2003 Japan Football League
| Season | 2003 |
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| Champions | Otsuka Pharmaceuticals 1st JFL title 1st D3 title |
| Promoted | none |
| Relegated | Kyoto BAMB 1993 Jatco FC (folded) |
| Matches played | 240 |
| Goals scored | 724 (3.02 per match) |
| Top goalscorer | Tatsuya Furuhashi (31 goal total) |
| Highest attendance | 4,123 (Round 18, SE Osaka vs. SE Tokyo) |
| Lowest attendance | 83 (Round 24, Kokushikan vs. Printing) |
| Average attendance | 573 |
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2004 →
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Statistics of Japan Football League in the 2003 season.
Contents
Overview
It was contested by 16 teams, and Otsuka Pharmaceuticals won the championship.
Table
| Pos |
Team |
Pld |
W |
D |
L |
GF |
GA |
GD |
Pts |
Promotion or relegation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Otsuka Pharmaceuticals† (C) | 30 | 23 | 3 | 4 | 65 | 21 | +44 | 72 | |
| 2 | Honda FC† | 30 | 21 | 4 | 5 | 73 | 30 | +43 | 67 | |
| 3 | Ehime FC | 30 | 17 | 5 | 8 | 55 | 39 | +16 | 56 | |
| 4 | Sagawa Express Osaka | 30 | 16 | 6 | 8 | 48 | 29 | +19 | 54 | |
| 5 | Sagawa Express Tokyo | 30 | 15 | 7 | 8 | 54 | 37 | +17 | 52 | |
| 6 | YKK FC | 30 | 15 | 5 | 10 | 56 | 38 | +18 | 50 | |
| 7 | Jatco FC | 30 | 15 | 3 | 12 | 45 | 44 | +1 | 48 | Folded 1 |
| 8 | Tochigi SC | 30 | 12 | 9 | 9 | 48 | 35 | +13 | 45 | |
| 9 | Sony Sendai | 30 | 13 | 6 | 11 | 46 | 44 | +2 | 45 | |
| 10 | SC Tottori | 30 | 10 | 7 | 13 | 45 | 50 | −5 | 37 | |
| 11 | Kokushikan University | 30 | 10 | 4 | 16 | 36 | 64 | −28 | 34 | |
| 12 | Denso SC | 30 | 9 | 5 | 16 | 41 | 51 | −10 | 32 | |
| 13 | Yokogawa Musashino | 30 | 9 | 2 | 19 | 32 | 65 | −33 | 29 | |
| 14 | ALO's Hokuriku | 30 | 7 | 6 | 17 | 23 | 47 | −24 | 27 | |
| 15 | Sagawa Printing | 30 | 5 | 6 | 19 | 31 | 62 | −31 | 21 | |
| 16 | Kyoto BAMB 1993 (R) | 30 | 2 | 4 | 24 | 26 | 68 | −42 | 10 | Promotion/Relegation Series |
Updated to games played on November 23, 2003.
Source: Japan Football League
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored
† Denotes clubs that occupied top 2 places at the end of the 2001 season and were seeded for 2003 Emperor's Cup. These clubs were automatically qualified for the tournament, while each of other JFL clubs had to go through the prefectural qualifier.
1 After the season Jatco F.C. submitted the letter of resignation to the league and disbanded the team.
(C) = Champion; (R) = Relegated; (P) = Promoted; (E) = Eliminated; (O) = Play-off winner; (A) = Advances to a further round.
Only applicable when the season is not finished:
(Q) = Qualified to the phase of tournament indicated; (TQ) = Qualified to tournament, but not yet to the particular phase indicated; (RQ) = Qualified to the relegation tournament indicated; (DQ) = Disqualified from tournament.
