokoyama 83 - Yohei Onishi 63]        
Mito Hollyhock            bye

Round 17
[May 30]
Thespa Kusatsu            2-0  Roasso Kumamoto                   1,819
   [Ryo Goto 4, Wataru Yamazaki 70]
[May 31]
Mito Hollyhock            1-0  Tokushima Vortis                  1,036
   [Kento Hori 89]
FC Gifu                   1-1  Ventforet Kofu                    2,899
   [Kan Kikuchi 56 - Toshiaki Haji 72]
Vegalta Sendai            2-2  Shonan Bellmare                  10,873
   [Kohei Tanaka 6, Kosuke Kitani 10 - Adiel 19, Naoki Ishihara 54]
Sagan Tosu                1-3  Avispa Fukuoka                    9,225
   [Kenzo Taniguchi 26 - Talay 15, 89, Satoshi Nagano 41]
Yokohama FC               2-5  Montedio Yamagata                 3,146
   [Hiroaki Namba 48, own goal 59 - Yu Hasegawa 14, Tomotaka Kitamura
    40, Kohei Miyazaki 72, Kentaro Sato 79, Hidenori Ishii 82]
Cerezo Osaka              2-0  Ehime FC                          5,758
   [Tatsuya Furuhashi 10, Careca 74]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       bye

Round 18 [Jun 8]
Ventforet Kofu            1-2  Thespa Kusatsu                   10,110
   [Michitaka Akimoto 77 - Ryo Goto 65, Nobuhito Toriizuka 89]
Cerezo Osaka              1-2  Mito Hollyhock                    6,356
   [Rui KOmatsu 55 - Takafumi Akahoshi 33, Tomoyuki Arata 68]
Ehime FC                  0-0  FC Gifu                           3,371
Roasso Kumamoto           1-2  Avispa Fukuoka                    4,886
   [Satoshi Nakayama 9 - Hokuto Nakamura 29, Talay 41]
Montedio Yamagata         3-0  Sagan Tosu                        3,754
   [Masaru Akiba 16, 56, Kohei Miyazaki 64]
Yokohama FC               1-1  Tokushima Vortis                  3,139
   [Takuya Yamada 59 - Yuki Ishida 86]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       5-2  Shonan Bellmare                  12,156
   [Kota Hattori 4, Tomoaki Makino 12, Yojiro Takahagi 31, Hisato Sato
    56, Tatsuhiko Kubo 76 - Naoki Ishihara 79, Genki Nagasato 89]     
Vegalta Sendai            bye

Round 19 [Jun 11]
Vegalta Sendai            2-0  Yokohama FC                      12,815
   [Tomoyuki Hirase 24, Naoya Tamura 68]
Mito Hollyhock            2-1  Sagan Tosu                        1,130
   [Own goal 43, Kohei Nishino 72 - Leonardo 57]
Shonan Bellmare           2-3  Thespa Kusatsu                    3,869
   [Adiel 25, 89 - Yusuke Shimada 43, Nobuhito Toriizuka 75, Yasunori
    Takada 87]
Ventforet Kofu            0-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               8,676
   [Own goal 31, Hisato Sato 84]
FC Gifu                   0-0  Roasso Kumamoto                   2,030
Tokushima Vortis          2-0  Cerezo Osaka                      2,179
   [Seydou Doumbia 4, 68]
Avispa Fukuoka            0-3  Montedio Yamagata                 5,729
   [Yu Hasegawa 48, Kentaro Sato 52, Kohei Miyazaki 77]
Ehime FC                  bye

Round 20 [Jun 15]
Thespa Kusatsu            2-0  Tokushima Vortis                  4,282
   [Yasunori Takada 53, 65]
Ehime FC                  2-0  Mito Hollyhock                    2,088
   [Ryota Miki 53, Yuzo Minami 70]
Sagan Tosu                1-0  Shonan Bellmare                   4,666
   [Yoshihito Fujita 34]
Montedio Yamagata         3-0  Vegalta Sendai                   15,422
   [Katsuyuki Miyazawa 18, Hidenori Ishii 66, Yu Hasegawa 89]
Yokohama FC               0-1  FC Gifu                           3,843
   [Kazunori Kan 68]
Cerezo Osaka              3-3  Ventforet Kofu                   13,224
   [Own goal 49, Shinji Kagawa 53, Kenji Haneda 89 - Masafumi Maeda 11,
    Katsuya Ishihara 23, Atsushi Mio 88]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       1-1  Avispa Fukuoka                    6,395
   [Yojiro Takahagi 76 - Yusuke Tanaka 89]  
Roasso Kumamoto           bye

