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J.League Division 2
Season	2009
Champions	Vegalta Sendai 1st J2 title 1st D2 title
Promoted	Vegalta Sendai Cerezo Osaka Shonan Bellmare
Matches played	459
Goals scored	1,164 (2.54 per match)
Top goalscorer	Shinji Kagawa (27 goals total)
Highest attendance	22,707 (Round 25, Consadole vs. HollyHock)
Lowest attendance	615 (Round 44, Fagiano vs. Tochigi)
Average attendance	6,326
← 2008 2010 →

The 2009 J. League Division 2 season was the 38th season of the second-tier club football in Japan and the 11th season since the establishment of J2 League. The season started on March 7 and ended on December 5.

In this season, the number of participating clubs was increased by three, making the total number, eighteen. The clubs played in triple round-robin format. Starting this season, all top three clubs were promoted by default and Pro/Rele Series was eliminated accordingly. There were no relegation to the third-tier Japan Football League.

General

Promotion and relegation

Consadole Sapporo and Tokyo Verdy were relegated to J2
Fagiano Okayama, Kataller Toyama and Tochigi SC were promoted from the JFL.

Changes in competition format

Fourth foreign slot (AFC slot) has been created to each club's roster.
Promotion/relegation Series had been eliminated to accommodate the 18-club J2; Division 2 club which finishes third place at the end of the season will receive automatic promotion to J1.

Changes in clubs

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Clubs

Roasso Kumamoto class=notpageimage| Locations of the 2009 J.League 2 teams

Eighteen clubs played in J. League Division 2 during the 2009 season. Of these clubs, Consadole Sapporo and Tokyo Verdy were relegated from Division 1 last year. Tochigi S.C., Kataller Toyama, and Fagiano Okayama newly joined from Japan Football League.

League format

Eighteen clubs will play in triple round-robin format, a total of 51 games each. A club receives 3 points for a win, 1 point for a tie, and 0 points for a loss. The clubs are ranked by points, and tie breakers are, in the following order:

Goal differential
Goals scored
Head-to-head results
Disciplinary points

A draw would be conducted, if necessary. However, if two clubs are tied at the first place, both clubs will be declared as the champions. The top three clubs will be promoted to J1.

Changes from Previous Year

Eighteen participating clubs, increased by three from last year
Number of games per club increased to 51, up from 42.
The fourth foreign player slot (AFC player slot) is introduced
Top three clubs now receives promotion by default; during 2004–2008 seasons, the third place club needed to win playoffs for the promotion.

Final league table

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Promotion
1	Vegalta Sendai (C, P)	51	32	10	9	87	39	+48	106	Promotion to 2010 J. League Division 1
2	Cerezo Osaka (P)	51	31	11	9	100	53	+47	104
3	Shonan Bellmare (P)	51	29	11	11	84	52	+32	98
4	Ventforet Kofu	51	28	13	10	76	46	+30	97
5	Sagan Tosu	51	25	13	13	71	51	+20	88
6	Consadole Sapporo	51	21	16	14	74	61	+13	79
7	Tokyo Verdy	51	21	11	19	68	61	+7	74
8	Mito HollyHock	51	21	10	20	70	79	−9	73
9	Tokushima Vortis	51	19	15	17	67	52	+15	72
10	Thespa Kusatsu	51	18	11	22	64	76	−12	65
11	Avispa Fukuoka	51	17	14	20	52	71	−19	65
12	FC Gifu	51	16	14	21	62	72	−10	62
13	Kataller Toyama	51	15	16	20	48	58	−10	61
14	Roasso Kumamoto	51	16	10	25	66	82	−16	58
15	Ehime FC	51	12	11	28	54	80	−26	47
16	Yokohama FC	51	11	11	29	43	70	−27	44
17	Tochigi SC	51	8	13	30	38	77	−39	37
18	Fagiano Okayama	51	8	12	31	40	84	−44	36

Updated to match(es) played on December 5, 2009. Source: J.League Division 2
Rules for classification: 1) points; 2) goal difference; 3) number of goals scored.
(C) Champions; (P) Promoted

