Japan Football League 2007
Encyclopedia
Overview
It was contested by 18 teams, and won the championship. The club was created before the season by merger of two Sagawa Express corporate clubs from TokyoSagawa Express Tokyo S.C.
Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. was an industrial-league association football team based in the Kōtō, Tokyo. The team was founded in 1991 and was a member of the Japan Football League from 2001–2007, when it merged with Sagawa Express Osaka S.C. to form Sagawa Shiga F.C...
and Osaka
Sagawa Express Osaka S.C.
Sagawa Express Osaka Soccer Club were a Japanese soccer team based in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka. They were founded in 1965 and played in the Japan Football League from 2002–2007, when they merged with Sagawa Express Tokyo S.C. to form what is now Sagawa Shiga F.C...
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were renamed to before the season.
and were promoted from Regional leagues by the virtue of their placing in All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series
All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series
The All Japan Regional Promotion League Series is a play-off tournament meant as a transition for Japanese football clubs competing in regional leagues to the bottom national tier .-History:Until 1976, the main entrance route for regional clubs to the Japan Soccer League was...
, the former promoted automatically and the latter won the play-off series against .
, and were approved as J. League associate members
J. League Associate Membership
J. League Associate Membership is a status given to Japanese non-league football clubs. The applicant must have an intention to become a professional club and to join the professional league, J. League, governed in the top two levels of the Japanese football pyramid...
at the annual meeting in January.
Table
Results
Top scorers
| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
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| 1 |  Sho Gokyu |
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| 2 | Yutaka Takahashi |
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| 3 | Masatoshi Matsuda |
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| 4 | Hideyuki Ishida |
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| 5 | Kodai Suzuki |
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| 武藤 雄樹 |
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| 7 | Kento Hori |
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| 8 | Shōgo Shimada |
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| 9 | Takashi Harashima |
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| Syogo Kawano |
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| Yuya Nagatomi |
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| Junya Nitta |
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| Satoshi Yokoyama |
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Attendances
Promotion and relegation
No relegation has occurred due to a post-season merger of and into one club named ., and were promoted to JFL from Regional leagues at the end of the season.