Season | 2024 |
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Dates | 24 February – 24 November |
Matches played | 110 |
Goals scored | 274 (2.49 per match) |
Top goalscorer | 3 players (8 goals) |
Biggest home win | Fukushima United FC 9-0 Iwate Grulla Morioka (28 April 2024) |
Biggest away win | Zweigen Kanazawa 2–6 FC Osaka (9 March 2024) |
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All statistics correct as of 13:15, 29 April 2024 (UTC). |
The 2024 J3 League, also known as the 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 League ( Japanese: 2024 明治安田J3リーグ, Hepburn: 2024 Meiji Yasuda J3 Rīgu) for sponsorship reasons, is the 11th season of the J3 League, the third-tier Japanese professional league for association football clubs, since its establishment in 2013.
The league will continue with 20 teams for the 2024 season.
The top two teams in the league will be automatically promoted to the J2 League, provided they have the necessary license. The 2024 season introduces a promotion play-offs, where one of the teams ranked 3rd to 6th will also be promoted.
There is the possibility that as many as two clubs will be relegated to the Japan Football League. Promotion from the JFL is conditional on holding a valid J3 license. If the JFL champions hold a license, the club will be automatically promoted and the J3's 20th-placed team will be automatically relegated. If the JFL runners-up hold a license, the club will need to play promotion/relegation play-offs against J3's 19th or 20th-placed team for the season, depending on whether the JFL champions hold the J3 license. The club(s) who do not hold a license cannot be promoted and no teams will be relegated from the J3 League. [1]
The league and match format was announced on 19 December 2023. The league will begin on 23 February and end on 10 November in a round-robin format of 38 matches. [1]
The J2 promotion play-offs will have the semi-finals on 1 December with the final taking place on 7 December. [2]
Zweigen Kanazawa and Omiya Ardija were relegated to the J3 League, finishing the previous J2 League season as 21st and 22nd-placed teams, respectively. Zweigen Kanazawa are returning to the J3 League after nine seasons in the second-tier. Omiya Ardija will be competing in the third-tier for the first time as a J.League member.
No teams were relegated from the 2023 J3 League. This is only the second time in J3 history that there will be no new clubs promoted from the JFL.
J3 winners Ehime FC and runners-up Kagoshima United were both promoted from the 2023 season.
Team | Outgoing manager | Manner of departure | Date of vacancy | Position in the table | Incoming manager | Date of appointment |
Ref. |
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Zweigen Kanazawa | Masaaki Yanagishita | End of contract | 5 November 2023 | Pre-season | Akira Ito | 11 December 2023 | [3] [4] |
Giravanz Kitakyushu | Shinji Kobayashi | Resigned | 22 November 2023 | Kohei Matsumoto | 15 December 2023 | [5] [6] | |
Gainare Tottori | Kohei Matsumoto (interim) | End of interim spell | 24 November 2023 | Kentaro Hayashi | 8 December 2023 | [7] [8] | |
Fukushima United | Mitsumasa Yoda | Resigned | 27 November 2023 | Shuhei Terada | 13 December 2023 | [9] [10] | |
FC Osaka | Ryo Shigaki | Signed by Renofa Yamaguchi | 5 December 2023 | Naoto Otake | 18 December 2023 | [11] [12] | |
Tegevajaro Miyazaki | Mitsuo Kato | Resigned | 5 December 2023 | Yuji Okuma | 19 December 2023 | [13] [14] | |
Omiya Ardija | Masato Harasaki | 9 November 2023 | Tetsu Nagasawa | 11 December 2023 | [15] [16] | ||
FC Imabari | Naoto Kudo | 10 December 2023 | Toshihiro Hattori | 11 December 2023 | [17] [18] |
From the 2021 season onwards, there is no limitations on signing foreign players, but clubs could only register up to five of them for a single matchday squad. [19] Players from J.League partner nations (Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Indonesia, and Qatar) were exempted from these restrictions.
Pos | Team | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Pts | Promotion or relegation |
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1 | Omiya Ardija | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 7 | +14 | 27 | Promotion to the 2025 J2 League |
2 | Azul Claro Numazu | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 21 | 11 | +10 | 21 | |
3 | FC Osaka [a] | 11 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 15 | 6 | +9 | 20 | Ineligible for promotion |
4 | FC Imabari | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 14 | 12 | +2 | 20 | Qualification for the promotion play-offs |
5 | FC Gifu | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 11 | +7 | 19 | |
6 | SC Sagamihara | 11 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 10 | 8 | +2 | 17 | |
7 | FC Ryukyu | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 17 | 16 | +1 | 16 | |
8 | Gainare Tottori | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 12 | −1 | 16 | |
9 | Matsumoto Yamaga | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 17 | −2 | 16 | |
10 | Zweigen Kanazawa | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 20 | 20 | 0 | 15 | |
11 | Nagano Parceiro | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 14 | |
12 | Kataller Toyama | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 9 | 11 | −2 | 14 | |
13 | Fukushima United | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 14 | +3 | 11 | |
14 | Giravanz Kitakyushu | 11 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 9 | −1 | 11 | |
15 | YSCC Yokohama | 11 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 14 | −5 | 10 | |
16 | Nara Club | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 13 | 17 | −4 | 9 | |
17 | Tegevajaro Miyazaki | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 17 | −6 | 9 | |
18 | Iwate Grulla Morioka | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 25 | −16 | 9 | |
19 | Vanraure Hachinohe | 11 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 12 | −6 | 8 | Possible relegation via play-offs |
20 | Kamatamare Sanuki | 11 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 11 | 16 | −5 | 7 | Possible relegation to 2025 JFL [b] |
Rank | Player | Club | Goals |
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1 | Haruto Shirai | FC Ryukyu | 8 |
Hagumi Wada | Azul Claro Numazu | ||
Kensei Ukita | AC Nagano Parceiro | ||
3 | Kosuke Fujioka | FC Gifu | 7 |
5 | Kenyu Sugimoto | Omiya Ardija | 5 |
Yuya Taguchi | FC Gifu | ||
Manato Hyakuda | Nara Club | ||
Marcus Índio | FC Imabari |
Month | Manager of the Month | Monthly MVP | Goal of the Month | Young Player of the Month | References | ||||
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Manager | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | Player | Club | ||
February/March | Yusaku Ueno | FC Gifu | Kosuke Fujioka | FC Gifu | Yumeki Yokoyama | FC Imabari | Rion Ichihara | Omiya Ardija | [22] [23] [24] [25] |