Final results

Rounds 1 and 2
Home \ Away	VEG	CER	BEL	VEN	SAG	CON	VER	HOL	VOR	SPA	AVI	GIF	KAT	ROS	EHI	YFC	TOC	FAG
Vegalta Sendai		1–2	2–1	0–1	1–0	1–1	2–2	2–1	2–2	1–1	3–1	2–0	3–1	3–2	3–1	2–1	1–0	1–0
Cerezo Osaka	0–0		3–4	0–0	4–1	3–0	2–2	5–3	2–1	1–0	4–1	1–0	2–3	4–1	4–2	2–0	1–0	4–1
Shonan Bellmare	1–0	1–0		2–1	1–0	3–2	2–0	1–0	1–2	1–1	2–3	2–2	5–0	3–3	1–0	2–1	1–1	2–1
Ventforet Kofu	2–1	1–1	1–0		0–1	2–1	2–1	1–1	3–1	1–0	6–0	2–2	1–2	4–1	3–0	2–0	1–1	0–2
Sagan Tosu	2–1	2–0	4–3	1–1		1–2	0–0	1–3	0–2	4–2	3–1	1–1	0–0	0–1	0–2	1–0	2–2	0–0
Consadole Sapporo	0–1	4–1	0–1	0–0	1–2		1–1	0–1	1–1	1–2	3–0	3–0	1–1	0–1	3–2	1–1	3–2	4–2
Tokyo Verdy	1–3	1–2	2–1	1–2	2–0	1–2		0–0	4–0	0–3	0–0	3–0	1–0	2–4	2–0	2–1	1–0	3–0
Mito HollyHock	0–5	2–3	1–5	0–1	2–0	0–0	2–0		1–0	2–1	5–0	3–3	1–1	1–0	1–0	0–1	3–1	4–3
Tokushima Vortis	0–1	2–2	0–0	2–1	1–1	3–3	0–0	0–2		1–3	2–1	3–1	1–2	3–0	6–0	2–0	2–1	1–0
Thespa Kusatsu	0–3	2–4	2–0	1–2	1–3	1–2	0–2	2–2	1–1		3–2	0–1	0–0	1–1	2–2	3–2	0–1	1–1
Avispa Fukuoka	1–0	2–2	0–3	2–4	0–0	0–0	1–2	1–2	1–1	1–2		0–1	0–0	1–1	1–0	1–0	1–0	0–0
FC Gifu	0–2	2–1	2–2	0–1	0–1	0–2	0–0	1–1	3–0	1–0	0–2		0–0	1–0	2–1	2–0	1–1	4–0
Kataller Toyama	0–3	0–0	1–0	1–1	0–0	0–0	0–3	1–2	0–1	1–0	1–1	3–0		1–0	1–2	2–0	0–1	1–2
Roasso Kumamoto	0–3	0–3	0–2	0–1	1–2	4–0	0–2	1–3	0–3	1–2	2–3	5–2	2–3		1–1	1–1	2–0	1–1
Ehime FC	2–1	0–1	2–4	2–0	2–3	1–2	0–1	3–1	0–2	1–3	3–0	3–0	1–3	0–2		0–3	0–0	0–0
Yokohama FC	1–0	2–2	0–2	1–3	0–3	0–1	3–1	0–0	1–2	0–2	0–1	1–1	0–0	1–2	0–0		1–2	1–0
Tochigi SC	1–2	1–3	0–1	3–3	0–5	0–1	0–3	2–3	0–0	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–4	1–1	1–2	1–0		1–0
Fagiano Okayama	0–0	0–2	0–1	0–0	0–3	1–1	3–2	0–1	1–0	0–3	1–0	0–0	1–2	2–3	1–3	1–1	2–0

