2024 J3 League

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J3 League
Season
Matsumoto Yamaga (6 April 2024)
Biggest away winZweigen Kanazawa 2–6 FC Osaka (9 March 2024)
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All statistics correct as of 21:05, 14 April 2024 (UTC).

The 2024 J3 League, also known as the 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 League (Japanese: 2024 明治安田J3リーグ, Hepburn: 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is 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 will continue 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.

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.[1]

Schedule

The league and match format was announced on 19 December 2023. The league will begin on 23 February and end on 10 November in a round-robin format of 38 matches.[1]

The J2 promotion play-offs will have the semi-finals on 1 December with the final taking place on 7 December.[2]

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.

Kagoshima United
were both promoted from the 2023 season.

Clubs

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Locations of the 2024 J3 League teams
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 21,000 J3 (15th) J1
Gainare Tottori All cities/towns in Tottori[a] Axis Bird Stadium 16,033 J3 (6th) J2
FC Gifu All cities/towns in Gifu[b] Gifu Nagaragawa Stadium 26,109 J3 (8th) J1
Giravanz Kitakyushu Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Mikuni World Stadium Kitakyushu 15,066 J3 (20th) J1
FC Imabari Imabari Imabari Satoyama Stadium 5,316 J3 (4th) J2
Iwate Grulla Morioka All cities/towns in Iwate
Kitakami Stadium
 4,946 J3 (10th) J1
Kamatamare Sanuki All cities/towns in Kagawa[c] Pikara Stadium 30,099 J3 (16th) J1
Kataller Toyama All cities/towns in Toyama[d]
Toyama Athletic Stadium
 28,494 J3 (3rd) J1
Matsumoto Yamaga
 Cities/towns in Nagano[e] Sunpro Alwin 20,396 J3 (9th) J1
Nagano Parceiro
Nagano
Nagano U Stadium
 15,491 J3 (14th) J2
Nara Club All cities/towns on Nara Rohto Field Nara 30,600 J3 (5th) J2
Omiya Ardija
Saitama, Saitama
 NACK5 Stadium Omiya 15,500 J2 (21st; Relegated) J1
FC Osaka Higashiōsaka, Osaka Hanazono Rugby Stadium 27,346 J3 (11th) J3
FC Ryukyu All cities/towns in Okinawa Tapic Kenso Hiyagon Stadium 12,270 J3 (17th) J1
SC Sagamihara Sagamihara Gion Stadium 15,300 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 5,200 J3 (7th) J2
YSCC Yokohama Yokohama
Nippatsu Mitsuzawa Stadium
 15,454 J3 (12th) J2
Zweigen Kanazawa All cities/towns in Ishikawa[g]
Ishikawa Kanazawa Stadium
 20,000 J2 (22nd; Relegated) J1
  1. Sakaiminato
  2. Gifu
  3. Takamatsu, Marugame
  4. Toyama
  5. Ikusaka, Minowa, Asahi
  6. Rokkasho
  7. ^ centering on Kanazawa, Nonoichi, Kahoku, Tsubata, Tsubata

Personnel and kits

Club Manager Captain Kit manufacturer Main shirt sponsor
Azul Claro Numazu Japan Masashi Nakayama Japan Takuya Sugai Brazil Penalty Usui
Fukushima United Japan Shuhei Terada Japan Kaito Yamamoto Denmark Hummel Toho Bank
Gainare Tottori Japan Kentaro Hayashi Japan Hiroto Sese Japan Soccer Junky San-in Godo Bank
FC Gifu Japan Yusaku Ueno Japan Yoshihiro Shoji Japan Razzoli Hot Staff
Giravanz Kitakyushu Japan Kohei Masumoto Japan Haruki Izawa England Umbro TOTO
FC Imabari Japan Toshihiro Hattori Japan Keishi Kusumi Japan Asics Unicharm
Iwate Grulla Morioka Japan Tetsuji Nakamikawa Japan Atsutaka Nakamura Spain Kelme Nova
Kamatamare Sanuki Japan Atsushi Yoneyama Japan Angua Rexxam
Kataller Toyama Japan Michiharu Otagiri Japan Kosei Wakimoto Japan Goldwin
YKK AP
Matsumoto Yamaga
 Japan Masahiro Shimoda Japan Akira Ando Germany Adidas Epson
Nagano Parceiro Japan Riki Takagi Japan Takuya Akiyama Brazil Penalty Hokto
Nara Club
Julián Marín Bazalo
 Japan Yuki Kotani Japan Squadra Daiwa House
Omiya Ardija Japan Tetsu Nagasawa Japan Yutaro Hakamata United States Under Armour NTT Docomo
FC Osaka Japan Naoto Otake Japan Shusuke Sakamoto Japan bonera Tobu Top Tours
FC Ryukyu North Korea Kim Jong-song Japan Ryunosuke Noda Japan sfida GMO Coin
SC Sagamihara Japan Kazuyuki Toda Japan Akihiko Takeshige England Umbro Gion
Tegevajaro Miyazaki Japan Yuji Okuma Japan Hikaru Manabe Japan Yonex Enatsu Shoji Holdings
Vanraure Hachinohe Japan Nobuhiro Ishizaki Japan Naoyuki Yamada Denmark Hummel ATMIX
YSCC Yokohama Japan Kazuki Kuranuki Japan Kento Dodate Japan Bonera Sanshin
Zweigen Kanazawa Japan Akira Ito Japan Yuto Shirai Denmark 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 Japan Masaaki Yanagishita End of contract 5 November 2023 Pre-season Japan Akira Ito 11 December 2023 [3][4]
Giravanz Kitakyushu Japan Shinji Kobayashi Resigned 22 November 2023 Japan Kohei Matsumoto 15 December 2023 [5][6]
Gainare Tottori Japan Kohei Matsumoto (interim) End of interim spell 24 November 2023 Japan Kentaro Hayashi 8 December 2023 [7][8]
Fukushima United Japan Mitsumasa Yoda Resigned 27 November 2023 Japan Shuhei Terada 13 December 2023 [9][10]
FC Osaka Japan Ryo Shigaki Signed by
Renofa Yamaguchi
 5 December 2023 Japan Naoto Otake 18 December 2023 [11][12]
Tegevajaro Miyazaki Japan Mitsuo Kato Resigned 5 December 2023 Japan Yuji Okuma 19 December 2023 [13][14]
Omiya Ardija Japan Masato Harasaki 9 November 2023 Japan Tetsu Nagasawa 11 December 2023 [15][16]
FC Imabari Japan Naoto Kudo 10 December 2023 Japan Toshihiro Hattori 11 December 2023 [17][18]

