Japanese Non-league Football News

... 2007 JFL champions Sagawa Kyubin SC have announced a change of name to Sagawa Shiga FC. Title-winning coach Masafumi Nakaguchi has moved across to the role of technical director, leaving former Sagawa Kyubin Tokyo boss Nobutaka Tanaka to take charge... Gainare Tottori have signed 18-year-old defender Miguel Angel Martinez from Shonan Bellmare's Paraguayan feeder club Nikkei Bellmare... midfielder Kento Tsurumaki, who spent last season on loan from Tokyo Verdy 1969 at Fagiano Okayama, has moved for 2008 to J2 minnows Mito Hollyhock. Meanwhile star striker Kohei Kiyama has extended his loan deal from Verdy to Fagiano...

... JFL newcomers FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu have extended for another year the long-term loan of defender Noriaki Ishizawa from neighbours Vissel Kobe... Tochigi SC have signed Kyoto Sanga defender Masataka Tamura, 20, for a year's loan... defender Masahito Endo has moved from Roasso Kumamoto to Yokogawa Musashino... the first round of fixtures for the 2008 JFL campaign will be held on 16 March, details as per below. The rest of the calendar will be issued at the end of February...

Honda FC - Fagiano Okayama
JEF Reserves - FC Kariya
Kataller Toyama - New Wave Kitakyushu
Ryutsu Keizai University - Mitsubishi Mizushima
Sagawa Printing SC - TDK SC
Sagawa Shiga - FC Mi-o Biwako Kusatsu
Sony Sendai - Gainare Tottori
Tochigi SC - FC Ryukyu
Yokogawa Musashino - Arte Takasaki