Updated to match(es) played on August 16, 2009. Source: J. League Division 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Round 3
Home \ Away	VEG	CER	BEL	VEN	SAG	CON	VER	HOL	VOR	SPA	AVI	GIF	KAT	ROS	EHI	YFC	TOC	FAG
Vegalta Sendai		1–0				1–0				2–0		2–1		1–0	1–1	1–0	2–0	4–2
Cerezo Osaka			2–1	1–1				0–1		5–0	0–0	2–1			3–1		1–0
Shonan Bellmare	1–1				1–0		2–2		1–0	0–0					1–0	1–0	1–1	3–1
Ventforet Kofu	1–1		2–3			2–1		2–0					1–0	2–1	1–1	0–1
Sagan Tosu	1–1	2–1		1–2			2–1				3–1	1–0	1–0			2–1		0–0
Consadole Sapporo		0–1	2–0		3–3			1–1			1–0		1–1		3–2	3–1	1–0
Tokyo Verdy	0–2	2–4		0–1		2–2		2–0		2–1	1–0		0–1	0–2
Mito HollyHock	0–4		2–3		1–3				0–3					0–1	1–0		0–2	4–2
Tokushima Vortis	0–4	0–0		0–1	0–1	3–0	0–1			1–1				6–0				4–1
Thespa Kusatsu				1–0	0–1	2–5		2–0			1–2	1–0		0–6			3–2	2–1
Avispa Fukuoka	2–0		0–1	2–1				3–1	0–0			1–0	1–1				3–1
FC Gifu			1–1	1–2		2–4	1–1	3–1	2–1						3–3	3–2
Kataller Toyama	2–3	0–1	0–3					2–3	0–0	0–2		0–2						2–0
Roasso Kumamoto		0–2	1–0		2–1	0–0					0–1	2–5	2–0			1–1
Ehime FC					0–0		3–1		0–1	2–1	0–1		1–0	1–1		0–2		0–1
Yokohama FC		0–3					2–0	1–1	1–0	1–2	2–2		1–3				1–0	2–1
Tochigi SC				1–2	0–2		2–3		0–0			2–1	1–1	0–2	1–1
Fagiano Okayama		1–3		0–1		0–1	0–2				2–2	0–2		2–1			0–1

Updated to match(es) played on December 5, 2009. Source: J. League Division 2
Legend: Blue = home team win; Yellow = draw; Red = away team win.

Top scorers

Rank	Scorer	Club	Goals
1	Shinji Kagawa	Cerezo Osaka	27
2	Ken Tokura	Thespa Kusatsu	23
3	Masashi Oguro	Tokyo Verdy	21
4	Takashi Inui	Cerezo Osaka	20
5	Maranhão	Ventforet Kofu	19
	Hiroyuki Takasaki	Mito HollyHock	19
	Thiago Quirino	Consadole Sapporo	19
8	Yoshihiro Uchimura	Ehime FC	18
9	Tetsuya Okubo	Avispa Fukuoka	16
	Koichi Sato	FC Gifu	16
	Marcelo Soares	Vegalta Sendai	16

Attendance

Pos	Team	Total	High	Low	Average	Change
1	Vegalta Sendai	336,719	19,063	7,154	12,951	−8.0%
2	Ventforet Kofu	276,463	16,844	5,582	11,059	+6.8%
3	Consadole Sapporo	265,376	22,707	5,112	10,207	−29.8%
4	Cerezo Osaka	247,796	20,727	4,837	9,912	−6.1%
5	Avispa Fukuoka	194,071	16,531	2,869	7,763	−23.0%
6	Shonan Bellmare	189,088	14,080	3,301	7,273	+21.3%
7	Fagiano Okayama	154,039	13,228	615	6,162	+68.1%
8	Roasso Kumamoto	150,150	19,321	2,337	6,006	+13.8%
9	Sagan Tosu	154,408	13,211	3,103	5,939	−18.2%
10	Tokyo Verdy	143,539	9,378	2,564	5,521	−62.8%
11	Tochigi SC	117,643	15,857	1,819	4,706	−6.8%
12	Thespa Kusatsu	112,584	8,276	1,579	4,330	+2.7%
13	FC Gifu	107,557	9,113	1,492	4,302	+14.9%
14	Tokushima Vortis	105,897	13,473	1,842	4,073	+5.5%
15	Kataller Toyama	93,507	5,520	1,862	3,740	−13.1%
16	Ehime FC	96,054	12,851	1,633	3,694	−0.3%
17	Yokohama FC	91,898	5,489	1,541	3,535	−48.0%
18	Mito HollyHock	66,818	8,463	1,206	2,673	−12.2%
	League total	2,903,607	20,727	615	6,326	−10.5%

Updated to games played on December 5, 2009
Source: J. League Division 2
Notes:
Team played previous season in J1.
Team played previous season in JFL.

