2024 J3 League

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Season2024
Dates24 February 2024 – 7 December 2024
ChampionsOmiya Ardija
1st title
PromotedOmiya Ardija
FC Imabari
Kataller Toyama
J3 League
Season2024
Dates24 February 2024 – 7 December 2024
ChampionsOmiya Ardija
1st title
PromotedOmiya Ardija
FC Imabari
Kataller Toyama
RelegatedYSCC Yokohama
Iwate Grulla Morioka
Matches380
Goals985 (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.

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

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 Brazil Gustavo Rissi
Fukushima United
Gainare Tottori
FC Gifu North Korea Mun In-ju South Korea Lee Yong-jae
Giravanz Kitakyushu South Korea Koh Seung-jin
FC Imabari Argentina Tomás Moschión Brazil Marcus Índio Brazil Rodrigo Angelotti Brazil Wesley Tanque Spain Jon Ander Serantes China Ning Fangze
Iwate Grulla Morioka Brazil Sillas Nigeria Kenneth Otabor North Korea Ryu Se-gun South Korea Kim Jae-young South Korea Kim Sung-kon South Korea Lee Byung-chan
Kamatamare Sanuki Hong Kong Au Yeung Yiu Chung
Kataller Toyama Brazil Gabriel Nascimento Brazil Matheus Leiria
Matsumoto Yamaga Spain Víctor Ibáñez
Nagano Parceiro Indonesia Ryu Nugraha South Korea Kim Min-ho South Korea Lee Seung-won South Korea Park Soo-bin
Nara Club Spain Marc Vito Thailand Patrik Gustavsson Thailand Kiadtiphon Udom
Omiya Ardija Brazil Arthur Silva Colombia Fabián González Nigeria Oriola Sunday Poland Jakub Świerczok
FC Osaka Australia Jonas Markovski Brazil Everton Kanela Brazil João Moura Malaysia Muhammad Khalil South Korea Cho Young-kwang South Korea Choi Young-hoon South Korea Ji Seong-min South Korea Kang Seong-kook South Korea Woo Sang-ho Brazil Efrain Rintaro
FC Ryukyu South Korea Cho Eun-su South Korea Jeon Ji-wan South Korea Noh Seung-ki South Korea Park Seong-su
SC Sagamihara Brazil Bruno Santos
Brazil Fabrício Baiano
Brazil Ryan
Tegevajaro Miyazaki
Vanraure Hachinohe
YSCC Yokohama Canada Shawn van Eerden Denmark Jorn Pedersen Malaysia Luqman Hakim Shamsudin Nigeria Onye Ogochukwu
Zweigen Kanazawa Brazil Jefferson Baiano Brazil Marlyson South Korea 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
 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 Brazil Marcus Índio FC Imabari 19
Japan Kosuke Fujioka FC Gifu
3 Japan Ryo Shiohama Fukushima United 16
4 Japan Ryo Nagai Giravanz Kitakyushu 14
5 Japan Hayato Asakawa Matsumoto Yamaga 13
Japan Kensei Ukita Nagano Parceiro
Japan Yuki Okada Nara Club
8 Japan Keigo Hashimoto Tegevajaro Miyazaki 12
Japan Yu Tomidokoro FC Ryukyu
Japan Yuya Taguchi Zweigen Kanazawa

Awards

Monthly awards

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

See also

Footnotes

References

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