2024 J3 League

J3 League
Season2024
Dates24 February 2024 – 7 December 2024
ChampionsOmiya Ardija
1st title
PromotedOmiya Ardija
FC Imabari
Kataller Toyama
RelegatedYSCC Yokohama
Iwate Grulla Morioka
Matches played380
Goals scored985 (2.59 per match)
Top goalscorerMarcus Índio
Kosuke Fujioka
(19 goals)
Biggest home winFukushima United 9-0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (28 April 2024)
Biggest away winIwate Grulla Morioka 0–6 FC Gifu (20 October 2024)
Highest scoringFukushima United 9-0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (28 April 2024)
Omiya Ardija 5-4 Gainare Tottori (2 November 2024)
Highest attendance14,411
Matsumoto Yamaga 1–1 Nagano Parceiro
(29 June)[1]
Lowest attendance515
Iwate Grulla Morioka 2–1 Nara Club
(10 April)[1]
Total attendance1,283,794 [2]
Average attendance3,378 [3]
2023
2025
All statistics correct as of 10:00, 24 November 2024 (UTC).

The 2024 J3 League, also known as the 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 League (2024 明治安田J3リーグ, 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 11th season of the J3 League, the third-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2013.

Overview

The league continued 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. As of September 2024, all clubs in the league now hold a valid J2 license, following FC Osaka being the final club to be granted one.[4]

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.[5]

Schedule

The league and match format was announced on 19 December 2023. The league began on 23 February and ended on 10 November in a round-robin format of 38 matches.[5]

The J3 promotion play-offs were held in a similar manner to the J2 playoffs, with the semi-finals on 1 December with the final taking place on 7 December.[6]

Changes from the previous season

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

Club name Home town Stadium Capacity Last season Licence
Azul Claro Numazu Numazu Ashitaka Stadium 5,104 J3 (13th) J2
Fukushima United Fukushima Toho Stadium 5,710 J3 (15th) J1
Gainare Tottori All cities/towns in Tottori[a] Axis Bird Stadium 11,999 J3 (6th) J2
FC Gifu All cities/towns in Gifu[b] Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium 16,310 J3 (8th) J1
Giravanz Kitakyushu Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu 15,066 J3 (20th) J1
FC Imabari Imabari ASICS Satoyama Stadium 5,316 J3 (4th) J2
Iwate Grulla Morioka All cities/towns in Iwate Iwagin Stadium & Kitakami Stadium 5,046 J3 (10th) J1
Kamatamare Sanuki All cities/towns in Kagawa[c] Pikara Stadium 22,338 J3 (16th) J1
Kataller Toyama All cities/towns in Toyama[d] Toyama Athletic Stadium 18,588 J3 (3rd) J1
Matsumoto Yamaga Cities/towns in Nagano[e] Sunpro Alwin 20,336 J3 (9th) J1
Nagano Parceiro Nagano Nagano U Stadium 15,491 J3 (14th) J2
Nara Club All cities/towns on Nara Rohto Field Nara 5,369 J3 (5th) J2
Omiya Ardija Saitama, Saitama NACK5 Stadium Omiya 15,491 J2 (21st; Relegated) J1
FC Osaka Higashiōsaka, Osaka Hanazono Rugby Stadium 26,443 J3 (11th) J3
FC Ryukyu All cities/towns in Okinawa Tapic Kenso Hiyagon Stadium 10,189 J3 (17th) J1
SC Sagamihara Sagamihara Gion Stadium 11,808 J3 (18th) J2
Tegevajaro Miyazaki Miyazaki & Shintomi, Miyazaki Unilever Stadium Shintomi 5,357 J3 (19th) J2
Vanraure Hachinohe Eastern cities/towns in Aomori[f] Prifoods Stadium 5,124 J3 (7th) J2
YSCC Yokohama Yokohama Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium 15,442 J3 (12th) J2
Zweigen Kanazawa All cities/towns in Ishikawa[g] Ishikawa Kanazawa Stadium 10,728 J2 (22nd; Relegated) J1