References

"2009 J2 Top Scorers". j-league.or.jp. J-League. Archived from the original on 2009-07-07. Retrieved 17 April 2010.

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J1 League	Albirex Niigata Avispa Fukuoka Cerezo Osaka Fagiano Okayama Gamba Osaka Kashima Antlers Kashiwa Reysol Kawasaki Frontale Kyoto Sanga FC FC Machida Zelvia Nagoya Grampus Sanfrecce Hiroshima Shimizu S-Pulse Shonan Bellmare FC Tokyo Tokyo Verdy Urawa Red Diamonds Vissel Kobe Yokohama F. Marinos Yokohama FC
J2 League	Blaublitz Akita Ehime FC Fujieda MYFC Hokkaido Consadole Sapporo FC Imabari Iwaki FC JEF United Chiba Júbilo Iwata Kataller Toyama Mito HollyHock Montedio Yamagata Oita Trinita Omiya Ardija Renofa Yamaguchi FC Roasso Kumamoto Sagan Tosu Tokushima Vortis V-Varen Nagasaki Vegalta Sendai Ventforet Kofu
J3 League	AC Nagano Parceiro Azul Claro Numazu FC Gifu Fukushima United FC Gainare Tottori Giravanz Kitakyushu Kagoshima United FC Kamatamare Sanuki Kochi United Matsumoto Yamaga FC Nara Club FC Osaka FC Ryukyu SC Sagamihara Tegevajaro Miyazaki Thespa Gunma Tochigi City Tochigi SC Vanraure Hachinohe Zweigen Kanazawa
100 Year Plan clubs	Criacao Shinjuku Nankatsu SC Tokyo 23 Vonds Ichihara
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Defunct clubs (clubs belonging to nationwide leagues only)	Sony Sendai Fukushima FC Arte Takasaki JEF Reserves Sagawa Express Tokyo NKK SC Yokohama Flügels ALO's Hokuriku Jatco SC Hagoromo Club Toyota Higashi-Fuji Seino Transportation Cosmo Oil Yokkaichi Sagawa Shiga NTT Kinki/Kansai SP Kyoto Tanabe Pharmaceutical Dainichi Cable Industries Sagawa Express Osaka Eidai SC Kagura Shimane Teijin SC Nippon Steel Yawata Tosu Futures Profesor Miyazaki J.League U-22 Selection FC Tokyo U-23 Cerezo Osaka U-23 Gamba Osaka U-23

2009 in Japanese football

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League competitions

Men	J.League Division 1 J.League Division 2 Japan Football League Regional Leagues
Women	L.League

Cup competitions

Men	Emperor's Cup (Final) J.League Cup (Final) Super Cup
Women	Empress's Cup (Final)

AFC competitions

Men	AFC Champions League Suruga Bank Championship

Related to national teams

Men	Summary FIFA World Cup qualification AFC Asian Cup qualification
Women	Summary
Youth	East Asian Games AFC U-19 Championship qualification AFC U-16 Championship qualification

Club seasons
J.League Division 1	Montedio Yamagata Kashima Antlers Urawa Red Diamonds Omiya Ardija JEF United Chiba Kashiwa Reysol FC Tokyo Kawasaki Frontale Yokohama F. Marinos Albirex Niigata Shimizu S-Pulse Júbilo Iwata Nagoya Grampus Kyoto Sanga FC Gamba Osaka Vissel Kobe Sanfrecce Hiroshima Oita Trinita
J.League Division 2	Consadole Sapporo Vegalta Sendai Mito HollyHock Tochigi SC Thespa Kusatsu Tokyo Verdy Yokohama FC Shonan Bellmare Ventforet Kofu Kataller Toyama FC Gifu Cerezo Osaka Fagiano Okayama Tokushima Vortis Ehime FC Avispa Fukuoka Sagan Tosu Roasso Kumamoto

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