Japanese Non-league Football News

Fuyo Club finished their Tokai League Division 2 campaign at the weekend with a draw at Konica Minolta Toyokawa that may not quite be enough to keep them out of the relegation zone. Morishin's FC are six points behind with two games to play and despite not having won for five matches could still pull off a shock, given that they have to play wooden-spooners FC Kawasaki and the inconsistent MInd House TC. The biggest fixture still remaining in this division is the final day head-to-head between front-runners Kasugai Club and Honda Suzuka on 8th October, which seems likely to determine who wins the title this year.

Sun 17 Sep: Konica Minolta Toyokawa 1-1 Fuyo Club

1 Kasugai Club 25 (+14)
2 Honda Suzuka 25 (+6)
3 Konica Minolta Toyokawa 21 (+8)
4 Mind House TC 19 (+4)
5 Nagoya Club 19 (+3)
6 Fuyo Club 18 (-4)
7 Morishin's FC 11 (-3)
8 FC Kawasaki 3 (-28)

Stacks of goals in the three Tokai League Division 1 fixtures over the weekend, which have confirmed the relegation of Chukyo University along with ACM Central. Fujieda City Hall's spectacular 4-4 draw with Yazaki Valente on Saturday combined with Chukyo's defeat by Shizuoka FC the following day means that Fujieda are five points off the drop zone with only one match remaining. ACM meanwhile picked up only their second point of the season with, remarkably, another eight-goal drawn match against mid-table Maruyasu Industry.

Sat 16 Sep: ACM Central 4-4 Maruyasu Industry
Sat 16 Sep: Fujieda City Hall 4-4 Yazaki Valente

Sun 17 Sep: Chukyo University 1-4 Shizuoka FC

1 FC Gifu 37 (+43)
2 Shizuoka FC 32 (+31)
3 Yazaki Valente 25 (+4)
4 Maruyasu Industry 18 (-4)
5 Sagawa Kyubin Chukyo 18 (-7)
6 Fujieda City Hall 13 (-11)
7 Chukyo University 8 (-20)
8 ACM Central 2 (-36)