Japanese Non-league Football News

The final round of matches in the group stage of the Kansai League Prefectural Promotional Play-offs - by which clubs achieve promotion from the Prefectural Leagues to Division 2 of the Kansai League - was staged over the weekend. The full batch of group results and tables is as follows:

A Block

Sun 03 Dec: FC Kishiwada 0-2 Estrela Tsuda
Sun 10 Dec: Estrela Tsuda 2-0 Kainan FC
Sat 16 Dec: FC Kishiwada 3-1 Kainan FC

1 Estrela Tsuda 6 (+4)
2 FC Kishiwada 2 (-)
3 Kainan FC 0 (-4)


B Block

Sun 03 Dec: Kyoto Fushimi Shuyu-kai 1-0 Kinki University Wakayama
Sun 10 Dec: Kinki University Wakayama 3-0 BSC ROSAGE
Sun 17 Dec: Kyoto Fushimi Shuyu-kai 0-0 BSC ROSAGE (PK 5-4)

1 Kyoto Fushimi Shuyu-kai 5 (+1)
2 Kinki University Wakayama 3 (+2)
3 BSC ROSAGE 1 (-3)


C Block

Sun 03 Dec: Porvenir Kashihara 1-2 FC Nishiomiya A
Sun 10 Dec: FC Nishiomiya A 1-2 Kumiyama FC
Sat 16 Dec: Porvenir Kashihara 0-5 Kumiyama FC

1 Kumiyama FC 6 (+6)
2 FC Nishiomiya A 3 (-)
3 Porvenir Kashihara 0 (-6)


D Block

Sun 03 Dec: Hannan University Club 1-0 Shiga FC
Sun 10 Dec: Hannan University Club 3-0 Tonan Club
Sun 17 Dec: Shiga FC 2-0 Tonan Club

1 Hannan University Club 6 (+4)
2 Shiga FC 3 (+1)
3 Tonan Club 0 (-5)

The fixtures for this coming Saturday's semi-finals are confirmed as follows:

Sat 23 Dec: Hannan University Club - Estrela Tsuda
Sat 23 Dec: Kyoto Fushimi Shuyu-kai - Kumiyama FC

What happens subsequently is that the winners of the resulting final, to be staged on 14 Jan, will be promoted automatically to the Kansai League. The losers will have one further chance to make the leap up to regional football the following weekend, when they take part in an additional play-off against Kohga School, who finished next-to-bottom in the Kansai League Division 2.