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.[19] 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.[20]
Club Player 1 Player 2 Player 3 Player 4 Player 5 Left mid-season
Azul Claro Numazu Brazil Gustavo Rissi
Fukushima United
Gainare Tottori
FC Gifu North Korea Mun In-ju
Giravanz Kitakyushu South Korea Koh Seung-jin
FC Imabari Argentina Tomás Moschión Brazil Rodrigo Angelotti Brazil Marcus Índio China Ning Fangze Spain Jon Ander Serantes
Iwate Grulla Morioka Nigeria Kenneth Otabor North Korea Ryu Se-gun South Korea Kim Sung-kon
Kamatamare Sanuki
Kataller Toyama Brazil Matheus Leiria Brazil Gabriel Nascimento
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 Poland Jakub Świerczok
FC Osaka Brazil Efrain Rintaro South Korea Woo Sang-ho South Korea Kang Seong-kook South Korea Choi Young-hoon
FC Ryukyu South Korea Cho Eun-su South Korea Jeon Ji-wan South Korea Park Seong-su
SC Sagamihara Brazil Baiano Brazil Ryan Brazil Bruno Santos
Tegevajaro Miyazaki
Vanraure Hachinohe Nigeria Oriola Sunday
YSCC Yokohama 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 10 7 3 0 17 6 +11 24 Promotion to the 2025 J2 League
2 Azul Claro Numazu 10 6 2 2 19 9 +10 20
3 FC Imabari 10 6 2 2 13 8 +5 20 Qualification for the promotion play-offs
4 FC Osaka[a] 10 5 4 1 13 4 +9 19 Ineligible for promotion
5 FC Gifu 10 5 3 2 18 11 +7 18 Qualification for the promotion play-offs
6 FC Ryukyu 10 4 4 2 16 14 +2 16
7 SC Sagamihara 10 4 4 2 9 7 +2 16
8 Zweigen Kanazawa 10 4 2 4 20 20 0 14
9 Kataller Toyama 10 3 5 2 8 8 0 14
10 Gainare Tottori 10 3 4 3 9 11 −2 13
11 Matsumoto Yamaga 10 3 4 3 12 16 −4 13
12 Giravanz Kitakyushu 10 2 5 3 6 6 0 11
13 Nagano Parceiro 10 2 5 3 16 17 −1 11
14 YSCC Yokohama 10 2 3 5 8 13 −5 9
15 Iwate Grulla Morioka 10 2 3 5 9 16 −7 9
16 Nara Club 10 1 5 4 12 16 −4 8
17 Tegevajaro Miyazaki 10 2 2 6 10 16 −6 8
18 Fukushima United 10 2 2 6 8 14 −6 8
19 Vanraure Hachinohe 10 1 4 5 5 11 −6 7 Possible relegation via play-offs
20 Kamatamare Sanuki 10 0 6 4 10 15 −5 6 Possible relegation to 2025 JFL[b]
Updated to match(es) played on 21 April 2024. 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.
Notes:
  1. ^ The team does not hold either a J1 or J2 license, and so is ineligible for promotion to the J2 League.
  2. ^ 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.

Season statistics

Top scorers

As of 7 April 2024[21]
Rank Player Club Goals
1 Japan Haruto Shirai FC Ryukyu 8
2 Japan Kosuke Fujioka FC Gifu 7
Japan Kensei Ukita AC Nagano Parceiro
Japan Hagumi Wada Azul Claro Numazu
5 Japan Kenyu Sugimoto Omiya Ardija 5
Japan Yuya Taguchi FC Gifu
Brazil Marcus Índio FC Imabari

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 Japan Yusaku Ueno FC Gifu Japan Kosuke Fujioka FC Gifu Japan Yumeki Yokoyama FC Imabari Japan Rion Ichihara Omiya Ardija [22][23][24][25]

See also

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