Personnel and kits

Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Main shirt sponsor
Azul Claro Numazu Masashi Nakayama Takuya Sugai Penalty Usui
Fukushima United Shuhei Terada Kaito Yamamoto Hummel Toho Bank
Gainare Tottori Kentaro Hayashi Hiroto Sese Soccer Junky San-in Godo Bank
FC Gifu Kenichi Amano Yoshihiro Shoji Razzoli Hot Staff
Giravanz Kitakyushu Kohei Masumoto Haruki Izawa Umbro TOTO
FC Imabari Toshihiro Hattori Keishi Kusumi Asics Unicharm
Iwate Grulla Morioka Kei Hoshikawa Atsutaka Nakamura Kelme Nova
Kamatamare Sanuki Atsushi Yoneyama Angua Rexxam
Kataller Toyama Michiharu Otagiri Kosei Wakimoto Goldwin YKK AP
Matsumoto Yamaga Masahiro Shimoda Akira Ando Adidas Epson
Nagano Parceiro Riki Takagi Takuya Akiyama Penalty Hokto
Nara Club Ichizo Nakata Yuki Kotani Squadra Daiwa House
Omiya Ardija Tetsu Nagasawa Yutaro Hakamata Under Armour NTT Docomo
FC Osaka Naoto Otake Shusuke Sakamoto bonera Tobu Top Tours
FC Ryukyu Kim Jong-song Ryunosuke Noda sfida GMO Coin
SC Sagamihara Yuki Richard Stalph Akihiko Takeshige Umbro Gion
Tegevajaro Miyazaki Yuji Okuma Hikaru Manabe Yonex Enatsu Shoji Holdings
Vanraure Hachinohe Nobuhiro Ishizaki Naoyuki Yamada Hummel ATMIX
YSCC Yokohama Kazuki Kuranuki Kento Dodate Bonera Sanshin
Zweigen Kanazawa Akira Ito Yuto Shirai Hummel 12

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Position in the table Incoming manager Date of
appointment
Ref.
Zweigen Kanazawa Masaaki Yanagishita End of contract 5 November 2023 Pre-season Akira Ito 11 December 2023 [7][8]
Giravanz Kitakyushu Shinji Kobayashi Resigned 22 November 2023 Kohei Masumoto 15 December 2023 [9][10]
Gainare Tottori Kohei Matsumoto (interim) End of interim spell 24 November 2023 Kentaro Hayashi 8 December 2023 [11][12]
Fukushima United Mitsumasa Yoda Resigned 27 November 2023 Shuhei Terada 13 December 2023 [13][14]
FC Osaka Ryo Shigaki Signed by Renofa Yamaguchi 5 December 2023 Naoto Otake 18 December 2023 [15][16]
Tegevajaro Miyazaki Mitsuo Kato Resigned 5 December 2023 Yuji Okuma 19 December 2023 [17][18]
Omiya Ardija Masato Harasaki 9 November 2023 Tetsu Nagasawa 11 December 2023 [19][20]
FC Imabari Naoto Kudo 10 December 2023 Toshihiro Hattori 11 December 2023 [21][22]
Iwate Grulla Morioka Tetsuji Nakamikawa Management restructure 8 May 2024 20th Takuya Jinno 8 May 2024 [23]
SC Sagamihara Kazuyuki Toda Contract terminated[24] 19 June 2024 9th Yuki Richard Stalph 26 June 2024 [25]
FC Gifu Yusaku Ueno Resigned 27 June 2024 11th Kenichi Amano 28 June 2024 (interim)
30 September 2024 (full)
[26]
Iwate Grulla Morioka Takuya Jinno Contract terminated[27] 18 August 2024 20th Kei Hoshikawa 18 August 2024 [27]
Nara Club Julián Marín Contract terminated[28] 4 September 2024 18th Ichizo Nakata 4 September 2024 [29]

