Japanese Non-league Football News

Alo's Hokuriku roared into fourth place in the JFL, thanks to a 3-1 win over their local rivals YKK AP in Toyama on Sunday afternoon. Star striker Yuuya Nagatomi was twice on target for Alo's, who push promotion hopefuls FC Gifu out of the vital top four places as a result; YKK remain third, but are fully nine points behind Rosso Kumamoto. The rest of Sunday's action was all mid-table and lower, with midfielder Yuta Mikado's goal enough to seal all three points for Ryutsu Keizai University against struggling FC Kariya, Mitsubishi Mizushima bringing to an end a run of five consecutive defeats with a 2-1 win over JEF Reserves and Gainare Tottori picking up a rare away victory at TDK SC.



TDK before their defeat by Gainare Tottori

Sun 05 Aug: Mitsubishi Mizushima 2-1 JEF Reserves
Sun 05 Aug: Ryutsu Keizai University 1-0 FC Kariya
Sun 05 Aug: TDK SC 1-2 Gainare Tottori
Sun 05 Aug: YKK AP 1-3 Alo's Hokuriku

1. Sagawa Kyubin SC 57 (+38)
2. Rosso Kumamoto 50 (+23)
3. YKK AP 41 (+9)
4. Alo's Hokuriku 40 (+4)
5. FC Gifu 39 (+8)
6. Yokogawa Musashino 38 (+10)
7. Honda FC 37 (+10)
8. JEF Reserves 35 (-)
9. Tochigi SC 32 (+7)
10. Ryutsu Keizai University 31 (-3)
11. Sagawa Printing 30 (-5)
12. Mitsubishi Mizushima 28 (-7)
13. Gainare Tottori 27 (-5)
14. TDK SC 26 (+2)
15. Sony Sendai 22 (-18)
16. FC Kariya 20 (-14)
17. FC Ryukyu 20 (-30)
18. Arte Takasaki 6 (-29)