2022 J3 League

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Meiji Yasuda J3 League
Season
Fukushima United 0–6 Fujieda MYFC
(5 June)
Highest scoringEhime FC 7–2 Gainare Tottori
(14 August)
Longest winning runFujieda MYFC
Kataller Toyama
(6 matches)
Longest unbeaten runIwaki FC
Fujieda MYFC
FC Imabari
(10 matches)
Longest losing runYSCC Yokohama
Tegevajaro Miyazaki
(7 matches)
Highest attendance15,912
Matsumoto Yamaga 2–1 Nagano Parceiro
(30 October)
Lowest attendance458
Vanraure Hachinohe 2–1 SC Sagamihara
(15 June)
Total attendance833,042
Average attendance2,722
← 2021
→

The 2022 J3 League, referred to as the 2022 Meiji Yasuda J3 League (Japanese: 2022 明治安田生命J3リーグ, Hepburn: 2022 Meiji Yasuda Seimei J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, was the 9th season of J3 League under its current name.

Iwaki FC won the J3 title for the first time in their history, in their debut campaign at the J3 League, just a year after being promoted from the JFL. They were promoted to the 2023 J2 League alongside Fujieda MYFC, who narrowly promoted with one point off the 3rd-placed team. Both teams won promotion for the J2 League for the first time.

Overview

After no relegations from the J2 League in 2020, in 2021 there were four relegations and the number of teams in the 2022 J3 League increased from 15 to 18.[1]

This is first and last season as 18 teams for 2022.

This is last season to not feature relegation in 2022. From 2023, relegation from the J3 League to the JFL will be made possible.

Changes from the previous season

Promoted from 2021 JFL Promoted to 2022 J2 League Relegated from 2021 J2 League
Iwaki FC Roasso Kumamoto
Iwate Grulla Morioka
Matsumoto Yamaga

The 4 teams relegated from

Matsumoto Yamaga
.

Roasso Kumamoto and Iwate Grulla Morioka were promoted to J2 League.

Iwaki FC was promoted from 2021 JFL as champions of that division. Fukushima team are making their debut in the J3 League after obtaining a J.League License, to enable their promotion from the JFL.

Participating clubs

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Locations of the 2022 J3 League teams
Club name Home town Stadium Capacity Last season Licence
Azul Claro Numazu
Numazu
Ashitaka Stadium
 5,104 J3 (14th) J3
Ehime FC All cities/towns in Ehime[a] Ningineer Stadium 21,401 J2 (20th) Relegated J1
Fujieda MYFC Cities/towns in Shizuoka Prefecture[b]
Fujieda Soccer Field
 13,000 J3 (10th) J2
Fukushima United
Fukushima
 Toho Stadium 21,000 J3 (5th) J1
Gainare Tottori All cities/towns in Tottori[c] Axis Bird Stadium 16,033 J3 (12th) J2
FC Gifu All cities/towns in Gifu[d] Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium 26,109 J3 (6th) J1
Giravanz Kitakyushu Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu 15,066 J2 (21st) Relegated J1
FC Imabari Imabari Arigato Service Dream Stadium 5,241 J3 (11th) J2
Iwaki FC
Futaba District, Fukushima
 Arigato Service Dream Stadium 5,000 Promoted from JFL (champions) J2
Kagoshima United Kagoshima Shiranami Stadium 19,934 J3 (7th) J1
Kamatamare Sanuki All cities/towns in Kagawa[e] Pikara Stadium 30,099 J3 (15th) J2
Kataller Toyama All cities/towns in Toyama[f]
Toyama Athletic Stadium
 28,494 J3 (5th) J1
Matsumoto Yamaga
 Cities/towns in Nagano[g] Sunpro Alwin 20,396 J2 (22nd) Relegated J1
Nagano Parceiro
Nagano
Nagano U Stadium
 15,491 J3 (9th) J2
SC Sagamihara Sagamihara Gion Stadium 15,300 J2 (19th) Relegated J2
Tegevajaro Miyazaki
Miyazaki & Shintomi, Miyazaki
Unilever Stadium Shintomi
 5,357 J3 (3rd) J3
Vanraure Hachinohe Eastern cities/towns in Aomori[h] Prifoods Stadium 5,200 J3 (13th) J2
YSCC Yokohama Yokohama
Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium
 15,454 J3 (8th) J2
  1. Matsuyama
  2. Kawanehonmachi
  3. Sakaiminato
  4. Gifu
  5. Takamatsu, Marugame
  6. Toyama
  7. Ikusaka, Minowa, Asahi
  8. Rokkasho

