Japanese Non-league Football News

Lowly Tohoku League Division 1 side Sendai Nakata Club picked up a remarkable 4-0 win at FC Primeiro on Sunday, a major boost in their fight to avoid relegation. The pressure mounts instead on their rivals, long-standing participants at this level of football, Nippon Steel Kamaishi and Morioka Zebra, who meet this coming weekend in a vital encunter.



FC Primeiro prepare to get thumped by Sendai Nakata Club

Sun 01 Oct: FC Primeiro 0-4 Sendai Nakata Club

1 TDK Akita 36 (+48)
2 Grulla Morioka 27 (+10)
3 NEC Tokin 20 (+8)
4 FC Primeiro 19 (-10)
5 Wiese Shiogama 12 (-1)
6 Sendai Nakata Club 9 (-9)
7 Nippon Steel Kamaishi 7 (-26)
8 Morioka Zebra 6 (-20)

Tohoku League Division 2 (North) leaders FC Akita Cambiare dropped their first points of the season on Sunday, in a surprise 1-1 draw at mid-table Fuji Club 2003. Despite second-placed Mizusawa United Club's win over Hokuto Bank, however, Cambiare remain ten points clear and are confirmed paticipants in the play-offs for a place in the top division for next season. Fighting it out to avoid the drop are Aster Aomori, crushed 8-2 at home by Tono Club, and TDK Shinwakai, who look as if they may struggle to retain their placein the Regional leagues following their defeat at the hands of Vanraure Hachinohe.

Sun 01 Oct: Aster Aomori 2-8 Tono Club
Sun 01 Oct: Fuji Club 2003 1-1 FC Akita Cambiare
Sun 01 Oct: Hokuto Bank 0-1 Mizusawa United Club
Sun 01 Oct: TDK Shinwakai 1-5 Vanraure Hachinohe

1 FC Akita Cambiare 34 (+27)
2 Mizusawa United Club 24 (+11)
3 Tono Club 19 (+6)
4 Vanraure Hachinohe 16 (+4)
5 Fuji Club 2003 14 (+5)
6 Hokuto Bank 14 (+3)
7 Aster Aomori 9 (-25)
8 TDK Shinwakai 5 (-31)