Round 21 [Jun 21]
Mito Hollyhock            1-2  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               3,634
   [Hideyuki Nakamura 81 - Ryuichi Hirashige 58, 70]
Thespa Kusatsu            1-1  FC Gifu                           2,832
   [Yasunori Takada 70 - Masato Katayama 17]
Avispa Fukuoka            0-1  Cerezo Osaka                      6,877
   [Germano 89]
Roasso Kumamoto           0-1  Sagan Tosu                        3,292
   [Yoshihito Fujita 44]
Tokushima Vortis          1-3  Vegalta Sendai                    2,575
   [Kota Sugawara 44 - Kazunari Okayama 58, Kunimitsu Sekiguchi 75,
    Yukihiko Sato 83]
Ehime FC                  2-2  Yokohama FC                       4,075
   [Susumu Oki 13, Tomoya Kanamori 69 - Anderson 23, Elizeu 59]
Ventforet Kofu            1-0  Montedio Yamagata                 8,360
   [Kentaro Hayashi 21] 
Shonan Bellmare           bye

Round 22 [Jun 25]
Vegalta Sendai            0-0  Roasso Kumamoto                  10,317
Yokohama FC               1-0  Mito Hollyhock                    2,772
   [Hiroaki Namba 35]
Shonan Bellmare           1-1  Montedio Yamagata                 7,039
   [Naoki Ishihara 42 - Kohei Miyazaki 47]
FC Gifu                   0-1  Avispa Fukuoka                    2,246
   [Tatsunori Hisanaga 62]
Cerezo Osaka              1-2  Thespa Kusatsu                    5,554
   [Rui Komatsu 85 - Yusuke Shimada 30, Jun Tanaka 47]
Sanfrecce Hiroshima       2-1  Tokushima Vortis                  4,622
   [Yojiro Takahagi 26, Hisato Sato 31 - Kenichiro Meta 18]
Sagan Tosu                2-1  Ehime FC                          3,869
   [Keiji Takachi 23, Yoshihito Fujita 50 - Yuzo Minami 77]     
Ventforet Kofu            bye

Round 23
[Jun 28]
Mito Hollyhock            3-4  Vegalta Sendai                    3,107
   [Tomoyuki Arata 55, Jun Muramatsu 70, Masashi Owada 73 - Ryang
    Yong-gi 4, 19, Naoya Tamura 23, Tomoyuki Hirase 77]
Roasso Kumamoto           3-2  Cerezo Osaka                      3,074
   [Ryosuke Kijima 22, 80, Yuichi Yamauchi 89 - Rui Komatsu 20,
    Yasuhito Morishima 77]
Tokushima Vortis          0-1  FC Gifu                           2,315
   [Hiromi Kojima 70]
[Jun 29]
Thespa Kusatsu            1-0  Sagan Tosu                        2,451
   [Ryo Goto 44]
Montedio Yamagata         2-1  Sanfrecce Hiroshima               4,948
   [Yu Hasegawa 44, 84 - Ilian Stoyanov 5]
Ventforet Kofu            0-4  Shonan Bellmare                   7,267
   [Yoshiro Abe 6, Yuzo Tamura 32, Lincoln 83, 85]
Ehime FC                  1-1  Avispa Fukuoka                    2,916
   [Tomoya Kanamori 36 - Mike Havenaar 28]
Yokohama FC               bye

Round 24
[Jul 5]
Vegalta Sendai             -   Ehime FC
Shonan Bellmare            -   Mito Hollyhock
Avispa Fukuoka             -   Ventforet Kofu
[Jul 6]
Cerezo Osaka               -   Sagan Tosu
Sanfrecce Hiroshima        -   Roasso Kumamoto
Yokohama FC                -   Thespa Kusatsu
FC Gifu                    -   Montedio Yamagata
Tokushima Vortis          bye

Table:

 1.Sanfrecce Hiroshima        21 15  3  3  41-16  48
 2.Montedio Yamagata          22 12  5  5  38-20  41
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 3.Cerezo Osaka               22 12  2  8  38-28  38
 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
 4.Vegalta Sendai             21 10  7  4  32-24  37
 5.Thespa Kusatsu             22 10  6  6  27-23  36
 6.Sagan Tosu                 22 11  3  8  25-23  36
 7.Shonan Bellmare            21 10  3  8  38-29  33
 8.Yokohama FC                21  7  7  7  28-28  28
 9.FC Gifu                    22  7  6  9  27-30  27
10.Avispa Fukuoka             22  7  5 10  25-36  26
11.Ventforet Kofu             21  5  7  9  20-29  22
12.Ehime FC                   21  5  6 10  21-27  21
13.Mito Hollyhock             22  5  4 12  24-39  19
14.Tokushima Vortis           22  5  3 14  21-37  18
15.Roasso Kumamoto            21  4  5 12  21-37  17

