Japanese Non-league Football News

The Hokkaido League table is taking shape now, after two rounds of fixtures over the weekend. Title holders Norbritz Hokkaido dropped their first points of the year in a goalless draw in round 4 against Barefoot Hokkaido, which has allowed Blackpecker Hakodate to move to within a point in second place. It was an excellent weekend, too, for Thank FC, who followed a 7-0 thrashing of Tokachi Fairsky on Saturday with a 4-3 win over Sapporo Football Group. After an opening day win, Tokachi are clearly finding it hard to compete at Regional level, but it's the northern-most senior club in Japan - ACSC Asahikawa - who prop up the table after defeats against Barefoot and Toyota Motors Hokkaido left them with no points made it four losses out of four.



Toyota Motors Hokkaido host ACSC Asahikawa at Tomakomai

Sat 27 May: Barefoot Hokkaido 2-1 ACSC Asahikawa
Sat 27 May: Sapporo Football Group 1-3 Norbritz Hokkaido
Sat 27 May: Thank FC 7-0 Tokachi Fairsky
Sat 27 May: Toyota Motors Hokkaido 2-4 Blackpecker Hakodate

Sun 28 May: Blackpecker Hakodate 1-0 Tokachi Fairsky
Sun 28 May: Norbritz Hokkaido 0-0 Barefoot Hookaido
Sun 28 May: Thank FC 4-3 Sapporo Football Group
Sun 28 May: Toyota Motors Hokkaido 1-0 ACSC Asahikawa

1 Norbritz Hokkaido 10 (+13)
2 Blackpecker Hakodate 9 (+3)
3 Thank FC 7 (+5)
4 Sapporo Football Group 6 (+3)
5 Barefoot Hokkaido 5 (-)
6 Toyota Motors Hokkaido 5 (-1)
7 Tokachi Fairsky 3 (-11)
8 ACSC Asahikawa 0 (-12)



Norbritz Hokkaido in red, scrapping their way past Sapporo