Japanese Non-league Football News

The new Kyushu League season got off to an explosive start in the traditional doubel-header weekend of fixtures in Miyazaki. The two teams promoted from the Prefectural Leagues - Kyushu INAX from Saga and Kumamoto's Vainqueur Kumamoto - are surely under no illusions now as to the difficulties that lie ahead of them as they conceded a total of thirty goals between them. Vainqueur came off worst, crushed 12-0 on Saturday by a Honda Lock who alongside V Varen Nagasaki are red hot favourites to occupy to the two play-off places come the end of the year.

Sat 05 Apr: Honda Lock 12-0 Vainqueur Kumamoto
Sat 05 Apr: Nippon Steel Oita 1-0 Kaiho Bank SC
Sat 05 Apr: Okinawa Kariyushi 3-0 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki
Sat 05 Apr: V Varen Nagasaki 7-0 Kyushu INAX
Sat 05 Apr: Volca Kagoshima 1-0 Osumi NIFS United

Sun 06 Apr: Kaiho Bank SC 1-3 V Varen Nagasaki
Sun 06 Apr: Kyushu INAX 1-3 Honda Lock
Sun 06 Apr: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki 2-4 Volca Kagoshima
Sun 06 Apr: Osumi NIFS United 0-5 Nippon Steel Oita
Sun 06 Apr: Vainqueur Kumamoto 3-8 Okinawa Kariyushi

1. Honda Lock 6 (+14)
2. V Varen Nagasaki 6 (+9)
3. Okinawa Kariyushi 6 (+8)
4. Nippon Steel Oita 6 (+6)
5. Volca Kagoshima 6 (+3)
6. Kaiho Bank SC 0 (-3)
7. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Nagasaki 0 (-5)
8. Osumi NIFS United 0 (-6)
9. Kyushi INAX 0 (-9)
10. Vainqueur Kumamoto 0 (-17)