LEADING GOALSCORERS:
13 - Anderson (Yokohama FC);
10 - Naoki Ishihara (Shonan Bellmare), Germano (Cerezo Osaka), Hisato
     Sato (Sanfrecce Hiroshima), Yutaka Takahashi (Roasso Kumamoto);
 9 - Rui Komatsu (Cerezo Osaka), Yoshihito Fujita (Sagan Tosu);
 7 - Yu Hasegawa (Montedio Yamagata), Masato Katayama (FC Gifu),
     Seydou Doumbia (Tokushima Vortis).

Round 25 [Jul 9]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Cerezo Osaka             
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Yokohama FC           -  Ventforet Kofu           
Tokushima Vortis      -  Shonan Bellmare          
Ehime FC              -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Sagan Tosu            -  Vegalta Sendai           
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Mito Hollyhock           

Round 26
[Jul 12]
Mito Hollyhock        -  Montedio Yamagata        
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  FC Gifu                  
Sagan Tosu            -  Yokohama FC              
[Jul 13]
Ventforet Kofu        -  Roasso Kumamoto          
Vegalta Sendai        -  Cerezo Osaka             
Shonan Bellmare       -  Ehime FC                 
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Tokushima Vortis         

Round 27
[Jul 19]
Cerezo Osaka          -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Tokushima Vortis      -  Montedio Yamagata        
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Ehime FC                 
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Vegalta Sendai           
FC Gifu               -  Shonan Bellmare          
[Jul 20]
Ventforet Kofu        -  Mito Hollyhock           
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Yokohama FC              
				
Round 28
[Jul 25]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Thespa Kusatsu           
[Jul 26]
Vegalta Sendai        -  FC Gifu                  
Mito Hollyhock        -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Sagan Tosu            -  Ventforet Kofu           
[Jul 27]
Yokohama FC           -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Shonan Bellmare       -  Roasso Kumamoto          
[Jul 30]
Ehime FC              -  Tokushima Vortis         

Round 29
[Aug 1]
FC Gifu               -  Mito Hollyhock           
[Aug 3]
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Ehime FC                 
Cerezo Osaka          -  Yokohama FC              
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  Sagan Tosu               
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Tokushima Vortis         
Ventforet Kofu        -  Vegalta Sendai           
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Shonan Bellmare          

Round 30* [Aug 9 or 10]
Vegalta Sendai        -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Montedio Yamagata     -  Ehime FC                 
Mito Hollyhock        -  Thespa Kusatsu           
Shonan Bellmare       -  Cerezo Osaka             
Tokushima Vortis      -  Ventforet Kofu           
Sagan Tosu            -  FC Gifu                  
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Yokohama FC              

Round 31* [Aug 16 or 17]
Vegalta Sendai        -  Montedio Yamagata        
Yokohama FC           -  Thespa Kusatsu           
Ventforet Kofu        -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
FC Gifu               -  Tokushima Vortis         
Cerezo Osaka          -  Mito Hollyhock           
Ehime FC              -  Sagan Tosu               
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Roasso Kumamoto          

Round 32* [Aug 23 or 24]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Ventforet Kofu           
Thespa Kusatsu        -  FC Gifu                  
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Tokushima Vortis      -  Vegalta Sendai           
Ehime FC              -  Mito Hollyhock           
Sagan Tosu            -  Shonan Bellmare          
{Aug 25]
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Cerezo Osaka             

Round 33* [Aug 30 or 31]
Mito Hollyhock        -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Yokohama FC           -  Montedio Yamagata        
Shonan Bellmare       -  Thespa Kusatsu           
Ventforet Kofu        -  Roasso Kumamoto          
FC Gifu               -  Ehime FC                 
Cerezo Osaka          -  Tokushima Vortis         
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Sagan Tosu               

Round 34
[Sep 5]
Ehime FC              -  Shonan Bellmare          
[Sep 7]
Vegalta Sendai        -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Montedio Yamagata        
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  FC Gifu                  
Tokushima Vortis      -  Yokohama FC              
Sagan Tosu            -  Ventforet Kofu           
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Mito Hollyhock           

Round 35
[Sep 13]
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Tokushima Vortis         
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Vegalta Sendai           
[Sep 14]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Mito Hollyhock        -  Sagan Tosu               
Shonan Bellmare       -  Yokohama FC              
Ventforet Kofu        -  Thespa Kusatsu           
[Sep 15]
FC Gifu               -  Cerezo Osaka             