Results
| Home ╲ Away | ALO | BAM | DEN | EHI | HON | JAT | KSU | OTP | PRI | SEO | SET | SON | TOC | TOT | YKK | YMS |
| ALO's Hokuriku | 1–0 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–4 | 0–2 | 2–1 | 1–4 | 2–0 | |
| Kyoto BAMB 1993 | 2–0 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 0–3 | 0–3 | 0–2 | 1–2 | 1–3 | 2–5 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 2–3 | |
| Denso SC | 3–1 | 2–0 | 1–0 | 2–4 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 0–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–4 | 3–0 | 2–3 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | |
| Ehime FC | 1–3 | 1–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–3 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2–0 | |
| Honda FC | 5–0 | 3–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 3–0 | 5–3 | 3–3 | 4–1 | 1–2 | 3–2 | 2–0 | 2–0 | 4–1 | 1–0 | 3–1 | |
| Jatco FC | 2–0 | 1–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 0–3 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 3–2 | 1–0 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 3–1 | |
| Kokushikan University | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 5–1 | 0–3 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 2–2 | 1–5 | 0–2 | 1–6 | 0–0 | 1–2 | |
| Otsuka Pharmaceuticals | 1–0 | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1–0 | 2–1 | 0–1 | 5–1 | 6–0 | 0–2 | 1–0 | 0–0 | 2–0 | 3–1 | 3–2 | 3–2 | |
| Sagawa Printing | 0–1 | 2–1 | 1–3 | 2–2 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 2–2 | 0–0 | 0–2 | 1–4 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 2–2 | 1–3 | 1–2 | |
| Sagawa Express Osaka | 1–1 | 3–1 | 0–0 | 1–3 | 1–0 | 1–3 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 4–0 | 1–0 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 5–1 | |
| Sagawa Express Tokyo | 2–2 | 3–2 | 3–0 | 2–4 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 2–0 | 3–0 | 0–0 | 1–0 | 3–2 | 0–0 | 3–0 | 2–1 | 0–2 | |
| Sony Sendai | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–4 | 0–4 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–5 | 2–0 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–0 | 1–2 | 2–0 | |
| Tochigi SC | 0–0 | 5–1 | 3–3 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 0–1 | 3–4 | 2–2 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–0 | 2–0 | |
| SC Tottori | 0–1 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–1 | 0–1 | 2–0 | 0–1 | 0–3 | 5–3 | 3–1 | 1–3 | 1–1 | 0–2 | 1–1 | 4–2 | |
| YKK FC | 0–1 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 4–1 | 3–3 | 3–0 | 4–0 | 2–1 | 2–1 | 1–0 | 0–3 | 3–0 | 1–3 | 3–3 | 0–1 | |
| Yokogawa Musashino | 0–0 | 2–1 | 2–0 | 1–4 | 0–5 | 1–6 | 1–0 | 0–5 | 1–2 | 1–1 | 1–2 | 0–2 | 0–2 | 3–1 | 2–3 |
Updated to games played on November 23, 2003.
Source: Japan Football League
1 ^ The home team is listed in the left-hand column.
Colours: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.
Top scorers
| Rank | Scorer | Club | Goals |
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| 1 |  Tatsuya Furuhashi |
Honda FC |
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| 2 | Yasuaki Oshima |
Otsuka Pharmaceuticals |
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| 3 | Toshiro Tomochika |
Ehime FC |
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Attendances
| Pos | Team | Total | High | Low | Average | Change |
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| 1 | Ehime FC | 19,615 | 3,284 | 412 | 1,308 | +19.8% |
| 2 | Honda FC | 14,569 | 3,385 | 330 | 971 | −11.7% |
| 3 | SC Tottori | 11,800 | 1,412 | 251 | 787 | −6.3% |
| 4 | Otsuka Pharmaceuticals | 11,720 | 1,765 | 223 | 223 | −71.6% |
| 5 | Tochigi SC | 11,286 | 1,215 | 454 | 752 | −25.8% |
| 6 | Sony Sendai | 10,276 | 1,688 | 259 | 685 | −20.2% |
| 7 | ALO's Hokuriku | 8,526 | 788 | 155 | 568 | +67.0% |
| 8 | Sagawa Express Osaka | 8,403 | 4,123 | 114 | 560 | +107.4% |
| 9 | YKK FC | 8,017 | 849 | 209 | 534 | +9.2% |
| 10 | Yokogawa Musashino | 6,610 | 777 | 215 | 441 | −16.7% |
| 11 | Jatco FC | 5,871 | 964 | 179 | 391 | −12.7% |
| 12 | Kyoto BAMB 1993 | 4,745 | 423 | 255 | 316 | −5.9% |
| 13 | Sagawa Express Tokyo | 4,400 | 681 | 103 | 293 | −11.2% |
| 14 | Denso SC | 4,317 | 475 | 155 | 288 | +2.1% |
| 15 | Sagawa Printing | 4,041 | 604 | 104 | 269 | n/a† |
| 16 | Kokushikan University | 3,437 | 421 | 83 | 229 | −24.1% |
| League total | 137,633 | 4,123 | 83 | 573 | −0.1% |
Source:[citation needed]
Notes:
† Team played previous season in Regional Leagues.
Promotion and relegation
Due to the Jatco team disbanding, the All Japan Regional Football Promotion League Series winner Thespa Kusatsu were promoted automatically. Runner-up Gunma Horikoshi were set to play Kyoto BAMB 1993 in the promotion and relegation series.
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December 21, 2003
14:02 |
| Gunma Horikoshi | 3 – 2 | Kyoto BAMB 1993 |
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Koyama  20'Mori 46'Kurakawa 57' |
Report | 丸山 展生 18' Ezawa 85' |
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December 27, 2003
13:00 |
| Kyoto BAMB 1993 | 0 – 5 | Gunma Horikoshi |
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| Report | Mori 43' (pen.), 84', 89' Kurakawa 50'Danilo 60' |
Gunma Horikoshi won the series at 8–2 aggregate score and earned promotion to JFL. Kyoto BAMB 1993 were relegated to Kansai regional league.