Personnel and kits

Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer
Azul Claro Numazu Japan Kazuhito Mochizuki (caretaker) Japan Takuya Sugai Brazil Penalty
Ehime FC Japan Kiyotaka Ishimaru Japan Takanori Maeno Japan Mizuno
Fujieda MYFC Japan Daisuke Sudo Japan Masahiko Sugita Japan Gol.
Fukushima United Japan Toshihiro Hattori Japan Hiroto Morooka Denmark Hummel
Gainare Tottori North Korea Kim Jong-song
Koki Ishii
 Japan Soccer Junky
FC Gifu Japan Yuji Yokoyama Japan Yōsuke Kashiwagi Japan Razzoli
Giravanz Kitakyushu Japan Kenichi Amano Japan Taiga Maekawa Brazil Penalty
FC Imabari Japan Kazuaki Hashikawa Japan Keishi Kusumi Japan Asics
Iwaki FC Japan Hiromasa Suguri Japan Yuto Yamashita[2] United States Under Armour
Kagoshima United Japan Naoto Otake Japan Kenta Hirose Japan Angua
Kamatamare Sanuki Japan Toshihiro Nishimura Japan Takaharu Nishino
Athleta
Kataller Toyama Japan Michiharu Otagiri Japan Yohei Nishibe Japan Goldwin
Matsumoto Yamaga
 Japan Hiroshi Nanami Japan Hayumu Tanaka Germany Adidas
Nagano Parceiro Germany Yuki Richard Stalph Japan Takuma Mizutani Brazil Penalty
SC Sagamihara Japan Norihiro Satsukawa Japan Hiroki Mizumoto Japan Gol.
Tegevajaro Miyazaki Japan Yasushi Takasaki Japan Kenji Dai Japan Yonex
Vanraure Hachinohe Japan Ryo Shigaki Japan Naoyuki Yamada Denmark Hummel
YSCC Yokohama Japan Kei Hoshikawa Japan Kento Dodate Japan Bonera

Managerial changes

Team Outgoing Manner Exit date Position Incoming Incoming date Ref.
Announced on Departed on Announced on Arrived on
FC Gifu Toshiya Miura Resigned 5 May 2022 5 May 2022 14th Yuji Yokoyama 5 May 2022 6 May 2022 [3]
SC Sagamihara Takuya Takagi Sacked 20 May 2022 20 May 2022 15th Norihiro Satsukawa 23 May 2022 24 May 2022 [4]
YSCC Yokohama Kenji Nakada Sacked 25 May 2022 25 May 2022 18th Kei Hoshikawa 26 May 2022 26 May 2022 [5]
Vanraure Hachinohe Masahiro Kuzuno Sacked 13 June 2022 13 June 2022 17th Ryo Shigaki 13 June 2022 13 June 2022 [6]
Azul Claro Numazu Masataka Imai Sacked 23 August 2022 23 August 2022 17th Kazuhito Mochizuki 23 August 2022 23 August 2022 [7]
Kataller Toyama Nobuhiro Ishizaki Sacked 19 September 2022 19 September 2022 5th Michiharu Otagiri 19 September 2022 19 September 2022 [8]

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.[9] 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 midseason 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.[10]
Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Player 6
Azul Claro Numazu Malaysia Hadi Fayyadh Vietnam Bùi Ngọc Long Vietnam Nguyễn Văn Sơn Vietnam Nguyễn Ngọc Hậu
Ehime FC
Fujieda MYFC Brazil Kauan Brazil Pedro Henrique
Fukushima United
Gainare Tottori North Korea Mun In-ju
FC Gifu Brazil Freire Brazil Henik South Korea Ono Cholhwan
Giravanz Kitakyushu
FC Imabari Brazil Marcus Índio Australia Mohamed Adam South Korea Park Soo-bin South Korea Lee Do-hyung Netherlands Ralf Seuntjens Poland Filip Piszczek
Iwaki FC
Kagoshima United Brazil Weslley Peru Frank Romero
Kamatamare Sanuki Kenya Ismael Dunga
Kataller Toyama Brazil Arthur Silva Brazil Gabriel Nascimento Brazil Luís Henrique Brazil Matheus Leiria China Chen Binbin
Matsumoto Yamaga Brazil Lucão Brazil Paulinho Spain Víctor Ibáñez
Nagano Parceiro Indonesia Ryu Nugraha South Korea Kim Min-ho
SC Sagamihara Brazil Eduardo Kunde Brazil Agenor
Tegevajaro Miyazaki
Vanraure Hachinohe
YSCC Yokohama Hong Kong Au Yeung Yiu Chung North Korea Han Yong-gi Chinese Taipei Shunkun Tani Nigeria Promise Ugochukwu Luxembourg Loris Tinelli