Round 36 [Sep 20]
Vegalta Sendai        -  FC Gifu                  
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Yokohama FC           -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Cerezo Osaka          -  Montedio Yamagata        
Tokushima Vortis      -  Shonan Bellmare          
Ehime FC              -  Ventforet Kofu           
Sagan Tosu            -  Roasso Kumamoto          

Round 37 [Sep 23]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Sagan Tosu               
Mito Hollyhock        -  Tokushima Vortis         
Shonan Bellmare       -  Vegalta Sendai           
Ventforet Kofu        -  FC Gifu                  
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  Ehime FC                 
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Cerezo Osaka             
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Yokohama FC              

Round 38
[Sep 27]
Shonan Bellmare       -  Ventforet Kofu           
FC Gifu               -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Tokushima Vortis      -  Ehime FC                 
[Sep 28]
Vegalta Sendai        -  Mito Hollyhock           
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Roasso Kumamoto          
Cerezo Osaka          -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
Sagan Tosu            -  Yokohama FC              

Round 39
[Oct 4]
Ventforet Kofu        -  Vegalta Sendai           
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  Shonan Bellmare          
[Oct 5]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Mito Hollyhock        -  FC Gifu                  
Yokohama FC           -  Cerezo Osaka             
Ehime FC              -  Thespa Kusatsu           
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Tokushima Vortis         

Round 40
[Oct 18]
Shonan Bellmare       -  Roasso Kumamoto          
Tokushima Vortis      -  Ventforet Kofu           
[Oct 19]
Vegalta Sendai        -  Ehime FC                 
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Mito Hollyhock           
FC Gifu               -  Montedio Yamagata        
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Yokohama FC              
Sagan Tosu            -  Cerezo Osaka             

Round 41
[Oct 25]
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Tokushima Vortis         
Yokohama FC           -  Ehime FC                 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  Sagan Tosu               
[Oct 26]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Shonan Bellmare          
Mito Hollyhock        -  Avispa Fukuoka           
Cerezo Osaka          -  Vegalta Sendai           
Roasso Kumamoto       -  FC Gifu                  

Round 42
[Nov 8]
Shonan Bellmare       -  Mito Hollyhock           
Ventforet Kofu        -  Cerezo Osaka             
Ehime FC              -  Roasso Kumamoto          
[Nov 9]
Vegalta Sendai        -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      
FC Gifu               -  Yokohama FC              
Tokushima Vortis      -  Montedio Yamagata        
Sagan Tosu            -  Thespa Kusatsu           

Round 43
[Nov 22]
Yokohama FC           -  Vegalta Sendai           
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  Thespa Kusatsu           
Tokushima Vortis      -  Sagan Tosu               
[Nov 23]
Montedio Yamagata     -  Roasso Kumamoto          
Mito Hollyhock        -  Ventforet Kofu           
Cerezo Osaka          -  Shonan Bellmare          
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Ehime FC                 

Round 44
[Nov 29]
Mito Hollyhock        -  Yokohama FC              
Thespa Kusatsu        -  Cerezo Osaka             
Ventforet Kofu        -  Avispa Fukuoka           
[Nov 30]
Shonan Bellmare       -  FC Gifu                  
Ehime FC              -  Montedio Yamagata        
Sagan Tosu            -  Vegalta Sendai           
Roasso Kumamoto       -  Sanfrecce Hiroshima      

Round 45 [Dec 6]
Vegalta Sendai        -  Thespa Kusatsu           
Montedio Yamagata     -  Mito Hollyhock           
Yokohama FC           -  Ventforet Kofu           
FC Gifu               -  Sagan Tosu               
Cerezo Osaka          -  Ehime FC                 
Sanfrecce Hiroshima   -  Tokushima Vortis         
Avispa Fukuoka        -  Shonan Bellmare          

Note:
Possibility about the change of date:
 R. 30-33 - The actual date of playing will be set,  
            after the decision of schedule of  
            the Beijing Olympic Games Men's Football 
            Tournament, lotted in late of May.
            But, Kumamoto - C-Osaka is already fixed 
            on 8/25, in Round 32.


2007.

list of champions.

list of final tables.

list of cup finals.

list of league cup finals.

list of super cup finals.


About this document

Prepared and maintained by Hamdan Saaid, Atsushi "Jun" Fujioka and Masanori "Komabano" Nakanishi for the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation

Authors: Hamdan Saaid (hrs97@rocketmail.com), Atsushi "Jun" Fujioka (rsssf at nexus.if0.org) and Masanori "Komabano" Nakanishi (HQM07536@nifty.ne.jp)
Last updated: 3 Jul 2008

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