Foreign players

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.[30] 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.[31]
Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6 Player 7 Player 8 Player 9 Former players
Azul Claro Numazu Gustavo Rissi
Fukushima United
Gainare Tottori
FC Gifu Mun In-ju Lee Yong-jae
Giravanz Kitakyushu Koh Seung-jin
FC Imabari Tomás Moschión Marcus Índio Rodrigo Angelotti Wesley Tanque Jon Ander Serantes Ning Fangze
Iwate Grulla Morioka Sillas Kenneth Otabor Ryu Se-gun Kim Jae-young Kim Sung-kon Lee Byung-chan
Kamatamare Sanuki Au Yeung Yiu Chung
Kataller Toyama Gabriel Nascimento Matheus Leiria
Matsumoto Yamaga Víctor Ibáñez
Nagano Parceiro Ryu Nugraha Kim Min-ho Lee Seung-won Park Soo-bin
Nara Club Marc Vito Patrik Gustavsson Kiadtiphon Udom
Omiya Ardija Arthur Silva Fabián González Oriola Sunday Jakub Świerczok
FC Osaka Jonas Markovski Everton Kanela João Moura Muhammad Khalil Cho Young-kwang Choi Young-hoon Ji Seong-min Kang Seong-kook Woo Sang-ho Efrain Rintaro
FC Ryukyu Cho Eun-su Jeon Ji-wan Noh Seung-ki Park Seong-su
SC Sagamihara Bruno Santos
Fabrício Baiano
Ryan
Tegevajaro Miyazaki
Vanraure Hachinohe
YSCC Yokohama Shawn van Eerden Jorn Pedersen Luqman Hakim Shamsudin Onye Ogochukwu
Zweigen Kanazawa Jefferson Baiano Marlyson Baek In-hwan

League table

Pos Team Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion or relegation
1 Omiya Ardija (C, P) 38 25 10 3 72 32 +40 85 Promotion to the 2025 J2 League
2 FC Imabari (P) 38 22 7 9 62 38 +24 73
3 Kataller Toyama (O, P) 38 16 16 6 54 36 +18 64 Qualification for the promotion play-offs
4 Matsumoto Yamaga 38 16 12 10 61 45 +16 60
5 Fukushima United 38 18 5 15 64 49 +15 59
6 FC Osaka 38 15 13 10 43 31 +12 58
7 Giravanz Kitakyushu 38 15 11 12 41 39 +2 56
8 FC Gifu 38 15 8 15 64 56 +8 53
9 SC Sagamihara 38 14 11 13 41 41 0 53
10 Azul Claro Numazu 38 15 7 16 53 46 +7 52
11 Vanraure Hachinohe 38 13 13 12 44 42 +2 52
12 Zweigen Kanazawa 38 13 11 14 50 52 −2 50
13 Gainare Tottori 38 14 8 16 49 65 −16 50
14 FC Ryukyu 38 12 11 15 45 54 −9 47
15 Tegevajaro Miyazaki 38 12 10 16 46 50 −4 46
16 Kamatamare Sanuki 38 10 13 15 48 52 −4 43
17 Nara Club 38 7 18 13 43 56 −13 39
18 Nagano Parceiro 38 7 16 15 44 57 −13 37
19 YSCC Yokohama (R) 38 7 11 20 34 64 −30 32 Qualification for the relegation/promotion play-offs
20 Iwate Grulla Morioka (R) 38 5 7 26 27 80 −53 22 Relegation to the 2025 JFL
Source: Meiji Yasuda J3 League, J.League Data Site
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.
(C) Champions; (O) Play-off winners; (P) Promoted; (R) Relegated

Play-offs

Promotion play-offs

The usual format will be applied in the 2024 season. Promotion play-offs, officially called the 2024 J.League Road To J2 Play-offs[A] (Japanese: 2024 J2昇格プレーオフ), was held from the semi-finals, where the match-ups were previously semi-determined. Based on the J3 placements at the end of the regular season, the third-placed team played against the sixth-placed, while the fourth-placed team played against the fifth-placed. The winners of the semi-finals played the final, with the winners promoted to the J2.

If a match was tied in the play-offs, the team with the highest league position are declared the winner. The rank order was: J3's third, fourth, fifth, and sixth-placed teams.[32]

Semi-finals Final
      
3 Kataller Toyama 1
6 FC Osaka 1
3 Kataller Toyama 2
4 Matsumoto Yamaga 2
4 Matsumoto Yamaga 1
5 Fukushima United 1

Semi-finals

Kataller Toyama1–1FC Osaka
  • Fuseya 36'
Report
Attendance: 5,101
Referee: Yuzo Sutani

In case of a tie, the team with the higher league position (Kataller Toyama) goes through to the play-off final.