League table

Pos Team
 Pld W D L GF GA GD Pts Promotion
1 Iwaki FC (C, P) 34 23 7 4 72 23 +49 76 Promotion to the J2 League[a]
2 Fujieda MYFC (P) 34 20 7 7 58 29 +29 67
3 Kagoshima United 34 21 3 10 55 39 +16 66
4
Matsumoto Yamaga
 34 20 6 8 46 33 +13 66
5 FC Imabari 34 18 6 10 55 40 +15 60
6 Kataller Toyama 34 19 3 12 55 48 +7 60
7 Ehime FC 34 14 10 10 51 41 +10 52
8 Nagano Parceiro 34 14 10 10 42 41 +1 52
9 Tegevajaro Miyazaki[b] 34 12 10 12 45 47 −2 46
10 Vanraure Hachinohe 34 14 1 19 32 46 −14 43
11 Fukushima United 34 11 9 14 37 45 −8 42
12 Gainare Tottori 34 12 5 17 55 56 −1 41
13 Giravanz Kitakyushu 34 11 7 16 41 45 −4 40
14 FC Gifu 34 10 7 17 43 53 −10 37
15 Azul Claro Numazu[b] 34 8 7 19 27 46 −19 31
16 YSCC Yokohama 34 8 4 22 25 66 −41 28
17 Kamatamare Sanuki 34 6 9 19 27 49 −22 27
18 SC Sagamihara 34 6 7 21 31 50 −19 25
Source: Meiji Yasuda J3 League, J.League Data Site
Rules for classification: 1) Points; 2) Goal difference; 3) Head-to-head points; 4) Head-to-head goal difference; 5) Head-to-head goal scored; 6) Number of wins; 7) Goals scored; 8) Fair-play points
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted
Notes:
  1. ^ Only teams that hold a J2 license are eligible for promotion.
  2. ^ a b The team hold neither a J1 nor J2 license, and so are ineligible for promotion to the J2 League.

Stadiums

Primary venues used in the 2022 J3 League season:

Azul Claro Numazu Ehime FC Fujieda MYFC Fukushima United Gainare Tottori FC Gifu
Ashitaka Park Stadium Ningineer Stadium Fujieda Soccer Stadium Toho Stadium Axis Bird Stadium Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium
Capacity: 5,104 Capacity: 21,401 Capacity: 5,056 Capacity: 6,464 Capacity: 16,310 Capacity: 11,999
Giravanz Kitakyushu FC Imabari Iwaki FC Kagoshima United Kamatamare Sanuki Kataller Toyama
Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu Arigato Service Dream Stadium J-Village Stadium Shiranami Stadium Pikara Stadium Toyama Stadium
Capacity: 15,300 Capacity: 5,063 Capacity: 5,063 Capacity: 12,606 Capacity: 22,338 Capacity: 18,588
Matsumoto Yamaga
 Nagano Parceiro SC Sagamihara Tegevajaro Miyazaki Vanraure Hachinohe YSCC Yokohama
Sunpro Alwin Nagano U Stadium Sagamihara Gion Stadium
Unilever Stadium Shintomi
 Prifoods Stadium Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium
Capacity: 20,000 Capacity: 15,515 Capacity: 15,300 Capacity: 5,354 Capacity: 5,124 Capacity: 15,440

Season statistics

Goal contributions

Top scorers

Rank Player Club Goals[11]
1 Japan Ryo Arita Iwaki FC 17
2 Japan Kosuke Fujioka FC Gifu 16
3 Japan Koki Arita Kagoshima United 15
Japan Daichi Ishikawa Gainare Tottori
5 Japan Yuki Okada Tegevajaro Miyazaki 14

Top assists

Rank Player Club Assists[12]
1 Japan Yudai Tokunaga Tegevajaro Miyazaki 12
2 Japan Riku Saga Iwaki FC 9
3 Japan Akiyuki Yokoyama Fujieda MYFC 8
4 Japan Ikki Kawasaki Kamatamare Sanuki 7
Japan Takashi Kondo Ehime FC
Japan Yuji Kimura Kagoshima United

Discipline

Player

Club

  • Most yellow cards: 58[15] (YSCC Yokohama)
  • Most red cards: 3[16] (Kagoshima United)

Awards

Monthly awards

Month Manager of the Month Monthly MVP Goal of the Month References
Manager Club Player Club Player Club
February/March Japan Toshihiro Hattori Fukushima United Japan Hiroki Higuchi Fukushima United Japan Kazaki Nakagawa FC Imabari [17][18][19]
April Japan Hiroshi Nanami Matsumoto Yamaga Japan Ayumu Yokoyama Matsumoto Yamaga Japan Yuya Takazawa Giravanz Kitakyushu [20][21][22]
May Japan Naoto Otake Kagoshima United Japan Koki Arita Kagoshima United Japan Yuki Oshitani Fujieda MYFC [23][24][25]
June Japan Nobuhiro Ishizaki Kataller Toyama Japan Hiroto Iwabuchi Iwaki FC Japan Yohei Ono Kataller Toyama [26][27][28]
July Japan Daisuke Sudo Fujieda MYFC Japan Tojiro Kubo Fujieda MYFC Japan Daisuke Matsui YSCC Yokohama [29][30][31]
August Japan Hiromasa Suguri Iwaki FC Japan Ryo Arita Iwaki FC Japan Shota Suzuki Iwaki FC [32][33][34]
September Japan Daisuke Sudo Fujieda MYFC Japan Kei Uchiyama Fujieda MYFC Luxembourg Loris Tinelli YSCC Yokohama [35]
October/November Japan Hiromasa Suguri Iwaki FC Japan Ryo Arita Iwaki FC Brazil Marcus Índio FC Imabari [36]

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