Matsumoto Yamaga1–1Fukushima United
Report
Attendance: 12,604
Referee: Yusuke Ohashi

In case of a tie, the team with the higher league position (Matsumoto Yamaga) goes through to the play-off final.

Final

Kataller Toyama2–2Matsumoto Yamaga
  • Usui 79', 90+3'
Report
Attendance: 11,847
Referee: Koki Nagamine

In case of a tie, the team with the higher league position (Kataller Toyama) got promoted to J2 League.

Relegation play-offs

The relegation play-offs, officially called the 2024 J3/JFL Play-Offs (Japanese: 2024 J3・JFL入れ替え戦[B]), take place on 1 and 7 December 2024. If two teams are equal on the scoreboard, the match will going to extra time and penalty shoot-out. Away goals rule will not applied.

Overview

Team 1 Agg.Tooltip Aggregate score Team 2 1st leg 2nd leg
YSCC Yokohama (J3) 1–3 Kochi United (JFL) 1–1 0–2

Matches

Kochi United1–1YSCC Yokohama
Kozuki 33' Report Fujita 5'
Attendance: 3,056
Referee: Tomohiro Inoue
YSCC Yokohama0–2Kochi United
Report Shintani 7', Uchida 90+1'
Attendance: 5,101
Referee: Naoto Uehara

Kochi United SC won the J3/JFL play-offs on aggregate 3-1 and got promoted to J3, while YSCC Yokohama lost the play-offs and got relegated to JFL.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 24 November 2024.[33]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Marcus Índio FC Imabari 19
Kosuke Fujioka FC Gifu
3 Ryo Shiohama Fukushima United 16
4 Ryo Nagai Giravanz Kitakyushu 14
5 Hayato Asakawa Matsumoto Yamaga 13
Kensei Ukita Nagano Parceiro
Yuki Okada Nara Club
8 Keigo Hashimoto Tegevajaro Miyazaki 12
Yu Tomidokoro FC Ryukyu
Yuya Taguchi Zweigen Kanazawa

Awards

Monthly awards

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 Yusaku Ueno FC Gifu Kosuke Fujioka FC Gifu Yumeki Yokoyama FC Imabari Rion Ichihara Omiya Ardija [34][35][36][37]
April Tetsu Nagasawa Omiya Ardija Hagumi Wada Azul Claro Numazu Genta Ito FC Imabari Yuto Ozeki Fukushima United [38][39][40][41]
May Shuhei Terada Fukushima United Yu Tomidokoro FC Ryukyu Yu Tomidokoro FC Ryukyu Yuki Kajiura Zweigen Kanazawa [42][43][44][45]
June Kohei Masumoto Giravanz Kitakyushu Arthur Silva Omiya Ardija Keisuke Ito SC Sagamihara Kosei Okazawa FC Ryukyu [46][47][48][49]
July Toshihiro Hattori FC Imabari Ryo Nagai Giravanz Kitakyushu Takuya Sugai Azul Claro Numazu Yumeki Yokoyama FC Imabari [50][51][52][53]
August Kim Jong-song FC Ryukyu Marcus Índio FC Imabari Daigo Furukawa FC Osaka Yumeki Yokoyama FC Imabari [54][55][56][57]
September Yuji Okuma Tegevajaro Miyazaki Masato Kojima Omiya Ardija Makoto Fukoin Gainare Tottori Mahiro Ano Tegevajaro Miyazaki [58]
October Kentaro Hayashi Gainare Tottori Kosuke Fujioka FC Gifu Takafumi Yamada FC Imabari Ryo Nishitani FC Gifu [59]
November/December Masahiro Shimoda Matsumoto Yamaga Marcus Índio FC Imabari Reo Yasunaga Matsumoto Yamaga Rei Umeki FC Imabari [60]

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ On the official J.League English website, it is listed as J2 Promotion Play-Offs
  2. ^ The logo and signage reads 2024 J.League J3・JFL入れ替え戦

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